This is the puppy training podcast episode number 16. What do I want my dog to do?

This podcast is for those looking to train their own dog, whether as a family companion,

a service, or a therapy dog, 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, how are you guys? I hope you're having a great week. I hope you're doing

well training your puppies. I want to thank you everyone for listening. I'm so flattered by the

amount of listeners that we're getting and also for those reviews that are being posted and

helping me to spread the word. So if you're new to the podcast, I have a goal of helping over

a thousand puppy families

this year, and we are well on our way. And I know it's all because of great listeners like you

who are willing to help me spread the word. So thank you. All right, today we're going to talk about

what do I want my dog to do. That sounds kind of like a weird topic, but I'm going to explain it. So a lot of times in puppy training,

we think, I don't want my puppy to jump, I don't want my puppy to bite, how do I get my puppy

to stop peeing on the floor? And we focus a lot on what we don't want our puppy to do.

And if you think of that, let's just take jumping, for example, I don't want my puppy to jump. How do you train that? How do you start training that I

don't want my puppy to jump? It's actually pretty difficult if you break it down and start thinking about

it. It's much easier if you flip it around and you think, hmm, what do I want my puppy to do? So if you

have a person that's coming over and they want to greet your dog instead of thinking I don't want

my dog to jump. I am thinking in my brain, man, I wish my puppy would sit by my side as that person

approaches and wait for me to give him instructions to go greet that person. Wouldn't that be amazing?

The beauty is, you guys, as soon as you figure out what you want your puppy to do, you can start to

train it. So that simple behavior of a guest is walking over or a stranger is walking over to you

and you want your puppy to sit at your side, I can start to train that. I can shape that behavior

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