(Ottawa Dog of the Week for February 8th/10)

“Stuart is a Shnauzer/Poodle Mix and has been the rock at his Mom’s side ever since he came into her life as a 5 week old puppy. He’s a happy laid back guy who doesn’t care too much for organized dog sports, but loves to curl up on the couch and watch a good home makeover show. He loves is new baby sister, Boogie, and spends most days keeping his Mom company from her home office where she is the founder of a national charity, Fertile Future. The highlight of Stuart’s year was being the ring bearer at his human’s wedding last summer. His humans know just how lucky they are and feel so grateful to have this little angel in their lives.” – Stuart’s Humans, Liz and Scott

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Chantal from the Ottawa K9 School just welcomed a beautiful baby boy into her family. She wrote a great article on what works and what doesn’t work when introducing your dogs to your new baby.

An excerpt:

I held a fake baby in my arms (I used a large teddy and put diapers on it). I spoke to, sang to, soothed, cooed at.. baby while ignoring the dogs. The point here was to get them used to seeing me pay attention to a little one while ignoring them. I did this for about a week, my husband never got around to it, and then we dropped it altogether. Honestly, I felt this was a waste of time. The dogs knew that the “baby” was not real. With their super duper sense of smell, I can’t imagine that a teddy bear with a clean diaper has anything in common with a live baby in a dirty one… The only thing they noticed was that I had a new past time, and they weren’t bothered by it much. “Whatever floats your boat, oh silly Human“, said they.

Check out her great article here.

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