In general dogs under the free-range conditions will be able to live in the mixed age, mixed sex social groups. The dog social rank is determined by their ages, though their sexes also can play an important role also. Female dogs seem to be a little more responsible when it comes to leading much often than the male dogs. Their social standing is primarily maintained by their respectful submission or yielding and not by some strained interaction. The domestic dogs sexual maturity (include Shih Tzu) occur in between six to nine months of age (for giant breeds later) and their social maturity starts to develop at eighteen to thirty six months of age. So dogs have to wait for this long period before they will know or mature regarding some dog socialisation.

Dogs' social maturity depends mostly on their age, size, sex and temperament. In the free range group dogs that will challenge the already established social standing will leave and form their other groups if they cannot succeed in changing the current social order. At the dog's social maturity is the time also when problems like anxieties and aggressions develop. This will then be the time wherein you will have your dogs to undergo dog socialisation training. There are some dog clinics for it if you cannot do it yourself.

Mounting, roaming, inter-sexual fighting, urine markings are often caused by their sex hormones notably their testosterone. These problems may be prevented often or reduced greatly by spaying, particularly in males, in the households that has several pets, females and males or in the household that has all males.

In between three and eight weeks of the dog's age, they tend to focus in other dogs (if there are) for their social stimulation. This should be the time to let your dogs have some training for their own dog socialisation. Dogs are really receptive to learning in how to deal with different and new environments until they are about sixteen to twenty weeks in age. But this does not mean that the older dogs will never adjust to the change environment also. This is just to let you know that their social adjustment is much easier before the mentioned ages. With patience and time any dog with any age will really adjust to its change just like people do.

It is best to switch your dog's focus of its exposure to other people or other animals at any specified period. When dogs are given the adequate opportunity they will learn and adjust to the physical and social environments when they are ready to do it. When you try to introduce these dogs into some specific situation is not good to produce a great socialised dogs or puppy. It is really important for your dog to avoid severely fearful stimulation.

There are great differences in dog socialisation about dogs that are free and those dogs that are always kept at the cages. Those dogs that are free to roam outside and inside are able to adjust well with other animals or people, while those dogs that are in cages have a hard time in doing so.

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