On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your last three dog training sessions?

And what was the criteria by coming up with those numbers?

Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog. Today, I'm

going to share with you my 10-point checklist on how I plan for my own success in dog training.

It's something that every single person listening to this podcast, if you want to train your

dog, then I would hope you'd want to train your dog the best you can.

It doesn't mean that you have to train every session like a world champion does,

but it means that you train every session the best you can.

And I promise you with these 10 little boxes that you're going to be checking off,

it will exponentially improve

the success you already have. Let's start with checkbox number one. What are you training for?

Do you have a brand new puppy? You might want to check out the five puppy games I have on YouTube.

That's a great place to start for anyone with a new puppy. Or are you

working on a specific behavior problem like I spoke about with my puppy this and shaped

by dog episode number 66 where I talked about resource guarding? What is that behavior problem?

That could be an area that you are focusing on training or maybe it's manners.

Maybe you're trying to teach your dog appropriate way to greet your guests.

I spoke about that here on Shape by Dog episode number 121.

Or maybe you have specific behaviors that you're training for a sport.

So if you're a member of Agility Nation, our online

membership or handling 360, our agility training class, we would be giving you lesson plans

for each layer of your learning. Or maybe, and you don't have to be in any sport at all,

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