This is the puppy training podcast episode number 76, troubleshooting this day.

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. Hello everyone. I'm so glad to be back. I take a

break from podcasts in the summer and winter just so you know, but I try to make up for it with good

tips in the fall in the spring and we are definitely headed into fall so

we're back again. Today we are tackling stay challenges and how to troubleshoot if you are having

trouble teaching your dog to stay. But first, I hope you and your dogs are doing well. If you have

been following along on Baxter's training journey, I want to update you on his progress. Baxter is an

Australian Labradoodle puppy in

training to be a therapy dog. He's also our family dog and we love him a lot. He has passed off

his basic training and is now completing intermediate training. So if you are members of our online

puppy school, we are right there with many of you, going through the same lessons and tasks.

He now weighs around 40 pounds. He's six months old

and starting to like fetch as long as it is with a bumper in the yard, but he will fetch a ball

in the house. I know, go figure, right? But he loves people and that's where I'm hopeful that he'll

be a really good therapy dog. He naturally wants to put his paws over your lap and lean into,

which is great for therapy work and deep tissue pressure. And he just does it on his own. He naturally wants to put his paws over your lap and lean into, which is great for

therapy work and deep tissue pressure. And he just does it on his own. He loves it. His leash skills are

coming along as well and he's working hard to behave on leash even when other dogs are around,

which is a hard task for many dogs. Not all is perfect though. Don't worry. He has reached

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