YNP #025: Is Human Food Good for Dogs?

Your New Puppy: Dog Training and Dog Behavior Lessons to Help You Turn Your New Puppy into a Well-Behaved Dog

Debbie Cilento: Dog Trainer | Dog Behavior Consultant | Owner of Playtime Paws | Belly Rub Specialist

Kids & Family, How To, Pets & Animals, Education

4.8 • 917 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The thought of raising two puppies together can create a lot of warm, fuzzy, and fun images. They will keep each other company, entertain each other, exercise each other, and create perfect Instagram moments of snuggling together in their bed.

We go into it aware that it will take more work. Of course, it makes sense, there are two puppies instead of one. What we don’t realize until we get them home is that it doesn’t take twice the work, it takes THREE times the work as raising one puppy.

When a client asks me: “How to do I train two dogs at the same time?” My answer is: “You don’t.” Not until you train each one separately so they understand what you are asking. Then you can bring them together and train them as a pack. That is where three times the work comes in.

AND it doesn’t stop at skills training. There are many activities you will need to do with your puppies both separately and together.

There are also many reasons for this which I talk about within the episode.

Litter-mate syndrome
You need to have a relationship and bond with each dog on their own and with both dogs as a pack.
Prevent separation anxiety from each other by giving them time apart.
Teach them to have the confidence to deal with any environment with and without their sibling there.

This is A LOT of work to train and prevent behavior problems. Enough that most dog trainers recommend that you don’t ever get two dogs from the same litter. It can be done, if you are prepared for it.

If you already have two puppies or if you are set on getting two, I give you some examples on how to tackle all of this work .

If you are still thinking about getting two puppies, I give you the advice I usually give my clients who really want two dogs.

Enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0	You are listening to your new puppies podcast. Starting you and your dog off on the right paw. Here's your
0:16.8	host Debbie Salinto. Hello and
0:25.0	welcome to episode 25 of your new puppies podcast I'm Debbie and today we're going to talk about feeding your dog
0:36.0	People Food.
0:38.0	And People is in quotes because the first thing I want to do is erase this distinction that we make between people food and dog
0:46.0	food because it's all food. We get our nutritional needs from the same sources. Now the details of it's a little
0:55.8	different because they their nutritional needs are very different than ours and there's some foods that we can eat that they can and vice versa
1:06.6	But it all falls under this big umbrella that we call food so instead of people food I want us to think of it as fresh food and then
1:16.5	instead of dog food I'm going to call it commercial dog food just to make the distinction.
1:21.5	Because I also want to break this idea
1:24.7	that you shouldn't be feeding your dog
1:26.4	anything other than the traditional commercial dog food.
1:30.8	Because giving our dog fresh foods can have great nutritional benefits.
1:37.0	Now if you feed your dog or you plan on feeding your dog a fresh food
1:42.0	diet, homemade diet or a raw diet, then this is
1:47.0	going to be irrelevant to you. And you probably already know a lot of the things that I'm going
1:50.4	to talk about, but if you're going to go the traditional
1:52.5	commercial dog food route, then I want to talk to you a little bit about
1:57.7	maybe supplementing that with some fresh foods, because when it comes down to it that kibble that canned food is
2:06.5	highly processed and the reason why so many of us rely on it is because we then know our dog is getting everything it needs.
2:15.4	You know, it is formulated, it says it right on the bag, that their nutritional needs will be met
2:21.6	if you feed them this food. Because their nutritional needs will be met if you feed them this food because their
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