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You know, there's no way of you knowing the correct answer or the absolute specific answer to answer this, but I would like a ballpark percentage. So you're going to be talking about the dog. You're going to be talking about the dog. How often would that dog come when called? Oh, Petra, that makes more sense. So what percentage of the time, like 50%, 25%, if your dog is in a high distraction environment and they're not near you, what percentage... Now there's some honesty. I got anywhere from 95... Janie said never. Really? 70%, Mark says. 90%. So for anything except another female dog. 95%. Well, you guys should be proud of yourselves. Zero percentage of... I like that. So highly distraction-filled environment. I will tell you, I would expect different things from different from different dogs that I have. I would think that momentum and this... Swagger's hearing is not so great. But for sure, if he could hear me, I would think those three would be pretty close to 100%. I'm never going to say 100% because they are dogs. Tater salad would be... Because we don't take them very many places off of this property, it would be very low. On the property, I would say I'd be more like 75%. And the puppy, I bet you he's as good as my older dogs. Because the highest distraction environment I could put him in right now is letting him chase the other dogs, and he'll still come back when I do that. Wow, that's awesome, Crystal. So it's just female dogs. Well, let's fix that, girlfriend. Oh, okay. New rescue, zero. That's understandable. Aww. 90%, but he's been following dogs out since he was a baby. Allison, really? Come on, girl. Let's go. Oh, Brittany. Nice. I like it. So if you have zero... If you would say... If you have less than 75, if you said less than 75, one of two things is going to be happening with your life. And that is... Oh, so if I have his orange ball. So that doesn't count. What if I ask the question, you have no rewards on you. You have no food, no toys. Is the answer any different? Leave me a comment. Answer any different. If you have no food, no toys, no reinforcement that the dog normally would have. Would your answer be any different? So, yeah. If you got a new foster, then you're just definitely going to have a different... Yeah. Then it drops to zero. This is the answer I want, Janie. And I would expect that my students that are... Who have been through recallers, they would be able to say the same thing. That it doesn't change. That's awesome. I don't think so. My... Because I learned my mechanics from you.

So, what I want you to realize is if the answer changes when the dog knows you don't have any reinforcement on you, then what you're missing in your training is the transfer of value. And that is what all of our programs bring to people. The transfer of value. So, that is really, really important to evaluate. Do I have that? If not, what can I do to put that back in? How far down do I drop in my fundamental layers? So, if... We'll give you an example. My very first ever agility dog, Shelby. She was amazing. She won the US National Championships in different venues, not just like USDAA and NADAC. She was phenomenal. But early in my career, I realized we didn't have a transfer of value. Keeping in mind, this is the first dog ever that I trained agility in. Agility had only been in Canada for a few years. It was 1988 when I started training her. And at the time, I was taught with all with lures. And then if she didn't listen to me with a correction. Little Jack Russell Terrier, she was awesome little dog. And so, I don't know. It was maybe our second year into agility. And it was our first four-day trial. And it was the last class on a Sunday. I let out three jumps, and I released her. Boom. And she sat there and blinked. That was weird. No, no, no, no. Now, I always knew she always ran faster for the last four or five obstacles on an agility course than she ran for the first, like, 15. Any of you have a dog like that? That they go like, we called it egg beater legs. Her legs would be going like a million miles an hour. She was only nine inches tall. For the last five obstacles, she was like a rocket-launched Jack Russell Terrier. For the first 15, it was more of a, like a canter. But this class, this pivotal moment in my career, I said, I didn't say break. I would have said, okay, because that would have been my release word. And she didn't move. And it was right then that I realized this dog does agility for what she gets from me. She doesn't do agility because I've taught her to love agility. My border collie, I was convinced that she did agility because I taught her to love agility. So some dogs, you can lure them and they will learn to love agility, but not all of them. And so that put me on the quest to figure out how do I get her to love agility regardless? And that's when I started thinking about the transfer of value. And it probably took until she was eight or nine years old before I really, really got it. But I did eventually get it with her. And then she did run fast everywhere. But that is a very, very common problem. So anybody out there, do you do agility?

