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My puppy does it a lot. Let's fix that. Once in a while. Ontario with three Portuguese water dogs. Yay. Sylvia says a lot daily, at least once a day, occasionally on every walk. Wow. We got fixed that. I'd be interested to know, has it gotten any of you into trouble? The fact that your dog eats things that they shouldn't. By that, I mean, I'm going to put this up here. By that, I mean, does your dog, has your dog ever eaten something that required you to either have them throw up or take them to the veterinarian or worse. I'll give you an example. I had a friend who had a standard poodle who three times had surgery to remove what she had eaten from her tummy because it was not good for her. And once the dog knocked a casserole that was cooling off of the counter onto the floor and the dog ate all the glass of the Pyrex along with the casserole. So, and I see some of you say, so some of you say, no, my dog never eats anything. Some of you say, luckily so far, no. Thankfully, no. Trip to the ER. Yes. Socks, underwear, and hair ties. Cigarette butts. Expensive visit. I think it's, if you have to have that surgery, it's probably going to be three to $5,000 really, depending on where you're going. And yeah, look at that. $3,300 for an overnight at the emergency. So it could be like, if they get into the wrong thing, it could be a pancreatitis that you're dealing with. So our goal is to work towards our dogs living a world where they understand none of your business. And you don't have to tell them it's none of your business. That's just the way they live their life. Like this, he would love to have the food up on that. But I know confidently if Jenny and I were to leave this building, there's, there's no way she would take, she would even consider getting up there to take it. Um, so, and it's something like we, it's, it's a, um, it's a, it's a huge, huge panic for you because you don't know what they've eaten, how much they've eaten that you don't know, you know, what, what is the, you know, going into a veterinarian. And I'm sorry, I just didn't, I just don't want to, um, envision that. I don't want to, uh, visualize that, uh, before joining Recallers Daily. Now it's just not a problem. So our goal is to be in a place. It doesn't matter the breed. It doesn't matter the age that we don't have to worry about that. And how many of you have watched episodes three and four that are open now in the season of nuance, because those are the games that start to get us to that place.

Those are the games that start. And I'm not saying there is, you know, unfortunately nothing is overnight. And, um, it's unfortunate that people don't have that realization about dogs in the past surgery to remove a piece of a black Kong. Well, that's kind of not really your fault. So yes, watch them both. Yes, yes, yes. I haven't watched four. So we, today is all about, I really want to deepen your understanding, really want to deepen, um, what you're taking away from this, because after this series, and just so you know, the series videos, they all come down. They're going to go into our recallers program into the classroom, but they all come down, um, on, on Monday. I hope I've got that right. Sunday, Sunday night at midnight. They're done. The series is over. So watch and rewatch download today's, um, today's lesson plan. It's epic. And I don't use that word lightly. I know I say it a lot of times about some of the things we do here, but come on. It's like, let's have some hearts for the team because this, this book, I have very little to do with other than I get to proofread it. It comes from the lessons and our very own Sharon puts this together for you so that you have a great understanding of what we're doing here. Have some hearts for Sharon. If you aren't in a venue that can give hearts, just put hearts in your comments because this is like a 23 pager. I think today, I think so far we've given you over, over a hundred pages of great dog training, um, notebooks for, for yourself, for your, for your record keeping. So, um, I'm going to, I'm going to, there's a question from Danielle. If you can see that Jenny, maybe just, uh, copy that. Cause I'm going to, I'm going to stay on my train of thought. So we are layering your learning and this is exactly the way that I teach my own dogs that I put this together. So, um, you can get the notebook in the learning zone of doggyflix.com. So that's, that's where you, that's where you get it. Yeah. Whole team is doing amazing, but I got to just give a special shout out to Sharon for these, for these, uh, handouts for everybody. It's for you. She does it for you to enhance your learning so that you have clarity with what we're sharing here. Okay. So it's super important. Can you just bring that whiteboard over in case I need it? That would be grand.

