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15/06/2022

👉What should your puppy or dog training plan include for solving undesired behavior?

👉Are you training a new puppy or dog?

✅Here are the 4 categories every training plan should include in order to solve undesired behavior problems and how to use each one and what you should be focusing on with any training or behavior modification plan!

➡️Every training plan should include - Teaching, Reinforcing, Prevention and Management, and Interrupting!

1️⃣ Teaching!

👉There are 5 Steps to teaching your puppy a new behavior!

Step 1 - Introducing a new behavior through capturing, luring, or shaping!
Step 2 - Adding the visual cue - a hand signal or body movement that signals the behavior.
Step 3 - Adding the verbal cue by adding a word that names the behavior.
Step 4 - Proofing the behavior!
Step 5 - Adding in Distractions - by practicing in different locations and environments with different distractions.

2️⃣ Reinforcing!

👉Find the reinforcement your puppy loves the most! For many pups, it might be a high-value treat. For others, it might mean getting to tug on a toy. Remember it is your puppy that gets to decide what is reinforcing. Find what motivates your puppy the most!
👉You should be reinforcing new behaviors your puppy is learning and reinforcing the behaviors your puppy is already doing. You can also reinforce the absense of the undesired behavior. For example, if you're on a walk and your pup barks at other dogs on the walk - what you can do is when they see the other dog but not barking - you can reinforce that behavior instead of the barking!

3️⃣ Preventing! Creating a Prevention Plan!

👉Preventing and Managing the environment prevents your puppy from rehearsing undesired behaviors while you are teaching them desired behaviors. It sets your puppy up for learning success! Also, by using management strategies!

🔶Example 1 - when guests come over, instead of letting your puppy jump up to greet them, put them on a leash or behind a gate or in their playpen to prevent them from jumping up until they've learned to keep four paws on the floor.

🔶Example 2 - If you know that your puppy might not possibly come when called in a certain situation, they shouldn't be given complete freedom in that situation. It's better to use management strategies such as fenced areas and long lines to prevent setting your puppy up for failure by putting them in a situation that they wern't ready for or trained for.

4️⃣ Interrupting!

👉Teaching your puppy a attention noise (a positive interrupter) such as a kissy noise or whistle so you can interrupt a undesired behavior and redirect them to doing a desired behavior.
For example, when your puppy is doing something you don't like such as chewing on a shoe you can use the attention noise to get your pups attention and then redirect them to what they should be chewing on such as their chew toys or bone.

✅What To Focus on:

👉It's really important to remember that with any training or behavior modification plan that the focus is not just on preventing and interrupting the behavior, but the focus should be on building the new behavior you are teaching and reinforcing it to be stronger than the undesired behavior or older behavior.

👉So what your going to be focusing on is what you want you puppy to do - by teaching and reinforcing it rather than just simply preventing, managing, and interrupting it.

🔔When creating your training plan, just remember that...
All of the bad choices and mistakes puppies make, and every undesirable behaviour that they have only happens because they don't realize they’re doing anything wrong. Most of the behavior is natural puppy behaviour.... Puppies don't do bad things, Puppies do Puppy things!

Happy Training!!😃
❤️Michelle

👉Are you using all 4 categories in your training plan?
👉What undesired behaviors are you trying to solve with your puppy or dog?
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04/06/2022

If you are raising and training a new puppy, here are 6 things your training should consist of 👇👇

🧡Focusing on building my relationship and connection with my new puppy!

🧡Become fluent in Doggie Body Language so I can understand what my puppy is trying to tell me.

🧡Finding the Reinforcers that motivate my puppy the most!

🧡Setting my puppy up to succeed by teaching the desired bevaviors instead of trying to stop the undesired behaviors.

🧡To bring out the best in both my puppy and myself and to embrace the Journey.

🧡Meeting their needs everyday with a balance of physical exercise and play, mental exercise/brainwork, and rest!

Happy Puppy Raising and Training!!😃
❤️Michelle

👉Share this list with other new puppy parents!

