반려견 훈련 올림픽: 성공을 위한 기대치 설정하기

cue. There's a unique one. I've had it though. I've had that challenge before. Um Losing focus to bunnies. We used to have that problem here last year with young belief. Duration in the stay position for my puppy. Okay. Lots of really, really good ones. I want you to keep them coming and I'm going to tell you I'm going to give away a 4 My Merls tug toy today and all you have to do is share this live. It's going to be appropriate for everybody who owns a dog. It's going to be appropriate for people who have a dog that they just want to be the most amazing family pet ever. It's going to be appropriate for people who want to do something in sports because it's all about adjusting our expectations and creating a plan to overcome the challenges that we have. So, if you would like to win one of my favorite tug toys from my favorite producer of tug toys. This one happens to be branded with Recallers, the great people at 4 My Merls, just share this live anywhere on social media. Come on back here, let us know where you shared it and I'm going to give away yesterday's prize winner, which I'll share a picture of what that one That was a um That was from the good people Oh, I I don't have my picture. That was from the good people of Run It and Galican agility equipment and it was a target. So, the winner of the target, drumroll, yesterday's winner was Linda Mandozzi. Congratulations, Linda. I use that target for so many things. So, big congrats there. So, share the live. You're going to be helping other dog owners and Oh, look it. My lovely assistant has brought over This is what Linda is one She won it just by sharing the live. Okay. Um Can you fix my patience when ear piercing barks occur? No, but we can help you with a plan to to I mean ear piercing barks if somebody's driving up the driveway. I think that's okay. Um, harassing other dogs. I know he wants to play, but it's not going to happen. Okay? So, lots of great challenges here. Resource guarding me. Doesn't focus on treats. Doesn't focus all doesn't focus on the training once the treats are removed. So, that's super common. Um, all right. I want to I want to help you fix all of those. Um, humping when excited especially me aka the human treat dispenser. Um, okay. So, I thought I've been you know using a demo dog all week and when I've done these lives and I thought for this particular demo dog, let's bring out the loose cannon. So, today's demo dog when I use a demo is going to be the um, believable unbelievable the unbelievable dog. Let me just come over here. Mr. TT himself, tater salad, who's wait wait uh, eager to do to help you out with your challenges and

overcome your challenges. Okay. So, let's just jump right in and um, I forgot. I got to come back here because I did not share who won our our um, gem from yesterday. Okay, so we're going to do that and then we're going to get into what how to fix all of your all of your training challenges. Here's our gem. From Cat Cat Karina Othman. My gem was the mantra of helping my dog to find daily joy. We look for progress, not perfection. I hope you realize what's possible when you bring clarity to your dog's life and help fan those flames of confidence and from that confidence and joy can grow. So that's a great one. Thank you Karin Karin Karin Karina Karina. Okay? Yes, let's have some hearts for tater salad. Yeah, right on. Let's have some hearts for tater salad. He's he is keen. He is keen and he is eager to do um to do demos for you. All right. So first I'm just going to give you a little formula. All right? And it's simple one. It's a super simple one. Okay, so I'll go back over to my whiteboard. Um I'll move this up a little bit. So we have what Can you guys see that? What you've got. So people have said I've got pulling on leash. I've got bothering the other dogs. I've got running off big um a too big of a proximity to me when we're out on our walk. This is you state very clearly what that looks like. What what what are the pieces of that behavior? Is it that when I go out for a walk my dog immediately runs off two football fields away uh and then doesn't pay any attention to me or is it 10 minutes into the walk my dog goes off and two football fields away. So write down all the things you can think of that are related to what you've got. Now over here with equal detail what you want. If my magic toy fairy wand worked and I could erase any of this what would that look like? What does walking with your dog in appropriate proximity look like? Is that your dog staring at you walking? Is that they go off a couple of I don't know meters or 10 meters, but they always check in? Or is it they go off, but they come back in every time I call? Right? So, Does everybody got that locked in? I'm going to just check back in the comments before I go back and carry on here. So, it is is everybody does that? Do you know how to describe what you what you want? And you know exactly what you've got. Uh okay, I'm going to come back here. My settings, where did my settings go? Okay. So, the the the biggest problem with the dog-human relationships is that we as humans tend to have Olympic-level expectations of our dogs. You see what I did there? See what's happening right now? Yeah, the Olympics. Okay, I know you get it. Um and I believe this isn't always true.