Um, I'm going to start today by saying we will be giving away two items for you. One from our, uh, our good people at, uh, blue nine is I'm giving away a, um, a harness and together with that, with that, um, so, so I'm going to tell you how you can, how you can earn the harness, um, harness and, and a tug toy. First things up though, I'm going to tell you who won in our last. So this propelling and actually use that for a demo today from the great people at blue nine. Let's give a big hearts for our sponsors for my morals and blue nine. So we're going to just going to, I'm going to just tell you right now, um, the, the way that you can win today is by sharing this broadcast and it's going to be a doozy. It's going to be a good one. Share this broadcast, um, and any social media page, come on back here, write the word shared in the comments, tell us where, so my team can check it out and whoever we can check out. And if, and if it's not the same name as you're here, um, in the chat role with, then write your name so that we know who, who is eligible to be in the prize, um, the share prize today. Okay. And we are going to be giving away today, the blue nine harness that, um, from, from the good people at blue. No, what's it called? It's balance harness. Yes. Okay. Um, all right. So, so share this and the tug toy is from for my morals. And I'm going to, I'm going to share with you at the end of today, how you can win a tug toy. All right. So write that chart. Now I'm going to give away the propel and I'm going to tell you, um, first of all, I'm going to, I'm going to say an honorable mention because I'm at Jenny's place here in Austin. And so I am broadcasting from Jenny's big hearts for Jenny. And I used Jenny's, uh, Siberian Husky Electra on our last, um, was it, was it, did I use her on the live or just in our platinum call? I think it was just, is it just in the platinum call? I think it might've just been in the platinum call. We do demos just for the platinum people as well. Special. Um, so this is a special shout out for Sarah Murdoch. I found benefit in watching you with Electra, how you elevated her engagement with you to determine the intensity of reinforcement needed. It was super helpful seeing it in real time as it put what you were saying in context. So that is honorable mention for our, our gem because we're at Jenny's house. Let's give a shout out to Electra, but it's really important. I just wanted to highlight that we've talked a lot about the nuance throughout the, all four episodes, the nuance of the,

value, the value of reinforcement. And our last live, I talked about the formula that creates the intensity of reinforcement. I'm not going to go back into that. But when I came out with Electra with boring, she just kind of started sniffing the floor and people say, Oh, that's a Husky. Yeah. That's what Huskies do. She didn't know me. She, um, I had, there was nothing in it for her. And so I'm going to see if there's anything else for me to sniff here. And people have this expectation that, well, I go to the park and my dog just blows me off. My puppy doesn't even act like I'm not even alive when I'm, when I'm outside. He just wants to sniff and do what he wants. And you know, I, I've given this example before that, um, it's like if you had a newborn baby and you came home from the hospital. And the next morning you said to your husband, do you know, that baby woke me up in the middle of the night to get fed? Like that's not an expectation we would have. Right. But we have these ridiculous expectations of our puppies. They can grow in to be the dogs of our dreams, but we have to help them get there. Okay. Back to our, our gem winner that wins a brand new propel from the great people at blue nine. Okay. Our gem winner. This is the gem. One of the most enlightening aspects of the recent Facebook live with Susan was hearing that 50% of effective training hinges on human mechanics. So true. The revelations, but I get an asterisk. That's my opinion. Having, having, having done this for more than 35 years, that is my opinion, but I, I don't think I'm far off and I think it might even be more. The revelation is both challenging and comforting. It underscores that I need to refine my own behaviors and techniques as much as teaching my dog. It's a reminder that patience, precision and consistency in my actions are keys to successful training outcomes. It's also empowering to know that I have the ability to directly influence my dog's behavior through my action. It shifts the focus from solely correcting the dog to improving myself, which is a manageable, attainable goal. Ultimately, this balance in training emphasize the partnership between myself and my pup where mutual growth leads to the best results. Thank you, Vicky. That was perfect because it emphasizes what I keep saying.

The, the more I keep saying the, the more I learn, the smarter my dogs become. And that's why I encourage you that if you can join our platinum level, you get the opportunity to learn more at like the most reasonable investment. If you have ever paid for dog training in your life for any reason, for entry into a show for local, whatever, then you need to be in the platinum group. I just can't say that enough. And I promise you at the end of it, you're going to be in the platinum group. I promise you to say, Susan, if I, if I'm not telling the truth, you can write, write to me personally. And I will personally answer you. If you say this wasn't worth my $50, cause I know you won't be able to say that. Okay. The smarter, the more I learn, the smarter my dogs become. I've been doing this for 35 years, every single year. I'm a growth mindset human being. The more the, I want to learn more because I want my dogs to become smarter. Okay. So in episode three and four, we talked about, um, first of all, the game, it's your choice and brand new. How many of you, if you've ever played, it's your choice before had aha moments about the 12 layers. They aren't anything that we haven't done before. I just haven't broken them out so that it was so clear. I think probably the order of what we did was different in that, um, I, I, you know, I just walked around and, and I spoke the levels of value. I spoke about how I'm, could you just move that board back, please? I spoke about the, the, the, the, when I was using moderate value, when I was using high value, when I was using low value. Um, that's good that I, that I, when the, when the, uh, so does platinum also end on Sunday? No, I'm keeping platinum together until Thursday. We're having a lot of fun in there. So it's your choice. It's, I, I need it to be every day for you guys. That's how we get to a place where here's what I believe. And I'm working on pet insurance companies. I firmly believe people who have been through our recaller programs. And I love a study on this and I bet I'm right. People who've been through our recallers programs. If you compare the number of, um, preventable medical bills, they have compared to your average pet dog home, it would be dramatically different. And therefore recallers deserves recaller students deserve lower insurance policy, uh, fees for, for ensuring their, their pet health. And I say that one more time. If you've been through a program, like, let me just use me as, as an example.

