This is the puppy training podcast episode number 34, thriving or surviving in adolescence.

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 of the way.

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

Hello, how's your week going, everyone? I hope you're having a great week and I hope your dogs

are happy and that you're doing well with training. I'm excited to talk about adolescence today.

This is something that we all go through if we are raising a puppy. And it can be a little bit challenging

and a little bit of a patient's tester. So I'm going to give you a few tips today on either

surviving and hopefully thriving through the adolescent phase of your dog. But first I want to give

a shout out to some of my new members of our online puppy school. I know they are podcast listeners. So I want to tell Anna, Kirstie,

Bailey, Shane and Mandy, welcome. I'm super excited to meet you guys and I hope to see you during

office hours soon. So if you haven't signed up for those yet, get on that. I would love to meet you

and your puppies and work with you via video.

So if you are interested in getting some puppy training help, check out our site,

www.bacher and bella.com. That's where we run our online puppy school and we teach you

everything we do with puppies on a daily basis via written lesson plans, some homework, video how-toes,

classes, and more. So if you're interested in puppy training help, check that out.

I would love to have more of you in our online puppy school. All right, so let's get into

adolescence. This is a topic that is very easy to talk about for me today because Boots,

our sweet little service dog in training,

is seven months old this week. And he is definitely in the thick of adolescence. I shouldn't say

the thick of it. He really is just starting out in that phase, but it is very evident that we are

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