Welcome to the Absolute Dog Sex and a Squirrel podcast. I'm Lauren Langman. I'm one of the world's leading dog trainers and it's my mission to help owners become their dog's top priority. In each episode, you'll discover how to gain trust and

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exciting part of their world. Okay, confident circuits, Jamie, one of my absolute favorite things

to do because I think that they have changed the game for so many of my dogs in

sport. But I also know they're not just for sport. They've also had massive benefits in naughty

but nice dogs. What is a confidence circuit? A confidence circuit is the best thing ever, I think.

And it can be anything really. I love how enthusiastic you are. The best thing ever. They are so cool. They're also really fun, aren't they? They're really fun to do. And you can get creative doing them and there's not really, there's no rule. You can't get too far wrong. No. I mean, you don't want them running. No. It's the only thing. Yeah. So these you're going to play out where you do, we do, I think there are some people who might play them where they let the dog do any old movement. Jamie and I are both going to look for some specific good movement. Why? Because we've got sports trained eye. So when you've got sports trained eye, it's kind of like ignoring, I don't know, it's like a police officer going out and doing something that's really against the law for them because you know what what the rules are in the games that you play in sport so because we play so many

sports we probably are going to look at it from a sporty point of view at the same time

brilliant for rehab dogs brilliant for dogs that are nervous brilliant for dogs that are lacking confidence

so what is a confidence circuit a confidence circuit is it's a I't know how to describe it. I would say it's a

series of different obstacles where the dog has to problem solve to go from A to B whilst individually

manoeuvring their limbs in a correct form in a calm headspace. Keep in focus. Keeping focus. Forward. Preferably. Yeah. And I think that

it can look really different, can't it? Because I'm already like designing one in my head and it's got

big boxes and it's got little foily bits the dogs coming through and like glitter and shimmer

and the dog is like striding through the glitter and the shimmer, like all of those types of things. I really like, I really like them to look different. At the same time, it also should be non-slip. And the thing, when people are at home listening going, well, I haven't got all this stuff, you don't actually need a lot of stuff. You actually need to be quite versatile, and flexible to what you already own. Like if you've got a bath mat or maybe you've got a baby with a baby mat or whether you've got some form of dirt trapper at your door, these things are all quite useful. And the brillo brush type mat outside the front door, those types of things are all of these things. A broom handle. Yeah, all of these things. A mop. Like all of them can come in handy into the circuit. Yeah, definitely. A baby step,

like, yeah, toilet step type thing. Yeah, definitely, definitely. There's so many, I'm looking around

the room now, I know, of our random things. There are so many random things that you can

utilize, a yoga block. If you've done any Pilates and then given up, which is what most of us do,

all of those blocks that you might like be working with. Yes, a hoop would be nice. You can get them from like Tesco's and Sainsbury's and Asda and Amazon and Costco and I'm sure lots of other places like that. But loads and loads and loads of like, you want like DIY gear almost, don't you? You just want like different stuff.

If you've got anything, I don't know what it's called. I do know what it's called. It's called insulation. Insulation, for example, great. We make everything non-slip, Jamie. Why? Because we're asking

our dogs to stand on things or in things with confidence. And we don't want that to move.

We don't want to cause them injury.

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