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How Your Older Dog Can Help Train Your Puppy!

Updated: Dec 1, 2020

Your older dog can help train your pup! Here’s how. Puppies have so much energy, sharp little teeth, they chew everything, and seem to never stop. With all this energy and activity, we can use all the tools we have to train them! You can use a trainer, watch videos, and you can use your older dog to help!


Puppies begin learning as soon as they are born. Their first teachers are their mother and littermates. Dogs are their first teachers and can be their best teachers. If you have a trained older dog in your household, let them help you. Dogs are pack animals and they always learn from each other. They can do it faster than you can and can get it across clearer than you can.


Megan Blake, The Pet Lifestyle Coach®, uses her spokes-dog, Super Smiley, to show us how Check out the video below, and let us know what your older dog taught your pup and you!


Let Your Older Dog Help Train Your Pup


And join Megan on Zoom for her We Begin Now™ Dog Training Classes!  They’re every Sunday at 4:30ET and are Grrrreat, because you can ask Megan all of your questions, you can practice what you know and get tips, and you and your dog can learn new behaviors and tips! Email Megan directly at WeBeginNow8@MeganBlake.com to get the login link. 

Have a wonderful week!  We Begin Now™!  :)


Need a brush up on more from Megan? Check out more from her under the Pets tab of our blog.


The Pet Lifestyle Coach®, Megan Blake is a Greensboro Downtown Parks program partner. The work she does with us is critical to providing FREE pets programming to our park community. As we make our way through these unprecedented times, consider how you might support local Greensboro non-profits like us, as well as businesses like, artists, entrepreneurs, makers, and more. We'll continue to bring you free programming through our digital platforms and look forward to having you join us and Megan back in the parks soon!


GDPI Pets Programs are sponsored by Green Lincoln.




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