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Raising dogs and children 'similar'

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Battersea Dogs' Home has said teaching puppies is very like teaching children.

Child psychologist Laverne Antrobus and animal psychologist Dr Roger Mugford, with PC the dog, agreed that a lot of the same tricks do work.

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