Amy Boyd, a canine behavior counselor at the Humane Society and SPCA of Austin, TX, oversees a team of volunteers who spend their time playing with puppies or
taking adolescent dogs to obedience classes, while others pursue more advanced training and learn how to evaluate temperaments, match adopters with a suitable dog and even counsel owners on behavior problems.
Not exact matches
At about 10 months to 18 months, depending on the
dog and the program, the
adolescent dogs are returned to the program facility and enter a rigorous daily training program that
takes up between 3 to 5 hours each day.
What To Do If Timidity Has Already
Taken Hold: While preventive steps are best, should your puppy or
adolescent dog already show signs of timidity, he should be gradually introduced to many new and unfamiliar people, until your puppy develops more confidence and trust.
Moreover, young
adolescents quickly learn that bother from older
dogs may be largely prevented by
taking the initiative and demonstrating active appeasement before they are harassed.
Although it's perfectly possible to leash train a
dog who's
adolescent or adult, but it
takes a lot more strength, energy and patience....
O'Neil then
takes the next step, one that makes this book eminently valuable to anyone looking for an
adolescent or adult
dog — she gives readers clues on how to find the perfect match among adult
dogs just as Michele Lowell, Chris Walkowicz, and others do for people choosing a breed and a puppy.
This either is a result of people becoming too absorbed in their own lives, so they lose interest in their
dogs, or their
adolescent dog starts snarling and barking at strangers and other animals, so the owners get embarrassed and stop
taking their
dogs places.