First Dog Agility Competition: Creating Joy For This! By Maximizing Reinforcement #206

Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett

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🗓️ 14 April 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

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In episodes 203 and 204, I shared a two-part deep dive on the metabolic and performance struggles overcome by This!, my 2.5 year-old Border Collie. After a road to recovery with dotted with setbacks, I entered This! in the World Team Tryouts for dog agility. In this episode, I’m sharing my plan, my goal, how I achieved it, and how it could impact your dog training, even if you don’t do dog sports.

In the episode you'll hear:

• My strategy to maximize joy for dog sport competitions, matches, and training classes.
• Why I consciously chose a lighthearted attitude and commissioned a custom leash that sparks joy.
• My planning so that This!'s first agility competition could be a success for her.
• A review of our agility and jumpers runs at the big event.
• My 5-step strategy for injecting joy into any activity or experience with your dog.
• Step 1: Create a goal of maximizing joy.
• Step 2: Know the rules around how you're able to reinforce the dog during the event or activity.
• How we used a 'chase-tug-restrain' game for joy for This! at the event.
• Step 3: Create a strategic plan around where and when you'll provide high value reinforcement.
• Step 4: Rehearse the plan.
• Step 5: Execute the plan with joy, have fun and celebrate!
• How to use FEO / NFC opportunities to create joy for dogs.
• How the energy of the crowd supporting me and This! moved me deeply.
• Why allowing yourself grace is vital because everyone, including me, was a beginner once.
• That joy results from clarity and how that boosts your dog's confidence.

Resources:

1. Podcast Episode 203: Reactive, Unmotivated and Fearful: Finding Resiliency For This! Beyond Dog Training Part 1 - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/203/
2. Podcast Episode 204: Dog Behavior And Diet: Recovery For This! Beyond Dog Training Part 2 - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/204/
3. 4MyMerles Creations (Tug Toys, Leashes and More) - https://www.4mymerles.com/product-category/say-yes/
4. Podcast Episode 172: How To Teach Your Dog Anything With My Training Plan - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/172/
5. Podcast Episode 205: The Hidden World Of Reinforcement For Dogs And Why You Need To Know - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/205/
6. YouTube Video: Dog Training Reinforcement Process: How, Where and When Are You Rewarding Your Dog? - https://youtu.be/JgmJ5f_u594
7. YouTube Playlist: Mastery of Positive Reinforcement Based Dog Training - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLphRRSxcMHy20_Ko8p2SaE6B2IT4o6g6K
8. Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on YouTube - https://youtu.be/OuGiUXUKbDw

Transcript

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0:00.0	If you listened in on podcast episode number 203 or 204, you would have learned about my two
0:07.2	and a half year old dog this and the fact that she was coming along to a world team tryouts
0:13.1	with her mother momentum. Well, today I'm going to share what my plan was, how I achieved it,
0:20.4	and how it could impact you in your dog training.
0:24.1	Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog. So, I mentioned in the last couple of podcasts
0:39.9	that I was going to take this to the world team tryouts. Now, was she ready to be trying out for
0:46.8	a world team? Heck no. But I mentioned that my criteria for her was Joy. Now, that is so vague.
0:52.8	How can Joy be a criteria? Well, I'll share how it can be
0:56.7	and how it was a criteria. I'm also going to share with you the exact plan that I used that I think
1:03.4	anybody can use if they are going to say a class that they want to inject more joy in or maybe a match that they want to inject more
1:13.7	joy. And what I was going to was an agility competition where you could declare yourself as
1:19.2	for exhibition only or some people call it not for competition and FC runs. Whatever they are,
1:27.3	I'm going to share the exact strategy that I
1:29.0	used and I really think it's going to make a massive different to you and your dog.
1:33.3	But first, let's talk about my attitude going in. And all I kept thinking was I had this
1:38.6	criteria of joy, which like Susan, that's just so vague. This has great agility skills. She doesn't have the confidence
1:46.4	to show a lot of speed and enthusiasm when doing those agility skills. Now, it's not like she's
1:52.4	terribly slow. She doesn't get distracted normally. But going into this competition,
1:58.4	I planned a month ahead of time, but I knew no matter what,
2:02.5	I wanted to have a light heart in order to create this atmosphere of joy for this.
2:08.2	And so I contacted my friends at For My Murals where I get my tug toys and my leashes.
2:14.4	And I said to Brian and Shirley, I want to create a leash for,
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