Aug 24, 2026 · 35 min · 12 segments
How do you socialize a shy dog? Tara and Laura delve into the importance of socializing a dog that has an introvert personality, but stress doing it properly so your dog isn’t overly stressed…
Laura McClureHost
And how to properly do it so that you don't cause more problems or completely damage your dog.
Everybody thinks that dogs have to be social with other dogs and have dog friends and play around.
Yeah, and I think that a lot of people, they think something's wrong with their dog or they think that their dog is depressed or sad that they don't have dog friends that they want to go and engage in play with and I think that's the other big thing is that they just think that their dog should be constantly engaged in some form of physical activity with another dog and when their dog doesn't do that they think it's like my dog is broken yeah there's something wrong with them they must be unhappy
there's nothing wrong with your dog they just don't um they're not the type of dog to go out and be best friends with everybody now that doesn't mean that they need to be reactive and blow up.
So there's a big difference between an introvert personality that does not like hanging out with dogs and a dog that has reactivity or one of the types of aggression towards dogs.
Dogs do not, some dogs do not like to be with other dogs, mainly because the dogs in today's society are super rude.
You'll have some dogs that are just, I don't really want to engage with the guests that come over in the house.
And how to properly do it so that you don't cause more problems or completely damage your dog.
Everybody thinks that dogs have to be social with other dogs and have dog friends and play around.
Yeah, and I think that a lot of people, they think something's wrong with their dog or they think that their dog is depressed or sad that they don't have dog friends that they want to go and engage in play with and I think that's the other big thing is that they just think that their dog should be constantly engaged in some form of physical activity with another dog and when their dog doesn't do that they think it's like my dog is broken yeah there's something wrong with them they must be unhappy
there's nothing wrong with your dog they just don't um they're not the type of dog to go out and be best friends with everybody now that doesn't mean that they need to be reactive and blow up.
So there's a big difference between an introvert personality that does not like hanging out with dogs and a dog that has reactivity or one of the types of aggression towards dogs.
Dogs do not, some dogs do not like to be with other dogs, mainly because the dogs in today's society are super rude.
You'll have some dogs that are just, I don't really want to engage with the guests that come over in the house.
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