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 106 of your new puppies podcast. I'm Debbie,

and today I'm going to give you three ways to upgrade your walk.

Now, when I say upgrade, I don't mean that we're going to add more time or more distance

or make it a whole production.

That's the beauty of this.

What I want to do is we're going to take the walks you're already doing,

whether it's your potty breaks, your daily exercise, just getting out of the house,

and we're going to make them more enriching and more effective in burning that mental and physical

energy, which means you get an even calmer and more relaxed dog when you get home.

Because that is the ultimate goal for most of us, right?

And I thought this would be a perfect time for this episode because it's gotten cold out there for a lot of us.

And this is right when you want to skip one of those walks or cut it a little short to get back

inside. And even if you are in a warmer climate, you probably have the same problem, but in the

summer when it's too hot to be out for any long period of time. I mean, at the end of the day,

these ideas are going to work year round, whether it's your

life's busy or your dog has reached adolescence and all of a sudden has this massive

amount of energy, or maybe the walks are just starting to feel like a chore and we got to

breathe some new life into it. And the best part is this isn't going to take any extra time or training on your

part. So let's dive in. The first one is a snuffle walk. In other words, just let them sniff. This one's

my favorite because it's so simple, but it's so powerful. And we always underestimate how powerful this can be. In fact,

it takes a lot of convincing of my clients where I'm just like, just try it and you're going to

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