Annie  addresses questions from people who are dealing with dogs who have habits that annoy other dogs, and, ultimately, their owners as well. One owner wants to know how to deal with a new rescue  who is bothering the household's other two dogs and generally causing chaos in the home, and a dog walker asks about how to manage a charge who is constantly trying to hump his walking buddies. In addition to addressing setting up appropriate social situations for dogs, exercising them and using crates in multi-dog households, this episode offers a thoughtful take on why dogs hump and how to keep it from becoming an issue. 

Follow the askers of these questions on Instagram at @uarndcool and @pudgydog

Products mentioned in this episode: 

The Treat + Train:  https://storeforthedogs.com/products/treat-train

The Revol Crate: https://storeforthedogs.com/products/the-revol-dog-crate

Flirt Poles: https://storeforthedogs.com/products/flirt-poles

The Animatwist: https://storeforthedogs.com/products/animatwist

The Animaswizzler: https://storeforthedogs.com/products/the-animaswizzler

Partial Transcript:

Annie:

Hey everyone.  Annie here.  Thank you for listening and a particularly big thank you to those of you who have reached out in the last few weeks.  We seem to be getting a bigger listenership which is really rewarding and I've appreciated the nice reviews on iTunes and the messages on Instagram etc.  Seriously, I really appreciate it.  As some of you know,  I had a baby recently.  Little Miss Magnolia who is so wonderful and I really love being a mom,  but as you may have heard parenting is hard.  Actually parenting is not so hard as much as parenting and trying to do absolutely anything else has proven difficult.  Especially at podcasting because even if I can get someone else to watch her and I do have an amazing woman who comes and watches her a few hours, a few days a week and my in-laws and my mom and my husband, but even if I can get someone to watch her which is great; I live in like a loft basically,  there's no doors so it's hard to find a quiet spot to record and uh best case scenario I can like find a way to record while she naps but her naps were sort of unpredictable and every night I think, “OK well tonight I'm going to record a podcast episode when she goes to sleep but usually by then I'm so exhausted that I know that I'm not going to be giving you my best self.”

So right now I managed to have her in a sling, on my body, taking a bottle although she just pushed it out so that she could suck her thumb and I am going to attempt to answer some of the excellent questions that I've been storing up. I've gotten so many questions lately that are so good I want to answer them all but I'm going to see if I can get through two or three before uhm we have a baby meltdown here.

OK so the first one comes from Emily of Cleveland OH.

Emily writes...

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