This is the puppy training podcast episode number 39, My Picky Puppy.

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.

Hey everyone, how's it going?

I haven't given you an update on boots in a while.

He's our service dog in training and I thought maybe I do that today.

So he's eight months currently.

He knows almost all of his

cues, which is around 40-ish. So that's pretty impressive. We're still working on things like

get your leash and fix, but other than that, we're pretty much strengthening, like the stays

and lengthening the behaviors, like go to bed, wait, go in, those kinds of things,

as well as getting them to do them in public. So puppies don't generalize well. We train them here

at home and around as we go places. So getting him to do all of these behaviors while he's out

and about is important. That's kind of where we're at right now. We're working on getting the same

results that I'm getting in my house, out of my house. And then for other people as well, getting them to

listen and take cues from other people. So he does have some favorites. Most puppies do. His favorites are

jump on, turn. He loves to spin in circles. He loves find. He loves finding Emma in my house and then load up.

This dog will run to the passenger side of my car when we are in the garage and just sit there and

wait because he wants to come with us, which I love. I love that he loves to come and be with us.

He likes to go out and about.

That's one of the qualities that will make him a wonderful service dog is just simply because

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