What happens if you or I stay inside all day and never see our friends? Gets pretty boring, right? A lot of energy wasted and saved up. Same thing with dogs except they cannot even call up a friend and chit chat. Starting to get where I am going with this? Exactly! Your four-legged friends need to have friends OTHER than you to socialize with regularly. > I take Shamus to the dog park and he runs around (exercises!!!!) and plays with them. He also is exposed to all kinds of dogs. Big to small, dominant to submissive, loud to quiet, fast to slow, and so on and so on. I know that he is exposed to every type of dog and knows how to act when he encounters a dog that may have the same personality traits as one of his friends. This helps me to not have to constantly be fearful that Shamus will go after another dog or feel threatened enough to need to protect himself. Socialize your dog today with people and other dogs. Just keep control of your dog and keep them close if you are just starting to socialize them especially if you rescued or adopted them as you do not know how they will react and if in a negative way, how much socialization they will require before being let off the leash.
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