Consent In Dog Training: The Misuse, Misunderstanding And Misapplication #106
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 27 August 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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The idea of getting consent to train your dog is growing in popularity for a good reason. It is something I have been doing for many years. But consent is also misused, misunderstood, and misapplied, which can cause massive setbacks for dogs and their owners. So, what is consent really, and how does it benefit our dogs?
In the episode you'll hear:
• Where consent in animal training comes from and why cooperative care is important.
• About the “game on” position that I use in my training.
• The two categories of consent: general dog training and husbandry for health.
• How my dogs show me I have their expressed consent.
• What implied consent is and how dogs show you permission.
• How our dog’s T.E.M.P. indicates their implied consent.
• The category of substituted consent and what that means for our dog’s safety.
• What manufactured consent is and why I don’t use it.
• The reasons why a dog might say “no, thank you!”.
• Why to pay attention to your dog’s emotions, eustress, and physical discomfort.
• Where things go wrong when a dog says “no”.
• Why we want to grow our dog’s comfort zone.
• The importance of D.A.S.H. in dog training.
• What to do when your dog says no and why we want to turn that to yes.
Resources:
• Learn How to Play ItsYerChoice - https://recallers.com/iycsummit-join/
• Crate Games Online - https://get.crategames.com/
• Podcast Episode 40: Using A Head Halter On A Dog, Why My Approach Is So Different - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/40/
• Podcast Episode 4: T.E.M.P. (Tail, Eyes/Ears, Mouth, Posture) - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/4/
•Podcast Episode 57: Why Balance Breaks Fast Track Your Dog Training - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/57/
• Podcast Episode 86: How to Train Unmotivated or Overexcited Dogs - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/86/
• Podcast Episode 79: Reduce Anxiety and Grow Your Dog’s Confidence with These Pro Dog Training Tips - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/79/
• Podcast Episode 24: Help for the Dog who Chases Chipmunks, Bicycles, and the Neighbor’s Cat - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/24/
• Podcast Episode 103: Excited Or Suspicious Dog? Dealing With Your Dog’s Emotions - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/103/
• Podcast Episode 75: Stop Motion Sickness: Helping Your Puppy or Dog Love the Car - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/75/
• Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on YouTube - https://youtu.be/mzoUUJT5eiQ
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The idea of getting consent to train your dog is really growing in popularity and with really |
| 0:15.7 | good reason. However, the misunderstanding, misuse, or misapplication of this concept is really messing |
| 0:23.2 | up some dogs and causing some massive setbacks for them and their owners. |
| 0:28.6 | Hi, I'm Susan Garrett and today we're going to dig into what really is consent in dog |
| 0:34.9 | training and how best can we benefit and our dogs benefit by us using it. |
| 0:40.6 | By definition, consent is giving permission for something to happen or an agreement to do something. |
| 0:46.8 | This idea really came from the marine mammal and zoo world where, let's face it, they had to |
| 0:53.8 | train consent because let's say we've got to |
| 0:56.7 | take a blood draw from a killer whale. If he doesn't want you to do that, it's not happening. |
| 1:02.7 | And so, without training an animal to be compliant and say, I'm liking this, this is good, |
| 1:09.2 | we can do this all day long. What they had to do was |
| 1:12.6 | actually beat that whale by completely emptying the tank in order to get a blood sample. |
| 1:20.0 | So consent training is often called cooperative care. And it's something that I've included |
| 1:25.1 | in my dog training since the mid-90s, but I've |
| 1:28.3 | called it the game-on position. Now, this game-on position could be in one of two distinctly |
| 1:34.6 | different categories. One would be general dog training where I've taught games like, |
| 1:39.2 | it's your choice or crate games or do you want to wear your head halter? All of these things require the dog |
| 1:46.7 | to do something to tell me they want to continue. Now, the other area is the area of health |
| 1:54.6 | where I've asked the dog to show me I have permission to do something like brush them or brush |
| 2:00.3 | their teeth or trim their nails. So, |
| 2:02.8 | two different areas, both involving my dog saying, yes, we can do this or no, I don't |
| 2:08.7 | really feel comfortable with you doing that. So these two categories of training, health and general |
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