3 Keys to a Confident Dog #38
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 16 October 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
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What is confidence in a dog? Why do we need it? How do we grow it, and why should we even care? Confidence is a topic I’m very passionate about, and there are three things that are big contributors bringing out the best in a puppy or dog.
In the episode you'll hear:
• What my dog Decaff taught me about confidence.
• How confidence replaces stress and anxiety.
• About my once in a lifetime dogs.
• How our beliefs control our thoughts about our dogs and how our thoughts control our actions.
• Why today can be your starting point!
• The strategy you can adopt to get to where you want to be with your dog.
• My promise to Momentum’s four puppies about marbles.
• About emotional states and our dogs.
• Why to play small to play big.
• How you can see lack of marble building behaviour in performance sports like agility.
• About defining the behavior you see by what is real.
• How much the language you use about your dog matters.
• Why we want our bag of marbles overfull.
Resources:
• Blog Post: Is There a Difference? - https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2010/04/is-there-a-difference/
• Podcast Episode 8: Get Your Dog in the Belief Loop of Awesome - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/8/
• Susan Garrett’s Recallers Successes Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/pg/SusanGarrettsRecallers/photos/
• Podcast Episode 22: The Invisible Bubble of Pressure and Your Dog - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/22/
• Vlog Post: Where is Your Dog on the Circle of Fun? - https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2018/07/circle-of-fun/
• Blog Post: Improve Your Dog Training by Playing Like A Dog - https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2012/04/improve-your-dog-training-by-playing-like-a-dog/
• Home School the Dog - https://dogsthat.com/home-school/
• Recallers - https://recallers.com/
• DogsThat.Com - https://dogsthat.com/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody. Welcome to Shape by Dog. I am Susan Garrett and I've got a super important podcast today. |
| 0:16.5 | You know what? They are all important. I feel very passionate about what I'm going to talk about |
| 0:20.6 | today. And I've got so many things to share. I hope I get it all out. It is all about confidence, |
| 0:28.1 | about what is confidence in a dog and how can we grow it and why do we need to grow it? |
| 0:35.7 | Why do we even care about growing it? |
| 0:38.0 | I'm going to give you three things that are the big contributors to bringing out the most confidence |
| 0:47.0 | that you have in your dog. I'm really going to be talking about the puppies because I've |
| 0:51.0 | got puppies on the brain right now, But what I have to share with you, |
| 0:54.8 | you can use with any age dog that you have with the three big areas of focus that we have. |
| 1:03.6 | First, I'm going to start with a story. I had a Jack Russell in the early 90s and her name was |
| 1:09.4 | decaf. She was actually three quarters Jack Russell, |
| 1:12.5 | one quarter, border collie. And some people might describe her as a less confident puppy. |
| 1:20.5 | She sometimes would be environmentally worried. I'll give you an example. When she was about 10 |
| 1:24.6 | months old, I was very excited. I was going to Florida. |
| 1:31.9 | I was going to train her on contacts. I think she was maybe 10 or 11. She was almost a year old because she turned a year in February. I was super excited because I was going to get her in a new |
| 1:36.3 | environment and away from home and I had this great end of contact behavior at home and I was going |
| 1:41.0 | to try it on the new contacts there. We got out of the motor home and she started jumping around because like the grass in Florida, it was this wide leaf grass |
| 1:49.3 | and at home it wasn't and even when it was, I mean, it was snow at home. And she walked around like |
| 1:55.3 | a dog that had boots on for the first time. And that didn't stop like the next day. She always was |
| 2:03.2 | environmentally sensitive. When she was born, we had a dirt floor in our arena and probably |
| 2:10.2 | when she was seven or eight months old, we changed to a rubber floor. For the rest of her life, |
| 2:14.3 | when she would go into the arena, she would play with me, but when |
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