Taking Your Puppy To A Café Or Restaurant: Socialization Success #180
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 23 September 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
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When you have a new puppy, safe socializing is important. Something to consider is taking a pup to outdoor cafes or restaurants. When you do it right, there are many benefits. But if done badly, your puppy could end up overwhelmed or having a bad experience and becoming fearful. I’m covering all the steps to grow your puppy’s confidence when dining out at a pet-friendly venue so you can enjoy a coffee or meal with family and friends.
In the episode you'll hear:
• All the benefits of taking your puppy to an outdoor café, restaurant, or similar.
• That planning and preparing starts with knowing your puppy.
• How growing confidence in new environments is crucial.
• Why to have a backup plan and what that could be.
• The three games that prepare puppies to relax in new spaces.
• What to bring (and not bring) to the restaurant.
• Tips on what to practice at home before going to new locations.
• How to be intentional about picking the right table in the right location.
• The training plan I use when I have my puppies out at cafes or restaurants.
• All the steps to making dining out with you a positive experience for your puppy.
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Resources:
1. Blog Post: Have You Tried A “Puppy Adventure Trip?” - https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2015/05/have-you-tried-a-puppy-adventure-trip/
2. Podcast Episode 130: Conditioned Responses: The Magic Every New Puppy (And Dog) Owner Must Know About - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/130/
3. Crate Games Online - https://get.crategames.com/
4. Podcast Episode 32: 20 Easy Ways to Exercise Your Dog at Home (Hot Zone) - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/32/
5. Podcast Episode 134: How To Teach A Dog Stay WITHOUT Luring, Collar Pops Or Using The Word “Stay” - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/134/
6. Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on YouTube - https://youtu.be/hJnyW7mROxI
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So, you have a new puppy and you're thinking of ways to socialize it. Here's one you may not |
| 0:03.6 | have thought of. How about outdoor cafes? Yeah, that seems a little wild, but stick with me. |
| 0:09.5 | It's a great place. I love to take puppies. And if you do it right, it has a lot of benefits. |
| 0:14.5 | And today I'm going to share with you exactly what I do to set my puppy up for a successful, |
| 0:20.0 | enjoyable night at a cafe. |
| 0:21.6 | Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog. And maybe you have considered taking your |
| 0:36.4 | puppy to an outdoor cafe and it ended |
| 0:38.1 | terribly wrong. And the worst thing that could happen isn't just that you have a horrible, |
| 0:43.6 | frustrating evening and your meal gets ruined. There's a lot of bad outcomes that could happen if you |
| 0:48.7 | just decide, hey, let's go for supper and let's take the puppy. The puppy could be way |
| 0:53.4 | overwhelmed. They could see |
| 0:55.0 | way too much of children or loud, boisterous happy hour visitors or dogs rushing up to their |
| 1:01.0 | face because, hey, you're outside on the street. The puppy could end up wrapping the leash |
| 1:05.6 | around somebody's leg and tripping somebody. The puppy could end up getting loose and you running |
| 1:10.2 | through a parking lot trying to catch the puppy. The puppy could end up getting loose and you running through a parking lot |
| 1:11.0 | trying to catch the puppy, the puppy could end up a lot worse off than that. The puppy could end up |
| 1:17.3 | having a horrible experience that leaves them fearful, quivering, maybe even drooling in the corner |
| 1:22.5 | saying, when are you going to finish your meal? I don't want that to happen to anybody's puppies. So, when you |
| 1:29.3 | do this right, here's the outcomes that I like to get when I take my puppies to an outdoor cafe. |
| 1:34.0 | Number one, the most important thing we're always doing with her puppies is growing confidence. |
| 1:38.9 | So we're growing confidence in a new environment. I love to take my puppies to cafes, probably for reasons that other |
| 1:45.9 | people wouldn't be taking them to a cafe for. I love to take them so that they learn dogs, |
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