But the more you learn about the behavior of dogs, the lower the expectations are on the dog, and the greater the expectations come on you. Meaning, let's talk about what I'm going back to my board here. Let's talk about how do we achieve like what are the elements of dog training? Right? What goes into a well-behaved dog? Right? Actually, let I'll let you guys tell me. And Chelsea can can What are all the things that go into a dog learning? So, if you can read if you can read the comments there, what are the things of a the elements or the pieces that go into dog training? I'm maybe not wording that well enough. So, I'm going to just watch the comments and see uh what you guys say. What are some of the elements um of dog training? What goes into dog training? Okay? So, I would say to one of the answers was clarity, and that would be okay. You've got to know what you want. So, that that what I said is the X over here. Know what you want before you begin. That's important. You guys You can see that, right? Okay? Uh Consistency, patience. These are all really good things. I really think there's three biggies. But, consistency I'm putting in there. These all go under one umbrella. Consistency. These are all going under one umbrella. Okay? What else you got for me? Time and grace. Time and grace? Yeah. Time, grace, effort, focus, the way the dog learns, curiosity. Okay, dog's curiosity. Let's focus a little bit more on that. What does that mean? Is it going to be just as easy to train a border Collie to not chase a mouse as it is to train a Jack Russell Terrier to not chase a mouse. Is that Is that going to be the same? Or will one be more difficult than the other? You can train both dogs to do it. One will be far easier than the other. Okay, so What No, the answer is no. No. Generally speaking, if you were to train 100 Border Collies to not chase a mouse and 100 Jack Russell Terriers to not chase a mouse, the Jack Russell Terrier would be far more difficult to train than the Border Collie. So, one of these elements is going to be the innate drives of the dog. So, the innate innate drives of the dog. Right? So, a dog like Tater Salad, um he loves little critters. He has He's got a mix of two different terriers in him. A Boston Terrier and I guess a pug you can't really say is a terrier, but he's 30% Boston Terrier. So, yeah, he is jacked up and ready to chase anything little. All right? So, this is one of the If I say there's three big elements, and they can all be broken down into some of the great things you guys have

been saying. Uh so, yes. So, under genetics or breed, it's going to be the drives because I can have a Border Collie that has very little chase instinct. I mean, it's not common, but it's possible. And then I can have a Border Collie who goes from zero to over-aroused when they see anything move. So, you can't just say it's the genetics of the breed. It's the innate inner drives of that dog. That's a consideration when we're planning our training. Anyone have another thing that All of these things here I think go under one one one specific and and I mean I guess you can say if I really wanted to be grouping things you could make it two. Oh, boom boom boom. Somebody said reinforcement. Boom. Whoever said that, I want you to just give yourself shoulder. So it's the history of what's been reinforcing the dog up until today when you decided you know now what you've got and what you want. So it's the history and it's also what you're using for reinforcement today. What you're planning on what is what are options, right? There's so many parts of reinforcement. It's the history. It's what you're you're training with now. It's what the environment is offering up. So competing There's so much more. It's um you know, there's so much more involved in in that reinforcement, okay? And anyone guess what my third element is? Third element. It's all of these things under one grouping. Age of the dog I think would be covered by the innate drives of the dog. Right? Like a puppy will be driven to chase leaves blowing in the wind and most dogs other than terrier solid won't be driven to chase. Okay, third one I'm just going to share with you. And that is human mechanics. That is that covers all of these things and more. It's Do you know how to plan your training? Do you know where to start? Do you know how to manipulate the environment so your dog has success? Do you know how to train the type of dog you're dealing with? Have you ever dealt with a dog that's very anxious or um is is a little bit worried? Um so it's so many things, but it's also things like do you know how to place the reinforcement to help grow the behavior? Do you use food? Do you Do you have the know-how to know that luring a dog for uh for 3 weeks and then taking the lure away isn't going to give you behavior? Because the behavior goes with the lure, right? So, it's all of the things. It's your knowledge, it's who mentored you, it's your previous um whoever you put your faith in previously, so many things. Now, if you were to guess, I want you to give me a ratio. And this isn't science, this is Susan's guess. The ratio of 1 to 2 to 3. What do you think the percentages are at play here?

What How much of reinfor- How much of dog training is the reinforcement history training environment? How much of dog training is human mechanics? How much of dog training is the innate drives of the dog? So, let's take Let's play a little guessing game here. All right. Take a guess. What do you think? Uh Okay. Karen thinks 2060 204060. What percentage is what? Oh, got my Corrine thinks arc Corrina thinks human mechanics JMH thinks Yeah, 10% is innate drive. I love that answer. So there's a lots of guesses. Huge bill 10 20 that's 130% that's the effort but we got to let's say that it's 70% mechanics 20 reinforcement in 10. These are great great answers. So you would think we're training with reinforcement that 89% is reinforcement. You know what you could make a case remember this isn't science this is best guess. However if the dog's history of reinforcement is X does that mean that we can't overcome that? And that's why that that's why I love this answer of 10% the innate drives of the dog. How many times have you ever heard oh it's a terrier. Oh, it's a bulldog. You're never going to get a bulldog to do anything. Oh, so many people put so much stock into the dog's innate drives. Yes, it influences your training. But you know what I I could go as low as 10% on that for sure. It's a antecedent you need to consider in your training. That's what it is. Okay? Um 10 20 70. It's good guess, too. I would say a minimum of 50% is is human mechanics. At at a minimum. Like if I'm being kind. A minimum has to be human mechanics. 10 to anywhere from 10 to 20% maybe is the dog's innate drives. And then, the rest is reinforcement. Reinforcement is hugely important, but I could train a dog um if if you have the reinforcement of the environment, it even if it was only 20%. It if if your human mechanics didn't know how to control or how to focus the dog, then that 20% is taking over. It's taking over. If the if the dog says, "Well, you're so slow at delivering things. You're so um uncoordinated. You're picking the wrong reinforcements for me. Therefore, a piece of dust is more valuable than you." Anybody seen that with your dog that they decide that the dirt is more

