smartDOG™

smartDOG™ PUPPY (4-7months) is meant for puppies which are already in their new homes. With this test you can get information of the dog’s personality, and you use test information to direct and plan puppy’s training.

Puppy testing under 8 weeks correlates poorly with adult dog behaviour (Wilsson & Sundgren 1998; Riemer et al 2014). Instead puppy tests done over 3 months correlate much better with adult dog behaviour, and for example the assessment of sociability from a 5-6month puppy towards unfamiliar people correlates well with adult dog personality (Riemer et al 2016).

smartDOG™ PUPPY (4-7months) is meant for puppies which are already in their new homes. With this test you can get information of the dog’s stable personality, and you use test information to direct and plan puppy’s training. Dog’s (as children) vary in their personality and different personalities might need different type of training. While one puppy needs a lot of encouragement and building of self-esteem, the other might need more practices of inhibitory control from early age onwards.

• • Dog testing 1 h 10 min
  • Detailed report from the test
  • Access to smartDOG database, where you can compare your dog’s results against breed average and combined all breed average (puppies result averages).

The test includes

• Activity measurement during the test (FitBark)
• An assesment of the dog’s friendlyness (sociability) towards unfamiliar tester
• Dog’s exploration in novel place (and dog’s curiosity) is also assessed in the beginning of the test (dog is unleased)
• Inhibitory control is assessed using cylinder test
• Dog’s ability to understand human gestures is assessed.
• Dog’s spatial problem solving is tested using V-detour
• Unsolvable task assess the dogs main strategy to solve difficult (unsolvable) task – is the dog mainly independent or does it ask mainly help from humans?
• The dog’s ability to copy human action is tested in social learning task
• Dog’s willingness to play
• In the surfaces-test, where we check the dog’s willingness to walk in various surfaces