Hey everybody. Welcome to Shape by dog. I am Susan Garrett and I got a newsflash for you.

Dogs don't understand past tense. They don't. They don't understand past tense. Yet,

there's a lot of dog training experts out there teaching people to believe that they do.

And it is a bit of a pet peeve of mine. I'll get to that in a second. You'll see exactly what I mean.

First, I want to share with you a couple of reviews. You guys have been awesome. Leaving me reviews,

giving me a bunch of five-star ratings. I really appreciate that. But I want to share a couple of reviews.

This first one from Houndhouse who wrote about the

ABCs. Susan, this is absolutely the most important lesson I've ever gotten. This is how I trained

horses and riders. Why didn't I see this with my dogs? Thank you for your insight. And that's the thing.

A lot of what I'm teaching, guys, it's common sense. But a lot of times,

we need to hear somebody reframe it in a different way before we go, I know that. Why,

why am I not doing that? And a lot of times that's what I just like to project things that you

may already know. This one is from

Carly Taugh. Now, Ta might not, might be like an acronym for something, Carly, but thank you

for your review. Carly wrote, Susan Garrett is in my backpack literally. Listening to her tips

and tricks on the go and being able to come back to them whenever I want

is the best. Thank you. You're the best, Carly, for writing that great review. It brings up the

idea. How do you guys listen to podcasts? I'm a big podcast fan. I love listening to podcasts. Generally,

I do it when sometimes when I'm walking the dogs. I like to stay present for the dogs. So, if I'm

doing it walking the dogs, I got one earbud in and I'm, I'm kind of paying attention to the

dogs. Mostly for me, it's when I'm working out and when I'm in the car. Let me know how you like

to listen to podcasts. Okay. So back to the subject. Back when I went to my very first ever dog training school, I was told to get

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