Dog Questions: Choosing Dog Training Classes, "Naughty Dogs" And More #116
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 22 October 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
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I get a lot of questions about my dogs, and we’re covering some of your most popular. Have you ever wondered why our rescue Bulldog mix, Tater-Salad, is the “fall guy”? Or which one of my dogs is the smartest (the answer is NOT who you might think it is)? Do you wonder how to select a dog training class or what to do when you have a male dog and your female dog is in season? I’m answering those questions and more!
In the episode you'll hear:
• About Tater’s secret life as an actor.
• Which one of my dogs is the smartest.
• What dog sport I would do if I didn’t compete in dog agility.
• Where my dogs sleep at night and how often I feed my dogs.
• Why naughty is in the eye of the beholder and how often I train my dogs.
• Why you don’t want to know how much it costs to breed dogs.
• The favorite activities my dogs enjoy and what I think is the best number of dogs.
• Why my first dog was a Terrier.
• The biggest challenges I’ve had training.
• If my dogs have dewclaws.
• The three words I’ve never say about dogs.
• What I look for when I go to a training class.
• My favorite qualities of my dogs.
• Why I do jump grids for agility.
• The challenges I add when building a dog training skill.
• How I select a breeder and what I do when my female dogs are in season.
• That my agility dogs do not fast before competition.
• My observations about social learning in dogs and borrowing confidence.
• Why Tater came to live with us.
Resources:
• Join in our Free Online Dog Agility Masterclass - https://www.handling360.com/masterclass/
• Blog Post: All About Dogs Sleeping in the Bedroom - https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2020/03/dogs-sleeping-in-the-bedroom/
• Podcast Episode 6: The Art of Manipulation - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/6/
• Podcast Episode 83: The Dog Training You Do When You’re Not Dog Training - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/83/
• YouTube Video: Normalizing Imperfection in Dog Training - https://youtu.be/X_f1hm_XhJM
• Podcast Episode 57: Why Balance Breaks Fast Track Your Dog Training (D.A.S.H.) - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/57/
• Podcast Episode 36: Puppy Selection: How I Do It and Why I Didn’t This! Time - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/36/
• Podcast Episode 111: How An Anchor Dog Can Help Overcome Your Dog’s Anxiety Or Reactivity - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/111/
• Podcast Episode 78: How to Train a Rescue Dog with Behavior Problems - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/78/
• Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on YouTube - https://youtu.be/y3YFrSL1StY
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You know how sometimes I ask you for training questions? Well, today I put out on social media. |
| 0:16.0 | Would you like me to answer questions about my dogs or about training. And overwhelmingly, people wanted to know |
| 0:22.6 | questions or answers about my dog. So here goes. Susan, why is Tater always the fall guy? |
| 0:30.0 | Tater is often the brunt of jokes on social media because I think Tater secretly is an actor. |
| 0:35.3 | Like, he loves getting dressed up. He's always got this |
| 0:38.7 | look on his face that he's a poster child for a humane society. Why is he always a fault |
| 0:43.5 | guy? Because like, that's who he wants to be. He's, he really is a dorky dog. Which of your |
| 0:49.5 | dogs is the smartest? This might surprise a lot of you, but the smartest dog in this household, |
| 0:56.0 | I would have to say is Tater Salad. He definitely is pretty brilliant. If you did not do |
| 1:00.8 | agility, what dog sport would you do? Hmm. That's tough. I've done a lot of dog sports and |
| 1:08.6 | I do like them all. Definitely, I love agility most of all. |
| 1:12.6 | I've loved competition obedience, although I think agility is far more fun for my dogs. |
| 1:19.6 | You know, not that I didn't make competition obedience a lot of fun. It was fun. Probably I love |
| 1:24.3 | freestyle, but I don't like the dancing so much for me. So, maybe scent nosework, |
| 1:31.3 | some sort of nosework. I do like training that. Where do your dogs sleep at night? Wherever they |
| 1:36.3 | want. Generally, Swagger sleeps beside my bed unless Kim is here and then he sleeps with her. Tater sleeps with Kim or if there's a fire |
| 1:47.5 | going, he sleeps in front of the fire. And this sleeps, okay, I'll be honest, she sleeps in bed |
| 1:52.7 | with me. Long story, but that's true. Momentum likes to sleep right by the front door and |
| 1:58.1 | feature now sleeps in the spare bedroom or in the spare bedroom bathroom. That's a little |
| 2:05.8 | bit sad. In 2019, my husband passed away and when they took him out in an ambulance, |
| 2:13.6 | feature has never come back in our bedroom. She used to sleep in our bedroom every night. |
| 2:17.2 | So that, So, that, |
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