Over the past few weeks, I've been running an online agility master class.

And recently, I dropped a statistic on people that blew their minds.

And the result that I was sharing was how my dogs, their start line is a given.

I'm going to jump into why I believe that and why what I do is so very different.

And how if you're just wanting a dog to be well-behaved,

it can happen based on your life 24-7. It has nothing to do with formal training.

Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog. And it was a pretty enlightening masterclass.

I absolutely love online masterclasses because I get feedback

from people just like our dogs give us feedback on what we've taught them. People in my master

class give me feedback especially recently we've been running VIP sections in our master class

where I get to actually jump on a Zoom and watch people train their dog.

I love, love, love that. And it's a part of life that I've missed over the past, well,

definitely the past couple of years with the pandemic having me be at home. But honestly,

since I've been running online classes, I really don't get to see as many people train in person.

Okay. So, I love when people say people say, I haven't trained my dog all week. Because what they don't realize is, you sure as

heck have trained your dog all week. You just haven't intentionally trained your dog all week.

Well, I am intentionally training my dog. And that's where something

like a start line in agility comes into play. The data that I shared on one of my Facebook lives

was that over my career, all the dogs I've trialed, I sat down and I added up all the years

each of my dogs has spent in agility. And then how many start

lines that was an equivalent to? And it was over 61 years and it was around 9,100 start lines. And

I don't remember the exact data, but we did the math online. The bottom line was my dog's

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