Expectations Vs Reality: Navigating The Path To Dog Training Success
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- Опубліковано 2 лип 2024
- Recently something happened in my own dog training that I’m sharing in this episode, and it’s all about our expectations of our dogs. Along with our expectations, our beliefs and biases play a role in our relationship with our dogs. We’re all bombarded with unrealistic expectations about dogs daily, so challenging what we think with curiosity can be a fast track to dog training success. Realistic expectations will bring us closer to our dogs, and help them be less frustrated and happier.
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🐾Key Dog Training Points:
00:00 Dog Training Expectations with Susan Garrett.
00:37 Expectations have a filter of our biases.
02:18 Recent revelations when I was training my puppy, Prophet.
03:59 How I see puppy training-setting the environment for success.
04:19 Practice curiosity in biases.
06:59 Artifact of balanced training.
08:44 What you can do to eliminate unrealistic expectations in dog training.
10:19 Point 1: Don't create a choice between yourself and an external reinforcement opportunity.
11:03 Point 2: Evaluate with smaller distractions. • Distraction Intensity ...
11:38 Point 3: Question your own biases and beliefs.
12:30 Nothing is foolproof except good training.
12:38 Point 4: Give yourself grace.
13:00 Strategies for goal setting and milestones. • Milestones That Transf...
Resources:
1. Podcast Episode 218: Puppy Development Stages And Your Dog’s Behavior - • Puppy Development Stag...
2. UA-cam Playlist: Dog Agility Training and Dog Sports Tips with Susan Garrett - • Dog Agility Training a...
3. Podcast Episode 89: Why Dogs Should Not Tug: The Truth Revealed - • Why Dogs Should Not Tu...
4. Podcast Episode 133: Become Your Own Dog Training Coach With This Video Strategy - • Become Your Own Dog Tr...
5. Podcast Episode 1: Done Is Better Than Perfect - • Done Is Better Than Pe...
6. UA-cam Playlist: Puppy Essentials with Susan Garrett Dog Training - • Puppy Essentials with ...
7. Podcast Episode 230: Finding Joy Amidst Frustration And Shame In Dog Training - DeCaff’s Story Part 2 - • Finding Joy Amidst Fru...
8. Podcast Episode 146: Balanced Dog Training: Does It Really Exist? - • Balanced Dog Training:...
9. UA-cam Video: Understanding Your Dog's Reinforcement Zone (RZ) with Susan Garrett - • Understanding Your Dog...
10. Podcast Episode 205: The Hidden World Of Reinforcement For Dogs And Why You Need To Know - • The Hidden World Of Re...
11. Podcast Episode 64: Help! How Can I Tell My Dog He’s Wrong? - • Help! How Can I Tell M...
12. Podcast 214: England Banned Shock Collars, Here’s Why That Could Be Sad News - • England Banned Shock C...
13. Podcast Episode 34: Time Outs for Dogs: Does Your Dog Need One? - • Time Outs for Dogs: Do...
14. Podcast Episode 227: My Foolproof Strategy To Overcoming Dog Training Challenges - • My Foolproof Strategy ...
15. UA-cam Video: How To Get Your Dog To Listen Outside Off Leash (Step By Step Guide) - • How To Get Your Dog To...
16. Podcast Episode 24: Distraction Intensity Index: Help For Dogs Who Chase Chipmunks, Bicycles, And Neighbor’s Cats - • Distraction Intensity ...
17. Podcast Episode 202: Getting A Happy Well Behaved Dog With The ABCs Of Training - • Getting A Happy Well B...
18. Podcast Episode 150: Adding Mindset To Your Dog Training Tools: Who Do You Become? - • Adding Mindset To Your...
19. Podcast Episode 248: Milestones That Transform Your Dog’s Life! Goals To Achieve Dog Training Success - • Milestones That Transf...
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This video for me was absolutely exceptional! And just as you said, not only in relationship to my dog, but in relationship to everyone in my life! So I learned some really important tips and will definitely be exploring my own biases hopefully on an ongoing basis. My pup is 5 months old, she's amazing, and Susan your episodes have made a tremendous difference in the way that I'm training her versus how I trained dogs in the past. God bless you so much and thank you for all that you do
Thank you for making these videos!!! They are changing the world for the better.
Taking your recaller class, I’ve been surprised at how fast my dog learns. It’s brought us closer working with her throughout every day. It’s calmed me down and that’s made the positive difference. Her successes are not consistent yet, and I’m fine with that. My calmness is consistent. It’s a process and a fun one!
