Creating Confidence For Anxious, Stressed Or Reactive Dogs Part 1 #168
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 5 August 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
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If your dog is stressed, anxious or reactive, there’s so much you can do to replace that stress, anxiety and reactivity with confidence. Two things are super important to help our dogs become confident, and those are our mindset and training clarity. Believing in your dog will help you bring out their best in any situation.
In the episode you'll hear:
• About thinking the best about our dogs and the best about ourselves.
• How to throw away any negative feelings you might have about yourself.
• That you are doing the best you can and to ignore society’s judgment.
• About the unrealistic expectations people have about dogs.
• How to see the dog you love everywhere you go with that dog.
• Why to know what your dog will do when they are overwhelmed.
• That you need a plan to replace food lures and props in your dog training.
• About breaking behaviors down and how that applies to walking on a loose leash.
• Why we want to help our dogs recover from failure fast and how it starts with ItsYerChoice.
• A review of the arousal curve, so you can be aware of your dog’s emotional state.
• Why we need to believe our dogs and learn from the information they give us.
• That our dogs are always doing the best they can in any situation and change is possible.
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Resources:
1. Podcast Episode 167: Reduce Your Dog’s Stress And Anxiety In Training - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/167/
2. YouTube Playlist: Reactive or Aggressive Dogs: Key Insights with Susan Garrett - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLphRRSxcMHy0Tbd6ZybIXgJk3mtpBLLk7
3. Podcast Episode 163: Unsolicited Dog Training Advice: How To Protect Your Confidence And Your Dog - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/163/
4. Podcast Episode 78: How to Train a Rescue Dog with Behavior Problems - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/78/
5. Podcast Episode 114: Dog Agility Training: 3 Big Mistakes All Dog Owners Should Avoid - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/114/
6. Podcast Episode 3: How Hollywood Made Life Tough For Dogs - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/3/
7. Podcast Episode 76: Leash Walking: Distracted, or Reactive Dog? These Games Will Help! - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/76/
8. YouTube Video: Perch Work (Pivots and Spins) - https://youtu.be/O6sj6fTJnFc
9. Podcast Episode 86: How to Train Unmotivated or Overexcited Dogs - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/86/
10. Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on YouTube - https://youtu.be/N_XO0jqxvBg
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | In podcast episode number 167, I talked about how you can set up your training so that you |
| 0:06.2 | can avoid unnecessary stress or anxiety for your dog. |
| 0:09.1 | And today I'm following up that episode by sharing how you can replace your dog's stress, |
| 0:16.5 | anxiety, or reactivity with some good old fashion confidence. Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog. I have got a lot to pack into today's |
| 0:36.3 | podcast, but nothing more important than what I have |
| 0:40.0 | upfront. And that is, there's two things that are super important about helping dogs who are |
| 0:47.8 | stressed or anxious or maybe are reactive. Number one is, it's your mindset. Because when you have a dog that you know is a little |
| 1:00.1 | bit worried in certain environments or the opposite, they get a little bit out of control and they |
| 1:05.7 | like lunge up people because they want to meet them and they bark and want to chase skateboarders |
| 1:10.0 | and it looks like they're trying to eat them and they really don't. They're just super friendly. Or you have a dog |
| 1:15.2 | that has moved from super friendly and maybe has grown a little bit reactive to those skateboarders. |
| 1:21.7 | So, wherever you are with your dog, there now is some anxiety in you because of what the history of your dog has |
| 1:31.9 | built in you and the thought that that might happen again, but more importantly, the reaction |
| 1:38.6 | to the people that are around when it happens. And you might hear things like, you really think you should |
| 1:45.6 | have a dog like that out at the park or you should get a good trainer for that dog or that |
| 1:50.9 | dog is a complete a whole. I can't believe you're not correcting that dog or other unsolicited |
| 1:56.8 | advice that I spoke about in podcast episode number 163. And what happens to you? Number one, |
| 2:03.4 | you're embarrassed. Number two, you feel a little bit of shame. And number three, you know your dog's a |
| 2:12.0 | good dog. You know these people are misunderstanding them. So then there's a little bit of guilt |
| 2:17.1 | because you're feeling bad that you didn't show up for your dog or you did You know these people are misunderstanding him. So, then there's a little bit of guilt because |
| 2:17.8 | you're feeling bad that you didn't show up for your dog or you didn't put in the training |
| 2:23.0 | to get the dog to a better place. So there's some regrets about how you've trained and, |
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