Babyproof your dog: Start preparing pets before a newborn comes ...

Babyproof your dog: Start preparing pets before a newborn comes home
News from Detroit Free Press:

Parents have months to get ready for a baby. Experts say the countdown should include prep time for pets, too.

A baby changes everything for a pet ? from how its home looks, smells and sounds to what the rules are.

Low-energy, friendly, social dogs are the most adaptable pets, while excitable, high-maintenance, busybody dogs are the least adaptable, said San Francisco veterinarian and animal behaviorist Sophia Yin.

?Little dogs can be more jealous and more snippy,? said Lynn Sullivan, community health program manager at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center.

When Mary Brown of Royal Oak was pregnant with her first child, she took out the stroller and pushed it around her dog, Maggie, a chocolate Labrador retriever.

?We would kind of roll it around, around her,? Brown said. ?Sometimes, popping the stroller out will scare? dogs.

After her son Drew was born in 2008, her husband, Bill Brown, brought the baby?s hat home from the hospital and let Maggie ? then 1 1/2 ? smell the hat and get used to the scent.

?Then, when I came home from the hospital, I went in first, without the baby,? said Mary Brown, 33. ?We had some treats. ?When she was being gentle with him, we would give her a treat.?

When the Browns? second child, Emmett, arrived in March 2011, they did similar things to prepare Maggie.

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Pet dogs attacking livestock in Delegate
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FOLLOWING reports of dogs roaming on rural properties within the South East Livestock Health and Pest Authority, domestic dog owners are being reminded to supervise their dogs at all times to avoid unintentional attacks on livestock.

Rodney Rankin, ranger with the South East LHPA, said the LHPA had been made aware of recent attacks on livestock in the Delegate area, where approximately 50 sheep had been attacked on two properties

?All dogs, including domestic and wild dogs, have the potential to predate on sheep, calves, goats, alpacas and other stock, as well as native wildlife,? he said.

?One of the LHPA?s roles is to assist landholders control wild dogs on their land, but we also get requests for advice on how to deal with domestic dogs that have strayed onto private property.

?Domestic dogs must be kept under control and supervision at all times. If a dog strays onto a private property and if the occupier believes it will molest or injure livestock, the landholder has the right to destroy the animal (section 22(5) of the Companion Animals Act 1998). If dogs cause injury to an animal the owner of the dog is liable for damages.

?If anyone witnesses a wild dog attacking livestock you should call their local LHPA if they believe it?s a domestic dog they should notify their local council ranger or the police ? ASAP.

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