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get things off started off in a very positive way, let's give away a shape by dog. It, you know, maybe we could get um the good people at For My Merl just to put a 300 on here somewhere. I I don't know. Can't promise anything, but it would be really cool if you got one of the rare 300 Shape by Dog. Um I think we're supposed to call these flying discs. Now, um I am in H360 and live in Switzerland. Welcome. Yes, I love uh the Freda uh protocol. Big shout outs to Simone and Naen for coming up with that. Love, love, love it. All right, so I'm going to give away Let's give away two 300 edition Shape by Dog um flying discs. And all that you have to do is share today's live. come back in the comments. Write where you shared it. Facebook, Instagram, I don't know where else you can share it. Twitter. You can share it on Twitter that I am live. I tried to go live on Twitter right now, but uh something went wrong, so I had to back out of that one. I've got We're going to do demos today. So, I've got the Look at the switching camera. Boom. Boom. I've got that all set up in an easy button. It's no longer difficult for me to do. So, we're going to be doing demos. We're going to be talking about how reinforcement really works well and when reinforcement doesn't work. Oh, Terry, that's amazing. Terry says, "All of the episodes." Um, I I'm going to start off with a with a second question for you. And I asked the three uh Dogs at team members that work here here in uh super secret headquarters for the Dogs at team is right here. I asked them all this question this morning and luckily I didn't stump anybody. But I'm going to ask you all now this. If the feeling of positivity was or is a frequency that you can dial into, how do you personally dial it in for yourself? I think that this is interesting um and I think it could be helpful for other people. So if you are not vibing with a lot of positivity, but you realize that's just a frequency of your energy and you wanted to change that frequency, what would you do? Ann says, "I pet my dog." Ruth Hunt, listen to this week's the 300th episode. I talk about your dog, Emma. It's true story. Um, okay. Play games with my dogs. Now, this one came up. I think Michelle, who works here, said, "Yeah, I would definitely, but if you were feeling down, would you um want to train your dog?" Oh, that's awesome, Stephanie. Binging your episodes is better than Netflix. Um, that's a great quick reset, Sally. Close my eyes. Take a deep breath. I I squish squeeze my hands too. Um, this one, Stephanie, this is a no. This one is like like a a given. So, if you uh if you want to raise your vibration to one of

positivity, this is where this is my go-to. I put my hands on my heart. I close my eyes. I think of things that I'm grateful for in my life and I just start I just start naming them. I've used that one so many times. I learned that one from uh Anthony Robbins actually. Um engaging with my dog. So again, like if I know that I I should train but I spend too long looking at some negativity on the social media now my vibration isn't. So for me, going to train isn't like I I want to be in a better place before I go, especially if I'm going to train Dissy. She needs that from me. So I will do some of these great things. Um, this is a great one, Kristen. I go outside if if I can. I I used to love to walk barefoot. A little problem with bees and stings. Now I am not allowed to, but that's another story. But going out for a walk is a great great getting outside, get some sunshine, get some fresh air. If you can ground on the ground, that's an amazing thing to do. Um, use nice words. It's hard to be mean when you're saying nice words. Absolutely. Laugh. That's a great one to change your vibration. Really good answers, you guys. I would try and sing and be a bit jolly myself. If you can, Karen, that's great. For me, something along that same lines is it's impossible to continue to be at a lower vibration if you're in a community that is at a higher vibration, isn't it? Now, if you're real down, it's a possibility to bring that whole community down, but it's harder because that community is feeding each other with the the frequency of their excitement, their positivity, which is why I spent a little time on social media um yesterday and I couldn't believe the difference. I rarely stray away from our own page. I go to our YouTube page. I go to our Facebook, our Instagram, and I strayed away from our page and made a a couple comments on another positive dog trainers page and I could not believe the frequency of the commenters on that page is nothing like our community. So, I got to tell you how much how grateful I was for where I get to work every day after just spending a few hours on that page yesterday. Um, so you know if you're really uh and I'm not talking about like if you're having some horrible emotions like grief or you know that is sometimes yes you might want to a forget about it or but you're not going to I got to snap myself out of it. You got to allow your body and your your heart to process those things. So that's not what I'm talking about. You know what I'm talking about. It's easy if you turn on social media today to get it quagmire in a in a feed. That's why today, this week is about filling your feed with

positivity. Get yourself into a higher vibration. And I think ultimately it involves our dogs. that if we have the mindset that we're going to train our dogs and we're training our dogs with reinforcement and I want to talk today about when that doesn't work and how what we're going to do. But if that's our mindset, then we immediately are creating joy both for the dog and for us and for the future moving forward. Um, so Katherine said, "It's your choices. The absolute best ad is the base of all that is good for ourselves as well as for our dogs. Life is constant opportunity to make good choices and the goal is for those choices to bring all things good and make us super cool. I think um you know I think my life has been very very blessed and some of the innovations that I've come up with I'm like where did those come from? And it's your choice, I believe, is I don't know what came first, crate games or it's your choice, but both of them were based on the dog being in control of their environment. And if you listen to podcast number 299, I talked about, or maybe it was 298, I talked about how reinforcing control is for all animals. And that's a double-edged sword. So for our dogs, there is nothing more reinforcing than the their ability to control their environment. And it's your choice gives them that opportunity and so does crate games and so does all the layers of learning um that leads to having this amazing uh family pet. The double-edged sword of control because control is so reinforcing. I was a phenomenal balanced dog trainer because I loved being able to control the dog. I controlled the choices they made every day. And that's why I think I spoke about it in 299. That is why when I tried to shape one of my early dogs after them being lured and corrected for the first two or three years of their life, when I said, "Hey, we're going to try this clicker stuff out." my b young border colleges froze. You got to tell me or show me or do something. I don't want to be I don't want to make I don't want to make a wrong move here. You got to tell me or show me. I can't I can't just offer. Um so for me it was important that I no longer trained in a way that involved punishment as an option. Um because controlling others is reinforcing to the controller. So controlling everything my dogs did, I didn't realize it at the time, was so reinforcing for me. And being in a position of teamwork and partnership with my dogs now is completely completely different. Um JC says, "Pedicure please gives me peace. My dogs are dependent on me to care for them. Helping them accept care positively brings me happiness and

