How to Properly Socialize Your Dog

Опубликовано: 17 Ноябрь 2020
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In today's video, we'll be discussing how to properly socialize your dog.

The levels of your dog’s training experience

There are several variable factors during your dog’s socializing process. This includes the levels of the task, levels of obedience, levels of proficiency, and the intensity of the environment (which includes training your dog’s social skills).

Without being aware of these guidelines, you could be in for a lot of problems during training. For example: Don't ask for an advanced task from a dog that is still at a lower proficiency level in a highly intense environment. You would be setting yourself up for failure.

On the flip side, if you’ve just started your training, starting on a low obedience level in a low-key environment, using beginner tasks, makes a lot of sense.

Dogs, like humans, gradually become more proficient at what they are trying to learn. Starting out, and when working with a dog who’s new to training, it’s usually necessary to begin at a first stage of obedience. In time, a dog may graduate to a full obedience level, able to perform a wide variety of tasks. The road to get there is going to be faster or much slower depending on the individual characteristics of the dog.

Likewise, it’s possible to grade a dog’s proficiency during obedience training. How long for a dog to become highly proficient may depend on your dog’s level of perseverance.

The process of socializing (and desensitizing a dog) could mean first taking the dog to a park in the early morning without many other dogs or people around. Later, as you increase in intensity, you might return to that park in the afternoon on a Sunday with lots of other people and dogs around. The goal is for the dog to behave the same way in either situation.

Generalization

This is the concept that the dog knows that a command applies in any situation. This is where the dog’s proficiency in the training and desensitization really comes into play. A dog that has generalization ability knows to “sit” whether at home, in a busy dog park, in a shopping mall, a park with squirrels, you get the idea. A dog that is less well-trained may only sit at home, but once exposed to a new environment the training goes out the window. This is what we seek to avoid happening, by training our dogs in multiple environments. A superstar dog will sit obediently and perform necessary tasks in virtually any situation.

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