What's up, Motivators? Taryn here with no triathlon Kim, also known as NTK. And P-D.

And P-D. P-D is always here. And hopefully today he will be quiet. We are- Tell everyone about

your experiment with P-D today. We are letting him cry it out, so to speak.

Quiet out. Well, P-D is a very anxious dog, very anxious. He's been that way since we got him, since we

rescued him. Nine years ago. Yeah. And we've been waiting for him to settle down for nine years.

Yeah. So he's still in his puppy's phase. Oh, see, there he goes. And he's been really agitated by,

you know, it's the middle of summer. So all the windows are open and we live in a

very walk active area. So there's people walking by with dogs all the time and he is reactive

to every sound and he'd be barking and going wild and then we'd comfort him and started to realize,

you know, maybe the comforting is what he's going for. Maybe he can't soothe himself because we comfort him.

You share dog training ideas online.

We are about to be attacked every which way.

Okay.

Well, don't attack me, please.

So anyway, we just finally decided, or I decided this morning, you know what?

I'm just going to ignore him and see what happens.

And he's been self-soothing today. It's actually been pretty good. Yeah. He's pretty calm right now.

So we'll give it a shot. We'll see how this podcast goes. Yeah. If I have to edit out any barking,

then nobody will know anyway. But in other news, the PTO US Open happened on the weekend. And we had Taylor Nib and Jan Ferdino. Shocker. Shocker. Well, that is

kind of a shocker considering that Christian Blumenfeld was in there. And everyone's like,

oh, the Norwegians, the Norwegians. But it's interesting because Jan is going to retire after this

year. And I have been saying for probably three, four years, now four years would be long,

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