Friday, June 22 is the 14th annual Take Your Dog to Work Day. While the day invites canines into the workplace, failing to prepare can quickly lead to a professional faux pas. Celebrity dog trainer, animal behaviorist and radio host Harrison Forbes offers some helpful tips on appropriate office etiquette for your four-legged companion.
Practice Makes Perfect: Before to bringing your dog into the office, practice polite behavior by taking them out to public places. Letting Fido tag along on your next trip to the park, pet store or café patio, will help them become more acclimated to new people, places and animals. This will help them learn proper behavior when greeting people and help them relax in new settings.
Getting to Know You: Avoid office disputes by asking permission before you allow your dog to greet another dog, and don’t force your dog to become ‘friends’ with another dog; let them meet in their own time. Try to keep a loose leash when introducing your dog to another. Pulling tightly on the leash may cause your dog to become nervous and to growl or snap.
Plan, Prepare and Protect: Plan ahead and check with your co-workers to make sure everyone is allergy-free and comfortable with dogs. Also, prepare your work space by hiding electrical cords, and setting out a dog bed and water bowl. Most importantly, make sure your pet is up-to-date on vaccines and protected from fleas and ticks that can be passed from other four-legged office mates. Use a monthly topical treatment like PetArmor®, which is the fipronil-based preventative that offers the same protection as Frontline® at about half the cost.
Are you going to bring your Dog to Take Your Dog To Work Day?
This post brought to you by PetArmor Protection Posse in conjunction with Harrison Forbes.
What a great idea! I don’t have a dog, but there’s a dog in the building that I work in, and it makes me happy when I see her. Is there a bring your cat to work day, too?!
I have my dog with me everyday since I am at home all day. It is really nice. I used to wish for days like this back when I worked away from home.
That is neat there is a take your dog to work day. I could sse it going bad with how some dogs act.
There is a funny commercial about this with the dog running around ruining everything lol Even though I do not have a dog, I think it is a cute idea though. I know I would love it in the office even if nothing would get done for the day 🙂
I’m a teacher and I am not teaching any classes that day, or I totally would! I love this idea, and I love all the great tips you have listed here. Your pups are super cute!
I work from home ;O) but they will be here.
I too work from home and they are all sitting right here next to me!!! What a dog’s life my 3 have!!
I work at home, but she goes with me everywhere. She loves to get her free snack at petco. We are actually heading there today for a green bath! Thanks for sharing this.
lucky for me i’m a sahm then lol .
I am a grocery store manager so.. I dont really see that going too well haha but I would love to have her company!
I am actually taking a vacation day Friday so one of my dogs can have a dental and biopsy, but I will be taking my therapy dog to one of my company’s locations Thursday so the kids can see a therapy dog for take your child to work day.