The Training Starts As Soon As You Walk In The Door - with Josh and Mandy Boutelle

What are the first things you should do when you bring a kitten home to live with your adolescent dog? In this chat with fellow pet professionals Josh and Mandy Boutelle, we talk about how they helped their new kitten, Fig, quickly settle into life with their exuberant dog, Fern. What you'll hear in this episode: how they started creating positive experiences for the pets as soon as Fig came home why they waited a week before posting online that Fig had joined their family what signs indicated that Fern might be able to coexist with a cat why they didn't keep Fig and Fern separated for long why kittens and potted houseplants don't mix Want to dive a bit deeper? Check out this episode's show notes for Mandy and Josh's full bios and contact info, pictures of Fig and Fern, bonus content, and the resources we mentioned - praiseworthypets.com/podcast-shownotes/53 If you're a pet professional... Get in touch with Naomi to get a second set of eyes on one of your current cat-dog cases with a Pet Pro Strategy Session! And if you love the podcast and want to support me as I continue to create new episodes, join the other cat-and-dog people in the Podcast Supporters space inside the Cat and Dog Coexistence Club! Go to praiseworthypets.com/support-the-podcast to learn more ❤️ 😺❤️🐶 😺❤️🐶 😺❤️🐶 😺❤️🐶 If you enjoyed this episode, please help me spread the word to other cat-and-dog people! You can:

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The Training Starts As Soon As You Walk In The Door - with Josh and Mandy Boutelle is an episode from It's Training Cats and Dogs! by Naomi Rotenberg, Praiseworthy Pets.

This episode is 45:50 long.

This episode was published on Oct 18, 2022.

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