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Adopting a 2 year old dog tomorrow. Any tips? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca to c/chat@beehaw.org
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My wife and I have always wanted to have a dog and out of an interesting turn of events, we have the opportunity to adopt a 2 year old dog that a family friend cannot take care of anymore (they developed an illness that radically saps their energy).

Super excited but a little worried about making sure the doggo is taken care of properly. We’ll have to drive him back in our car for 3h30 and we have an old overly-affectionate cat.

What do people think? Any tips? Relevant stories? Give me your thoughts and have an awesome day!🙂

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[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Very true! I felt this a lot with my cat over the years. You learn their language and slowly work out a shared understanding of some body language and tone of meows.

Fortunately for us this doggo is already more or less trained (taps the front door when needing to go out), sits and stays and gives his paws. We’re just going to need to help him unlearn the tendency to associate his ball with a reward because he doesn’t know when to stop playing. I’m exhausted haha.