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Hi John,

I have a 4-month-old Great Dane. At home he’s great but may be a small timid. we took him to puppy training to pick up a few elementary tricks to try and consort him. Now he has a few possessiveness problems when other dogs are around and is starting to snarl at group who advance nearby or try to house pet him! He even growled at a small boy. we am concerned, and are unaware what to do.

Hi J.D.,

The category was probably a mistake. Dog to dog socialization imprinting occurs between 3 and 6 weeks of age. Most puppies aren’t even in a dog owner’s hands until 8 weeks so dog to dog socialization is finished. After that the rest is continuance and that should happen with aware dogs, not encounters once a week with unusual dogs.

In a spawn or a pack, any puppy or dog knows the other and the stipulations and advantages it has inside of its amicable group is reinforced hour by hour, day by day, with puppies beneath the sharp eye of their mother. Legitimate coarse housing practice that might unwittingly result in a unpleasant experience for a puppy are kept in context since that puppy has interacted in the past and will go on for a few time with whatever puppy bit his tail or sat on his head.

This is not so in the puppy “socialization” classes that urge on risk-ridden free-for-alls where the pups are speedy to “play.” That is not only play. The pups are jockeying for fill up location without the gain of day-to-day communication that helps them pick up who to pull or with whom to take subordinate posture.

Without context of every day communication a puppy that gets steamrolled possibly by one or more of the other dogs can and frequently do finish up fearfully assertive towards other dogs. Alternatively, there is the puppy in category that has the perspective that the object rises and sets on his skilled leadership. Both variety of dogs can obtain in to a few horrible bits with luck encounters after that in life.

True socialization cannot be completed in “socialization” classes and these classes cheat dog owners to regard they can. This does frustrating damage to dogs. Masterful socialization is the credentials of puppies for all of the sounds, sights, textures and smells that life will shortly hurl at them. That means actual and structured encounters with infants, toddlers, 8-year-old boys (a dog’s worst nightmare), seniors, skateboards, thunder, and ample more. Dog owners contingency put in several hours any week and it’s up to the owners to do it right. It’s what turns a puppy in to an unflappable adult dog.

Instead of being in socialization classes your Dane should have been out there, being rubbed and given treats by people. Hire a in isolation tutor to uncover you how to do away with the hostility and reinstate it with certain expectation.

For any readers with puppies, we have a giveaway puppy socialization cheat piece for you, or you can purchase my book on the subject for a more in depth general outlook of what to do and why it should be done.

Pawsitively yours,

John Wade

www.askthedogguy.com