If you do, have you ever had that problem where the dog runs faster at the end than they do at the beginning? And that is a classic sign of transfer of value hasn't happened. As is, will your dog come back if they know there's no reinforcement? Will your dog come when called when you don't have... I can't say there's no reinforcement because you've done your job right. The reinforcement is you. All right. So that is a question that I'm asking. I'm just going to go over and here we go. Now with my puppy, he's nine months old. Let's go to puppy cam here. He's nine months old and I don't know if you guys can hear it, but downstairs, the other dogs are eating. They're eating their dinner. It's dinner time for my dogs. And these two boys up here, my mom might need me to do something. So the big reinforcement, and I'm going to turn this around and I'm going to change because I don't know if you're going to be able to hear me. Okay. I'm going to change my microphone so that hopefully you can hear me. Okay. So my team will tell me if you could hear me or not. So he just, I woke him up because now he knows, oh, they're downstairs, they're eating. But do you value what's going on over there? And what do you value what you could get from mom? So I got cookies. He loves cookies. And I got his toy. So we'll start with his toy. Strike. He's just sleeping. We're a little bit slow. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Mine. Up it down. Strike. He will just sit back a little bit. Okay. So this is a high value reward. And does he value it more than let's say cookies? Mine. Cook. Move here. And think. Ready? You don't have to be in the bed. Good. Nice. Cookies. So I still got cookies. Will you? Strike. See the decision making? I really want those cookies, but I will take that. I will take it. I will take it. I will take it. I will take it. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. Get it. Yeah. That's it. That's it. That's it. Now. Mine. Up it down. You have it. Good. So I'm going to take some cookies, put them in the bowl. Do you like cookies? Do you like your toy more than you like working with me? So I'm just going to take all the cookies out of my pockets. I got nothing. Ready? Right. Put your paws up. Ready? Side. Nice. Let's go. It's so good. Yeah. Good boy. Yeah. See them both there too. What is it, boy? So he sees that. Then I say, bring me. Where's your pain? That's, there it is. Bring me. There we go. So he really would like the cookies, but I, because the value is with whatever I say, mine, side. Bring me. Then that's what we'll play with. Mine. Side.

Ciao. Ciao. Betty, it's right there. Good boy. So I let him have the cookies that time. Good boy. Okay. You can go up the top. So I hope you guys were able to hear me. Yeah, I think he did blend into the carpet. Okay. How was the sound? Were you guys able to hear me when I was out there? Uh, and it's, that's a super tough test when those dogs are downstairs eating their, eating their dinner. Oh, I got to turn this around now. Cause that's my camera. Oh, okay. Great. So dogs are downstairs eating their, their dinner. I mean, they would swagger and profit. Yeah. Where's my dinner. So once you get the transfer value and that's what we, we do in our programs, it's all about the transfer value. It's all about creating one layer and then adding to another. There was a question. Um, on Instagram, I'm pulling up my questions. Um, Um, two, two, two, two. Uh, okay. Well, this, this, this, okay. Here, how, how do your, how do games progress and build on each other? So there'll be very basic, basic games that if you were to come into say, um, recallers that there are these basic games and it will be things like, um, can, will your dog take, take, take a toy? Well, maybe we need to build up their value for the toy. They don't, you know, you don't, your dog doesn't have to tug like a border collie, but they should be able to retrieve a toy for you. Even if it's a toy with food inside, we should get them to retrieve that toy. So what is the basics of my dog will take food. There's a lot of dogs that come in for our training that no, it's, it's Wednesday and I don't want to take food on Wednesdays. We have to get the dog to take food when we ask. So that's, that's the bait. That's a very basic layer. So will they take food? Number one, number two is, um, you know, can we move from food to toys? Can, can we get the dog having joy to work? So those are, those are the basic levels that, um, does your dog, does your dog mug your hand? So if I had cookies in my hand, could I, could I, could you train your dog or would your dog be coming in and trying to mug your hands to try and get the cookies? So basic layers is the drive for something. And if they will mug your hands, that's okay at the basic layer, because we're not going to worry about anything else until we get, we go to the next layer. But if we don't have, if you have a dog that says, oh, those are crunchy Odeo Oates. No, I want cheese today. Then we can't move to the next layer. We've got to have a dog who says, I love that reinforcement. I'll take it. And you can get your dog to be in that place. All right. So then