👉Are you training a new puppy or dog right now? Which one of these stands out the most for you?
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04/06/2022

✅❌ The DO'S And DON'TS Of Greeting A Dog!

✅ DO always ask permission from a dog’s parent before greeting their dog.
❌ DON'T run over to a strange dog and pat them on the head.

✅ DO wait for the dog to come to you by showing interest in sniffing you and greeting you.
❌ DON'T stick your hand in the dog’s face or reach out to pet them. Never invade a dog's space, let them come to you.

✅ DO make yourself appear as friendly as possible by turning your body slightly to the side and looking at the dog with your peripheral vision or kneel down to the dog’s level.
❌DON'T head-on approach the dog and use direct eye contact.

✅ DO hold your hand in a fist so they can approach and sniff if they choose. Dogs use their nose to say hello.
❌ DON'T thrust your hand at the dog. They can smell you from a long distance away, and the sudden movement could startle them.

✅ DO pat the dog’s side, back, neck, or chest, or ask if the dog has a favorite spot for petting.
❌ DON'T reach over the dog’s head as this may be frightening. And don’t hug or restrain the dog in any way. Most dogs dislike pats on the head and hugs.

👉The most important step before approaching a dog you've never met is to always ask for permission to pet the puppy or dog. Every dog is an individual with their own comfort level of strangers and handling!

👉Once you’ve asked for the dog parent's permission, it’s important to always take the time to ask for the dog’s. Never invade a dog's space, always wait for the puppy or dog to come to you.

Happy Greetings!!😃
❤️Michelle

👉Have you ever had someone approach or pet your puppy or dog without asking?
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04/06/2022

👉One of the things that often gets overlooked when socializing our puppies is desensitizing them to different everyday Sounds and Noises! Since sounds are often the source of fears in dogs, getting your puppy used to hearing them now will help prevent them from being startled or scared of them later on.

👉If we don't take the time to associate these noises with positive things, by the time our puppies are teenagers they can become noise-sensitive and begin noise-sensitive-barking at everyday noises.

📢Desensitizing your puppy to different everyday sounds & noises.

🔶The best way to make sure your puppy builds positive associations to sounds and noises is to pair it with something they love such as food, play, and toys.
🔶The best place to start is with common household sounds and noises and then sounds and noises your puppy is most likely to hear when outside and in different outdoor environments.

📢You can Socialize your puppy to sounds in several different ways:

1️⃣ Have your treat pouch ready and filled with lots of high-value treats. Whenever the sound happens, scatter a few treats on the floor or ground for your puppy to eat or feed the treats to them.

2️⃣ Give your puppy a food stuffed interactive toy like a Kong or Toppl, or a LickiMat, or scattered treats on a snuffle mat when you play a sound clip or recording.

3️⃣ Have a play session while the sound is playing or happening in the background. Play tug, fetch, or whatever game your puppy loves the most.

4️⃣ Have a snuggle session - spending time sitting outside together and just listening to the world around you. As your puppy is alerted to sounds going on around you, feed some treats and offer some scatches and pets.

▶️Playing 🔊Sound Clips and Recordings to desensitize your puppy to different everyday sounds:

🔉One of the ways we can desensitize our puppies to different everyday sounds and noises is by playing audio clips of sounds your puppy may hear during their life. You can find these on youtube or google and they usually include things like car noises and traffic, airplane flying overhead, thunder, heavy rain, fireworks, lawnmower, baby crying, kids playing, and so on.

🔉The key thing to remember here is low and slow, short and sweet. Always start with the volume low and slowly increase it over time as long as your puppy isn't showing any signs of stress. Keep these sessions short and pair them with your puppy's favorite treats and activities.

🔉By having your puppy regularly listen to a sound playlist well pairing it with something they love, they will gradually become accustomed to certain noises and will therefore be more confident when having real life encounters with these noises for the first time.

🔊🔊PUPPY SOUND SOCIALIZATION TRAINING:

👉Step One: Have your puppy eating out of a stuffed toy or enjoying a Lickimat.

👉Step Two: Turn on the sound and play the audio clip starting at the lowest volume.

