It is important to address environmental stressors and ensure your foster pup is adequately exercised ''before'' you attempt calmness training. Otherwise, the training exercises will at best be useless (because your dog won't be able to concentrate or perform the behaviors) and at worst may become poisoned (if your foster dog learns to associate them with frustration on his end or yours). Rehabilitating a poisoned cue is ''very'' difficult, especially if the equipment itself has developed negative associations for your dog.

It is important to address environmental stressors and ensure your foster pup is adequately exercised ''before'' you attempt calmness training. Otherwise, the training exercises will at best be useless (because your dog won't be able to concentrate or perform the behaviors) and at worst may become poisoned (if your foster dog learns to associate them with frustration on his end or yours). Rehabilitating a poisoned cue is ''very'' difficult, especially if the equipment itself has developed negative associations for your dog.