Dog Behavior And Diet: Recovery For This! Beyond Dog Training Part 2 #204
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 31 March 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
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In episode 203, I told the story of the behavior struggles I’ve had with my two-and-a-half-year-old Border Collie This! and the timeline of our challenges that were beyond dog training. And this episode is part two, covering how we began making changes to her diet, the practitioners who helped me help This!, and what I am doing now to ensure that This! has a life of joy. I also want to add a disclaimer that I am not a Veterinarian or Nutritionist. I just want to let you know the journey This! and I have been on together.
In the episode you'll hear:
• How I narrowed This!'s lack of drive and joy for work down to nutrition.
• That you can't dog train a problem that isn't a dog training problem.
• How an Austrian naturopath helped me help This!.
• Why my naturopath requested photographs of my dogs' gums and what they revealed.
• Why I believe a raw food diet is the best option for my dogs.
• The help I received from Dr. Laurie Coger, an integrative and functional medicine veterinarian.
• The role ancestral geographic origins have in nutrition.
• About our IC Peeps roundtable with Unlocking the Canine Ancestral Diet author Steve Brown.
• About Dr. Peter Dobias and the results of the heavy metal analysis of This!'s fur sample.
• My process for balancing This!'s diet and what I observed.
• How an herbalist used acupressure points to balance This!'s endocrine system.
• What I'm doing now in dog training to help This! have joy.
• How weekly Flyball classes are helping.
• What This! is eating now, and my hope for raw food manufacturers.
• The reason I entered This! into World Team Tryouts.
• Why I believe This!'s comeback will be bigger than her setbacks.
Resources:
1. Podcast Episode 203: Reactive, Unmotivated and Fearful: Finding Resiliency For This! Beyond Dog Training Part 1 - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/203/
2. Dr. Laurie Coger: The Healthy Dog Workshop - https://healthydogworkshop.com/about/
3. *Book: Unlocking the Canine Ancestral Diet by Steve Brown -https://geni.us/unlocking-ancestral
4. Dr. Peter Dobias Website - https://peterdobias.com/
5. Podcast Episode 183: What Does “Train The Dog In Front Of You” Really Mean? - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/183/
6. Podcast Episode 172: How To Teach Your Dog Anything With My Training Plan - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/172/
7. Podcast Episode 174: Dopamine In Dog Training: Anticipation, Rewards, And The Transfer Of Value - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/174/
8. Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on YouTube - https://youtu.be/OhlV8M10O2U
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Susan only recommends products she uses herself, and all opinions expressed here are her own. The link above is an affiliate link that, at no additional cost to you, we may earn a small commission if you decide to buy from it. Thank you!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you listen to podcast episode number 203, you would have heard the story of my journey |
| 0:05.3 | with my two and a half year old Border Collie this. If you haven't watched that video, |
| 0:11.0 | you might want to jump over to YouTube because there's a lot of great video footage |
| 0:15.2 | of our training together of the times and things didn't go well. But today, I share the rest |
| 0:20.8 | of the times and things didn't go well. But today, I share the rest of the story. |
| 0:21.6 | Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog. And before I get into today, I just need to |
| 0:37.2 | to say, I am reporting on my journey. |
| 0:40.5 | I am not a veterinarian. I am not a qualified nutritionist. Anything I say is just sharing data of what I |
| 0:48.5 | did. Your journey will be unique to you and your dog and I strongly encourage you that you seek out |
| 0:53.8 | the help of a health professional and your dog and I strongly encourage you that you seek out the help |
| 0:54.4 | of a health professional and your veterinarian before you try to undertake any of the things |
| 1:00.3 | that I've done. I got to the place in our last time together where I had a 19-month-old |
| 1:06.1 | puppy who was basically shutting down, had no joy to work, had little connection to me, was exhausted |
| 1:13.4 | after work, had to decompress. And what she loved was she loved birds. She loved chasing |
| 1:20.4 | birds, chasing her mother, and she loved to swim. And for anybody who's afraid, I love |
| 1:25.5 | birds too, so I never, ever get near the birds. |
| 1:27.6 | But her and the barn swallows, they have this relationship. It's a fun story. But those are |
| 1:32.7 | things that I could use to help build drive. But you can't dog train a problem that isn't a dog |
| 1:38.5 | training problem. And so I had come to the conclusion back in March of 2022 that this was a nutrition problem. |
| 1:47.5 | And so I was going to seek out people to help me with. And I was so blessed to be introduced |
| 1:52.8 | to a natural path from Austria who was willing to help me. She was a recaller student |
| 1:58.9 | and had the world of knowledge. And what I've come to learn |
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