we move to what we call is our critical core. And that will be a place of where we keep growing. It's your choice. The game where we put cookies in our hands and the dog will ignore them. Well, that's like a party gag, but it's got to be part of, it's got to be, uh, infiltrating every part of life with your dog. So I can put a toy on the ground. I can put food on the ground. I can put anything I want on the ground and my dogs, it's your choice is built in. All right. So it's your choice. Crate games, not just your dog will go in a crate. That's not crate games. Crate games are very structured games that teach the dog to have focus for you to have, to want to work for you. So even if I got 13 year old swagger out there to do something with me, you'll notice that both of those dogs, what are they looking at when I'm working with, when they're working with me? What is it that they they are? Where are they, where is their focus? So I'm, you guys think about that and I'm going to have a little bit of my coffee. Yeah. It's late in the day for coffee, but so, right. My dog's focus is on me, but yet not since I left, left compulsive compulsion training where I was taught to teach my dog, watch me, watch me and give them a little pop. But they didn't watch me. I've never taught watch me in 30 years, not since I left that, that type of training that focus my dogs have for me. And even if I brought tater salad up here to do a demo and you saw tater do demos, he has the same focus because that the, the, the focus for you and the focus for work is a byproduct of giving them choice and building layers strategically in your work. So that's why my dogs have such great, they have great focus for me. And then that focus will be on anything I want. So if I would go out there, I'm going to get the puppy who he did a lot this morning when we were training. So if I was to take this tired puppy and you can't even see him because he is flat out tired. If I was to take him and get him to focus on something, like it'd be easy to get him to focus on me if I was holding cookies or, or focus on a food bowl or focus on a toy, but an inanimate, inanimate object, let me see if I can get him to focus on an inanimate object. All right. Petty break. Mr. Tiredness, maybe we shouldn't have done so much with you today. Okay. Break. Strike. Okay. So I'm going to put a bed here. Mine. Side. Good luck. Break. Yay. Strike. Okay. So he has the focus that he has for, I get the focus for me first. Let, what else can we do? Oh, how about a pillow? Let's

put a pillow down. Okay. Mine. Side. Good. Lock. Good. Lock. You're not looking at that pillow. Sit. Oh, get in here. Get in here. Sit. What? See that? Oh, maybe you guys can't see. Strike. Mine. And mine. Side. Good. Good. It's a little nine month old puppy just early in his journey. Lock. Quirk. Says, I don't know what you want with that pillow, but whatever I ask him to focus on, especially if it's something that has value to him, mine, because we've used it in training side. That's where he'll focus. Lock. Lock. Break. Nice. Yay. Strike. Good boy. Okay. You can up it up. I won't bother you anymore. Good boy. Oh, I don't even have any cookies. Here you go. Bulldog is saying, I hear there's some training up here. Can you call the bulldog please? All right. So that focus, that's just another layer in what we want our dogs to do, right? So that's why I think training with games is the only way to train. You get the dog's excitement up. We get the basics, the excitement for food. We get then excitement for the critical core games. It's your choice. Crate games. Hand targets. Bring me my toy. All right. So, and then we, then when we've got that, then we grow it. I want, I want value and focus for reinforcement zone. Let you guys saw if you, if you watched the other, the other lives that we did this week. So it's why I was like, I could do that. I don't know why you keep asking the puppy. So, and then we grow it to, I want you to be both focused when it's appropriate and relaxed at other times. So if I wanted to cut my dog's nails, I want them to just completely relax. If I wanted to groom them or do their teeth or, so these are all things that make a phenomenal family pet, but they also lead me to all the things that I love doing with my dogs to going, hiking off leash. They'll come and they call. They have so much focus for me that the distractions and the environment, they become white noise. It's like, oh, was that a leaf falling? Well, how many of your dogs would even look at a leaf falling? As a puppy, he sure would. Is that leaf blowing? Oh my gosh. And you go off chasing it. But a leaf falling is white noise at this stage. Isn't it with your dogs? Well, the leaf falling, ignoring the leaf falling is the first step to ignoring the 551st step, which might be ignoring bunnies crossing your path when we're out walking. Is that a bunny? So when you train, not with random thoughts or random ideas that you, you know, oh yeah, that looks like a good trick. I think I'm going to teach that. Or some of you are saying, oh,

