A First Guide to Dogs by Dr. John Bradshaw

Author:Dr. John Bradshaw [Bradshaw, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2023-06-13T00:00:00+00:00

Often when his old owner got home, he’d shout and give Rusty a smack. Rusty never did work out why, though. After a while he used to dread his old owner coming home. Then one day he took Rusty to the rescue center and left him there, saying he was “too destructive.”

Dogs can get very miserable when they’re left on their own for long, even when they’re at home. Some panic as soon as everyone goes out, barking and whining and running from window to window, trying to work out where their family has disappeared to.

Some dogs get so upset when they’re left alone that they are sick all over the floor. Some are so scared, they can’t stop themselves peeing in the house, even though they know they’re not supposed to. Other dogs chew the corner of the sofa because they find it takes their mind off being lonely.

When Rusty was living in his first home, his owners talked a lot about “discipline,” which seemed to be mainly shouting at him for reasons he couldn’t understand.

He got confused, because sometimes they’d shout at him while he was in the middle of doing something wrong, and sometimes for something he’d done an hour ago and, being a dog, had completely forgotten about. And sometimes they just shouted at each other, and even that made Rusty miserable because he thought they might possibly be shouting at him.

They also used to call him “spiteful” when they found he’d done something wrong, like when he chewed on a slipper (well, he was only a puppy). Rusty didn’t understand that they thought he’d chewed the slipper on purpose, just to make them cross. This is way beyond what dogs can understand. It might seem like this is an excuse for the dog, but it’s not.

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