Your Dog Listening At A Distance Part 2: Critical Timing Of Distractions #148
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 11 May 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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There are two ways to work on your dog listening around distractions, but many people only learn one. The first way is to get your dog into a controlled position like a sit or down, and introduce distractions. We take it to the next level and do things differently! Let’s face it; there are not too many bunnies who are doing to ask us to get our dogs into a sit before they run across the path. We need our dogs to listen no matter what and no matter how far away they are from us, and the timing of our distractions in training is critical to set our dogs up for success.
In the episode you'll hear:
• About the two reasons a dog would listen at a distance.
• The way we grow massive confidence in our dog’s ability to listen.
• About looking at what you do if your dog makes a mistake.
• How games grow responses and enthusiasm for dogs.
• What playing video games has to do with dog training.
• The importance of controlling the distraction and not the dog.
• About growing a dog’s skills in layers and the fun way to practice.
• How to really use distractions in your dog training.
• Why you always want to be on Team Distraction to get to Team Distance.
• What to play with your dog this week in prep for next-level listening games.
PDF Download:
List of Controllable Distraction Ideas for Confidence and Clarity -https://dogsthat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Susan-Garrett-Controllable-Distractions-For-Foundation-Dog-Training.pdf
Resources:
1. Watch Part 1 - Episode 147: Teach Your Dog To Listen Off Leash And Far Away - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/147/
2. Recallers - https://recallers.com/
3. Get Crate Games Online - https://get.crategames.com/
4. Podcast Episode 21: The 5 Critical Dog Training Layers for Confidence with Anything - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/21/
5. Blog Post: Distraction Work in Dog Training: A Conversation Between Friends - https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2012/02/distraction-work-in-dog-training-a-conversation-between-friends/
6. Podcast Episode 4: T.E.M.P. (Tail, Eyes/Ears, Mouth, Posture) - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/4/
7. Podcast Episode 110: Is Your Over-Aroused Dog Just Over-Faced In Training? - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/110/
8. Podcast Episode 24: Help for the Dog who Chases Chipmunks, Bicycles, and the Neighbor’s Cat - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/24/1
9. Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on YouTube - https://youtu.be/v1jiG8tiAOc
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | There are two ways for dog trainers to work distractions with their dogs. Unfortunately, |
| 0:07.1 | most dog training schools all over the world will only teach you one way. And that is, |
| 0:12.3 | get the dog into a control behavior and then introduce temptations, competing reinforcement, |
| 0:19.9 | to see if he understands he needs to maintain that |
| 0:23.0 | behavior. So, distraction type number one, maintain behavior. That is not what we're talking about |
| 0:30.4 | tonight because here's the deal. There aren't too many bunnies out in the country that are going |
| 0:36.4 | to flag you down and go, hey, can |
| 0:38.7 | you get your dog to go into a sit? Because I'm about to blow their mind with a level of distraction. |
| 0:44.2 | I'm going to show them. So we need to work level two. And that's the topic of today's |
| 0:51.8 | podcast. |
| 1:03.7 | Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. |
| 1:05.9 | Welcome back to Shape by Dog. |
| 1:13.9 | Today is installment number two of the series, How to Get Your Dog to Listen at a Distance. |
| 1:18.3 | And today it's all about the critical timing of distractions. |
| 1:21.9 | There's two reasons why a dog would listen at a distance. Reason number one is there's a consequence if they don't. |
| 1:26.7 | So they have a history of knowing if you say something and they don't listen at a distance, |
| 1:33.7 | they will feel physically uncomfortable. |
| 1:37.4 | Potentially there's an electric collar on them or there's a long line or you chase |
| 1:41.6 | them down or there's going to be some level of discomfort all |
| 1:46.4 | the way up to flat out pain if they don't listen to what you say. |
| 1:52.7 | Now, if you're a regular listening to this podcast, you know that's not an option of |
| 1:57.2 | something that I'm going to teach you. |
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