Puppy First

Puppy socialization training is awesome “training tool” which if utilized in timely manner could have such a great affect on our puppy life and ours as well. Well socialized puppies are so amazing! They are much healthier and happier and they make their owners very proud. Even though it is well known that puppy socialization is very important many dog owners still fail to properly socialize their puppies? In this article we will look into the simple way how to socialize puppy.

So, how to socialize puppy?

The secret to proper puppy socialization is to start early. It is recommended that puppies socialization training should start in the age of 8-20 weeks. That is why they say:”Puppies are like little sponges.”? Indeed this is such a great opportunity to socialize our puppy rather very easy.

Now, this by no means should be understood that if we missed this period that it is all over and our dog can not be socialized any more. It is only that if we waiting our puppy will have developed some fears which than we will have to deal using technique called counter-conditioning.

What is puppy socialization?

Simply put socialization is process of gradually exposing our puppy to different types of things, people, noises, other animals and so on. Our goal here is to do this in a way which will not frighten our puppy so that she can build confidence over the time.

How successful our puppy training will be depends on how sensitive we are in detecting sings of stress in our puppy. If we fail to detect stress signals in our puppy we might overdo our training which will set back our training efforts. The secret is to take small steps and utilize positive dog training method to make new experience positive ones so that your puppy feels safe and confident.