Understanding Emotional Regulation In Dogs To Create Calm #217
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 12 July 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
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Do you know how your dog or puppy self-regulates or dysregulates? Or how your dog self-soothes? Most dog owners don’t, and it could be the root of behavioral challenges around your home. Dogs show dysregulation or self-regulation much like humans. Your dog’s responses aren’t the same as choosing right from wrong but a reflection of emotional regulation. Today I’m breaking down what healthy self-regulation looks like and how to recognize and help your dog’s coping mechanisms for a happier, healthier co-existence.
In the episode you'll hear:
• What you need to know before a visiting dog arrives in your home.
• How to recognize self-regulation and dysregulation in dogs.
• The definition of canine self-regulation.
• That dogs don’t choose right from wrong.
• What dysregulation looks like in dogs.
• That resilience to stress is a byproduct of healthy self-regulation.
• That puppies or rescue dogs cannot self-regulate instantly.
• The possible signs of dysregulation puppies and dogs display.
• Factors that contribute to canine dysregulation.
• About my own puppy’s and rescue’s dysregulation.
• How environment impacts self-regulation.
• About normalizing certain conditions to help dogs.
• What “destructive” dogs are really communicating.
• The ways puppies and dogs naturally self-regulate.
• About canine self-soothing behaviors and coping mechanisms.
• How co-regulation facilitates self-regulation for dogs.
Resources:
1. YouTube Playlist: The Emotional State of Dogs with Susan Garrett - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLphRRSxcMHy29pv3_9b7DZdMFJL9ZJPMy
2. Podcast Episode 64: Help! How Can I Tell My Dog He’s Wrong? - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/64/
3. Podcast Episode 78: How to Train a Rescue Dog with Behavior Problems - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/78/
4. Podcast Episode 48: Potty Train Your Puppy in a Week (Easy 3 Step Process) - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/48/
5. YouTube Playlist: Puppy Essentials with Susan Garrett Dog Training - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLphRRSxcMHy2hywpv3Md3HbWWPPbVF8W5
6. Podcast Episode 204: Dog Behavior And Diet: Recovery For This! Beyond Dog Training Part 2 - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/204/
7. Podcast Episode 112: Stressed Dog? How Trigger Stacking Might Be Putting Your Dog Over Threshold - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/112/
8. Podcast Episode 200: Solve Your Dog’s Separation Anxiety With FRIDA: Expanding Calm With Functional Relaxation - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/200/
9. Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on YouTube - https://youtu.be/p1fFwp14aLE
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, I have a question for you. Do you know how your dog or puppy self-regulates? |
| 0:05.6 | If you aren't 100% sure, you're probably in the majority. But after today's podcast, |
| 0:11.1 | you will not only know the answer to that question, but you'll know why it's so very important |
| 0:16.1 | and why the opposite of it, your dog's dysregulation, may be the root of a lot of problems that can be |
| 0:24.3 | solved around your home. |
| 0:35.3 | Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog. And if you're watching this on YouTube, |
| 0:40.1 | go ahead and hit that like button. If this is a topic, you have some interest in. First, |
| 0:45.9 | let me define self-regulation. Funny enough, it's very similar in humans as it is in dogs. It's |
| 0:52.6 | pretty much the same in all animals. It's the |
| 0:55.0 | animal's ability to show control or to be able to manage their responses, reactions, |
| 1:02.7 | emotions, energy states, and bodily functions, quite honestly. It's the dog's ability to |
| 1:08.7 | choose the desired response over the undesired response. And I say |
| 1:13.4 | it like that because if I said it was the dog's ability to choose right from wrong, |
| 1:18.3 | there's an implication there that the dog knows what's right or what's wrong. What we want is |
| 1:23.4 | for them to choose what we desire. And by keeping that in mind, it's not going to be right |
| 1:29.2 | or wrong. The dog's never going to be right or wrong. The dog just has the ability to choose |
| 1:33.9 | what you desire, which is a human thing, which they have to learn when they live in our world. |
| 1:39.8 | And it's up to us to educate them. So, self-regulation is the dog's ability to make those decisions. |
| 1:47.2 | Think of a child patiently waiting their turn while other children go ahead of them, |
| 1:51.2 | or a child not throwing a tantrum in a checkout line when their mom says no to getting a candy bar |
| 1:58.1 | or any child's ability to deal with disappointment without having a |
| 2:01.6 | complete meltdown, but rather having a positive outlook on that situation and that frustration |
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