Empowered Puppy
Welcome to theEmpower Your Puppy Podcast hosted by Jeanette Forrey of 4E Kennels! Join Jeanette as she educates owners on how to continue empowering their puppies to ensure they become balanced and fulfilled dogs. Honoring puppies in their placement and respecting the client’s needs makes for a magical match and keeps dogs in their home for the entirety of their life. Unfortunately, humans don't always communicate with dogs correctly which causes a very unhappy relationship and dogs that are very misunderstood. Jeanette is also on a mission to train breeders and educate the public on how and where to buy so that puppy mills and backyard breeders are defunded. Our dogs deserve more.
Empowered Puppy
Ep 14: How You Handle Fear Matters
As dog owners, we all want the same thing: to raise happy, healthy dogs who are neutral in all different situations. Today, we are talking about how you handle fear in your dog, whether it’s a puppy or a fully grown dog, and why that is so important. Tune in today to hear why the first sixteen weeks of a puppy’s life are so crucial to managing a dog’s fear, and what you can do to support them as they grow. We unpack the six different things to focus on with regards to exposure: people, places, sounds, unpredictable movement, dogs, and handling exercises. Learn about desensitizing your dog through exposure to their fears, and understand where the fears stem from in the first place. Jeanette answers a series of questions about managing your dog’s fears and educates listeners about the role of owners and breeders alike. Tune in today to hear all this and more!
Key Points from This Episode:
- How, as dog owners, we all want the same thing: happy, healthy dogs who are phobia-free and neutral in all situations.
- Lack of exposure and negative experiences as causes of long-term fear in your dog.
- Why the first sixteen weeks are so critical for managing your dog’s fear.
- Jeanette’s goal is to train owners to manage what happens within the first eight weeks, and owners for the second eight weeks.
- Why it is appropriate for dogs to fear certain things, but we don’t want it to affect their life.
- Managing protective behaviors based on the results you want.
- Finding a healthy balance between healthy exposure and negative exposure.
- Six different things to focus on with regards to exposure: people, places, sounds, unpredictable movement, dogs, and handling exercises.
- How negative experiences produce fears and phobias in your dog.
- What to do to manage these: create positive experiences and stay put until the dog is no longer afraid.
- Desensitizing your dog through exposure to their fears.
- Genetics as a cause of certain fears and how to manage this.
- Why you should never rescue your puppy when they show fear.
- Jeanette’s ultimate goal: empowered breeders, owners, and puppies!
- Why you should take your shoes off when you enter the house with a new puppy.
- How to prepare your dog for the Fourth of July through sound exposure and fun.
- Socializing with other healthy dogs and monitoring their behavior.
- Teaching your dog standing and understanding that assertiveness is a stable trait.
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