Puppy Development Stages And Your Dog's Behavior
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 มิ.ย. 2024
- Dogs experience seven developmental periods, from puppyhood to adulthood, and it's important we understand each. I'm covering the stages, what they mean for our dog's emotional growth and how we can build skills and confidence for the dogs in our lives. Knowing your puppy's or dog's current stage helps overcome behavior difficulties and guides your training choices.
🐾 Key topic timestamps:
00:00 7 Stages of Dog Development From Puppyhood to Maturity.
00:58 4 criteria for understanding a dog’s growth period.
01:15 Separate expectations of your dog and yourself.
01:39 Diagnosing when dog training fails.
02:37 The environment wins in dog training.
03:27 A dog’s will to choose what you want.
04:36 Dogs are always doing the best they can.
05:32 Stage 1 Dog Development: Neonatal (co-regulation from mother)
06:38 Stage 2 Dog Development: Transitional (2-4 weeks old)
07:55 Stage 3 Dog Development: First Socialization Period (4-7 weeks old)
09:38 Stage 4 Dog Development: Second Socialization Period (8-12 weeks old)
09:49 The best age to get a puppy.
10:00 Mother dogs discipline their puppies through play.
10:41 Keep puppies together for at least 9 weeks.
12:21 When ‘fear periods’ begin in puppies.
12:47 How to bond with a puppy quickly.
13:34 Manage expectations before bringing puppy home.
14:47 Stage 5 Dog Development: The Juvenile Period (3mos -6mos old)
15:01 Puppy’s confidence, curiosity and independence grows.
16:51 Stage 6 Dog Development: Adolescence (6mos -18mos old)
17:36 Learned dog owners have well-behaved dogs.
18:22 Stage 7 Dog Development: Maturity Period (18mos - 3 yrs old)
18:53 The dog’s emotional wellbeing comes first in their development.
🐾 In the episode you'll hear:
• The four criteria for deeper insight into a dog’s development phases.
• How expectations of ourselves and our dogs should be distinct.
• The three culprits of ‘dog training gone wrong.’
• The critical importance of understanding a dog’s motivations.
• Why the environment you’re training in always wins.
• The difference between a willing dog vs. dogs being labelled as wilful.
• That dogs are always doing the best they can.
• Stage 1 Dog Development: Neonatal (co-regulation from mother)
• Stage 2 Dog Development: Transitional (2-4 weeks old)
• Stage 3 Dog Development: First Socialization Period (4-7 weeks old)
• Stage 4 Dog Development: Second Socialization Period (8-12 weeks old)
• How mother dogs discipline their puppies through play.
• Why it’s best to keep puppies together for at least nine weeks.
• That the first ‘puppy fear period’ may begin at 8 to 12 weeks.
• Why relationship games for bonding are critical when a puppy comes home.
• How a puppy temporarily attaches themselves in a new or overwhelming environment.
• Stage 5 Dog Development: The Juvenile Period (3mos -6mos old)
• The importance of managing environments as a puppy’s confidence, independence and curiosity grows.
• Stage 6 Dog Development: Adolescence (6 - 18 months old)
• That the more informed dog owners become, the smarter the dog becomes.
• Stage 7 Dog Development: Maturity Period (18 months - 3 years old)
• Why focusing on a dog’s emotional wellbeing is as important as tricks, sports, and behavior.
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Resources:
1. Podcast Episode 197: Outsmarting Distractions: How To Use Environmental Reinforcement in Dog Training - • Outsmarting Distractio...
2. Podcast Episode 176: Why Your Dog’s Emotions Are A Critical Element Of Dog Training - • Why Your Dog’s Emotion...
3. Podcast Episode 196: Why Mastering Reinforcement Is The Linchpin To Reinforcement Based Dog Training - • Why Mastering Reinforc...
4. Podcast Episode 24: Help for Dogs who Chase Chipmunks, Bicycles, and Neighbor’s Cats (Distraction Intensity Index) - • Distraction Intensity ...
