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Susan Garrett

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  1. “That's one of our foundational games. So we have four games. We tell people you can rocket with your dog if you get these four games in. And the first one is the one you described. It's called It's Your Choice. And I've created my own word and it's just one word, it's your choice. And we want the dogs to know you're in control of all the good things that happen in your life. And it's just a response cost of me closing my hand around the food. So you get a handful of really attractive treats. And depending on the dog's food drive, like if it was a dog that doesn't have a ton of food drive, I might get like, you know, the top level value food I could get, steak and cheese and put that in my hand. And if it was a chow hound, you know, like a Labrador, they just love food or a shelter, you could put kibble in your hand.”

    2016-11-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #200: Susan Garrett -- Master Dog (and Human) Trainer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “How we raise the dogs, you create an environment rich in reinforcement so that the correct choice when you want them to make is the one they end up wanting to make. But if they choose something that isn't what you want, the environment controls the consequences so that you don't have to punish them or beat them up with a rolled up newspaper.”

    2016-11-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #200: Susan Garrett -- Master Dog (and Human) Trainer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “Definitely use food and toys and anything the dog loves as a reinforcement, but it's only after the dog has made a choice. So they make a choice and the, you know, it's like consequence. Basically, you know, I come from a family of nine kids. And so, and I never ever heard my parents raise their voice. So how you have success with that, and this is really how I trained my first aug is I just modeled my mother. If we were upstairs watching Disney and it was, you know, five to six and they called us for supper, they didn't yell and stamp their feet and carry on. They would give us a chance to make a choice. Are you coming for supper? And if you choose not to come down for supper, then she would go into the basement, unscrew the fuse for the TV, and there'd be no TV for the rest of the night and for the next 24 hours. So you have the choice to either do as you're asked or not, and you live by the consequences of that choice. And that's pretty much, you know.”

    2016-11-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #200: Susan Garrett -- Master Dog (and Human) Trainer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “There's basically if I was going to lump training into three categories, there would be punishment-based, which is more traditional because in the military, that's the way animals were often trained with you're the master and they will do it, they're told, and there's really no very little reinforcement. It's the absence of punishment that makes the dog keep working and it's the brilliance of dogs that allows them to still have this great bond with us in spite of what went on with punishment-based training and still goes on because it's certainly not gone. And then there's reinforcement-based training where people put a cookie on the dog's nose and lure them to get what they want from them. And that certainly is a step up from punishment in that you're creating a relationship of fun and trust. It has its limitations on its success once that lure is gone. And then what we do is different from that because we definitely”

    2016-11-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #200: Susan Garrett -- Master Dog (and Human) Trainer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “Exactly Being intentional and purposeful with what I want and creating basically the dog of my dreams every time I get a new puppy.”

    2016-11-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #200: Susan Garrett -- Master Dog (and Human) Trainer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “I train dogs very much the way they train marine mammals or exotic animals. It's a reinforcement-based program. Think of it like a killer rail you can't get in the tank and correct them and beat the crap out of them when they're wrong, right?”

    2016-11-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #200: Susan Garrett -- Master Dog (and Human) Trainer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  7. “Like any sport, the number one thing that separates us is the mental game. And once you put that aside, it would be the handler's ability to train their dog or, and you can put an and or, the handler's ability to outrun their dog. And most of my competition are in their mid-20s at the World Championship level. So they are able to outrun their dog. In my mid-50s, I am not able to outrun any dog. So I rely more on the dog training aspect of it to be successful.”

    2016-11-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #200: Susan Garrett -- Master Dog (and Human) Trainer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “Not in agility, it definitely is in flyball, which is another sport I actually won World Championships in as well before I really got heavily involved in agility. Agility has scored, think of it like a, if you watch a horse jumping competition at the Olympics. Time is number one, but it has to be time with a clean round. So there isn't style points. It's just getting around over all the obstacles as fast as you can without having a fault.”

    2016-11-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #200: Susan Garrett -- Master Dog (and Human) Trainer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  9. “Most people would have seen it, but maybe didn't know what it was. We used to have an event on ESPN a lot every year. So it's a sport where the dogs go over the jumps and through the tunnels and they weave in and out of the poles. And it's a really fast, fast sport. It's really gotten to a place where it's tough to keep up unless you're in really great shape as a handler. But it's a lot of fun for both dog and handler.”

    2016-11-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #200: Susan Garrett -- Master Dog (and Human) Trainer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT