Your puppy is bouncing off the walls. They're fully vaccinated. Everyone keeps saying "take them to the dog park!"
Your puppy is bouncing off the walls. They're fully vaccinated. Everyone keeps saying "take them to the dog park!"
Slow down. The dog park can be the best — or the worst — thing to happen to a young puppy's social development. Rushed into it, and you can create fear, reactivity, or bad play habits that last years. Done right, and you set up your dog for a lifetime of confident, joyful social life.
Here's the Ruff Ruff Let's Play week-by-week plan to introduce a puppy to the dog park the right way.