How to Care for a Hurt Dog

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Hi this is Ryan Gwilliam with Expert Village and I'm gonna teach you what you what you should do if your dog gets hurt. So, let's say you are walking down the hall or something and you accidentally step on your dog's paw and it really hurts him and he yelps. You feel really bad about it and the worst thing that you could possibly do it to pet it and even worse yet is to baby talk them. So if, the worst thing you could do is step on them and then be like oh I'm so sorry, I love you and then give them kisses because that's just gonna create a more nervous dog and you can actually trait some pretty bad phobias for dogs like if you take them to the vet when they're really nervous and things like that then they're just gonna be more nervous at the vet and it just creates a terrible phobia. So what you should do is just be calm and understand that your dog is gonna be just fine, if there is any serious damage you can get help for that and everything is gonna be all right. Come here, sit. So he needs to know that you are in charge of or you are in control of your own feelings and your own state of mind and then he will be able to do the same as well. So the best things to do if you were to hurt your dog is to just move forward. Obviously if you hurt his paw have him sit down, lie down, but don't pet him, just let him get over it, he'll deal with it, he'll be just fine. And let him deal with that and as soon as he's over that and back into a normal state of mind then you're okay to pet him and feel as bad as you want, but not while he is feeling insecure because you will just create a worst case scenario for your dog.

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