This is the puppy training podcast, episode 128, Puppies and Patterns.

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, you guys. How is your holiday? I hope you had a wonderful

break. It was nice, kind of just taking a little time off. Do you guys ever feel like when you get back at it that your brain needs a revamp?

Getting back at it this week and I'm realizing, oh, yeah, this is what I do on Mondays.

Oh, yeah, this is what I do on Tuesdays.

So here we are doing a podcast and I'm super excited to be with you.

I'm glad you're here listening.

Today on our Q&A, we were talking

about interrupting unwanted puppy behavior and distracting them or redirecting them. So the word that

my client used was distracting, but we're going to talk about interrupting, redirecting them.

And I thought, you know what, this would make a really good podcast. So check it out.

Can you discuss the balance of uh-uh, nope, and ignoring and distracting unwanted behavior?

Yes, this is one of my favorite things to talk about. Okay. So any of those things that we just

mentioned. So the uh-uh, and I just, it comes out naturally. I don't even know where that came from.

It was just like I see my dog doing something. Hey, uh, you know, it's a great interruptor. And that's all it is. It's an interrupter word.

My dog kind of goes, what, you know, what did you say? What did that? What was that sound?

No is the same thing. No is just an interruptor word. So no, what, huh? Right? Nope. I like to say nope instead of no because it keeps me in a happier state. Honestly, that's the only

reason. Like if I say no or if I say nope, nope, nope, just reminds me, no big deal. Just try again.

Right. And I'd rather come to my puppy in that state of mind than a really frustrated no state of

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