Start Smart: Teaching Your Puppy to Be Comfortable Home Alone provides step-by-step framework for helping puppies work towards comfort when left alone. Emphasizing positive, evidence-based methods and focusing on building confidence and positive associations with alone time.
Key areas covered include:
Understanding puppy development and how it impacts handing alone time.
My proven S.A.F.E. Alone Time Framework:
S: Setting up a safe training environment.
A: Assessing the puppy's readiness.
F: Building positive Foundations with alone time.
E: Evaluating progress and adjusting as needed.
Troubleshooting common challenges and knowing when to seek professional help.
Interactive tools and resources: emotional thermometer and alone time checklist.
Addressing crate anxiety and proper desensitization to confinement.
Avoiding common mistakes
Melissa Dallier, author, a Certified Separation Anxiety Trainer and behavior coach.
Start Smart: Teaching Your Puppy to Be Comfortable Home Alone provides step-by-step framework for helping puppies work towards comfort when left alone. Emphasizing positive, evidence-based methods and focusing on building confidence and positive associations with alone time.
Key areas covered include:
Understanding puppy development and how it impacts handing alone time.
My proven S.A.F.E. Alone Time Framework:
S: Setting up a safe training environment.
A: Assessing the puppy's readiness.
F: Building positive Foundations with alone time.
E: Evaluating progress and adjusting as needed.
Troubleshooting common challenges and knowing when to seek professional help.
Interactive tools and resources: emotional thermometer and alone time checklist.
Addressing crate anxiety and proper desensitization to confinement.
Avoiding common mistakes
Melissa Dallier, author, a Certified Separation Anxiety Trainer and behavior coach.