#61: Tips For Dogs That Are Worried Around People
Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training
Drinking from the Toilet: Real Dogs, Real Training
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🗓️ 26 June 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Life is easier when your dog is confident (or at least comfortable) around other people. But what if your dog isn't? Good news! There is a lot we can do in training to help build his confidence.
In this episode, we cover my top 3 tips to keep in mind when working with dogs that act worried or lack confidence around people.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys. Welcome to another episode of drinking from the toilet, the podcast where we get real nerdy talking about teaching and training with positive |
| 0:21.5 | reinforcement. I'm your host and fellow behavior nerd Hannah Branigan. This episode is sponsored |
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| 0:44.7 | listeners. So in my household, I have quite a range of temperaments. I have mainly hurting dogs, |
| 0:52.0 | and most of them have that kind of typical hurting dog aloofness, |
| 0:57.3 | bordering on suspicion attitude towards unfamiliar people. But I also have a terve that nobody |
| 1:03.7 | told was supposed to be aloof. He may even miss his calling as a therapy dog. Unfortunately, |
| 1:08.8 | he does not live with a therapy person. So that job is pretty |
| 1:12.6 | much off the table for him. Fortunately, he's made a pretty darn good obedience dog and hasn't been |
| 1:17.2 | too bad at the other sports that we tinker in either. So he has plenty to keep him busy. |
| 1:22.0 | But I also have a terrier who has never considered other humans to be anything other than |
| 1:27.2 | either current friends or future friends. |
| 1:30.0 | And it turns out that that's actually kind of nice. It makes a lot of things, a lot of things easier. |
| 1:35.4 | Not that it doesn't have his challenges, but definitely approaching unfamiliar people, |
| 1:38.6 | that's not something we've had to particularly work on. And now I have a border collie puppy, |
| 1:42.9 | who I suspect is probably going to fall |
| 1:44.8 | somewhere in the middle of the spectrum. But having had dogs in the past that were most definitely |
| 1:50.0 | not okay with people other than approved inner circle guests who have filled out and filed |
| 1:55.6 | the appropriate paperwork and who sometimes enforced this with problematic behaviors, I am very invested in making sure |
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