Using Coincidences and Positive Associations in Dog Training #44

Up to this point in your dog’s life, your training might not have worked the way you would have liked it to work. You can fix that with a simple set of progressions, and you can start right now. I know this works as it has worked for every dog I’ve ever raised, including rescue dogs, and it has worked for many thousands of my students. It all starts with arranging coincidences and positive associations.
In the episode you'll hear:
• What my goal is when I am raising a dog.
• How to look at life from the eyes of your dog and arrange coincidences.
• A real-life example of coincidences with a puppy.
• How positive associations can come through you.
• The dog training progressions that I’ve been using for many years.
• How you can start again right now.
• Why we want the correct behaviour to be extremely easy for our dogs when we start.
• The importance of trust, transfer of value, and our dogs making choices.
• How layering of confidence lets you advance your training.
• What the mid-level on my training progressions chart looks like and how choice is in play.
• What I do to set my dog and myself up for success.
• How to create opportunities for choice in training progressions.
• About the advanced stages of training with my adult dogs who have the layers of confidence in place.
• Why my dogs love challenge and why they choose correctly.
• How the connection I have with my dogs, and my students have with their dogs, is possible for everyone.
Resources:
Blog Post: Teaching Puppies: It’s Just Arranging Coincidences -
susangarrettdogagility.com/20...
Game: Learn How to Play ItsYerChoice (IYC) -
recallers.com/iycsummit-join/
Crate Games Online -
get.crategames.com/
Home School the Dog -
dogsthat.com/home-school/
Recallers -
dogsthat.com/recallers/
Handling360 -
dogsthat.com/handling360/
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[@happ1221]

I was a middle school teacher for 12 years and so much of what you teach is like what I learned over the years with my students as far as controlling environment and behavior and teaching them things. Haha I thought this was so interesting and funny too!

[@jannellmeagher638]

I shared one of your videos with a woman I had never met. She needs you, and I am grateful as well. Though I used to work with an organization and guide dogs, your information is quite valuable. I have to be careful not to watch more than 2 of your videos per day. LOL. I get way too excited and lose track. Thank you again and again! Here's to 2 more videos every day! Take notes. ❤🎉

[@DogsThat]

Thank you, Jannel 💕

[@islandhundeundislandpferde9101]

It is so important to have the right settings and even have a slow, smooth shift of transferring. So worthful this podcasts 🥰 Love to hear them. Again and again a remembrance for the important points of learning.

[@michellebutler1009]

Awesome content! Great information ! Thank you Susan, for such a great topics and such helpful correct information. Love your Podcast! 💞💞💞 Easy listening, so full of best postive reinforcement understanding out there!!💞

[@joannai1161]

Oh, Susan, how grateful I am to have found you. Your contribution to dogs betterment is priceless. Thank you, thank you, thank you❤

[@allisontraynor2870]

Another great podcast. Always gives me something to think about ❤️

[@janegilbert9851]

Love this podcast.

[@dianesullivan4511]

Love ur podcasts!❤️ So much wonderful examples of positive associations. I’m sorry I can’t seem to be able to print the transcripts anymore. 😪. Really liked reading them again later. Thank you for sharing your terrific approach.😍💕

[@nancyhooper1742]

Love your programs and podcasts. So informative and helpful in making my life and my bosties better. Can't Thank you enough ❤❤❤❤⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@katherinecollmer1094]

I always learn something new here!! I’m thinking that it’s also a good idea to have refresher sessions by manipulating the environment again, say making it smaller, for a game we’ve been playing a long time in order to increase drive and introduce more difficult challenges with increased success. For example, we’ve been playing crate games for a while and have progressed to a large room and the patio. But I’m thinking of returning the crate to a smaller room in order to increase the challenges with distractions and to guarantee more success. Better get on with it!! Thank you!

[@azogal53]

💕💕💕💕💕

[@FilmtierCH]

So much fun to listen to you!

[@lisalindberg9980]

Hello, I hear you speak about the It's Your Choice Game! Is it in a video? I have your crate games DVD and love it! I just bought a 5 mon old Pom puppy and I want to do agility with her. She knows nothing, we are potty training now. I do work full-time but come home for lunch every day. I listen to your podcasts religiously now! Thank you!

[@DogsThat]

Hi Lisa, thank you for such a lovely note! You are doing great. We have Susan's IYC ItsYerChoice game as part of free training series, here's where you can start - recallers.com/iycsummit-join/

[@grannysouthafrica7540]

Love your pod casts. Thank you for all the great information 💁‍♀️ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@DogsThat]

You are so welcome!

[@lkknapp]

So when your dog starts to do something you do not want him to - ie run after the deer. What do you really say to him?

[@annylaurie422]

I heard another trainer say the average pet dog lead lives of quiet desperation

[@insaforpresprod]

You said in one of your podcasts, dogs don‘t know the concept of the past. Can this be true? Can a dog even learn anything without remembering what happened in the past? Why are dogs happy to see some people and for example are afraid of other people? Perhaps because they remember what happened in the past? I once heard a story from a dog owner. He had a pack of more than 10 dogs. They were kept in an outdoor kennel. One morning he entered the kennel and immediately knew something must have happened. Two of the dogs behaved not normal. Their body language was very submissive, they avoided eye contact and withdrew to a corner of the kennel. The man eventually found a new dug hole in the ground. But the dogs were not allowed to dig holes. And the two strange behaving dogs were the only ones with dirty paws, legs and snouts. That sounds very much like dogs can remember what they did and even evaluate it? Don‘t you think?

[@RaptorsGirl]

I think you misunderstood. Of course, dogs remember things in the past, what I said in that podcast was that dog's do not understand us talking in the past tense.

[@insaforpresprod]

@@RaptorsGirl My perception of what you said in this podcast was: dogs don’t understand the past tense because they don’t have a concept of what the past is. And I personally don’t think that it’s true. I rather think the main problem is the level of abstraction in human language. Very often that is just too difficult for dogs. I wish your message is: use simple and clear language with dogs.

[@ammi_10]

So... wouldn't your role as the instructor be to advise your students before coming to class of the expectations and how to begin correctly?🤔 🤷‍♀️