BEHAVIOUR HANDOUT

Settling a New Rescue Dog

Overview

When a new rescue dog joins our home, we need to give them a period to decompress. Here are some tips to help them settle, following the 333 rule.

Why this is important:

3 days: Give your dog a quiet space to decompress - joining a new household can be stressful

3 weeks: If your dog is ready, you can start to explore walks and activities outside of your home and garden

3 months: Your dog is now starting to get really settled, and so some other behaviours may crop up at this point

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Welly and Tails️ 2 weeks ago

** EXEMPT DOGS ** I wanted to address how we operate for owners with exempted dogs, as I've had a couple of messages from clients with exempted dogs in the past few days. 1) We DO accept exempted dogs. 2) There is NO extra charge for exempted dogs Our insurance just asks that: ❤️ Only dogs from the same household can attend (so if you have four dogs and one is exempted then you can bring all four, but you couldn't meet up with your friend and their dogs if you're bringing an exempted dog) ❤️ Exempted dogs must keep their muzzle and lead on in the car park but these can be removed once you are in the dog park and the gate has been securely shut. It's important to remember that every insurance provider may have different criteria, so I can't comment on why one place may operate differently or not but this is (thankfully) how ours works which we're grateful for 🙏 Hope that clears things up 🥰

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Welly and Tails️ Updated their cover photo. 2 weeks ago

Welly and Tails️ 2 weeks ago

** NEW DOG PARK RULE ** When visiting in future, we will NOT be allowing single dog visits. All dogs MUST now bring matching backup singer dogs for their visit going forward, to allow for perfectly symmetrical photos. Many thanks and thank you for respecting our dog park rules 🙏🙏 (only joking, have to say as sometimes I get messages worrying about if it's true 😂😂)