That's so awesome, don't forget to celebrate each little success! 💕
Susan gets an escalated tone when she calls her dog and they don’t respond?! Thank you for reminding us that you’re still human like the rest of us 😄
Every time I listen to one of your podcasts I am deeply disappointed when it comes to an end and the outro music comes on, because its almost like therapy hearing your wisdom on all these topics and learning how to apply it not JUST to my dogs but to everything else too. I have listened to every podcast you have ever made several times over because I just cant get enough, and Im always ready for more. Love all that you do and the generosity with which you share it. Lots of love from me and my five doggos here in China! Happy new year!
When you talk in this podcast, it reminds me of the Victor Frankel quote I think you've mentioned before on Shaped by Dog: "Between stimulus and response lies a space. In that space lie our freedom and power to choose a response. In our response lies our growth and our happiness."
To train our dogs means that we hold a vision of what might one day be possible for them... but with that can come judgement, frustration and disappointment when our dog fails to meet our expectations the way we 'want' them to, or at the rate that we want them to. This is the paradox that we have to grapple with every day. But we also get to choose how we respond and every day we can choose to give our dog grace and be patient with them as they learn.
I really like that you've touched on the more subtle adverse aspects of training, such as the use of non-reward markers or changing our tone to be more overt/aggressive, because I think these things can be sub-consious, and can often get overlooked even after someone decides to make the shift to only use 'positive reinforcement' in their training. Our underlying biases can often be much harder to change - predominantly because they're subconscious!
I also love that you bring up Bob Bailey's approach to animal training as a kind of remedy for working through training problems. Watching your interview with him on youtube was one of the most pivotal shifts in my training approach, particularly in understanding the importance of building value for on foundational behaviours before increasing their complexity. It is something I am still learning to 'honor' and deliberately hold space for in my own training practice, and I am often having to remind myself to be patient, and to deliberately and slowly put the work in and not expect everything to be completed in a day. I don't get it right always, but I am learning.
I am curious... what do you think are the things that help us to overcome those unconscious aspects of our training?
Obviously, practical things such as filming our training sessions and getting feedback from trusted others can help, but is there any other things that you see as particularly important in this area?
Excellent advise. I actually do some activities in my classes to show how people have expectations of their dog and the dog is not ready. Letting the dog watch other dogs almost always the dog will go Oh I can do this!! and it does. !!
Thank you for this. I definitely have unrealistic expectations for my dog. This helped me realize that if he 'fails', it's me that has failed him.
This podcast was a real eyeopener for me. I knew that my expectations for my dog weren't always appropriate, but I never thought about the possible bias. Thinking about my bias from previous dog trainers, I have a lot to "download" and delete from my thought process while training. Thank you so much for bringing this up in your podcast.
Great information! I do expect a lot from my puppy. Need to scale back a bit! More working!
Thank you for a great podcast 😀
Great podcast
I love listening and learning from you Susan and I am grateful for the opportunities you give me to be a better person/trainer/handler for my dog! My motto for 2024 is BE CURIOUS ❤
Susan this came at just the right time for me and my puppy. I have been at my wits end in keeping his nose off the ground at our dog club when practicing healing . This podcast and my frustration with that nose of his gave me some light bulb moments in what I should do in our training at home !! W oohooo!! Thanks for this podicast
Excellent Susan. How true!!!
Susan thank you for starting the year with this positive action. Last year for my work we had a course on project management and it included expectation setting and what I learned from you today really helped me get clear in a very short time and my dog also says thank you so much for your life training with dog training.
What a great clip. Thank you Susan. 💞🐾
Susan, you are off to a great start in 2024 with this podcast! I need to re examine my expectations when things "go wrong. " Growing up, there were always "consequences" for mistakes. I'm sure I brought this unconscious mindset into dog training. I'd love more on this topic. Thanks again for a very thought provoking podcast. 🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪
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It was so nice and helpful to raise my new puppy along side Susan’s Puppy Peaks. It helped to remind me, my puppy was where he should be. Swagger and Mo were not perfect pups either. 😜
I like oops for me personally because it reminds me theyre like a kid, theyre doing the best they can and ultimately its for fun and for love. Oops is gentle in a way no or uh uh or whatever isnt. Oops is what you say to a child or for an accident. I try really hard to make sure my pup can succeed. I want her to have fun and to succeed and she wants to too but its always going to happen. The oops is more for me as a reminder to myself. My dog probably knows it means that wasnt the choice i wanted her to make, but theres no punishment with it, we dont usually even immediately try again, we'll go do something else and try again later.
