Dog Training A Stressed, Anxious Or Reactive Dog Part 2 #169
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 10 August 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
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If you were to google for help for an anxious, stressed, or reactive dog, you’d get many suggestions, many of which are good! But there are critical elements that are essential for you to know. We’re covering the 10 things that are vital for you to help your dog get into the confidence zone.
In the episode you'll hear:
• Why training should be about reinforcement rather than isolating what you don't like.
• The reason not to put your dog or yourself in a position where there will be judgment.
• About choosing a dog training program that will protect your dog's confidence.
• Why to know your dog's number one highest value reward.
• The difference between perception triggers and fear triggers.
• That triggers don't stay static and get lower or grow in intensity.
• Why to know your dog's Confidence Zone and how to grow it in stages.
• About Matching Law and how that applies to what you do with your dog.
• How creating good active and calm triggers will help you help your dog.
• Why it's important to condition a love for any tools you will be using.
• That some dogs need behavioral medication, and it can make training easier.
Resources:
1. Podcast Episode 168: Creating Confidence For Anxious, Stressed Or Reactive Dogs Part 1 - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/168/
2. Podcast Episode 94: How the Best Professional Dog Trainers Use Reinforcement - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/94/
3. Podcast Episode 46: Is Your Dog Trying to Dominate You and What You Can Do About It - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/46/
4. Agility Nation - https://www.agility-nation.com/
5. Podcast Episode 11: The Power of Permission in Dog Training - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/11/
6. Podcast Episode 90: Premack, Dog Training and Transfer of Value - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/90/
7. Podcast Episode 71: Pro Dog Trainer’s Secret to Help Your Naughty Dog - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/71/
8. Podcast Episode 112: Stressed Dog? How Trigger Stacking Might Be Putting Your Dog Over Threshold - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/112/
9. YouTube Playlist: Fearful Dogs Help with Susan Garrett - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLphRRSxcMHy0KAsqgnkMWv0v-5JGjNQG_
10. Podcast Episode 167: Reduce Your Dog’s Stress And Anxiety In Training - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/167/
11. Podcast Episode 166: Puppy Freedom: How Much Is Too Much? - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/166/
12. YouTube Playlist: Dog Training Games with Susan Garrett - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLphRRSxcMHy2TzttCtZVFwzwMGayAsaYe
13. Podcast Episode 111: How An Anchor Dog Can Help Overcome Your Dog’s Anxiety Or Reactivity - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/111/
14. Matching Law (Wikipedia) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matching_law
15. Podcast Episode 86: How to Train Unmotivated or Overexcited Dogs - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/86/
16. YouTube Video: Puppy's First Training with Susan Garrett: Shaping, Targeting and Collar Conditioning - https://youtu.be/ticB_1Twx6E
17. Podcast Episode 40: Using A Head Halter On A Dog, Why My Approach Is So Different - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/40/
18. Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on YouTube - https://youtu.be/WTheqs3fqgE
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you were to Google, help for my anxious, stress or reactive dog, you're going to get a lot |
| 0:05.8 | of great suggestions, things like essential oils you should use or nutritional supplements that |
| 0:11.2 | you should include or not include compression shirts that may be of benefit. And a lot of this is |
| 0:16.9 | really, really good advice, guys. And that is not what I'm going to be talking about in |
| 0:21.6 | today's podcast. |
| 0:36.6 | Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog. And today is a continuation of podcast episode |
| 0:38.6 | number 168 where I talk about some of the elements of dog training that I think are critical |
| 0:43.7 | for dogs who are stress or anxious or need more confidence or potentially are reactive. And |
| 0:50.2 | today is a continuation, but I've got a lot of things to get in this podcast. And I want |
| 0:55.3 | you to keep two things in mind. First of all, please listen to the last podcast. I think |
| 1:01.6 | it is just so important, especially the first bit where I talk about your mindset. I mean, |
| 1:06.8 | I think all podcasts are important that we put out. But the beginning of that is just so important |
| 1:11.8 | for all dog owners to listen to. The second thing is, I'm going to cover a lot of suggestions in |
| 1:17.2 | today's podcast. And I believe any one of these 10 suggestions could be a podcast on their own. |
| 1:24.0 | So if there's something that you would go, Susan, I really would like more |
| 1:27.5 | information about this. Or can you give me a deep dive or examples or do another whole podcast |
| 1:31.7 | on this topic? Please jump over to YouTube and leave a comment over on YouTube or send our |
| 1:37.6 | team a note at waggat dogsat.com. Okay, so let's jump right in. Number one, your training |
| 1:43.2 | should be about reinforcement, |
| 1:45.2 | not about isolating what you don't like. Okay, we want to grow our dogs confidence. And, |
| 1:52.2 | you know, as I've said time and time again, our dogs are doing the best they can with the |
| 1:56.9 | education that they have in the environment we've put them in. You as a dog owner |
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