How to Create Kid Friendly Dogs and Dog Friendly Kids #58
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 13 January 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
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Raising dogs in a home with kids and kids in a home with dogs can be harmonious when you have the right expectations for great outcomes. Now, I don't have children, but my dogs are around many children as I have a lot of nieces and nephews. There can be a great deal of joy for kids and dogs and many life lessons if we set everyone up for success. Do you know someone who has children and a dog? Share this podcast episode with them, and together we can help families with kids and dogs and make life better for everybody.
In the episode you'll hear:
• How imagining living with an overly exuberant relative relates to your dog.
• Why I believe having a dog in a house with children can be an awesome combination.
• How adults can help create the best relationship possible between kids and dogs.
• Why we all have the right to say we are uncomfortable.
• What children learn from us in the way we treat our dogs.
• How even the kindest people might inadvertently teach life lessons they don't want their children to emulate.
• Why family agreements can be massively beneficial for everyone, including dogs.
• How giving your dog a nickname can set kids and dogs up for success.
• About including children in your dog training plans without overwhelm.
• The transitions to train for your dog that will create household harmony.
• What education I believe is critical for all dogs living with children.
• Why I'm telling my team to give you a massive discount to join Home School the Dog.
• Productive and safe ways that kids and dogs can enjoy time together.
• How we can be the best advocates for both kids and dogs.
• What you can do with "Home School the Dog. I was listening."!
Resources:
• Podcast Episode 25: Why All Dogs Can Bite and How to Reduce the Risk with R.E.A.D.- https://dogsthat.com/podcast/25/
• Podcast Episode 19: One of My Biggest Pet Peeves in Dog Training - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/19/
• Blog Post: A GAME to Preserve Your Dog's Recall Cue - https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2019/06/game-to-preserve-your-dogs-recall-cue/
• Game: Learn How to Play ItsYerChoice (IYC) - https://recallers.com/iycsummit-join/
• Crate Games Online - https://get.crategames.com/
• Susan's Team: wag@dogsthat.com
• Podcast Episode 57: Why Balance Breaks Fast Track Your Dog Training - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/57/
• Podcast Episode 6: The Art of Manipulation - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/6/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine you had a relative that had to move in with you for a length of time. And every time |
| 0:14.6 | he'd see you, he'd like to sneak up on you and then jump on your back or pick you off |
| 0:20.8 | your feet and give you the one of those big |
| 0:22.4 | bear hugs that squeezed your intestines and kind of swung you around or maybe he'd pull |
| 0:27.3 | your hair or do one of those three stooges routines. You know like, what, this guy ain't poking |
| 0:32.6 | you right in the eye. Could you imagine? Like you would start to want to avoid him, right? And that avoidance would |
| 0:39.3 | quickly escalate somewhere north of anger. Sadly, that's kind of the life a lot of dogs have to live |
| 0:47.5 | when they're raised in a home with kids. But it doesn't have to be that way. It can all be far more harmonious with just a little |
| 0:59.4 | bit more understanding and education. Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. And today, we're talking kids and dogs. |
| 1:07.3 | And before you turn away and say, hey, hey, hey, I don't have any kids. If you've got a dog |
| 1:12.6 | and you have friends with kids, you're going to want to listen to this podcast and send it |
| 1:17.3 | on to them. But before we get too far down the road, I want to ask you to join, if you're |
| 1:25.6 | watching this on YouTube, I'd like you to join my puppy, this |
| 1:28.6 | and hitting the like button. And if you haven't, please subscribe to the podcast. And if you're |
| 1:33.4 | listening to this on your phone or look for the three dots on your phone, that will lead |
| 1:37.8 | you to a subscribe button somewhere. That's the only way we get feedback. Subscribes, |
| 1:42.6 | likes, comments, reviews. That's the only way that we're |
| 1:45.0 | getting feedback on. How are you liking the podcast that the team and I are putting together? |
| 1:49.7 | Okay, let's get down to today's topic. And I thought it would be fitting. Since we're talking |
| 1:57.5 | about kids, I start by reading a podcast review partially given by a six-year-old. |
| 2:04.9 | Sick with me. I'll see what I mean. Okay, this comes from Veronica. It says, |
| 2:08.6 | Hello, Susan and team. We're getting a mini Daxon in February. He's our family's fifth |
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