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team are just cray cray about dogs. And so we put out these series, but people in the past have come and said, is there any way we could get just a little bit more of, um, access to Susan during the series. And so that's when we decided to do the connected dog mastermind. We call it the plus group. And rather than being free, you get everything, everybody else gets for free, but you get a little bit extra from me in that we have a private Facebook group. I do a zoom where you all get on, you know, we, we talk about movies we'd like, no, we talk only about dog training and about deepening your understanding. So if you're interested in becoming a plus member, go to connected dog and it'll be right there in the learning zone. It will say, Hey, join us a plus. We're only allowing 500 people in that. And, um, I think we're closing it out soon. So I can't, I can't tell, I can't hold, don't hold me to that, but it definitely will be closing within the next few days. Yes. And if you want to be like, if you're, if you're in our mastermind and the plus you're being the Facebook group, you can chat with me, whatever. And we do these zoom calls. We're doing five zoom calls and most people will watch them as on, on, on a replay because maybe it's not in their time zone, but if you can catch us live, the first one's tonight at four o'clock anyway. Uh, okay. My gosh, that's a fricking hysterical name. Crybaby Bonnie Garcia is already a plus member. Welcome. Love your creativity. Um, all right. So yes, people have downloaded the, the, the playbook. Lots of great stuff in there. Let's start with the first question that I, that I have, and I have to get a pen, so that I check these off. Um, do I have to play the collar grab game on leash? So if you're new to Connected Dog, our first game that's in all the instructions are in the, um, Doggy Flicks series. You can watch the video step-by-step and you can download the handbook, all of the notes on how to play it. It's all in there. So collar grab game. It sounds simple, right? Just grab your dog's collar. Oh, nay, nay to quote the late, great John Panay. It isn't as you know, fundamentals are what build great mastery, but you have to be really, really conscientious of your mechanics as a human being, because our dogs are only as great as our mechanics. Truth, truth bomb right there. If your mechanics are flawed, then you are limiting how your dog will learn. You're limiting how great they can become. And somewhere down the trot, you're going to go, why can't he? And the reason is

take a look at your mechanics somewhere in the fundamentals, your mechanics was flawed somewhere you, you missed a step. L-O-H. Perfect. Oh, L-O-H has given me a hell do you, sister. So the collar grab game is, is the basic fundamental game and the steps are in the Connected Dog. We're not going to go through the how to's. We're going to go through the troubleshooting right now. So the first question comes from Emma. Do I have to do this on a leash? Because in the, in the program, we say have the dog on a leash. I just happened to have a demo dog here in the mastermind in the plus group. We're going to be doing this with live dogs. I just want to give you a PSA. This collar is really tight. Don't have your dog's collar that tight, please. I apologize in advance. Look at the dogs going a little cross-eyed because of how tight I have this collar. All right. I'm just going to loop this around because it doesn't seem to be a clip. So the question is, do I have to do this on a leash? And my question is what would be the problem of not, of, of, of doing it? Like why, why do you have a problem with doing it on leash? That's, that's my question. Number one, because there are reasons for everything that we do. I've been questioned by my students. These games have been around for, ooh, 15 years, more than 15 years. These games have been taught to our students for 15 years. So, so this is, so Angie says, Angie, or Sally says, Angie is nervous about the leash. So, um, that may be a reason why you don't, you don't want to have it on leash. So then what I would do is remember our dog's behavior is a, is like the lighthouse out in the distance. Our dog's behavior guides the training. If our dogs are nervous about a leash, then before we start collar grain, we make the leash the best thing that ever happened. I'm not going to try to play collar grab or, or do anything on leash if my dog's nervous about a leash. So it might be as simple as, you know, keep the, the leash in your back pocket, pull it out and then give her a cookie, put it in your back pocket, leave, do that three or four times. And then the next time you might walk into the room and pull the leash out of your back pocket and go, can you hear that? Just click the click or whatever it is. And then leave the room and go, obviously give cookies so that the site of this no longer has a nervous dog. The site of this has, what did, did you bring that thing with you today? Did you bring that leash? I want to see that leash. So everything our dogs do, their behavior is trying to help us help them. Like, like what's his name?

