If you believe like I do that our dogs are always doing the best they can with the

education we've given them in the environment that we're asking them to perform and they say

no, then we've got to look at the job we've done. So, what would I do if my dog said no, because

they didn't see the value? I would, number one, go, hmm, I've got some work to do because

value is grown in layers. Has there been a transfer of value from what my dog loves to what I

want them to do in the base layer? Now, what if your dog sits in front of

that first jump and then they start going over the second one, they say, I see some value

in this, but they're walking. In my opinion, that's not giving you an implied permission

to keep going. They are saying, I still don't see a great deal of value in this.

What would I do then? I would pull the dog back. I would do something simple. Like,

can you do a hand touch? Can you do a spin? Can you do a down? Can you chase me out of the ring?

As I run to your crate, play some crate games, throw you in there, pull out my journal and say, where have

I gone wrong and how can I start training my dog better? What are the layers I missed?

And I would not be going back to agility for a very, very long time. Okay, what if my dog

says there's competing values here? Look, there's kids on bicycles and I'm so excited.

I can't possibly say sit when you ask me to sit. We need to, as I said, in episode number 24,

when you're dealing with any kind of distractions, minimize the distractions so that the dog

can do what we've asked. So, I want to turn that,, I can't into a, yeah, I can do that.

And we're going to do that by all the steps I said in that episode. Most importantly,

get the dog out of the environment and then re-ask your question. What if my dog says,

there's some emotional stress here? I am really fearful of this environment. Well, you want to turn

a no into a yes, but it may not happen right there. What you're going to do is get your dog

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