reinforcing than you? So, the the reinforcement can have little little impact, but if your human mechanics are flawed, that 10% is going to be huge to the dog. Human mechanics, that's everything. And human human mechanics take in all the things you guys talked about is the consistency, the time, the um grace you give yourself, the effort that you put in, but it also it you know, it's how are you able to plan? How are you able to execute on that plan? Where do you deliver the reinforcement? So, all of those things are just so important, right? So, yeah, Linnae says, "Yeah, occasionally dirt." Right? That That That's what you have to deal with. That is the the the reinforcement value. So, the breed of the dog, yeah, it'll have an impact. The drives of that dog, sure, it'll have an impact on your training. The ability um the the the food that you choose or what value the bunnies have to your dog, yeah, that has some training that's a impact on your training. Nothing compares to your decision-making, your choices for where you train, your choices for what you train, your choices for how you train, how much complexity are you adding, how clear are you being, how much confidence are you growing. Nothing compares to the human mechanics. And so, when people say to me, "Oh, my dog blows me off. Oh, my puppy bites. I mean, he's just stubborn and he bites and bites." All of that is Can we Can I kindly suggest you look in the mirror? Because all the things your dog is is a reflection of all you know about how to train. That's it. And I know some people will get sad when I say that. They're like, "No. No, it's him." Like, "Oh, no. Like his breeder said his littermates are the same way." But by telling you the more you know the more you learn, the smarter your dog will appear. Now, I'm hoping to inject a huge amount of optimism into your approach to your training. All you need is a better plan, a better understanding of reinforcement, the the ability to create clarity in your dog, and you're going to see a big change. Right? Does that make I'm going to show you some of our some of our students who probably started in the same place that many of you started started in. So, these are just I'm going to show you a few little video clips of people who thought there's no hope for this dog. No. So, I'm going to just whip through some of them for you. Luca. Luca. Luca. Luca, no listen. Proximity too far away. No, Luca, no Pulling on leash much? Yeah, of course. So, how many of you guys are seeing these Any of these challenges ring a bell for you? Yeah. So, I could keep I could keep going on and on and on. I know that that you guys are going to

Drive of the dog? Yes, creates over aroused conditions. You could say that's the that's the border collie. Like that that border collie is crazy. It's more driven than most border collies. But that's saying, I got no role in this. I can't fix this. This is There's nothing I can do about that, right? And that's not the way it is. This is one of my personal Cats anyone? Okay, any of those resonate with you? Any of you see things that you're like, "Oh, yeah, I could see that in my dog. My dog would be like that, of course." Tater salad, for those of you who don't know about him, he is I think he's going to be seven. Or he is No, just turned seven. Um he came to us at 15 months of age. He was His behavior He couldn't be walked on leash because he pulled so horribly. He um He would not um He would not come back when called, so he was banished to like the backyard, but he would He would play keep away with anything he found in the backyard. So, that that was a frustration. Like he would, you know, dart and yeah, get out of my way. Um destroyed like like like a a picture on Instagram, destroyed three couches in like they just kept replacing the couch thinking he would outgrow it. So many people think, "Oh, they'll outgrow." No, they just get better at it. They just get better at it. Okay? So, when he came to us, he was a problem. No, he didn't have any interest in toys. He didn't want to Listen, he has so much anxiety. Now, honestly, his anxiety is better, but he has a lot of anxiety about like thunder, for example, still. But he He had anxiety all the time. All right, I'm just going to take TT out and I'm going to do I just do a couple little things but I I'll leave the camera where it is. Look what we got. Okay, let's look at his focus for work first. All right? So, um here's some Okay, I'm going to let him know I have that. Here, TT. So, he's walking in one direction. Yeah, if I turn, he wants to come with me. Come in. Yeah. Okay, so odds are puppy or a dog who says, "Yeah, I can walk on a leash now. I know how to walk on a leash. That's cool." All right, what about uh retrieve? Let's not get the new toy dirty cuz we have a little bit of a slobbering issue. Okay, come here. You ready? Steady. Bring me. You're a goof. Um border collie, we don't need your help. You were doing something. Good boy, T. I'm going to give you a good one cuz you had that distraction. Didn't you have that distraction? Want to try another one? You ready? Bring me. Nice. Thank you. That's super good. Okay. Okay, so you can hop it up. Super good. Okay, so you can see now Yeah, Prophet keeps wanting to play. Um Prophet's been the demo dog all week.

So, you can see now that he's got focus for work. He's got He's got I mean, he's he's always the same goofy dorky self, but he does um have a drive to want to work with me. He does understand how to be at my side when we're walking on a leash, right? So, he was one of the worst cases. Actually, when we picked him up, Kim when we got in the car because the plan was he was going to be Kim's dog. Kim said, "What have I done? Do you think it's possible?" Because he was so disrespectful to other dogs. Like, he would just jump on their head. They had a an older um I always forget what breed it was. Oh, an Akita. They had an older Akita that he was relentless with. He was just jumping on him all the time, which is why he got thrown out of um daycares. There wasn't a mean bone in his body. He's just a big goober. Right? But that's who he is. That's who he is. And so you just look at what have I got? And there were a lot of a lot of what have I got, right? He he um as I mentioned, he loved to chew furniture and um he was so obnoxious to people who would visit the house. So what have I got? I got chews furniture, pulls on leash, won't come back when he's called. I've got all of these things. What do I want? I want a nice well-behaved family pet. That's what I want. What does that look like? Well, he comes when he call he's called. He he interacts with us. I mean he like all of the things you guys have already written about what you want. Okay? So that is the that is the the what the the dog training bubble is we know what we want, we know what we got, and now we have to get down to how we going to get there. And that's the dog training. All right? So um I'm going to share with you this little graphic that one of our students put together, which I think is awesome. Um most people start their training with zero connection with their dog, right? They're not um they they don't come out and go, "Hey, we're going to do something together." They might be on their phone. Oh, I gave you a cookie. Perfect. There you go. They might be on their phone. They might be on They take the leash off and then the dog goes off and wanders somewhere and they go, "Oh, he's blowing me off." Well, you've got to have that connection. We get the connection through games. And then those games have a a double meaning is we get the connection and then we grow understanding, which leads to um the dog knowing what we want. But if you start with no connection, then and and your mechanics aren't very good and your use of reinforcement is not very good, then there's no clarity to the dog and that's where dogs get overwhelmed. They either spiral up like the border collie

