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Jul 22

Webinar – 7/22/21 – Eat, Play, Love! Developing Your New Relationship With Your Puppy by Deb Jones – FDSA (fee applies)

Name: Webinar – 7/22/21 – Eat, Play, Love! Developing Your New Relationship With Your Puppy by Deb Jones – FDSA (fee applies)
Start: 2021-07-22T18:00:00-07:00
End: 2021-07-22T19:00:00-07:00
Location: Virtual

July 22, 2021 @ 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT

$19.95

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This webinar is all about the start of your journey with your puppy. If we’re lucky, we are starting out on a 15 year or so relationship. That’s much longer than many human relationships! We will talk about ways to set the tone for a long term mutually enjoyable partnership. People are often uncertain how to set the parameters in the early days with a new puppy. What’s important to do right away and what can (and often should) wait until later when the puppy is more mature? Doing the right things at the right times is really important, but how do we know what to do and when to do it? Join Deb for a thorough discussion of the most important concepts and skills to introduce to your pup. She’ll talk about the importance of discovering valuable reinforcers while developing your relationship and establishing rules. Her 3 Rs for puppy raising of Relationship, Reinforcers, and Rules will serve as a clear guide for your puppy training in the early days.

While food is one of the most universal and valuable reinforcers we can use, people often take it for granted and don’t consider how to grow and maintain it over time. We’ll consider how to develop and increase interest and food, and how to use it thoughtfully not only to reinforce behaviors but to build your relationship. When it comes to toys and play we will give you some clear ideas and guidelines for introducing toys, determining your pup’s natural play preferences, and putting structure around the games we play together.

Speaking of structure, we will also consider the importance of your key rules for life and how to introduce and maintain those with consistency. Your rules may well be different than mine, and that’s okay. We all have different situations and care about different aspects of living with dogs.

When it comes to a new puppy we all want to do it “right” this time and avoid our previous mistakes. In the process we will likely make new and different mistakes. That’s okay, life with a puppy isn’t about being perfect. It’s about doing our best to be the kind of life and training partners our pups need and deserve.