I am a caretaker of a dog. My husband and I had a dog for about six or seven months and we both do the same thing, which is help with daily care.
This is a common way I hear it is to “do everything” with your pet, and while it is true that this can be a good thing, it can also be a very bad thing. Caregiver education is a great way to avoid some of these problems. It helps you teach your dog to be a caregiver, which is a very important life skill that comes with a great responsibility and can be very exhausting.
In this video I will share some of the tips and tricks and strategies that we have learned to help our dogs be successful caregivers. We have also found that using the caregiving metaphor is a great way to get to know our dogs as people, so I thought you might find it helpful as we go through this process.
This video features one of the most recent videos I’ve seen from the company in production. The videos have been on YouTube for weeks, so I was able to find a few clips on YouTube where I am getting the most out of the videos. In the video below we will see that the idea of giving our dogs to friends, or to a group of friends in order to have a conversation is actually an awesome idea, but we won’t get to do it in this video.
Our dogs have a hard time understanding the concept of “caregiver” and are in search of a new one. We’re currently looking for a really awesome caregiver to help us take our dogs on a trip to the zoo. We’ve been looking for a caregiver since our last vacation, and we’ve spent hours on the phone with a variety of people, including this woman who lives right across the street from us.
She was absolutely amazing. We had a couple of hours to decide between her and a couple of others and she was the only one to give us the time we needed to make the right choice. She had a great personality and was very personable. She is also a great dog sitter and was able to figure out that we were looking for a dog caretaker, but she also has a dog and a cat so she knew how to get us a great deal.
She was also easy to get along with and we’ve gotten to know her fairly well. We like her too.
her caretaker education was a little more difficult than her other courses. She has a background in psychology that she completed in college and her goal was to complete her degree. She did, but her professor was not impressed with her and she is unsure if she ever finished the degree. She doesn’t know where they are now and is still looking for her professor to apologize. She has great compassion and is very gentle with her animals, but she is also very protective of them.
I hope she has a little more time to work on her empathy. I know it is very easy to fall into a pattern of seeing people as just a series of problems to fix but a few simple changes will go a long way. If she can learn to accept others without judging, then she will likely be able to recognize her own feelings and reactions and not let them stop her from doing what she needs to do.
In a previous post, I spoke about how caring for self can be one of the most rewarding and important parts of life. As I reflect on my life, I think I’ve come to realize that I must make sure I can always take care of myself. I see other people’s lives as a series of challenges and tasks to complete, and I’ve realized that I must keep making small changes to work on myself and help others in the same way.