Safety Tips To Prevent Dogs From Attacking Babies

Having a baby soon? Got a dog in the house? This is a major problem and you should train your dog not to bite your new born baby. Find out how in this simple guideline

I get a lot of emails from people who own dogs and are about to have ababy. These people want to make sure they don't have an issue withtheir dog attacking a baby. This is when you'll need your dog training skills.There is a protocol for dealing with dogs and newborn babies. It startswith never allowing any dog to be unattended around your baby. Not evenfor 5 seconds. In addition the dog is never allowed in the babys room.Not ever! If you don't own a dog crate it's time to buy one. When parents bring a new born baby home from the hospital they shouldnot allow the dog to come and smell the baby or lick the baby. In factthe dog needs to be trained to stay away from the baby. Your goal is to teach the dog that the baby is your baby and hasnothing to do with the dog. The baby should not to be smelled ortouched. The dog needs to learn that the baby is a higher rankingmember of the family pack and that you (as the pack leader) enforce thebabies rank. This is no different than a mother wolf who does not allowother pack members near her newborn pups.The way to set this training up is to take items that have the babiessmell on them; baby cloths, baby sheets, dirty diapers etc. Lay them inyour living area where the dog is allowed to be. The dog is never to be allowed to go near these items. They can't playwith them, or even go over and smell them, they can't go near them. Thedog needs to learn that there is a bubble around the smell of a babythat they are not allowed to enter.If they do go to smell them they are corrected. Don't kid yourself thatthe dog can't smell these items from a across the room and that's asclose as they are allowed.When you set up this training the dog should already be on a long line- one of our 20 foot cotton line's that is cut down will work or youcan make one. We also sell very nice leather drag lines that are meantfor this work. They are 5 feet long. If the dog walks over to smell the diaper he gets a verbal no. If hedoes not turn and immediately (instantly) leave he gets a serious level5 correction. If he ignores that correction you immediately correct tolevel 8 or 9. The goal is to teach the dog that the smell of the babyif Out Of Bounds!! Never leave these baby items lying around when you are out of the room.Treat them just like you treat your baby. The dog and these items arenever together - not for a long, long time. Look at it like this. Ifyou can't control the dog staying away from these articles of clothingthen you can't control the dog staying away from your baby.