So with raising a sports star or raising a sports dog or raising a puppy in sports, start at home.

So do everything at home before you expect it out on the road.

Welcome to the Absolute Dog Sex and a Squirrel podcast.

I'm Lauren Langman. I'm one of the world's leading dog trainers and it's my mission to help owners become their dog's top priority. In each episode, you'll discover how to gain trust and communicate with your dog like never before, creating unbreakable bonds that make you the most exciting part of their world. I'm joined by the wonderful Nicole and today we're talking raising a puppy in sports. Now, you're a vet, you're into dog

sports and at the same time you're like, but I'm not a full-time dog trainer. I don't know about

this dog training wise, but you know what? I loved working your dogs at the weekend. Your dogs were

absolutely fantastic in the arena. They didn't put a foot wrong. You raise a really good sports dog. You raise a really good sports dog. And I know I raise a really good sports dog. It's something I'm very, very good at. What do you think makes raising a sports dog like sort of success? Like what makes it? And I'm going to start and then we'll do a bit of a tips tennis and let's come up with

some of our favourite things.

Because I know there's so many people out there who are raising a sports dog and sometimes going wrong. So for me, Nicole, I loved watching your dogs. How did you feel about the weekend? How did you feel they did? Yeah, I was really pleased with them actually. and especially Tonic who can be a little bit NBN, a little bit shouting.

I was really pleased with them actually. And especially Tonic, who can be a little bit NBN, a little bit shouting.

I was really presently surprised to how well she coped in the big arena.

She was amazing, like absolutely incredible.

Now, that's probably one of my first points.

So raising a sports dog, actually you as an owner need to read them and focus first if you've not got their focus

then you can't do really much else so for me whether it's food or whether it's toy and my

probably my go-to would be food with a younger dog at first so I want to go go for food first

because I often can keep them a little bit longer and without maybe the arousal being in there and focus all my focus games say my focus games would be mouse game

the eye focus game loosely walking and feeding games I love to have focus for my pups and any young

dog that I'm bringing in sport and if I haven't got focused and if I haven't got them sort of with me

then I probably need to take them out of the arena or out of the space because they just can't cope.

How about you? Focus is my number one feed, if I can.

Yeah, thinking in arousal for flyball. If they can't think an arousal, they can't do flyball, basically, because it's such a stimulating environment for them, isn't it?

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