Given how difficult it can be to control all of these factors, many dogs encounter difficulty in their relationships with other dogs at some point in their development. While some of these difficulties may represent normal behaviours for a particular individual, breed or for your dog’s stage of development, other tendencies benefit from planned intervention.

Many people hope that trips to the dog park or off leash play groups will improve their dog’s social skills, but the majority of these dogs require intentional practice, learning new behaviours in a more structured setting with the help of socially capable dogs.

If your puppy shows signs of being socially anxious, fearful, sensitive, overly excitable, reacts unpredictably to dogs or seems to be overly assertive with other pups, we may be able to help.

With the support of members from our Dog Social program we are able to provide more structured training support to help young dogs with certain difficulties to develop more successful relationships.