This is the puppy training podcast, episode 126, fearful behavior.

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. Welcome to the puppy training

podcast. I'm so glad you're here today. We are talking about fearful behavior in puppies and dogs,

what it looks like, what it is, how do we help them with it? And I have Barbara

Cannon here. She's one of the trainers here at Baxter and Bella to discuss it with us. So welcome,

Barbara. Thanks for coming. Thanks, Amy. It's nice to be here. It's good to see you again. I guess we

see each other often, but I'm excited that my clients get to hear a little more from you today. So let's start off with just how fear develops in dogs.

What have you learned about that?

Well, I've done some research about it because I've been training.

I've trained a couple of fearful dogs in the past.

And there is some evidence that there's a genetic component with some dogs.

So I think for our clients, it's important to always

do your research when you're looking for a puppy. Try to meet the parents if you can. I think that's

an important part of it. There's also recent evidence that sometimes fear can happen in the prenatal

state. We don't have any control over that, though. The thing we do have control over,

and I think the thing that's the most important is socialization and really can impact a dog's

development along the way. And you talk a lot about it on the website, about that critical

period of socialization that starts at about three weeks and goes to 16 weeks.

And I want to say to people, keep going with it.

It doesn't end at 16 weeks.

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