I want to teach that look. How'd you teach that look? They're all just strategic layers that come into the training that if I put my dog in the puppy, when he's ready to go in front of agility obstacles, boom, that's got value. I'll look at it. Absolutely. Okay. Does that make sense? All right. I was going to give away a prize and I didn't. So I'm going to give away one. Can I have that thing, buddy? Can I have that? Mine? I need it. All right. Profit. Break. There we go. All right. Profit loves this. It is a restore bed by the good people at Blue Nine Pet Products. And it's memory foam. So you can come back up here, bud. You could hop it up. Good boy. And we'll give one of those away for anybody. We're going to, if you would like to share this live on your social media, come on back here and write shared. Then at the end of today, we'll give away a restore topper. I don't know. I call it a climb topper, restore climb topper. But that's what it is. Okay. Yes. Robin says that makes sense. It makes sense. We're building in layers. So eventually I want, I want focus on that. Whatever I put out in front, it's easier if it's something I've used in training, but it, but how many of you guys have trained with something and your dog won't look at it? Oh yeah. We've trained with an agility jump. But if you sat in front of your dog, in front of the jump, your dog would probably stare, stare, still stare at you. Most dogs would. And you know why? Because there's been no transfer of value to the jump. The value is still in your pocket. The value is still in the ball you have in your, behind your back or the tug toy you're holding. We need that transfer of value. And that's what you'll find when you join any one of our programs. It's a deep dive into transferring value to the important things in your life. We, we have the very, very robust programs. And there will be things that will be very important to you that might not be important to the next person. So one person, their big goal is I need that absolute bomb proof recall because I want to go to the conservation area with my dog. Where others of you might be like, you know, I want a pretty good recall, but for me, I want to play, I want to play retrieve at the beach. And so you focus on what it is that you will. So, so if you were in recallers, it would be, you might be focusing on growing that brilliant recall because those are the state, the layers that bring to beautiful reinforcement zones. So that makes loose leash walking easier. But you're also

focused on, I want that dog to bring me that toy. I want my dog to let me cut their nails. Those are the things that, that we're leading you to. And if you have an interest in dog agility, then of course, that we build that focus, that transfer of value, a layer by layer. And we start it with you, that we help you in handling 360 to understand the role you play in your body movements. And then we teach verbal cues in the way that the dog understands not what obstacle we want them to take, but the path. And that's so important. Most people will teach, well, that's a tunnel. Tell your dog, it's a tunnel. Well, we have five different things. We will call a tunnel, depending on if we want the dog to go straight and take the next obstacle, or we want them to turn and take an obstacle over there or turn back towards us. So a jump has many, many, now, a lot of the world has started to catch on to this that we've been teaching for 13 years. But the way we've finessed the way we teach it now allows people in our programs to learn it so much faster. It's exponentially faster. So it's the same layers of learning. It's just applied in a different way. Okay. Now, I bet that, so Janie, I need that focus and build confidence everywhere. There's a lot of people that, that, that you are, might be sitting there going, I don't see how this is going to be possible for where my dog is at right now. We are too far gone getting that focus. And so I want to share with you, this is a note we just got in today from one of our students. I'm changing her name. I'm changing her breed of dog because we haven't even got permission to share her story. So I'm changing anything that might tie her exactly to her. But if she gives us permission, I will, I will post it. Okay. So I, I, I wanted to share this because I, I would imagine there's many people that feel the same as what are we going to call? What are we going to call this lady? We're going to, we're going to give this person a name. Uh, let's call her Holly or Holly. All right. Holly said, sorry, this is so long. I'm so grateful for Susan and recallers. I grew up with dogs, German Shepherd, Skipper Key and Springers. Remember I changed the breeds. Then I got a pup. I always wanted a border collie house training was an absolute nightmare. The nipping, the biting were the worst. She ignored me. She chased my old sick cat relentlessly with zero recall. I thought she was the dumbest, most stubborn dog I've ever owned or trained, even with a clicker. I felt like an absolute

