We talk a lot about managing our puppies when they first come to our homes with crates and pens,

baby gates, et cetera. How do we then transition to opening up our entire home and trusting them

alone in the bigger space? That's today's episode. Welcome to the puppy training podcast. I'm Amy Jensen,

founder of Baxter and Bella, the online puppy school.

Here we are all about helping you create the best possible experience raising a puppy,

from training tips to practical tricks, all aimed at fostering a happy, well-behaved dog who

truly feels like part of the family. So if you are ready to enjoy the journey and

strengthen the bond with your dog, let's get started. Hello everybody. I hope you're

having a great week. We are enjoying our holiday celebrating the new year. Cannot believe it is 2025 soon. But here we are.

And it's going to be a good one. We're going to accomplish some good things this year,

right, Baxter and Bella? I've got my dogs here with me. They're helping me record the podcast

today. So I want to talk today about how to transition our puppies from being crated and in their pens

and behind baby gates and on tethers because we need all of that in the beginning when we're

teaching them how to behave in a human household and to not be destructive and to potty outside.

But eventually, yes, we want to be able to leave our dogs home alone. They can be out in the

home and they can be trusted.

So today let's dive into that. We want us to be a gradual approach, making sure along the way that we're

patient that we take into consideration our puppy's skill level and all of that good stuff. So first of all, we want to make sure that we choose an

area that we're going to kind of have be our testing area, if you will. We're going to puppy proof

the area. Make sure that it's a safe, confined space that's not our whole entire house, but maybe one

or two rooms in the home that they've been

doing really well with house training in. There's no, hasn't been any accidents, that kind of thing.

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