So preventable veterinary injuries would be ingesting something, pancreatitis, um, getting into the garbage, um, running off and getting a dog fight hit by car. All of these preventable. If your dog, um, and you are a partner that have grown together in these layers of learning. And I believe that the average pet owner has far higher medical bills that are preventable compared to somebody who has spent their time building these layers of learning and developing a relationship. So, so that's why when we're talking about it's your choice today, I'm talking about it from a level of integration into everything you do. Starting with that plate, as you walk out to the barbecue with the burgers, what does your dogs do? Do they follow you? Do they jump up like little, uh, Tilly Tally Dilly Dally did when I had really, really high value rewards in episode number three. So, so that is level number one. I use the highest value reward. There was Ross R. Deans on that plate, highest value rewards, because I knew there's no way the dog was going to get them. It's on a plate up at my level. I mean, if you, if you have a great Dane, maybe, and you're, is my height, but that, that is something that I knew. So integrating this into real life, I brought in real life situations instead of just doing it in your hand. I brought in the plate. I brought in sitting on the couch and we, and we integrated those different levels. And I didn't introduce the first closing of the hand until I think stage five or six. Okay. And by then I had already created an intentional gap for my dog, for, for the puppy by just freezing. If I'm walking with my hands at my side, I just freeze. Okay. I think I've, I've set the chat roll into a frenzy on talking about pet insurance. I don't sell pet insurance. Uh, I will tell you that all of my dogs are insured and I think everybody's dogs should be. And I know it's ridiculously expensive, especially when you don't really need it. But when you do need it, some things there's preventable veterinarian, um, veterinary bills. There's a lot of, um, um, my, my, um, I'm what's unpreventable, not non-preventable, um, veterinary bills, like things like my girl feature went through cancer treatment. Um, two years ago, that was a lot of expense. So when you need it, you're really glad you have it. Okay. So a lot of you, um, a lot of you have recognized that those 12 layers are in there intentionally to help you integrate this with your, with, with, with the real world, with your actual life. Okay. Okay. Yes. I decided that there's a lot of benefits that we're going to keep adding onto platinum.

And one of them is that, um, the learning is going to happen. I actually, uh, I don't know if I've announced this yet, but I'm going to do another, uh, zoom call with the platinum that isn't even on the schedule and it's going to be, uh, next Monday. Okay. So there you go. Okay. So now there's, there's, uh, there's five, five zoom calls, not just, not just, or four zoom calls, not just five, not just three. Um, okay. Uh, no, I think it's five. It's five. So it's five zoom calls. It's like 10 bucks. It's a session to learn from, I mean, Susan Garrett, you know, she's kind of a big deal in some people's eyes. Okay. I'm going to jump into today's questions because we are cutting down on time and I, uh, and I don't want to, I don't want to miss these some really good ones. Okay. This one's from Kathy. I noticed Susan doesn't use words to tell her dog what not to do. I use leave it for things. I don't want my dog to touch. If I understand correctly, Susan expects them to learn this behavior just by rewarding the behavior she wants. Okay. So you are correct. I, in my relationship with animals, and I don't know the, uh, to be empathetic to all of you that are listening that come from a different background of dog training. I'm going to try to be very empathetic, but what I want you to, I'm going to, I'm going to preface this by saying, please do not judge yourself. For what your mentors have taught you today. Give yourself grace as you're going through what I do to not feel badly in any way. So I'm, I'm prefacing that. So I do not believe I have the right to tell my dogs. No, I believe they're living sentient beings that. They aren't humans. Although I sometimes wonder about swagger. They're not humans. They can't reason. All they are is a reflection of what I know about dog training. And so I believe 25 years from now, we're going to live in a different world where I, I believe our dogs are just going to have such massive benefits that things are going to be, are going to be so clear. There's going to be so many people teaching and doing what I'm doing. And so the number, there's two reasons why I don't, I don't tell my dogs, leave it. Number one, I need to teach them to want to leave it. Number two, leave it is a cue. Why do they understand? Leave it because you probably said things like good. Leave it good. Leave it and rewarded them for leaving it. And so now that cue leave it has value. And when we say leave it, we are actually rewarding the dog for trying to take it. That's how reinforcement works. Your words are reinforcing.

