Dogs often behave one way with their family and household pets, and differently with strangers. Take your dog with you every other time you go out and make sure that your dog’s socialization is a series of positive experiences. Encourage early chew-toy training, task training, and housetraining. Expose your puppy or rescue dog to 100 new things in the first 100 days, enrich the environment with gradual, gentle exposure to new people, places, things, other friendly dogs, and moving objects.
What happens during the critical period may dramatically affect your adolescent and adult dog. The critical period of social imprinting occurs within the 3 -12 week window, although the ideal age to transition a puppy into a forever home is 7-9 weeks. Neglectful or aggressive mothering, and relationships between siblings can have an effect on your dog’s later psychological development. but some studies show that the experiences in early development and socialization can trump the effect of genes. A dog’s fear of strangers may be inherited. If this is your dog, please seek professional help.Įarly Development and Early Exposure. Others have an active defense reflex and will go after what scares them. Many frightened dogs will run away or hide if possible.
Fear is adaptive to survival and thus, easily acquired and difficult to dislodge as it is deep-seated in the brain. Sociability in dogs is believed to be driven by three things: genetics, early developmental experience, and the triggering details of an event. Try to be realistic about your expectations for your dog and remember that Lassie was, in reality, a long line of actor-dogs raised by an animal trainer. Sometimes we have to train a water-shy Labrador to swim and socialize. Most dogs can learn to be more playful and affectionate. If you’re wondering why your dog is not more playful with you, other people or dogs and what you can do, take heart. Is your dog low on the “social butterfly” scale?
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