Start Smart: Teaching Your Puppy to Be Comfortable Home Alone

$14.95

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.