chasing the vacuum or a dog like Tater Salad in most environments would spiral down and that he just go tapping out, walk, exit stage left and I'm I'm just leaving. All right? And because there was no connection and there was no clarity, now the dog doesn't have confidence in the relationship with you and they don't have confidence in what you want from them. What what how can I be right in this environment? And then what happens is all of this is too complex and you get a dog that's sniffing, um getting the zoomies, leaving, um raiding the garbage, doing all the things that you guys described in that first one. And so really good dog training starts with that connection and then you grow the clarity one behavior at a time. Now, we have um what I call our our core behaviors that when your dog knows those things, then it's easy to train anything else. So things like crate games and it's your choice and hand targets and um let's just go get I'll let TT come out again. Grab some cookies. Um actually, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to put this on the ground. Tater. Oh, no, we're not going to do another one. Good T. So, Tater. So, I'm going to put those I'm going to put these here. Now, I'm taking a chance. Good boy. And I'm going to keep them over here. Okay. Boy, so good. So good. Ready? All right, set. Tater. Nice boy. Super good boy. Super good. Okay, I'm going to take Just get them. You get the cookies. Get them all. Now, I'm going to make this even harder. I'm going to take his number one reinforcement on the planet, watermelon. Nothing comes close. All right. I'm going to put this down. Tater break. Yeah. Kennel. So, you can get good luck. And good luck. Oh, really? Right. So, we want to build up the dog's understanding. TT. Good boy. Good boy. understanding that it isn't about the food. It's about doing the things that we ask. Kennel. Yeah, you can deserve that. That the food is reinforcement you can earn. Thank you. TT break. Go ahead. Good job. I'm going to use the tater um rag. Because if you train the bulldog, you will get bulldog goobers all over you. All right. So, that is We have some behaviors that he has a great deal of confidence with. There's clarity with my expectations. When I say with me, when I say get in your kennel, when I tell you to hop it up, there it doesn't matter what the distraction is. I know those things and I can do that. And so, from there we can grow the complexity of I'm going to put the cookie bowls right in front of you and ask you to do those things. Okay. So, so, we get Sorry, I got I got distracted here. We get to a place where the dog has clarity, they have confidence, and they have um the ability

to work through complex situations because at the base of it was your good dog training mechanics. Now, you might be saying, well, does that mean if I don't have good mechanics I can't have a well-trained dog? It means that you will struggle with it if you're wanting a well-trained dog from a place of kindness where it's it's not an option to say, um, you need to do this or else. And I think if you're listening to this, like that's that's your your um that's that's the way the direction your guiding compass wants to go with your relationship with your dog. Okay? So, the toughest thing though is people don't have patience with their own human mechanics. You need to grow that understanding in a very, very Yeah, let's have some hearts for TT. Tater Salad. You have to grow your your your mechanics, your human mechanics, and your understanding of that in a way that builds your confidence, that you get clarity, that you have that ability to know that you're on the right track, and so then we can add more complexity to what we're doing. Yeah, generally people don't have patience, especially with themselves. So, what do we do in the meantime? In the meantime, you start with some basic core games, and that's where, as I mentioned right off the top, that we have our our our programs are on at at the best at the best investment possible. So, you can join any one of our programs today. Um, I think I've got somewhere along here I've got If you go to dogsat.com/party. And if you're starting from a place where your dog isn't ignoring distractions the way Tater Salad is, then I strongly recommend the place to begin for you is in Recallers. Now, if you've never met me before, if you have never experienced any of our programs before, Recallers might be a a tough stretch for you because it's a year-long investment. I mean, it's a year-long investment in playing strategic games that layer the dog's focus for you, that layer the dog's understanding. Let's go back to some of those, um, dogs that I showed you a few minutes ago there that were struck that their owners were struggling with, okay? So, the dogs that weren't focusing, uh, our our Border Collie Luca that wasn't coming back when he was called. Do you remember Nellie, the dog that was like crazy pulling on leash? Or that crazy over aroused Border Collie? So, I mean, I could go on and on and on and show you other dogs who are living life with more clarity now just because they've been part of our programs, they've learned the games, and so I want to share with you what that would look like for you moving forward. If you have any questions, you can leave them in the

