This is the puppy training podcast episode number 85, puppy parenting, how to be successful.

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 your host, Amy Jensen. Hi everybody. Thank you for checking in with me

today. I hope you're having a great day and enjoying your dog training experience. One thing that I

love about our community is we are one

another support. I hope you feel that. Whether you are taking what seems like 30,000 potty trips a

day or trying to figure out why your adolescent dog suddenly forgot how to sit, we are all in this

together. I know training the dog can have some struggles. It's true,

but let's keep in mind that there are plenty of good times. For example, when Baxter plops his

rear end in my lap and wants a belly rub, or watching him run free, his hair flowing, his tongue

out, chasing after his favorite toy. What about when my kids get home from school and he turns into

this wiggly wiggle butt is what we call him with a tongue hanging out in excitement. You can't help

but smile your way through life with a dog. They are super fun to have around and super exciting,

but also can be a lot of work I know. And in the early days of puppy training, it can be exhausting.

So hopefully you are enjoying the resources that we've provided you with and hopefully you're

feeling like part of a community. Today, I want to talk about something that over the course of

the past few years, I've coined as parenting styles for dogs. After coaching thousands of puppy parents,

things start to become very clear and I'm finding ways to really connect ideas with people.

This is one of those ideas. I have found the more I relate puppy training to parenting,

those who are parents seem to get it. Now don't get me wrong. I am in no way humanizing our puppies.

I know that they are dogs and that they act and think like dogs.

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