What Doggy Development Benefits Occur with Summer Socialization?
Curious what doggy development benefits occur with summer socialization? Read on to discover what your dog learns by unique summer experiences.
Benefits of a Dog Walk at The Beach
- Popular place to walk your dog when the weather is nice
- Often populated with many sights, sounds, and smells your dog gets to experience a new, ever-changing environment
- Guards against routine predictability
- Sand and water exploration allows your dog to discover different textures and sensations keeping neurons active
- Exploring new environments often together is exciting for your dog and also prevents territorial aggression that can form with strict routine
Benefits of a Dog Walk at The Park
- More sights, sounds and smells with nice weather than at any other time
- Objects , such as park benches, can be used for casual agility play, exciting your dog’s natural interest to “work”
- Socialization in active environments enhances your dog’s social development, and provides puppy enrichment, allowing them to cope well with fast-paced, constantly changing environments
Benefits of a Dog Walk To The Dog Park
- Different types of sounds and smells specific to other dogs, excellent for canine to canine socialization
- Allows dogs the opportunity to go back to their non-domesticated roots intermittently and rejoin the animal hierarchy and animal way of socialization in a true “pack” nature
- Although this animal “pack” socialization can be helpful, it can also turn for worse if one dog suddenly becomes too aggressive, usually for reasons humans cannot easily understand on initial observation
- Freedom off leash provides your dog with a different set of social standards than being on leash, so off leash dog play gives dogs the chance to be less inhibited with humans and other canines
Benefits of Summer Dog Walks
Summer dog walks offer unique socialization as there are more people and dogs out and about. That means more smells! The unique textures of sand, warm sidewalks and soft grass offer unique textures compared to other months. It is enjoyable to spend time outside – so get outside together!
Where do you like to dog walk?
