Today's podcast was inspired by a student of mine, John, who said, you talk about walking your dog

and training them. I would love to know what that looks like. And so today's podcast is meant

to be one that you do with your dog. So, take your phone, plug in your earphones, grab some

cookies and a bait bag and a leash, if appropriate. And you're going to go outside and train your dog

while you're listening to this podcast. You see, this is a great quote. The goal of education

is not knowledge. The goal of education is action. So, this could be a regular segment here on

shaped by dog. And we're calling it learn, walk, and train.

You're going to leave me a comment if you're watching this on YouTube or at the end, you can drop

us a note at wag at dogs that.com to let us know what you think about learn, walk, and train.

Here's how it's going to work.

I'm going to interrupt the podcast throughout to instruct you on what I would like you to train.

Michael Jordan, he once said, you need to become a master of the basics. And then the level of everything you do from there is going

to rise. Another great quote I've heard is that mastery is just mastering the fundamentals.

So, on learn, walk, and train, what I want to do is we're going to focus on those fundamentals.

So, what I want you to do, grab your treats, make sure you

have various values, some super high value and some moderate value, some regular low value treats.

Have a treat pouch. We're going to change that up every time you walk, not every time,

but mix it up so the treats aren't always in the same place. And if you're walking your dog,

off leash, just carry

that leash with you. Today, what I want you to focus on is the behavior of sit. So, in fairness to

the dog, we're going to set a base level. Before you go out the door, I want you to ask your dog

to sit. Everybody grab your dog. You might want to pause the podcast so that you're

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