Socializing Puppies

Recorded On: 05/22/2025

This course is part of Maddie's Monthly Behavior Connection, monthly webcasts about pet behavior - supporting pets in our community and animal shelters.

What do we mean when we recommend that puppies are 'socialized'?  Is there a role for mom in this?  What about the home or environment into which the dog is born?  Are the recommendations the same for puppies adopted young and older pups?  When should puppies be adopted?  What about pups that have some early trauma or neglect? What can we fix and what can we prevent?  This webcast will review each of these issues, identify factors to which we should pay more attention, and discuss when interventions may help and what those could be.

Speaker: Dr. Karen Overall, BA, MA, VMD, PhD, DACVB, Professor of Behavioural Medicine at Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island

This webinar has been pre-approved for 1.0 Certified Animal Welfare Administrator continuing education credits by The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement and by the National Animal Care & Control Association.

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Dr. Karen Overall, BA, MA, VMD, PhD, DACVB

Professor of Behavioral Medicine

Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island

Dr. Karen L. Overall received her BA, MA and VMD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She did her residency training in veterinary behavioural medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Behaviourists (DACVB). Dr. Overall is a Professor of Behavioural Medicine at Atlantic Veterinary College, UPEI where she created the clinical, didactic and research program which trains veterinary students, residents, and graduate students.

 Dr. Overall lectures at meetings and veterinary schools world-wide and consults internationally with governments, NGOs and working dog and welfare organizations. She is the author of hundreds of scholarly publications, textbook chapters, commentaries, et cetera and the texts Clinical Behavioural Medicine for Small Animals (1997; Elsevier) and Manual of Clinical Behavioural Medicine for Dogs and Cats (2013; Elsevier) and of the DVD, Humane Behavioural Care for Dogs: Problem Prevention and Treatment (2013; Elsevier). She is the editor-in-chief for Journal of Veterinary Behaviour: Clinical Applications and Research (Elsevier). 

Dr. Overall has been named the North American Veterinary Conference (NAVC) Small Animal Speaker of the Year and was named one of the The Bark’s 100 Best and Brightest - Bark Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the dog world over the past 25 years.

Her research interests include psychopharmacological treatments of anxiety and new drug development, behavioural genetics of anxiety disorders, and effects of early trauma on the behavioural development and later behavioural pathology of kittens and puppies.

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Socializing Puppies
Recorded 05/22/2025  |  60 minutes
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