Why Judgement Does Not Help People Or Dogs: ItsYerChoice LWT # 91
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 4 June 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
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As someone who has been educating dog owners on having a well-behaved dog and an amazing relationship with that dog, I think it's important to share my failures. Learn, walk, listen and train ItsYerChoice with me as I talk about my big blunder that happened last week, the impact of judgement and critical questions we need to ask ourselves.
In the episode you'll hear:
• My mistake at the grocery store and why I went straight to judgement.
• Why to get curious when you find yourself judging.
• About outside dogs and littermates.
• How I got triggered and responded with a lack of filter.
• The way my subconscious kicked in and the thoughts I had when waking up.
• What congruency means to me.
• What a nose bridge is and how my puppy targets my hand.
• How we are all making judgements every day.
• Why to ask questions when you are irritated.
• About all the different views on dog training out there in the world.
• How sitting in judgement of our dogs or others has impact beyond us.
• Why I teach everything through games and its effectiveness.
• Quick training prompts with IYC, paw movement and reward delivery.
Resources:
• Learn how to play ItsYerChoice - https://recallers.com/iycsummit-join/
• Podcast Episode 70: Critical Info for Your Puppy's First Day and Night at Home - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/70/
• YouTube Video: Susan Garrett's Tip for Training Frantic Dogs: Stimulus Control (see the nose bridge) - https://youtu.be/Kn3tIuQ7t9g
• Podcast Episode 20: Bridging the Gap Between Blame and Kindness in Dog Training - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/20/
• Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on YouTube - https://youtu.be/kZEUfgR4-zg
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| 0:00.0 | If somebody has been educating dog owners on how to have not only a well-behaved dog, |
| 0:14.8 | but an amazing relationship with that dog, I think it's really important that I share |
| 0:20.0 | my failures. And today is such an episode. |
| 0:23.5 | Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog and welcome to our second installment of Learn |
| 0:29.1 | Walk and Train. This is the episode of interaction where I encourage you to take the info from your |
| 0:36.3 | head, have it go through your heart, |
| 0:38.2 | down your hands and through the leash into your dog. |
| 0:41.3 | It could be a podcast episode that you're taking your dog for a walk. |
| 0:44.8 | Or if you're watching this on YouTube, prop up the computer, crank it up and start doing |
| 0:48.8 | some housework as long as your dog is nearby to play. |
| 0:52.3 | And today, the game that I want you to play on your walk |
| 0:56.8 | or in your interaction is the game of It's Your Choice. Now, for those of you who have never |
| 1:02.2 | played It's Your Choice, you can pause this video, go to the show notes, click on the link |
| 1:08.6 | that takes you to the game of It's Your Choice and then come on and |
| 1:13.5 | circle back here once you've got a really good grasp of it. Or when I ask people to play |
| 1:20.2 | It's Your Choice, you can take a break and play a game of interaction and engagement with your |
| 1:25.2 | dog, something like, chase me and get a cookie. |
| 1:28.2 | Okay, you got it. You might be walking your dog. You might just be listening to this in your |
| 1:31.8 | car and you're going to circle back to it when your dog is around. Here we go. We're going to jump |
| 1:36.6 | right in. Back to my big blunder. It happened last week. It's something I'm really not proud |
| 1:43.0 | of at all. I'm going to share with you |
| 1:45.4 | exactly what happened. You can stop and think of what you would have done. I'm going to share |
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