Homeschool Your Dog

True Story....


I met a lady with a dog.  In the course of our conversing, I inquired as to if she would be taking her dog to obedience training, and asked her too about when puppies were old enough to start.  She told me it was at about 6 months they can go... but she said, she was already teaching her dog herself and he was doing great.

She said that she took him everywhere she went.... (when she was not working.)  She told me that she has taught him to sit and stay and to come to her on command and that he is very sociable.   She insisted he was very smart and learning things well, growing every day.

This got me to thinking....
"Good for you!" I told her..  "Kinda sounds as if you are homeschooling your dog!"

Wow.....( or rather "bow-wow." )

 Imagine that.  Dog owners interacting and teaching their own dogs to behave and to be sociable.... friendly.... helpful., taking time to teach their dogs and love them like one would if he or she truely had "man's best friend" to keep him company each day.  Who would have thought of that?  Thing is, as we can see,  they do this in large part, by wanting to train and teach their dog, by interacting and being involved with and loving their pet.

This is not just fluffy stuff.

There is such a thing as parents of children teaching their kids too.  In fact parents, believe it or not, ARE their kids' first and best teachers.  Parents also do not stop being parents when, and if, they send their children to a building called, "school."  They will always be parents , and human parents do instinctively love their babies and also care for the best interests for their children.  They are, with few exceptions, always their primary teachers in life and more than capable of oversight of the learning and education of their own children both in and outside of a school classroom.  They might delegate some responsibility to others, by sending kids to a school, but the parent usually cares more for their children than anyone else can and as parents they should always have the right in overseeing the education of their own children, which is why there is homeschool.

Kids are smart and eager to learn, creative and fun to be with.  Better than dogs by far.

And... below is a REAL book title:
Homeschool Your Puppy by Erika Tracy

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18514580-homeschool-your-puppy

"Give your puppy an alphabet of basic commands and concepts to build into the skills of any dog sport or pastime, all with happy games, snacks, and easy-on-the-joints explorations. Use your hands for petting and feeding, not for shoving into sits. Any puppy, like any child, is eager to learn about his world; help him out!"