Welcome to the Absolute Dog Sex and a Squirrel podcast. I'm Lauren Langman. I'm one of the world's leading dog trainers and it's my mission to help owners become their dog's top priority. In each episode, you'll discover how to gain trust and

communicate with your dog like never before, creating unbreakable bonds that make you the most

exciting part of their world. Okay, so we're talking confidence hoops, and I know, Jamie, this is a

massive passion area of yours. And what we've seen through teaching

so many different dogs confidence hoops

from Eliza's little dog, Kady,

through to a young dog,

through to an older dog,

through to a dog who's a bit naughty but nice,

through a dog who's maybe a little bit nervous,

lacking confidence in loads of different areas.

Actually hoops and hula hoops were talking, have been really

game changer. Tell us about it. What is it? Where did it come about? How did it come about?

What is confidence hoops? I think I'm not sure where it came about, but confidence hoops. It is,

it's just, I think maybe it was just about building confidence. And we had a couple of games where we'd use a hoop. So we'd use different, different kind of objects and stuff. And a hoop was one of them. I always used to laugh at Sam when she used to go around with a hoop and tell her like, it's like she's going to circus type thing. And she was going to circus,

right? Like she's circus dog, circus tricks. But like Eliza, for example, I know you've done

loads of hoops with Eliza and loads of hoops with Katie. And Katie's confidence has come on

leaps and bounds. And why a hoop and what do you do with the hoop and why does it work?

So originally a hoop we used to just, I used to, well, I just started off just going through the hoop.

And then you would kind of notice with some dogs it was easy and with some dogs they would be really aware of the hoop even if you held the hoop up or if it was lying flat on the floor in front of you, it could be a novel

item. It could be something that they're just like a little bit suspicious of. So it was just

really interesting to see how different dogs reacted to the hoop. And so then with certain dogs,

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