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 Guest
List
Familiar Faces,
Age-Appropriate
Successful parties require careful guest-list
planning. Keep your picnic fun and anxiety-free by
inviting guests with the highest potential for a fun
time.
Miriam Gustavson, proprietor of
ICR Prep School
for dogs in Farmersville, Texas, recommends that you
invite dogs that your dog already knows. “An
over-stimulating environment involving lots of dogs
plus food is no place to be introducing dogs to each
other,” she says.
Your
dog may know more other dogs than you realize. Dogs
who already get along may include:
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Neighborhood dogs
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Training classmates
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Dog
park buddies
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Family members’ dogs
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Littermates
If
your dog needs to get more social, meet a group at the
dog park, daycare facility or training facility a few
times before the party so they can get to know each
other in a supervised (and food-free) environment.
Your
dog will have the most fun with other dogs his or her
age, according to Gustavson. Older dogs may not be
tolerant of rough play the way youngsters are. Even
older pups will interact with younger pups in a way
that the younger ones may have not learned.
Limit
an on-leash picnic limited to about 6-8 dogs, and an
off-leash picnic suitable to the capacity of the
venue.
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