Tom Cruise. What was that movie? Let me help me help you. That's what our dogs are doing. Okay. Somebody tell me the name of the movie. It's kind of driving. Jerry Maguire. I got it. Help me help you. That's what our dog saying. Look at my behavior. I'm reactive. I'm fearful. I'm barking. I'm growling. That is my behavior. I'm giving it to you so that I'm helping you to help me. I need more confidence. I need whatever. I need more guidance. I need more conditioning. Let me help. I'm helping you to help me. Right. And so if the dog's nervous about a leash before we do any training, that this, I promise you, Sally, this is going to take you, unless the dog's had a catastrophic, um, negative association with, with a leash, which in case it might take you longer, but if you haven't and your dog is, you know, you just, for no reason, randomly nervous about a leash, some puppies are, some dogs are, then this shouldn't take you more than two days. Right. As long as the conditioning is proper done properly. Right. Pavlov. So you walk in the room, you don't have any cookies in your hand. You pull out the leash, then you give a cookie. All right. So that's number one. So the question is, do I have to do this on leash? And my question is, why wouldn't you? Because there's so many reasons why the value is there to do it on leash. Why not? And, and as a side note, there, there are steps in, in the execution of these games. There's, you know, maybe two or three steps, maybe four or five steps. Each step is intentional. So if you say, I'm going to leave that step out. And I say, surely that step out. Then the next game, you're going to go, I'm not even gonna bother. I'm leaving this step out. And then I'll, oh, game number four, I'm, I'm just skipping to the last step. And before you know it, you're going to go, Susan Garrett's training really doesn't work, does it? But you, you actually haven't been doing Susan Garrett's training. You've been doing Susan Garrett's training minus. Imagine if you, you know, made a, a cake and you said, leaving the eggs out. It's just a step. I don't want to crack them. I'm going to get my hands wet. I'll just leave that step out. Then you don't get the, the out outcome that the person who created that recipe was intending. Right? So I would not, I would not leave steps out, including keeping your dog on leash when you're doing it. Susan, if we have new people looking where you're talking about these step-by-steps, maybe we can get them to visit connected dogs. Right. So if you go to

doggyflix.com. So those of you that are walking in on this and going, what is this girl crazy lady talking about doggyflix.com? And we have the free series connected dog series. And it comes with a playbook with all kinds of instructions for you. And, um, an amazing video series. If I do say so myself, it's pretty amazing. We put our heart and soul into creating that video series. It could have been a course. We could have sold it as a course for $97. That was all right. This is a great course. It's got a great, um, book that goes with it easily could have been sold for $97. We have given it away for free. So if you go to doggyflix.com, that's where you're going to find the connected dog series. Okay. Wow. That was 30 minutes for one question. This we're doing pretty good. We're going to be here till what? Six, seven o'clock. I'm not sure. Uh, next question. Does it matter if I grab the collar under the chin or on top? This is another, I mean, every question here, I'm like, Oh, good question. Good question. All right. So I encourage you to grab for underneath because it's a lot more passive. It's a lot, um, less intrusive for the dog. So if we come in like that and grab the collar doing this, you might get some of that. Now, eventually if you've got a dog, when you play this right, as soon as you reach your hand out, dogs going to come in and stretch out their neck and say, yeah, can you take this please? Because there's a good chance something good is going to happen to me when you take this. So eventually if you've conditioned properly, just like in the videos, there are some ways you can condition this and it, you get no transfer of value. Speaker 2 3 weeks later, your dog's going, I don't know what you're up about, but, uh, fine. Give me cookies. But if you condition it properly, how do you know you're conditioned it properly? It's all in the steps and it's all in the videos. So if you, um, so if you condition it properly, the dog's going to start going, yeah, Hey, take that, take that. So I prefer to grab underneath. Eventually when your dog's so happy about this, you can start adding a bit of a lunge and maybe a two handed grab in case like of an emergency, you have to grab your dog. But there are some dogs like, um, my mixed breed dog, decaf, who passed away when she was almost 18 years old. She was not a confident dog. And I never would have done that with her because, um, Speaker 2 2 years old, she was not a fan of that. So I just didn't do it. But most of my other dogs, I always did. Speaker 2 2 Can you do it with a harness, Susan?

