CSI Tips for Managing a Multi-Dog Household #15
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 29 July 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
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In a multi-dog household, it's important that all dogs have confidence and be comfortable. I'm sharing my biggest tips for intentional household harmony.
In the episode you'll hear:
- When I realized that comfort and confidence for all dogs is vital.
- How to be present to what your dogs are telling you.
- The CSI of a multi-dog home.
- How I prevent resource guarding before it starts.
- The guidelines and house rules that set everyone up for success.
Resources:
- Podcast Episode 14: Creating Intentional Multi-Dog Household Harmony - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/14/
- Podcast Episode 4: T.E.M.P. (Tail, Eyes/Ears, Mouth, Posture) - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/4/
- Podcast Episode 2: Reinforcement - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/2/
- ItsYerChoice Game (IYC) - https://recallers.com/iycsummit-thankyou/
- Recallers - https://dogsthat.com/recallers/
- Podcast Episode 6: The Art of Manipulation - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/6/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, welcome to Shape by Dog. |
| 0:11.2 | I am Susan Garrett. |
| 0:12.6 | Today we're going to pick up where we left off on episode number 14 of Shape by Dog |
| 0:18.2 | where I was talking about intentional interactions in the dogs that live in my house. |
| 0:25.6 | If you have multiple dogs in your house, that relationships can just grow hopefully where you go, |
| 0:31.6 | well, I just hope they get along. I hope he ends up liking each other. Or they can be intentional. |
| 0:39.6 | And you intentionally set them up so that they are BFFs, all the animals in your house. And it doesn't matter if it's cross |
| 0:44.3 | species. You might have a bunny or a cat and you want to intentionally set that up so that the dog |
| 0:49.7 | actually doesn't hurt the cat or the dog. The five stages of coexistence that I have observed |
| 0:56.0 | within my household and that, you know, dogs who really love each other and get along |
| 1:00.5 | great inside the house and outside the house, I describe them as they adore each other. Step |
| 1:05.3 | number two was they acknowledge. They get along. They like each other and everyone's hunky-dory. |
| 1:09.3 | No problems ever. The third stage is the tolerate stage. Every now and again, they like each other and everyone's hunky dory. No problems ever. The third stage |
| 1:11.7 | is the tolerate stage. Every now and again, they might have leave the area because they just, |
| 1:15.9 | you know, I've had enough of that dog. Number four is the aggravate where the dog is a little |
| 1:21.7 | more edgy. And how can you tell this? Go back to episode number four in shaped by dogs where I describe the T-E-E-E-M-P, |
| 1:29.9 | the temp of a dog. Your dog will tell you before they ever have to open their mouth and use |
| 1:35.4 | their voice of growling or snapping, they're going to let you know with their body language, |
| 1:40.7 | how they're feeling about the dogs in their environment and nearby. I don't ever want |
| 1:44.5 | them to have to get to a place where they're aggravated and have to show you that they're |
| 1:47.7 | aggravated because number five, and you don't want to wait until you get to number five, |
| 1:52.0 | because this may be the point of no return when you have dogs who hate each other. |
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