This is the puppy training podcast, episode 124, Mental Enrichment with Jessica Sims.

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.

Hello, everybody and welcome to this week's podcast. I'm super excited about our topic today.

I have a special guest with me. Her name is Jessica Sims, and we are going to discuss mental

enrichment with our dogs as the weather cools down for many of us. It depends on where you live,

I guess. Many of us are inside. Our dogs are inside, and we could use this right now about this time

of year. So welcome, Jessica. How are you today? Thank you. Thank you for that amazing introduction. I am so glad to be here today. I can't wait to dive into it. I have so much to share, lots of experience.

We're doing good. It's definitely cold outside, like you said. Walks are kind of shortening down a bit.

So trying to keep my active hyper little boy busy inside as well.

So I can't wait to dive into it.

Well, I'm going to let you introduce yourself.

Will you just tell us a little bit about what it is you do in the dog space?

Let us know what you do and how you got started.

And then it sounds like you have a dog

right there with you, so maybe introduce him to. Totally. Yeah. So long story short, I moved out from

my parents about two years ago. And of course, the first thing I said to myself was, I want a dog.

I didn't even care if the renovations were not even complete in the

house. It was, I was getting a puppy and that was it. So I grew up with golden retrievers my

entire life. So for me, it was automatic that that's what I was getting. Didn't do much homework

on the breeder, which was, you know, kind of my little mistake, I guess you could say.

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