Adoption Transition, Integration, Prioritizing Training
Adoption Transition Support
Discover helpful tips and essential tools to smoothly welcome your new dog into the family.
- 10 Tips for a Successful Transition
- 🐾 Top 15 Tips for Safely Integrating a New Dog Into Your Home
- Work the Dog in Front of You, Not the One You Thought You’d Have
- Stay Safe – Dogs Have Teeth
- The First “3” Days
- The Importance of Management
- Transition Phases – The 3 Days, 3 Weeks, 3 Months Guideline
- See “3-3-3: Giving a Dog Time to Decompress” here:
Integration Resources
Working to integrate you dog into your home. Here are some resources to help:
- Child Safety – Integrating a Dog into a Family with Children
- Introducing your Dog to your Cat
- Introducing your new Dog to your Dog(s)
- 🐾 Dog-Dog Socialization Tests & Initial Introductions
- Integrating Your New Dog into a Multi-Dog Household
- How to successfully introduce two dogs | Animal Humane Society
- Pet Behavior Tips: Introducing Pets – Arizona Humane Society
- Introducing Your New Dog to Your Dogs
- Breaking Up a Dog Fight
- See Dog Bites & Dog Fights page
- Integrating a New Dog into your Family
- For Training and Behavior resources see below (or above):
New Dog! Prioritizing Training
A newly adopted dog may have a full skill set or no skill set when they enter your home. Figuring out where to start with training can be overwhelming. Take a look at the resources below for how to prioritize your training:
- The Magic Marker Word – “Yes”
- Understanding and Establishing Boundaries with Our Dogs
- Enrichment: Meeting All of Our Dog’s Needs
- Management Plans for Newly Adopted Dogs
- See related posts for additional information:
- Safety and Settling are key areas to focus on for a new dog. Those items would include:
- House Training
- Door Manners (Dashing)
- Drop It
- Leave It
- Recall
- Stationing Cue(s)
- Crate, Place, Stay
- Support information for the cues above at: Training Resources | Element Dog Training