This is the puppy training podcast, episode number 98, adolescence and boredom prevention.

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.

Hello, everybody.

Welcome to the puppy training podcast.

I'm so excited that you're here today.

We have a good topic, adolescence.

I know that that's something that every family experiences when you get a puppy, and it happens

faster than you think. This new puppy comes home. They're eight to 10 weeks old, and within a few

months, you have a teenager on your hand. So I have Courtney here with me today to talk about

adolescents and just offer some tips and ideas on how you guys can make it through in the best possible

way. It really can be a fun time of life. So welcome Courtney. Thank you. I'm excited to be here.

Let's start out, Courtney, by you just introducing yourself a little bit. Will you tell us a little bit

about yourself and how you got into training dogs? Yeah. So I've been training dogs for about five years now. I actually

didn't have any dog training experience before that. I went on a whim and for college decided to go

to Bergen University, which is a service dog training school. So it was something that I decided to try.

It was going to be 10 months. I ended up loving it and turned my career

into that. So it's been an awesome ride. I've been doing a lot of service dog training starting out.

I had my own dog training business before I worked for Baxter and Bella. So it's been a fun ride

getting into the service dog and pet business. That's so cool. What is your favorite thing you've learned

how to train a dog to do since you have lots of experience in like the service dog industry and in the

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