👉Step Three: Evaluate your puppy's body language. Did they notice the sound but go right back to eating? Or did they stop eating and express stressed body language?

👉Step Four: Adjust the volume accordingly. If they startled to the sound, turn it off and try again later (read below). If they noticed it but went right back to eating, continue playing at the current
volume or consider slightly increasing the volume.

👉Step Five: As they finish up eating or licking, turn off the sound and that completes one sound socialization session.

🔊If your puppy startles or shows fear of a sound - turn it off and try again later by making a note of the sound they reacted to, and then making a plan to proactively expose them to it in a more controlled way (at a lower volume, at shorter durations, paired with higher value treats or during playtime).

🏠🏠HOUSEHOLD SOUND DESENSITIZATION:
How to desensitize your puppy to household sounds!

🏡 I will use a Vacuum Cleaner as the example here, but this would pertain to most other household items too.

👉Step One: Set up the Vacuum in a room near by and your puppy in another room. Have a family member or friend operate the Vacuum in the other room.

👉Step Two: Grab some tasty treats and have them turn the vacuum on starting for just a moment while you feed your puppy some high-value treats and then turn it right back off. Repeat this several times until your puppy realizes that the Vacuum running means good things are coming!

👉Step Three: Gradually increase the amount of time they run the Vaccum for. Eventually, move the vacuum closer and closer to where you and the puppy are as the training sessions progress.

🏡 If your puppy loves to play - you can play tug with a favorite squeaky toy while the vacuum is running in the other room.

🏡 Note: Before you turn on the Vacuum in the same room as your puppy, first bring it into the room without turning it on and let your pup explore it at their own pace and eat treats that you slowly toss closer and closer to the Vacuum.

🏠🏡 25 Common Household Noises to Socialized Your Puppy to:

(1) - Vacuum Cleaner
(2) - Garbage Disposal
(3) - Blow Dryer
(4) - Food Processors
(5) - Electric Mixers
(6) - Blenders
(7) - Coffee Grinders
(8) - Microwaves
(9) - A Whistling Tea Kettle
(10) - Dishwasher or Washer/Dryer🏠
(11) - The Garbage Truck🚛
(12) - The Lawnmower
(13) - A Leaf Blower
(14) - The Doorbell 🔔
(15) - Knocking on the door🚪
(16) - The Alarm Keypad to your house
(17) - The Automatic Garage Doors opening and closing
(18) - Musical Instruments 🎹🎻🎺Do you or someone in your family play an instrument?
(19) - Battery warning of a smoke detector
(20) - A Power Washer
(21) - A Power Drill
(22) - A Carpet Cleaner
(23) - Dremel (for trimming nails)
(24) - A Sewing Machine
(25) - A Electric Saw or Sander🧰

🐶🐶Signs to watch out for that your puppy may be Stressed by the Sound - (Always watch their body Language including their tail, eyes, ears, mouth, and posture).

👉Crouching, Furrowed Brow, Trying to hide or escape, Tail tucked, Wide eyes (Whale eyes), Panting, Licking their lips, Yawning, Stiffen their body, Lifting a front paw, Your Puppy begins to bark, Ears pulled back against the head, Lower their head below their shoulders or turning their head away, Shaking, cringing, trembling, and cowering.

✅Noises and Sounds of Everyday Life: 🚓🚒✈️🚨🚗🎇🎆💨🌩
👉Some Outdoor Everyday Noises To Consider:

➡️Motorcycles and Skateboards, Traffic - Cars, trucks, sirens,
➡️Thunder, Heavy rain and wind
➡️Crowds of people, people cheering and being loud
➡️Fireworks, popping sounds, and cars back firing
➡️Noises of other animals - other dogs barking including large dogs barking and small dogs barking and dogs howling, cats, horses, roosters, cows, birds, and so on
➡️Babies Crying, and Children Playing

➡️Kids Voices / Children Playing - if your puppy is going to be around kids at all, its important to get your puppy use to their high-pitched, often loud, squeals, laughter, screaming, crying, shouting, etc. ahead of time. You can find recordings on google or youtube that you can play to start off with. Eventually you then move your puppy on to rewarding them around real children at a distance, and then closer as they grow more comfortable.