peace." Oh, that's awesome. Big hearts for JC. That's awesome. Um this is the trick, little wonders. Don't go on social media. Um and that's that I think that was Kim's advice to me. Don't go on social media. And I'm going to tell you a story. I don't know if I've ever mentioned this one on a podcast. You can stop me if I have. My grandfather was a missionary. He was um when he retired, he was a missionary in Northern Ontario. Um my father was a first Caucasian baby born on a reservation in Canada. And so when my grandfather, we started writing back and forth. He had left the Anglican church and had become a Baptist minister. And he said to me, he wrote me a letter and he said, "I hope," there was a point to this. "I hope you are only," when I was at university, my first year, I can't remember his exact words, but I hope you are only hanging out with Christian people is what he said. And I said, "How are the heathens get going to get to know how cool we are if we only hang out with Christians?" And that's what I feel little bit about going on social media. I love sharing glimpses into what we do on other people's um pages because I would love them to have the opportunity to learn how how amazing it is to empower a dog rather than to control the dog. And so maybe just a balance. Stay stay mostly on your page. And um hopefully there's people that come here to things like this live. Um Fit Click said they like to listen to music and make me dance. Love, love, love that. Especially um when I can turn the music up loud and nobody's in the house. I don't care if they see me, but I I just get annoying when I dance. Um Is that true? The word bubbles can only be spoken positively. I thought that might be true. Um, I love the rebounder as well. Some great So, I hope you all are are writing some of these ideas down and and it's not that we we all get to a place where we're not feeling the highest vibration of positivity. And sometimes that's okay. But if you I would love for you when you get there someday to say, "I'm going to try some of these things and see if it changes. I'm going to I'm going to, you know, not I'm feeling miserable. I'm going to go out and train my dog." Go out and walk your dogs. Not at a dog park. I mean, for me, I like to walk around the field and just enjoy some deep breaths in the fresh air and then it clear my head and help me come up with a plan. Okay, so some great great great uh comments here. Wow, you guys are uh riding my horse. That's what Chelsea said. Just going out and visiting your horse is a good one. Um, seeing my dog make great choices is what brings me the most joy. So, if you

wanted to, if you're not feeling great, go out and play a game like around a veto game or crate games or something that your dog is going to have success with. And um yeah, it you're seeing your dog making good choices, learning, being empowered, growing confidence, and you know that that has got to set your heart on fire, has got to bring you into a better place. Okay, so Shaunie said, "I've watched every episode and learned so much. I've become a better pet parent person." That's awesome. And that's why when we set out to do Shape by Dog, it was originally because we wanted to fill in the gaps of learning that some of our students that came from different walks of life and different backgrounds with their dogs that there was some confusion. So, we started doing Shape by Dog just to make sure that our students and our online programs really got the fullest possible education possible. But then I realized, you know what, there's so many people around the world that for one reason or another cannot join our programs and yet they're still getting so much value out of our podcast episodes. So that just really set things in motion that uh as a team now we have a podcast team that they just love as I do um bringing this great information to the world. hopefully that one day it's this this kind of thinking is going to dominate the world. Okay. So, let's talk about let me let me tell you what's going to happen. Um, so we're going to be here. I would love for you to share your stories. You keep sharing stories in this in the feed. Well, throughout the throughout this live and I'm going to um pull them up and read them as we go on. I I'm going to talk about some of the like the the template of training in a reinforcement based way. Of course, nothing in dogs is cookie cutter. Every dog is a unique personality to themselves. And so we have things that we have to massage. Um, so for example, Prophet is I think he's about 21 months old now. He'll be two in June at the well at 30th of June. So near the end of June. So his foundation is filled with brilliance. There are things that he 100% knows. So if I was going to do uh a retrieve, I could add distractions. I'm going to start right off by adding distractions. So, let's just do a simple retrieve. Um, chicken. This is roasted chicken. We'll put that on the floor. I will christen a Shape by Dog Frisbee. Get him to retrieve that to me. We're going to add some more distractions. I'll add some other things that are some of his favorite things. So, we got Squeaky Squeaky Toys. Um, I think you guys can see from that camera. Squeaky toys. Um, the chicken.

