The Secrets of What Your Dog Really Knows #65
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 10 February 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
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Have you ever asked your dog to do something, and he does the opposite? Have you ever thought "but he knows it!". Maybe he raided something from the kitchen, and when you ask him to drop it, he swallows whatever he has. Or perhaps when you call him, he runs the other way. In Agility, you might leave your dog at the start line and say stay, but he does not stay and starts on the course before you give your release. There are two schools of
thought to what might be happening. Is it that your dog won't do what you tell him, or can't do what you tell him?
In the episode you'll hear:
• A deep dive into the impact of what you think of your dog.
• What we can learn from Fenton in Richmond Park.
• About what a dog's guilty look tells us.
• How fear and conflict affect what we are asking our dogs.
• The many reasons dogs won't do what we tell them to do.
• What my dog told me about what she knew about hitting the Dog Walk contact.
• The emotional response we have when our dog disobeys.
• Why curiosity about our dog changes our emotion.
• About the rule of three I use when training my dogs.
• The worst-case scenario of a dog getting something right after being punished.
• The bottom line on contributing to a better relationship with your dog.
• How to start building a history of dog training success.
• About believing that if our dogs could, they would.
Resources:
• Podcast Episode 8: Get Your Dog in the Belief Loop of Awesome - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/8/
• Podcast Episode 62: 12 Keys to Helping My Dogs Live a Long and Happy Life -https://dogsthat.com/podcast/62/
• Podcast Episode 5: What is Shaping and How Can Dogs Shape Us - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/5/
• Video: Target Training for Dogs Part One - All About Targets - https://youtu.be/MzePo7RSQu4
• Video: Target Training for Dogs Part Two - Step by Step Training Plan - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqsEEWCXze0
• Blog: How Do I Train My Dog to Come When Called? - https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2019/04/train-my-dog-to-come-when-called/
• Podcast Episode 63: Why Some Dogs Just Don't Get It - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/63/
• Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on YouTube - https://youtu.be/bXfwU2EDiL0
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Think of a time you queued your dog to do something and he did the exact opposite. |
| 0:18.0 | Like maybe you saw him running out of the kitchen and he's got this plastic |
| 0:22.9 | cheese wrapper in his mouth and you say, drop it and he like gulps it as fast as he can. Or you |
| 0:29.4 | let him out in the backyard and you notice somebody's left the back gate open and you call him, |
| 0:33.3 | Rover come and he looks to the gate and beelines it through the gate. Or maybe you compete in |
| 0:39.6 | dog agility and you leave it your dog at the start line and you say stay and they blister by you. |
| 0:44.9 | There's two school of thoughts that describe what's happening here. The one is that your dog |
| 0:51.0 | heard the cue and he won't do what you've asked. The other is the dog heard the |
| 0:57.1 | cue and for whatever reason he can't do what you've asked. Which one do you think you migrate? |
| 1:04.3 | There's no right or wrong answer. There's no judgment. There's just, we're just peeling |
| 1:09.2 | back some layers here. Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by |
| 1:12.8 | dog. And today, we're going to look at the impact of what you think of your dog. There's an impact. |
| 1:22.4 | And we're going to deep dive on that tonight. But before we begin, go ahead, do me a favor. Hit that like button. |
| 1:29.3 | Like it's a pinata filled with amazing, awesome reinforcement for your dog. Go ahead. |
| 1:34.7 | Smash it. Yeah. Your dog's waiting. Smash it. If you've seen, there's a video on YouTube, |
| 1:40.5 | I think it's got like 25 million views. It's called Fenton in Richmond Park. And it's a video |
| 1:46.2 | that it opens with this scene, whoever's got his iPhone out, or his whatever phoneies, |
| 1:51.3 | he's videoing these as peaceful scene of these deer just grazing and hanging out in this park. |
| 1:57.4 | And then in the distance you hear a man's frantic voice yelling, fenton, fenton, |
| 2:02.6 | fenton. And then a few minutes later, you see a herd of 40 deer or more. I don't know, |
| 2:11.2 | there could be 50 being chased by this black lab and this anxious man, you know, chasing after the dog. Stress all around. |
| 2:20.0 | Stress to the deer, stress to the dog, or maybe happy stress to the dog and of course, |
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