🔷PRO TIP: If a sound ever happens suddenly and your puppy reacts, toss some high value treats to them right afterwards. This can build the association that a sudden noise predicts yummy treats falling from the sky.

Happy Puppy Socialization!!😃
❤️Michelle

👉Is your puppy afraid of any noises? Have you tried any of the methods above to desensitize your puppy to sounds and noises?
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20/04/2022

👉Is your puppy or dog having unusual potty accidents after being potty trained?

🎯If your puppy or dog is fully potty trained, but having unusual potty accidents in the house, there are 7️⃣ reasons why this may be happening:

🔶Medical Issues
🔶Excitment Urination
🔶Marking Objects or Territory
🔶Submissive Urination
🔶Stress or Anxiety
🔶Changes in your Dogs Schedule or Your Daily Routine
🔶Not Fully Potty Trained Yet

👉Read below to understand why each one of these is happening and what you can do to help change it!

🔶Medical Issues

👉If you’ve completed every aspect of potty training with your puppy and only gave them the freedom they were ready for, but they're still having accidents, then you should rule out any medical issues first.

⚠️Urinary Tract Infections are one of the most common reasons for inappropriate urination. Pain, difficulties urinating, blood in urine, straining to urinate and urinating very small amounts but frequently are all common signs that your puppy may be suffering from a bladder infection.

⚠️Other issues such as bladder stones, kidney issues, prostate disorders, liver disease, cushing's disease, etc can increase your dogs urgency to go. If you notice your dog leaving little urine dribbles around the house or having accidents in their bed, they may be losing control of their bladder.

📢Be sure to schedule an appointment with your Vet as soon as possible.

🔶Excitment Urination

👉Excitable Urination Can Occur When a Puppy Is - overly excited, playing, greeting a person or dog, when you come home, engaging in a high energy activity, or when unfamiliar people visit.

👉Its common for pups to p*e when they get excited or overjoyed by something. The most common times for this to happen are during playtime or when they greet someone.

🔔Most puppies will outgrow this behavior once they've matured into adulthood, but you can help curb it by keeping low key greetings. Whether thats when you come home or when guests come over to visit.

🔶Marking Objects or Territory

👉Urine marking, also called territorial marking, occurs when your pup purposely marks certain areas with their urine. This can happen with both male and female dogs.

👉Some puppies will mark new items in the house such as a new piece of furniture, a shopping bag, or a visitors purse. They usually mark on objects that have unfamiliar smells, or on objects that have another animal’s scent. They will especially mark items if they came from a place with other dogs. Some puppies may also start marking when a new pet is introduced into the home. It's also common to mark when visiting a hotel or someone elses home.

🔔Urine Marking is different than having an accident in the house. When marking, a dog will urinate a small amount to put their scent on various objects.

📢🛑How To Stop Marking:

✅Spaying and Neutering is recommended. The longer a dog goes before being spayed or neutered, the more difficult it's going to be to train them not to mark in the house. Spaying or neutering should reduce urine-marking, but if its already become a learned behavior, then spaying/neutering alone will probably not solve the problem altogether. A pattern may have already been established if your pup's been marking for a long time.

✅Clean soiled areas thoroughly with a cleaner specifically designed to eliminate urine odor such as a enzymatic cleaner.

✅Keep objects likely to cause marking out of reach, including items such as new purchases and guests' belongings.

✅Keep a watchful eye on your pup. When you’re unable to supervise them, put them in their crate or a puppy playpen.

✅Consult a Vet Behaviorist for help with resolving the marking issues.

🔶Submissive Urination

👉Submissive urination is a behavior in which a pup will urinate as a response to anxiety or fear. It usually happens to pups who are shy, anxious, and/or timid. It can be more common in young puppies who are gaining confidence, but it can also occur in adult dogs.

