This is the puppy training podcast episode number 72, the doorbell.

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Amy Jensen. Hey, everybody. Today I want to talk about doorbells. I've taught this a lot in the past,

but I realized I haven't done a podcast on it yet. So I'm actually going to share with you a part of

our doorbell class that I taught a while ago as this podcast today, and I think you're going to share with you a part of our doorbell class that I taught a while ago as this podcast today

and I think you'll enjoy it. So here we go. All right. So I'm excited about today's topic because this

seems to be something that I hear about a lot. I wish my dog wouldn't bark on the door ring,

the doorbell rings. I wish the dog wouldn't, you know,

get so excited when somebody knocks on my door and a guest comes over. How do I fix this? What do I do?

So if you have a very brand new puppy or if you have an adolescent dog or maybe even a dog that's a

little bit older, we have a mix that's in our program. Any dog can learn this and you can start at any time. The first thing I want

you guys to do is to think, what do I want my dog to do? So instead of thinking, I don't want my

dog to do this or I don't want my dog to do that, we really have to have a very clear picture of what

we want our dog to do. So when I, you know, when it happens at my house that the doorbell rings or somebody knocks on the door,

I like that my puppy will run and sit on the chair and stay there until I release him.

And that's what I want it to look like.

And once you have that very clear picture of what it should look like,

then you can come up with a training plan.

And we're going to take that plan and teach it to your dog step by step.

And then we're going to use what's called habituation. So we're

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