Susan Garrett

Susan Garrett holding Prophet as a puppy

About Susan Garrett

Susan Garrett is a world-renowned dog trainer with over 30 years of experience and multiple national and world championship titles in dog agility. She is the founder of DogsThat and host of the Shaped by Dog podcast, where she has helped hundreds of thousands of dog owners worldwide build calm, connected dogs that are a joy to live with through game-based, positive training.

Transcript of Episode 272: 10 Engaging Chase Games To Increase Your Picky Eater Dog’s Food Drive

2024-04-24T23:13:45+00:00April 22nd, 2021|

Effective, efficient, and kind dog training involves the transfer of value. The thing you would like your dog to learn how to do, they are game to participate in it [...]

Transcript of Episode 271: Structure Your Dog Training To Create Food Drive In Your Treat Fussy Dog

2024-04-19T14:55:03+00:00April 17th, 2021|

If you are one of the people trying to train a dog who really is indifferent about food, you may think ‘this dog training is never going to work for me.’ And you know [...]

Transcript of Episode 270: Goals, Challenges And Joy: Reflections On The Canadian World Team Dog Agility Tryouts With This!

2024-04-19T11:52:11+00:00April 16th, 2021|

Last weekend, I competed at the Canadian Agility Dog World Team Tryouts, and I competed with my dog This!. Now, every dog I have ever tried out for the Canadian [...]

Transcript of Episode 269: Why Do Some Dogs Seem to Have Less Food Drive Than Others – 10 Reasons to Consider

2024-04-17T23:59:36+00:00April 15th, 2021|

At the time of recording this podcast episode, there are 650 videos on our YouTube channel, and most of them have graphic demonstration on how to train your dog [...]

Episode 76: Leash Walking: Distracted, or Reactive Dog? These Games Will Help!

2022-02-15T09:00:20+00:00April 7th, 2021|

I’m sharing games to help improve your dog’s loose leash walking that will help turn your dog’s focus to you when there are distractions ahead. It starts easily at home [...]

Transcript of Episode 268: Training Thresholds: A Strategy For Balancing The Emotions Of Anxious Or Over Excited Dogs

2024-03-27T19:26:50+00:00March 27th, 2021|

In podcast episode number 258, I described “The Threshold Game.” And it's a game that I put together for one of my students who had an over exuberant puppy [...]

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