Belief Loops: How Your Thoughts Impact Your Dog's Behavior

Have you ever described your dog as stubborn, aloof, out-of-control, or sneaky? These thoughts – aka ‘Belief Loops’ – tangibly impact your dog’s behavior. When we trick ourselves into believing “that’s just how my dog is,” we sell them – and ourselves – short. Watch this “Best of Belief Loops” compilation to instantly interrupt, redirect and rise above negative thought patterns to create a bulletproof human-dog bond.

🐾Key Belief Loop Concepts:

00:00 Belief Loops with Susan Garrett.
00:39 Result of Harvard “Belief” experiment on toddlers.
01:39 Cycle of Belief Loops.
03:12 Breed biases are stereotypes.
04:31 Why dogs don’t seem to “get it.”
05:26 Beliefs vs. perceptions in dog training.
06:28 Cycle of belief indoctrination.
07:51 “What if I’m wrong?” - Brené Brown
08:50 Fixed mindset to growth mindset.
09:11 Impact of negative self-talk about our dogs.
11:09 Ego-driven dog trainers and dog sport mentors.
11:45 You can be an excellent dog trainer.

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Susan Garrett’s interest in animal behaviour started at the University of Guelph where she earned a Bachelor of Science majoring in Animal Science. Since then she has developed into a preeminent dog trainer and canine sports instructor and competitor. Susan is one of the most successful agility competitors of the last three decades. She has won multiple Gold Medals at National or World Championship events with every dog she has ever owned over the past 30 years.

A natural teacher and an entertaining speaker, Susan is world renowned as a leading educator of dog trainers. Her understanding of how to apply science-based learning principles to both competitive and family pet dog training has been pivotal in changing how dogs are trained.

Susan is now helping many thousands of dog owners in 132 countries have the best relationship possible with their dogs. The real joy for her comes from bringing confidence to dogs and their owner through playful interactions and relationship building games that are grounded firmly in the science of how animals learn.
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[heathermanson]

8:15 … I love that question, “What if I’m wrong?”

[lisaloveslenormand]

Excellent video and such an important topic! Susan looks great with her hair back, btw. Love you, Susan Garrett!!

[marycostigan]

Wow! How perfect for me to find this today! Yesterday my daughter and her 2 girls were visiting! My daughter was frazzled because of traffic, her girls are high energy so my reactive, fearful girl Roxy seemed to be doing all the wrong things I asked her to go into time out, not in and angry voice, so she did but then she barked at me so much I had to walk away. My emotions got the best of me and I told Roxy to shut up, not yelling but not calmly either
Later on I told my husband Roxy was acting like a jerk which I never did before
Thank you for this information I need to make sure I get my thoughts, beliefs, and emotions under control

[TheKak]

Love this! My dog is easily startled, so from that I saw her as a scared dog. She’s tough, energetic and full of life! I changed my thoughts and I see the courage in her and encourage it! She loves the praise!

[LoneLupine]

Wonderful video. Great for dog training but also for any aspect of life in general ❤

[e.m.]

No matter what I think, my dog IS stubborn and slow - sort of "Wait and see'", "Let's see whether I can't decide where we go next", "I'm finished training". Nevertheless, beliefs do influence behavior! Thank you for your videos!

[nancyhooper]

Another Great podcast and today I wasn't positive for myself, didn't train till was in better mindset. Need to work on myself more 💖💖💖💖🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪

[AllTimeAesthetic]

Having trouble with my dog, never have had a dog that seemed so growly and unhappy so easily. Trying to get what she sees and understand that she is not just a “cranky” dogs, but maybe she just needs a lot more “buy in.”

[Kuro_Reaper]

I love my dog; but he is really slow at learning. And I mean REALLY slow. He is a Whippet and at the complete opposite end of the spectrum to a Border Collie when it comes to learning. It took him 2 months to learn down; that is using his fav food and toys (aka as a game) multiple times a day.
I really love him, but he is not smart. We have been working on "Paw" for a month now and he still has not worked out to even shuffle his feet yet.
I know when he gets it he will understand it well and it will be reliable.

Whippets are naturally hard to motivate as they are not bred to work with/for humans and so they are only going to do something on their own terms...Like a cat. But I love him and he is honestly one of the best beings in my life. I couldn't be without him....Although would be nice if he didn't kick me in the face at night. hehe

[watchmoivies]

Good morning
I totally believe what you’re saying, and do tell my dog every day he’s wonderful, and perfect, and can do anything but I do have a question

If you have a dog that you believe is genetically hyper and over aroused and you’ve had this dog since eight weeks old and the dog has been like this since eight weeks old, do you think this dog can change if that’s the word I want to use with this method you’re speaking about
Thank you

[scottdebruyn]

Have I relayed this quote from the author Richard Bach (from his book 'Illusions')? "Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours." 🤔 😑😏