YNP #048: Bringing Home an Adult Dog
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
4.8 • 917 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Especially with a new puppy, you’ll hear 20 times a day, play with your puppy, exercise your puppy, stimulate your puppy so they don’t get bored, bond with them to create a strong relationship…
OK OK, we get it’s important but after 160 games of fetch things get a little…well, boring.
In this episode, I’m going to go through 10 ways to play with your dog. And this is just to get you started, it doesn’t stop here, not even close. In reality, there are hundreds of ways to play with your dog. I want you and your dog to get creative and take it from here.
With the cold weather settling in here in NJ I decided to concentrate on indoor activities. It’s easy to take things outside and get all the exercise and entertainment you need. It’s when you’re stuck inside that things get harder.
No matter what activity we do with them, we are entertaining, stimulating, and bonding with them. It’s tiring them out that can sometimes seem impossible. That is why I also focused on ways that will up the exercise and tiring out factor. At the end of the day (literally) what we want is a tired and happy dog!
Your dog will probably have their favorites. I hope you can find something you love, your dog loves AND gets everyone to sleep!
Let’s get those creative juices going!! Press play to listen and 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 Salento. Hello and welcome to episode 48 of your new puppies podcast. I'm Debbie and today I'm |
| 0:36.2 | to talk about bringing home an older dog. So last week I released some |
| 0:42.3 | special episodes which were a mini training on how to bring home your new puppy |
| 0:48.4 | But what if you've decided to adopt an older dog and I'm not talking about a senior dog. |
| 0:53.9 | I mean, I could be. |
| 0:55.0 | But really, any dog that's say two years and older, |
| 0:58.5 | because what happens is we went and adopted an older dog, maybe so we could skip all the puppy stuff. |
| 1:06.0 | But when you first bring them home, the things that we need to do is very similar to bringing a new puppy home and sometimes we try to skip over it and it causes some issues. |
| 1:21.0 | Because our expectations might be a little different. |
| 1:24.6 | You know, we know that we've just brought home this new dog and in a safe environment and |
| 1:30.9 | we're going to have the best life together. |
| 1:33.0 | But the dog doesn't know that yet. |
| 1:35.0 | We have to build our trust with them and keep them safe. |
| 1:41.0 | And that's why you want to use a crate, use a pen, block them off to one room. |
| 1:49.2 | Keep their world small and then you're going to grow it slowly just like you would with a puppy. |
| 1:55.0 | You know I know you know maybe this dog is already potty trained and they're older |
| 2:00.0 | so your expectations on their chewing and destroying stuff isn't there. |
| 2:04.4 | But it's not even about that. |
| 2:07.4 | It's about building, keeping them safe and building this trust. |
| 2:11.4 | And you need to get to know this dog and this dog needs to |
| 2:16.2 | get to know you. You know one of the biggest things I hear about is I don't want to |
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