PUPPY KINDERGARTEN CLASSES & PUPPY SOCIALIZATION PARTIES!!!
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Taught in a state-of-the art indoor training facility featuring climate controlled spacious rooms, the grounds our kept immaculate as they are parvo and distemper disinfected before each class. This allows maximum safety and comfort for your new puppy!
Jeffrey Brian is also the founder of the TPSP (Trainers who Participate in Socialization Parties), a not-for-profit organization comprised of professional dog trainers and veterinarians who have joined together in the interest of puppies everywhere to help facilitate the all-important puppy socialization process.
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WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
In addition to having your puppy become "super socialized", your dog will learn basic dog obedience with Karma Dog Training's 7 Requests for Success - "sit", "stay", "come", "down", "loose leash walking", "leave it" & "go to your bed". Your puppy will learn this with hand signals and voice cues. No harsh corrections.In our puppy kindergarten and socialization classes, your puppy will also learn important bite inhibition skills. Furthermore, we give you a greater understanding of your role in your puppy's behavioral obstacles and how they originated. We then provide you with many practical applications on how to overcome them, turning them from potential negative experiences into positive healing opportunities.
WHY IS PUPPY SOCIALIZATION SO IMPORTANT?
Would you like your dog to sit QUIETLY beside you when another dog walks by?Would you like your dog to be SUBMISSIVE and get along with other dogs on and off-leash?
Would you like your dog to LIKE being introduced to other dogs and want to play?
Would you like your dog to ENJOY meeting new people instead of fear them?
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As a client of Karma Dog Training's Queens puppy training class, you'll be guaranteed to make the most of the golden opportunity called "puppyhood" by ensuring your dog gets properly socialized during this critical developmental stage.
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That's because each of Karma Dog Training's premiere Queens puppy training and socialization classes are integrated with at least a half hour of fantastic unbridled puppy fun as your newest addition to the family learns to properly play off-leash with his or her peers.
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To find out more about Karma Dog Training's Queens puppy training and puppy socialization classes, please email us at newyork@karmadogtraining.com. (Space is limited)
For more information on Jeffrey Brian's not-for-profit organization TPSP, please visit: www.puppyparties.org
VETERINARIAN ENDORSED!
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- Dr. Ian Dunbar, Veterinarian and Founder of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers
Dr. Dunbar is currently Director of the Center for Applied Animal Behavior in Berkeley, California. He has written numerous books and hosted a dozen videos about puppy/dog behavior and training. Click here to get his classic book "After You Get Your Puppy"
IS EARLY SOCIALIZATION SAFE?
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Robert K. Anderson DVM
Diplomate ACVB and ACVPM
Professor and Director Emeritus, Animal Behavior Clinic and Center to Study Human/Animal Relationships and Environments
University of Minnesota
1666 Coffman Street, Suite 128,
Falcon Heights, MN 55108
Phone 612-644-7400 FAX 612-644-4262
Puppy Vaccination and Socialization Should Go Together
TO: My Colleagues in Veterinary Medicine:
Common questions I receive from puppy owners, dog trainers and veterinarians concern:
1) What is the most favorable age or period of time when puppies learn best?
2) What are the health implications of my advice that veterinarians and trainers should offer socialization programs for puppies starting at 8 to 9 weeks of age?
Puppies begin learning at birth and their brains appear to be particularly responsive to learning and retaining experiences that are encountered during the first 13 to 16 weeks after birth. This means that breeders, new puppy owners, veterinarians, trainers and behaviorists have a responsibility to assist in providing these learning/socialization experiences with other puppies/dogs, with children/adults and with various environmental situations during this optimal period from birth to 16 weeks.
Many veterinarians are making this early socialization and learning program part of a total wellness plan for breeders and new owners of puppies during the first 16 weeks of a puppy's life -- the first 7-8 weeks with the breeder and the next 8 weeks with the new owners. This socialization program should enroll puppies from 8 to 12 weeks of age as a key part of any preventive medicine program to improve the bond between pets and their people and keep dogs as valued members of the family for 12 to 18 years .
To take full advantage of this early special learning period, many veterinarians recommend that new owners take their puppies to puppy socialization classes, beginning at 8 to 9 weeks of age. At this age they should have (and can be required to have) received a minimum of their first series of vaccines for protection against infectious diseases. This provides the basis for increasing immunity by further repeated exposure to these antigens either through natural exposure in small doses or artificial exposure with vaccines during the next 8 to 12 weeks. In addition the owner and people offering puppy socialization should take precautions to have the environment and the participating puppies as free of natural exposure as possible by good hygiene and caring by careful instructors and owners.
Experience and epidemiological data support the relative safety and lack of transmission of disease in these puppy socialization classes over the past 10 years in many parts of the United States. In fact; the risk of a dog dying because of infection with distemper or parvo disease is far less than the much higher risk of a dog dying (euthanasia) because of a behavior problem. Many veterinarians are now offering new puppy owners puppy socialization classes in their hospitals or nearby training facilities in conjunction with trainers and behaviorists because they want socialization and training to be very important parts of a wellness plan for every puppy. We need to recognize that this special sensitive period for learning is the best opportunity we have to influence behavior for dogs and the most important and longest lasting part of a total wellness plan.
Are there risks? Yes. But 10 years of good experience and data, with few exceptions, offers veterinarians the opportunity to generally recommend early socialization and training classes, beginning when puppies are 8 to 9 weeks of age. However, we always follow a veterinarian's professional judgment, in individual cases or situations, where special circumstances warrant further immunization for a special puppy before starting such classes. During any period of delay for puppy classes, owners should begin a program of socialization with children and adults, outside their family, to take advantage of this special period in a puppy's life.
If there are further questions, veterinarians may call me at 651-644-7400 for discussion and clarification.
- Robert K. Anderson DVM, Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine and Diplomate of American College of Veterinary Behaviorists
(Reprinted with permission from Dr. R.K. Anderson for Karma Dog Training in Queens)