Hey everybody. Welcome to Shape by Dog. I am Susan Garrett. And I have a question. Have you ever watched

a professional dog trainer, like an elite level dog trainer train their dog. Maybe

you've seen one of my videos on YouTube of just me training my dog. And you'll notice the

dogs got this attention for their owner. They could have finished the exercise and maybe

the owner's walking back to start a new exercise and the dogs just like, they're just

excited and engaged and

connected. Have you ever seen that kind of connection going, wow, I wish I could get that

with my dog? Well, today I'm going to share with you one of the most important things that

you might be doing that's hurting the possibility of getting

that and how you can fix it. That's what today is going to be all about. But I want to ask you

if you've ever been in this situation. You're at a party, you're talking to somebody and they're

kind of like gazing around the room

while they're talking to you. And every time they do it, you feel this pit in your stomach

like you're not good enough. And sure enough, they go, oh, excuse me, I'm just going to, I see

so-and-so just stepped in the room and I'm going to, I got to go talk to them. And don't you

feel like somebody's sloppy seconds, like you just weren't good enough to have a

conversation with this such important person? And there's a little bit of shame involved.

And let me just tell you, there should be no shame on your part. That is completely on them,

but I digress. That feeling of being dismissed, I'm not sure our dogs don't feel it from us.

Stick with me on this because today's podcast is all about inadvertent time outs. Now, before you hit pause and go, well, Susan, wasn't episode 34 about

timeouts? Yeah, it was. It was about the use, the effective use of timeouts when I would do

them and how I would do them. So it might be turning my back

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