Have you ever notice a dog or puppy how they seem to have individual personalities of their own, just like us humans you can find your puppies personality type at a very young age.

How To Pick The Right Puppy For You By Testing A Puppy's Personality

When you determine the puppy's personality you are determining the puppy's mental stability and its nature. For instance, is the puppy easy to get on with.

How A Puppy Test is Arranged

1. Place the dog in a room or space he has never known about. The space should be open and have nothing that could disturb the dog to distraction.

2. The puppy's age is a factor and should be tween 5 to 7 weeks as the personality at this age is naturally occurring.

3. To ensure accurate results, make sure the tester has not met the dog before.

Honest Testing = Accurate Results

There are many tests that exist including the "Campbell" test...as described below. The puppy is tested on the following criteria:

Social Attraction

Sitting a few feet away from the puppy the tester notices how the puppy performs. Does it come forward? if so, is the tail high or low? Does the puppy explore its surroundings or does the puppy go the opposite way?

Facility to follow

Putting the puppy next to him, tester walks away. does the dog follow? Will the puppy follow but jump on the tester? Does the puppy try to bite the tester? Follow from a distance or wander off on his own?

Response to obligation

The puppy is placed on his back and held down by placing a flat hand over his chest. The puppy is tested for the possibility of protesting, and tries to bite the tester or alternatively the puppy does not protest but is calm. Of the puppy just licks the hand of the tester?

Social domination

Sitting down next to the puppy the tester attempts to stroke the puppy. How does the puppy respond? By crawling to the tester? Or bite the hand of the tester? Lie on the back and lick the testers hand? Alternatively the puppy runs away?

Acceptance to be lifted

Lifted from the ground by the chest the puppy doesn't see the testers face. What happens? Does the puppy struggle and try to bite the testers hand? Does the puppy struggle, but then calms down? Or simply stays calm?

Conclusion

The puppy is observed and scores a maximum of 5 points for each portion of the test. The results are then tallied and the eventual score determines the personality of the dog.

If you are a novice just about to buy a puppy its always a good idea to pick a puppy whose personality is based on test results that are not far removed from the ordinary or average results.

Because, if you pick a dog that is hard to exercise control over or is inclined to be humbly obedient then you are going to have to be an experienced dog handler.

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