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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 dogs that are a joy to live with through games-based, positive training.

Real Life Dog Stories – Recallers Video Contest 2017 Round One

Recallers 2017 Video Contest Round One If you have been following my blog for some time, you will know that we love to celebrate our students and their dogs by sharing their video stories. If you are new to our community, a very big welcome!  [...]

By |2020-01-11T09:16:29-04:00August 9th, 2017|25 Comments

Could Your Dog Have An Agility Injury That’s Affecting His Performance?

The other day I took what started out as an “under the radar” road trip to Baltimore to see a specialist about what I believed to be an injury that my dog Swagger endured last summer. I say "appeared" to be because to most onlookers [...]

By |2026-03-19T15:52:40-04:00June 26th, 2017|62 Comments

Got D.A.S.H. (Desire, Accuracy, Speed and Habitat)?

The communication in dog training available to us in this day and age is AMAZING!  We have internet classrooms, eBooks, blogs and then there is social media. It was recently brought to my attention that I have never published or written on my blog about [...]

By |2020-02-12T20:47:14-04:00January 17th, 2017|22 Comments

The Winners: Handling360 Video Contest Fall 2016

The results of our Fall Handling360 video contest are in. Over the past week you have selected two stories from Round One, Round Two and Round Three to go the final round, and then voted for the two in the Season Finale that touched you [...]

By |2020-01-11T19:24:52-04:00October 19th, 2016|5 Comments

Handling360 Video Contest Fall 2016 – Season Finale!

The final round of our Fall Handling360 Video contest is here! The top six agility stories as voted by you are now in the Season Finale, competing for THREE winning spots. Our generous sponsors have donated prizes to the top three winners chosen by you. [...]

By |2020-01-11T19:22:45-04:00October 17th, 2016|27 Comments

Handling360 Video Contest Fall 2016 – Round Three !

It's the third and final round of our Handling360 video contest today.  There are five more short videos for you to watch and decide which two you would like to see go through to the finals on Monday. If you have just joined us... we [...]

By |2020-01-11T19:19:47-04:00October 15th, 2016|7 Comments

Handling360 Video Contest Fall 2016 – Round Two !

Today brings you the second round of our Fall Handling360 video contest. Thank you for your wonderfully supportive comments on the video stories in Round One. If you haven’t had the chance to watch those videos yet, don’t miss out. Be sure to check out [...]

By |2020-01-11T18:07:50-04:00October 13th, 2016|13 Comments

Handling360 Video Contest Fall 2016 – Round One !

If you have been reading my blog for some time you will know that we love video stories...and we love to honour the progress of our students. As we will soon be re-opening registration for Handling360 we thought there was no better way to start things [...]

By |2020-01-11T18:04:52-04:00October 11th, 2016|23 Comments
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