It's not every day that you get an implementation of a previous podcast.

But today's your lucky day. Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog. And today,

what I'm going to do is I'm going to help you implement everything that I taught you in podcast

episode number 134, or should I say Masterclass number 134, where I shared with you exactly how I teach my dogs control positions

like sit and stay. I don't use the word stay. I explain that. But sit or down or stand or

if you're doing agility, you'll want a dog who waits at a start line or holds position at the

end of their contacts if you don't have running contacts, or whatever

your sports specific skills that are required. Obedience, you need dogs to do stays or recalp or

not leave to get the dumbbell before I tell you to. All of those things, we are going to help you implement what I taught. And we had a couple

questions, so I'm going to bring some clarity to what we talked about in the last episode.

Plus, you're going to have to remind me, but I've got four gifts. Count them, four,

one, two, three, four in Canada, that's one less than five and one more than

three. We have metric. I don't know if it's the same in your country, but anyway, let's jump

right into it. Okay. So, we're talking about teaching our dogs to really buy into this idea

that they want to hold position. You know, when I first teaching,

it's your choice, I just described it as an impulse control game. But I really have backed off

on using that phrase much because it implies that our dogs are constantly having to control their urges to do something that we don't want

them to do. And it kind of puts all of the responsibility on them. Well, you better get

yourself some impulse control there, Bukaru. And when I say that everything is just, it's your

choice.

It's now, all the responsibility is on us as the dog owners because it's the dog's choice.

Everything is the dog's choice.

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