How to communicate with your dog, from a Westminster champion | Jennifer Crank
TED Talks Daily
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4.1 • 11.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Who let the dogs out? Jennifer Crank, a world champion in dog agility competitions like Westminster, brings her border collie onto the TED stage to demonstrate the secrets of interspecies communication. Watch as her four-legged friend bounds through an obstacle course at lightning speed — as Crank gives a lesson on how to effectively communicate with any kind of audience.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm your host, Elise Hugh. What do dogs have to teach us about leadership and teamwork? |
| 0:17.9 | Well, the dogs have arrived on the TED stage to show us. For this talk, the stage |
| 0:22.8 | has been transformed into an agility course, green turf, hoops to jump through, pulls to weave |
| 0:28.6 | through, and jump over so that Jennifer Crank, a world champion in dog agility competitions, |
| 0:35.0 | can demonstrate the extraordinary art of interspecies teamwork. |
| 0:39.4 | She reveals how the principles of coaching across species can reshape how we think about |
| 0:44.0 | communication and connection, reminding us that our greatest teachers can walk on two legs or |
| 0:50.1 | four. |
| 0:58.3 | I've been competing in dog agility since I was six years old, |
| 1:01.7 | so I've had a lot of time to accept this hard truth. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm not the part of the team that most people are concerned about. |
| 1:06.9 | They just want to meet my teammate. |
| 1:08.5 | So let's start with her. |
| 1:09.6 | High five. |
| 1:14.1 | Girl, sit. You probably figured it out based on the very sweet awe you just heard from the audience, but High Five is an adorable black and white |
| 1:18.8 | border collie who just bounded onto the stage. Jennifer starts to give High Five commands, and we |
| 1:24.0 | watch her jumpstart to flawlessly run through the course. There are a few more moments in this talk with high five doing drills on stage, |
| 1:30.7 | and I definitely encourage those who can to check out the video after listening. |
| 1:34.9 | Are you ready? Are you ready? Okay. |
| 1:38.4 | Wrap, wrap, tire. Weave. Weave. Yes, good girl. Weave. Tunnel, tunnel, tunnel. Loop, loop. Tunnel. |
| 1:50.1 | Weave. Weave. Weave. Get it, get it, get it, get it. |
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