If you have a puppy, you've probably heard that your puppy needs to socialize with other dogs

and puppies. What exactly does that mean? And can all puppies socialize with all dogs and puppies?

Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog. Today's podcast was really grew out of a question

that came into our recallers community. And it's a really good question. It's about how much play

is enough play or too much play between dogs?

So, Zantha writes, and Zethe is not from North America. So English isn't her first language.

She's got great English, though. I'm training a hunting puppy. Very important for impulse control

to focus on me and to work together. We've been training very hard the past few months and getting success in more and more distracted

environments. Go recallers. Tonight, my friend asked me to bring a puppy with me when we went visiting.

My puppy has their hot zone in our home and he knows that he's supposed to go up in his dog bed.

He's not allowed to run around the house

and playing. I thought it would be a good training when keeping his attention on my friend,

in my friend's house. I did not succeed at anything. The house was full of toys and the other

dog wanted to play all the time. I tried to get hand targets and reinforcement zone and hot zone.

So these are all recaller games

that help build the layers of that great bond that she was talking about and nothing worked.

So the bottom line is, she included some videos and I'm going to share it with you.

The bottom line is, after two hours of running around, I did get two bring mes. That's a

retrieve that we teach. Five hand

touches, two rewards in the hot zone. These are things that he knows really well. And the question

is, isn't our bond strong enough or could I expect this from another dog? So, it's great.

It's phenomenal that you found a puppy to play with your puppy.

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