Before your neighborhood becomes: 🎃 Pumpkins everywhere 👻 Random ghosts 🦖 Children dressed as dinosaurs 🔔 Doorbell Olympics 🍬 Strangers approaching the house repeatedly… let’s give your dog a little preparation. Today we're starting: 30 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN And there’s only one rule: 1 simple step a day. Each day, we’ll focus on one small piece of Halloween life. Notice something. Practice something. Change something. Help your dog experience something differently. Because 30 tiny opportunities to prepare can be a whole lot more useful than shouting: “PLACE! PLACE! PLACE!” while five trick-or-treaters are standing on your porch waiting impatiently for their sugar fix. 😂 If you want to spend October actually preparing your dog instead of worrying about Halloween night… come join us inside The Calm Connected Canine. 🎃🐾 Day 1 starts TODAY!! https://www.skool.com/lori-anne-canine-behavior-4283/about Calm BEFORE Commands 💚🐾

Then you heard it. The pacing. The whining. The bark. The frantic sprint to the window. You rush over… and discover the threat. A plastic pumpkin... Three houses away! This is your reminder that what looks ridiculous to us may feel very real to our dogs. Halloween brings unfamiliar sights, sounds, movement, people, costumes, and routines. And when your dog is overwhelmed, telling them to “stop” usually doesn’t answer the bigger question: How is this making them feel? That’s one of the questions we are answering during our 30 Days of Halloween Challenge. Because behavior gets a lot easier to work with when you understand what’s underneath it. 🎃 Come join us inside The Calm Connected Canine. https://www.skool.com/lori-anne-canine-behavior-4283/about Calm BEFORE Commands.💚🐾🎃

They don’t have to greet every trick-or-treater. They don’t have to investigate every costume. They don’t have to hang out by the front door while the bell rings all night. Sometimes the best Halloween plan is giving your dog permission to opt out. Today’s 30 Days of Halloween Challenge is all about creating a safe space. Pick somewhere your dog can get away from the activity. Then start using it before Halloween. We want that space to mean: “I can relax here.” Not: “I only get put here when the world gets scary.” 🎃 Day 2: Create a Safe Space. inside The Calm Connected Canine. https://www.skool.com/lori-anne-canine-behavior-4283/about Calm BEFORE Commands. 💚🐾🎃

They’re afraid of the 9-foot inflatable ghost that appeared on Tuesday where Mrs. Johnson’s hydrangeas used to be. To us? Decoration. To your dog? The neighborhood has become very terrifying. We understand what is happening at Halloween... Our dogs do not. It is a very scary time for them. So, before the most terrifying time of year gets here, let's start helping your dog NOW! Do not force interactions Create distance and observe At The Calm Connected Canine we will be learning how to help your dog through the scary season this month, so hop on over and help your dog enjoy the holiday! https://www.skool.com/lori-anne-canine-behavior-4283/about Calm BEFORE Commands 💚🐾👻

Start now. Because the costumes. The doorbell. Kids running toward the house. Strange decorations. People appearing in the dark. That is a lot of scary stuff to throw at your dog all at once! You can and should start preparing for Halloween BEFORE it gets here. Practice calmer door routines. Let your dog investigate decorations at their own pace. Create a quiet place away from the front door. Notice what makes them uncomfortable. And start helping them recover before everything gets harder. Halloween prep doesn’t start October 31. It starts now. We will be discussing ways to help your dog this year all this month at The Calm Connected Canine. The time to start is now. Like, right now! https://www.skool.com/lori-anne-canine-behavior-4283/about 🐾 Calm BEFORE Commands.