We adopted a year old whippet from the RSPCA about a week and a half ago.
In general, he is settling in fine - he appears to be house-trained, he walks well on the lead and has had basic obedience training. We take him for a minimum of 3 decent length walks per day, usually 4. However, due to him being new in the household, we do not let him off the lead whilst walking.
However, being a whippet, he still likes to have a good run. I don't mind him doing this in the garden when the dc's aren't there, but we have two dc's aged 6 and 2.10 (but v. small for age). This is where I have a question - whilst in the garden earlier today, Whippetty Boy decided that he wanted to play - hence lots of bouncing around, barking and a bit of snapping all the time whilst ds2 was in the garden. Whippetty Boy also wanted to run with him, but as I say was very boisterous, over-excited and rather snappy. Obviously I don't want to encourage boisterous play with the ds's in the garden, but I also realise it is unrealistic to expect the dog not to play in the garden. Does anyone have any tips?
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UnseenAcademicalMum · 29/03/2011 16:57
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