Obedience classes, for owners!

This entry was posted Monday, 28 September, 2009 at 10:07 am

Pet owner obedience class

In DARWIN, an animal shelter is preventing people from adopting homeless dogs and cats, until they have taken a course on how to look after their new pets properly.

I think this is a wonderful idea (and should apply for parents as well btw). Lots of people just think pets are cute and have no idea how to behave around them.

The shelter’s manager Lisa Hansen said: "What we were finding is that someone would take home a cute little puppy and three months later bring it back."
Some people, after taking the course, actually decided not to have a pet. I think that’s a good result, because those people would never have taken the time to properly train their dogs or cats any way.
Or as Lisa Hansen says:
"If you want to buy a kitten today and someone says you have to … do a seminar, and you say ‘no, that’s too much effort’ – how much extra effort is it to look after a cat?"