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.

Puppy Camp Success

Another puppy camp has been put to bed. What fun! It was all I thought it would be and more. Fun puppies and great students, I mean they really embraced the program. More energy by the last day on Sunday, then even the first day [...]

2009-08-31T07:14:40-04:00August 31st, 2009|5 Comments

Belly Laughs

Today is first day of another puppy camp. I am extra excited since 19 of the 24 puppies are less than 6 month old. Little sponges at this age, really. It is amazing how much faster you can teach key dog training concepts when there [...]

2009-08-27T09:39:37-04:00August 28th, 2009|6 Comments

Treading Softly . . . not!

Wow after yesterday's response I was thinking today I would cover medi-care, hand guns laws or perhaps abortion.  Thanks to everyone that wrote in on the sensitive topic. Apparent Alex Baldwin stated an opinion similar to mine recently and he too is feeling a bit of [...]

2009-08-20T09:29:08-04:00August 20th, 2009|21 Comments

A Silver Lining or a Thunder Cloud?

Looking back I don’t think I have ever written anything on this blog that could be considered controversial. It is about the change today.  Michael Vick, once the highest paid professional football player of all time, now a convicted felon, dog fighting ring-leader and reported [...]

2009-08-20T08:25:01-04:00August 19th, 2009|36 Comments

Swinging With The Dog

There have been a few questions since I posted my National's standard runs about turning my dog away from me on the contacts. It occurred when my dog raced up the dogwalk on my left arm and had to turn away from me into a [...]

2020-02-18T19:13:13-04:00August 13th, 2009|11 Comments

Catching Up to Last Week

So back from the USDAA regional last weekend and I will write about it later, but for now I am going to post the last of my Canadian Nationals videos. This is the 2 standard classes that where offered. Take a look at the standard [...]

2009-08-12T21:16:55-04:00August 11th, 2009|11 Comments
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