in the comment section. So, if you've decided Recallers, I just it's a year-long investment, um, I don't know read some of the comments from some of our Recallers that are posting in there what their challenges were and what they were able to overcome. But, Home School the Dog is the next like the the the next best option for you. We have Home School the Dog alone or in a bundle. And the bundle is with Wag Nation, which is a membership. So, you get Home School the Dog, which is 12 games that we roll out over a 4-month period, and you get it in conjunction with Wag Nation, which is a membership where we share with you one trick every every month that you can train your dog. I'm going to show you a little video of Tater Salad um playing one of our tricks from Wag Nation. Oh, um Home School the Dog, it's just fun tricks that we teach. Uh every month you learn one trick, and we do a little dog training gym. So, once a month So, you can see that when we bundle these together, I think the regular price is $417, and you can get them together for for nine for $97 for the whole year. So, I'm telling you all of this because I want to help you grow your human mechanics, grow the behaviors your dogs are offering, grow your dog's ability to come when they're called, to choose to be with you, to be a more uh enriched family member that you you now have the right to have higher expectations because you've created that confidence with clarity and a strategic plan. Does that Does that make sense? I'm going to go to questions now before I get too far ahead. Um So, do you have any I thought I saw a question about one of the programs. Uh there are not tricks in Recallers, but Recallers has got so many things in it. Recallers is it's our flagship. So, you get 40 games and you get a year of coaching from myself and our team. Um I we have an amazing team of coaches from all over the world that are in all of our programs. Um but you also get satellite programs 100% free. So, we decided that to for dogs to be brilliant and be brilliantly focused, there's things that we need to help you to achieve. So, being able to cut your dog's nails. Now, you can you can get I think Pedigree Pedicure, please your dog's Pedicure, please is like $49 on our website, but that is just the videos of how to play and the downloadable I mean, people have great success with that program, but you get it free in Recallers, plus you get coaching with it. Yeah, um teaching your dog to bring a toy back like Tater Salad did with joy all the way back to your hands. That's free as when you join Recallers because Recallers is like this infrastructure of

ways to get a deeper relationship with your dog and ways to have your dog um be like have more confidence in all the things that you want them to do with with yourself with with you. Ladonna, here's uh I can show you some of Ladonna's. Uh saving with high-energy deaf Dalmatian, three high- high-energy deaf Dalmatians. So, Ladonna's um story Ladonna's dogs were always entertaining to say the least. When we saw Ladonna join the program and we saw what she had, I'm just going to give you a little peek little peek at Ladonna's life prior to recall. So, can you imagine if that was your life trying to feed when you know how dogs sometimes get excited when they know their dinner time's coming? Well, you've got three big Dalmatians, one of which is deaf, and they're going cray-cray cuz they're excited about you feeding. And I'll just show you afterwards what it looks like. Well, Homeschool The Question came in, will Homeschool The Dog help with a very timid 12-month-old? All of our programs will help with a dog that is withdrawn and they're timid. Um the question is, how much I mean of a commitment do you want to make to growing that dog's confidence? So, Homeschool The Dog is a 4-month commitment. You get 12 games. With Recallers, it's so much more robust. It isn't just about the year that you get the coaching, it's about all of those other things. Like for example, um teaching that dog to tug and love tug, teaching them to go back and forth from food and toys. So, yes, it will help. Showing uh focused attention, playing layer games will definitely help. So, I I will it will it overcome? I don't I can't promise that. I can't promise that. I don't I don't know the situation. I don't know the dog, but I know any any one of our programs where we're helping to create clarity so your dog goes, "Oh, I get this." is going to make a massive massive difference in not only your relationship with your dog but your dog's ability to enjoy life in the big bad scary world. How much is Homeschool the Dog recalls dogs that way? So if you go to dogsat.com/party, you can see all of the different programs. You can see how long they last and the the really cool thing is every every single one of our programs has a a guarantee. We want you to know you're in the right place and so we give you for example, when you get the Homeschool the Dog bundle, you get 14 days to try it out and see if it's for you. Maybe play one of the tricks and see if that one if it works for you. If if you are you can say, "Oh, I can see my dog's confidence growing already by the clarity." We're focusing on you. If I can think about if I took your dog

and I was going to train it to do like a trick. How long would it take me to teach your dog versus how long would it take you? Now if you have a dog who's fearful of people, maybe blah blah blah. But how my my execution, my human mechanics, because I've been doing this for 35 years, I've won many world championships in three different dog sports. So I can fix things really quickly. But what we're doing, we're not focused on changing your dog's behavior as much as we're focused on changing yours. If we can help you to be able to train like Susan Garrett, not only will this dog elevate their skills and confidence, every dog you'll ever own will. And here's the magic that people in our programs learn. We are teaching you a way of life, a way how to take a deep breath when you're frustrated, a way to say my dog's behavior is giving me feedback on something. How to turn things on yourself and say, "How could have I uh set up my training better for you?" And guess what? That seeps into other relationships in your life, not just with your dog, but with your family, with your friends, with complete strangers who might be unpleasant to you. So, it becomes a way of going. The Be Kind isn't just a motto of all of our programs, it becomes the way we choose to live our lives. Um okay. Can the program teach not to chase my cockatiel when they are on the ground? Absolutely. Absolutely. We have um Actually, we've had You can put your cockatiel through the program at the same time as you you you put your dog through it. So, we have somebody who's done Recallers with his parrot at the same time he was doing it with his dogs. Okay, Kim said that uh Recallers or any other program definitely helps you recalibrate your brain, be kinder and a lot more curious. Best investment ever, not to mention the amazing team and community. Thank you, Kim. That's beautiful. Um Pedicure Please is on its own. And yes, so you can get Pedicure Please on its own right now, but it doesn't include the coaching. If you get it in Recallers, it's a bonus. So, all of these all of those other programs that I taught you that I I mentioned, getting the dog to bring the toy back, getting the dog to tug when you ask, getting the dog to um uh walk on a loose leash, that's coming. That all of that is no extra charge, and you get the coaching as well. And that's the truth. The games get woven into the fabric of everyday life. And so, it isn't like, "Oh, I have to train my dog today." 3 minutes, you can do something, right? 3 minutes, you can play a game with your dog. So, All right, TT. Let's do uh how many games can I do in 10 seconds with Tater? Tater. Yeah, good boy. All right.

