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🗓️ 4 July 2025
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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!
How To Tell If A Dog Trainer Is The Right Fit For You And Your Dog
I’m sharing how to tell if a dog trainer is the right fit for you and your dog by breaking down the five key things I believe every dog owner should consider. When you know what to look for, you can find a coach who supports your goals and helps your dog truly shine.
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0:00.0 | Let me tell you what I think should be the considerations when you're deciding |
0:09.5 | where you should take your dog or the who you should invest your time and your money with |
0:13.7 | when you want to train your dog. So number one, they've got to have an obvious love of dogs |
0:18.2 | and everybody in their facility should have an obvious love of dogs and you can tell it in the way they talk to dogs and the way they talk about dogs with their own dogs, with their coaches, with their students' dogs, or when they talk about former students. How do they talk about dogs? And I'm going to put number 1B, they've got to have a love of people because guess what? As much as it's romantic |
0:38.7 | to think I'm going to be a dog trainer, a dog trainer is somebody who teaches people how to train |
0:43.6 | their dogs. So you've got to have an empathy and a love of people that goes as deep as your love |
0:51.2 | of dogs. Number two, your important core values need to align with theirs. |
0:57.3 | So if you believe like I do that dogs should be trained with kindness, with science-based, |
1:03.3 | reinforcement-based, strategically layered games that bring out the best in dogs. So if you go to |
1:10.5 | somebody who says, well, I think |
1:12.9 | I need to show your dogs whose boss and we need to alpha roll them, there's an obvious |
1:17.8 | misalignment of core values. No, that's not a good place for you to be. Number three, they |
1:23.4 | have success in areas that are important to you. So, take a look at how their dogs are |
1:28.3 | trained and don't believe the people who say, oh, you know, like the cobbler's kid, |
1:32.2 | they got the, they don't have the good shoes, yeah, my dogs, I'm training everybody else's |
1:35.7 | dogs and they're, I don't have time to train my own dogs. If you live with a dog, you're training |
1:40.8 | them. And so if their dogs are really not well-behaved, they don't understand |
1:46.0 | that training is easy if you make it a part of your life 24-7. So, yes, look at what kind of |
1:53.8 | family pets their dogs are because that's what you're buying into. And if you want to do agility |
2:00.4 | or another sport, look at the success |
2:02.6 | they have. Number four is look at the success of their students. When you see people in the |
2:06.5 | park and you go, this is something that I just love about our recaller students. We've given them |
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