Chicken's going to be a good one. Right here. I'll put the chicken. Oh, put a chicken right where I'm going to throw his Frisbee. Um, okay. Betty break. This is a good one as a distraction. Here, strike. If you use a toy and you get the dog excited about the toy and then you ask them to retrieve another one. Oh, they don't like that one. This is a a like a pelt of a raccoon tail or something here. Can you get that strike? Yeah. All right. So, I'm going to throw this down. Mine. I'm going to sit. Ask him to sit. Throw this near the chicken. Bring me Strike. That was a hard decision, wasn't it, buddy? Oh my gosh. This is live training. I'm so glad you made that choice. Strike. Hop up. You can hop it. I'm gonna I'm gonna get you a cookie because you were so good. Break. Nice. Search. Nice. I thought it was funny that he took his squeaky and brought it to the Frisbee. Here, bud. We try that again. Let's add to this excitement. Kim, can you uh drag a toy? So, this time So, you get back there. Kim is trying to doll herself up before she comes on camera. All right. So, flirt pole. My dogs love their flirt poles. Okay. Ready? You can start running. Bring me. So good, bud. So good. Mine. Ha. This puppy needs a cookie. There's a puppy in here. He's being really good. Okay. So, that was me trying to see if I could fake my dog out. Can I make you make a wrong choice? I don't know why this is very blurry there. Can I make the dog make a wrong choice? What would I have done had he chose wrong? What would I have done? Anybody take a guess what would be the first thing that I would have done? I kind of showed my hand when he got really slow thinking about the bowl of chicken when he was like, "Oh." So, that's one uh suggestion. I would have reset and made it easier. Nothing. Boom. That would have been what I would have done because I thought it was hysterical that the decision was as hard as it was. Right. And so take the reinforcement away. Um yeah, ultimately Sheila and many of you were correct. I would have reduced the distraction. I would have given him less options the next time. I would have taken the food, probably put it in the corner and thrown the Frisbee in the opposite direction or like this is not a a a highv value toy for him. This is a highv value toy for this but not for profit. So I would have gone to a tug toy which is much higher value for him. So I took a lower value

toy, put all his higher value toys out, threw the Frisbee right up against the bowl of chicken. And so why did I hear my reputation 300th episode? You guys, I'm trying to encourage you to get excited about our podcast and then I just set myself up to look like a big goober if my dog had gone and eat the bowl of chicken. But had I would I have really looked like a goober? No. I would have just proved that my dog is an actual dog and sometimes he doesn't make the best choices. He's only 21 months old. And if id brought this out, it would have been just the same. If id brought momentum, I maybe with swagger at this point, maybe he might have made an incorrect choice. I don't know. I I I would hard I wouldn't want to bet against my dogs because their life with me is one about giving them the autonomy to make those choices. Reinforcementbased dog training works because we take in what is reinforcing to the dog. All right. And for my puppy, um, he's a long way away from being trained. Swagger's doing great. Thank you. Somebody asked, "How is how is Swagger doing?" He's probably in the house um belly aching because he can't be out here. That's my guess. But he likes more action than what we're going to have here. He likes when there's things going on. So, uh, so when I said the word when I threw something and said bring me, I I was telling him that was the correct choice. Had I just dropped a bunch of toys down and said bring me, then really he could have picked what was the correct choice. So, it's a learning opportunity when I want you to think about your own training. Now, let's we need to help you because if I can fill you with positivity, with hope for your own dog training, I believe that's going to bring all of our level of enthusiasm, positivity, um, up. So, I want you to write in the comments if any of you are working on a dog training challenge right now. um if there's something that isn't working the way you thought it was, if there's anything that's is anything that's frustrating you with what you're doing. So, do you have a a dog training challenge that you are currently working through? Let me know. And then we're going to do a little demo with Kim's dog. Well, technically I guess he's your he's supposed to be Kim's husband's dog, but really seven years. In about seven years, she says chasing a cat, chasing a squirrel. As a matter of fact, Kim's dog just chased a squirrel on the way over here for the first time. How old is Waffles now? He's seven months. So, uh, a reactive chol lab. Wonder if that should have been Oh, chocolate lab. Getting far enough away from triggers. We don't seem to be making any

headway. Okay, so there's one walking the in the show ring without her being a stubborn bulldog. Come on, Ann. We love bulldogs here. Just saying. Chasing a cat. Squirrels in the spring. She stops. Stops when? Like on while you're walking, Ann? Oh, walking into the show ring. Got you. Um, loose leash walking. Impulse control with a four-month old golden retriever. Squishable. So cute. Um, this is an alltime great answer here. Um, so the question was, "Do you have any problems or challenges currently when training your dog?" And the answer is yes. It's called a husband. Oh, you're amazing. I told a friend about you and and your sincerity. You're amazing. Thank you. Barking in the car, getting off the furniture. Two-year-old dog has a meltdown every time he hears a noise that sounds like a door knock. Yeah, barking at the Shetland ponies. Uh, reactive fence barking. A lot of barking. Reactivity with other dogs. Working on focus for me outside. That's a good one. A Frenchie. Oh, may we uh trying to get our three dogs to relax around each other. Youngest is one year old, a Australian cattle dog. So, I think teaching ma bring me to my seven-month old puppy, loose leash walking, motion sensitivity. So, I love it. A lot of dog cat harmony. My only question now is we have tater salad waffles. Will the next be uh dog be called mash? No, it's going to be called bubbles. Bubble. Kim. After hearing the the line about you can't say bubbles in an angry way, she said the next dog's going to be called bubbles. bubbles uh at doc diving dog reactivity. Okay, I'm going to do another dog training demo and my hallucination is this one isn't going to go so well. I want you to see what I do when things don't go so well. Okay, so I am not going to put a whole bowl of food out there. I'm going to put one cookie and um I'm not going to throw in the direction of the food. It'll be out there though. I'm going to see if Waffles I don't think you can say waffles in an angry voice. I'm going to throw throw I'm going to throw a toy for Waffles and see if he will retrieve for me. Okay. So is that camera? Which which camera is? I think maybe this one would be better.

