The Five Most Common Words in Dog Training and Which Ones I Never Use #52
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 9 December 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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There are five words commonly used when training a dog. I bet you can immediately think of dog training commands that are in use frequently! Are cues like sit, down, stay, come and okay on your list? One of these words I would never ever use, and I'm sharing why. I believe our dogs put our words into five categories, and I'm covering each cue category and how it relates to what we say to our dog.
In the episode you'll hear:
• How many words dogs can respond to and understand.
• What words our dogs will ignore and how that can be inadvertent.
• Why there are words that can be confusing for our dogs.
• How words can make our dogs happy.
• The importance of the tone of our verbal cues.
• About the words that can create stress and fear for dogs.
• Why sit means sit and importance of a release word.
• The one word I never use.
• Why some words are ignored or confusing for our dog.
• My best advice on selecting cues for your dog.
• How some dogs only have micro-seconds to respond to a cue.
• About the release cue "break" that I use and one I don't recommend.
• How you can easily change a word to one that will bring your dog clarity.
Resources:
• * Learning Resources Answer Buzzers - https://geni.us/buzzers
• Vlog Post: Toning Up On Cue Clarity (Hearing The Sirens)-https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2019/01/toning-up-on-cue-clarity-hearing-the-sirens/
• Blog Post: Three Different Types of Verbal Markers in Dog Training-https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2018/09/three-verbal-markers-in-dog-training/
• Blog Post: How Do I Train My Dog To Come When Called?-https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2019/04/train-my-dog-to-come-when-called/
• Podcast Episode 19: One of My Biggest Pet Peeves in Dog Training-https://dogsthat.com/podcast/19/
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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 | There are five words commonly used when training a dog. |
| 0:13.6 | And I bet while you're sitting listening to this, you can think of what those five words are. |
| 0:18.0 | Spoiler alert. I'm going to give them to you right now. Sit, down, stay, |
| 0:23.6 | come and okay. Five most commonly used words when training a dog. One of these words I would |
| 0:32.6 | never, ever use when I'm training my dog. I'm going to tell you which one and why. I'm also going to share |
| 0:41.5 | with you the five categories I believe dogs put all words we use into. Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. |
| 0:49.5 | Welcome to Shape by Dog. If you are watching this podcast on YouTube, go ahead and hit the like button now. |
| 0:56.5 | And by doing so, you're showing trust in me that you know I'm going to deliver some inspiring |
| 1:01.5 | dog training information. Hitting that like button is so easy. Like I think a 15 week old puppy can |
| 1:06.7 | do it. And if you aren't watching this on YouTube, you might want to after at some point |
| 1:13.3 | when it's safe. Like not if you're driving your car because I just showed the cutest little |
| 1:18.0 | video clip. And in that video clip, there is a prop and I will put the prop in the link, |
| 1:24.1 | the show notes, and I am going to give away a box of these. It's a prop that |
| 1:30.6 | I used to train my puppy recently and I'm going to give a box away to anybody who puts |
| 1:38.3 | a comment on this video will be in a draw. At the end of this week, well, in seven days |
| 1:43.2 | time, we will have a draw for somebody. |
| 1:47.3 | I'm going to send you a box and not only am I going to send you a box of these props, |
| 1:51.3 | I'm going to give you access to a little video clip showing you how I trained the behavior |
| 1:56.7 | you just saw. Okay, if you're listening to this podcast, jump over to YouTube because you will, |
| 2:03.1 | you'll just want to see that behavior. Five categories, I believe that dogs put all the |
| 2:09.7 | words they use into. Now, I'm going to preface this by saying, this is my hallucination, |
| 2:15.0 | because none of us know what our dogs are thinking. |
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