Our 7 month old dog will not pay attention to our 3 year old daughter. How do I help “grow” a relationship between my daughter and my dog?
In order to get your dog to pay attention to your daughter more, you will need to have your daughter work with your dog more. Most likely, your dog sees your daughter as an equal vice someone he/she should look up to and follow. An easy exercise your daughter can do is to teach your dog the attention command. Please see instructions for this exercise in this article here:
http://www.experts123.com/a/teaching-your-dog-to-pay-attention.html
Suze
Cedarwater Dog Training
Your dog is probably attached to you because it was an adult who cared for him most of the time. You can explain it to your daughter that way, although at only 3 years of age, she might be a bit young to understand. Unfortunately, some dogs just don’t ever warm up to being around very young children. This is probably okay since a three year old can’t really be responsible to know how to respect a dog’s space. But you can start using those terms…space, privacy, etc. Try to help your child understand the dog. Normally, I would tell you to let your daughter feed the dog all of his meals, and take care of the dog chores as well. But at her age, I think this is a bit beyond expectations. I think the best thing is to just let it happen – don’t rush things. Have your daughter do some distracting things like drawing pictures of your dog and posting them on the refridgerator. Maybe the two of you can take the dog for walks together. Sitting with your daughter when she wants to be with the dog
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