All right. Um, does is this better now? Change to the other camera. So, when I changed the other camera, you lost the sound. That's crazy. Does it work now? Yeah. Okay. So, I guess we have to stick on this camera. That's weird. Why would that It's blowing my mind. Um, okay. So, Fat, you let's put you over Come over here. Can Come on. Right over here. And you could lie down. So, this is a little bit unfair to prophet because can you can't see prophet. I'm going to change. Oh, yeah. You can see profit. Okay. And I'm going to get waffles out. Oh, waffleino. Waff. That's a big tail. Cook. Good boy. Break. Strike. hedging the bats by playing with him. Ready? Mine. Bring me. Well, that's a good choice. I want you to play with this one, though. Mine. Yay. Bring me You did better than I thought, mister. I thought you weren't going to do that. I thought mine. Ciao. So good. Strike. You can have that one now. Thank you. Ready? And a steady kennel. I'll go half the distance. Kennel break. Yay. So good. So good. Mine. Okay. Waffles, you can help it. Thank you. Um, where did the other climbs go? Okay, Betty, you can just hop it up with you back there. Good boy. Waffles. That's so good. Okay. So, let's have some hearts for Kim's training with waffles because that was kind of impressive, wasn't it? He's I put him up there. I don't know how good that's going to be. And I don't I'm sorry about this camera. I could change the camera, but I'm a little afraid to right now. He is very big now. Yes. Yes, indeed. I'm going to change cameras to just Did something bad happen? He's got he might you see this is mine that is not for wavalonians. Um do we have a bone up here we can give him? It's unfortunate because it would be really good. Good. Were you doing something? Good. So how old did you say waffles is? Seven months. Eight months. Almost eight months. Okay, let's pretend that didn't go so well. So, we had lots of hearts. Oh my mister. So, you can That was a great distraction. Can you get through there? You didn't put him in his candle

then. So, um let's pretend that didn't go as well. I'm gonna get rid of that. I'm gonna get rid of that. Hold on. I gota rid of this. Okay. So, let's I know what I can do. I can show you another I'm going to give you another example here. Um, let's pick uh Katie and Quest. Okay. So, just watch this video and I want you to identify the problem. Might be more than one. I can't remember. Katie and [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Okay, let's identify what is the problem with Quest. Katie's dog Quest. I think I've walked into a conversation that I don't know really what's going on here in the chat. Okay, so you guys write in the chat and I'm going to tell you what Katie described is so similar to what a lot of people say. My dog's blowing me off. She's a party of one. She's got her own mind. She's she's um she doesn't want to bring things back. She's pos toy possessive. She so there is a lot of things. So all that we can do is look at the video clip and for me when I I listen to what the person says this is my problem. She won't come when she's called. she will not bring me back a retrieve. she and there's a list of these things but I like to look at all right that's the problem where's the imbalance and when I look at imbalance where's the we want to train in a reinforcement based program that's what we all want and so a lot of you have great so the appearance is there's no value in the relationship with the owner so and that's really hard because I used to say that to people and it's very difficult for them to hear because they try their best to create value in their re their relationship. I I gave the um and this is really Amy, you got it. She the dog is getting more reinforcement from her environment. So, I was having a conversation yesterday about why this person believes or questions why some people think punishment is needed with some dogs. And and they said, "If you have a dog that's just stubborn, and these are human visions of what they're seeing, that dog, that questy is is stubborn. It knows that Katie wants it to bring the toy, but she's choosing not to. And so therefore, if punishment is a option, then that's where the direction of the conversation is going to go. But I said, if we want to train in a reinforcement based way, we we can't say, "Well, Susan, I play your damn games every single day." When do you play them? First thing in the morning, we get up and we set our timer. We do

three to five minutes every day. And then what if I want to get in the best shape of my life and every morning I have a salad for breakfast and then I go and have a Big Mac and fries for supper and my snack in the afternoon and the morning is a potato chips and um peanut butter cups. And then at night I have deep dish lasagna and um some pizza. and I go to the gym, but I I I never feel the vibe there. So, I usually just stay at home. What is the chance I'm going to get in the best shape of my life? The little salad I have first thing in the morning has to fight against all of those other things that happen during the day. And that's h and that's why reinforcement based training will fail is we see the problem as we're told. Dog is stubborn. Dog has a party of one. Dog doesn't want to play. Dog doesn't like me. Dog has a mind of its own. Dog's too attracted to other dogs. Where's the imbalance? And when I say, you know what, Sherry, let's not get drastic. Chocolate chip cookies are allowed on everybody's diet. Just saying. So, we have our problem. Step one. Number two, where is the imbalance? And when I say imbalance, where is the imbalance of reinforcement? If you play that game every single morning with your dog, but then your dog can fence fight with the neighbor's dog, get in front of the front front window and bark at everybody that goes by, have any toy they want, and it the greatest game is grabbing your shoes and having you chase them around the house. constantly is ba is ram lamb basing the front door at the thought of getting away and gets out and and runs through the neighborhood. The imbalance is the environment is giving the reinforcement that we should be giving the dog. So the dog is learning I'll play from 7:00 a.m. to 7:05 with you. The rest of the day belongs to me and my environment. So the imbalance of reinforcement is what you're working against. Years ago, I had a border collie. She was born in 1990. And the pick of the litter from this litter was a male. And the two of us went to the same dog training school. Well, there was, I think, seven or eight dogs in this litter. the dog that was the so-called pick of the litter was being labeled the dud of the litter by the time it was eight months old. And so when I talked to the woman who owned the dog, I said, "Can you tell me what your dog's life is like?" And she said, "Well, um, I get up in the morning and I do my training with it just like I'm supposed to. Then I go to work and I put it in the farmard. My husband, her husband was a farmer. And then um, it my husband takes it. It likes to tra behind the tractor during the day while my husband does his

