This is the puppy training podcast, episode 119, introducing your new puppy to household pets.

This podcast is designed to help you on your journey of becoming best friends through love and

learning as you train your own dog from home. And I'm here to help you every step of the way.

This is the puppy training podcast and I'm your host, Amy Jensen.

Hi, everyone.

Thank you for listening to the podcast today.

We get a number of questions here at Baxter and Bella on how to introduce a new dog

to current family pets.

And I thought, let's do a podcast on it.

We touched on this topic in an earlier podcast when it talks to multiple dogs, but let's go

more into detail on introductions to other animals.

I've invited Amanda, a trainer here at Baxter and Bella, to join me in the discussion

today. So thank you, Amanda, for being here and welcome. You're welcome. I'm excited to be here. Thanks

for inviting me on to the podcast. Let's start with a setup, Amanda. We know we are bringing a new puppy

home. We currently have, let's say, a cat living with us. I know cats are popular. How can we

structure our home to make this initial greeting a success? That's a great question. I get this

question a lot. I think one of the best mindsets you can have is not rush into this one. We don't,

we don't want to rush into it. We want to take our time.

We want the dog to take their time and we want the cat to take their time. And let's be realistic here.

This interaction might take up to a year for them to be comfortable even coexisting in the same

household. So when you're bringing your new puppy home, your cat's probably been there for quite a while

and this is going to be a new change for them. So let's set this up so that your cat doesn't

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