When I ask my dog to sit and then I say break, the word break reinforces them for sitting. So that's the number two reason. But part, part and parcel of number two is what happens. Let me just, let me just share with you that the word leave it really and truly only means leave it right now. Well, I can see you. Because if you're not there to stop the dog, it's gone. It's gone. Listen, what I want is a dog who doesn't need me to tell them to leave it. They'll just keep going. Now, what if I was out for a walk and my dog came across something that they didn't know, you know, is this, should I be sniffing this? Or should I be, they're about to roll in it? Or, because honestly, I can't tell you the last time my dogs have tried to eat something. Maybe the puppy has tried to eat coyote poop. And so what would I do then? I would just use my recall. And knowing when I call you back, I am reinforcing you for whatever you were thinking of doing when I called you. And I know that. So I'll grab my journal. Oh, my journal is right here. I'll grab my journal and I'll write. The dog had, my puppy has an interest in this. Let's work to remove that. Okay, so when you use the word leave it, you are, it's a behavior chain that you are reinforcing the dog for what they are doing. Oh, there's my journal right there. You're rewarding the dog for what they are doing when you had to say leave it. And just as long as you know, instead of saying leave it, I suggest you say, leave that while I can see you. Try it later when I'm not around. Don't. That's what we're really saying. Right? So maybe it's longer just to say leave it. Okay? Okay, so Kathy had two questions. And the second one is a really good question. And I'm really glad you brought this one up, Kathy. And let me know if that makes sense, my definition of leave it and why I don't use it. Question number two from Kathy. My Micah is very overweight and I have to limit her treats she gets. I don't think she would understand playing games throughout the day with treats than not getting dinner because she's had enough calories for the day. Can you recommend any high value, low calorie treats? So two things, Kathy. Number one, the reason I'm glad you brought that up is because I've been looking at a lot of our recaller videos. We have our recallers contest. If you haven't seen it, you can check that out on our social media pages or on my blog. There's a lot of overweight dogs. There's a lot of overweight dogs. Now, I have been accused of having my dogs too thin. I think too thin is healthier than overweight for sure. So I empathize. You might have a small dog.

You might be in a position where they can't get a lot of exercise. So low value. So what I want you to do is, number one, if we're going to use part of their food for training, which is what I do, I always leave maybe 15 or 20% in the bowl that they get the feeling like they've eaten something. So with my puppy, he's not that crazy about food, so it doesn't matter. But my dogs who love their food, I cannot feed everybody. Like Missy, I'll use her food to train. I can't feed everybody and then you're not eating because we just trained. I don't know that they can grasp that. So I'll always leave 10 to 15% so that the dog feels like they're training or feels like they're getting fed. And so high value, low calorie treats, that is something you have to ask your dog. I can't help you with that. So, you know, try different vegetables, try things and see what your dog tells you is really high value. This E, I would like you to come over here, please. Okay, question. I teach leave it by offering a better reward so my dog wants to leave it. You have got yourself locked in a behavior chain, which is they smell something. So what my dogs would do is they would look around and pretend to eat all kinds of things because then they would get good rewards from you. So, this E, come on over here, please. Hop it up over here. Good. You just stop bothering the auntie. All right. If my dog says, if I smell this, if I dig at the dirt and pretend I'm going to eat it or try to eat it, and my mom says, leave it and then gives me a cookie, what if I pretend to eat like this rock? Leave it and then I get a cookie. So, no. That is a behavior chain that you don't want to do. Okay. Okay. I use puzzle games to slow feed on the 10%. Yeah. Tater salad is all about his slow feeder. If you give him a bowl of food, he won't eat it. You have to put it in a slow feeder. It is. So, the question is from Maria. Is it too late to sign up for Platinum? No. You can sign up for Platinum. It's in the learning zone. They'll be just below the intro videos. You'll see a link to sign up for Platinum. Okay. From Tara. My dog is already polite because we've been playing a pretty similar game. That makes me a little bit scared. Where treats come when he looks at me instead of looking at the cookies. So, he doesn't take anything but looks at me with no further position change. Is that okay? Do you suggest to let him get to situations like position changes more in distance? So, several things. Tara, number one, it's your choice. It's all about the dog's choosing. I want to catch them doing it in a sit, a down, a stand.

