This is the puppy training podcast episode number 31 greeting guests.

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

a service, or a therapy dog, and I'm here to help you every step is away.

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

Hey friends, I'm so happy to be here with you today. I'm going to talk to you about how to help

your puppy greet guests more appropriately. I have three strategies that you can use. They're

very simple, straightforward strategies and games, really, that you can play with your dog.

And if you have kids in your home, they'll love these games as well. So I'm

excited to get to that. I want to thank Michaela for being a listener and a subscriber to my site.

She submitted the topic for this week, and so I want to say thanks, Michaela. This is something that

a lot of us struggle with with our dogs, whether we have a puppy or we have an older dog. A lot of times they see a person and they just get super excited and they don't know how to

handle themselves.

And so that's where we come in and we try to change how they behave when they see a new

person and how they react.

And that's where the training comes in that we teach them a better way or a better thing to do

when they see someone.

So a couple things.

The first one is I teach all brand new puppies to

sit to say please. And that's my little motto is sit to say please. If they want anything,

if they want me to toss a toy for them, if they want a treat, if they want attention, they want me

to pet them. Really anything my puppy's wanting, I want them to sit to say please. So that's how they can

communicate to me that they want something in a nice appropriate way. And I generalize this behavior

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