Tips for clients welcoming home new canines

During an interview with dvm360®, Christopher Pachel, DVM, DACVB, CABC, lead clinician and practice owner of Animal Behavior Clinic in Portland, Oregon, offered advice for educating clients on acclimating new dogs to their homes, plus he outlined a timeline of getting to know these companion animals.

View the video below for the entire discussion. The following is a partial transcript.

Christopher Pachel, DVM, DACVB, CABC: There are some of my colleagues who really kind of looked at [acclimating a new dog] almost in terms of 3 hours, 3 days, 3 weeks, maybe even 3 months in some cases, but just letting the the [clients] know that this is a process. Within 3 minutes, there's a lot of information coming at those animals, we can't expect them to necessarily process all of that, especially not knowing their learning history, or their previous relationship experiences.