Because your dog doesn't come across things in the park in a down or a sit. They come across them probably on four feet. So, I want to make sure no matter where my dog comes across something that they might be interested in putting in their mouth, they don't do it. Sit, down, stand. Also, I don't want them to think it's your choice isn't in play unless they're in a sit. No. It happens in all three positions. So, that's number one. Number two, a lot of people teach a dog when you see food, look at my face. I want to train for real life. How? How? What value does that bring? And I'm going to give you a little demo with this scene. I want my dog. So, what I've been telling you, the food isn't the focus, the food is the fuel. However, with it's your choice, I told you I want the dog looking at the food. But I'm confused now, Susan. The food represents the work. Quickly, we replace that food with anything. If I tell my dog to focus on something, she will focus on it, whatever it is. She trusts me that that's the work. When we are walking down the street, I don't want her staring at my face. She's going to invariably come in front of me and trip me up. If you do any kind of sports, you don't want your dog staring at your face. You want them looking at their work. If they're hunting birds, if they're scenting, if they're doing agility, we don't – looking at your face, that's what I called, you know, in – I think it was episode four, contrived focus. It's not natural. It's not what we want. But there is a time I want my dog's attention on me. I'll show you how I get that. Okay, so I'm going to do a little demo. I have to so that you can hear me. Remember to change my microphone. So I'm going to change my camera. And now I'm going to change my microphone. This will work. Little Vissy, come here. So – and you just make sure that I'm in shot for everyone to see. Let's say I want to do some fitness work with my dog. So maybe fitness work could be moving around this way. It could be getting all four feet up on that thing. Could you have that? Fitness work could be tough, getting your feet off. That could be fitness work. Now, I might just want that her to – come here. At right? Silence. Sit. Good. So I might – now I'm going to send her to that thing. I don't want her staring at me. But if I needed to do this, she'll just look at me. But I want her to look at her work. Right? She can look at her work. And she doesn't have to be right beside me. I don't have to be – come on with this part. I don't have to, like, help or find it because she's not looking at me when I tell her this is her work. Right? Sure. So – right?

Likewise, if I wanted her to go in her take and end the elf. It's a – come here, close. I could be over here. This is a therapy that I was just working on this. But if I say this is your focus, that's your focus. Hello. Right? So I want my dog to be focused on the work. But if my dog's – there's nothing in front of her. Close. Where is her focus going to be now? Well, other than when Jenny chairs a paper. With me. So if I'm walking around informally, where's my dog's focus now? So she's looking where she's going. Look, I have never, ever told her, watch me, heads up, look at me. Never. It's like, where's my dog's focus? There's nothing in my hands. It's like, my dog's attention for me comes from the partnership that we have together. It has nothing to do with a contrived, I need your eyes at me. Never. So if I said, this magic marker, this is your – this is now your focus. Then that's what she's going to look at. Okay. Bring me. Thank you. Super good. Super good. All right. So that's why we want to make sure that this has nothing to do with having the dog look up at your face. This has nothing to do with the dog needing to stare at you. That's not how partnerships work. That's how, you know, a dictatorship works. You decide where your attention needs to be to do what I'm asking you to do. All right? Does that make sense? She gives me attention when I say her name. I need you to refocus back at me. That's awesome. Now, this is a dog who, for the first year and a half of her life, could barely focus on anything because she had so many digestion problems. Well, you just – she's – I just think she's a great case study for anybody who owns a dog to know, even though she's a border collie and they're supposedly all so easy to train, that she's everybody's dog. In that she isn't one of those instant trainable, high drive, let me do anything border collie. And yet she's got great focus for work now. It's just the patience and the layers of learning that we put in place. Okay? All right. Does that make sense? That we want focus for work. Food isn't the focus. It's inspired focus. The focus that she has when we're walking together, the focus she has for me is a byproduct of the games we play. It's just a byproduct. People say, oh, my gosh, your dogs are riveted on you. I would love that focus. What did you do? I played games that allowed my dogs to have their choice in everything I do. And now we're a team. Okay. Next question. What would be the best way to use this to help my 10-month-old puppy being neutral towards people? So this is such a – I mean, any of our games. Recallers, absolutely, 100%.

