When I am training, my dog is engaged and excited and attentive. The connection with my dogs is vital in all we do together. You might think getting your dog focused entirely on you is ninja-level dog training, but it’s possible for everyone. Today I’m sharing with you one of the most important things you could be doing that will hurt engagement and connection with your dog, and how you can easily fix it.
In the episode you'll hear:
- What being at a party has to do with dog training.
- The ways inadvertent time outs impact on your dog’s confidence.
- How we can be present for our dogs.
- Where I see inadvertent time outs in the sport of dog agility.
- When I change tack to make things right in the world of my dog.
- One of the secrets about what I’d rather be when I’m with my dog.
- How to get focused attention from your dog.
- About being intentional when you are with your dog.
- Ways you can easily set your dog up for success.
- What I learned from Buzz about high drive dogs.
- How to be a Zen master when working with your dog.
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Episode Transcript
Can you do a podcast about stimulus control? Touching on points like how you get behaviours under stimulus control, how you differentiate between free shaping sessions and more structured sessions. I have discovered since I started shaping and not luring, that a lot of my dogs behaviours are not under stimulus control. The offering is starting to interfere with training sessions.
Loved this. Thank you Susan. I have a 2 year old high energy saluki/spaniel (we think). He has become so much better at recall since starting Recallers (we are now on game 30). However, he comes in so fast when I recall him that he just flies past me instead of stopping do you have any suggestions please ?
Fabulous message and timely. Thank you Susan!
Thank you Susan!!!! I’m guilty of that on our walks…..from now on this changes me!!!!!! Thank you thank you!!!!_
Thanks for doing this series, Susan, for a first time dog owner and a lifetime dog lover like me, it is a goldmine. As for the inadvertent timeout in particular, I just started having a hunch about that maybe being a thing a couple days ago. I am teaching my dog a toy cleanup game. I throw out a few toys, three as of now but aiming to increase the number, and doggo needs to bring them back into a bucket. She was doing a stellar job on this session, so I thought I would video her for bragging purposes 🙂 So I threw the toys out, took out my phone, started filming her…and only managed to film a dog who had no focus and was just sniffing around. So i put the phone away, and played another perfect round of the game. Tried filming her again, same thing. Then it started occuring to me that maybe having me watching her play the game and cheering her up and being proud of her is a lot more important to her than I was giving it credit. I guess I will need to get a tripod for the phone in the future.