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.

Toilets and wall tiles

So I spend the day yesterday with my friends Penny and Lynda going through kitchen displays and sitting on toilets shopping for the new house. How exhausting. John stayed behind on this trip so I was told "I could look but not comitt to buying anything!" [...]

2009-02-11T05:49:46-04:00February 11th, 2009|4 Comments

A New Goal for All of Us to Aim For

The trial I was at on Friday was a small one. There were two standard runs and in the second one, Feature was the only 26" dogs (video included below).  However with this very small trial there where still 3 people (that I knew of) [...]

2020-01-10T20:50:05-04:00February 8th, 2009|10 Comments

Pack Life and Cabin Fever

John and I are living in this tiny little apt above a garage right now. We have been here for about 8 months while we are having a new house built. We used to let students use it when they were here for camps or [...]

2009-02-06T05:42:17-04:00February 6th, 2009|5 Comments

Saying Good Bye to a Great One

Canadian agility lost one of it's very special dogs yesterday with the passing of Sarah Mairs' brilliant Golden Retriever "Gabby". She was only 10 1/2 years old. Gabby was an amazing flyball dog, one of the fastest "non-Border Collies" of her day and brilliantly represented [...]

2020-01-10T20:46:44-04:00February 4th, 2009|19 Comments

Lessons in Life’s Processes . . . get the kleenex.

It has to do with the oneness you become with that dog on the agility field. You are a team. The time and dedication invested in a relationship to reach that degree of unity only helps to fuel the burning pain of loss as your time together draws to a close.

2020-01-10T20:44:03-04:00January 27th, 2009|20 Comments
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