Ep278 - Preparing your dog for the arrival of a baby: Sebastian Lemaire

Yeah, definitely.

I think the, the biggest thing to consider is you're gonna be sleep deprived-

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... number one.

Number two is chemically, hormonally you've changed, especially in, in males.

You, there's, like, there's no hormonal change basically until a baby's born, and then that's when you start, you know, going through the motions of, you know, you're more tired, you're more whatever, you're a bit more, um, like, you know, your mood will change because of things like that.

Which then means-

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... now you have to deal with a dog that's barking and you've ne- he's never spent any time outside and now you want him to be outside for a whole eight hours because, you know, you guys are in and out, back and up, m- you know-

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... moving in the night.

You wake up to feed baby, now the dog's awake, and now he's following you around, thinks that we're gonna play now, which then gets him aroused, he gets excited, gets barky.

So things that, that we give advice about when it comes to, like, ba- you know, baby's coming, first of all, the most important thing of your life right now is your dog, and you're probably treating him a little bit like a baby.

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The moment baby's born you'll, like, get the dog outside and you're like, "So now the dog's a dog? Um, that's interesting."

Yeah.

And you know what I noticed, you know, as soon as I became a father and, you know, dealing with clients with, you know, this sort of situation or just in general, is that most people fill that maternal, paternal void with having the dog around-

Prius, yeah

...

when the real thing happens.

Prius, no baby.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Now they're like, "Okay, now the actual baby's here." And, and then it just, I think it's just a psychological thing where you're like, "Okay, now the dog needs to be out of the way because I'm tripping on him, he's jumping on me, he's on the couch, he's gonna squash the baby." You know, so-

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