[nagdu] Sticks

[Tracy Carcione]

I think many people don't see sticks as a problem, so the puppyraiser
might not even think to stop it.  My neighbor lets her dog play with
sticks all the time.  It's horrifying to me, but I only got uptight about
it after Ben got hurt.  Before that, I thought it was just undesirable. 
Although carrying around whole limbs is still kinda funny.  That doesn't
seem as dangerous as a little stick.
Tracy


> I think when it comes to dogs eating sticks, sure, maybe some puppy
> raisers
> were a little lax  or allowed stick eating, but my guess is that they
> could
> stop it immediately when the dog first picked up said stick. Some dogs
> would
> give up after a while and lose interest in sticks but others, seeing that
> no
> one was going to stop them right away, might indulge their stick fetish.
> <grin>
>
> It's often easy to stop a puppy before it makes a mistake rather than
> gradually giving it more and more opportunities to make said mistake and
> be
> corrected, as it might  by its blind handler who may not necessarily know
> from across the yard that it's got a stick. From the puppy raisers I've
> talked with this allowing mistakes as learning tools is an art.
>
> Jenine Stanley
> jeninems at wowway.com
>
>
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