This is the puppy training podcast episode number 43, realistic expectations.

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This is the puppy training podcast, 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. Hi you guys. Today we are talking about realistic expectations.

I have been thinking about this topic for a while now. And the more people that I get into my program

and the more people that I coach, I feel like this is a really good topic to talk about and to discuss.

I think it will help more of you as you bring puppies into your home to have a better experience.

And that's what I'm all about. It's helping you have a really good positive experience with a new puppy.

I want to help you train that puppy. And I think having realistic expectations as to what a puppy is

and what that experience is going to be like will help you enjoy the process more. So I had a

wonderful weekend this weekend. I took boots down to St. George. It's in southern Utah. It's a good six hours from where I live. And he spent the weekend with me and my children going to soccer games. It was fun to get him out and about. We stayed in a hotel. We went to lots of restaurants. We saw lots of different, you know, new people, strangers. We worked on his

leash walking, all of his behaviors while out and about in public. I was super impressed with him.

So sometimes when I'm training a puppy, we kind of get stuck in our own little bubble in our

own little world. And then when it's time to venture out into the real world and try his behaviors out where

he's in a new place with new people and new surroundings. I kind of sometimes have these

expectations either too high or too low and then because I have these expectations,

I'm either disappointed or I'm super excited. So on this topic of expectations today, I think that in general, when we

are training dogs, if we can keep our expectations realistic, then our emotions are better and

our dogs are able to read that as well. And overall, we get along better. I know that I'm always

in a happier place when my expectations are met.

So I want to talk about that a little bit today as we get into this because, you know,

taking boots down to St. George and we're going to hit lots of restaurants, we're going to be

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