You know, there's an old adage in dog training.

The absolute best time to fix a behavior or training problem with your dog is before it happens.

And although that may be true, it doesn't help those of you who have a puppy

and you're right in the midst of a behavior breakdown or a dog training problem. And that's

why today I'm going to share with you the systematic approach that I've laid out for myself

and my students to tackle any dog training problem. Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog.

And today I'm also going to share with you how you can get my brand new book, a ebook that I wrote

specific to overcoming dog training challenges. You can get that. Plus, I'm going to put a

download in the show notes of a template to help you get things

straightened out. Now, I'm going to start by reading to you a list of behavior challenges

from one dog that was presented to me. Okay? So, this was a 50 pound dog, so not a small

dog, just over a year old. And he was a chewer.

But he loved to chew like personal belongings, things that smelt like people, including furniture.

He had a very high prey drive, loved chasing cats, but also that chasing turned into chasing any kind of critters and

killing the ones he could catch. He was a great escape artist and would bolt any time he would

get out of the backyard or slip through the front door and he was gone. So, zero need to come

when called. He would play keep away with any personal

items or things, even if they were dangerous, that he would either try and eat them or he would

just keep them away from you. And so that was problematic because there was nothing in him that

made him want to bring it back

to you. He was a biter, so he would bite people. But the good news on this, it was low risk of

there were never puncture wounds. But that was his number one reflex where humans were concerned,

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