By controlling interactions between healthy, vaccinated dogs, the benefit of
early socialization far outweighs the risk.
The risks of failing to do
early socialization far outweigh any risk you take doing it.
Not exact matches
The value of
early puppy
socialization far outweighs the slight risk for a puppy to be exposed to infectious diseases *.
But an individual dog's temperament is shaped
far more by genetics, and even more so by
early socialization.
While there is some risk that your puppy could contract an illness from such exposure,
far more dogs are surrendered to shelters because they received insufficient
socialization to dogs and people at an
early age and become excessively fearful or aggressive.
Statistics also show that puppies which receive
early socialization, obedience, and temperament training (aggression prevention training) are
far less likely to end up being destroyed by three years of age than those that do not receive this
early training.
Remember,
early socialization during puppyhood has enabled you to continue to socialize and control your dog as an adolescent and so, by the same mark, continue socializing and training throughout adolescence so that you may
further continue to socialize your dog during adulthood.
In one year my practice treated 773 dogs — 79 of them, that's 10 percent, had problems of fearfulness towards people or the environment due to a lack of
early socialization or habituation and a
further 4.5 percent were inept at relating to other dogs, again due to a lack of
early socialization.
Trained dogs are kept by their owners — statistics show that puppies who have received
early socialization and training are
far less likely to be turned over by their owners to a shelter.
So to
further explore the practical and theoretical issues involved, the AVSAB has interviewed four veterinarians who have extensive experience with
early puppy
socialization.
Further, despite accumulated findings on parental
socialization, and
early childhood research that shows that teachers are engaging in emotion
socialization behaviours, we know little about how teachers (or, for that matter, peers or siblings) socialize children's EC.34 Research is also needed to discern possible indirect contributors to EC, such as parental psychopathology, divorce, poverty and child care quality.