Speaker 2 2 Collar grab is best done first with a collar. So if you're a harness wearer, then yes, this is great. Condition it with a harness, but please use a collar as well. Both of them are really important that when you reach for them, because if I reach for the collar, I'm going to get the dog's face. If I reach for the harness, I'm probably not going to get the face so that the attention, if they, they're, you're reaching and they're turning away because you're going to grab and, you know, and there are times when we really, really want, um, that the dog giving us their neck because that gives us their head. So if there's a distraction in the background, you're going collar grab there. Okay. In the chat, let's name the demo dog, please. Let's just, let's keep going. Uh, oh, we have a first suggestion stuffy. It's a good one. Um, question, do we do this in different locations? Yes. So we encourage you to have a little training, um, a trainings den somewhere in your house. My office is one of my training dens, um, but it's important that you generalize this behavior to everywhere in the world. And all you have to do is change. Once you get confidence in one area, then you're going to grow confidence in another. So you might get confidence in the office and then I'll go get confidence in the kitchen. I'll get confidence in my bedroom with a wee puppy. I start by getting confidence in my bedroom. It's smaller. It's well, I guess typically it's smaller. Mine's a little water control. Um, so when we play the collar grab game, um, I encourage you to say the word cookie before you present the cookie. Here's the question is cookie essential marker word. I've conditioned my dog's marker word to yes. Do I use this for the collar grab game? So then you can use any word that you want. I just recommend you don't use words that mean different things. What does the word yes mean for my dog? It's a really big general marker word. So yes, you're going to get the toy. Yes. I'm going to throw the frisbee. I'm doing rollers. That's why I'm throwing a frisbee like that. Yes. Uh, yes. I'm going to give you a cookie. Yes. Hold your stay while I come in. The word cookie is very specific. It means you hold position. I'm coming to you. It, you know, and you don't have to use cookie. If you find that offensive, you know, you could, you could use Yamaha six string, whatever you like. That might be long. You might want to shorten that six string. Um, when do you call it collar? Um, when you start seeing your dog reach their neck up, you can then give it a cue if you, if you want to, for sure. Um,

um, so I wouldn't be in a hurry to name it though. I would get it into different locations, change your H for those of you who, um, the H of dash it's in the book. So change your H. We want the dog to generalize good behavior every, everywhere. And then you could start saying, before you move, say, call her and they're going to go, you say something. And then you're going to grab and very quickly, they're going to go, Hey, when she says that word, this is what we do. All right. Uh, what do you do if your dog growls as you reach for their collar? Okay. Heather, it depends on the dog's temp at the time of the growl. So if they are roached back, tail tuck, lowered haunches, ears, pinned, mouth tight, eyes, bright or wide. And, and, um, you can see the whites of their eyes and they're lowering their body away from you. And they're growling. That's different than if they're play bowing and wagging their tail and growling when you're grabbing for the collar, or if they are bouncing back and forth and growling. And it also depends on the age. Um, like a geriatric dog, maybe have a sore neck. Um, so that question is really, there's a lot of different answers. Now, if I think my dog's in pain or they're afraid, then remember our dog's behavior is a guidance for what they need from us next. They're helping us to help them. And so if I have a dog that's growling because I'm going to grab the collar, then I need to break that down and isolate what part are you afraid of, or are you in pain from and fix that. Um, Julia, the site of the, the collar grab game is great. I have a problem with step zero when Boulder releases, realizes that I want to put a collar on. She goes away under the table, et cetera, and hides. The only way to put it on is by using treats. How do I fix this? So, at the very beginning of this discussion, when I was talking about the leash, you're going to do exactly the same thing with, um, your collar. So you're, you're just going to walk in the room, pull it out for your back, back, pull it out. If she's runs out of the table, throw it under the table. I don't care. Eventually when she doesn't run under the table, like you don't, you don't throw, you don't, maybe the first two you'll throw right under the table and then you'll throw it into the middle of the room and then you leave, come back until she doesn't hide when she sees the collar, right? We fix the dog's behavior. That's dog's behavior. Isn't like, and I, and I, Julie, I know you're just asking this question, but a lot of times people think,

