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. Okay, so today we're talking, bringing home a new dog or

introducing a puppy to the household. And lovely Linda, you have just done very this. How hard has it

been? How difficult has it been? How much of a struggle has it been to bring in new puppy? And actually,

how has it been different to what you maybe have done in the past? So it actually has been

fairly simple, straightforward, but it has taken a lot of work and knowledge on my part to make it simple and straightforward.

So give us a scenario, who do you own and what are the household dynamics?

So I take it when we're listening to this, simple and straightforward sounds like you own three happy-go-lucky Labradoros.

Actually, I know different. I know you actually own naughty, but nice dogs who potentially wouldn't

tolerate a puppy, let alone a one-kilo puppy the size of maybe a guinea pig or less, and actually

a very, very opinionated puppy. And so he's quite bouncy and energetic and yet he's tiny so this ball of fluff

actually could be quite easily harmed in a normal household so the so the i have three

border collies or i have three board collies my oldest boy is 10 and he's about 20 22 kilograms so

it's very large for a border collie.

But he's naughty but nice with other dogs,

but he's very good with puppies.

But he, I know he disciplines puppies by putting his foot on them.

So step one was we can't have ping,

which is, we were talking about being off by the puppy and going just you became yourself because we've got this tiny little one kilogram puppy, pooval puppy, that he could just break his neck if he put his foot on in.

So that was, that's number one.

But I knew that temperamentally he would be more accepting of the puppy than the other two, the two girls.

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