My Dog Just Got Jumped, Now What? #45
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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4.8 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
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If you own a dog, there is a very good chance that at some point in your dog’s life, your dog could get jumped or possibly attacked by another dog. It’s vital to know that your reaction could actually exacerbate the emotional damage to your dog or puppy. This episode has my top tips for helping your dog and how you can take control of the uncontrollable and your responses. My puppy, This!, was jumped by an older pup, so it’s a topic fresh in my mind.
In the episode you'll hear:
• About being a helicopter parent, the opposite, and what I learned about being a dolphin parent.
• Why the ability to recover is so important for our dogs.
• The aftermath of our dogs being jumped and what we can do.
• About negative conditioned responses and single event learning.
• What happened with my puppy This! and what I did to help her.
• The importance of changing a dog’s physiological state.
• What I learned from a book about preventing PTSD with pattern-matching games.
• How “play, don’t’ replay” works.
• Why our first responses might not the best responses for our dog.
• How to avoid adding emotional fire for your dog to events you cannot control.
• Why to practice responding to things you can’t control.
• What I do if my dog gets jumped and strategies you can put into action.
• How to make the absolute best out of a bad situation.
• What to look for in a good organised and structured puppy playgroup.
Resources:
• Book: Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal - https://janemcgonigal.com/my-book/
• Podcast Episode 12: When Helping Your Dog is an Illusion - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/12/
• Podcast Episode 4: T.E.M.P. (Tail, Eyes/Ears, Mouth, Posture) - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/4/
• Susan on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/susangarrettdogsthat/
• DogsThat Gifs - https://giphy.com/dogsthat
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody. Welcome to Shape by Dogg. I am Susan Garrett. And if you own a dog, |
| 0:15.1 | there is a very good chance that at some point in your dog's life, they are going to get jumped, possibly |
| 0:23.9 | attacked by another dog. And believe it or not, how you respond to that event could actually |
| 0:34.0 | exasperate the damage, the emotional damage done to your dog or puppy. |
| 0:40.1 | And I would like to make sure that that doesn't happen to you. So, sometimes these jumpings |
| 0:48.5 | happen when you're walking your dog in the neighborhood or a lot of the times it happens at |
| 0:53.2 | dog parks or doggy daycare, |
| 0:56.1 | neither of which I am massive fans of, but with a big asterisk because there are some very, |
| 1:00.6 | very good puppy daycare. I was actually at one last week. So, more on that later. But sometimes |
| 1:07.3 | it's not even, there's nothing you can do. Just yesterday, my 11-week-old puppy, |
| 1:11.8 | this was jumped. I use that quote, jumped at her puppy class. The owner of the older puppy |
| 1:19.7 | who chased her down was super apologetic. And I'll get to more on what happened and what I did |
| 1:26.3 | later. But it could have been a very |
| 1:29.2 | emotionally traumatic experience for this because she took off running and ended up |
| 1:33.2 | running into a corner and hiding behind a garbage can. And when I got her out, she actually, |
| 1:38.0 | for the first time in her life, growled at this other puppy. So, cliffhanger. More on that later. You may be familiar with the term |
| 1:48.8 | helicopter parent. And that's somebody who goes around and I've seen it firsthand, goes around |
| 1:54.7 | and tries to control the experiences of their child so nothing bad ever happens to them. |
| 1:58.8 | You know, they swoop in like a helicopter. They swoop in |
| 2:02.4 | if the child, you know, trips and falls, not even waiting to see if the kid gets up and brushes |
| 2:08.0 | himself off. And research has shown, this actually can lead to some huge anxiety problems and even |
| 2:15.1 | depression as those children get older. Flip side of that, my younger |
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