This is the puppy training podcast, episode 189.

What are the Zoomies?

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.

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This is the puppy training podcast, 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. Hi, you guys. Welcome to the puppy training podcast. It is summertime.

So it's kind of a we're here one week and not the next type of thing. But fall is coming and it

will be more regular. Thank you for your patience. So today I want to talk about the zoomies. Do you guys know what those are? Most of you probably can envision this in your mind what your puppy looks like if they were to have what we call the zoomies. There's an actual name for it. It's called frenetic random activity periods, shortened to FRAP, but most people call them the zoomies. So I thought I would

explain them today what they are, what we can do about them, why our puppy does this. It's kind of a

weird behavior. Sometimes we see it as very odd and strange. Phrenetic random activity periods are

bursts of energy that puppies and sometimes adult dogs experience.

These episodes involve rapid, uncontrolled movements, often accompanied by happy behavior, joyful,

playful, all of those good things.

Now, understanding why the Zumi's happen, what they look like and how to manage them can help

us better care for our dogs.

So let's start with why.

Why do FRAPs happen? FRAPs are natural and healthy behaviors in puppies, even though it looks

kind of odd, as we talked about. Several factors contribute to these energetic bursts. And before we

dive into that, like I like to think of these as a picture of volcano, if you will. Picture your puppy

as a little tiny volcano and energy is building inside of them.

And then pretty soon it has nowhere to go so it just explodes.

Okay?

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