Today, as I think back on the last year, dealing with this global pandemic, having lived in

lockdown, unable to travel my normal life as I'm heading off on a plane

somewhere at least every other week.

But I basically have lived in this house and on this property for a year now since February

of 2020.

And it makes me think about stress.

So today on the podcast, it's all about stress and how we

deal with it. Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog. I'm going to tell you a story about my

very first dog. Her name was Shelby. She was a phenomenal agility dog. But all my dogs back then would

travel with me. I was a traveling pharmaceutical sales rep. I went and visited

veterinarians at their clinics. And one time, it was a hot summer day. I was in downtown Toronto.

Quite often, I brought my dogs in, or if it was really hot, I left them at home.

But this day, I was just running in to see a client super fast. I left the car running. I'd taken the

keys with me, like a spare set of keys. Went into the clinic. I came back out. I also cracked

the windows for the three dogs. And I go to open the car door and lo and behold, my keys are

sitting on the seat, my spare set of keys that I intended to take in. I had all

these thoughts of should I break the window and then I, you know, relax. It's hot out, but the car's running.

You've got air conditioning going on in there. And then I had this brilliant idea. I would talk

Shelby into bringing me the keys because she knew bring or

get that ting was her thing. Get that ting. Just look for something to retrieve to me.

Now, she was in the back seat and my dogs knew they weren't allowed in the front seat.

That was the biggest hurdle for me to, once I got her convinced to come into the front

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