This is the puppy training podcast episode number 75, how to help your dog when you go back to work.

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. Welcome. So today's podcast,

I was able to do a recording with Jennifer Gladstone from Employment Background Investigations Incorporated.

She invited me on her podcast to share tips on how to help our dogs when we go back to work

because let's face it, COVID's been kind of interesting, right? And many of us have been home.

And now many of us are headed back. And what do we do about our dogs who maybe are used to having us

around all day? So I'm going to share that clip with you for today's podcast. I hope you enjoy it.

Whether you have a new COVID puppy or an older dog who's really enjoyed having you home all

day, every day, our fur babies might be the ones who take the return to the real world the hardest.

Amy Jensen from the Baxter & Bellic Company joins us today to talk about ways to make this

transition as easy as possible for all of us. Hi, Amy. It's great to see you. Hi, thank you for

having me. I appreciate it. Well, it's great. This is something we've talked about a lot,

just in our team, because a lot of us have pets that we love dearly. So let's start with some puppy psychology, so to speak. Talk to me a little bit about why getting back to normal is going to be

so hard on our pets. You know, there's been a lot of changes for a lot of us, right, the past

year and a half, and people are staying home. We're not going to school or work, and we're wearing

masks on our faces. We are social distancing from people. And so puppies growing up now have some

new challenges to handle. You know, specifically, dogs are social creatures. They love to be with

their people. And during COVID, because we're home, they're loving it, right? We aren't leaving for work or school and our dogs are getting used to always having someone around. They become dependent on knowing someone's there. And to be honest, the dogs are having a great time with it until we decide to go back and leave and then they can really struggle.

You know, it's funny. We're talking about dogs of different ages. Like I have a dog who's going to be

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