All The Things That Influence Your Dog's Behavior And What Behavior Tells You #189
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 11 January 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
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Recently I came across an envelope containing all my report cards from kindergarten through university. Reading over my teachers' comments was an enlightening study of behavior and how I adapted in the face of challenges. I'm sharing what I noticed with you as there's a parallel with dog behavior and why they do the things they do. Behavior can fall into seven distinct categories, and understanding the influence of each category is massively beneficial for us to know what dogs are communicating.
In the episode you'll hear:
• An overview of my school report cards and what they show about my behavior changing.
• How my teachers’ observations reflected the adaptations I made due to dyslexia.
• Why labels, absolutes and assumptions about a dog can limit their learning.
• That dog training is never a linear path, and we are always relationship building.
• About the 7 categories of Genetics, Health, Education, Exercise, Sleep, Environment and Nutrition and how each can influence a dog’s behavior.
• That our dog’s behavior is information and gives us great feedback to help them.
• Why the question “what else might be true” is vital to ask yourself.
• That unconditional love means allowing your dog to communicate through behavior.
Resources:
1. Podcast Episode 50: Can Your Worst Challenge Make You a Better Dog Trainer? - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/50/
2. Podcast Episode 71: Pro Dog Trainer’s Secret to Help Your Naughty Dog - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/71/
3. Podcast Episode 186: 2 Types Of Connection With Dogs: Dog Agility And Daily Life Case Studies - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/186/
4. YouTube Video: Normalizing Imperfection in Dog Training - https://youtu.be/X_f1hm_XhJM
5. Podcast Episode 188: Why You Should Change Your Strategy Rather Than Your Criteria When Dog Training - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/188/
6. Podcast Episode 74: Yes, Susan Garrett’s Dogs Sniff On Walks - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/74/
7. YouTube Playlist: Puppy Essentials with Susan Garrett Dog Training - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLphRRSxcMHy2hywpv3Md3HbWWPPbVF8W5
8. YouTube Playlist: Fearful Dogs Help with Susan Garrett - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLphRRSxcMHy0KAsqgnkMWv0v-5JGjNQG_
9. YouTube Playlist: Exercising Your Dog's Body and Mind: Tips and Games with Susan Garrett - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLphRRSxcMHy1ISzbaoCNh0NyLg3qgDG58
10. Podcast Episode 120: The Rhythm Of Life With Puppies And Dogs - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/120/
11. Podcast Episode 62: 12 Keys to Helping My Dogs Live a Long and Happy Life - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/62/
12. YouTube Playlist: Susan Garrett's Dog Training Philosophy and Training Processes - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLphRRSxcMHy2An5_3KqDPqFVV6J6dYsYx
13. Podcast Episode 46: Is Your Dog Trying to Dominate You and What You Can Do About It - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/46/
14. Podcast Episode 150: Adding Mindset To Your Dog Training Tools: Who Do You Become? - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/150/
15. Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on YouTube - https://youtu.be/Tce597xfqA4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Over the Christmas holidays, I was inspired to declutter my office. |
| 0:03.8 | And in the process, I came across this envelope. I haven't seen, I don't know, 30 years. |
| 0:08.0 | It was an envelope that my mother had given me. And in it was every single report card I'd ever |
| 0:13.6 | been given from kindergarten up until I went away to university. |
| 0:18.2 | As I went through and read each and every comment, it was a massive |
| 0:23.2 | enlightening study of behavior. And I thought I'd share it with you so you can see the parallel |
| 0:30.2 | to why our dogs do some of the things that we can do. And knowing this is going to be a huge |
| 0:37.0 | benefit to each of you. |
| 0:39.4 | I've distilled it down to seven categories of potential reasons why your dog might be doing |
| 0:46.2 | what they're doing. |
| 1:00.1 | Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog. Let me tell you a little bit about what those report cards actually said. And if you're |
| 1:04.4 | watching this on YouTube, show you a little glimpse of them. I'm going to preface this by saying |
| 1:08.2 | that I was very, very shy as a child, probably for the first |
| 1:11.9 | four, five, six years. And my DNA profile from 23 and me says, I have a 50, 50 chance of being |
| 1:21.9 | afraid of speaking in public. Now, something happened between that very, very shy four-year-old child and the human that |
| 1:31.5 | I am today who probably my number one love is speaking in front of large groups of people. |
| 1:36.8 | And what happened was something influenced my behavior or more than likely many, many things influenced my behavior. Before |
| 1:47.9 | I tell you exactly what was in those report cards, I'm going to share with you, I am dyslexic |
| 1:53.7 | and probably have ADHD or had all of that undiagnosed. Because when I went to school, it was kind of unheard of. |
| 2:02.9 | And for me, the big problem that I had that my mother took me to a ophthalmologist to try and |
| 2:08.7 | fix was when I read, the words grew to cover the whole page. So, I had to wait till the words |
| 2:15.4 | got smaller before I could read the next word. |
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