Stop Your Dog’s Unwanted Behaviors With This Positive Interrupter #158

Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett

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🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

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If you took an obedience class back in the 80s, you could have learned to say things like AH-AH, NO, and HEY to stop your dog from doing something. And if you learned that that recently or find those old habits still with you, I’ve got something to help! Those short sharp words spoken harshly will startle dogs and stop a behavior, but they will also create stress and anxiety for a dog. Instead, we can teach words or sounds that will interrupt our dogs and let them know what we want them to do.

In the episode you'll hear:

• About the judgement we put on dogs when we use harsh words to stop behavior.
• The way to condition a new cue to use as a positive interrupter.
• How a positive interrupter should mean "stop what you are doing and come and find me".
• When to use a positive interrupter to give your dog something different to do.
• How an interrupter is not a recall cue and that your recall cue is sacred!
• About choosing the best sound or word to use as a positive interrupter.
• How you could use "wit-wit-wit-wit" as your positive interrupter.
• How to easily teach your new positive interrupter to help you and your dog.
• When to transition your new cue to real-life situations.
• That you need to be aware of the thing before the thing and inadvertent behavior chains.

Resources:

1. Podcast Episode 157: Dog Body Language: Understanding Canine Communication Signals And Emotions - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/157/
2. Kikopup on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/kikopup
3. Blog with Video: Teaching Puppies: It’s Just Arranging Coincidences - https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2015/04/teaching-puppies-its-just-arranging-coincidences/
4. Learn how to play ItsYerChoice (IYC) - https://recallers.com/iycsummit-join/
5. Podcast Episode 16: The Thing Before Your Dog’s Thing - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/16/
6. YouTube Playlist: Behavior Chains in Dog Training with Susan Garrett - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLphRRSxcMHy36FqDOVAwoHy87MhWFUxVd
7. Podcast Episode 64: Help! How Can I Tell My Dog He’s Wrong? - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/64/
8. Podcast Episode 131: How Would Susan Garrett Plan Your Dog Training Sessions? - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/131/
9. Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on YouTube - https://youtu.be/7I8zLWN4rQk

Transcript

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0:00.0	If you like me took an obedience class back in the 80s, you would have learned to say things
0:06.5	like, ah, no hey to your dog. And wait a minute, you just learned that recently? Well, you're
0:15.6	going to want to hear today's podcast. That's for sure. Hi, I'm Susan Gara. Welcome to Shape by Dog. And those noises that we were taught or that
0:36.7	somebody still might be teaching you are words
0:40.6	that stop behavior. They're meant to startle a dog, stop them from what they're doing.
0:48.2	And I gotta tell you, back in the 80s, I was the queen of the ah. I mean, I could get that guttural sound out better than anybody. And my
0:57.9	little Jack Russell Terrier would flip her ears behind her head, much like I talked about on
1:04.0	podcast episode number 157, all the signs of a dog showing stress. Ears pin, licking her lips, she would avert her eyes from
1:13.4	me, body would get a little bit low. Sometimes she'd like do a fake scratch. They're not itchy.
1:18.1	I forgot to mention that in podcast episode 157. The fake scratch that dogs will do is another sign of
1:24.0	stress. So, when you use those loud sounds to startle your dog and get them
1:28.2	to stop what they're doing, you will see the effect on the dog by them doing, maybe subtle.
1:37.9	It might be just eye shifting. It might be just a little flick of the tongue. But you will
1:43.1	see signs of them showing you some
1:46.2	emotional stress. So, what we wanted to do back then is we wanted to stop the dogs. But the
1:52.5	way I was taught, you know, you're saying no or you're clapping really loud, you're getting in
1:57.4	there. But in your mind, there's a judgment being made. I don't like what you're
2:02.2	doing. You are wrong or you might even be bad or you might even be a jerk for doing what you're
2:08.9	doing. So, you're chewing my sofa or you're barking incessantly at nothing or you're jumping
2:16.2	on my guests. I need you to stop. You're wrong. At the
2:20.5	very least, you're wrong. But possibly in my mind, it's escalating. You're bad. You're a jerk.
2:29.0	Those are judgments and they're unfair. And the, ah, no, hey. What they don't do is tell our dogs what we want
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