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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.

And People Say I am Obsessive

Puppy camp just ended yesterday, I will try to put up a bit of video tomorrow. However,  in case you haven't seen this video, it is worth the watch just based on how much work these guys put into it! Today, I on Easter [...]

By |2020-01-10T21:15:18-04:00April 13th, 2009|6 Comments

The Man is Brilliant

Thanks everyone for all of your wonderful comments about the free podcast I am giving away. A special shout out goes to all of the generous "geeks" reading my blog that have posted suggestions to help others having difficulties with the download. Reciprocity rocks! Since [...]

By |2020-01-10T21:14:03-04:00April 9th, 2009|8 Comments

A Special Gift for You!

Lots of great lessons were discovered during my recent time out west. There is one lesson though, that I find myself repeating over and over again when I teach, and yet still I don't see the change in people's behaviour.  You know the old saying [...]

By |2009-04-08T03:35:30-04:00April 8th, 2009|60 Comments

An Attitude of Gratitude

There is tons of documentation all over the internet about how adopting an outlook of gratitude improves your life, your health and most importantly your happiness. Regardless of who you are, there are so many opportunities everyday to look at your glass half full but [...]

By |2015-01-05T01:18:48-04:00April 7th, 2009|45 Comments

Making Great Strides In Just One Day

Good day yesterday in Vancouver. Again a really keen group working in masters handling and luckily for me I had a large number of observers at the workshop as well (I think there was about 20 or so of them). Being day two of the [...]

By |2009-03-27T03:35:03-04:00March 27th, 2009|5 Comments

Hanging On to Good Behaviour

I have been on the road this time exactly one week and already I am seeing some "CRAP" from my dogs. Crap is a word that I have often used while teaching if I don't like what my students are rewarding. ". . .well that [...]

By |2020-02-18T19:08:30-04:00March 26th, 2009|15 Comments

Skinner Was Right

Reading the comments on my blog while in my hotel room last night, I came across this one from Theresa.  Theresa was just at one of the workshop a couple of days ago and what a nut. She certainly added to the atmosphere of the [...]

By |2009-03-25T03:35:39-04:00March 25th, 2009|6 Comments
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