How to Tell What Personality Type Your Dog Has
📝 Summary
Every dog is an individual, but their temperaments generally fall into five broad types. By observing how your dog reacts while walking, playing, and being left alone, you can read its mood signals and build a closer, better-trained relationship.
1 Dog Personality Types
How to tell
which personality type your dog belongs to
When out for a walk
Pay attention to how your dog reacts when it meets other people or dogs on a walk — does it get excited, become timid, or start barking?
When playing
Whether your dog plays with restraint or gets over-excited is also a useful indicator of its personality.
When left alone
Whether your dog settles down calmly on its own or gets into mischief when alone can reveal a lot about its character. Why get to know your dog’s personality first? Because understanding its nature makes training and education far easier.
Learn its strengths and teach to its temperament. Every personality type actually has its own merits and many unique virtues; what we tend to notice are only the shortcomings that show up alongside problem behaviors.
Take over-excitement, for example — look at it from another angle and the upside is high energy and an enthusiastic nature. So when training your dog, spend some effort spotting its strengths and building on them.
Which personality type does your dog fit? You can judge using the descriptions below.
The five types:
A. The shy, introverted dog
At home this is a very well-behaved dog, but because it fears strangers or other dogs, it may actually bark or show aggression.
B. The willful dog
This dog acts on its own whims. Its strength is strong independence, but when things don’t go its way it may bark or act out aggressively.
C. The cheerful, outgoing dog
It loves playing with people and other dogs, but sometimes gets so carried away with excitement that it jumps on people.
D. The mischievous dog
Full of curiosity and a challenger’s spirit, it finds it hard to stay still and often gets into playful trouble.
E. The clingy, attention-seeking dog
It knows how to charm its owner, but if it doesn’t get enough attention it may develop behavior problems from being ignored.
After reading the above, can you tell which personality your dog has?
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