👉You are probably dealing with submissive urination if your puppy is - p*eing when a person approaches them, when they are being greeted by people or animals, during exciting events, while playing, or during physical contact. When there's a loud noise or disturbance such as a loud siren or loud voices, and while making submissive postures, such as rolling over and exposing their belly, crouching, or tail tucking.

🔔If they urinate when they are playing or being greeted, but don’t exhibit submissive postures, then its probably excitement urination.

🔶Stress or Anxiety

🐶When feeling Stress or Anxiety dogs can also urinate inappropriately.

👉A puppy when left alone may experience detachment or separation anxiety. Your puppy may become nervous before or after you have left and urinate indoors.

👉A big household or lifestyle change may also trigger indoor urination. These events might include a change in family structure or schedule, moving to a new household, having a baby, someone in the household has recently left or moved out, or getting a new pet.

🔔Puppies love routine, so anything that shifts their daily routine or changes in their environment can cause them stress and lead to indoor urination.

🔶Changes in Your Dogs Schedule or Your Daily Routine

👉Puppies and Dogs love and thrive on a routine and schedule and on consistency. So if anything shifts their daily routine or changes in their environment, it can cause them stress and lead to indoor urination.

👉If your potty-trained puppy or dog suddenly starts urinating in the house then it may be because they are off their schedule and can't hold it any longer.

❓❓Questions to ask yourself are:

✅Have you changed their eating schedule?
✅Have you shortened their exercise time because your schedule has gotten busier?
✅Are you having to work longer hours and leaving them alone more than usual?

🔔Consider bringing in family or a friend, or a dog walker to help out if your schedule shifts or changes.

If you've recently gotten a new puppy or are waiting the arrival of your new puppy, or getting a new puppy in the near future ➡️

💡💡💡Watch for our new online courses with coaching launching this spring that will help you with raising and training your new puppy. I will be showing you how to get through puppyhood with ease and how to build a rock solid relationship with your new puppy!

Happy Training! You Got This!!😃
🧡🧡Michelle

👉Has your puppy or dog been having any unusual potty accidents after being potty trained? Have you experieced any of these issues?
Let me know in the comments below👇
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16/04/2022

HELP! My Dog Ate Chocolate!🍫🐶
Has your puppy or dog ever gotten into some chocolate?🍫

With Easter right around the corner, and lots of chocolate treats and easter egg hunts coming, I thought I would go over the one thing we don't want happening at Easter and that is - HELP! My Dog ate the Chocolate!!

👉Heres What I Will Cover Below:

🍫 Why is Chocolate Bad for Dogs?

🍫 What to do if Your Dog has Eaten Chocolate?

🍫 What are the Symptoms of Chocolate Toxicity in dogs?

🍫 How to Prevent Your Dog from Eating Chocolate?

🚨WHY IS CHOCOLATE BAD FOR DOGS?

Chocolate contains Theobromine which dogs are unable to metabolize. Different types of chocolate have varying amounts of theobromine in them. Depending on the type and amount of chocolate consumed and the weight of your dog, will determine the risk of your dog becoming sick to having severe chocolate poisoning from eating it.

👉The amount of theobromine varies among different types of chocolates. The darker the chocolate, the more dangerous it is to your dog.

👉Here is a list starting with the chocolate that contains the highest amounts of Theobromine.

1️⃣ Cocoa powder (is the most toxic)
2️⃣ Unsweetened baker’s chocolate
3️⃣ Semisweet chocolate
4️⃣ Dark chocolate
5️⃣ Milk chocolate
6️⃣ White Chocolate

🚨WHAT TO DO IF YOUR DOG HAS EATEN CHOCOLATE?

If you believe your puppy or dog has eaten chocolate, call your Veterinarian immediately! If your Vet is not opened, try calling your local Emergency Veterinary Hospital or the Pet Poison Helpline. There are also some online services that provide live chat and video options to connect you with a Vet.

👉Information your Vet will need to know when you call them:

🔷 How much chocolate your dog ate?
🔷 What type of chocolate your dog ate?
🔷 How long ago did your dog eat the chocolate?
🔷 How much your dog weighs?

