Canis Sapiens. Sveta koerad

"The latter invokes the tabulae rasae myth: If you start with the best material and do everything "correctly", you will have a perfect, predictable dog. Such myths subject dogs to extraordinarily cruel expectations and conditions while compelling their people to feel only grief and guilt." Karen Overall, "Puppy Temperament Testing"

"Training often seems to be a major challenge for people who have not grown up with dogs." Linda Tellington-Jones "Getting in TTouch with Your Dog"

KODULEHT

1. Before greeting people 2. Before greeting other dogs 3. Before coming inside 4. Before being allowed on the couch 5. Before cuddling on the couch 6. Before being put on leash 7. Before going outside 8. Before moving away from the front door 9. Before getting in the car 10. Before getting out of the car 11. Before being left off leash 12. Before you throw a tennis ball 13. Before you take the ball back 14. Before throwing the ball again 15. And yes, before your puppy gets its supper. Doctor Dunbar's "Good Little Dog Book"

David Letterdog's List of Things Dogs Cannot Do While Chewing a Chewtoy 1. Chew carpets, curtains, cushions, couches, clothes, chair legs, children's toys, electrical cords, and computer disks. Play-bite (ot mouth) human hands, arms, legs, and ankles. Play tug o'war with trousers, skirts, and shoe laces. 2. Surf kitchen counters. Empty cupboards. Lick butter from the refrigerator. Trash the trash. 3. Dig in the yard for escape or enjoyment. (Certainly a dog can dig while holding a chewtoy in its jaws, but if really working on its chewtoy it will have little time for digging holes. And it will not want to bury its chewtoy with the tastiest treats still inside.) 4. Destroy the yard, chew garden furniture and fences, eat flowersaa and poisonous plants, truffle for cat feces. 5. Become overly anxious or bored when home alone. Escape from solitary isolation in the yard (through the dismantled fence). Obsessively and compulsively stare at a blank wall, or chase its tail and run i...

David Letterdog's List on Things a Dog Cannot Do While Sitting 1. Jump up, lick, paw, bump, or goose family, friends, visitors, or strangers, especially including the young and the elderly. 2. Bolt out of the front door or car. 3. Run off in the park. 4. Chase cars, cats, chickens, children, bicyclists, skateboarders, horses, and other dogs. 5. Bully, bother, pester, or disturb people or other dogs. 6. Get underfoot, stepped on, or tripped over. 7. Mount other dogs, or be mounted by other dogs. 8. Slap a child in the face, or clear a coffee table of wine glasses with a waggy tail. 9. Fence-fight or scrap through the garden fence. 10. Pace bace and forth, chase its tail, or self-energize by running around like a whirling dervish from window to couch, from couch to carpet, and from carpet to window, etc., while working itself into a feverish frenzy. Doctor Dunbar's "Good Little Dog Book"