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Originally Posted by Gia
I also try to make them familiar with an animal that has a different smell 
I belive the early imprint of various stimuli will make them more open to new situations. |
Fantastic picture
For the early socialisation of our puppies, I don't think we do anything perticularly special...
Our puppies are handled daily - at first just by ourselves but, once they are a little bigger, by friends and neighbours. We have the local children come in to play for short periods of time once the puppies start to explore. Aunty Scrap, a street dog that adopted us, takes her job very seriously when it comes to teaching the puppies new games
We introduce them, like you Gia, to noises under our control and they have several short journeys in the car, not every day but at least every 3 rd day. If they are still with us after their last parvo injection, they are taken (individually or just in pairs) into the local town to experience traffic and crowds, buggies and bikes etc. and to learn to walk on the lead. All of the puppies are taught basic manners before they leave us - to sit and wait for their food being an important one for us
. They are taught that food aggression is not acceptable and are lifted onto a table for light grooming daily (so that being on a table at the vets in the future is nothing traumatic...), and learn to 'show' their teeth and have their ears etc handled every day (helps for future showing or examinations).
I am interested to see what other people do - maybe we will add some things to the socialisation calendar for our upcoming litter
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Congratulations on your wonderful babies K-Lee - you have made your mummy very proud