This is the puppy training podcast episode 179, loose leash walking.

When do I know my puppy's ready for the sidewalk?

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 and welcome to the podcast. I am so glad you're here. I love talking dogs,

specifically training them to live inside our homes as part of our family. And to do that, I love to talk to you

guys because you are the ones doing the training. And I really enjoy coaching you through that

process. So thanks for being here. Today we are diving into the topic of loose leash walking

and transitioning from working in an area to going on what we call destination walks with

your dog. When do I know my pup is ready for the sidewalk? That is the question. So let's jump

into it. There's a process that we follow, whether I'm training a brand new puppy or if I'm

training a new dog, maybe somebody I haven't worked with before,

and any age dog, there's a process. So let me outline that for you in this podcast today.

Just get you started on the right path, pathway. There's going to be lots of puns today. I can tell.

But the first place we start is with following. So if you follow, oh, there it is again. Sorry guys. If you follow

our program, uh, you'll know that this is the first step to loose leash walking. We want our dogs to

follow us, not the sidewalk trail or pathway, right? If I take my dog out on a sidewalk for a walk,

they're naturally going to follow the

sidewalk. Or if I take them on a trail up here in the mountains where I live, they're naturally going to

follow the trail. Yeah, they go off the trail and come back on the trail, but they always come back

to the trail. So they're trying to follow that. And I want them to learn, actually you follow me or we work together. So it makes sense that when we're teaching a dog to walk

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