well, this is my dog. My dog's afraid of collars. My dog's afraid of harnesses. Harnesses and head halters are really common for this, by the way, Julia, not uncommon problem at all. So the behavior doesn't define the dog. That's not a dog who's afraid of collars. That's a dog who's demonstrating what they like and don't like. And it's our job to say, gotcha, going to change that. And this is what I'm going to do. And then you're not going to try and put it on your, maybe it's like isolate. Why one of my border collies, Buzzy, he didn't like the sound of the clip, clip, clip. And so for a while, I just went to using a buckle. And then I conditioned that the clip was like a clicker and it meant cookies are coming. And then I could use any kind of collar I wanted to. All right. Another great question. Michael, I have started the collar grab game on our walks. Is that too much with all of the distractions? Great question, Michael. So if you've got a great response around the house, then yes, but I wouldn't start the conditioning of it out there because what we're going to get is the dilution of I'm distracted. What are you doing? Okay. Give me a cookie, but I'm distracted. And so we want to put money in the bank for, I'm just going to go boom, boom. And that behavior doesn't require anything. And what you might find is if you put in a lot of money in the bank of collar grab in areas that aren't distracted, when you go to practice it where the dog would normally be distracted, he'd be like, Hey, Fred, Hey, Fred. Fred's not part of Fred's not part of the background anymore. Fred has just gone off into the unimportant zone. But if we try to teach collar grab, we've done a couple of here, we're going to do some on the home. Hey, Fred. Hey, Fred. Yeah. What? What? Oh, you give me a cookie. Okay. Okay. But Fred, do you see the difference? So we invest some time, money in the bank and then they know, Hey, that bank delivers good, good interest rate on my, on my investments. So I'm going to give them that bank, banker some attention right now. All right. I think that metaphor didn't work so well, but you know what I mean? Hilda asks, I have a two and a half year old, uh, Bluemix healer re-home. He was isolated upstairs all day while his former owners worked. I accepted him as a re-home and he has developed separation anxiety. Don't quite know what to do for whimpering, wailing, jumping up on me. Um, I have started collar grab and it's going well. Well, that's the first step. That's the first step

and is creating a connection, right? So we have the five C pyramid and the, this is how we train anything. And the first part is creating a connection. So the connection is with you. The connection is with training. The connection is with your environment. Now, if the dog has, is, is very phobic and truly is anxious. Well then I would go to the relaxation protocol that you'll find on my podcast. And, and then a podcast episode number 200 is all about separation anxiety. So it's all there for you. Uh, Ellen has grooming frustrations. Me too. Look at this mess, Ellen. I mean, seriously, I comb can't go through it. Ellen says, I have a two year old mini Aussie shepherd, very smart, very opinionated worst pain point is she won't let me groom her. She had a few bad experiences and will not allow nail treatment brushing or, or even sanitary trims. I need to get help. I need to help her to understand that this is, can be pleasurable or at least tolerable experience. Okay. So ideally we don't want it to be a tolerable experience. We want it to be a pleasurable experience. And it starts with that five P pyramid that the five C pyramid that I, that I showed you that we want the dog to have a connection with us. And then we want to create clarity with what we want. What do we want from the dog? Keeping in mind that our dog's behavior is giving us information. I don't trust people who hold brushes in their hands. So that might be the first thing you have to condition. Brush in the hand means it's party time. So we create that positive association. We call it conditioned emotional response. A positive. She's got one. She's got a conditioned emotional response to that brush. And it's, uh, I'm out of here. So we want to create a positive conditioned emotional response. And it is that, oh my gosh, you're holding a brush. Oh my gosh, this is the best day ever. So you need to take that slowly and collar grab is, is a first step condition that. And now you've got a basis of now something is good. A collar grab is good. And we're going to move up with that. Um, and we have, uh, in, uh, our program recallers, we actually, you, so in recallers, we have a, another free, we have a bunch of free programs and one is called pedicure plea. You can buy pedicure please. And so it, it's just that conditioning dogs, that grooming, nail trimming, all of that is amazing. I want my dogs to want. So when it's nail trimming day, there is, we have to lock the dogs out because there's a lineup of people wanting to get theirs done first, because it's a positive experience. Joanna says, I would