total failure. I was really thinking of taking her to re-home her or taking her to a farm. And I felt even more of a failure for thinking that, how could I be that person? All right. So far, anybody relate to this frustration. You might not have had the same thoughts. You might not have had the same problems, but any of you, can you put yourself, I was there. You might be still there as our friend Holly. Well, a recaller student on another feed said to check out Susan Garrett on YouTube. So I did. We joined recall recallers this past fall and we went at an absolute turtle's pace until I had a health challenge, which halted everything, but our relationship had already changed. For four months, I was just this side of bed ridden. Buddy, not real name of the dog, Susan's name, Holly's dog, Buddy. Buddy stayed at my side and followed my cues, except for super high distraction recalls, as I added them back into our routine and I was able to get up and around. She's closer to calm around all cats now. We're back to adding recaller games into our days. And my trainer is helping me prepare Buddy to be my service guide dog if needed. So the dumbest dog ever turned out to be my best friend ever. So glad we didn't take that trip to the farm or re-home her. So grateful to that recallers member who pointed us to this community. So humbled to realize I was the dumbest pet owner ever until Susan and recallers showed me a better way. Literally that just came in this morning and we get these beautiful stories pretty much daily. And I wanted to share that with you because it doesn't matter where you are. There's hope. There's hope for you. And when you join one of our programs, you might go, well, I don't see how this is getting me where I want to be. But then two weeks, you give us two weeks and you are going to say, wait a minute. I think things are changing. All of a sudden I see my dogs looking at me the way Susan's dogs look at her. Yeah. That's what I want. That's what I want. All right. Okay. More questions. There was a few more. Hold on. I got to go back to these or I'm going to forget these ones. So the one question was about how do we, how do I progress and build, how do these games progress and build on each other? And I hope I answered that. I went to like our critical core and then our husband tree. And there's, there's, there's so many different layers above that, depending on what program you're in. Next question is, um, uh, how acquisition fluency and how to balance building on existing skills and introducing new

ones. So the really cool thing. And I'll just explain what the question is, is, um, how do we help our dogs acquire new skills and get fluent, meaning that they have great repeatability on one cue versus adding new, new behaviors to the repertoire. And the way that I have always trained my dogs, well, not always, but certainly in the last 30 years is what I called in one of my podcast episodes recently as behavior blocks. So the first behavior block might be teaching something as simple as a hand target. And then that hand target will become, will help build another behavior. It'll add to a behavior block of a retreat. So the behavior block goes with, can you pick up a toy and, and touch my hand with that toy? So everything. So as we are the acquisition of new skills and the fluency of old actually go like this, because as we are getting, um, acquiring new skills, they're all coming through the building blocks of old ones. So we're continuing to get fluency on our old blocks while we're building new and beautiful blocks. Right? So that's really how we, how we work. Um, okay. How do you break down jumping up behavior or to let them know when not to jump on you? So with my dogs, um, I'm not as obsessive about it as I used to, my dogs, I would never let them jump on me because I have a brother who's mentally handicapped. And if he jumped and he, if he got jumped on, then he would not, he just, he wouldn't be kind to the dogs. So it was super important. I never put my dogs in that position. Um, they never jumped on people. I always give the cue of my, you'll notice when I want my dogs to jump up, I put my hands up. The problem is when anybody puts their hands up around this house, my dogs would probably jump in their arms or at least jump up on them and they might not expect that. So, um, that's how I, I prevent it with myself that tons of reinforcement for what I want, which is four on the floor. And then, um, when I put my hands up, you're allowed to jump on me. Um, What I'd like to know is how I get, how do I get a dog to stay focused once off of the lure? How do I explain this to someone I'm mentoring as the dog, as the dog they're training seems to lose focus on what they're doing once the lure is taken away. Okay. Fiona, I don't train with food lures. So I don't have to worry about how to keep the focus on me. So I would recommend you try two weeks, try one of our programs, try two weeks of not training with lures, because then you don't have to get rid of them. And then you don't have to worry about, well, the dog keeps waiting for the