5. Podcast Episode 159: Help! My Puppy Is A Bully And Plays Too Rough - • Help! My Puppy Is A Bu...
6. Podcast Episode 127: Puppy Socialization: Playtime For Puppies And Permissions - • Puppy Socialization: P...
7. Podcast Episode 48: Potty Train Your Puppy in a Week (Easy 3 Step Process) - • Potty Train Your Puppy...
8. Podcast Episode 199: Puppy Fear Periods: Help For Socializing Puppies Or Rescue Dogs Scared Of People - • Puppy Fear Periods: He...
9. Podcast Episode 44: Using Coincidences and Positive Associations in Dog Training - • Using Coincidences and...
10. Podcast Episode 217: Understanding Emotional Regulation In Dogs To Create Calm - • Understanding Emotiona...
11. Podcast Episode 204: Dog Behavior And Diet: Recovery For This! Beyond Dog Training Part 2 - • Dog Behavior And Diet:...
12. Podcast Episode 107: Pedicure Please: 3 Steps To Dog Nail Trimming Or Grooming Success At Home! - • Pedicure Please: 3 Ste...
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SUSAN I LOVE THIS THANK YOU as a positive reinforcement trainer I am sending this to my clients
I can attest to the awesomeness of Susan's team! They are there every step of the way to answer questions! If you are debating on getting any of her programs, do not wait another minute! I spent 200 dollars on another program and regretted it. I cant get that money back. I wish I would have found Susan sooner, but I can't undo that. All I can do is move forward in my training with her amazing programs and free TH-cam videos. But you can't learn all there is to know from the TH-cam videos. They really just supplement the programs. Why are you waiting? Go get one now and start today!
@alishagarcia5150 thank you for such a wonderful note, we're grateful for you! 💚
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I agrée! Thank god for Susan Garrett and her team! I adopted my now four year old 2 years ago - we are doing home school the dog, wag nation and recallers - on Saturday, I got a puppy! I am SO glad for what I know now and for the puppy podcasts - pure gold 🎉
Yes, I’d like to learn more. My 22 week old puppy gets either gets the zoomies, humps and or suckles.
Susan you’re awesome I am a new cpdtka and I’m using these as references for my clients. I have been wanting to create my own content too. You’re inspiring!
I do think that every dog owner should at least once listen to this vedio. Imagine how many happier dogs and people it can create.
I followed the Puppy culture program with a litter of puppies. It was so fun to follow and I learned a ton
Thank you for the video. We just hit almost 4 months and up till now my puppy would be almost perfect, recall, stay, sit, break even outside. But last week it was as if someone fliped the switch and he started ignoring recalls, pulling on leash, trying to be more independent. I was afraid I might have done something wrong and he started hating me for some reason. But now it looks like juvenile period.
Thank you for addressing the vaccines and pesticides as they have major effects on behaviors ❤
Always the best dog training podcast ❤
You’re making me want to get back into conformation so that I could breed a litter of pups and raise them the Say Yes way ❤
I personally love adolescent dogs - they are so much fun at that stage
Susan you explained this so well. 😊 Now I want a puppy! 😁 In the past 20+ years I've had rescue/ rehomed adults (5+ years old) as well as foster dogs/puppies and there's definitely a difference between the dogs who have had their basic needs met as they were developing and those who didn't.
Homeschool The Dog is great but I'm really enjoying the Recallers program and highly recommend it to anyone who has or wants to have a dog. 😃
I have learned a lot from this video! But it is still vague to me of the four principles how to exactly apply to the reality, only if we can be shown some examples to demonstrate they really mean in life.
I wish I could sit and watch a litter of puppies with Susan. We could watch a discuss their behavior.
❤ Fantastic breakdown Susan! This was so clear and what a kind thing to do for us as we try to navigate the stages of our pups. I’m so happy that I listened to this and hubby was able to let go of some old school theories after listening as well! Yay! 🎉
I was getting bogged down with discouragement and having unrealistic expectations of my puppy. You enabled me to take a big sigh of relief and become encouraged once again that I just have to trust the process. Just because I don’t see what I or hubby presumed we “should” see, and it isn’t the puppy. We are the ones who have to own it and get a little more dedicated and consistent with our training. I love being in Recallers and will persevere through Zeke’s stages. I understand now what exactly is going on when things change and I thank you so much Susan for such a great comprehensive explanation. Big Hug! 🤗 😊❤
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Thank you for investing your time and energy into this podcast
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Excellent! Thank you🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪
I loved this video. So much information, I'll be listening to it several times. Thank you!