love to know how you fine tune some of your positional cues. I'm teaching flop on your side for pedicure please. I think we're getting away from collar grab. Um, Oh, they are general. Okay. I'll leave that one to see if we have. Oh, okay. Jennifer, I have to have a knees, a two month old and a four month old. Wow. That is a lot of hair and yeah. And a lot of puppies. It is, is it better to train with each of them separately? I'm trying to do collar grab game throughout the day, even though I alternate the other one is immediately there wanting attention. A two month, two puppies are tough. Oh, two years. That's better for, that's better for Jennifer. Jennifer, you're in better, you're in better, you're in better state now. So Jennifer, what I would do is I would put one say in your bedroom while you play collar grab and then swap them out. Maybe give them a enrichment toy. So they're not like winding out the door. Why did they get to play? And I don't get to play. Um, and then swap them out. But eventually the goal would be, and I, I don't want to spill the beans, but eventually, because I may or may not be in the next week teaching you how to teach your dog to wait their turn. Don't want to spill the beans. Don't want to get too far ahead, but eventually you want it. So the way I have it with my dogs, one will what I call hop it up. They might be on the couch. They might be sitting on the ottoman. They might be in a dog bed, but they have a location. And when I say, I'll, if I'm training this, I'll say, Mindy's turn and Mindy immediately gets down and this immediately gets up. Right? So that's eventually, that's the goal that we'll have for you. Um, that will get, we will get there. And, um, yeah, if you are in the master, the connected dog, plus the mastermind, we'll go into a little bit more detail on that switching dogs thing. Um, on the last, that's scheduled for the last day. Um, this, okay. This question is from Kathleen. Do we need to keep practicing this? I did it a few weeks ago with my notes, 15 week old puppy and was surprised when I realized she still remembers it. Should I still have it in my schedule or repertoire or practice every few days? So for me, it's something that even my adult dogs I'll, I'll do from time to time because money in the bank eventually starts accumulating interest. But if we're only making withdrawals, then you're going to go to the bank one day, you're gonna be bankrupt. There'll be no money for you. So what I mean by that is if I say I did this with my puppy, I'm done. Then when they're six years old

