Kait, VTS (behavior), CVT, KPA, CTP, and the head of training at Boston-based GoodPup. Her career in Animal Behavior spans decades. She has extensive experience working with behavior modification in and outside veterinary practices and animal shelters. She regularly consults as a dog behavior expert across the country.
Personalities evolve through genetics and environment which both influence learning; and the shaping of a dog's personality one way or another. Depending on the particular environment a dog lives in, certain personality traits could end up mirroring their owner's.
A Boston-based animal behaviorist told Newsweek that our dogs can sometimes catch on to parts of our personality.