12/16/2025
Reduce your holiday stress with these two management tips that can quickly solve common canine conundrums:
1️⃣ “Help! My dog counter surfs and steals food from my holiday buffet.”
While you’re serving your holiday meal, keep Fido contained in a room behind a baby gate with a bone or a KONG toy. If Fido is a jumper and can clear a baby gate, put him in his crate with a tasty holiday treat while you eat. Once the buffet is cleaned up, Fido can rejoin your party.
2️⃣ “My puppy won't leave our tree alone!”
Everything in the house that your puppy can access is fair game in their eyes. Keep your new puppy away from your Christmas tree and gifts by setting it up in a room that you can block with a baby gate, or put an exercise pen around the base of the tree so there is a buffer between your puppy, your tree, and your gifts. Manage the environment before your puppy finds out it’s fun to pull your grandmother’s glass ornaments off of the tree.
More ideas are on my blog at: https://wonderdog.training/training-insights/
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