Can a Dog be Happy and Well Trained? #43

Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett

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4.8 • 679 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

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Would you like a well-behaved dog at the expense of having a happy dog? How do we define happy? Would you be willing to make your dog a little sad, confused, anxious, stressed to be well-behaved? With every dog I have ever owned my approach to training has become a little more Zen-like. Trust in me is important for my dogs to be part of my family, and part of the life I lead.

In the episode you'll hear:

• What I was taught in the ‘80s about house training, and what I do now.
• Why my dogs are such characters.
• The “so what….” question to ask yourself.
• More about what I was taught in the ‘80s relating to puppy biting.
• About increasing or decreasing trust and happiness for dogs.
• Why what we learn first is what we learn best, and how we can change.
• How kindness should extend to ourselves.
• About the clarity my dogs have for rules and how that gives them freedom.
• How our dogs take on our emotions.
• The reason to plan your responses to what your dog does.
• That clarity is the opposite of anxiety and how certainty helps dogs.
• Why the choice is ours on who we are for our dogs.
• How our dogs can help us to become more compassionate.

Resources:

• Podcast Episode 4: T.E.M.P. (Tail, Eyes/Ears, Mouth, Posture) - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/4/
• Blog Post: It’s Time to P-o-t-t-y! Inside Scoop on Housetraining - https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2018/08/scoop-on-housetraining/
• Podcast Episode 17: Help! How do I STOP Puppy Biting?! - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/17/
• Podcast Episode 18: 4 Puppy and Dog Training Games for Acquired Bite Inhibition - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/18/
• Podcast Episode 20: Bridging the Gap Between Blame and Kindness in Dog Training - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/20/
• Podcast Episode 27: Do Dogs Need Rules? - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/27/
• Podcast Episode 6: The Art of Manipulation - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/6/
• Agility Nation - https://dogsthat.com/agility-nation/

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, welcome to Shape by Dog.
0:12.3	And before we get started today, I just want to give a shout out to a reader who I'm
0:19.3	not going to read their letter because it was actually
0:22.5	a criticism of me. But you know, when we know better, we do better. And what this reader said
0:28.9	is she had a young nine-year-old who loved listening to my podcasts, but that she felt she
0:36.4	couldn't let this child listen to them all because sometimes I say
0:41.7	things that are more adult in nature and I hear you and sometimes I'll say things just
0:49.2	to be funny but hey, I would love to think that I'm helping to shape the future of tomorrow's dog trainers.
0:55.0	So, I am going to give you my word that I am going to do my best to make all of my podcasts
1:00.8	PG3. Let's not even go from 13. Let's go all the way down to three. Let's start training those
1:06.4	three-year-olds to be kinder to their dogs. Okay, to start today's podcast, I have a question for you.
1:13.6	Would you like a well-behaved dog at the expense of having a happy dog? I'd like you to think about that.
1:26.1	Would you say I would prefer a well-behaved dog and I will forgive
1:31.4	a little bit of my dog being happy? Would you make that trade-off? Because a lot of people ask you
1:38.9	to do that depending on the way they are suggesting you train your dog. Now, how do we define
1:43.3	happy? You could go to
1:45.2	episode 4 in shape by dog and where I talk about the temp, tail, ears, eyes, mouth, posture of the
1:50.9	dog because a dog will tell us volumes about how they're feeling, what's going on in their brain
1:56.9	and their heart just by the posture that they're taking and their physical appearance.
2:01.5	But you could also think of the opposite of happy. Would you be willing to make your dog a little
2:08.1	sad, a little confused, a little anxious, a little worried, a little stressed, a little afraid
2:15.0	of you in order to have a well-behaved dog.
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