The Dog Training You Do When You're Not Dog Training #83
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 7 May 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
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"How many hours a day do you spend training your puppy or dog?" is one of the most common questions I get. So, we'll look at a typical day in the life of my dogs. What happens might surprise you as I don't spend as much time training as many would think. What is important is the training between the training.
In the episode you'll hear:
• Why the interactions with your dog are the relationship.
• About a typical day in my life with my dogs.
• How I get the training done before I do the training.
• Why I keep dog treats in small bowls around my home.
• About being ready to reward your dog for doing something well.
• How I capture behaviours that I want my dogs to do.
• The opportunities for my dogs to earn reinforcement at mealtimes.
• Why I am intentional about catching my dogs doing something well.
• About being aware of the thing before the thing.
• Why to decide what your rules are for your dog.
• About using walks for training opportunities.
• Why to be present to what your dog is rehearsing.
• How 75% of my puppy training happens when I'm not training.
• Why 95% of my adult dog training happens when I'm not training.
Resources:
• Podcast Episode 16: The Thing Before Your Dog's Thing - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/16/
• *Book: Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott - https://geni.us/fierce-conversations
• Podcast Episode 80: Does Your Dog Love You? Let's Talk Relationships - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/80/
• Podcast Episode 26: Pro Dog Training Tips to Get Your Puppy to Sleep All Night - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/26/
• Podcast Episode 2: Reinforcement - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/2/
• Podcast Episode 11: The Power of Permission in Dog Training - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/11/
• Podcast Episode 33: How Do I Stop My Dog Counter Surfing?! - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/33/
• Podcast Episode 27: Do Dogs Need Rules? - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/27/
• Podcast Episode 15: CSI Tips for Managing a Multi-Dog Household - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/15/
• Blog Post: Rolling out a Big Adventure - https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2013/08/rolling-out-a-big-adventure/
• Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on YouTube - https://youtu.be/0BhSUusjJ5E
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Susan only recommends products she uses herself, and all opinions expressed here are her own. The link above is an affiliate link that, at no additional cost to you, we may earn a small commission if you decide to buy from it. Thank you!
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| 0:00.0 | This week I put up a social media post with my puppy doing some caballetes. And I got a |
| 0:15.4 | question on that post. It is probably the most common question I get. And that is, Susan, how many hours a day do you spend |
| 0:24.9 | training your puppy or training your dog? Super common question. And I thought, that's going to make |
| 0:30.6 | for a great podcast. Today, I'm going to answer that question by walking you through a typical day |
| 0:36.9 | in the life of one of Susan Garrett's |
| 0:38.4 | dogs or puppies. Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog. And if you're watching |
| 0:43.8 | this on YouTube, let's make our relationship official. Will you? How about you just hit the |
| 0:49.2 | subscribe button now and turn on your notification bell? That way, every time I do a new podcast or I go live |
| 0:55.5 | here on YouTube, you're going to be the first to know. Right after I saw that question, |
| 1:01.0 | I put up a poll in my Instagram stories and I asked the question, how many hours a day |
| 1:08.6 | do you interact with your dogs? And I gave several different options like less than an hour, more than an hour, et cetera, et cetera. |
| 1:14.7 | 70% of the people answering. |
| 1:16.9 | And there was almost 1,900 people saw the post. |
| 1:19.8 | And 605 people actually replied to it. |
| 1:23.0 | The vast majority, more than 70% said that they interact with their dogs more than three hours a day. |
| 1:29.9 | And I thought, I was surprised. I was pleasantly surprised, but I was surprised. And so I thought, |
| 1:36.0 | define the word interact. Now, if you're listening to this for the first time and you didn't see |
| 1:39.9 | that question, how would you answer that question? How many hours a day do you interact with |
| 1:43.8 | your dog or puppy? And how would you define the word interact? Now, I would personally use that word |
| 1:50.9 | interaction to be like, how do you define your relationship with your dog? Esther Perel has this |
| 1:56.7 | great quote, the quality of our relationships defines the quality of our life. I think that's so |
| 2:04.2 | true. And so then think about how would you define your relationship with your dog? I actually |
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