chores. Then he gets put in his big um run at the front of the farm. And then when the kids come home, they let him out and they play some games with them. But then he likes to lay in the ditch and heard the cars as they go by waiting for me to come home from work. And then I take him to class and he just doesn't want to do anything in class. He's the dud of the litter. He's the dud of the litter because so little value comes from interacting with you and so much value comes from the environment. So the ABCs of dog training establishing anticedants that will give you the behavior you want so you can give the consequence which is reinforcement. Anticed arrangements is one of the most misunderstood thing in dog training in my opinion. So all of those challenges. Now some of you your dogs that you when I said what's your biggest challenge a lot of you described emotional challenges. We can't dog train emotion. It isn't about where the reinforcement is. It's about where the trigger the safety and the confidence are for your dogs. So we have to work on as I talked about in one uh episode shape by dog episode number 298 is we have to we have to identify the triggers and work at creating safety for our dogs and um we we need to desensitize the trigger and then counter condition it and then we can train around it. So, if I have a dog who is um as Prophet was, he was not comfortable around men. Yes. Sad reflection of my social life. I admit it. And um he was not predictable. He would snap at their face. And so I had to get him out and around more men. Yes, he I took him places, but the places I was going were filled with women. And so, you know, I I I would go to baseball games, but it was hard. The men weren't nearby. I just had to say, "Okay, let's take you and help you to understand that the trigger of a man." And I was actually able to narrow it down to if a man looked and smiled. So, for me, this is what I I I've started doing with Prophet. I'll I'll ask him to let him out of the house. I'll be in the building and then she'll say go see. So he sees me standing and he runs but I just stare at him. I don't say anything. He doesn't even like it when I do that. So helping the dog. Gety up, sister. Let's go on a manh hunt. Literally. Kim says I'm over that. So, if you Karen, if you go to episode number 298 and listen to that and there'll be a list of recommended other on YouTube because then there's there's um in the show notes there, you'll you'll see a list of other things that will help you there. Okay? You can't dog train an emotional problem. We have to deal with that dog's emotions first um and then work through that. So, let's

let's not leave you hanging on or leave uh Katie hanging because that was unfair to say this was Katie's before. This is Katie's after um being in recallers and really f focusing on where's the value. Let's create balance in the way we need it because right now it's out of balance. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] [Music] So when you recognize the imbalance, you work to eliminate the opportunity for the environment to reinforce the dog and you build up the layers of reinforcement for how the dog and you can work together as a great team regardless of what you want to do with that dog. If you know most people we we want primarily our dog to be an amazing family pet and then some of us want to play sports after that. So you have to recognize what's the problem, but that's not really the problem. It's it's the results of the problem. Where's the imbalance of value? And then let's get that transformation. And for some of you that transformation means being in our community. Being in our community number one because we give you the great plans for the transformation. But being our community number two because you're surrounded immersed in problem solving with positivity. And I think that is something that is I am learning is um not very widespread. This is a great question. I didn't see it in this in the thread here, but Kim just wrote it on the board, so it obviously came through when I was talking. Question is, how do you ensure that you are always in the right place to ensure the right choice happens? I'm not always in the right place, but what I am in is before I give my dog the opportunity to make a choice, I say, have I built the confidence and the value for the dog to make this choice? And if the answer is I'd be willing to bet $100 that I I've built that confidence. Honestly, I was setting profit or waffles. I I said to Cam, I he's going to fail, but I want the world to see what we do when he fails. And so I'll just give you the Cole's notes answer. What would I have done? I expected that he was going to eat that chicken. He didn't. Good boy. He didn't hear the word chow. You see, when he heard the what we call a spotlight location specific reinforcement marker that says you can eat that now, he ran over. Yeah, I want that chicken. if he had failed and wouldn't have retrieved. We had a little um You can't really see it. I'm gonna turn this. We have a a gate set up over here. You can see it. There you go. You see those little the little gate there in the bottom left corner? So, what that is is a bunch of panels, and I was going to set up a little area to decrease the environmental distraction, set up some

