Preparing Your Dog for Halloween: 3 Tips & Training Ideas

Halloween is right around the corner... is your pup ready? 🎃  With these 3 tips, you'll be prepped for Halloween! (You already bought your pup a costume, right?) TIP #1- Prepare your home. If you need to keep your dog behind a baby gate, or in another room... then do it! If your dog can't handle an open door with children asking for treats, then don't give them access! Additionally, you can use a white noise machine. And remember, close your blinds and windows. It's the little things that can help you set your dog up for success :) TIP #2- Work on a strong leave it. Hopefully, you've already started this behavior. If so, take it to the next level by ensuring your dog can 'leave' items dropped on the ground. Come Halloween, it may happen that a piece of chocolate falls on the floor...  If you practice leave it, your dog will be able to leave that treat alone until you pick it up! TIP #3- Teach the 'place/settle' behavior. First off, this behavior takes LOTS of practice, effort, and time. So, if you are starting from step 1 with this behavior, understand that you may not be where you'd hope for by Halloween (this episode launched 11 days before Halloween 2020).  BUT, you can still lay a strong foundation! Check out 21 Impulse Control Games here for a deep explanation of teaching place! Please leave a review and subscribe!! Thanks for listening 🐾 Download the free Pupford app here: https://pfrd.site/pup-app Subscribe on YouTube here: https://pfrd.site/subscribe-youtube Check out all podcast episodes here: anchor.fm/perfect-pup Intro music cred to Kevin May: https://soundcloud.com/kevin_may