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I could not find the help I needed. So I wrote it.
Practical systems for making the decision, preparing the household, and handling the difficult weeks after the dog comes home.
Deciding
Preparing
First days
- The first day he is yoursThe first night, the first morning, who does what and in what order.Enter an email and it opens
- One house, one set of wordsOne page for the fridge: five words, what each one means, and the rule the family runs with each.Enter an email and it opens
- The Printable PackThe printable manuals for daily life with a dog, in US Letter and A4: the companion to After You Say Yes to the Dog.Free — no sign-up
Hard weeks
The people in the house
- For the one who said yesWhen someone in the house is living with a dog they did not choose.Enter an email and it opens
- Kids carry routine. Adults carry risk.What an adult owns and what is never a child’s decision, one dog and one voice, what children do when something changes — step back, tell an adult — and what children can do and must never do.Enter an email and it opens
- Sometimes the dog was trained, but the house was notFor professionals to give the families they work with.Enter an email and it opens
I am not a dog trainer. I am a father who failed three times.
Three dogs, the same breed each time, and every one of them gone within a few months. My children loved him and had no rules. My wife was afraid of dogs and nobody had designed around that. I was at work. Three times I rehomed a dog who had done nothing wrong.
When I looked for help, there was plenty about training the dog and almost nothing about running the house he was coming into — who does what, at seven in the morning and at midnight, and what happens to the person who never wanted him.
So I built it. For my own children, on paper, before the fourth dog arrived.
He stayed. His name is Oden.
These are parts of that system, written for the situations where people usually go looking for help and do not find any. They are free. If they help one family keep their dog, they have done more than a sale would.
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If you would like one of these in a different format — for a programme, a handout, a school, a shelter — write to me and I will make it.
mo@mohamedabukhadra.comThis is part of a larger system. The full version is in the two books. See both books on Amazon → About the books →
A household framework from one family’s experience — not veterinary, training or behavioural advice. For a specific dog, ask a qualified professional.