What Kind of Personality Does Your Puppy Have? Find Out With Puppy Testing

Determining your puppy's personality via puppy testing.
Puppies are similar to humans in the sense that each one has a different personality. Dog personalities can be determined with puppy testing while they are still fairly young and this will help you train him or her more effectively. While puppy testing has its advantages, you shouldn't believe that it would allow you to pick the perfect dog. Puppy testing will determine if a dog is mentally stable and if he or she has a personality that is easy to work with. After all, the dog only accounts for 30% of your success in dog training. The other 70% depends on the dog owner's experience and his or her mentality.

Puppy testing in the right conditions.
Puppy testing must be performed in a neutral room or space that is new to the dog and where there won't be external distractions for the dog. The optimal age for puppy testing is when the puppy is 5 to 7 weeks old. The dog's personality is already set by that time but he or she hasn't fully grown attached to humans yet. The tester should also be someone new to the puppy or else some parts of the test will give doubtful results.

What is puppy testing? This article will discuss the Campbell test but it isn't the only test available. With the Campbell test, the puppies are scored on 5 criteria:

* Social attraction: Social attraction is tested by a person sitting a few feet away from the puppy and observing it. Does it come? Does it run away? If it comes, is its tail high or low? Does it explore its surroundings?

* Following skills: Following skills are tested by a person placing the down puppy next to him/her and starting to walk. Does the puppy follow? Does it follow and try to attack the tester's ankles? Does it follow but from a distance? Does it go off in another direction?

* Response to obligation: Response to obligation is tested by placing a puppy on its back and holding it down with a flat hand on its chest. Does the puppy remain calm? Does it bark and try to bite the hands of the tester? Does it first bark, then calms down? Does it try to lick the tester's hands?

* Social domination: Social domination is tested by a person sitting down next to the puppy and stroking him. Does it try to crawl on the tester? Does it try to bite the tester's hands? Does it just lie back and lick the tester's hands? Does it run away?

* Acceptance to be lifted: Acceptance to be lifted is tested by lifting the puppy from the ground and supporting it only at his chest so that it can't see the tester. Does the puppy struggle? Does it try to bite hands? Does it struggle at first but then calm down? Is it calm? Does it try to lick the tester's hands?

By combining the results, one can determine that type of personality the puppy has. New dog owners should choose a puppy that doesn't have extreme personality test results. Both extremely submissive or extremely dominant dogs need an experienced handler.

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