This is the puppy training podcast episode 192, interrupting and redirecting.

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 everybody. Welcome to the puppy training

podcast. I'm so glad you're here. I hope you've had a great week. Today we are talking about

interrupting and redirecting and what that means in behavior.

So I love to talk about the ABCs of dog training.

And today we're going to discuss the question I get asked about, well, if you reward your puppy after you interrupt and redirect, won't they just keep doing it?

So they get a reward.

That is the question of the day.

So training a dog we all know is a process, right? It's not something that happens overnight.

It takes patience, consistency, hundreds of repetitions, and a basic understanding of canine behavior,

how a dog's brain works. Now, one of the essential aspects of this process is,

in fact, interrupting and redirecting unwanted behavior. So if my dog engages in a behavior that I don't

like, such as chewing on the furniture, jumping on people or barking, those are pretty common ones.

It is crucial for us to intervene effectively. Using positive reinforcement, alongside

interruption and redirection, is, in my professional opinion, the most effective way to manage

and change these behaviors. Now, let's start with why do we interrupt? What does that even mean?

What does it look like? Why do we do it? Interrupting the dog's unwanted behavior is our first

step toward modifying it or changing it. When our dog is engaged in an activity that we don't like,

allowing our dog to continue to practice that behavior is reinforcing, which makes it more likely to

occur in the future. So for example, if my dog is chewing on a shoe,

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