Tater. Good boy. Nice. Woo! Up and up. Yeah, good boy. Okay? So, that was dog training. That was helping a dog have clarity in the relationship with me. So, sometimes your dog training might look like that. I got 30 seconds, I'm going to train my dog. Sometimes it will be more involved. It might be 5 minutes, but I promise you, if you can invest 5 minutes a day in your in your playing with your dog. Hold on a second. My puppy decided that he wanted to play, too. If you can do 5 minutes a day, even 4 or 5 days a week for those of you who have a Maybe you have um elderly parents that live with you, or you have young children that you have to shuffle off to hockey practice. Okay, it's summer, but it could be. Then, you might just get 5 minutes a day, 4 days a week. But, what you will find, as many of our people here will tell you, is that you love to do it. So, you're going to make an extra You're going to make Okay, I'm brushing my teeth, I can just do a few few little things um while I'm getting my coffee is getting ready. Um so, brushing your teeth becomes a trigger to play. It's your choice with your dog. Right? How do we get a dog to ignore bunnies? It starts with them ignoring their favorite reinforcement on the ground and we grow from there. Um Can Oh. Can both my son and I train differently and still have my grand pup learn using your program when with me? Absolutely. What might happen is your grand pup will listen to you better than they listen to your son, depending on what your son is doing. So, if he's doing something different, I mean, the same way that Tater Tater Salad's family, they thought they were doing something. They were but they they ended up with a dog who was a complete, you know, car wreck. So, what you're going to be doing is structured, layered, um consistent game playing, which grows into a better relationship and a dog that says, "Yeah, I'm in. I want to play with you." Um GMO said, "I like to emphasize to lead by example. If I'm teaching my dog to be patient, I must be patient with myself first and we are learning more than the dog is." 100%. That's just beautiful. That the patience that you get that you need to give your dog, you need to give yourself in the learning that's happening. Because remember, the only difference between a well-behaved dog and a dog, might even be a littermate of that dog, is it it comes down to the the structure that you're working within. So, we're giving you a structure that, I mean, LaDonna is, you know, a grandmother who's had hip replacement surgery and she's working these three crazy Dalmatians and look at the the outcomes that she's got. Um okay, any other questions?

That's a great question. So, when you're planning your everyday training, I like to break things up into brand new skills that I've already worked on that my dog is not great at, skills that I've already worked on that my dog loves and that they're great at. And you're going to do a mixture of those. Brand new, I might just do one at first it might just, you know, once you have these other three, if you're brand new to our program, you're not going to have the other two, you're just going to have these. So, you're just going to focus on the brand new ones, but then this the when the next week of of of games come out, you're going to say, "All right, my dog wasn't very good at this one, so I'm going to do that one every day. The one that my dog loves, I'm going to do every day. And the one that we're learning, we're just going to put that in the middle. So, you're not going to try to do 500 games, well, 40, all at once. You're just going to do it strategically. I think um Let me just see. I think I put something together for you guys. Hold on. That you can screen cap. Woohoo! Where did I put it? It's not up there. Hold on. And this is a way of planning that um will help create that understanding for Oh, I thought I hm So, you have your goals that you know that's the what you want. Remember we talked about at the very beginning. We have your goals of what you want, and then we have to decide um here we go. So, your dream goal of what you want, this is how I suggest you do your daily planning. So, we look at what are those essential elements of the dream goal and that let's say those are four games from recallers. So, action item number one would be I'm going to read and I'm going to watch the video from recallers and I'm going to download the PDF and I'm going to practice without my dog. Well, action one might be watch the video, action two might be download the PDF, action three might be practice without my dog, action four might be play with my dog, try the game what video review my video might be action five. Right? So, that would be what your daily plan looks like. So, screen cap that if you haven't already. Okay? So, that will give you some structure whether you're joining our program or not. That will give you some structure as to how to get to where you want to be. But, I you know, you might in this day and age today, there is everybody is out there that has ever owned a dog. Most of them have got a YouTube channel saying this is what I did and this is why it worked because I've done this with every dog I've ever owned. And if you put your faith in those people without knowing will my moral compass resonate with