But is the dog overstimulated like a hypergreeter? Or is your dog nervous and fear barking? I mean, there's a lot of reasons. But all of this will 100% make it better for your dog. You have to continue with those layers. So we focus on what I call do land in that we help build value for what we want our dogs to do. We don't look at problems and say, this is what I don't want. That's just such a simplistic look at dog ownership. I'll have this dog, but I don't want him to sniff things. I don't want him to bark at people. I don't want him to – and I'm not saying, Tara, that you're doing this or that you're doing this. I'm just using this example. They're dogs. They have drives. And we have to help bring out our teamwork, our relationship, respecting those drives and helping to redirect those drives towards what we want. Okay? And so the games actually will create neutrality towards the people. It sounds – it's sounding echoey? Okay, let me check my sound again. Audio. It should be – no, it should be good. I can turn it down a little bit. I can turn it down. Oh, boom. I just hit – there's a little setting called echo cancellation. That's awesome. Boom. Okay. From Jolene. I've played It's Your Choice with my pup, but if we're outside on a walk, he finds something he thinks is especially yummy while sniffing around. For the perfect potty's place, he'll grab it. I take whatever it is away from him and give him a cookie in place of it. Dun, dun, dun, dun. Do the dramatic music. I don't want to reward him for eating off the ground, but I give him a treat because he's allowing me to take things out of his mouth. So, yes, but here's the thing about reinforcement. You actually did reinforce the dog for letting you take something out of his mouth, but you also reinforce the dog for what? Because in order for him to get a cookie for letting you take something out of the mouth, what does he have to do first? Sink a bucket. Oh, yeah. He has to put his mouth first. So that's how behavior change work. You have to think about a podcast number, Shaped by Dog, episode number 16, the thing before the thing. And so what do we do is we build more and more value for us so they don't look at the things on the screen. And everything that you do when you see these things, you go back to your journal, you write in your journal all of the things that you would like that you noticed on your walk that you would like to change. Okay, Lorna, my three-year-old bull terrier rescue, three-year-old bull terrier rescue, only had him two months, seems to hate having his nose touched.

So we are having a hard time with the foundation of the bump. Any suggestions? Yes, I would just take it really, really slowly that can you, you know, tater salad. If you look at, I don't know if I have this, if you look at the physiology of some dogs, makes the nose bump, you know, more difficult or actually for some dogs it's easier, but a lot of them it's more difficult. So let's look at this picture, which is the thumb nickel for today's live. And it's a tater salad. Oh, you can't really see. But that nose cannot touch my hand. There's a big old chin that gets in the way of that. So it makes it look kind of funny. And so you want to be respectful of your dog's physiology and take it slowly. So you're going to reinforce with, you know, for what you get and make it high value reinforcement until the dog forgets that they don't like their nose, their nose touched. And they will, we're helping them to have a, create a positive emotional response for getting their nose touched. My, my one-year-old French bulldog is faster, fast learner has been doing well with cook and search. Episode three is going to be a challenge for me due to my mobility issues. So if you have a smaller dog and you're a taller person, just train on a footstool, train, like train in a seated position at first. That will minimize. You're still going to have to bend down eventually, but you won't have to bend down very much. You can do from stage five on, um, you can do that. Um, it's sitting on the couch. You can be, it just takes away all of the problems. That's turned off. It's still getting at me. She said she thinks you're still on this mic. I wanted to see. No, not on that mic. I checked. I checked. Okay. Check the audio. It says, oh, you're right. I am still on the mic. Hold on. Sorry about that. So sorry. I changed the speaker to my earbuds instead of the microphone. I shouldn't be doing the technology. I'm the dog trainer girl. Um, okay. Martha, a few nuances for me besides using it's your choice as a parlor trick were one, it's their work. It's your choice. It's their work. Strategic layer, the challenge. And what hit me was two, three, build up slowly to be successful. Rushing over steps or pushing your dog too much, too fast will lead to failure and not to benefit your dog in the advanced layers of it's your choice five and beyond. Brilliant, brilliant insight. So here's what I would really love you guys to take on board. And I can't tell you how many ways I can say this. And I will say that anybody that does dog sports, this is a real problem in the world of dog sports. So. But in pet dog training, I see it as well.

Dog training is never about the completion of the skill or the exercise or the game. It's always about growing your dog's current level of understanding of what we're training. So it's never about teaching a sit stay. Because if it was about teaching a sit stay, you would be correcting the dog over and over again. No, no, no, no. It's not about teaching a sit. It's about creating value for a position so the dog wants to sit. Do you understand the difference between that? Because if it was about the skill or the game, it's your choice. You would want to help the dog by when you feed them. This is a good one that I see all the time. You pick up the cookie and you close your hand and then you feed the dog. Now, if you've ever played it's your choice with a terrier, my friend, this is how it goes when you try that one. You pick up. If I tell you, you pick up the cookie and you feed your dog. But this handful is still in play. My Jack Russells would always go, oh, nay, nay. You keep that one. I'm coming in to take the whole handful. They're brilliant. They're brilliant little creatures. Terriers are just brilliant. And so. What do people do? I'll close my hand so that my dog can't be wrong. So I can just say, I'm moving on with this. You're twice. I'm going to layer seven. Right? It's not about completing the skill or the game or the exercise in dog training. I don't care what you're doing. It's not about teaching a dog how to do a seesaw and agility. Because if that was your goal, you wouldn't care what the dog's temp looked like. Were their ears bright? You wouldn't matter how the dog understood the criteria of what you wanted. There's just so many things. It's about evaluating what does the dog understand. And it goes back to one of my favorite quotes. This has been written in my school for more than 25 years. Okay? It's by Zig Ziglar, who was a mentor that I really looked up to. The main reasons for people's lack of success in anything in life is their willingness to give up what they want most of all for what they want right now. Don't be in a hurry. Evaluate. Does your dog understand level five before you go to level six? Evaluate. Let the dog show you what they know. Because we're building on that foundation of what they know. And if the dog is struggling, then ask yourself, is it my execution? Is it the value of the reinforcement? Or is it the level that we are at that maybe is not at the stage or at where the dog needs to be? Potentially, it's the location we're training them at. So you need to evaluate that. And that's where the more you learn, the smarter your dog becomes.

