'Capturing behaviour' This means to reward naturally occuring behaviours as and when they happen! Your dog offers a sit to greet you? Your puppy decides to sit down and chill in their place without prompting? Or is your young pup walking without pulling? These are some of the situations where, if you have some treats or kibble stashed in your pocket already, you will have the chance to 'capture' the behaviours that you like seeing and reward them on the spot. As a result, your dog will start to repeat these good behaviours, and even become a bit more attentive to you. Try it out - take 10 pieces of kibble or treats that they like, keep them on you or close by through the day and reward 10 behaviours that you like! We already do this with toilet training - and it's perfectly possible with other behaviours too!

Hope you have had a great weekend with your puppy! This week, i'm changing our wednesday live calls so that they take place just once a month from now on, just so we can try to get more people joining per call! This week's training challenge will be all about a release cue. I will be posting more about this later today and showing you how to start training a release cue, where you can use it and how to build from the start! Does your dog have a release cue?

This time of year, you might need to make some adjustments while having a puppy! Have you managed to put a tree up without chaos, or is your tree puppy proofed with a playpen or on a table? I've seen some creative ways of puppy proofing a tree over the years - let's see yours!