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 110: Is Your Over-Aroused Dog Just Over-Faced In Training?

2022-02-01T01:55:32+00:00February 1st, 2019|

Today’s podcast might rub some people the wrong way because today, I’m going to be speaking in defense of what I believe to be the most misunderstood group of [...]

Transcript of Episode 111: How An Anchor Dog Can Help Overcome Your Dog’s Anxiety Or Reactivity

2022-02-01T01:23:09+00:00February 1st, 2019|

Over the weekend, I shared a post on social media thanking my friends John and Lynda for joining This! and bringing along their dog Totie to be This!’s anchor dog. [...]

Transcript of Episode 112: Stressed Dog? How Trigger Stacking Might Be Putting Your Dog Over Threshold

2022-01-31T03:55:03+00:00January 31st, 2019|

Have you ever found yourself saying the words “suddenly and without warning my dog just bit or just went berserko or just wouldn't do what I asked.” If you've ever [...]

Transcript of Episode 113: Your Dog’s Verbal Cues And Hand Signals: How To Effectively Train Both

2022-01-31T03:37:21+00:00January 31st, 2019|

Sit, down, come, three really popular cues that people use to prompt behaviors for their dogs. But what happens when your dog can't hear those words? What then? [...]

Transcript of Episode 114: Dog Agility Training: 3 Big Mistakes All Dog Owners Should Avoid

2022-01-31T03:03:41+00:00January 31st, 2019|

If you've been following this podcast or potentially you've googled who Susan Garrett is, you may know that I got my reputation as a professional dog trainer [...]

Transcript of Episode 116: Dog Questions: Choosing Dog Training Classes, “Naughty Dogs” And More

2022-01-31T00:12:25+00:00January 30th, 2019|

You know how sometimes I ask you for training questions. Well today I put out on social media “Would you like me to answer questions about my dogs or about [...]

Transcript of Episode 117: What’s More Important Than Your Dog Training Sessions?

2022-01-30T23:57:26+00:00January 30th, 2019|

Over the past few weeks I've been running an online agility masterclass. And recently I dropped a statistic on people that blew their minds. And the result that I was [...]

Transcript of Episode 118: Same Home Different Rules: Will Reinforcement Based Dog Training Work?

2022-01-30T03:44:52+00:00January 30th, 2019|

In the big picture of dog training, how important is it to be consistent really? I mean, if you don't want to have behaviors like on the scale that my dogs are, do you [...]

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