You’d be appalled if you visited a home where the children knocked you over while running out the door, yet many of us let our dogs do just that. It’s not that I don’t love exuberance, I do. But just as we teach our children that there’s a time and a place for everything, it makes sense that we should expect that of our dogs, too. If dogs are going to be part of our “family,” then we have to raise them to be polite.2 Just because they’re dogs instead of children is no reason to think that their going into a frenzy is cute. If they’re going to live with us, dogs need to learn impulse control
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