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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 25, 1962)
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For convenience, ak fur the large site. ut Uoan rills toOayl What Your Dog Can Teach Your Child This IS THE TIME of year parents begin think ing about Christmas presents for their youngsters. Almost inevitably some will ask: "What about a puppy?" As a veterinarian for many years, I heartily agree that puppies make wonderful presents for children. I wonder, though, if parents really know how wonderful: if they get full value from the dog they bring into their home. Today's dog sometimes is just another indulgence for the children. That is too bad because a dog can be a work ing pet a teacher, for one thing, who will happily help you teach children about responsibilities, sharing, disci pline, even the miracle of life. There was one father, for example, who always brought his young son and daughter to my office when their puppy was taking its early inoculations. Dad merely accompanied the children ; it was up to them to sit in the waiting room, calming the puppy's anxieties, and the boy had to help hold the dog while he was examined. The father's explanation was simple: "It's their dog, and they must gradually learn the responsibilties of taking care of him." He felt, too, that a child .was cheated if he knew only the affection and fun of having a dog and missed the satisfaction of helping protect the most appreciative and responsive of nature's creatures. The j. truly became the children's dog, from the mo ment they shared the task of cleaning the puppy box to the exercising they gave him, full-grown, on weekend mornings. They are teen-agers now and, alas, many duties have reverted to the parents by necessity. But in the mean time two youngsters learned to accept the tedious with the pleasant and, I think, developed an especially rewarding relationship with their pet. Parents shouldn't expect their youngsters to take over all duties connected with a dog. A child under seven or eight should do little more than feed and water his pet and don't scold him when he forgets. If you do, the dog may become more pest than pet. After seven, though, children should be encouraged to . take on more important responsibilities. How? I know some parents who have taken their children to dog shows and encouraged them to read pet-care books and animal fiction. As a result, the children view new duties toward their dogs as an exciting phase of growing up rather than just an added chore. Children certainly must take an active part in training a dog. This is a difficult task sometimes, requiring con sistency, patience, and firmness. Yet most youngsters, even at 10 or 11, exhibit all these characteristics in obedience training the dog they love. Piste j I It. V 7- jlr.-:i. Grooming the dog encourages responsibility in a youngster. The under-10 child should not be excluded from training sessions which you or a professional conduct. They must learn to handle their dog in all circumstances, and they should understand the why of discipline. The younger child himself no stranger to "do this . . . don't do that" may view you as something of an ogre at first as you enforce your demands on a frisky young dog. It is up to you to explain that a dog needs discipline for its own sake. For the dog's safety, you teach him not to run into the street or eat anything except what the family offers him. For the dog's own acceptance in the household, he must be taught not to leap up on people. Discipline, then, is not an arbitrary thing but a neces sary part of life. I marvel that the best-behaved dogs I treat are usually attended by the best-behaved children I meet. Certainly, credit goes to the parents, but I don't think I'm being too sentimental when I give kudos to the dog who helped make discipline seem less like adult cruelty. Training a dog, incidentally, is great training in itself and a tremendous satisfaction. The teen-ager who receives a dog as a gift probably won't respond as much to its comic cuddling as he will to what it can do hunt with a boy, for instance, or entertain a girl's friends. A teen-ager should be encouraged to teach his dog more . than simple obedience. The dog will learn quickly and, believe me, so will the youth. A good trainer eventually learns to command without cruelty and lead without effort, and those are lessons the dog just characteristically .likes to take part in. Every dog owner has his favorite story about how his children and his dog taught one another. Sharing and shyness are ones I hear frequently. The most possessive child, jealous of brothers and sisters, will share a blanket or surreptitious bite of food with the family dog. Like many lessons, the first part is the hardest, and once a child learns that there is pleasure in sharing as well as in pos sessing, he begins to grow out of this stage more readily. The case of shyness almost inevitably features a happy-go-lucky pooch so full of affection that even the withdrawn child cannot help but return love and, most important, demonstrate it. I read recently where a psychiatrist uses a dog as sort of a bridge between himself and his young patients. The youngsters cannot unburden themselves to this awesome adult but his dogr well, that's different A slightly different case concerned a shy girl whose parents had just moved into a new neighborhood. The local Family Wttkly. NawmtXT 25. 1M1