theirs with regards to the relationship I want with my dog. Will these people abide by the laws of learning as described in science? Because most dog trainers on the internet do not. Some go too far as far as to say those laws are wrong. It's like saying gravity is wrong. I'm sorry if it if you disagree with it, right? Gravity still is a law just like dog training science are laws. So, there's so much the worst thing you could ever do is take the wrong tact with your dog. That's why we give everybody a guarantee period that you can try our programs and you could say, "These are my people. I see a change in my dog. I can see where this can lead to something amazing for my dog." So, jumping on random videos on social media is going to bring you random results. And quite honestly, you're probably going to get frustrated with yourself and your dog isn't going to live their best life. What does living their best life look like? It means they get the ultimate thing, autonomy over their life. They get to choose that um we're walking together and I'm going to sniff this. They get to choose I'm going to run up ahead of you because I know I'm going to check back in with you. So, when we have that kind of engagement from our dogs, they get more freedom in life, which means they're living a better life. Life, right? Okay. Any other? Is this a scheduled program or a sign-up fee? Great question. That's a great question. So, all of our programs are custom-built. We have our own website. This isn't something you have to be a member of some social media page. We do have like social groups in Facebook, but all of the learning happens on our website. And the the programs roll out so that you get um one week you get you get four four games the first week and then you do them like some people might be on vacation for the first 2 months or first 2 weeks of the any of our programs or maybe even longer. So, we are here to coach you when you get to it. And that's true of maybe you don't um maybe you work shifts. Maybe 2:00 in the morning is the time you're going to be training your dog. That's 100% okay because we have coaches on all different countries of the world. I can't promise you you're going to get as prompt a reply at 2:00 in the morning, but there's a very good chance you will. So, this is for example a look at our Sorry. So, so you can see that in this custom-built site. Look at all these extra bonuses that we have that that you can get. We have a library with all these all kinds of downloadable ebooks. This is what a typical game day page looks like. So, you have the video. On the right here, you can there's a little quiz once you've played

the game and you've learned before or once you've watched the video and downloaded the PDF, you can take the quiz before you go and train your dog. You don't have to, but that's just extra to create more depth in your learning. And we have a quick tips so that you can take that with you. It's it's all mobile friendly. You can do it on your phone. You can do it on your iPad or on your tablet. I guess PC correct. Okay, so that's what it looks like. You do it at your pace at your pace. Okay. Other questions? What if the dog is good for 10 months old and 10 years old staffie and he lost a major issue with the family and he is losing the nuance of eating and kissing? Um so many people get great great results from our Home School the Dog program. It is a taste of what we do. So, you don't get all of those extra bonuses that you do in recallers, but will you see a change in your dog? Absolutely. You can train both dogs at the same time. We are coaching you in your mechanics, so you can video and and post a video for our critique. It doesn't matter how many dogs you're training. We're 100% okay with that. Any other? Absolutely, 100% these programs are changing lives. They changed my life. When I started to train this way back in the 90s and I said, I don't want to do these things to my dog that the people who were mentoring me told me that I should do. It literally changed my relationship with the dog and over decades of doing it, it has changed my relationship with people. Um, it's yeah, and I think it's something that um many of our students have seen the same thing. Uh, another great question. What if recallers takes longer than a year? So, it's highly unlikely, but it's possible you wouldn't get to all the bonus programs in a year. I mean, chances are you don't even need all the bonus programs, but maybe you do. They're all there for you if you need them. So, at the end of 1 year, you now can move on from recallers to what we call the alumni status. You get all the same things all of our other recallers get. When we do a new coaching call, you get access to that those new calls. And you get access to a hidden panel in the recallers site that's just for alumni. So, the alumni level of recallers is not anywhere near the same investment as the original level. And I got to tell you, um Recallers has been the same price for more than 10 years. It's been the same investment for everybody. So, while other people have changed, we know that we're changing the world for dogs. And so, we want people to know you can do this. We have a an installment plan if you can't jump in at that 497 um price, even though it's it's What is it? Uh

Regular price, it's 35% off the regular price until tomorrow. Is this a short-term sale No. No, this is over on Wednesday. It's my birthday week. So, we're doing it for my birthday week. And it the prices go back up to our regular prices on um Oh, that's tomorrow. Tomorrow at midnight. And that's Pacific time. Okay? When you go to the um Oops. When you go to dogsat.com/party, there'll be a live chat in the bottom, and you can ask Somebody on my team will answer that for you. Uh okay, Sally, what agility program uh should I start with? 100% Handling 360 is the best place to start, for sure. Right? It will bring clarity to you and your dog, and you'll have so much fun doing it. Okay. My place is so small. How much room do you need to work with your dog? So, it depends on what program you're in. For Home School the Dog, Recallers, Wag Nation, um that you don't need a lot of space. You certainly don't need anything this big. Your living room All that we encourage you to do is change rooms. So, if you're in a one-bedroom studio, then you want to move to the left side, to the right side. I do a lot of training initially with my puppies in the bathroom. So, you can grow the understanding by changing the environment that you're training in, so you don't need a huge huge area. Um the more environments eventually, but at first we're growing confidence. So, going to a new environment, like let's say I've been playing hand targets with Tater Salad at home. So, you know, after 4 days he's gotten really good at it. So, I'm going to go to the bunny farm. No. That's adding complexity before we have confidence and clarity. So, we encourage you to you know, take it slow, grow confidence in different environments around your house before you take that show on the road. Okay? Also, for some of you you might be especially if you're already in Recallers, I would encourage you to look at our IC Peeps program. That's available again. This will be the last time. Tomorrow night is the last time anyone will be able to join the Inner Circle. And I don't mean this year, I mean forever. That we're not bringing in new members after or we have zero plans. I don't want to say never say never. We have zero plans to to bring in new people into the Inner Circle. So, this would be the only Not only the best time, this would be the only time that that would be available. Um Where should I look to stop my dog from grabbing the leash and tugging? Um that as frustrating as that is, that is not a difficult thing to fix. We just have to fix your dog's focus. And any any one of our programs, Recallers would be the absolute best for you, Jojo,

