Transitioning Your Dog Training: From All That is Wrong to That Which is Right #102
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 11 August 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
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How do you move from punishment based or balanced dog training to being a choice based trainer who uses positive reinforcement? That’s a question one of our YouTube viewers asked. If you have the same question, you are not alone. Three keys to help make lasting change in how you train your dog are knowing your why, having a plan, and giving yourself grace.
In the episode you'll hear:
• Why we notice the bad and how that can is evident on social media.
• About the ABC’s of dog training: Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence.
• How the ABC relates to counter surfing.
• Why the consequence of punishment can reinforce that dog training choice.
• About starting with your WHY.
• The difference between wishing and dedication.
• How we train our dog changes us and the way we look at life.
• About considering the lessons we are teaching to our children.
• How our why can bring the best in our dogs and in ourselves.
• That staying present will help you be the trainer you want to be.
• How to get brilliant at using reinforcement.
• Why to be aware of your dog’s reinforcement away from training.
• The reason to change how you think and talk about yourself and your dog.
• What grace has to do with dog training.
• The questions to ask yourself to create the changes you want.
Resources:
• Learn How to Play ItsYerChoice - https://recallers.com/iycsummit-join/
• Podcast Episode 16: The Thing Before Your Dog’s Thing - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/16/
• Book: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek - https://www.amazon.com/Start-Why-Leaders-Inspire-Everyone/dp/1591846447
• Podcast Episode 100: Dog Training: The Most Important Lesson I Can Share - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/100/
• Podcast Episode 27: Do Dogs Need Rules? - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/27/
• Shaped By Dog Podcast: All Episodes - https://dogsthat.com/podcast-all-episodes/
• Podcast Episode 83: The Dog Training You Do When You’re Not Dog Training - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/83/
• Podcast Episode 11: The Power of Permission in Dog Training - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/11/
• Podcast Episode 2: Reinforcement - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/2/
• Podcast Episode 8: Get Your Dog in the Belief Loop of Awesome - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/8/
• Podcast Episode 21: The 5 Critical Dog Training Layers for Confidence with Anything - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/21/
• Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on YouTube - https://youtu.be/eFzA4iFVnbU
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | There's an old saying, what you learn first, you learn best. |
| 0:13.3 | Now, that's not to say you can't relearn something to replace what you've learned first, |
| 0:18.4 | just that sometimes it takes more effort. |
| 0:21.5 | Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog. And today's podcast is at a request from one of |
| 0:26.9 | our YouTube watchers. Sarah asks, it would be really helpful if you could do a podcast about going |
| 0:32.1 | from being a punishment based slash balanced trainer to a choice based and positive reinforcement like you. I'm really |
| 0:39.8 | struggling with that mindset. You know what? You're not alone. That's something that is a struggle |
| 0:44.6 | for everybody because there's very, very few people in this world who start off training their |
| 0:50.4 | dog in our programs. Now there's more and more every year. But for a lot of people |
| 0:56.5 | who have owned dogs in the past, it's a choice. And just like anything in life, to make a choice, |
| 1:03.5 | it has to be a conscious effort. And to go from a place of punishment to a place of reinforcement, |
| 1:08.7 | I think there's really three things that are involved. |
| 1:11.1 | And that is the why, the plan, and the grace. I'll get to those three things in a second. |
| 1:16.4 | But first, let's examine why punishment-based dog training is so popular. You know, |
| 1:22.4 | obviously it's more traditional. It goes back many generations of dog trainers who've been taught. This is the |
| 1:29.3 | best way to train a dog. I think culturally it may also be human nature. Now, I say culturally |
| 1:36.1 | because I don't like to believe this is the way we are naturally programmed. I believe it's a way |
| 1:41.6 | that we evolve through our culture in that we learn to ignore |
| 1:45.7 | what's good and punish that which is bad or different. If you don't believe me, just take a look |
| 1:51.0 | at social media. And there's so many people that are pointing out what's wrong with the world. |
| 1:56.4 | And those are the posts that are getting all kinds of comments. Yeah, that's right. That's true. |
| 2:02.2 | My life sucks too. Your life sucks. My life sucks. Here's what's wrong. It's the government. It's, |
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