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Today is #RememberMeThursday ! A day about encoura

Today is #RememberMeThursday ! A day about encouraging pet adoption! 🎉 Show off your rescues on social media to share the rescue 💖 @hwac🐶💖 Shino & @melanie_alice

This is Westbrook. He was just adopted by the pers

This is Westbrook. He was just adopted by the person who owns @beastyfeast …the place where all the cool doggos go. Pretty sure they’re all gonna want to be Westbrook’s BFF. Welcome to NYC, little pupper!

As a matter of fact, the world does revolve around

As a matter of fact, the world does revolve around dogs. 😜💖 @meet.ozzy & Coco #dogsrule

Meet Clover & Penny ( @pennyandthecity_ ) They bot

Meet Clover & Penny ( @pennyandthecity_ ) They both made terrific progress today in regards to getting more comfortable with other pups and people. 💖
We brought puppy play groups & training classes to NYC almost 30 years ago under the guidance of Dr. Ian Dunbar (the Dogfather of companion dog training) with the goal being to spread the word about the vital importance of VERY early intervention regarding a pup’s education and socialization protocol.
Back then it was typical to wait until a pup was 6 months of age. 😮☹️
How things have changed! We are so happy that puppy parents have a better understanding of the importance of early intervention. The first 4 months of a pup’s life are a period of super rapid development and their opinions about the world are developing super rapidly as well.
Of course people are concerned about bringing a young pup out into the world prior to completing either a traditional or non-traditional schedule of vaccines. But, this needs to be balanced with equal concern for a pup’s emotional and psychological well-being as it relates to being potentially isolated from a world they are expected to be part of and comfortable with as adults.
When making a decision about when to start socializing and training a pup outside of the home, consider that most puppy parents bring their pups to a veterinary practice to get vaccines. This is the place sick dogs go for treatment, so by definition one of the riskier places to bring a puppy. If you are bringing a young pup to visit the vet for vaccines (as opposed to the vet doing an at-home visit), at a bare minimum you should feel OK carrying your pup around outside to help them get comfortable with the world.

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