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 180: Taking Your Puppy To A Café Or Restaurant: Socialization Success

2022-09-26T21:01:57+00:00September 26th, 2019|

So you have a new puppy and you're thinking of ways to socialize it. Here's one you may not have thought of. How about outdoor cafés? Yeah, that seems a little wild, but [...]

Transcript of Episode 179: Help For Dogs Refusing Treats: Case Study With Training Plan

2022-09-21T16:50:12+00:00September 21st, 2019|

Every once in a while, we get a note from a listener saying, “My dog won't take food outside. And so, I don't know how I'll work on things like loose leash walking, or reactivity [...]

Transcript of Episode 178: Dog Walking: Why To Start, How Often, And Where

2022-09-14T20:49:41+00:00September 14th, 2019|

If someone had suggested 25 years ago I was going to do a podcast on why everybody should be walking their dogs every day, I'd say you're crazy, because I might have walked my dogs [...]

Transcript of Episode 177: Dog Training Outside The Box: Transfer Of Value Case Study

2022-09-09T20:26:07+00:00September 9th, 2019|

Over the last few weeks I have been rolling out a series that kind of grew organically from your questions, all about the methodology of how I train my dogs, how I come up with [...]

Transcript of Episode 176: Why Your Dog’s Emotions Are A Critical Element Of Dog Training

2022-09-07T20:57:26+00:00September 7th, 2019|

Having coached a lot of people with their dogs, it seems that dogs kind of go into one of three categories. Either, they absolutely hate being trained, second just behind [...]

Transcript of Episode 175: Food Luring VS Shaping In Dog Training: How Science Changed How I Teach Dogs

2022-09-02T20:53:14+00:00September 2nd, 2019|

A week or two ago, I made a comment on social media that I do not use food lures or toy lures in my dog training. And that created a lot of conversation, some hurt feelings [...]

Transcript of Episode 174: Dopamine In Dog Training: Anticipation, Rewards, And The Transfer Of Value

2022-08-31T21:19:16+00:00August 31st, 2019|

Today my friends, I invite you to geek out with me on the topic of dopamine in dog training. That's right- the dopamine - the neurotransmitter that people have always thought [...]

Transcript of Episode 173: Target Training For Dogs: How, Why, And When To Fade Targets

2022-08-26T21:02:35+00:00August 26th, 2019|

If you've been following my most recent podcast episodes you will know I'm talking about how we train dogs. How I train my own dogs and how I train my students' dogs [...]

Transcript of Episode 172: How To Teach Your Dog Anything With My Training Plan

2022-08-24T21:15:53+00:00August 24th, 2019|

Did you catch podcast episode number 171? The one we just did, super important. There I shared exactly what I want when I'm putting together a training plan for my dog [...]

Transcript of Episode 171: Dog Training With Layered Shaping: Why Classical Conditioning Must Come First

2022-08-19T21:09:23+00:00August 19th, 2019|

In the last podcast episode number 170 where I dug into the five different ways that you could use reinforcement in training, I mentioned that we did something called [...]

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