YNP #074: How to Socialize Your Puppy Without Leaving Your House
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
🗓️ 9 September 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Socialization is the most important training you can do for your Puppy.
We want to get our puppy out from the very beginning.
There are also lots of things we can do every day at home in addition to the outside world.
Bonus: Socialization tires a puppy out!
In this episode I talk about:
- A quick review on what it means to socialize your puppy.
- Why socialization is so important.
- 5 ways to socialize your puppy without leaving your home.
- Lot of examples and ideas to keep you and your puppy busy for a long time.
Press play and enjoy!
Other resources mentioned and related to this episode:
YNP #021: Balancing Vaccines and Socialization
YNP #063: My 7 Guidelines to Socializing Your Puppy
Playtime Paws Academy: A brand new program for dog and humans no matter where you are in your training journey.
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 |
| 0:29.0 | welcome to episode 74 of your new puppies. I'm Debbie and today I'm going to give you |
| 0:35.4 | five ways to socialize your puppy without even leaving your home. Now if you've |
| 0:41.3 | been with me if you follow me then you know that I believe socialization is the most important |
| 0:47.8 | training that you can do for your puppy and it involves exposing your dog to different people, places, environments, sounds, |
| 0:56.4 | textures, and other animals including dogs. |
| 1:00.4 | And I always mention this when I talk about socialization because most of us we think of |
| 1:05.3 | socializing our puppy as getting puppy playdates, letting our puppy meet our friends. |
| 1:11.0 | And that is part of it and it's an important part but it's also only a very small part. |
| 1:17.1 | When we start thinking that it also involves environments anything that's new |
| 1:22.1 | textures, new sights, new sounds, new smells, we start to realize |
| 1:26.9 | that socializing our puppy is a pretty big job because it involves a lot of things. But the flip side of that is it involves so many things that just with a little bit of creativity we can be doing it every single day with our puppy. |
| 1:44.0 | And that is exactly what I'm encouraging you to do with this episode because you also know |
| 1:50.0 | that I believe you should be getting your puppy out and about and experiencing the world |
| 1:55.7 | from the beginning and sometimes that goes against advice that we get to keep our |
| 2:00.8 | puppy inside until they're vaccinated. And I have an entire |
| 2:05.3 | episode about this, which is episode 21 and it's all about balancing socialization |
| 2:11.3 | with vaccines. |
| 2:13.1 | It includes some resources from the American Veterinary |
| 2:16.9 | Behavior Association, which also talks about why |
| 2:21.9 | it's important to get your puppy out there early and how to balance it. |
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