Why It Hurts Me When I Say "Dog Training" #28

Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett

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4.8 • 679 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Have you ever thought about why we own dogs really? What is the main benefit? That’s on my mind, and your reasons might be like mine … dogs are companions and make our lives better. We have a relationship with our dogs. So why do we call the way we relate to our companions “training”? We don’t think of our relationships with the people in our life as “training”, so why do we “dog train”?

In the episode you'll hear:

• The way I look at my relationship with my dogs.
• My goal for “dog training” my dogs.
• How we all want to make the best decisions for our dogs.
• Why I bit my tongue during a dinner party conversation.
• About creating safety and control.
• How our dogs have free will.
• Why our responses to our dog’s choices matter.
• What the “inner freak flag” is in our dogs.
• About honouring who our dog is and how it can enhance our lives.
• How I use my dog's strengths in the sport of agility.
• The conscious choices we need to make for our dogs.

Resources:

“The Journey” – YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfXGD4hP1Ro
Podcast Episode 27: Do Dogs Need Rules? - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/27/

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to Shape by Dog. I am Susan Garrett and I have a question for you.
0:15.6	Why do you own a dog? And if you don't have a dog yet, why are you thinking of owning a dog?
0:23.8	What is it that you envision is the main benefit to owning a dog? I'm going to let that sit
0:32.0	with you for one second. For most of you, I think it would probably be similar to why I own a dog. It's companionship
0:41.8	because we love dogs. We love dogs. We love how they make our lives better. Is that not
0:50.5	similar to why you are in any other relationship? Why do you have a spouse?
0:57.7	It's companionship because they make my life better. So, if that is true, why do we call
1:04.9	this thing that we do dog training? We don't call it husband training, although there might be a market for that. I'm not
1:14.3	entirely, don't want to discount that one. We don't call it wife training or girlfriend or boyfriend
1:21.4	training. We call it having a relationship. Now, if we were all, I just think it's a, it's a disservice to dogs that we call it, this thing that we do,
1:34.6	dog training. And it goes back to origins of dog training.
1:40.7	Dogs were trained to go to war with people.
1:48.5	And so it was a very militant approach to training. They must do this. And it was a very force-based training methodology that we took.
1:56.4	You know, I believe human beings right from the beginning of time, it's a journey of evolution
2:03.8	in that we raise our level of consciousness. Think of how a hundred years ago children were raised.
2:13.3	It wasn't about relationship, it was about, you know, do as I say, be seen and not heard and,
2:20.6	you know, spare the rod, spoil the child. It was more of a force-based relationship, right? You do as I say
2:30.3	or else. And I'm so happy to say that when I watch young people with their children
2:37.6	today, it's really more about engagement, enrichment, allowing that child to show you who they
2:46.6	are and supporting that direction for them. That's an ideal relationship. And, you know, a relationship
2:54.4	is about doing your best to bring out the best in somebody else. You don't go into a relationship
3:01.3	going, well, how are you going to serve me? If you do, it's exhausting for the other person and you likely are going to
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