Socialisation Starter Checklist

A printable, one-page checklist of everything to socialise your dog to, from The Randle Akitas, the family with the calm 50kg Akita you've seen riding the train.

Socialisation isn't about meeting as many dogs as possible. It's about showing your dog that the whole ordinary world, people of every kind, places, surfaces, sounds, objects, is safe and unremarkable. This lays the lot out by category, with tick boxes for what you've tried and what stayed calm, so you can see at a glance where the gaps are.

It's free. Print it, put it on the fridge, and work through it.

If you want the actual method behind it, the order to do things in, the how and the why, what to change for an older or nervous dog, and the mistakes that quietly undo your work, that's in the full guide, Raising a Calm, Confident Dog (£6.99).