Puppy Fear Periods: Help For Socializing Puppies Or Rescue Dogs Scared Of People #199
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 3 March 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
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Most puppies go through a ‘Fear Period’ stage, which can include fear of objects, adults, children, and other dogs. Unfortunately, many popular strategies taught to counter puppy fear are the absolute worst things possible. I’m covering three things you should never do when your puppy or rescue dog displays fear of people and what to do instead to create confident and empowered dogs.
In the episode you'll hear:
• The bad advice given when puppies show fear of people.
• What 'flooding' is and why it intensifies fears.
• The 3E's of Environment, Education and Empowerment for puppy and rescue dog socializing.
• About empowering your dog with choice vs. controlling them.
• Cues and games that grow confidence for puppies and dogs.
• How to use a distinct noise to refocus a puppy's attention when they're worried.
• Ways to change the environment easily by changing your appearance.
• How to set up "training dens" in your home and increase confidence for puppies or rescue dogs.
• What body language looks like for confident and joyful dogs.
• How to manage and train in environments with potential fear triggers for your dog.
• What to do when you have houseguests that your dog or puppy fears.
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9. Podcast Episode 157: Dog Body Language: Understanding Canine Communication Signals And Emotions - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/157/
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12. Podcast Episode 58: How to Create Kid Friendly Dogs and Dog Friendly Kids - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/58/
13. Podcast Episode 68: 3 Easy Tricks Every Dog Should Know - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/68/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | In case nobody told you, pretty much all puppies will go through what's called a fear period, |
| 0:05.7 | a period of time during their growth that they're afraid of things. And it may be that they're |
| 0:11.7 | afraid of people or children or other dogs. And unfortunately, some of the strategies that these people |
| 0:20.1 | are told to do are the absolute worst |
| 0:24.3 | thing possible. In today's episode, I'm going to go over the three things you really should |
| 0:29.2 | never do when your puppy or rescue dog is showing signs of fear of people. And the 3E strategy |
| 0:36.4 | that I have for you that's going to build confidence |
| 0:39.0 | in your puppy and help you see there is hope for a better tomorrow. |
| 0:53.7 | Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog and yes, I'm going to refer you back to many other |
| 1:00.4 | podcasts. I'll list them all at the end. So, don't be overwhelmed. And if you're watching this on |
| 1:04.9 | YouTube, you'll be able to just click the YouTube links and go directly to those episodes. |
| 1:10.0 | Okay, one of the three things that people |
| 1:11.9 | might do with puppies who show fear of people that are the absolute worst thing that they could |
| 1:16.5 | possibly do. Now, I think two are pretty obvious and one may not be. Now, the worst thing that |
| 1:21.9 | you can do if you have a puppy or a rescue dog that's afraid of people is to tie that dog up |
| 1:26.6 | somewhere where people can get at them. |
| 1:29.1 | Like, I'm just going to run into the store, so I'm just going to tie you here for a bit. Now, |
| 1:33.1 | that puppy may not be afraid of people yet, but if you leave them tied alone on a busy street, |
| 1:38.1 | they may start to become so. So, never ever, you know what? We are our dog's best advocates. Never tie your dog somewhere |
| 1:47.1 | unattended. It's just disrespectful to the puppy or dog. The second thing that people may do |
| 1:52.9 | is just hand their puppy over to somebody. Like my puppy's a little afraid of people. Can you just |
| 1:57.9 | take him, get him used to people? He's not really used to men. Can you just take him? And that's called flooding where we, you know, if you're afraid |
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