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 86 of your new puppies podcast. I'm Debbie and today I want to

talk about why so many of us struggle with our dogs recall or teaching our dog to come when called.

Now this is not necessarily something new.

You've probably heard me say things like this before, but I really wanted to dive in deep here.

And the reason why I think we struggle is because when we think of free call come when called, what do you think about

what do you think about? Most of the time it's about teaching them another cue, right?

Because, you know, cum, which is usually the cue that we use,

is something that's taught in every basic obedience class.

It gets lumped in with sit down stay. It's sit down stay and come.

Like those are the basic obedience commands. But I don't see recall as a cue, a command. It's part of it, but it's only like half of it, maybe even less than that.

Recall is more of a habit that you have to develop with your dog

every single day and work on every single day. You know it just like with any habit, the idea is that it gets easier and easier because you're, you know, not having to consciously think about it.

But the reason why I don't consider it a cue or a command, I consider it a habit or

behavior is because our own behavior as in the humans in the situation, our behavior is just as important as the actual

skill that we teach our dog.

In fact, if you've been paying attention to me a little bit recently, you

know that right now registration is open for my program 14 days to a stronger recall.

And I'll talk about that more at the end

in case you are interested, because we start next Tuesday

if you're listening in real time.

But inside that program, I teach recall in three parts. The

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