YNP #089: Reasons to Muzzle Train Your 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
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🗓️ 29 November 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Teaching your dog to wear a muzzle might not be something that you have thought of. Muzzles have a bad rap and a lot of times we think of them as a last resort type of tool.
Where muzzles can benefit us and our pups in a lot of ways.
Muzzle training our dog entails exposing our dogs to wearing a muzzle in a positive, stress-free way (see resources below on how to do this).
That way when we find ourselves in a situation where one may be necessary our dog already knows the drill.
And when we take away that bad stigma and don’t hesitate to use one, it can bring all stress levels down making everything go smoother.
Plus, there’s reasons that have nothing to do with biting or aggression.
As always, the resources I talk about in this episode are listed all below.
In this episode I talk about:
- Why every dog should be exposed to a muzzle regardless of their temperament.
- Specific situations where we can reduce the stress of all involved by exposing our dog to a muzzle first.
- Reasons to muzzle train that have nothing to do with aggression.
- Reasons to use a muzzle while working on behavior modification.
- Reasons not to hesitate to muzzle train your reactive dog.
Press play and enjoy!
Other resources mentioned and related to this episode:
American Kennel Club: Dog Muzzles: When, Why, and How to Correctly Use Them
Vet.Cornell.edu : Muzzle Choices
Michael Shikashio: A video on how to Accumulate your dog to a muzzle (this is the guy to follow for ANY muzzle or aggressive dog content).
Michael Shikashio: How to find the right fit for your dog.
Playtime Paws Academy: A membership 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 welcome to episode 89 of your new puppies podcast. I'm Debbie and today I want to give |
| 0:36.8 | you some reasons to muscle train your dog. And what I mean by muzzle training is just getting your dog used to wearing a muzzle. |
| 0:45.0 | You know, maybe we can get a good association, but at the very least a neutral stress-free association with wearing a muzzle. |
| 0:53.7 | So I wanted to do this because there are reasons |
| 0:56.9 | that you may never thought of. |
| 0:59.2 | Or maybe the reasons are obvious, |
| 1:02.3 | but you might hesitate to do it because the bad stigma a muzzle entails. |
| 1:07.0 | Like, we don't want to think about the fact that our dog might need a muzzle one day. |
| 1:12.0 | But I would love to remove that stigma |
| 1:15.0 | and see them as this really useful tool |
| 1:20.0 | that can make a very stressful situation easier for everyone involved or a potential |
| 1:28.8 | stressful situation for everyone involved. |
| 1:31.7 | So here I'm going to go through a bunch of reasons to actually muzzle train your dog or learn about the different types of muzzles for because there's a whole bunch for all different reasons. I'm going to give you other resources. I'm just going to put the |
| 1:43.4 | links right in the show notes if you want to learn more. But here I just want to |
| 1:49.1 | get the wheels turning, especially if you've never thought about doing it before. |
| 1:53.4 | So the first and main reason I suggest it to my clients |
| 1:58.1 | is because even if you have a dog that has never said booed to anyone. |
| 2:05.1 | Loves being handled, loves people, |
| 2:07.8 | you can never imagine anything ever happening. |
| 2:11.1 | If your dog ever gets injured, if they are in pain, all bets are off. |
| 2:15.0 | Every single dog has the potential to bite, |
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