The Thing Before Your Dog's Thing #16
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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4.8 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
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There is one question you can ask yourself to solve virtually any dog training problem. If your dog is jumping, digging, chewing, biting or doing something else you want to fix, you need to know "the thing before the thing".
In the episode you'll hear:
- The four most common naughty behaviors in dogs.
- How to use the ABC's of dog training to fix anything.
- What the antecedent of a dog's behavior could be.
- How the consequence could be contributing to the problem.
- Two ways to fix anything.
- What I learned from my dogs about the things before the things.
Resources:
- Recallers - https://dogsthat.com/recallers/
- Podcast Episode 6: The Art of Manipulation - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/6/
- Vlog Post: The ABC's of Dog Training - https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2020/06/the-abcs-of-dog-training/
- Podcast Episode 4: T.E.M.P. (Tail, Eyes/Ears, Mouth, Posture) - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/4/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome to shape by dog. |
| 0:12.1 | What if I was to tell you, there is one question you could ask yourself that would help |
| 0:18.8 | you solve virtually any dog training problem or people training |
| 0:25.3 | problem if you would like me to put it in those terms. This is a spoiler alert. I'm giving you the |
| 0:30.8 | answer to the whole podcast right at the beginning. The question is, what is the thing before the thing? That's all you have to |
| 0:40.5 | remember. And we're going to apply that question to four common problems that you dog owners |
| 0:48.2 | may or may not see. So jumping on gas, chewing furniture, digging holes in the backyard, and biting. |
| 0:56.0 | Okay? |
| 0:56.5 | So there's four naughty dog behaviors that we would like to eliminate and I'll share with you |
| 1:03.0 | how you can eliminate them by asking that question. |
| 1:07.1 | What's the thing before the thing? |
| 1:09.7 | Okay. |
| 1:10.7 | Now, I'm going to give you a little bit of science. |
| 1:14.2 | Behavior doesn't just happen in a vacuum. Behavior, as my mentor Bob Bailey says, behavior is |
| 1:19.5 | lawful. And in science, we refer to it as an ABC. The B is the thing, the behavior, jumping on your guests, chewing furniture, |
| 1:31.2 | digging holes in the backyard, biting. That's the thing. We don't want to see happen. |
| 1:37.2 | Traditionally, what happens, we try to fix the thing by going at the thing. |
| 1:44.8 | When a dog's jumping on our guests, we'll tell them off or tell her, I hope nobody does |
| 1:49.8 | this, but I've heard of trainers that say, knee the dog in the chest or one trainer, |
| 1:55.8 | one of the rescue Jack Russell's I got, I got it because it was biting people who came in the |
| 2:00.1 | house. |
| 2:00.4 | Why was it biting people who came in the house? Because from six months on, the owner was told when it |
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