Being Present With Empathy In Dog Training #122
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 16 November 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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What three words would you and your dog pick to describe your dog training? I’d like to think my dogs pick the words fun, kind and clear. The late Wayne Dyer influenced my dog training mantra, and I believe that our dogs are doing the absolute best they can with the education we’ve given them in the environment that we are asking them to perform in. If you embrace this, it’s the gateway to having not only the best relationship with your dog but to the best trained dog you have ever had.
In the episode you'll hear:
• How being present for your dog will flow on to the way you show up to the world.
• Why our dogs are a mirror of what we are teaching them.
• About the questions we can ask ourselves if our dogs do something we don't want.
• The reason to bring mindfulness to dog training.
• Why to be present for the impact you have in the life of your dog.
• About observing when your dog focuses on you.
• Knowing if we want a dog in our life or want the best life for our dog.
• How dogs learn despite the training methodology.
• How the right approach to training lets dogs be brilliant.
• About inspiring great responses for dog training to be magical.
Resources:
• Crate Games Online - https://get.crategames.com/
• Podcast Episode 6: The Art of Manipulation - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/6/
• Podcast Episode 57: Why Balance Breaks Fast Track Your Dog Training - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/57/
• Podcast Episode 90: Premack, Dog Training and Transfer of Value - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/90/
• Podcast Episode 5: What is Shaping And How Can Dogs Shape Us - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/5/
• Podcast Episode 56: 5 Simple Questions to Guide Your Dog Training - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/56/
• Podcast Episode 100: Dog Training: The Most Important Lesson I Can Share - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/100/
• Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on YouTube - https://youtu.be/WK0AlfKHWAM
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Pop quiz. If I was to ask you to pick three words that you and your dog would both say defines |
| 0:16.9 | or describes your dog training, what three words would they be? I'll give you a second to think about |
| 0:21.5 | that. Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog. I'd like to think that my dogs would pick |
| 0:27.8 | fun as definitely one of them, kind and clear. Those would be my three words. What were the three words |
| 0:34.5 | that you would pick that your dogs would agree would be the three words that would describe that the training that you have between the words. What were the three words that you would pick that your dogs would agree would be the |
| 0:38.2 | three words that would describe the training that you have between them? Now, if you've been |
| 0:42.8 | watching this podcast or if you're brand new to it, I'm going to let you in on what is my |
| 0:48.7 | mantra to dog training and it is evolved and been influenced by the people who've influenced my life. |
| 0:54.8 | In particular, Wayne Dyer has been a huge influence on this mantra that I have. |
| 0:59.1 | And it is this. |
| 1:00.9 | Our dogs are doing the absolute best they can with the education we've given them |
| 1:05.4 | in the environment that we are asking them to perform in. |
| 1:09.9 | If you buy into this, then I believe this becomes a gateway |
| 1:15.4 | for you to have the most amazing relationship with a dog that you've ever had. And it also |
| 1:20.9 | becomes the gateway to have the best trained dog you've ever had because you aren't going to look at the dog as doing something |
| 1:30.1 | wrong. You're going to look at the dog and go, wow, where did I screw up here? Like, is it |
| 1:37.4 | the education that I've given you or did I set you up for failure by putting you in the wrong |
| 1:43.2 | environment? |
| 1:48.9 | So, not only does this become a gateway for you to have a better relationship with your dog and a better behaved dog, I believe that in turn, if you practice this daily with your dog, |
| 1:55.8 | it can't help but influence the way you look at the people in your life. |
| 2:00.3 | And so you're going to show up in a different way at the people in your life. And so you're going to show up |
| 2:02.4 | in a different way for the people in your life, be it your family, your friends, your, |
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