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 57 of your new puppies podcast I'm Debbie and today I'm going to talk about

how to get your dog to listen when there's distractions.

So one of the most common scenarios I hear is,

especially once your dog starts to get older, is, well, my dog starts to get older, is, well, my dog listens to me great,

except when there's distractions around.

And this is very typical because even though we've

taught our dogs to do something, say in our house or even in our own backyard, that

doesn't mean that they can do it everywhere.

In fact, some of you might even notice that even though the dog listens to one family

member, they might not listen to another family member or even other people outside the family.

Our dogs are very, very contextual.

So learning to sit in the kitchen is very different than learning to sit in your backyard.

Recall that that's a big one.

Usually that's the one I get questions about.

Learning to come to you in your own backyard and coming to you on an off-leaf

walk in the park, two completely different things. Just because they can do one doesn't mean they can

do the other. So what you need to do is first

you need to rank your dog's distractions. Okay, this is going to vary from dog to dog.

So if you think about a scale say from zero to 10.

So for most of us, zero is teaching them something

inside our home, inside our kitchen, you know, a place where they see it all day, every day, and they don't really care about their surroundings. You know, you are the most important thing in that environment.

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