For those of you who say, yeah, my dog training isn't working, Susan.

So you and your current situation with your dog right now might be in one of two places.

You might have like a new dog, a new puppy who is kind of a blank slate. Maybe there's some chewing and

there's a lot of puppy type behaviors, but you aren't dealing with any serious problems.

And unfortunately, so many people get that puppy and think, well, I'm one of the lucky ones.

This one's going to be good. And as my mentor,

Bob Bailey always says, reinforcement builds behavior. And if you aren't very conscious of the

reinforcement in your puppy's life, the environment's going to be building that behavior if it's

not going to be you. And so so that puppy that seems to be so loving

and really does everything you want, that stage is going to end very soon for you. Now, I can tell you

that for my own puppies, it just never ends because I intentionally build in the reinforcement I

want to get the puppy of my dreams every single time. So, for some

of you, you might be coming here because you've got the new puppy. Thank you for being here now.

Now, for others of you, you are in a predicament. You haven't been as aware of what punishment

or reinforcement that has been going on in your dog's life,

that has both created behaviors that you don't want to deal with and potentially fears

and reactivities that you don't know how to deal with. And so if that's where you are,

let's make this super easy for you. The first thing we always deal with. And so, if that's where you are, let's make this super easy for you. The first thing we

always deal with when we're dealing with a challenge is, we decide, is this a behavior,

or is this an emotion? Because we do not train, sit down, come, heal if we have an emotional

challenge. As I mentioned in podcast episode number

297, we look at what do we have to desensitize? Then, how can we help counter condition? And then we look

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