layers of reinforcement based games between him and I, and then ask for another retrieve within a gated community and then growing that area gradually. But he was pretty darn good. Um, where is journaling? Where does it Oh, is this where journaling comes in handy to pinpoint triggers? Yes, absolutely. When you're journaling is great for helping identify what your dog's triggers are, but it's also journaling is really good after every training session to say um the games you played, but um what was a success and what you need to invest more time into. I think the biggest challenge for people is how do I mitigate like if you have a dog door in your house that's setting your dog up to get reinforcement from the environment. And so maybe just for the next year you barricade the dog door and you go out to honestly and and and when you go in the backyard take your dog on a leash rather than like waffles seven months old. It's rare. We get we let him go outside off leash sometimes, but a lot of the times he's on leash. So, we don't have the worry of what happens if he makes a bad choice because, you know, we give him the opportunity to make choices that might not be the right choices in a controlled environment because I don't care. I really didn't care that he was gonna go eat that chicken. It was feedback for Kim and I. And I expected that he was not going to retrieve that toy because the toy I picked was not a favorite toy of his. So, whatever your challenge is, look at the problem. Write down, vent about it, get it off your chest. You deserve it. Vent about it. And then where's the imbalance? Where's that imbalance of reinforcement? And how can I get that back? And it doesn't matter how old your dog is. It doesn't matter about, you know what, I'm I'm I've I caretake my parents. I've got two young kids and I work full-time. You can still get there. We have We've had It will be slower for you because your life has a lot more complications than a lot of people does, but you can still get there. And by playing the games and um this is a perfect opportunity because our week of positivity means all of our programs we are offering to anybody who wants them at an investment. Well, we recognize that some of these are are maybe a bigger investment. And so we've made it a possibility for everybody. For example, pedicure please. Um it's four months to um as many people have said in the chat to transform your dog's relaxation around grooming, especially getting your nails trimmed. So that is now it's only 1990 and it's it's 1997. It's four it's four months, but you definitely should be able to work through it in four months. Wag Nation,

which is normally you get you get Wag Nation and Homeschool the dog, and it's normally $336. Just for this week, celebrating our 300th, celebrating with you, it's $97. Now, recallers, we have two options for you. You can join for $499. And I am telling you, yes, these are US fun pricing, but for this week only, you can also join for $99 today and for the next six months. So, we have set up both recallers and our handling 360 program. We have set up installments recognizing it's it's a little overwhelming for uh maybe you live in a country that your dollar is not on par with a the American aka Canada is not that great right now. So we have set these up to help you handling 360 which is our dog agility program you can get for installments of 135 a month that's for the year. So you are saying yes I am all in on this program and it's myself and two other elite uh agility world champion handlers Max sprints and Anya Habel that the three of us are your coaches that have designed the program there. And then our last program that we have available right now is Agility Nation which is this is a membership. You can join for one month and get out in handling 360. The rest of these are you're committing for the period of time um that we have available that that I mentioned. So handling 360 is one year recallers, one year of coaching, one year of positivity, one year of us making sure that you work through the challenges, excuse me, that you've you're working through. Six months of Wag Nation and Handling 360 or just Wag Nation and Homeschool the dog and then four months with Pedigear Police. So all of these all of these are an opportunity for you to who have been podcast listeners to become members of our community where myself and our team of coaches help you create that imbalance that the environment currently has. Let's rebalance it back to you. So that right now like I I used I did this graphic when I was trying to explain to a friend of mine when I'm training a dog obviously when I set out to train a dog my primary goal is to have a great family pet but I also have skills that I want to train for agility. This is what my plan looks like. Every one of these balls represents a group of skills that I have. Like there's when I have a puppy, oh I got all these things. How do I how do I create, you know, what I want and when do I move on to the next thing? It's like there's all these every one of those little balls was an actual grouping of lessons like retrieve, that's a grouping of lessons. Um, walk on on a loose leash, that's a grouping of lessons. And then there's things like teaching my dog to weave for agility.

So, they're all up there. How do you organize it into the way that creates clarity for your dog? And that's what being in our community is about is we help you organize the training so that all you have to do is set the time when you're going to do it. You don't have to set on any timetable. It's when it works best for you and your dog. So, I like to do my dog training in the morning. Um, I can be talked into going out at 8 o'clock at night as well. And what you're going to learn is when you train this way, we're always training. We are always looking at where's the value in our dog's life and is it coming through us? Okay, some beautiful comments. U Marie said, "Recolors is brilliant. Changed me and my family's life and my dog's life. Can't praise Susan and her team enough." Ry, you're awesome. Ray's been with us for a very, very long time. And Fry said, "Best community ever." Um, Suzanne said, "So grateful for recaller's best investment ever. We only played a few games, but it taught me to be okay with that and the focus of joy." Beautiful. Beautiful. Um, it is it's hard to juggle when you have all those all those things. Okay. So, the link the link is shapebydog.com 300 300 episodes. Lots more to come. Um, and do you guys have any questions about any of the programs or anything things that I've talked about today? Do you have any question how you're going to raise your vibrational level? Both when there's times when you're not feeling the fullness of positivity and before you train your dog. There's a lot of great ideas given at the be at the beginning. Personally, it was so clear to me when I went to that other dog trainers Facebook page um yesterday to answer or to give some some comments on on on what we were all talking about over there. It was so clear to me not all communities are the same. And I am so grateful so many of you people who who are writing in the comments who've been in our programs. I am so grateful for the energy and the intent you bring to this community because it makes it a joy to work in. It makes my coaches, myself, Max, Enya from the agility side, we love working here because of the energy of the community that we get to work in. And I don't take that for granted because I have seen that even other reinforcement based dog trainers do not have that in their communities. Um Kristen, let me make it easy for you. When you join recallers, we give you pedigree pure ped pedicure please for free. 100% free. So that um that will make it easier for you. Thank you. Great community. The most positive place on the on the social media planet for sure. Thanks. And and honestly,

