Dog Training and Socialisation Log
Keep a record of what you actually worked on with a dog, and of what the dog has already met. The notes column is the point — a reaction written down at the time is worth more later than a tick.
PA-07 2 pages
Pets and animals · PA-48
Dog Behaviour Log
A free printable dog behaviour log — the trigger, the behaviour, what you did and what happened next, written down as it happens rather than reconstructed from memory.
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One page. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
Print it and write on it
Fill it in type and save
The fillable versions have real form fields — open them in any PDF reader, type into them and save. Printing help.
What this sheet is for
Turn a vague sense that something is getting worse into a dated record a vet or behaviourist can actually read a pattern from.
Who it is for
Owners of a dog with a reactivity, anxiety or other behaviour they are watching, and anyone asked by a vet or behaviourist to keep a record before an appointment.
How to use it
- Write the line as soon as you reasonably can after it happens, not at the end of the week from memory.
- Name the trigger and context plainly — place, time, who or what was there.
- Describe the behaviour itself rather than your interpretation of it — what the dog did, not why you think it did it.
- Note what you did and what happened next, even when nothing worked.
What is on the sheet
One page, top to bottom:
Printed under the title: A dated record of what a dog actually did — the trigger, the behaviour, what you did and what happened next — for a behaviour you are watching, rather than a training session you ran.
A record, not an assessment. This is an observation record, not a diagnosis or a training plan. If a behaviour is new, worsening or worrying, take the filled-in sheet to your vet or a qualified behaviourist — the pattern on the page is exactly what they will ask for first.
Write-on lines: Dog's name · Owner · Week of
Behaviour log
Table, 13 rows: Date · Time · Trigger / context · Behaviour shown · What you did · Outcome
Questions
How is this different from the Dog Training and Socialisation Log?
That sheet is a record of training sessions you ran and a checklist of what the dog has safely met. This sheet is for writing down a behaviour as it happens — a reaction you did not plan for — whether or not any training is under way.
Does this sheet tell me what the behaviour means?
No. It records what happened so a pattern becomes visible on paper — a time of day, a repeated trigger, how long it lasts. What it means, and what to do about it, is for a vet or a qualified behaviourist, not a form.
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