👉Knowing how much and what kind of chocolate your dog ate is key. With this information, your Vet will be able to determine what the next steps should be.

🚨WHAT ARE THE SYMPTOMS OF CHOCOLATE TOXICITY IN DOGS?

Signs of chocolate poisoning usually appear within 6 to 12 hours after your dog has eaten it and may last up to 72 hours. Symptoms will depend on the amount and type of chocolate ingested and include the following:

⚠️For many dogs, the most common symptoms are vomiting, diarrhea, panting, drooling, restlessness, increase in thirst and excessive urination, and racing heart rate.

⚠️In severe cases, symptoms can include muscle tremors, seizures, and heart failure.

🔔 Immediate treatment by your veterinarian is recommended if a poisonous amount of chocolate is ingested.

🚨HOW TO PREVENT YOUR DOG FROM EATING CHOCOLATE?

🔷Remind your Children and Guests that chocolate should be kept out of the dogs reach and not left on tables, countertops, or in bags or purses.

🔷Make sure to place Easter Baskets in a place where the dog cannot get to them.

🔷Make sure you don't leave any chocolates in a candy dish sitting on your coffee table, living room side tables, or dining room table.

🔷Make sure all chocolate items, including your hot chocolate mixes and cocoa powder, and baking chips & squares are stored where your dog cannot reach them. I like to keep mine in a closed container on a high shelf in the pantry or in a closed-door cupboard up high.

🔷During the Easter weekend, when you have guests over or eggs hidden around the house, the safest way to make sure your new puppy or dog doesn't eat anything harmful while your not
supervising them, is to place them in their puppy playpen or crate with a tasty stuffed kong for them to enjoy!

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🐰Hope you all have a Happy and Safe Easter with your families and Doggos!! Happy Easter, Michelle😃

Let me know in the comments - Have you ever had a dog get into some chocolate? I will go first in the comments below👇
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23/03/2022

👉We all want to be the best trainers and teachers we can for our puppies or dogs!

👉Here are 7 ways to help you be the best trainer for your puppy or dog!

🔶 #1 - Reward Train Good Behavior!

🔹One of the first things we should be doing with our puppies is reinforcing and rewarding their good behavior! This teaches your puppy what you would like him or her to do as opposed to trying to stop them from doing the things we don't like.

🔹We tend to catch our puppies when they are doing something unwanted and then try to stop it or fix it.

🔹Try switching that around and everytime you catch your puppy doing something good, reward them. Reward more of what you want to see.

🔔Just remember these are behaviors that you haven't asked for, they are behaviors your pup is choosing to do on their own and you are then reinforcing & rewarding them!

✅Reinforcement Builds Behavior!
✅What gets reinforced, gets repeated!

🔶 #2 - Break Your Training Down into Smaller, more Achievable Steps!

🔹Make sure your training goals are based on setting your puppy or dog up to succeed by taking into account the distractions, distance, and duration.

🔹Dogs aren't great at generalizing behaviors, which means that just because your pup understands a behavior in one context doesn't mean that it's understood in every context.

🔔They need to have ample opportunities to practice a behavior in a variety of environments, with various levels of distractions at different distances and at different lengths of duration.

🔶 #3 - Your Voice is one of the Most Important Tools you have in Training!

✅Always talk in encouraging and happy tones! If we sound frustrated, aggravated, or stressed this can cause the puppy to feel stressed and not want to engage with you.

✅Always use praise and emotion when your puppy has success!

✅Always praise your puppy enthusiastically when rewarding them!

🔶 #4 - Use Management in Situations you Haven't Trainined for Yet.

🔹Use Management well your puppy is still learning to avoid them from rehearsing unwanted behaviors.

➡️EXAMPLES:

❌ If you know that your puppy might not possibly come when called in a certain situation, they shouldn't be given complete freedom in that situation.
✅It's better to use management strategies such as fenced areas and long lines to prevent setting your puppy up for failure by putting them in a situation that they wern't ready for or trained for.

❌When guests come over, instead of letting your puppy jump up to greet them,
✅put your puppy on a leash or in their puppy playpen to prevent them from jumping up until they've learned to keep four paws on the floor.

