This is the puppy training podcast episode 184, Managing Change During and After Vacation.

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, you guys. Welcome to the puppy

training podcast. I am glad to be back from vacation. Don't get me wrong. I love vacations. I love

getting time away with my family. I feel like we get more quality

time together when we're out of our normal environments. But it's also nice to come home just to have

your regular routine and schedule and you know what's happening. It's a little less stressful,

in my opinion. But anyway, we recently recently got back we had a lot of fun just

being together relaxing and like i said enjoying the new environment and experiences and my dogs

unfortunately could not come where we were going so we left them fortunately with my mom and her dog

maggie so they had a really good time it It was a party. But just as our experience

involved change, so did theirs. You know, leaving them with someone else, it means their day to day

looked differently. And with that can come some behavioral changes. So oftentimes as we are

prepping for a vacation, the dogs can sense something is about to happen that's different.

And then as we come home from

vacation they've had some different experiences for the last few days or weeks or

however long you were gone so today I want to talk about that and how we can

help our dogs when we know routines are going to be a bit off whenever we change

our schedules and routines a bit our puppies are also going to go through these

changes so whether we take them with us we board them out of facility, or we have a trusted

friend or family member care for them, it is a transition. And getting back to normal is another

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