because there's so many other things we can help you with in that program. Somebody asked which program would you recommend to Um that So, that's a kind of a loaded question because how bad is the separation anxiety? We know that all anxieties and phobias that we've seen in our program get better over the year in Recolors. So, however, it might be something that you need to see a behaviorist about. So, I'm not I'm not going to promise there'll only be rainbows and unicorns and every problem we've ever had with a dog is going to be fixed because you joined our program, but I promise you you will get better It will get better than when you are now. And if it's extreme, you post videos and you show us, we'll give you advice, too, contact a veterinary behaviorist. Um can we explain more about IC Peeps? So, IC Peeps the Inner Circle Susan's Inner Circle has been going on um I think for 12 years. So, it is it is like an amazing resource of a monthly coaching call. So, we take a topic and then we do a deep dive on it. Sometimes we have guests, um big name guests that come on and and share their insights about dog training. So, it really is um it's and it normally is it's $4,000 a year, but because we have decided we are not we're going to keep it closed to the community that's there, that we decided we are not going to be opening it um opening it up. We're going to We're going to keep it to this closed so it's it's a massive savings. I don't really remember what it is. So, um If you have an interest in dog training on a science level, and you have an interest in strategies that are are are tactical. For example, somebody in the Inner Circle last week asked a program a question about her dog uh she does hunt trials with her dog, and how does she get her dog to not just focus on the bird? Um and so, we did a strategy and we get every every month there is a um a challenge that we give all the community. So, it's not just the ability to go back and look at all the old coaching sessions that we uh coaching calls that we've done over the years, it's the ability to join me live. Um the coaching calls are usually an hour and a half to 2 hours. I Who am I kidding? They're almost always 2 hours. They're supposed to be an hour, but um they're almost always 2 hours. So, it's what you would expect a a mastermind would be um in an in an uh a a for somebody that is at like an Inner Circle level. Um I've been in Homeschool the Dog and Crate Games. Recallers is next for you, Julie, for sure. Um Now, if you decide to join the Inner Circle, then you do also get Recallers in that as a bonus. Um That is a question that I would jump

over to um So, the question is is there installments for ICPs? And it is a lifetime membership. It is not a lifetime membership, no. Um that and there are ins- uh they're asking about is there installments? If you go over to the the registration page, in the chat, because I honestly don't know. I'm the dog trainer. I got I got you covered for dog training, girl. Um JMO, I love your attitude, by the way. I saw your comment about, you know, let's all change the world for for for the good for dogs. I love it. Um you would join the inner circle by um going to that dog that.com {forward slash} party and clicking on the IC Peeps membership. And there's more details information about what that looks like as well. Okay? Um any questions that I didn't cover? Just go to the page and click on live live live chat and somebody on the team will help you for sure. Now, just want to remind you that sadly, my birthday week is over tomorrow night at night. So, the celebration is over and things go back to the regular price, which I still think is an amazing amazing opportunity, but if you want to I mean, some of these programs are 50, 60, 70% saving on your investment. So, um Jill said, "IC Peeps is every bit as awesome as the other dog that programs." Thank you, Jill. Okay? The Oh, good good call, Chelsea. So, I will be going live tomorrow night, I think late but it's going to be just an informal I I and I'm not going to promise it. I'm not going to promise. So, but we will give away a prize tomorrow night. How's that? At the very least, we'll be giving away a prize. So, in order for you to win the prize, I would like to ask you was there anything that I shared with you today that was an aha moment for you? Was a gem, was a oh, that makes so much sense. We will have a gem post over on our Facebook page um or on the dogsat.com/party site that if you would just leave your gem there, tomorrow night we will announce a winner and that winner will get boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom a balanced harness from the great people at Blue 9. Um this is a super lightweight it is a great harness. So, doesn't put stress on the dog's shoulders it's they're free moving. Love these harnesses. So, giving a I'll be giving one away tomorrow tomorrow. Uh So, Melanie said, did I start with the wrong resources? I got Wag Nation, Crate Games and Homeschool the Dog. Would Recallers have been better one to start? I think so, Melanie, but here's the thing, contact my team and they will decide they will help you decide they're not deciding for you. They will help

guide you as to what might be best. So, um we want to make sure you got into the right program for you. So, contact my team at wag@dogsat.com. And um somebody there will be able to help you. So, possibly Recallers plus Crate Games might might be perfect for you. Um Thank you. They're kind of in the need of a haircut here, but thank you. Um but we'll help you out. We want to make sure people are exactly where they need to be to help develop that amazing relationship with their dogs, okay? Thank you, everybody. We'll see you. Uh I'll put that address up one more time. Just go and check it out. Check out um what would be best for you and your dog. There's a little decision-making video that might help you out. We'll see you.