The thanksgiving feast is almost upon us and that means that there are also bad behavior problems looming in the corner.  Stealing food, jumping on guests, barking at strangers in the neighborhood and so many more Don't let your dog ruin this holiday season with their bad behavior. In today's episode, I go over how you can prepare yourself and your dog for the best Thanksgiving dinner you have ever had. No chaos, no stress, and certainly no visits to the hospital.  Here is the download I mentioned in the episode Thanksgiving Dog Etiquette E-book https://www.matadork9.com/thanksgivingmanners   If you want to get started training before the big day, give me a call right away, and let's get started before it is too late!! https://www.matadork9.com/coaching   Episode Transcript 00:00:00:05 - 00:00:18:08Michael J. AccettaIf you're nervous about your dog and what they're going to do during dinner, when guests come over and there's food all over the place and there's good smell in Turkey all over the place. What are you going to do That's what we're going to talk about today. I'm going to go over the four things that you must have in place in order to have a successful and enjoyable Thanksgiving with the dog. 00:00:18:13 - 00:00:39:02Michael J. AccettaOkay. Now, the first thing we're going to talk about is management. This is crucial to have any type of enjoyment during the holiday season. If you cannot manage your dog's behavior, nothing is going to go right. If your dog is already well behaved, then you kind of already did management. You've you've done all the management ahead of time. 00:00:39:02 - 00:00:54:02Michael J. AccettaAnd that's led to a successful time right now. But we only got a couple of days until the big feast. If you want to call the big feast, we only got a couple of days until the big feast. And so right now is not necessarily the time to teach your dog anything new. Maybe you don't have the time for it. 00:00:54:03 - 00:01:11:08Michael J. AccettaMaybe your dog has never done any training and it's way too much to be putting on yourself and overwhelming yourself with right now. Instead, what we need to do is set up parameters and where a dog can be successful. What does that look like when people are coming into the house? We don't want to have the dog in the living room by the front door. 00:01:11:12 - 00:01:30:02Michael J. AccettaIt's just going to create more chaos and more excitement. Someone's coming in. They're all over the place. And then our dog loses it and they run into the person. And now we have all this chaos over. Excitement leads to sometimes biting, sometimes playing too rough and nipping the person. Sometimes it can lead to urination and having our dog all over the floor. 00:01:30:09 - 00:01:50:03Michael J. AccettaThat's not what you want when you're having guests come into your house for Thanksgiving. It's just not. You're adding more chaos. It'd be easier to say, Okay, I'm going to put my dog into the bedroom or into the bathroom. I'm going to wait for everyone to come over, and then I'm going to have my dog come out. Once everyone's there, the excitement of having them come through the door has now been eliminated. 00:01:50:13 - 00:02:05:14Michael J. AccettaYour dog is still going to be excited when they see the people that they miss and they love and they want to hang out with. But the level of excitement has changed. It's gone down simply because we haven't had them introduced right at the exciting point of coming into the door. So that's one way you could manage it. 00:02:06:08 - 00:02:20:00Michael J. AccettaThe other way you can manage it is having gates up. So maybe your U.S. of a party house where the dog hangs out. And if people want to go hang out with the dog and they're good with them and they can be relaxed, then they can go play with the dog. Otherwise, the dog stays out of the picture while you have guests over. 00:02:20:14 - 00:02:35:05Michael J. AccettaN