Puppy Culture Potluck: Ep38 - Puppies Who Demand Bark: Why Puppy Owners Fail and How We Can Help Them Succeed

About this episode

This episode provides advice for puppy owners struggling with demand barking and offers insights on how to help them succeed.

This episode is a fan request: "Looking for a podcast - My co-owner needs help. I’ve worked with them on training behaviors, and they’ve done a masterful job at teaching puppy (who’s about 3 months old now…) that barking gets attention. They wait until they just can’t take it anymore but then cave in just as extinction burst really ramps up.Is there a podcast that will guide them through navigating this? To be fair, one of them works nights and NEEDS their sleep! I can understand how they got here. But just like parenting - pay now or pay later, and this one is gonna sting! They do have PC curriculum - I told them to start looking through it again." This podcast unpacks: Straightforward advice for handling confinement and demand barking Why that straightforward advice often fails to help puppy owners How we can re-frame the emotional component of this issue for puppy owners and help them succeed. Visit our website www.madcapradio.com for further reading.

People in this episode

Host: Madcap Radio

Topics covered

• puppy training
• demand barking
• puppy behavior
• owner challenges
• training advice

Keywords

• puppy culture
• barking
• training
• confinement
• behavior
• puppy owners
• advice

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