In my last podcast, I talked about the hyper or over aroused or over-excited dog.

And part of the therapy, I recommended something I called Netflix and Chill, where

we teach the dog to just

relax when they see these exciting events. And we got a couple of emails from people going,

well, wait a minute, Susan, my dog doesn't chill at home. So, why would he chill when he's

excited? And that brings us to the topic of today's podcast. It's all about those dogs that

get the label of behavior junkies. Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog. And if you

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Okay, behavior junkies. These are dogs that are either created or previously created if you happen to

have a rescue dog. And it doesn't matter if you have a rescue dog and they're coming with some baggage.

You just have to identify what you have. And so,

what we might have is a dog who expects that if you're home with them, you should be interacting

with them. So they may look at you when you're at the computer like, come on, let's do something.

They may bring you something. They may offer you behaviors. If you put them in a crate or an X pen, they may bark. If you leave the room when they're in a crate and

X pen, they may completely lose it. And if you're in an apartment, that could pose a problem for you.

Here's how these dogs sometimes come to be. It's like people get so excited about doing stuff with their dog that the

day looks kind of like this. Like we get up, we do a little bit of training and then we come back

in the house and I might give the dog a stuffed con or something under the title of enrichment,

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