Ep 5: Communicating With Your Puppy

Welcome to another episode of Badass Puppy Owner! Today we’ll be addressing how to communicate with your puppy. When you’re training your puppy, timing is everything. In their training, it’s essential that you intervene before they’re in a heightened state. Not only is it more challenging to calm them down when they’re already excited, but when you intervene at such a late stage, then they receive your intervention as an encouraging message, rather than a correction. Therefore, as a dog owner, you need to learn to recognize the small signals they display when they are the most receptive to intervention and make a habit of repeatedly following through on those training opportunities. In today’s episode, we cover some of the biggest mistakes owners make when training their puppies. We take a look at how owners inadvertently reward dogs for bad behavior, and how to be consistent, fair, and clear with your puppy. We also cover how established dogs warn and discipline puppies, delve into methods for implementing training tools like treats and an extra-long leash, and discuss how to communicate clearly and effectively with your puppy. To discover some of the biggest mistakes we make when communicating with our puppies and how to rectify them, make sure you tune in today!

Key Points from This Episode:

• Understanding when rough play is too rough.
• Why Jeanette tends to let things play out between her dogs.
• What to expect when the established dog has had enough.
• When to separate your puppy from the established dog.
• The various warnings that an established dog might display.
• Tips on how to communicate with your puppy.
• How to recognize the correct moment to discipline your puppy.
• How to do a full correction for your puppy.
• Why timing is everything when training your puppy.
• The biggest mistakes owners make when they communicate with their dogs.
• How to be consistent, fair, and clear with your puppy.
• Why it’s so difficult to correct a dog that’s already in a heightened state.
• Why it takes at least two to three years to train a dog off-leash.
• How you could inadvertently train your dog to ignore you.
• How to train your dog to come to you when you call.
• How to use a long leash and treats to train your dog to correctly respond to your call.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Jeanette Forrey

4E Kennels

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Jeanette Forrey

4E Kennels

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