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How to be a great dog owner
Great Dog Ownership means you being the best owner/friend to your dog that you can be. There’s a lot more to owning a dog than just providing ‘food, shelter and a bowl of water’.
Great Dog Ownership is the obligation dog owners have to incorporate their dogs into the community, being a good neighbour, and providing for the needs of their dogs, however varied those needs may be.
You’re in charge of:
- Realising that a pet is for LIFE, and dedicating yourself to the life of your dog.
- Putting the effort into proper care of your dog (proper veterinary care, vaccinations, de-worming, proper feeding).
- Learning all you can about proper feeding, making healthy choices. Your dogs’ health is affected by what they eat every bit as much as yours is. You are what You eat. Your dog is what You feed him/her.
- Investing in proper health care throughout your dog’s life.
- Training your dog through gentle means to be a good canine citizen.
- Training your dog not be a nuisance, and helping him achieve that goal.
- Teaching your children to respect animals and not abuse them through play.
- Obeying the laws set for your protection and the protection of others, even when your dog “doesn’t need a lead & is as good as gold around other dogs”. By not obeying the laws, you are only ruining it for everyone else.
- Not breeding your dog because he is “so cute”.
- Coming to terms with the fact that not everybody likes dogs, and asking yourself, what can you do to ensure that your dog is likable, even to these sad people?
- Doing your part to help lessen the pet overpopulation problem of dogs in Mallorca, and keeping your intact dog at home and away from other intact animals, or neutering him or her to prevent future health issues.
- Teaching other humans how to interact with your dog.
- Providing your dog with a family and a home, not just food and shelter. Dogs are very very social, and isolation from the family will result in an unhappy, and ultimately, unhealthy dog.
- Holding yourself, as the dog owner, liable for whatever damage your dog does, and taking steps to rectify it.
Your job is to help you dog have a happy life and in return, your dog will reward you with loyalty, adoration and friendship.
Thank-you for your interest in being a Great Dog Owner. Now make us (& your lucky dog) proud!!