This is the puppy training podcast episode number eight, puppy body language.

This podcast is for those looking to train their own dog, whether as a companion,

therapy, or service dog. 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, how's your week going?

I'm excited to record this podcast today for you guys.

I've toyed around with a little bit of which day to do this on and what's the best day.

And I found that Fridays are really terrible for me.

So we're going to try this at the beginning of the week instead and see how that goes. So I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Today we're going to talk about your dog's body

language. It's important to be able to read what they're telling us. And because we don't speak the

same language, we speak English and they speak dog. It's important to recognize how we communicate.

So the dog needs to understand our language, which is what we teach them through our behavior

cues and also our body language. And then if we can learn how to read our dog or see what he's

saying to us, we'll understand each other better, and that just facilitates a better relationship

all the way around, which is what we are wanting to create here at Baxter and Bellet.

We want to help you guys have the best relationship possible with your dog.

So Torrid Regress is a dog trainer in Europe, and she created a book called Calming Signals,

and that's where I'm going to take a lot of my information today of

just how your dog communicates with you and what their body would look like if they were telling you

this or that. So she says, we need to learn to understand the language of dogs so that we can

understand what our dogs are telling us. That is the secret of having a good life together.

So calming signals in dogs let others know that

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