Paws down... this is my favorite class.
Not only do I get to play with baby puppies for an hour, I get to impact the lives of many people in our community with our mission and goals that we all share at Tails.
We are here to make dogs' lives better. Plain and simple. One of the ways we do that is by teaching their guardians the importance of socialization and bite inhibition- the two core principals of Puppy Pre School.
Dogs are social creatures, they need to be with their own species and have dependable-predictable relationships with other dogs. They learn those social behaviors very early in life, and what better way than to meet other socials, well mannered pups in their same developmental stage.
We often shock people, usually other trainers, who cannot believe we offer Puppy Pre School at no charge. Yes, its true... any healthy, vaccinated pup ages 9 week to 14 week can attend our Puppy Pre School for free. Why? Socialization saves lives. And you can't make a dogs life better, if they are not here to help.
There certainly are puppies we see at Puppy Pre School, for 6 free session and never see again in our classes, and that's OK. I run into those pups all the time- at the dog park, at dog festivals etc. and everyone tells me how grateful they are for us giving them the opportunity to create a social dog. These dogs, even though we only saw them for a short time, learned proper social behavior, they learned bite inhibition and their guardians learned about body language and dog friendly training methods.
We did our job. We helped make their life better.
