Coming from a line of dog owning people, it is safe to say that there are different styles of rearing your pet dog. Dog owning has become a paradox and complex because of the owners and not the dogs. Dog accessories and what-not manufacturing has boomed yet the number of pet dogs put in shelters number to thousands a week per pet shelter.

Considering your pet dog as a creature that is dependent on human contact to live as a domesticated one is the first step to a successful pet and owner relationship. Keeping in mind your pet dogs limitation would make a pet owners responsibilities clearer and simpler.

A pet owners primary and basic responsibility are communication and training of correct behavior. Being witness to the different styles of my kin’s approach to dog rearing have brought about knowing the basics. I’ve had an uncle whose dog depended on him that it just cant govern itself when my uncle was away-this is way before excessive barking and loud noise trauma was a condition to treat dogs for. One must consider putting all able bodied member of the family above the dog, this is in case the one considered as the pack leader leaves the house. Knowing its pecking order a pet dog is likely to follow another family member that shows dominance over the canine.