Excited or Suspicious dog? Dealing With Your Dog’s Emotions #103
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 13 August 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
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When you feel emotional, are you at your best? Do you make good decisions? It’s the same for our dogs. We’re talking about the emotions dogs experience and what happens when a dog gets too emotional to respond.
In the episode you'll hear:
• A story from my past that is still vivid about the fear that had me running.
• What happens to our physiological system when we are afraid.
• The emotional capabilities of dogs.
• How dogs don't feel guilt or spite.
• About the cycles of emotions our dogs experience.
• The changes our dogs go through when they are afraid or overexcited.
• What happen when dogs red line.
• Why dogs can't listen when their emotions paralyze them.
• How it's not up to us to decide what triggers fear.
• What to do when your dog's emotions mean they cannot respond.
• About T.A.R. (Too Aroused to Respond) and dogs.
• Why to believe your dog so you can build a relationship of trust.
Resources:
• Video Blog: Where Is Your Dog On The Circle Of Fun? - https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2018/07/circle-of-fun/
• Podcast Episode 4: T.E.M.P. (Tail, Eyes/Ears, Mouth, Posture) - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/4/
• Video Blog: Understanding Your Dog’s Triggers - https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2019/01/understanding-your-dogs-triggers/
• Podcast Episode 86: How to Train Unmotivated or Overexcited Dogs - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/86/
• Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on YouTube - https://youtu.be/RKXDebCXLPU
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I have a question for you. |
| 0:11.9 | When you feel emotional, are you at your best? |
| 0:15.0 | I mean, do you make the best decision for yourself or your future? |
| 0:20.2 | Probably not, right? And neither do our dogs, yet |
| 0:23.3 | they're expected to most of the time. Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog. |
| 0:28.1 | And today we're going to talk about the emotions your dog can and cannot possess. |
| 0:34.3 | I'm going to share with you what happens when your dog gets too emotional to actually |
| 0:40.0 | respond to you and what you should do about it. But first, I'm going to share a story. Now, |
| 0:46.3 | this is one of those stories from my past that is incredibly vivid. Like I can remember it |
| 0:51.9 | with great detail. Yet it happened 45 years ago. I was a 15 year old |
| 0:58.5 | and it was in the middle of a bitter cold Canadian winter. My BFF, Sylvia, you know who you are |
| 1:06.2 | if you're listening, Sayah. We were going for a walk late one Friday evening. Now, we probably shouldn't have been |
| 1:11.4 | out. It was dark and we walked. There was a new coffee shop. We were going to go and get a hot |
| 1:15.7 | chocolate. It was about a mile walk and I was wearing beige corduroy pants. I know that and that's |
| 1:21.9 | important and it'll come back in a minute. Now, Sylvia and I were both wearing what was in |
| 1:26.3 | fad back in the day in the mid-70s, |
| 1:28.7 | these bomber jackets. And they were, you know, just came to your waist and they had this |
| 1:33.3 | big hood with fur around the face and it was cold, so we were all hunkered down. And we were |
| 1:39.7 | walking along one of the busiest streets in Hamilton where I was born and raised and we were |
| 1:45.2 | about a mile away from home almost at the coffee shop and Sylvia sees a car parked on the side |
| 1:51.0 | of the road, the guy was asleep in his car. He goes, look at this. She said, look, this guy's |
| 1:54.3 | asleep. I'm going to slam on his door and wake him up. I said, don't do that. Like, the poor guys asleep in the middle of winter. Let him, I don't |
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