This is the puppy training podcast episode number 30, The Anxious Pup.

This podcast is for those looking to train their own dog, whether as a family companion,

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This is the puppy training podcast, and I'm your host, Amy Jensen.

Hello, everyone. Happy Monday. I hope you had a great start to the week today.

I want to give a shout out to April. She sent in the topic that I'm going to talk about today,

the anxious puppy. So thank you for listening, April, and thank you for the topic idea.

Today we're going to talk about puppies who maybe panic a little bit or act a little bit fearful or anxious with noises.

When we talk about sounds, there's many things in our society that could alarm or make a puppy

nervous, such as thunder, just hearing pots and pans bang together, vacuuming, a garbage disposal,

an automatic garage door. We live in a very loud society, so even music or sirens

if you live in a big city. There's lots of noises that our puppies come across and they hear and some

may cause alarm. So training-wise, what we can do for this is first, let's make sure that we're not

rewarding our puppy or reinforcing

the anxious behavior we do this in ways like talking in baby tones to them coddling them petting them

you know picking them up and saying oh it's okay we don't want to do any of that the reason why is

puppies do what works for them or whatever they feel like they're getting rewarded for, they'll continue to do.

So if we reward this behavior of them feeling anxious and fearful, they're going to continue to exhibit fearful and anxious behavior.

So we want to get rid of that and change that around.

So first of all, you know, realize

what you're doing and how you're reacting, how you even look at your puppy or talk to your puppy.

We want more of like a tough kind of love feeling. Like, this is okay. You've got this. You can do

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