Posted by Cathy
on February 15, 2009, 8:57 pm, in reply to "Common Sense as opposed to Theory"
You can "set your dog up" for success or for failure. When you bring a new puppy home, your home has to be puppy proofed. You can't kck off your Manolo Blahniks in a corner of the bedroom, they'll end up as $1000 chew toys. It's not the fault of the puppy -- the puppy is teething and needs to chew, the puppy is bonding to it's new human and those pricey shoes smell just like the new human to whom the puppy is bonding. Bodhi is a thief -- he steals papers off my desk at work, so I have to keep an organized clean desk -- he likes to stash in his crate my freshly laundered clothes after I smooth them out on my bed to fold them -- so now I have to fold them immediately instead of leaving them there all day. All dogs have their quirks, mine seems to want me to be neat and tidy. I keep my desk at the office neat and I fold my clothes immediately after washing -- setting my dog up for success. If I let my desk get covered in paperwork, Bodhi would steal and probably shred papers, stressing me out, I'd get upset with him and it would be my fault for setting him up for failure.
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