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Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett

Training Tips From Susan: The Words You Use With Your Dog Matter More Than You Think

Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett

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4.8679 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Message From Susan


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!

 

The Words You Use with Your Dog Matter More Than You Think


The words you use with and about your dog matter more than you think, not just in meaning but in energy. While timing, criteria, and reinforcement are vital for great dog training, don’t overlook the energy of words and their role in creating the trust and joy that make our relationship with our dogs extraordinary.


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0:00.0

Hey there, it's me, Susan. Before you jump into today's episode, there's something else I'd

0:04.0

like you to do first. You see my team and I created Doggy Flicks, an educational video streaming

0:09.2

platform for keen to learn dog lovers like yourself. We've got a video series for you called

0:14.0

the Connected Dog. It's time limited. You're going to be blown away with what we have in store

0:19.3

for you. Did I mention the accompanying

0:21.6

55-page training playbook that goes with the series? You get to experience it all as my guest.

0:28.4

100% free to you. Go to doggieflix.com. D-O-G-G-Y-F-L-I-X.com. You'll recognize me. I'll be the one welcoming you. And once you see how

0:40.8

amazing it is, be sure you invite your other dog-loving friends to, D-O-G-G-Y-F-L-I-X.com.

1:05.1

If at any time in your life you actually spent time as a child, there's a very good chance that you have been hurt by words. And it's not just the meaning, but it's the energy of the words. Now, you may have

1:12.7

heard people say before that words have this vibrational energy. So play this game with me if you

1:18.9

can. Now, if you're driving, don't close your eyes. Okay. So I would like you to close

1:25.3

your eyes and repeat out loud each word I say and see how that feels

1:30.8

in your body. Maybe it won't feel anything, but if you just sit with each word for a moment,

1:38.2

what kind of feeling does each word conjure? Okay, so I'm going to give you pairs of words.

1:43.7

I'm going to start with easy ones. Like so I'm going to give you pairs of words. I'm going to start

1:44.4

with easy ones. Like, I'm going to say the word, love. What kind of energy does that give you?

1:52.6

What about hate? So I'm saying them in the same tone and the same cadence, but for me,

2:00.4

one of those words, because of the meaning

2:03.2

that we've been associating with it potentially, has a different energy in my body.

2:09.4

Okay, what about the word soft compared to the word hard? Like one definitely has a different feeling than the other.

2:21.7

So words, they have this energy.

2:26.4

Even things like the word training compared to the word teaching.

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