food or the dog is obsessively looking for the food. It's just not a problem I ever have to deal with. And, um, so it, would it be advisable to add a toy into the end of training instead of once off the lure? Uh, I just don't train with lures. I don't put a toy out there as a, as a, as a, just as a lure for the dogs to go to. We teach building blocks to get the dog to want to give you a behavior. Uh, Jay has this question. How many different things would you teach a dog at one time? You know, it's probably limited by how much time do you have in a day, Jay? So you, what you don't want to do is you don't want to sit on the floor and try to teach five different things from the same position. Now you could teach a few things from the same position, but the antecedent arrangements are what tell the dog to offer X. So if I can, I can show you maybe three different and there's antecedent arrangements that will make my dog offer the correct behavior. Right? So let's go, I'll go back on the floor. I'll get on the floor and show my dog. Okay. Okay. So here is antecedent arrangement. Number one. What do you think my dog is going to offer? So I can work on, I'll work on three different behaviors. Betty break. Betty break. Good boy. Cook. So I worked on this behavior. Now I'm going to go search. That's gone. Strike. Yeah. Now I'm going to work on this behavior. Okay. Now that's gone. And now I'm going to work on search. Search. Search. Search. So that's three. Come here, Fets. Come here, Fetty. Perfect. Good boy. Come here. So there's a little confusion because he's offering the thing that I just did. Cause I'm, I, I went to a different position, but that wasn't enough. So I'll have to tell him lie down. Good. Good. Come here. So he's confused. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to change this up one more time. That was a good demo buddy showing them. Watch this one. Okay. So good. So I'm going to check it out. If that's right. Search. That is nice. Great. Good. Okay. That was super good. I'll put this back up here. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. So four different behaviors because of four different antecedent arrangements. And you can see the confusion that my puppy had when I wasn't clear with one of them. All right. All right. I'm going to have to sneeze. My Kleenex is across the room. So give me one second. All right. So how many different things can you work on? It's endless. As long as your antecedent arrangements are very, very clear for your dog or your puppy, what you want to work on. Right. And the one thing that I shifted just by going from my knees to my butt, I was hoping was enough for him to know I didn't want back up anymore. Okay. I believe it's episode number 170, Claire, but somebody on my team, I'm sure will be able to help you. Okay. We are coming up close to an hour. So I would like to know, do you have any more, any questions about our programs before I hop off here? I'm just looking at these questions that are here. Any questions you have about the programs? There was somebody who said, how do I know which, how can I choose between Homeschool the Dog, Recolors and Agility Nation? So number one, there's a decision-making tree. There's a video on a decision-making tree that if you go, if you go to dogs that.com, or excuse me, shaped by dog.com forward slash four years, you'll see that decision-making tree that should help you. But also I can help you with, I wrote out a couple things. Number one, how are your fundamental skills? What percentage of the time would your dog come back when they're called, when they know you don't have any food or toys on you? All right. And so if it's, oh, it's super low. Well then, Recolors, my friend, all of his foundation comes from Recolors. Where would I start with a new foster? 100% Recolors. 100%. A brand new 11 week old puppy, absolutely Recolors. Absolutely Recolors. No doubt about it. That's the program that I do. All of my, when I used to bring in rescue dogs, and I'm not saying I never will again. Heck, Tater wasn't that long ago. If I was fostering somebody, absolutely Recolors. And if it's, you have an older dog that's, you're not, you're having problems with them, not focusing on you or being distracted. Absolutely Recolors. Okay. So I'm helping this person decide between homeschool the dog, Recolors and Agility Nation. So fundamental skills. And you might say, oh, 95% of the time my dog's amazing on his recall. Okay, great. Well, they retrieve a toy every time. Doesn't really like toy. Well, we've got a whole section in Recolors that's about building toy drive. If you want to do agility, you can do agility without toy drive.