and another dog's coming down, you know, at the park and I want to grab my dog, I haven't put money in the bank in six years. My dog goes, Whoa, what, what? Bankrupt, bankrupt. Right? Because a lot of times, what are we grabbing their collar for? We're grabbing it to maybe, um, lead them somewhere, possibly someplace they really don't want to go. We take them, we hold onto them while the vet's giving them an injection. We do. So there's a lot of things that aren't as pleasant as getting a cookie. And so putting money in the bank about getting the cookie, that's, um, not necessarily a bad idea. It doesn't hurt. Like if you ever want to give your dog food ever again for the rest of your life, rather than just handing it, why not do boom and then boom, you're conditioning something. So I'm hoping you plan on giving food for the rest of the dog's life. So you can do that every day easily. Uh, Kathleen, older dog experience. I have done the collar grab. Oh, oh, this is very related. Uh, I've done the collar grab game when Ara was a puppy and now we are four years later. I'm finding she avoids me. Do I need to put her on back on leash? I think in doing that, I'm not giving her a choice. I'm not giving her a choice. Here I am stuck in first gear. So perfect example, the bank goes bankrupt. Easy, easy, easy solution is you just start putting money in the bank right from square one. And it would might be just with a leash putting on the leash, boom. Um, I'll get to this question in a second, but I'll just hold that till I get it. And so, um, yeah, you go, you go back to the, the, the leash, but I would go back to just walking in the room and holding up the leash. And then, then when you hold the leash, she comes running to you, you grab the collar, give a cookie, hook the leash on, give another cookie, and then you can do a couple of rounds of collar grab and then you're done. All right. Uh, can you play collar grab with toys? Absolutely. Right. I do it a lot when I'm training, I'll grab the collar restraint, throw the toy, ready, set, get it. And then run the opposite direction. Have a great old time. Right. Um, Mouthing. My puppy turns to bite my hand every time I reach for the collar, I am finding I, I am having to say cookie louder than normal. And several times before she will turn her attention to my face. So I would say, don't change your cue. If the dog is not, not noticing it, I would go back to actually not even using cookie, just grab the collar and, and give the cookie. But there's two, two reasons I can think of. There's probably a

million and two reasons why you might be getting nips. The first one is you've got a puppy. If it's a puppy that is in your hands and people, um, get to, um, meet that puppy, then what might happen is when people meet the puppy, they do this. Oh, cute. So the puppy knows hand coming towards my face means we're going to face wrestle. And, and when, when somebody face does biting mouth with me, I bite. So this is human biting mouth. So we're teaching the puppy when hands come to your face, bite the hands. So that might be what's happened. The other thing is your puppy might be tired. Puppies that are tired and cranky, they use your mouth a lot more than normal. So try to play the puppy, the, the collar grab game when the puppy, not when the puppy isn't super hungry, because that might frustrate them to have to wait for food and not when they are overtired. And so just grab the collar. Wait, if you get bit, wait till the biting stops and then feed them. And people are going to say, did she just tell you to feed the puppy for biting? I trust me. That's not what's going to happen. They're going to stop biting. Right. But best thing is do your rounds of collar grab. When you know that puppy isn't, isn't starving and isn't exhausted. That's the best thing for your puppy. My dog is already anticipating the cookie after the first collar grab. How do I hide the cookie? If she knows it's coming after this first one, like I might do two or three rounds of it just to, to, you know, give them a couple extra cookies. But then I, I just leave the room, come back in, sit down, stand up, do it again. Right. So you only, you'd only have to play, you know, three or four repositions when I'm first doing it, especially with a puppy, I'll change my position. Like I might have them on a leash and walk for a bit and then stop and grab. So yeah, they, they're anticipating because it's been conditioned. You grabbed my collar. So you might stop and pat them. It's no cookie that's coming after that. You might, you know, stop and bend down and get them to chase you. And then you might stop and grab the collar. And they're like, Oh, that gets me cookies. That's so cool. Um, Bev asks, do I play the collar grab game four times a day, 25 reps when a new game is available? Do I do the same with that game? So Bev, I think I hate giving recipes because every dog is different. For example, um, my border collie puppies, I could play that 25 times a day, 25 times a session, and they would still be, can we do that again? Cause I don't think we did it enough. Where, when tater salad first

