This is the puppy training podcast, episode 159, introducing a new puppy to a current dog.

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. Hey everybody, happy December. Are you ready for Christmas

at your house? It's coming next week, right? Well, I guess, what is it? Are we several days away at this

point? Who knows when you're listening to this podcast, actually? Maybe it's months away.

I don't know.

Well, Christmas is coming quickly.

My kids I know are super excited to be out of school for a little while.

That does start next week for us.

And this brings up the topic of bringing a new dog home.

I know what this is a common thing for families at this time of year is to introduce a new dog into

the family, which we are super excited about. And I really want to help you with that today.

But before we talk about that, let me just chat about the next few weeks at your house. Okay,

whether you have a new puppy or you are not bringing a new puppy home, you may have a dog

and you're just here listening on how to train your current dog.

The next few weeks can be a little bit stressful for our animals.

So you may notice your dog acting a little differently as holiday changes appear.

Notice things like changes in home decor.

I mean, really, you guys, we bring an entire tree into our house and decorate it.

Have you all seen the funny meme that's going around with a dog questioning, why are we allowed to bring in an entire tree into our home, but they can't

bring in one little stick? It's pretty funny. And true, right? So other changes might be the number of

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