Naming Your Puppy or Dog #13
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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4.8 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
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Our dog's name says a lot about our dog and a lot about us. There are many considerations to naming, and many ways to go about choosing a name.
In the episode you'll hear:
- Ideas for picking a name for your puppy or dog.
- What to consider that might not be immediately obvious.
- What to avoid when choosing a name.
- About the energy attached to your dog's name.
- If you should change the name of a rescue dog.
- How I choose names for my dogs.
Resources:
- Shaped By Dog Podcast Episode 8: Get Your Dog in the Belief Loop of Awesome - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/8/
- Blog Post: A GAME to Preserve Your Dog's Recall Cue - https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2019/06/game-to-preserve-your-dogs-recall-cue/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. Welcome to Shape by Dog. I am Susan Garrett. Today, we're talking about names. |
| 0:15.5 | How do you pick a name for your puppy or your dog? what you should consider, things you want to avoid. |
| 0:23.1 | I'm actually getting a new puppy this year. It's exciting to me. I go about the naming process |
| 0:30.0 | different than some. And I'm going to share with you why I do what I do and it's very intentional. |
| 0:35.6 | I'm also going to talk about rescue dogs. The question, |
| 0:37.7 | do you name the dog, change the name that you have? And in some cases, I would recommend |
| 0:41.9 | strongly yes. In some cases, I would recommend strongly. No, I'm going to start off by talking about |
| 0:47.7 | things I recommend you not do with a name. When you're thinking of names for your dog, I like to |
| 0:53.2 | put them on a piece of paper |
| 0:54.4 | and put down other cues that you know you're going to be using. Now, if you play a sport, |
| 1:01.2 | like for me in agility, I made the big mistake. I didn't write down all my cues with my dog |
| 1:06.9 | encore. I was at a Canadian National Championship event. I was in the lead. I could have won. |
| 1:12.8 | The last event was the gamble. Nobody else had got the gamble up until this point. |
| 1:17.9 | She only had to go, oh, she did the difficult part. She had to just keep driving straight over |
| 1:23.1 | two jumps, which was the easy part for her, no problem. But my cue for my past dogs to go straight |
| 1:31.5 | away from me and a gamble was go on. Now, Encore's nickname, which meant give me your attention, |
| 1:38.9 | was on. So I tried to avoid using go on with her because it causes conflict. |
| 1:47.7 | And that's what happened on that day. |
| 1:49.4 | I said, go on. |
| 1:50.3 | She stopped dead, turned around and came back to me. |
| 1:52.1 | You want to make sure when you pick a name that it isn't conflict with cues you're going |
| 1:57.5 | to be using. |
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