Yes, Susan Garrett's Dogs Sniff On Walks #74
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 24 March 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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If you are like most people, you take your dog for a walk for exercise or for a potty break. Surprisingly, one of the questions I get asked frequently is when and how I walk my dogs. There are five main reasons I walk my dogs, and the walking is always intentional. Those reasons are for elimination (toilet breaks), relationship building, to give my dogs a chance to sniff (read the pee mail), exercise, and sometimes to socialize.
In the episode you'll hear:
• The types of walks I take with my dogs.
• How I walk my dogs, and when I choose off-leash or on a leash.
• About Tater's LOVE of people and what that means when walking him.
• The reasons I am cautious and intentional when walking in new places.
• Why I am always on alert when walking my dogs on leash in a city.
• What I do to keep my dogs safe when walking in new places.
• When and why I use a head halter, a harness or a flat collar.
• About how I start when walking the dogs at home.
• The games I play on walks with my puppy for relationship building.
• About letting dogs scent on walks and sniffing to read the pee mail.
• What I do when my dogs don't come when called.
• How Tater, Momentum and This! love to use their noses.
• What I do to be intentional about my dogs sniffing on walks.
Resources:
• Podcast Episode 48: Potty Train Your Puppy in a Week (Easy 3 Step Process) - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/48/
• YouTube Video: Susan Garrett's Perch Work Dog Tricks (Pivots and Spins) - https://youtu.be/O6sj6fTJnFc
• Podcast Episode 40: Using a Head Halter on a Dog, Why My Approach is so Different - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/40/
• Podcast Episode 16: The Thing Before Your Dog's Thing - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/16/
• Podcast Episode 11: The Power of Permission in Dog Training - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/11/
• Recallers - https://recallers.com/
• Podcast Episode 73: Why Your Dog Is Still Pulling on Leash and How To Fix It - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/73/
• Podcast Episode 53: Stop Your Dog Pulling on Leash and Start Walking Together - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/53/
• Podcast Episode 29: Understanding and Preventing Reactivity and Aggression in Your Dog - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/29/
• Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on YouTube - https://youtu.be/bxx5Rnk4tYs
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you're like most people, you take your dog for a walk for one of two reasons. |
| 0:15.9 | Either to get them a little exercise or to get them to eliminate a pee or poop so that you |
| 0:25.9 | can go about your business. |
| 0:27.4 | Now, that's pretty common. |
| 0:29.0 | But when I take my dog for a walk, yeah, those may be two of the reasons, but there's |
| 0:33.6 | another few that are very important and that's what I'd like to share with |
| 0:37.6 | you today. Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog. You'd be surprised the number |
| 0:44.1 | of people who leave comments asking, Susan, please share how you go about walking your dog, |
| 0:51.3 | particularly on YouTube. And if you are watching this on YouTube, |
| 0:55.0 | go ahead and click the like button. If how I go about walking my dogs is something that |
| 1:01.0 | you think would be really, really, really interesting to you. Okay, maybe even if it's just one |
| 1:07.0 | really interesting to you. Go ahead and hit that light button. Now, everything that I do with |
| 1:11.3 | my dogs are, is intentional. And I'm going to just spoiler alert. I'm going to give you |
| 1:17.6 | five reasons why I am intentionally walking my dog. Now, the obvious, it's elimination, |
| 1:25.2 | it's relationship building because everything you're doing with your dog is |
| 1:30.4 | either tearing down or building that relationship. |
| 1:34.5 | You know, relationships with our dogs are just like relationships with people that were either |
| 1:39.4 | withdrawing on that bank account or we're adding to that bank account, you can't have an interaction |
| 1:46.6 | with that other person and it be even. It's you're building or you're withdrawing. And this very |
| 1:53.4 | same thing is true of our relationship with our dogs. And so I want to be intentional and make |
| 1:57.4 | sure that I'm depositing into that. So, I digress. Those five things. |
| 2:01.9 | Really, there's four, but sometimes there's a fifth and I'm going to share it with you. |
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