it's we like to reflect our values back to our community, but our community reflects them back to us. And people come in come into our social media, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and realize this isn't a place I want to be or this is definitely a place I want to be. So if you have a different view of how dogs should be trained, you will immediately exit out because you feel this in all of the community members. It's just there. Uh question. Sam says, "I just started homeschool the dog online and I love the shaping concept, but feel a little overwhelmed at the moment. Do I need to do hot zone, cold zone first?" That is a question to um ask in the classroom, Sam. And here's why. Because we can look at your videos and tell you where you need to go. I always like to start with my anybody new with it's your choice and crate games. Those are the two biggies. So, um, yeah, duel land is where we want to be. That's what we call it here. It's dueland. Where's the link to join recallers for six months? So, if you click on recallers, then it'll give you the opportunity. You'll see at the bottom of the page, you can join either um um the the 14.99 or it'll give you the opportunity to go for the monthly. That's awesome. Thank you, Bob's mom. Any other some great questions. Any other questions? Um, if you go to shapebydog.com300 at the bottom there is a live chat where you can ask questions of the team if you don't want to ask them publicly. So you can, you know, what's it like working for Susan? Really, anything. You could ask them anything. Um, Annie, when do you get your new puppy? Woo! In May. Woo! Woo! This perfect time to join. Do you know why? Because we need to train you first, my girl. We have got to get you understanding. So, please join recallers now. It will be the best investment ever. And when you get And when you get your puppy, you will hit the ground running. You won't have to be learning something and then teaching your puppy. You can go through the first two months of lessons and then when you get your puppy, it'll be like, "Yeah, I got this. Please, Annie, trust me on this one." That is the best way to do it. I'm so glad you didn't come here a month after you got your puppy because we want you to hit the ground running and not try to overcome some of the things that may have fallen between the cracks. Um, can you make a pep talk call line? You know what? You take the chat from the beginning of this. There was a lot of great contributors at the beginning of of this live. So I would unfortunately um social media now takes these lives down after 30 seconds 30 minutes 30 days 30 seconds 30 minutes 30 hours 30 days.

So yeah we're going to be saving this one though. Oh my gosh. Annie and Stephanie, I want you both to write in the chat what kind of dogs puppies are you getting? So exciting. Um, Stephanie right into the team like I I don't know if what month are we in now? March. I don't I I want I want you to make the best decision for you. So, um, write into the team and they'll tell you if if there is a another opportunity for you to join down the road. But the sooner you can get in the better for sure. Annie's getting a legato. They're so freaking cute. They are so cute. Um, so I just purchased Homeschool the dog. Should I complete this before recallers? Debbie, let me know how many games have you played from homeschool the dog because that I can I can help you. Oh, Donna, you're so smart. Okay, Stephanie. Donna just answered for you. Stephanie's getting a burner. Oh my gosh. Hope you got a big crate. Small one for when they're puppies, though. So, yes, that was a great Donna. That was a great idea. Um, when you join, recallers is probably the one program I know for sure that we give you the opportunity to stay as an alumni um, long after. So, if you join now, you can jump right in and then stay on after. And it's like a fraction of the price that you join. Uh, Jim, we want one more demo of what? Waffles. I don't know. Whoever asked for one more demo who asked Jay. Jay Jay said they Jay I don't know if Jay is a she or he wants one what? Wants one more demo. What is that demo of? What does that look like? Is it the border collie or is it the seven-month old puppy? Can he do um perch work? Okay, so we can do that. Um, so recallers, you have a choice of joining now at an investment all at once of $4.99 US or six months. You you're joining and we're just delaying the in through installments for six months. You'll pay $99 today and then $99 um every month until the six months is is gone. But you stay for a year. You're not you're not joining for six months. We give you a year. Oh, puppy. Puppy seems to be the popular demo. Which package has crate games? Recolors does. Um, Moment or Momentum. Momentum's in the house. She would have loved to be the demo dog, though. And she loves that she's getting a shout out, Jay. All right. Um, so let's get Waffles out and we'll do a little bit of So, this is a great game. I I I I talk about it on the YouTube video, Perchwork, Pivots, and Spins. We go into detail on how to help your dog have success with it um in recallers and it's a super important game for getting our dogs to walk on leash. And so I'm going to blend it for you so you can see how it becomes walking on leash. So I'm

going to mix in a couple of high value rewards here. And are you going to grab that perch for me please? Oh, right. Are those better than the Okay. Okay. No, not you, buddy. Prophet might need a No, Fetty, you go hop. So, I'm going to go where you guys can see me. So, this is Waffles is a big boy. This is a um a feed dish you get from a far farm supply store. So, normally I have a square, but I think this is even better. What a good boy. Superstar of crate games. Superstar of crate games. Super of the stars. Yes, he is a super super cook. Break strike. Ah, what a good man. He is the goodest man. Now, watch my transition. I'm getting my cookies ready. I'm moving over near the perch. Mine cook. And when I see that he is going to go on the perch, I'll take off all of these things and just get him. Good. Cook. Nice. Now we go around this way. Good boy. Nice. So, this is me walking down the street. Now I turn to take a corner and my dog is learning to walk beside me. I'm going to go this way and he's getting value for being beside me, right, mister. Good. Search. So now I'm testing where is the value. He says, "Yeah, the value is right there. I'm coming back here. Search." You got to get off. Search. Yay. There it is. That was a good one, wasn't it? So good, mister. Cook. Good. Bring me. Where did it go, mister? It's here. It's here. Yeah. Mine. Hello. That was a funny. That was a funny That was a funny That was a fun fun Friday. Good as good as my channel. Good boy. That is a little bit small of a hole for the big guy to try to get through. Okay. Thank you for whoever asked for more training, Jay, because um it gives me an opportunity to show you what training looks like in a three-minute period. I set my environment. I put him on a leash to make sure that what I wanted him to focus on because Kim wasn't sure because he's gotten so big. We used to use this for the perch, but see how tiny that is? Maybe his big paws didn't have room to move on that. So, we were trying out a new perch, which he wouldn't recognize. And so that I didn't have to explain it all to you. I just put him on