Thank you for sharing this information. I also had +or - training base from the 80s. Then went last year to a "Dog training Club" in illinois expecting new positive methods, as you do. WRONG they were Worse than ever. Totally messed my puppy up and expected the dogs and trainers to miraculously learn Tons of stuff new to a puppy in 6 weeks. Heck it may take 6 weeks to teach 1 thing well not 10-12 things. They were AWFUL jerking dogs ect. All these old style trainers need to quit these very bad training ways and retire. POSITIVE TRAINING IS THE BEST WAY AS YOU DO. Thank you for being out here for us. We are doing So Much better now with your way than any other way. God Bless you Susan, keep your good work and training posts up! Positive vibes to you and all your dogs. Sharon.❤
Hi Sharon, so sorry you and your pup had to experience that, but also celebrating you doing the best for your dog 💕💕💕
@DogsThat thank you. I decided to look at it like if they weren't such jerks I'd have never gone looking for better and may have not crossed paths with Susan Garrett. I am so grateful I was led to her positive ways to train. So I've decided that it was oddly meant to be. And to positively go on from here. Thanks again. S.
Not intentionally, but from watching Susan so much I more than not say “Oops did you forget. “Try saying that harshly😊 thankyou
This is soooo timely - I was just trying to formulate the question: "What do I do when my training fails?" For instance when I ask for a down and my dog looks at me like waaa? Some trainers say once you ask for a down the dog must do it - even if you have to pull him down. I know that is not what I want to do but how do I redirect? What is the best way to in essence say: "oops my bad, I forgot and said that in Turkish let's try...." I want to move forward in a fun way and not confuse or scare my dog.
This was really good and so true. Sometimes we don’t see it when it’s right in front of our own face.
Your puppy looks like he’s going to be a superstar and I’m so happy for you but I have a question and it’s just a question, will you be training THIS anymore? A lot of us have issues with our dogs and would love to watch you train her as a lot of us have dog similar to her that would like help with
I’m not sure if you’re gonna be training her anymore in agility as I think you stated you’re doing flyball with her maybe you can show some flyball videos when you get a minute even though I know you’re number one thing is agility. Thank you again.
Hi @watchmoivies123 Susan and This! are doing brilliantly in agility. Here's a very recent update - ua-cam.com/video/RxN-X1tDNos/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
@@DogsThat good morning and happy new year. Oh this looks so wonderful to me. Look at that black beauty hit her contacts and you two look so much alike. She’s a perfect girl for you Susan and I’m so glad she’s doing well. She looks happy and athletic and before you know if she will have every title and agility dog can have I’m not sure if you do USDA or AKC but whatever you want to do with this girl she’s going to excel
I also believe that God gives us the dog we need
He doesn't respond to "Fetti" because he was thinking Spaghetti😆!
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Are you spying on me? I had the most frustrating moment happened and I was so angry at my pup. Although I know to be curious when I'm furious from listening to your podcasts and enrolled in HSTD, I went back to my old self. I was more furious at myself for failing him. Thank you for calling my bias and the unattainable expectation I had for him. I see him for the amazing dog he is.
Susan, Susie B Free here. My wife and I just got a new German short haired pointer. She is 7 months old. She bites A lot, I was attempting to use your instructions, whelp when she bites. Over about 2min when I was trying to play on the floor with her, she grabbed my arm on my right side, I whelped . She didn’t stop. I eventually grabbed her off my arm, she wriggled around and got my other arm. Drawing blood on both arms. I need help.
Super disappointed, I am working so hard with her
@@susiefree7260 Hi Susan, I too have GSPs, my newest guy is nearly 7 months old now too. They are crazy high energy dogs and can get over stimulated quickly and start doing things like biting. I found doing the collar grab then wrapping my arm around his body holding him until he settled down made the biting part disappear quickly.
Another trick I have learned over the years of having thus breed is to do things in a much calmer manner in places I want relaxation (like in the house) I keep play slow and chilled with much more mind games rather than zoomies type things. And I do lots of long slow stroke along their bodies a few times throughout the day which really helps them to relax and not be so wound up.
Good luck with your pup, following Susan is a brilliant way to bring one up and you will be rewarded to no end with her methods. 😊
It’s so hard to escape outdated methods and the brainwash we were all exposed to often at young age. I think our frustration and punishment stems always from being angry at ourselves. And not knowing how to do it better therefore the animals is blamed 😞