Hey, what's going on everybody welcome back to another episode of the no bad dogs podcast with me,

Tom Davis. Today's episode is going to be the first two things you should do with your new dog

and it doesn't matter if it's a puppy or it's an old dog that you have adopted or rescued.

Here's two things that you have to do. It's not the only two things but it's two things that have

significantly changed my life with my dogs as well as my clients and I don't talk about it too often.

So we're going to get into this now. First thing is understanding that bonding is going to happen

naturally. So oftentimes people will kind of make this bigger deal than it needs to be. If you're

going to, you know, if you have a family or you have a partner or whatever, like everyone knows,

okay, this is your dog. So if this is your dog, your dog will know that. You will obviously know

that because you're going to be spending the majority of the time with the dog. You're going to be

feeding the dog, letting the dog out with, you know, some help from others. But if you're the

sole person, the bonding experience is going to come natural. So don't worry about that too much.

That's a very common thing that people kind of like worry about a lot. Yeah, you take a couple of

days off of work. You can spend extra time. That's totally fine. Enjoy your new dog. Enjoy every minute

of it and there's nothing wrong with that at all. But that bonding experience will come naturally.

So getting into the first thing is going to be engagement. So one of the things I did with

Lakota when she was a puppy, which a lot of people compliment and ask me questions on today is her

engagement. Her laser focused, her, her focus to me is incredible. And the reason why it's

incredible is because when she was a puppy, what I did is I taught her engagement drills. So what I

would do is I would get a treat pouch filled. I have a no bad dog treat pouch filled with her

kibble or her treats. And this started at eight weeks. So don't wait for anything with your dog.

That's the other common mistake I find people to make is they wait. So I started at eight weeks

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