Greeting Fearful Dogs

Content: A great pet care business will have a plan for working with fearful dogs. Nervous and fearful dogs will visit your pet care business or be a part of your pet-sitting service. The good news is most adjust to the environment or new people quickly. However, for the dogs that need a little extra time and help adjusting, it is important that you create an environment and management plan that sets them up for success.

Today’s activity will focus on tips for setting up an environment that helps dogs feel safe as you greet them for the first time.

Prior to Lunch & Learn Session:

• Review the outline provided in this activity to ensure it aligns with your own approaches to handling fearful dogs.
• Create supporting talking points to the content in the outline.
• Gather your procedures on handling fearful dogs to incorporate into the provided outline.
• Consider finding pictures and videos of dogs displaying varying degrees of fear.
• Pick a member or two of your team to present the material and demonstrate the greeting behaviors