Puppies are not only widely believed to be
in a sensitive period, biologically, but are
encountering many very important things - people
of all types, dogs apart from their littermates, sights, sounds etc. - for the first time, which, from a Pavlovian
conditioning perspective, is noteworthy, as significant experiences
of both negative and positive
variety are sometimes indelible.
However, the
conditions are more likely to be «right» for men than women at any given time, due to a
variety of reasons (e.g., the fact that men have an easier time achieving orgasm
in a casual
encounter).