Isn't that just awesome music? Shout out to the dogs that power couple, Chris and Gladys for putting

that music together. I just love that intro music. Hey, welcome to

Shape by Dog. I am Susan Garrett. Have a question? Have you ever been in a situation? Maybe you were at a

seminar and you're there to learn and you suddenly feel like overwhelmed and you can't really take anything in. You know, our dogs go through

the same thing. And there is a reason for that. I'm going to talk about that today. I'm also going to

read for you a chapter from a new book that I'm writing. Yeah, it's, it's a little scary for me

to read this because it's, it's like bearing my soul kind of.

It's a true life story.

Changed the names.

All right, we're going to jump in and I want to talk about a little bit of psychology.

And for some of you, this may be a complete review.

For some of you, it might be really new.

Now, you may or may not have heard of the pyramid of human needs.

So, a Russian psychologist discovered it. I don't know when 50 years ago. Maslow. Maslow's hierarchy

of needs. Now, this was put together for humans, but a lot of people have studied it in relation to dogs. I'm

going to give you my take on this as well, how it applies to dogs. Just want to share with you

a little bit about this pyramid. So, if you're listening and not watching, there's, it's a pyramid

with five layers. All right, if you need the graphics, come and watch on YouTube. Come and watch this episode of Shape by Dogs.

So, at the bottom layer, that's our physiological needs.

The need for water, the need for food, the need for shelter, for reproduction.

These are the basic needs that it's survival mode. It is, you know, we need this to keep going as a

species. And at the very, very top of the pyramid is what he described as self-actualization. And

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