As many of you have gathered, our main goal with Balboa has been socialization and exposure. Yesterday this sweet boy experienced my dog crazed niece Olivia. Olivia is very respectful of dogs (her family fosters for New Rattitude as well) so we knew this would be a excellent kid intro for Balboa. As expected Balboa was pretty nervous but, he was trying really hard to be brave.
Not only did Balboa meet my niece but, there were also 5 new strangers and he did remarkably well. There was lots of new noises and new smell and Balboa was cautiously curious with all the new experiences. Balboa did get pretty nervous when my niece and nephew were running around but, that was to be expected. We monitored Balboa and did give him some timeouts in his covered crate. As you can see from the video's he was a real trooper and while he was worried, he certainly wanted to be around what was going on. With ongoing structured and supervised exposure and socialization, Balboa is going to be an amazing little rattie!
Balboa meeting Olivia. I think he was more worried about all the noise than Olivia.
Taking treats but, oh the noise!
"I kinda like this treat machine, expect when it starts dancing." One fear bark and a back away was how Balboa reacted to the unpredictable behavior of small kids. Better than we expected!
Lots of people, noise and activity but, Balboa did pretty well.
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| Taking it all in while sitting on foster dad's lap |
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