How to teach your dog to greet other dogs nicely?
Leilani Wyman
2025-07-20 07:38:37
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It starts with developing their ability to listen to you and accept your guidance even when they’re excited and want to do something else, which gives you the ability to teach them right from wrong in any situation. If your dog won’t listen to you reliably at home, or without much distraction around, they’re never going to listen when they’re SUPER excited about another dog. The most important things to teach are: Your dog’s self-control and Your dog’s ability to listen to you, even when they don’t want to. Once you have a good training foundation, and your dog has learnt self-control and how to listen even when they’d rather do something else, you can start teaching them to greet dogs calmly close at hand. This means you can closely monitor their behaviour and step in if they make a bad choice, to teach them what is and isn’t appropriate. As they get more practice, they develop the habit of greeting nicely and eventually, you can trust them to greet new dogs politely, even without you right there.