Because people who haven't learned that, they can always be focused on the skill, on the exercise, on the game. Got that? Moving on. Level up. Come on. And that's when your dogs are going to get a little bit frustrated and a little bit anxious. So what we see is, and it's your choice, is dogs that try and they fail. And that's why I really stressed that you want to focus on what is your dog's response? Has it's your choice become a game of you try and tell you you're faster than I am and you can maybe steal one? It's your choice should be a dog that's relaxed. And if you do it in the layers that I've shared, then your dog will be relaxed. Okay. Okay. Does that make sense? Does that quote make sense? Ziglar's awesome. Yes, he is. How do I, oh, find out about my camp training. Gail, I don't do, virtually I do zero in-person learning because I have way too many online students to help. And it's occasionally, I think, was it last year I taught in Australia? Occasionally I do, but rarely, rarely do. So take advantage of, I would say the closest thing to an in-person lesson with me is the platinum level. Because it's not just me. We have our coaches, our recaller coaches are in there on every platinum call. It's myself and at least two coaches today. It's going to be three coaches that are going to be discussing in a deeper level of things that we're doing here. All right. So I just can't, I just can't split myself up and be in enough places around the world anymore. So I just take, I mean, we do these live ones. We do these to help the world. But the people who say, yes, I want to know more about how I can use reinforcement-based training in a way that I could get a dog like thisy who quite honestly, most people at my position that is an elite competitor in the sport of dog agility would likely have let her become a couch potato. They would have likely have given up on her. How do I get to that place where that isn't an option for me? Not because I cutthroat competitive and she has to be on a world team. It's because I love that dog so much. I want to give her the best life possible. If that includes agility, that's great for me too. If it doesn't, 100% okay, but I'm going to give it my best to get there. And so when I talk about not completing a skill, I could have trained her to do those skills, but I wouldn't have had the dog's heart. Why? Because there was something not right about her GI and that was a big part of the foundation. And so it's all about learning from the dog as you teach the dog and then you grow those. And that's what I try to do in these lives, but guys, we only have one hour and that's

why we did that platinum level. It's not that the platinum level is learning anything that I'm not teaching. I'm not teaching in here. I'm not bringing up new subjects. I'm just teaching them in a different way to get deeper understanding. That's all it is. Thank you. Thank you, Holly. The Sea did really well. She was at a big event here down in Houston this weekend. And she won two of the three championships. It was mind boggling. Okay. A couple more questions here from Jane. I have a two-year-old conquer. This is her fifth home. Keeps offering behaviors during the treat game. I'm not sure what you mean by the treat game, Jane. I can assume it might be it's your choice. I'm doing it from her bed. Maybe she's confused as we do hot zone there too. With the hot zone, should I go back as training is introduced using hop it up? She keeps breaking and flying. I would just take the hot zone out of this. If you're doing it's your choice, do it the way the layers start with the cookies in the bowl. Layer number one, get the hot zone out of the room. Dogs on a leash, just like I had with Tilly Tally Dilly Dally. I didn't take her leash off until I had engagement with me. How long can you access the Platinum videos? Until next Thursday. Yeah. So that is a biggie. I think, do you have any more for me over there? I think I answered them all. There's a bunch of sheets here. Let me just say. Let's see. I'm checking. You know, I misunderstood what her name was. The first time I picked up Tilly, I thought her dad told me her name was Tally. And I said, oh, like after Taylor Swift? No, Tally. I thought he said Tally. Tally. And I said, oh, after Taylor Swift? And he said, no. And I'm like, well, that's an unusual name, Tally. How did you come up with Tally? I don't know. So the first day she was called Tally. And then the next time when I was in there, I found out her name was Tally. Like, oh, Tally. How did I get Tally? So then the third time, this is the second time I trained her. He said, her name is Tilly. Like, oh. So now she's Tilly, Tally, Dilly, Dally. Question from Sabine. These lessons are so amazing. So much clearer. Thank you, Sabine. Hearts for you. Is it your choice with toys or activities in here as well as a lesson? I feel on the weaker side with those things. So we advance. It's your choice to include everything. Like going out a door. It's your choice is crate games, isn't it? So if I build enough value for you to hold the sit as I open the door, then you're going to get tons of reinforcement for that. And you're going to learn your release work. It's your choice is if I pick up a toy,

