Training Tips From Susan: How To Train Your Dog To Leave It With No Command: Susan Garrett's ItsYerChoice
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🗓️ 27 February 2025
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Training Tips from Susan: How to Train Your Dog to Leave It with No Command: Susan Garrett's ItsYerChoice
There are many reasons to train your dog to “leave it” on command. Your puppy or dog might be grabbing scraps off the ground when you are out walking, raiding the garbage, stealing food off the table or counter. It’s not safe for your dog, and it is frustrating for you.
The downside of training “leave it” on command is that you’ll have to be there to say it to your dog for life. And perhaps one day your dog is off the lead, away from you, can’t hear your “leave it” and grabs something that is life-threatening. What I like to do is teach my dogs to leave things alone by making it their choice. It all starts with a game I call ItsYerChoice because it teaches dogs to make the choices we want them to make. It removes the need for us to always be micromanaging what our dogs are doing.
The ItsYerChoice game will even help your dog make great choices in the face of big distractions. You’ll be able to get your dog’s attention just by saying your dog’s name, or any word you want to use. I’ve got a demonstration of how it looks in the foundation stages here in this video with my dog Momentum.
ItsYerChoice has not only worked for me; it’s worked for tens of thousands of my students and their dogs of all ages, breeds, shapes and sizes and backgrounds. You can join us to learn one simple dog training game that will change your dog’s approach to distractions and release you from needing to say “leave it” and nagging your dog many times a day: https://recallers.com/iycsummit-join
When you join in, you and your puppy or dog will receive a free 20 minute training video and a step by step Play Book to help your dog get control over distractions. My foundation game teaches dogs HOW to make great choices to ‘leave’ food / toys / distractions. This is DIFFERENT! And because it’s a game, it’s fun, and we all learn best when we are having fun.
Looking forward to coaching you on how to get your dog to leave it because that is what your dog chooses to do. Join me to learn how IYC can change your life with your dog:
See you soon!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, Susan Garrett here. |
| 0:07.0 | And right now we are examining It's Your Choice. |
| 0:10.0 | There's a lot of people that are learning Is Your Choice for the first time and that's fantastic. |
| 0:13.0 | If you aren't familiar with It's Your Choice, it starts, come here, move, as a game, you have cookies in your hand, |
| 0:20.0 | your dog's going to want to molest your hand and eat the cookies and we're teaching them that they should have self-control some impulse control doesn't matter if we've dropped it on the floor |
| 0:30.1 | two three get it they have to wait to be told so that's the foundation yes of it's your choice now sit if yes, of it's your choice. Now, sit. |
| 0:39.3 | If you have played, it's your choice, give me a heart. |
| 0:43.3 | So what some people want is when there's a cookie in front, |
| 0:48.3 | they want their dog to watch them so that their dog's face comes up here. |
| 0:52.3 | You can see momentum won't even do that. And I'll get to what I want for my dogs and why. That's not part of the It's Your Choice game. |
| 1:01.0 | We don't want our dogs to see a cookie on the floor and to look up at our face. We want them to keep looking at that treat. |
| 1:07.0 | Get it! And it's, you know, it's not the most critical part of the game, but it's a pretty important |
| 1:13.6 | part. |
| 1:14.6 | And I'm going to tell you why. |
| 1:15.6 | If my dog's looking at the treat and I want her to get, I want her attention, I just |
| 1:19.6 | hear her name, MENTUM, good. |
| 1:22.6 | And she will look up at me and then she can look back at the treat and keep looking at that treat. No, there's one right here. |
| 1:29.6 | You forgot about that one. Good. Mentum. Good. So if I don't want her to look at that anymore, |
| 1:36.7 | I just say her name and she looks back at me. Can you come here and sit? Thank you. Get it. Good. |
| 1:42.2 | And this is not something I just arbitrarily said said let's not have the dogs look at us |
| 1:46.2 | this is really purposeful it's all about layers of training in our program it's a choice-based |
| 1:52.3 | program we want the dogs to think for themselves whether we are around or not so come here it starts |
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