About Susan Garrett

Susan Garrett is a world-renowned dog trainer with over 30 years of experience and multiple national and world championship titles in dog agility. She is the founder of DogsThat and host of the Shaped by Dog podcast, where she has helped hundreds of thousands of dog owners worldwide build calm, connected, and easy-to-live-with dogs through games-based, positive training.

Committed to Dogs – Recallers Video Contest 2018 Round Two

Recallers 2018 Video Contest Round Two If you have just joined us, we are sharing videos from our Recallers members for you to view and vote on. We LOVE celebrating dogs and the people who care for them by highlighting their stories. The videos represent [...]

2020-01-11T08:01:51-04:00June 27th, 2018|40 Comments

Committed to Dogs – Recallers Video Contest 2018 Round One

Recallers 2018 Video Contest Round One When Recallers first opened in 2008, it pioneered online dog training, and has become a wildly popular and much-loved foundation resource for people and dogs around the globe.  But, as anyone who has ever been part of our Recallers [...]

2020-01-11T08:20:25-04:00June 26th, 2018|14 Comments

Why “Choice” is the Critical Key to a Great Dog

Many years ago I introduced a game that has changed the lives of many thousands of people and their dogs the world over. It’s the key building block to everything I teach in dog training. That game is ItsYerChoice (IYC). This is the game that [...]

2019-08-08T20:17:16-04:00June 3rd, 2018|45 Comments

The Transfer of Value in Dog Training

I think we should collectively agree about something. Here it is; relationships are not actually the way they are portrayed in the movies. If you attempt to smack your significant other across the face during an argument, don’t count on it ending up in some [...]

2020-01-11T08:27:59-04:00February 28th, 2018|36 Comments

Encouraging News For Swagger and Border Collies with Cardiomyopathy

First Swagger and I would like to thank this amazing community. xoxo It is because of all of the feedback I received from readers of this blog and our Facebook page, that I have some encouraging news to report today. No, Swagger isn't miraculously cured... [...]

2020-01-11T08:29:48-04:00February 16th, 2018|54 Comments

News You Never Want To Hear About ANY Dog…

It is something no one should ever have to hear about their not yet 7-year-old dog. I froze and my mind went whirling, I suddenly found it difficult to get out all of the questions that were racing through my head.  As my Uber driver [...]

2020-01-11T08:31:16-04:00January 22nd, 2018|221 Comments

Handling360 Video Contest 2017 – Grand Finale!

Welcome to the final round of our Handling360 Video Contest! If you have just joined us, we have been sharing short video stories over the past few days that highlight the diversity of our agility handling community, and the confidence that has grown for each [...]

2020-01-11T08:58:39-04:00November 11th, 2017|36 Comments

Handling360 Video Contest 2017 – Round Three!

Welcome to Round Three of our Handling360 video contest. The video stories represent everyone who wants to be the very best they can be for their dog, bringing confidence and joy to their dog through agility. Scroll down for the videos and pick your two [...]

2020-01-11T08:55:00-04:00November 10th, 2017|7 Comments

Handling360 Video Contest 2017 – Round Two!

I’m sure that after watching yesterday’s videos you can understand why we love video stories… pretty amazing right? If you haven’t had the chance to watch the Round One or Round Three videos yet, there is still time to view, and then you can vote [...]

2020-01-11T08:49:40-04:00November 9th, 2017|5 Comments
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