came here, he was so distracted that, you know, we only did it and talk about a dog that bit when, when you ever touched, whenever you touched his collar, he immediately did an alligator roll bite and roll. And so we had to back that way up to just grab your leash and give a cookie, grab your leash and give a cookie. All right. So, and so you need to identify is your dog one that has got energy all day long, or my young two year old dog. This I won't, um, play 25 repetitions. I would do it. I'd be more likely to do it like six or 10 times a day, but only do maybe three repetitions each time because at early on in her training, there is, there is no stamina for that. No stamina at all. Okay. Um, so I think these, I think those are all my questions. Do we have any other questions? Yes. Can I just clarify, did you get a chance to answer the question, um, about the use of a marker word? Mm-hmm. You did? Okay. Cookie, good, yes. Swaggy, I think. Chelsea's downstairs whispering for swagger and he's tilting his head from side to side going, what do you want? Swaggy, go see. Too funny. Um, Yes. Uh, so is there any questions that I'm, that I missed out on? I thought I've been checking them off. I just wanted to make sure that only that you did cover why you use them. Yep. Okay. I, I, I think that like a lot of these questions, I love that they've isolated a key concept of dog ownership. And that is that, um, any, anytime you ask a dog to do something and they don't do it, like think of your cues, not as demands of the dog. You will sit. I told you to sit. Think of them as tests. I taught you to sit. Now, do you know what sit means in the busy, in the middle of a busy park? It was a test. So no matter where they are and you could say, oh, it's the same place. I ask him every day. He does it every other day. He's just not doing it now. Our dog's behavior is helping us to help them. So what is your dog sharing with you when they are worried about you reaching for their hand or when they are hiding under the couch, when they see the harness and don't feel bad about that belief, our youngest puppy, who's 12, 13 months old, she, she would like turn into a dog that looked like a beaten rescue dog. When you picked up the harness after she, it was used, it was conditioned for months before we ever put it on her. And then after two or three uses, when she'd see it, she'd go, oh, it happens. Right? It happens. We can't predict. Dogs are a lot like they're little beings, they're little beings. They have their own emotional states. And we can't expect

this Border Collie to be exactly like that Border Collie because who, who are we? I have, I have eight brothers and sisters and not, there is no two of us that are even remotely alike, not even remotely alike. And so why do we demand that all Border Collies act the same and all German Shepherds act the same? Train the dog in front of you. And that's, I think the lesson from these great questions, it all comes down to behavior is information, but it's feedback on the dog's emotions. And that's what we're dealing, that's what we have to do is help that dog to have the kind of motions that will give them confidence, that will create connection. And that's what the Connected Dog series is about. Because if you have a great connection with your dog, you have a dog who, who trusts you in all environments. You have a dog who has autonomy, the freedom to make choices and to fail. And you don't go, I taught you better than that. You go, huh? I thought, I thought my training was pretty clear, but clearly you're showing me it wasn't right. Do you see, do you see the difference? I'm going to tell you how you can earn. First, let me tell you about this. I just put this basket together myself. Honestly, this is because the company is called Cocoa Therapy. This is a book about Cocoa Treats. So it's a great story. I encourage you to go online and learn about that company. Because it's a family run business of lovely, lovely people, definitely aligning with our core values as a company in that we have the love of dogs first. And these are the treats that I was looking for because I love that they're organic. I love that I can eat them. So, and there's, there's different ones. I'm gonna try one right now. Probably you shouldn't. I'm probably setting a really poor example, but I do know that there it's human grade food and it's made in a factory that is okay. Maybe Linda has to open that for me. It made in a factory that is like, it's completely up to human food standards. So I love that the treats easily break apart, but they're not super crumbly, but best of all, they're not filled with meat. You can get, they do have some with meat in them, but every one of these was a different type of treat and none of them have any meat in them. So for my dog, I think for all dogs, I think dogs get way too much meat and freeze dried meat is the worst freeze dried organ meat, even worse than the worst. And so you're not doing that when you're feeding these treats. That's why I love the cocoa therapy and they have this empty sea oil too, which is really cool.

