This is the puppy training podcast episode 158. Puppies Need Sleep.

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. Thank you for joining me on the podcast today. I'm excited to be here.

I love talking dogs. If you spend time in my program with me, either Q&As or classes or coaching,

I love talking dogs with you guys.

So truly it is among my favorite things.

And today I want to talk about another favorite of mine, sleep.

You guys, I'm not sure what it is exactly.

Maybe it's the fact that it's cold and dark for a lot more of the time now.

Here in Utah, it's getting dark at like 515, maybe even five. I think the

sunset yesterday was actually 459. But sleep sounds so fun to me, like snuggling up with a blanket and just

falling asleep sounds so good. Anyway, is anybody else with me on that? Maybe I'm just getting old.

No, but it's been on my mind lately when it comes to puppies especially. I often think that they

aren't getting enough. It's pretty common that we see puppies get more and more rambunctious, more

biding, more mouthy, more jumpy, and it's the tendency of the family to think, oh, they need more

physical exercise when in reality, I would say they probably need more sleep. So I want to talk about sleep today

and puppies. Sleep is as we know a fundamental aspect of a puppy's early development. They need it,

right? It plays a crucial role in both physical and mental well-being for them. And so today I want

to focus on maybe eight-week-old puppies, how their sleep needs evolve as they mature.

So as that eight week old puppy grows and they become an adolescent and then an adult dog, how does that sleep schedule change?

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