3 Keys to a Confident Dog #38

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What is confidence in a dog? Why do we need it? How do we grow it, and why should we even care? Confidence is a topic I'm very passionate about, and there are three things that are big contributors bringing out the best in a puppy or dog.

In the episode you'll hear:

• What my dog Decaff taught me about confidence.
• How confidence replaces stress and anxiety.
• About my once in a lifetime dogs.
• How our beliefs control our thoughts about our dogs and how our thoughts control our actions.
• Why today can be your starting point!
• The strategy you can adopt to get to where you want to be with your dog.
• My promise to Momentum's four puppies about marbles.
• About emotional states and our dogs.
• Why to play small to play big.
• How you can see lack of marble building behaviour in performance sports like agility.
• About defining the behavior you see by what is real.
• How much the language you use about your dog matters.
• Why we want our bag of marbles overfull.

Resources:

• Blog Post: Is There a Difference? - https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2010/04/is-there-a-difference/
• Podcast Episode 8: Get Your Dog in the Belief Loop of Awesome - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/8/
• Susan Garrett's Recallers Successes Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/pg/SusanGarrettsRecallers/photos/
• Podcast Episode 22: The Invisible Bubble of Pressure and Your Dog - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/22/
• Vlog Post: Where is Your Dog on the Circle of Fun? - https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2018/07/circle-of-fun/
• Blog Post: Improve Your Dog Training by Playing Like A Dog - https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2012/04/improve-your-dog-training-by-playing-like-a-dog/
• Home School the Dog - https://dogsthat.com/home-school/
• Recallers - https://recallers.com/
• DogsThat.Com - https://dogsthat.com/