Thank you Susan!
I’m loving the home school the dog right now , thank you
So great! I’ve even seen breeders that do early neurological stimulation on tiny baby puppies to help their stress response and emotional stability before their eyes even open!
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Interesting! My 14 month old is a rescuer from a puppy mill. He has a lot of social issues. I wonder if being raise sun that environment by a mother who was likely raised in a mill environment. He’s a terrific dog but you have to manage his emotions and expectations need to vary with those. We love him and I’m so glad he found us. I’d hate for his life to be spent in a yard or worse because of his issues.
Susan TX so much for that review. I will add notes to my collection! Fergie is 4 months old and today was day 2 of crate games. She is such a Super Star, even when my H / distraction wandered in this morning! I need to play Reenforcement Zone outside the home but in lower key environments. Tx for reminder.
BTW when Fergie put her 2 front paws on the vet's table on TH, by a jar of treats, I "tented" my hand in front of jar and she hopped off table into an uncued sit! The vet, who knows your work, thought that was amazing, and urged the RN to watch when Fergie went up on a counter with a soft cheese on the tongue depressor! Ah ha, the Finger Tent, got cha.❤
I do wish you could Star Trek Mind Meld me with your brain, however. I want the whole thing, NOW.
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Thank you ! As always I learn something new re enforce what I already knew just smile a lot !
Your pod cast on Car sick was just what I needed
I thought once the puking stopped we were good ! Nope I noticed Every time we walked out to the car head shake teeth chittering then wet later foaming duh I was thinking teething
Well thanks to you we switched placement , have practiced being in the car is fun
. We are 90% better yippee !
Thank you so much😂
So helpful - thank you!
Had to laugh about the tie nail trims. I go to an old farm girl that used to sheer sheep and for 6.00 and 5 minutes, she gets the nails done nice and short and the dogs just love her. My one dog that used to take 3 to 5 people to get his nails done, actually fell asleep on her. She kind of does them upside down, like dog is just sitting between her legs sometimes. You know when the dogs start biting their nails, time to see Aunt Kelly.
My puppy is 9 months old yesterday and just hit the teenage phase - what a change! He’s just as sweet but that selective hearing is a bitch! His breeder didn’t take him out and socialize him before I got him at 6 months so we’ve been fighting a ton of fear as he gets socialized. Luckily he has the most amazing temperament I’ve ever seen so i think we will eventually work through it, definitely has been a process!
My dog was the same around 9 months old (he's 2 yo now)...I really had to reinvest in our relationship and make things easier for a bit to get him to listen better, especially around distractions!!! You guys will work through it I'm sure!!!
I think I even watched this twice. Really enjoyed all of your videos and podcasts and I sent you an email. I won’t to be a recall er my puppy or my juvenile rescue. Jack rat terrier Rocky raccoon needs skills! !He needs skills and I need them too!
This is great, Diana, the team will take really good care of your request 💕
I have a rescue GS/Doberman mix dog that was both abused and neglected. He’s just turned 4 years old. I can’t walk him due to reactive behavior. He even barks at dogs on TV including cartoon and stuffed dogs on TV. I’m at a loss. What do you recommend?😊
I need skills!😢
I definitely need more skills, ive done traditional dog training in obedience and agility. But i still stuff i struggle with. I have an 6year old kelpie and a new border collie puppy. So need all the help i can get. Love your posts so far.
Thank you Sascha! Here's one of the podcasts Susan did on dog agility: th-cam.com/video/vAkL3UVoOBs/w-d-xo.html
Hi! I have an almost 6 months old amstaff puppy. He is perfect .he listens and everything ,but he does one thing that makes me believe that I am not able to understand what he is trying to tell me. He is peeing on the carpet (only marking ,in general) and he is doing this for a few days ,then stops,and again. He knows his potty ped,he can also wait until he is taken out ,so it is something else going on. I don't know how I should manage the situation.I am getting angry unwillingly every time he marks the carpet. Please help with some advice ! Thanks!❤
I got my puppy at 8 weeks but always felt he was to young and should have been with mum longer.
