Your Dog Agility And Dog Sports Questions Covered #105

Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett

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Education, Puppy, Recallers, Animalbehaviour, Dogs, Kids & Family, Pets, Dogtraining, Dogsthat, Petmanners, Susangarrett, Pets & Animals

4.8 • 679 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Answering your dog sport questions! Even if you don’t do dog sports, many of the questions relate to
dog training in general. My voice is a bit raspy as we’re just wrapped up a first ever global four day
agility camp entirely through Zoom.
In the episode you'll hear answers covering:
• Connecting with your dog better when running an entire agility course.
• Giving motivation a boost when competing.
• How often my dogs do fitness training.
• Preventing arthritis in sports dogs.
• Building value for what I want my dogs to do.
• My use of different cues for turns on tunnels and the dog walk.
• Working your way up to championship level in agility.
• When to retire a dog from competition.
• Keeping track of verbal cues.
• Why to pay attention to your dog’s emotions at the agility start line.
• The importance of focus forward.
• Warm up and cool down routines.
• Starting puppies in dog sports.
• My top five body awareness exercise and why the list depends on age.
• The same thing I do on every lead out to connect with my dog.

Resources:
• Join Agility Nation (Use the Discount Code: SUSANSAID) - https://dogsthat.com/product/agility-nation/
• Susan’s Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/SusanGarrettdogsthat/
• Handling360 - https://connect.handling360.com/
• Podcast Episode 5: What is Shaping And How Can Dogs Shape Us - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/5/
• Podcast Episode 90: Premack, Dog Training and Transfer of Value - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/90/
• Vlog: Toning Up On Cue Clarity (Hearing The Sirens) - https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2019/01/toning-up-on-cue-clarity-hearing-the-sirens/

Episodes Covering Your Dog’s Emotions:
• Episode 35: Pro Dog Training Tip To Improve Your Dog’s Focus - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/35/
• Episode 86: How to Train Unmotivated or Overexcited Dogs - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/86/
• Episode 103: Excited Or Suspicious Dog? Dealing With Your Dog’s Emotions - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/103/
• Episode 21: The 5 Critical Dog Training Layers for Confidence with Anything - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/21/
• Episode 38: 3 Keys to a Confident Dog - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/38/
• Episode 7: You, Your Dog, Maslow and Lizard Brain - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/7/
• Podcast Episode 79: Reduce Anxiety and Grow Your Dog’s Confidence with These Pro Dog Training Tips - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/79/

• Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on Youtube - https://youtu.be/RITzOlo6uw8

Transcript

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0:00.0	Earlier this week, I put a post on social media asking anybody who is involved with dog sports
0:16.2	if they had a question they would like me to address on my podcast. And guess what? I got 84
0:23.2	different questions that came up just in over 24 hours, posted on Instagram, and I'm going to
0:30.4	try to answer as many as I can in the next 20 minutes. Hi, I'm Susan Garrett and welcome to
0:36.5	shape by dog. If you have no interest
0:39.4	in dog sports or are really not familiar with what dog sports are, well, stick with me because
0:45.6	there's a lot of questions here that relate to general dog training to begin with. And if my voice
0:52.6	seems a little bit raspy, it's because over the last
0:56.4	four days, I trained the first ever for us and possibly the first in the world, global
1:04.6	agility camp taught entirely through Zoom. It was crazy. We had tons of people on there. We really
1:15.3	didn't know what it was going to be like, but by all accounts, it was a massive success. So,
1:21.6	that's what prompted me to say, hey, let's talk about dog sports in a podcast. And so I'm going to jump right in. And I got
1:29.1	to tell you, I have two online programs to do with dog agility. There's handling 360,
1:35.9	which is all about the layers of learning of taking a dog right from the beginning all the way
1:41.0	up to being able to run courses, learning how to handle. That means
1:45.5	listening to their handler's cues, following direction, following the body, and getting the
1:49.9	course correct. And our other online program for dog agility is called Agility Nation. Now,
1:55.7	that's all about everything except for handling. Things like teaching a dog how to weave or teaching a dog
2:02.7	fitness exercises or human fitness exercises. So, there are two separate programs. One's a membership.
2:09.4	Agility Nation's a membership. Why am I telling you all of this? Because at the very end of this
2:15.6	podcast, as I was answering these questions, I thought,
2:17.7	I got to tell people that some of these answers you could get in much greater detail in
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