Vaccine Information
My puppy training class is the safest place you can take a pup.
My clients are the best of the best. After forty five years of successful training I have a special type of owner who enrolls in my class. These owners are caring, conscientious and tremendously responsible. Their pups are house dogs, fed quality diets, are current on vaccines and do receive veterinary care on a regular basis, for life. The quality of my clients is reflected in the overall health of their pets.
The importance of repeated exposure to 'the world' is critical to pups and especially so during the dog's most impressionable period of six to sixteen weeks. Since 1954 the research from Bar Harbor, Maine done by Scott and Fuller still holds true; that the most important social developmental phase is under seventeen weeks. Attending my Puppy Classes helps you take advantage of this critical stage.
Training classes in pet stores are the worst places to train a pup. During the week the traffic of dogs of uncertain care standards is high and, rescue dog groups bring dogs straight out of the shelter/other countries for potential adoption. The sneezing, coughing and urine/stool from these groups of dogs is a real threat to a pup's health, not the locations that I use. Do not compare those classes with mine.
The locations where I teach do not have sick dogs come in for treatment. Only healthy dogs are there. This is unlike a veterinarian's office which regularly has sick dogs come in. I am not exposed to nor do I handle sick dogs. Staff at a veterinarian office handle sick and well dogs. Keeping your pup out of my class while taking him to a veterinary office for visits does not make sense.
Pups in class are all current on their vaccines. No person in my classes would let a vaccine date go by. Your pup is with other cherished pets. Provided the pups are current on their vaccine schedule that is all we need.
Last, I let my record speak, loudly. I have never, since I started Orange County's first puppy training classes in 1979, had a sick pup attend class, or seen any pup in class with a communicable disease nor has a pup gotten sick from attending my classes.
See you in class
Dr. Sue Myles
Importance of Socialization
I found this great article on the website for American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior. It talks about how important Puppy Socialization is. Please read for yourself.