Love this information! I would love to learn more. My puppy goes out of her mind with jumping, licking, scratching, climbing our legs when we let her out of her cage. We have been working on this with Crate Games and Recaller games…but progress has been slow. My husband and I have too many scratches from this daily or multi daily events. My husband is dreading each time he has to let her out. Any creative suggestions are welcome. My husband is suggesting he should dress up in Catcher’s gear! 😂
@j.goodale2196, share your record keeping with us in Recallers, we'd love to help 💚 Our playlist on Behavior Chains might be just the thing for you to check out to turn this around - th-cam.com/play/PLphRRSxcMHy36FqDOVAwoHy87MhWFUxVd.html&si=SfdpoISrjHzfyStr
@@DogsThat Well, it’s complicated right now. I’ve been hospitalized for leukemia. Definitely wasn’t part of my Playbook when we took on this emergency rescue. 😒 Bree bonded to me pretty well but displayed separation anxiety from the beginning. Then I “abandoned” her by going in to the hospital. My husband brings her to my son’s house during the day when he visits me. She stays in a room with my son’s dog Brooke who she is getting along fine with. We had to abandoned the crate we kept her in there because she bent the wire frame. She seems to be better hanging with Brooke and using her dog bed. She has not destroyed that but she did destroy any padding left in or near her cage. (We discovered her paws stretch REALLY far through the wire!) My husband has not wanted to look at the inside of the door but can guess it may be pretty scratched up. We’ll deal with that another time. The challenge is really the greeting/release from the room when he returns from the hospital. She just mauls him. She tries to wrap her hind legs around his legs. She jumps all over him. And Brooke also is an exuberant greater & weighs 80+ #’s. It’s a lot for my husband to deal with especially after being with me most of the day. I’m encouraging him to pull up a chair to the door and greet the dogs sitting down. Less body area to tackle, he can keep his balance, her face can be closer to his face for kissing/smelling, etc. This works a bit but Bree’s greetings are still over the top. I have learned so much from Recallers and Crate Games and Susan’s podcast. Just haven’t found a way to pour it quickly into my husband’s head. 😆 He’s a saint. We’ll keep trying. And we’ll absorb all the insight offered by Susan & her fabulous team. Thank you for listening. It helps just to share the experience. 💕
This is a fabulous video Susan sending all the cookies
I love watching your your videos! I raise Cavalier King Charles Spaniels and I have recommended your videos to my people who already have one of my babies. What I would like to know is, do you have, or could you create training videos that I can pack in my puppy bags for my new puppy parents? Many of the people try to wait for the puppy to show THEM cues instead of the other way around. I have to tell THEM to teach the puppy the behaviors they want!
HELP!
Hi Sherri! Love that you're educating your new puppy owners. Can you please send the team a note at wag@dogsthat.com? That way we can help you best 💖
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I have a super slow to mature Beauceron puppy. They are extremely physical with each other & their humans. Many, including mine, have a natural desire to body slam you at mach 10 speeds 😂 the males esp aren't mentally or physically mature until 4 or so
Hi Kelly I hope my comment didn't sound as a form of privacy invasion your comment tells of a wonderful woman with a beautiful heart which led me to comment I don't normally write in the comment section but I think you deserve this compliment. If you don’t mind can we be friends? 🌺Thanks God bless you….🌹🌹
Newfies aren’t adults till 3! And 4 is even more mature. I have a two year old and a three year old and I always consider age
For anyone wondering whether Recallers is a good investment, I’m here to say, “YES!” It helped me and my dog grow our relationship and increase our skills.
We are getting a puppy in August at 8 weeks old. Where should I start with your programs? Both now for preparing myself and my kids (age 8 and 10) and for when the pup comes home?
Hi Ruth! Congrats on you future new puppy, how exciting! 🤩
We have a Puppy Essentials playlist with help you prepare and for the first days: th-cam.com/video/rUIX5qW85tU/w-d-xo.html&pp=gAQBiAQB
And then maybe you'd like to start working on Susan's foundational game ItsYerChoice, we have a free summit that is perfect for you: dogsthat.com/y/iycsummit