that doesn't mean you bounce and drive all over me for that toy. I could do a demo with Dizzy. She's just not that kind of border collie. If I had profit here, he would happily show you jumping up and really getting excited about his toys. She'll absolutely play with toys and is keen for toys, but she's a very reserved little border collie. How to work with not your dogs, but dogs for handling, how to put them in a stand and take their attention without luring and get their attention. So it's any, any behavior that I want to create is shaped. And so I used to do show and confirmation. I'm assuming that that's what you're talking about. And I shaped them to stack and I shaped them to actually stretch out their front end and their end gate. So are you familiar with the term freeze treat or reverse lure? A reverse lure, that term came about when I did, after I did a demo and it was in, I think it was in 2002. 2002, I did a demo with my border collie encore. And I don't know, I've never done this with this. So where I had the dog walking and I put the treats out in front. Like I was, it looked like I was luring her and it's reverse luring is just, it's your choice. So somebody saw that and start and started calling it reverse luring. You know, dog trainers are weird. They, they don't like to credit people who come up with ideas. Um, but I don't know about the other one. Do you know about that one? Freeze treat. Um, yeah. So I put on a video in, um, 2007 demonstrating that, but I did, I did many demos starting in 2002 with that, with encore. Um, okay. How would you use, it's your choice to keep a puppy off the furniture. It's just layers, layers and layers of learning. We don't, we, what we do is we manipulate the environment, creating the do of do land. So we don't tell a puppy, don't we tell them do. So we give them access and we build value for, as, as, um, my dog is doing right now. I'll just change that camera over so you can see. So there's value for my dogs to do. Uh, in this case, she is in the hot zone, right? That's where she is. I don't know if you can see that. Oh, maybe I went down too low. So we build value for what we want. And then, and, and, and then if my, and the puppy wouldn't have access to the couch, they've had so much value for being in there. Honestly. Now I get that some of you people don't mind if your dogs get on the, then knock yourselves out. my dogs, I would like them to, you're allowed to get on my lap on the furniture if I invite you up. But yeah, any, anything, any rule you would like to be part of your life with your dog. It's your life. It's not mine. I have certain rules that you might not care about.

I care about the rules that make my dog a great family pet. Number one, and don't conflict with the kind of agility dog. I would like number two. Right? So a great family pet to me is I have family who don't happen to like dogs. And so I don't want them to have to have dog hair on their clothing just because they came and sat on my couch. So that's, that's really the focus of what, of what I do, but anything you want, any rule you want to imply to put into place, with your dog, you can do it all in a game. Okay. Okay. So we have video five and six coming up. You're going to, you're going to learn one more power word in our series and you're, you're going to see what we put it all together. Then we have video seven, which is an opportunity video. You will be invited at the end of this to be a participant in our year long coaching program. And for some of you, it's the right fit. Um, we'll learn about that more of that in the future right now. If you would like to have more personal access to me, if you would like the opportunity to ask me questions in a, in a more relaxed setting, then I would encourage you to join our platinum level. And I know that I saw Elena put the link in, but you can find it in the learning zone. We have another call in 30 minutes with the platinum level. And, um, so, yeah. Um, okay. Yes. Our previous platinum call is, well, I think one of the best, um, one of the best learning experiences that we've ever shared. And that is definitely available right now. Okay. Okay. So meanwhile, while you're waiting for video five, as LOH says, rewatch video four, watch tater salad. If you only had an inkling of an idea of what tater salad like was like when he came into our world, he was a year and a half of just a domino of naughty behaviors of being a bulldog of, of seeking out his value. And now I think he's probably everybody's number one favorite of all my dogs. Okay. All right. So, um, I think that's all the questions I have. Is there anything that I'm forgetting? We watch video five and video four. And for those of you in platinum, we'll see you soon. Thanks guys. Oh, prizes. I got to give away a prizes. Hold on. Who won the share? So the share. Kat. Kat. K A T. C H O O N G. Is our, is our share winner. So you're getting our balance harder from the good people at blue, at Kane, at blue nine. And if there was something before you go, if there was something that you learned in today's live, that you said, that's an aha. I hope you wrote it down. And if you wrote it down and even if you didn't rewatch the video and go to our Facebook page and write the gem, what did you, what was the big takeaway? And you can, you, these videos,

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