19/08/2025
Do our expectations of our dogs cloud our judgment of what THEY want❓⁉️
🐶 Not EVERY dog wants to go to dog parks, daycares, have multi house guests and have birthday parties with other dogs!
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To think that every dog has to be “social” with other people 👨👩🧑🤷♂️🤷♀️🤦♂️🤦🤦♀️ and dogs is wrong. Not all dogs need to like your friends. Love and advocate for your dog enough to respect their boundaries. ❌⛔️
If your dog doesn’t want to meet every dog. Stop making him ‼️
Learn to read his body language, he’s probably already read some dogs body language and made his decision, the right one for him, it should be a freedom of choice that we shouldn’t remove.
If that’s his choice get him out of there, don’t hold him there while the dog approaches.
Your dog can be perfectly happy without overstimulating daycare or doggy birthday parties. 🎂🥳🎉🎊Those things are certainly fun for some dogs, but not for all.
It doesn’t make you a better owner 🥇🎖️🏆of your dog, it just makes YOU think that you are. 🤔
“I want to take my dog everywhere, I want my dog to run around the park playing with all the other dogs “,
Let’s ask the dogs what do they REALLY want?🤷♀️🐕
I think a lot of their replies, not all, would answer like this;
Dogs want more sniffy walks. 🐿️🦌🐾🐇
Plenty of quality time with their favourite people. 💕
A set of familiar and well matched dog friends. 🐶🐶🐶🐶
Streams, lakes and mud to play in. 💦🦆
Activities and games that complement their breed traits and needs.🐏🥎🦆🐀
A quiet safe place to decompress, 💤💤
Space to stretch their legs and run 🎄👟
and for us to learn and to respect their body language and boundaries.
They do talk to us; we all should learn to listen. 🙉👂
The above doesn’t mean to say that we shouldn’t encourage their confidence in situations, but it’s important not to lose sight and think they are enjoying something because we want them to. 👓🤓