But we would like, like you, you, you are, you are, you are going to be challenged with most dogs to get them to run as fast as they can. It's possible and we, we can help you, but it's much easier if you have both food and toys. Does your dog have joy to work? That you get them out and they're like, yeah, what are we going to do? Oh, this is so exciting. I can't wait. Let's do something. And if they don't, then Recolors. Absolutely. And you know, homeschool the dog. If you aren't in the position, maybe you're brand new to our community. I just found Shaped by Dog last week. And I don't know if I can make the investment of, of Recolors. You know, it's a, financially, it's a, a big stretch for me. Well, tip your toe in the water. It's just a four month commitment with homeschool the dog, but it will get you started and you will still see a tremendous turnaround in your dog. It's just not as big or intensive. There's not as many extra things in homeschool the dog. And obviously it's, it's not nearly as long either. It's not, it's not the year of coaching. Okay. Okay. How do I get my, oh, so, so my questions were, does your dog, this is the biggie. Most dogs, many dogs that if you're struggling with agility or you're struggling with, I want to do Hoopers or I want to do search and rescue. I want to do Frisbee that you're struggling with these things, but your dog doesn't have focus for work. Well, you need Recolors first. Absolutely. And then Agility Nation versus Handling 360. Well, if you're having amazing success in agility now, but you need help with your, with your recall or your repoles, or you want to get a faster seesaw, or you just want help. Think of new ideas for fitness or, or a lesson plan, then Agility Nation, you've got a smorgasbord of all those things. But if you have a dog who isn't qualifying in agility or is not going as fast as they can chase a cat, then Handling 360 is the place to start with that dog. Okay. And Wag Nation, you can only get to through, um, homeschool the dog right now. Okay. I'm seeing if there's any. Do you think I can join H360 if I just started Recolors alumni? Recolors alumni, Katerina. I believe it would be a great time to join H360. But if you're uncertain, ask one of our coaches. So you can either ask in Recolors or contact the team at wag at dogs.com. And they'll help you, um, make that decision based on how much success you're having with your dog's focus and drive to work. Okay. Because I don't want to overwhelm you and say, yeah, join all our programs. Why not just join five of them? I really want you to do what's best for you and your dog. All right.

Um, so somebody said, I just want to do agility for fun. I got to tell you, it's just as much fun doing it correctly with drive, with focus as it is just most places. If you go, oh, we're just going to let you come in and do agility for fun. They'll be luring your dog across the obstacles. They'll be very high distraction environment. And, uh, at the end of the day, very few of those dogs have, uh, how much, have much fun. It's far more fun having clarity in your life. So your dog would love you to do something with clarity. Okay. Can crate games be taught in small pieces versus one to three all at one time? Sure. Kim Kim, Sue Jim asked that. So if I have a, like a super young dog, you might take like a mat, like that I was using, um, to get Fetty to lie down. You could just do that. I think it was video number one, where we talked about using a blanket for a target. I would do that with your new puppy first play, teach cook and, and search, which we did in video one. And then get them to target a blanket, then fold that blanket up, put it in your crate. That will make crate games initially much, much easier. Okay. Any other. So Sarah Johnson, I learned the best way to see change is to set intentional language. Instead of I'm having so much trouble. This is hard. I'm terrible at this. I would say we have a great, we will have a great time nailing the things that I know today. It's the best way to see change. And then we're going to see the best way to see change. It's going to rock and my dog will have so much fun. The next day I will succeed at connecting with my dog and having fun and trying a new skill for 10 minutes. That's really helpful. That's awesome, Sarah. And really it's, it's your mindset is everything. So some of you are saying that you're, I don't know that I can try this because, uh, I'm not good enough. My dog is not smart enough. My dog isn't fit enough. It's a huge investment and I'm not willing to take that risk. We have a guarantee because we don't want anyone in our programs who doesn't want to be there. So we have a guarantee. You come in, you try it, you see, you get some value in the first, in the first two or three lessons, you will see a difference. And then you can make, you can make a decision inside the program much with much more clarity than you can outside. So if you are on a fence, join the program, experience it, and then say, what was I thinking? Or say, I got to get out. Because if we're not your people, honestly, we don't want you there. It's too disruptive to the rest of the community. But if you're still watching this, chances are, we're your people.