a leash to help create value immediately. I knew when I wanted to reset, to test the value, how much does he know that this is what I want? I said, "Search, threw the cookie on the floor." When I did the first one, that's when I said to myself, I don't think he moved until he saw the cookie move. And so I went and tested the second one. Said search and I was right. So he didn't get a cookie because he didn't move. And I retested the first time. And when he was working with me, I was giving him dry cookies. So these dry treats. But when I said search and he didn't move, I grabbed myself a piece of chicken so that I could bring great value to when I say search. If you move, good things happen. So manipulating value in the midst of training, making the decisions, and then ending when the puppy was still having fun, but instead of saying, "We're done. You're going in that box. that's going to happen for the next hour. No, we're going to say, "I just kidding. Come on back out. Let's play again. Just kidding. Go back in." And so that he could never predict when the cate the crate door is closing. And when I did close the crate door, I gave him uh a handful of cookies for him to sniffle around while I was closing the door so that the door wasn't anything terminal or bad for him. Okay. So, lots of little things happening within that little training session. And Jay, thank you for asking me to do that. And it gave me an opportunity to explain all the nuances of reinforcement based gamebased training that leads to a dog who finds value walking by my side when we're out for a walk. Okay. If there aren't any other questions, um I will say thank you for being here. Thank you for celebrating with me. I am going to a competition in Chicago this week, but I'm going to try and do another live because it's the week of amazing positivity and I want to share it with you. For those of you who are curious about becoming part of our program and being coached by myself and my teams for the next or myself and our team of coaches for the next whatever period it might be four months, six months or a year. I want to be the first to say welcome. And to all of our regular students who are here today, you guys are amazing. Um I just love having you in my world. Oh, I got to give away Frizzer. We're giving away two. Did I not say we'd give away two? Well, do you have two names for me? One, two. Oh, okay. I don't know where I put the frizzer. You're so good, Kim. Two frizzers. The first one's going to uh Genevieve Robisho Kumo. I apologize. My French is not that good. It's been a while. And the second is pause enrichment center. Um I'm going to

leave you with one last thing because I um you know when I was on this page yesterday, first of all, congratulations to our winners and I'm going to tell you all how you can win another prize. When I was on this page um reading some of the comments, there was a lot of disrespectful slash rude slashh horrific things written about me on the page and what and I wanted you all to have this tool because for me it was I'm going to read that comment and you know maybe 15 years ago I would have been triggered by it and Um, now I'm like, let's have a moment to pause. And that pause gave me a moment to say that your opinion is not going to dim my light because I know my light is helping so many people. And so I want you all when you're feeling that things aren't going your way, you might be frustrated. You might be feeling emotions you don't want to feel. I want to give you the understanding of the power of the pause. So, I'm going to get this banner off of here and I'm going to let you guys just do a screen cap of that. the power of the pause that that gives you an opportunity to reflect that one person's 10 people's opinion is not going to change how I show up every day in this world. I'm not. It's not going to happen. So, you get to dictate how you show up for your dogs. And when we show up with joy and positivity for our dogs, it helps us to become the person who shows up with joy and positivity for everybody in our world. Even the people who are such troubled souls that they are behind a keyboard writing rude, disrespectful, even nasty things about people they've never met before. The power of the pause. Now you know I mean p a u ce or s e. I can't spell. But I think the power of the pause for those of us who love dogs has a double meaning. Is that called a double don tandra? The power of the pause. It It's the way that we can be in guiding our own life towards positivity, but it also gives us the opportunity to reme remember to pause and re and re and reframe what we're going through. to create positivity for ourselves and for our dogs. Okay, one more thing. First of all, thank you to our sponsors shape by dog or shape by dog or for my murals who created these amazing and if I know if I know the amazing for my murals people Brian and Shirley they're going to have a 300th episode written on the ones that they sh send to you. I just know it. I feel that. I'm going to give away another thing that I love to use for training from the great people at Blue Nine. This is one of my favorite inflatable uh training devices. It's called um a Propel and I love it because it's not horribly unstable. It gives it like a

lot of people like the the squishy things and I like them too, but especially for young dogs, I love to start there. I'm We're going to give away one of those and we get to because of our amazing sponsors. So, let's have some hearts for our two amazing sponsors today, Blue Nine and for my Merls. So, yes, everybody, you can all get these sent to any country in the world. They ship all over the world. You can get a shape by dog flying disc anywhere in the world. just go to can you write uh somebody on the team just write um the for my Merles address and blue nine all that you have to do to win a Propel is there's going to be on our Facebook page there's going to be a post called the gem post and if you're watching this on YouTube you have to wait until this ends and then come on back like the video and write in the comments on YouTube, what your big takeaway was for today. What is what we call your gem? What is the the um Kim, can you plug that in, please? What is what is what was your aha moment or moments today? What brought you when you came here today? What was the thing that you are going to go home with and say this is how I got impacted by this live today? So, what is your gem? And come on over to YouTube or Facebook and write down what your gem is and just posting that puts you in the draw to win a Propel from the good people at Balloon 9. and I will do my very very best to go live in one form or another all the way from Chicago, Chicago, Illinois where I'm going on Wednesday for a big competition. I will see you. Thank you, my friends. Love to have you in my community. I love that you guys are a part of this community. What an epic and awesome community you make it. We'll see you next time.