If you were to get 100 of the world's best dog trainers in a room together, there'd be a lot

they would disagree about.

However, I'd be willing to bet 99 of them would give you the same answer if you were to

ask them, what's the number one training mistake people make with their new puppy?

Yeah. puppy. Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog. And today, the topic is that number one thing. And here is something that I think is hysterical or sad or ironic.

If you were to Google, how do I get my puppy to stop and you allow Google to fill in the

most popular answers?

The three most popular answers I get is, how do I get my puppy to stop peeing in the house?

How do I get my puppy to stop barking so much? How do I get my puppy to stop putting

everything in their mouth? All three of those things are related to this number one mistake

most puppy owners make and that is they give their puppies too much freedom.

And I thought about this a lot because even though everybody says that, yet still here we are,

I talked to some friends of mine just last week who gave their puppy too much freedom, even

though I told them up front, this is the number one mistake people make. And I decided maybe

people don't know what that means. What does too much freedom means? And why is it that people

are making this mistake? And I have to think it's because they have a vision

of what their future will look like with this dog. The dog's going to, you know, hang out with the

family and they're going to sleep on the couch or sleep on their bed and they're going to go to

family events and just be such a cool dog to walk at night and after work.

But what you don't understand is you don't start out that way. You evolve to that way.

And so, yes, we might want our dogs to just have the freedom of the house and

and sleep on the couch and sleep on the bed. But puppies don't

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