Fast And Easy Dog Training: Will A Quick Fix Get The Dog Behavior You Really Want? #299
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 21 March 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
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Looking for fast and easy dog training solutions? A quick fix won’t get the dog behavior you really want long term, so I’m covering what to do instead! Whether you have a new puppy or are working through challenges with an older dog, reinforcement and management are key to creating a successful solution for a well-behaved dog in a way that aligns with your heart.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
• Why “fast and easy” in dog training often fails and what actually works.
• How to bridge the training gap and set your dog up for success.
• A special lesson from my father beyond dog training.
• The difference between behavior challenges and emotional challenges.
• The role of reinforcement and management in success.
• How reinforcement shapes your dog’s choices every day.
• The power of management and why it’s the key to long-term success.
• My approach to growing confidence before introducing big challenges.
• Why finding the right trainer matters and how to know who to trust.
• A special opportunity to join Wag Nation and Home School the Dog!
Resources:
1. Podcast Episode 20: Bridging the Gap Between Blame and Kindness in Dog Training - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/20/
2. Podcast Episode 97: Overwhelm in Dog Training: How to Take Action on Challenges - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/97/
3. Warwick Schiller Attuned Horsemanship - https://warwickschiller.com/
4. Podcast Episode 298: The Dog Training Quadrants We Don’t Talk About: Are We Using Them More Than We Know? - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/298/
5. Podcast Episode 297: Why In 2025 We Still Have Dog Trainers Who Believe “Reinforcement Dog Training Doesn’t Work” - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/297/
6. YouTube Playlist: Puppy Essentials with Susan Garrett Dog Training - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLphRRSxcMHy2hywpv3Md3HbWWPPbVF8W5&si=UdgWP3VEaFvURChz
7. Podcast Episode 131: How Would Susan Garrett Plan Your Dog Training Sessions? - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/131/
8. Podcast Episode 267: How To Use A Training Den To Fast Track Your Dog’s Success: No Space? No Problem! - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/267/
9. Podcast Episode 30: Why Dog Crates Are Not Dog Cages - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/30/
10. Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on YouTube - https://youtu.be/zUFgD1yGO0w
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | When I was a kid, there was a cartoon and I honestly don't remember what it was called. |
| 0:05.4 | And at the beginning of it, it was like a caveman kind of a cartoon. |
| 0:10.0 | In the opening credits, there was a piece where the man is out looking for a wife and he |
| 0:15.6 | clubs his woman over the head and he drags her back to his cave by the hair. |
| 0:19.2 | And it was all very funny. But imagine if that |
| 0:23.5 | was courting. How fast and easy it would be. Well, what's this got to do with dog training, Susan? |
| 0:29.0 | You're about to find out. Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog. |
| 0:43.8 | And fast and easy, especially when we're talking about relationships, probably isn't the criteria |
| 0:51.8 | you want to be following. So, when people talk to me about taking a balanced |
| 0:56.8 | approach to dog training, saying it's faster and it's easier, is fast and easy really what we want? |
| 1:02.1 | Or is a deep relationship, trust, an understanding, a dog who wants to hang out with you |
| 1:08.7 | because of the relationship you have. Now, personally, |
| 1:13.3 | I think at the end of the day, the fast and easy really isn't long-term fast and easy. |
| 1:19.4 | Because I believe that the training that my dogs have, my puppy is now 20 months old, |
| 1:26.3 | I would put that up against any kind of dog training |
| 1:30.0 | done anywhere in the world. That may be overcoming challenges with a reinforcement-based approach |
| 1:36.7 | may appear on the onset to be a longer procedure. But how do we get there in the first place? |
| 1:44.1 | And that's, I've talked about on |
| 1:45.2 | this podcast a little bit, episode number 20, I talked about the dog training gap. |
| 1:49.8 | There is a gap that all of us at one point who believed our mentors who told us that, |
| 1:57.6 | you know what, it's just like yes and no. You get more clarity when the dog |
| 2:01.6 | gets told what the no is. It's easier for them to learn. And that's true if you don't have |
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