The Perfect Dog
Via the mullet (who is considering a dog), comes this article on finding the perfect dog. It’s a good read. But if there is one thing that you take from this article, it should be this:
2. How can I get a well-behaved dog?
You can’t. You can only create one. Dogs don’t come that way. It’s natural canine behavior to chew on all sorts of things, roll in other animals’ droppings, hump and fight other dogs, menace anything that invades the home. All these behaviors can be curbed, but that takes a lot of work. Trainers say it requires nearly 2,000 repetitions of a behavior for a dog to completely absorb it.
