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.

Celebrating Recallers: Champion of the Champions! Day 3

Celebrating our dog loving community the world over! It is Day 3 of our celebration video contest, the "Champion of the Champions"!  A 5th Year Anniversary, our most amazing Recallers about to open, and an exceptional online community of dog lovers called for something special! [...]

2020-01-11T20:00:15-04:00June 25th, 2015|4 Comments

Celebrating Recallers: Champion of the Champions! Day 2

Celebrating Recallers! Day 2 of our “Champion of the Champions” Recallers Video Contest, as voted by you! Our special 5th Anniversary contest is a way for us to celebrate each of our wonderful students, past, present and future! Recallers has always represented different things to [...]

2020-01-11T20:02:12-04:00June 24th, 2015|6 Comments

Celebrating Recallers: Champion of the Champions! Day 1

We are celebrating this week! 2015 is the 5th Year Anniversary of something very special. In 2010 we opened up the doors to our first ever Say Yes Dog Training online training program "The Five Minute Formula to a Brilliant Recall" better know as ..."Recallers".  [...]

2020-01-11T20:05:35-04:00June 22nd, 2015|19 Comments

Recallers 2015 Video Contest Day 2

Welcome to Day 2 of voting for our Recallers 2015 video contest!  I think you all can understand why we asked for your help…each and every video is amazing! Each of our videos really is a creative tribute to how Recallers improves the relationship between [...]

2015-06-14T18:39:56-04:00June 12th, 2015|6 Comments

Have You Tried A “Puppy Adventure Trip?”

Socializing puppies should begin in the breeders home. Even before a puppy can hear or see, "puppy enrichment" can begin by focusing on the fully developed senses the puppy does have (those of touch and smell). For any of you who are members of my "Puppy Peaks" community I have a [...]

2018-08-29T04:59:35-04:00May 1st, 2015|61 Comments

The 8 Week Old Puppy: Transitioning From Unruly To Unbelievable

As you may or may not know, last week I made my "big decision." I publicly announced which of my 7 then seven week old puppies I was going to keep for my own.  Tomorrow night I will be hosting a "coaching call" for my "Puppy [...]

2020-01-11T20:14:04-04:00April 28th, 2015|184 Comments

Learning From the Dog, While The Dog is Learning From You

Recently while preparing for a video shoot, I put together a list of some of my most pivotal lessons I have learned from each puppy I have raised and trained over my 27 years as a dog trainer. The experience of putting this list was [...]

2020-02-05T23:30:40-04:00April 22nd, 2015|40 Comments

Teaching Puppies: It’s Just Arranging Coincidences

I am pretty sure C.S. Lewis wasn't referring to dog training when he said of experience that although it was a "brutal teacher" you still do learn from it! However, truthfully that is how not only people but puppies learn. It is through interacting with the environment, [...]

2020-03-11T19:07:44-04:00April 16th, 2015|66 Comments
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