You know, we're your people. Watson said, as a one-handed person, I'm not sure. As a one-handed handler, the coaches in homeschool, homeschool the dog have been really helpful. So that's awesome, Watson. We have tremendous coaches. So, you know, whatever is holding you back, ask yourself what's next. So think about where you were like a month ago with your training challenges or three months ago with your training challenge. How is it going to get different? Is your dog still going places on the leash? Are you still walking at off hours because you don't want your dog to react with a neighbor's dog? Are you still not moving forward because you don't know where else to go? Then let us help you. We've got a team of brilliant coaches and the program is so intuitive that you will have success. And if you're questioning something, you post a video and we'll look at your training and we will tell you. This is what you need to do differently. All right. Any other questions for me? I got to give away a prize. So our prize. Okay. I see it. Valerie Fanton. You, my friend, win a restore bed. A restore bed. So ShavedByDog.com slash four years. Just go in there. Look at this decision-making video. Check out the programs. And you might think, oh, well, I think I can do this on my own. But the investment you are making is one trip to a veterinarian if your dog gets into the garbage and eats something they shouldn't and they need their stomach pumped out. Or it's like a tenth of the price if the dog gets into something worse and needs some serious surgery. It's an investment not only in keeping your dog safe for the rest of its life, but keeping every dog you'll ever own safe for the rest of their life. Plus, and probably as important, it's an investment in creating a better bond with you and your dog. Getting that kind of focus and that kind of joy in training. Training doesn't have to be miserable. It really shouldn't be. My mentor, Bob Bailey, he would always say, when it's right, it's easy. And I think when you play, when you educate a dog with games, it will be more successful. Number one, because you'll be having fun. So you're more likely to follow through with it. And number two, the dog's going to be having fun and they're going to come to training every day going, what's next? Right. And that's what I want for all of you. OK, I'm going to jump off. Leave any questions on this live. Well, this is a great question. Should my husband and I both handle the dog to train? I think it's great if both of you go through the program. And so one can train at one point, one can train at another.

You can discuss how it's going or you can train together. And the dog gets handled one repetition with one dog and another repetition and one handler and another repetition with the other. But because why I think that's great, if we have children in the house, I think it's great for them to be involved as well, because then the dog learns they're part of this family and that they will respond to both of them. And first of all, Sherry, I don't know why I should say that first, but kudos to your husband to wanting to be involved and kudos to you for making it be something that he does feel like he wants to be involved. So that's a great, great comment. Thank you. And if your husband doesn't want to be involved, guess what? You can build this amazing foundation and amazing relationship and have this focus from the dog and your husband is going to go, or your wife is going to go, why can't I get that? And they'll figure it out. Okay, can you teach me how to play one of those games? What you don't want to do is to get naggy at them. I'm doing this. Why are you doing this? The dog's not going to listen to you. No, no, no, no, no, no. That's not the be kind way. It's this is what I'm doing. Just, you know, if you want to, if you're interested, if you're curious, let me know. And Susan said, if you were in the same family and we're living under the same roof that you can learn from the same program. Okay. All right. I'm going to jump off. Thank you guys for all of your questions and please check out at shapebydog.com forward slash four years. See what program is right for you and your dog. We'll see you.