and had an exposure session with me today with their Boerboel x Cane Corso, Dahlia today. New things are scary to puppies and sometimes it takes a few reps to get used to new things.
The reason I say exposure instead of socialization is because so many people (myself included in the past) believe that dogs need to meet every person and every dog under the son to be properly socialized.
This couldn’t be further from the truth and often causes dogs to become reactive because they, up until they couldn’t, met numbers of dogs and people. Exposure is simply teaching the dog that, “Yes there are dogs and people here, no we don’t need to meet them all.”