What three words would you and your dog pick to describe your dog training? I’d like to think my dogs pick the words fun, kind and clear. The late Wayne Dyer influenced my dog training mantra, and I believe that our dogs are doing the absolute best they can with the education we’ve given them in the environment that we are asking them to perform in. If you embrace this, it’s the gateway to having not only the best relationship with your dog but to the best trained dog you have ever had.
In the episode you'll hear:
- How being present for your dog will flow on to the way you show up to the world.
- Why our dogs are a mirror of what we are teaching them.
- About the questions we can ask ourselves if our dogs do something we don't want.
- The reason to bring mindfulness to dog training.
- Why to be present for the impact you have in the life of your dog.
- About observing when your dog focuses on you.
- Knowing if we want a dog in our life or want the best life for our dog.
- How dogs learn despite the training methodology.
- How the right approach to training lets dogs be brilliant.
- About inspiring great responses for dog training to be magical.
Resources:
- Crate Games Online
- Podcast Episode 6: The Art of Manipulation
- Podcast Episode 57: Why Balance Breaks Fast Track Your Dog Training
- Podcast Episode 90: Premack, Dog Training and Transfer of Value
- Podcast Episode 5: What is Shaping And How Can Dogs Shape Us
- Podcast Episode 56: 5 Simple Questions to Guide Your Dog Training
- Podcast Episode 100: Dog Training: The Most Important Lesson I Can Share
- Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on YouTube
Love your podcasts. With your advice, you are helping me train Therapy dogs in our school in the UK. I also use your training techniques to show the children how to train the dogs. I have read hundreds of book, but your words stand out and I remember them when training. I wrote a fictional book about the adventures of Spot and Bailey so they are minor celebrities in our town. They even have videos on Youtube that helped the children through lockdown. Dipping into your podast gives me the motivation and inspiration to help Spot and Bailey enjoy everything they do.
Thank you
The three words my dog would use are “confusing”, “fun”, “disappointed”. I can see the disappointed look on my face in my first training video. My dog is trying SO hard to understand what I want, still wagging her tail. The video is exactly the feedback I need to become a better dog mom and trainer.
Great episode. Perfect timing. My mother is getting a rescue dog and I’d love for her to embrace your philosophy of positive reinforcement .