New Puppy

This is Tippy, my new puppy.  She is nine weeks old and came from a ranch south of Billings.  Tippy is an American Farm Collie and was named the "drama queen" of the liter.  

As we train her, it reminds me of what we are talking about in class about culture.  We have been enculturating and training her into our family.  Some examples of how we are doing this is we take her for walks around our house.  This gets her used to the smells of our house and also teaches her to stick around.  We also cuddle with her which helps us to bond together.  By bonding she will learn that we are her family and be more likely to listen to us.  If she is bad we lock her outside of our bedroom, which represents shunning her from the pack.  Horses do this as well and when we do it she realizes she has done something wrong and will hopefully not do it again.

This shows that even animals have cultures and that we can enculurate them into our families.  Have a culture helps everyone to get along and to show respect to each other.