🔶 #5 - Find the Reinforcement that your puppy or dog Loves the Most!

✅Find the reinforcement your puppy loves the most! For many pups, it might be a high-value treat. For others, it might mean getting to tug on a toy.

➡️For example, try using chicken or liver as a reward or if your puppy loves to tug, use a favorite tug toy that they only get during training sessions.

🔔Also, use a variety of food rewards from low value to high value to keep your puppy motivated. For example, it's important to mix- and-match different low- and high-value treats for different levels of distractions.

🔶 #6 - When teaching your puppy a cue, be sure to only say the verbal cue once.

❌Don’t keep repeating it, as your puppy may tune you out, and the verbal cue may eventually lose its meaning.

➡️Have you every heard or maybe even done this?
"Rover Come, come, Rover COME!" or "Sit, sit, sit, SIT!

🔔Sometimes it's hard to be patient and wait it out as we are verbal communicators. But it's much better to say the verbal cue once and then give your puppy or dog a few moments to figure it out before repeating or overusing the cue.

🔶 #7 - Always Keep Rewards Handy with Treat Stations.

🔹When raising and training a puppy it's super important to always have rewards handy and nearby, ready to go for when you need them.

✅I like to set up treat stations with jars of freeze dried or soft treats that don't need to be refrigerated, in different places around the house and in the car!

✅For treats that need to be refrigerated, prepare ahead of time by cutting up small pieces and putting them in zip-loc bags in the fridge or freezer ready to grab.

🔔Always bring rewards with you when heading out the door with your puppy! Have a Silicone Dog Treat Pouch by the door ready to fill!

👉IN SUMMARY: The 7 ways to help you be the best trainer for your puppy or dog👇

🔶 #1 - Reward Train Good Behavior!

🔶 #2 - Break Your Training Down into Smaller, more Achievable Steps!

🔶 #3 - Your Voice is one of the Most Important Tools you have in Training!

🔶 #4 - Use Management in situations you haven't trainined for yet.

🔶 #5 - Find the Reinforcement that your puppy or dog Loves the Most!

🔶 #6 - When teaching your puppy a cue, be sure to only say the verbal cue once.

🔶 #7 - Always Keep Rewards Handy with Treat Stations.

Happy Training!!😃
❤️Michelle

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👉What is one of the most important things you can do before bringing home your new puppy? 🐶 👉Puppy proofing your home is one of the most important things you can do before bringing home a new puppy! (Swipe right for 7 Puppy Proofing Hacks.) 🐶Puppies love to put everything in their mouths! They love to chew, dig, shred, and grab anything they can. ✅Not only does puppy proofing keep your puppy safe, but it also helps to prevent bathrooth accidents and bad habits from forming! Always remember to supervise, supervise, supervise when your puppy is out. ✅Using a leash in the house can also help to stop your puppy from wandering away and getting into things they shouldn't! 👉Here are 7 puppy proofing hacks that you can do to start preparing your home for a new puppy, or that you can put in place if you've already brought your new puppy home! ➡️ HACK #1 Set up a puppy pen in your home so your puppy has a safe and comfortable place to stay when you are unable to supervise them! Use interlocking foam mats, or a cut out piece of linoleium, or a tarp, or rubber mat to line the bottom to protect your flooring or carpeting beneath! Be sure to make the floor covering slightly bigger then the area of the puppy pen! ➡️ HACK #2 If you have a puppy who likes to climb, use puppy pens with vertical bars as they are much harder for pups to climb. You could also use a cover over the top such as a tarp with bungee cords attached to the side panels. Some pens also come with optional canvas covers that you can purchase seperately. ➡️ HACK #3 Use a baby gate or a free standing gate to block off staircases in your home or access to a room that doesn't have a door. Wrap a freestanding gate around furniture pieces like a display shelf that you don't want your puppy having access too. Again, purchase gates with vertical bars to avoid climbing puppies! For extra wide staircases, use rails off a old baby crib or a sheet of plywood to block off access! ➡️

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