{"id":828,"date":"2022-04-26T10:30:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T15:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.extension.msstate.edu\/theriskproject\/?p=828"},"modified":"2022-04-20T11:41:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T16:41:16","slug":"puppy-socialization-101-series-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.extension.msstate.edu\/theriskproject\/puppy-socialization-101-series-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Puppy Socialization 101 Series | Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<h1><strong>Have you read Puppy Socialization 101 Series | Part 1?\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 If not, follow the link below to read part one of this series.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"AVxy6txt37\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.extension.msstate.edu\/theriskproject\/puppy-socialization-101-part-1\/\">Puppy Socialization 101 Series | Part 1<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Puppy Socialization 101 Series | Part 1&#8221; &#8212; The Risk Project\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.extension.msstate.edu\/theriskproject\/puppy-socialization-101-part-1\/embed\/#?secret=qQlmDd72tG#?secret=AVxy6txt37\" data-secret=\"AVxy6txt37\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><b>How to socialize your puppy before completing vaccinations<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once your puppy has settled into its new home, the critical socialization window from 7 to 16 weeks of age begins! During this time, it is important for your puppy to be exposed to as many different people, well-socialized animals, situations, and places as possible.\u00a0 Frustration, challenge, and problem solving with a positive outcome are important aspects of any socialization plan. Positive socialization experiences from a young age, allows puppies to build confidence, and less likely to develop fearful reactions to people, noises, and unfamiliar locations. At this early age, most puppies are not fully protected from the diseases we vaccinate for until they reach 18 to 20 weeks of age. With proper planning, primary vaccinations, and appropriate care, we can improve training, strengthen the human-animal bond, and socialize puppies in an environment where the risk of illness can be minimized.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><b>Places and activities, you and your puppy can enjoy safely:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Attend puppy socialization classes. Puppy socialization classes offer a safe and structured way to introduce puppies to playing with each other while also improving their responsiveness to commands. Each puppy participant should have at least started their vaccination series and be disease and parasite free before entering the class.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Host a puppy party! Invite friends and family over to handle and play with your puppy. They can even bring their own pets along if they are healthy, vaccinated, and puppy friendly!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bring your puppy into town. If your puppy is small enough, carry him around town and let strangers pet him and give him treats.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Take your puppy to a friend\u2019s house.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just bringing your puppy to a different environment will offer them a lot of new experiences.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keep in mind that it is important for your puppy to have easy, happy experiences while being socialized. Your puppy should be the one to initiate each approach to something new and be allowed to retreat when they need to feel safe. Help your puppy stay calm and relaxed and provide plenty of treats!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><b>Continue healthy, lifelong socialization<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While a dog\u2019s sensitive period of socialization typically ends around 4-5 months old, it is important to continue socializing your puppy.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Continue introducing your dog to new people. Dogs only remain social when continually exposed to unfamiliar people. Consistent pleasant encounters with new people keeps the idea that strangers are good news in your dog\u2019s mind.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<div id=\"attachment_701\" style=\"width: 327px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.extension.msstate.edu\/theriskproject\/files\/2021\/06\/woman-walking-with-her-dog-walkway-park-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-701\" class=\" wp-image-701\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.extension.msstate.edu\/theriskproject\/files\/2021\/06\/woman-walking-with-her-dog-walkway-park-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"dog on walk\" width=\"317\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Woman taking dog on walk.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Continue to introduce your dog to other dogs. There are a multitude of ways to keep your dog socializing with other dogs: dog parks, organized play groups, behavior classes, and simple leash walks.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Switch up your walking route. Avoiding the same walking route every day, can allow your dog experience a variety of environments. This provides your growing dog with further mental stimulation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teach your dog to be alone. Scheduling alone time with neither people nor other dogs is critical to preventing separation anxiety. Proper confinement training using crates or pens, helps to ensure that puppies\/dogs have a safe and secure place for rest and confinement.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Don\u2019t punish fear. Most displays of aggression are a direct response to fear. Many owners are caught off guard when their puppy reacts fearfully, and therefore aggressively to a new dog or person. By punishing this reaction, you only confirm his feeling of fear. Instead, remove your dog from the situation and enforce a positive behavior (such as \u201csit\u201d or \u201cstay\u201d).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Continue handling your dog. It is important for your puppy to be comfortable with different parts of his body being handled. This will ensure that vet visits are comfortable and smooth for your dog and for the veterinary staff.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>Click Here For Our Puppy Socialization Checklist:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.extension.msstate.edu\/theriskproject\/files\/2022\/04\/Puppy-Socialization-Checklist.pdf\">Puppy Socialization Checklist<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Gabby Alonzo, Jordyn DeHaan, Hannah Urig, MPH, DVM<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800000\"><b>Additional Resources<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/avsab.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/avsab.org\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ultimatepuppy.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/ultimatepuppy.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dogstardaily.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.dogstardaily.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/drsophiayin.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/drsophiayin.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you read Puppy Socialization 101 Series | Part 1?\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 If not, follow the link below to read &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.extension.msstate.edu\/theriskproject\/puppy-socialization-101-series-part-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"coauthors":[32],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animal-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.extension.msstate.edu\/theriskproject\/files\/2021\/06\/Dogs-12.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7pWHv-dm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.extension.msstate.edu\/theriskproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.extension.msstate.edu\/theriskproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.extension.msstate.edu\/theriskproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.extension.msstate.edu\/theriskproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.extension.msstate.edu\/theriskproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.extension.msstate.edu\/theriskproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.extension.msstate.edu\/theriskproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.extension.msstate.edu\/theriskproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.extension.msstate.edu\/theriskproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.extension.msstate.edu\/theriskproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.extension.msstate.edu\/theriskproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.extension.msstate.edu\/theriskproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}