This is the puppy training podcast episode number 48, training your puppy in the current situation.

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 are you? I hope you're safe. I hope you're well. It's been an interesting

couple of weeks for all of us, I'm sure. And we are adjusting here to homeschool and new schedules,

new routines. And I hope that you guys are

staying safe. Now, with that, just a small note on that, our puppies can sense changes in

environment, in schedules, and routines, and sometimes that causes them a little bit of stress.

So be patient if your puppy is suddenly winding in their crate or waking up it in the middle

of the night when usually

they're sleeping through the night or maybe just some abnormal activity in general. Let's just help

them transition these next couple of days from chaos to maybe their new normal and that will

help them settle down a little bit. So if we can all just have a little bit of patience in this

as we all adjust to a new way of life for a few weeks. So if we can all just have a little bit of patience in this as we all adjust

to a new wave of life for a few weeks. Today I want to talk about raising a puppy today. So because of

COVID-19 and some of the issues that that presents us, it's harder to socialize our puppies,

but it can be done. We just have to be a bit creative. But there's some other things that go on as well that I want to talk about today to really just help you, especially those of you who have brand new puppies that are definitely in that critical socialization window, time period, some ideas and things that you can do with your dogs to make sure that they're getting well socialized, but also to help them as they transition both from, you know, what life used to be

like to now with homeschooling and working from home, et cetera. And then again, when we transition back

to our other schedule, there's going to be another phase that they're going to go through when we're

not home all of a sudden. Now we're back at work or we're back at school. And we don't want them to

struggle with that.

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