We have dogs coming & going in & out of our pack quite often. We have lots of fosters, some board & trains, some we pet sit for friends. There are some things we do to make it easy for our pack and the newcomer when they arrive.One of the first things I do is bathe the visitor. It makes them smell like one of us, and it’s always nice to have a clean dog around.We then institute lots of simple leadership exercises. Simple things like: New Dog is the last one through the door, inside and outside; sitting for food and petting, getting fed last, yielding. Just enforcing the normal rules and boundaries of our everyday life including the New Dog goes a long way for making the transition easy.
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