Advice for Puppies and New Dogs

Always follow your people wherever they go inside the house (outside do whatever you want). This is something people call loyalty (and can often result in treats or at least dropped food). Even follow them into the small room. All houses have them and some houses have several of them. People go in these rooms a lot - sometimes they go into the water-sprayer, sometimes they look at themselves in the shiny thing and fluff or remove their fur, sometimes they "take a walk", sometimes they put sticks in their mouths and chew on them - but they're in there a lot. There's usually not any food in the small rooms, but it's a good way to show that we're aren't just following them around for food (which we are), but also to protect them. They like to think that we are sometimes motivated by something other than food (even though we aren't).

Just a few pointers to help you kids out, from an old pro...