YNP #098: Why Your Dog Isn’t Listening
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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🗓️ 16 August 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Why your dog isn’t listening depends on a bunch of factors including what your asking them to do, where they are, what you’ve taught them previously, and more.
It’s one of the most common questions I get but it’s also one of the hardest to answer. I usually need ALOT more information.
From my experience, I’ve narrowed it down to 5 reasons. They are not mutually exclusive. In fact, chances are it’s a blend of a few reasons.
The five reasons are:
- You haven’t taught them what you’re asking for.
- You skipped some steps in their training.
- You haven’t practiced in this environment.
- They’ve already learned they don’t have to listen.
- Today is just not the day.
Once we can pinpoint the reason (or reasons) we can start to figure out what to do next.
Enjoy!
In this episode I talk about:
- Expectations you should have for puppies.
- The five reasons your dog is not listening.
- Examples of each reason.
- How to tell which reason your dog isn’t listening.
- What your next step is.
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Other resources mentioned and related to this episode:
YNP #057: How to Teach Your Dog to Listen With Distractions
YNP #064: The Downside of a Fenced-in Yard
YNP #080: Why I Don’t Teach “Off”
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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 98 of your new puppies podcast. I'm Debbie and today I'm going to help you |
| 0:36.4 | troubleshoot why your dog isn't listening. Now this is an extremely common question I get especially once my clients puppies get into like adolescents |
| 0:47.6 | And here's the thing is that there's no one answer because why your dog isn't listening depends on a multitude of factors. |
| 0:55.6 | So it's definitely one of those questions that I get that I'm like, all right, I got like 50 questions |
| 0:59.8 | back for you to try to figure this out because it's going to depend on what's happening, what |
| 1:05.7 | you're asking your dog to do, what is the environment like, what have you taught them previously, |
| 1:11.4 | and even more. So what I'm going to talk about here is reasons why it might be happening because if we figure that out then the next steps can become more clear. |
| 1:23.9 | Not always, but it is going to be much easier to figure out what we need to do next. |
| 1:29.0 | And I find that this boils down to one of five reasons. |
| 1:34.0 | Actually, I'm going to take that back. |
| 1:36.0 | It boils down to five different reasons that aren't mutually exclusive. |
| 1:40.0 | A lot of times it's a combination of them. One might stand out more than the other, but these all kind of relate to each other, but it's still going to help you to understand why it's happening. |
| 1:54.7 | So before we dive in, I also want to make sure that our expectations are in the right place. |
| 2:01.3 | Because if you have a puppy that isn't listening to you that's |
| 2:05.9 | probably normal I'm not saying it's fine it's okay if your puppy doesn't listen to |
| 2:10.4 | you but it's probably gonna be all of these reasons to be honest and it's probably going to be all of these reasons to be honest and |
| 2:14.9 | you're going to see as we go through them they all still apply but you know our |
| 2:19.5 | puppies are learning everything right now and they are little aliens that have been |
| 2:24.9 | dropped into our households. I mean all dogs are really not just puppies and |
| 2:29.0 | they're only going to learn what we teach them and we're still teaching them everything. |
| 2:35.1 | So a lot of times when we understand that, we can bring the frustration level down, which |
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