This is the puppy training podcast, episode 150, Understanding Why Dogs Lick.

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 help you every step of the way. This is the puppy training podcast and I'm

your host, Amy Jensen. Hey everybody. How are you today? Thank you for tuning in to the puppy

training podcast. I'm super glad you're here. I hope you are having a good week. It is definitely

getting colder where I live and speaking of colds, we all have colds. So I don't know if

this is true at your house, but every time fall comes around, we pull out the cough drops and the

tissue boxes and all sorts of fun things. So hopefully you're staying well at your house.

Today I want to talk about licking. I get questions about licking quite often. I don't know.

I get a lot of questions quite often because I'm a dog trainer, but licking is one of them.

So today I want to talk about it, why they do it, how we can change that behavior if we don't

necessarily love that behavior. But I do want to point out a lot of that why today,

because if we understand why they do it, it's not always a problem behavior, right? It's okay that

they lick. There's just certain times that we probably don't want them to lick. So dogs have just

been super great companions for us for many, many years. They've been companion dogs for humans for a long

time now.

And their behavior continues to intrigue us and charm us. And one of the most endearing and

puzzling behaviors exhibited by dogs is their desire to lick. So Baxter, he's a licker. He likes

to go straight for the legs of anybody wearing shorts. So if somebody comes over to say hi to him

and they have shorts on,

I know he wants to lick them. Just anticipating that and knowing that is going to help me change

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