Is Your Stubborn Dog Frustrating You? #51
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 4 December 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
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In dog training, there's really only one reason we feel frustration, and that is when the outcome does not meet our expectations. But what happens when we get frustrated? Recently I experienced frustration when training a side pass with my puppy, This!, and I'm sharing with you the process I used for troubleshooting.
In the episode you'll hear:
• About the motivation for this episode from a post by one of my students.
• Identifying the words you use when you are frustrated.
• The lesson I recently learned regarding frustration and how it hurt my heart.
• Why to take a break.
• My 5-step evaluation for when dog training does not go to plan.
• Why to look at where your dog is in the training progression chart.
• How to evaluate your training with PEP.
• The psychological, environmental, and physical considerations for dog training.
• Why and when to tip with twenties.
• How we leap too far ahead with training and the question to ask ourselves.
• The importance of remembering to "train the dog in front of you".
Resources:
• Blog Post: How to Embrace Videoing Your Dog Training - https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2019/03/embrace-videoing/
• Podcast Episode 4: T.E.M.P. (Tail, Eyes/Ears, Mouth, Posture) - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/4/
• Podcast Episode 44: Using Coincidences and Positive Associations in Dog Training - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/44/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | In dog training, and I think this is pretty true of anything in life, there's really only |
| 0:14.6 | one reason why we would get frustrated. And that is when the outcome doesn't match our expectations. |
| 0:22.6 | That we have a vision of what's going to happen when we do X and it doesn't happen. |
| 0:26.6 | And we get frustrated because of that. |
| 0:29.6 | The frustration is important. |
| 0:31.6 | What's important is what happens next. |
| 0:34.6 | Do we troubleshoot or do we blame? Kind of like when you hit print on the computer |
| 0:41.0 | and the printer doesn't kick in. Do you start yelling and throwing things or do you troubleshoot? |
| 0:46.9 | Oh yeah, look, the plug's unplugged. That's all it was. Today I'm going to share with you my, |
| 0:57.4 | what used to be a four-step troubleshooting process that I would go through with my own dogs when the outcome didn't match my expectation, |
| 1:04.0 | when my dog failed at something I had asked them to do. I say it used to be a four-step process |
| 1:10.2 | because it is now a five-step process |
| 1:12.6 | after a very bad dog training experience that I had this week. I'm going to share all of that |
| 1:19.3 | with you, including the video of the event right here on this episode of Shape by Dog. |
| 1:25.3 | Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. If you're watching this from YouTube, |
| 1:27.8 | you're going to actually see those clips. And if you are watching this on YouTube, |
| 1:31.8 | please smash the like button right now. And if you're not a subscriber, subscribe and hit |
| 1:37.1 | that little bell icon so you can get notifications from me when I am posting a new video. |
| 1:44.0 | Before we jump into today's episode, |
| 1:46.0 | I want to share with you a post that I got tagged in in Facebook and it really was the |
| 1:51.1 | motivation for this episode. I was tagged in a post and the person, the subject line was |
| 1:57.9 | share one thing that somebody told you early in your dog training journey |
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