You know, one of the best things about it, it's in a glass jar. So good. So good. Okay. So how can you earn a gift package? What's the value of that gift package? Maybe, um, I'm going to try this. So good. Apple pie. Tater. Tater might be here. Oh my gosh. Linda, you gotta try this here. So good. No, seriously. I wouldn't get you. Try it. You're I'm, I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding you. It's super good. Try it. Isn't it good. It's really good. I could be sold in it like a confectionary for a lot of money. It's all organic. It's amazing. Cocoa therapy. Now, Cocoa therapy, they're going to be donating prizes that we're going to be giving away inside our, our plus group. But right now, all of you watching this video, if you have one takeaway, one aha, one, whether it's something you already knew, but I phrased it in a different way and you went, oh my gosh, this, this so many things now make sense. Like I try to make these live presentations, the bring value to every dog owner, no matter what your level of experience that you have. Tater actually went walking. That's why he didn't come when I called him. So Chelsea took all the dogs out for a walk. And so if you have a takeaway, a takeaway that, that you're like, I gotta, I gotta remember this. I gotta write this down because this was a really valid point. Then if you have that takeaway, then you go to our Facebook page and put it, and there'll be a post called gems, put it under the gems post. Here's another one. I'm not eating this one. So it's, you know, they break up. Um, and, and what we're going to do is on Monday, we're going to pick a winner for the first Cocoa therapy gift basket. And we're going to, and the good folks at Cocoa therapy are going to send one to you. These are awesome. I love, these are the ones that we have around the house. See, they're, they're smaller. So I tried these with my own dogs, loved, loved, loved them. And so, oh, so Aaron, Aaron from our team said it's a $50 value of Cocoa therapy stuff. Yeah. So good. Um, so whatever that gem is, I want you to go is, can you guys put, drop a link where they can find it? So go to, um, Kyle. So Kyle says, I don't do Facebook. Is there any other options? That's a great consideration. So maybe we will do a gems post on, um, in the learning zone of the connected dog as well. Cause, cause I know there are some people that don't do. So, um, yeah, Cocoa therapy, really happy to have them on board with all of our sponsors. So big, big shout out to the amazing folks at, um, blue nine for donating another great giveaway that propel. And right now

I'm giving away a recallers tug toy. I honestly, it's not like that. It's similar to this one, but, but different cause this has gotten swagger spit all over it. The winner is Millie McDowell. The share winner for the, this is the first prize. We're giving away three first prize goes to, uh, to Millie McDowell. Congratulations. We just have some hearts for Millie. Let's have some raise the roof, some party horns. Um, so Millie contact the team at wag at dogs at.com and, um, yeah. Um, um, uh, wait, there's a question here. Brenda said, you said to think about why the dog is not doing what you were asking. I have to figure it out. You might, you might have to break things down more and see what part is creating a, a response that isn't, um, a positive. There you go. Millie. Woo. Woo. Um, so Kathy wrote, I was skeptical about a scap, skeptical, easy for you to say, Susan, see about my dog loving her baths. But after I saw pedicure, please, I got the right motivation. And I started to make her feel comfortable with the bath at the moment. We are just analyzing her sensations. Is it the noise? Is it the feeling? This is great breakdown, Kathy. And she's getting a different response. We're still in the first steps, but we're on the right path. Thank you, Susan. Thank you, Kathy. Thank you, Kathy. That's brilliant. Okay. So go to, there's a link that Lisa from our team. I don't know if it was Lisa, somebody on the team shared here, and that will take you to the Facebook page where you can share one of your gems from today. And again, we're still giving away this amazing Propel. So make sure that you, um, you share this video on your social media and come back and write the comments shared and four o'clock today, we're having a first plus mastermind get together. So be sure go to connected dog, or excuse me, doggyflix.com in the connected dog series. And in there, you'll see an opportunity to become a plus member and it doesn't get any better than that. I, I taught in Australia last fall. That's the first time I taught a smaller group. The first time since 2018. Yeah. Oh, in the spring. No, it was their fall or spring. So a month or so ago, I was in Australia and I taught a small group first time since 2018. So plus is that small group. I don't do these very often. Rarely. I did a plus last year. I'm offering one this year. And so if you want to be part of that intimate group with me, we're going to jump on zoom. If you're around, if you're not around, you'll be able to have access to

the videos. You can be in our Facebook group and ask questions, but that's it. My time is up. So thank you guys for all your great questions and keep on with the suggestions of naming the demo dog. We'll see you on Monday. We'll give away more prizes and more brilliant learning.