Hey everybody. Welcome to shape by dog. I am Susan Garrett. And if you have a dog,

there will come a time when your dog is going to say this to you. And that is, don't want to and I don't have to.

You're going to ask him to do something. It might be, um, come when he sees a squirrel. Yeah,

don't want to. Don't have to. Or it could be that you have thrown a toy and he sees other dogs running and he's,

yeah, I don't want to, don't have to. Obviously, dogs don't actually say those things,

but the appearance could be that that is what the dog's saying to you. So the question is, if you are listening to this podcast,

chances are you are trying to train your dog in a reinforcement-based program. The question is,

what do you do now? When my dog says, don't want to, don't have to. In the old way I used

to train with more punishment,

I would scold him. I would say, you know, that's not right. Or I might put his leash on

and correct him. I said, come, pop, come, pop. That seemed like a logical thing. No, that's not

the solution that Susan Garrett would choose. And yes, my dogs, there

will come a time when they will say, don't want to, don't have to. And if you keep listening,

you'll find out what I will do. But I'm first going to preface this by sharing something

that I heard recently. I was sitting

in my business mastermind now. I belong to this mastermind for more than 10 years and we normally

get together in person for three days at a time, three times a year. Obviously, with COVID,

we can't do that. And so we meet on Zoom and And Annie Heiman Pratt, who is in our group,

she had this amazing, profound statement that she was, you know, sharing something in her

business. And I'm like, wow, that is so applicable to dogs. And what she said is it's important that we all value compassion more than we value ambition.

I'm going to say it one more time.

It's important to value compassion more than we value ambition.

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