You are listening to your new puppies podcast. Starting you and your dog off on the right paw. Here's your

host Debbie Salento. Hello and welcome to episode 33 of your new puppies podcast. I'm Debbie and today we're going to talk about my

dogs and how my dogs are far from perfect and I don't care. Now, I struggled with this when I was training to be a trainer because my dogs do.

They have behavior quirks and for some households they would be exactly what a trainer would be called in for.

But I quickly got over it because I live in the real world.

If I don't care about a behavior, as long as my dogs are healthy and happy then so what you know these

are my dogs they only have to live with me they don't have to live with my sister who they drive insane when they bark all the time.

So the whole point to this episode is that I want you to take it easy on yourself because your dog does not need to be perfect.

So let me give you a couple examples. My dogs bark out the window at everybody who walks by, especially if there's a dog.

And for most people that would be, oh heck no, we can't have this.

But see, I don't care. First, dogs barking is like background noise to me.

And I know that's not the truth for most people, but for me it is and I live on a busy street but I'm also the

only house on the street so I want people to know I have dogs and I want people to know I have big dogs and I want them to know that they bark at strangers.

So I'm fine with them barking out the window at people and sure I could teach them to stop but you

know what else works? Closing the blinds. Then they stop. Then they can't see anything to bark at because I feel like real life with the dog

is a combination of training and management.

You know, it's the difference between do I spend the time and the energy

to stop this habit, or do I just close the blinds?

For a lot of people, they would want to stop the habit. For me I'm just

going to close the blinds. I know how to stop it. Just that's not where I want to

put my energy. Now when I first got Lucy I had a big problem with

her that she would not come inside if she was outside off leash and have a very

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