Training Tips From Susan: Catch Your Runaway Dog! Stop Chasing And Do This In An Emergency

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🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Hey everyone, it’s Susan, and you’re about to hear one of my training tips and tidbits. These are quick, actionable strategies to help you and your dog in everyday life or for dog sport. Often our short videos with tips are created from your most popular segments of podcast episodes. So, let’s dive in!

Training Tips from Susan: Catch Your Runaway Dog! Stop Chasing And Do This In An Emergency

If your dog slips their collar or gets away from you, use this tip to get your dog back!

Stop chasing. Pop off a whistle or noise to get your dog's attention. Roll in the other direction keeping an eye on your dog. Repeat. When you and your dog meet, take their collar.

If you want your dog to come when called every time, check out our Recallers program - https://recallers.com/

For more on the roll of body pressure, check out our podcast video "The Invisible Bubble of Pressure and Your Dog" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8nSFiqTalM&t=0s

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0:00.0	All professional dog trainers will agree on this one skill as being the most important thing to teach your dog.
0:13.0	And that is a recall. A dog coming when they're called reliably could save their life.
0:20.0	However, all those good intentions of
0:23.6	putting in the work of teaching that recall, go out the window the moment somebody accidentally leaves
0:29.4	the back gate open or your dog slips out the front door or you're at the park and they somehow
0:34.5	get out of their leash and collar. Now it's a foot race. Your dog
0:39.1	going one direction and you screaming after them before they get to a busy road. What to do.
0:45.6	I'm going to let you in on one secret in this video and it doesn't matter how many times your dog
0:50.3	has gotten away from you. It doesn't matter how many times you've chased him down the street.
0:55.0	This one secret could save your dog has gotten away from you, it doesn't matter how many times you've chased him down the street. This one secret could save your dog's life.
0:59.0	Let me set the stage. Your dog has just slipped away from you.
1:03.0	Your first instinct is to call his name a thousand times, probably in a really fevered pitch,
1:09.0	and it might also be to lunge towards him or run after
1:12.9	him all of those things are putting pressure nervous energy on him which is going to get him running
1:18.7	in the opposite direction and so here's what you do three simple things kind of like stop drop and roll
1:26.6	but it's stop pop and roll, but it's stop, pop, and roll.
1:29.1	You're going to stop, turn away from your dog.
1:33.3	You're going to pop off any noise that comes to you.
1:36.4	If you can whistle, whistle.
1:38.2	If you can't, make it sound like a dolphin.
1:41.7	And then you're gonna roll.
1:42.9	You're gonna run the opposite direction, just looking over your shoulder towards your dog.
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