Over the past couple of years, I’ve documented many challenges my dog This! and I have overcome, like reactivity, fear, resource guarding, and car sickness, to name a few behavior issues. And then, at an agility seminar here at my facility, This! fell apart. Now it’s time to put everything together. I have a two-part series outlining a timeline of This!’s struggles and what I’ve discovered to help her and many other dogs.
00:00 This!’s story. 02:15 Handling my dog’s agility seminar meltdown. 03:29 A dog’s behavior is information and communication. 04:29 You can’t dog train a non-dog-training problem. 05:00 Diagnosing my dog’s nutrition, hormones and gut health. 05:47 Envisioning This! as my puppy before she was born. 05:58 The Resilience Project by Hugh Van Cutlenberg. 07:44 Problems with my puppy’s body mechanics doing grids. 08:47 The challenge of a sloppy puppy sit. 10:30 The only instances my Border Collie showed drive. 11:11 Activities of adrenaline vs. dopamine spikes in dog training. 11:47 Resource guarding, reactivity, car sickness, and low failure resiliency. 12:55 Examples of my dog’s lack of joy for training. 14:01 Theories on why some dogs become more reactive at certain ages. 16:16 Fatigue after dog training sessions. 17:12 Why I stopped agility training my 1-year-old Border Collie. 19:54 People told me that my Border Collie’s body mechanics signaled dysplasia. 20:35 What a world renowned canine orthopedist discovered. 22:03 How a naturopath helped me overcome my agility dog’s lethargy. 22:27 My Border Collie stopped growing at 7 months. 22:57 Agility dog jump grids and what they showed for This!. 25:49 Why you shouldn’t ignore signs in otherwise healthy dogs. 26:19 Performance results from changing my agility dog’s diet.
In the episode you'll hear: • How This! falling apart at an agility seminar was a symptom of a larger problem. • Why you can’t dog train something that isn’t a dog training problem. • The origins of This!’s name and that there are no coincidences. • What I began noticing about This!’s body mechanics early in puppyhood. • That This! only showed true drive for activities of adrenaline like chasing. • About the reactivity, resource guarding, car sickness, stunted growth, and joylessness experienced by This!. • How anything involving thinking for This! led to her decompressing for hours. • Why my only focus for This! became her joy. • How a naturopath came into my life to help me help This!. • About This!’s growth stall relative to her littermates. • What agility jump grids help us notice in our agility dogs. • This!’s immediate performance improvement after nutritional changes.
