This is the puppy training podcast, episode number 62, training in an older dog.

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 here to help you every step of the way. This is the puppy training podcast

and I'm your host Amy Jensen. Hey everybody, how are you this week? I hope you're having a great

week. So my topic today is can an older dog be trained? My program mostly focuses on new puppies. At least that's kind of the niche that we've

created for ourselves as we've found this gap in puppy training where the breeder does all of this

really good hard work at getting the puppy ready to go home. And then the family gets this puppy and

they're super excited, but they don't really all of the time know what to do

or best practices or things that they should be doing right away to continue the progress of that puppy.

And then a few weeks down the road, they enroll in a puppy kindergarten and they get going.

But those critical weeks are being missed. And so I created a program to kind of fill in that gap

and get puppies off and going. But at the same time, everything

we teach in our program can absolutely be taught to an older dog. So it works well for a dog of any

age, even though our target audience is we are trying to help these puppies, you know, those first

few weeks of life and really help their families know what to do with them. So today, let's talk about it.

Let's talk about an older dog and can they be trained? What does that look like? Maybe what are

some of the differences or advantages to training an older dog? Are there some possible disadvantages

to training in an older dog? And we'll look at three case scenarios of things and ways that you can help

a dog who maybe has a habit that we don't

appreciate or maybe that we are looking to change. So let's start with that first question. Can an

older dog be trained? Absolutely. It is always a good idea to start training a puppy, but if you

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