Flooding — What’s That About?

Well, it’s been a while since I’ve had time to write and I’ve missed it very, very much.

We’ve been so busy with COVID related concerns, that it’s taken a back seat, but I was inspired this morning when answering daily questions in our Puppy Essentials Online Training program. There was a common theme about trying to help puppies overcome noise. Pups were presented with ‘the noisy thing’ (hair dryer, sander, loud truck, etc.) and frightened by it.

Then the question of how to acclimate.

Well, it is truly putting the cart before the horse to present the scary thing, scare the pup with it and then try to reverse that fear, so let’s talk about how to introduce things in a way that we’ll avoid that fate.

Raising a puppy definitely requires the gift of foresight to do perfectly. We don’t always know that there will be a loud truck or a crack of thunder or a sudden fireworks display, so we can forgive ourselves when we are caught unaware by things outside of our control

The rest of it, you’re not off of the hook for. Anything predictable, like turning on a hair dryer or a set of clippers to trim a coat, should be approached delicately with the assumption that it will frighten a youngster without experience with it. If it seems like it might be scary for them, it is likely a safe assumption that it…