This is the puppy training podcast, episode number 92, Patience in Puppies.

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.

Hey, everybody. Welcome to the puppy training podcast. Today we are talking about a hot topic

with puppies, patience and impulse control. I think this is something that people don't

really anticipate or maybe have much background knowledge on. So our expectations might be a

little bit off when we get a puppy. So I have Michelle Riley here. She is one of our trainers here

at Baxter and Bella. And she likes to talk about patients and impulse control with our clients. And so I thought I'd bring

her here today to share some of that information with you guys. So hi, Michelle, welcome. Hi, Amy. Thanks for

having me. We're so glad you could be here. I love bringing my trainers on because they are a wealth of

knowledge and you guys might be getting tired of hearing from me. So it's nice to hear from someone

else once in a while.

So Michelle, will you just tell us a little bit about yourself? How long have you been training dogs?

I started with Baxter and Bella about a year ago, but I kind of started with dog training when I've,

I mean, I've had dogs all my life, mostly labs and we had a German Shepherd and my dad has a

Rhodesian Ridgeback, which is really cool

dog. But when I was in college, I was in class one day and one of my colleagues brought in a dog

during class and had a vest on and I went up and talked to her and she said, oh yeah, it's a club here

at Miami. We train or we raise service dog puppies to become service dogs. And I said, oh my gosh, sign me up,

get me in this club. So that's kind of how I got started. I started raising puppies for four

paws for ability and kind of moved on from there to working with local shelters to help with

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