Why Dog Training Tips Don't Work for Doodles (And What Does)

There is a folder on your phone. Saved reels, screenshots, a loose-leash method with four steps and you remember two. Forty-seven tips in there, give or take.

And your Doodle still loses their whole mind when the doorbell rings.

Here is what I want you to hear: that is not evidence that you failed or that you did not try enough. It is evidence about what a tip actually is. A tip is a puzzle piece with no box top.

In this episode I walk through the difference between a tip and a system, using recall and the doorbell as the worked examples, and I name the reason your feed is full of one and empty of the other. It is not a conspiracy. It is economics.

"By Day 3 of the challenge, I understood my Doodle in a way I never had before. It felt like someone finally gave me the manual." - Sarah M.

More than 800 Doodle parents are already in for the 5-Day Doodle Parent Challenge, kicking off Monday night, September 7 at 8pm ET. Complimentary, live, and it is the system. Five days where I hand you the box top instead of another forty-seven tips.

The live kickoff happens once. Save your spot before Monday so Day 1 is the first thing you do, not the thing you catch up on.

👉 https://thedoodlepro.com/challenge

Doodles are different, wonderfully so. 🐾

CHAPTERS

0:00 The 100 calls they heard and ignored

0:28 The folder on your phone

1:23 Why 47 tips is not training

1:54 Forty-seven humans in one body

2:19 Why your feed is full of tips and empty of systems

3:09 Recall: the tip version vs. the system version

4:07 The doorbell, same pattern

5:01 Exhausted from trying, not from not trying

5:30 You were not set up to fail

5:47 What Monday night is

Note: chapter times may drift by up to about a minute in the back half of this episode due to mid-roll ad insertion.

Corinne Gearhart is the founder of The Doodle Pro®, a science-based training platform helping Doodle parents raise calmer, well-mannered dogs using positive reinforcement. She is the host of The Doodle Pro® Podcast and author of Your Doodle’s Daily Schedule Blueprint™.

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You called your doodle in from the backyard a hundred times. They heard every single one. They just didn't come. That's not a recall problem. That's a system problem. And today I'm going to show you the difference because my guess is no one ever has. Welcome to the Doodle Pro Podcast. I'm Crane Gearhart. And you guys, this might be the most important episode I record all year. I mean that. If you only hear one episode of this show, I want it to be this one. Now, let me describe something to you. And you tell me if this is you. You have a folder on your phone. Maybe it's saved reels, maybe it's Pinterest, maybe it's screenshots. And in that folder are 47 training tips. The hand signal for sit, the thing with the treats by the door, the trick where you turn your back when they jump. Some ladies' method for loose sleash walking that has four steps, and you remember two of them, a video you saved eight months ago that starts with pet professionals don't want you to know this, which as a side note, we do want you to know things. It's the whole job. 47 tips, and your doodle still loses their entire mind when the doorbell rings. Here's what I want you to hear. And I want you to like really let this land. That is not evidence that you failed or that you didn't try enough. That's evidence that tips don't work. Not for lack of trying, just because of what a tip is. A tip is a puzzle piece with no box top. It's a single move with no game plan. Your doodle doesn't experience 47 tips as training. They experience it as 47 different humans showing up in the same body with different rules on different days. Monday, you turned your back when they jumped. Wednesday, you were carrying groceries, so you couldn't. Saturday, your mother-in-law visited and she pet the jumping, and she thinks the jumping's adorable. From your doodle seat, there's no policy, there's weather and a partnership dog, which is what every doodle is at their core, cannot partner with changing weather. They need a pattern. Doodles were bred to work with someone, and with requires the two of you to be running the same play. And here's the part that nobody tells you. So I will. That's not on you. That's the store. Let me show you the difference with the recall because it's the perfect example. The tip version is say it once, sound happy, give a treat. Fine, true, even. But a system asks completely different questions, competing with you in that backyard. Because a cheerful cum versus a squirrel is not a fair fight. And we need to know that going in. What's the history of that word? Because if cum has meant nail trims and a bath and then the crate, that word carries baggage. And we might need a brand spank a new one. What happens in the three seconds after they arrive? Is the reinforcement actually reinforcing? Or is it like a dry biscuit? Well, the squirrel's right there. And where are we practicing? Because asking for a backyard recall before you built a living room recall is like asking for the final exam before the first class. The tip tells you what to say. The system tells you why it works, when it breaks, and what to fix first. That's the difference between owning a hammer and knowing how to build. Now let's take the same lens to the doorbell real quick because I want you to see it's the same everywhere. The tip says, put them in a sit when guests arrive. The system asks, what does the doorbell predict right now? Because for your doodle, it predicts the most exciting 45 seconds of the week. And no sit on earth outcompetes that until we change what the bell means. See it? Same pattern. The tip addresses the moment, the system addresses the meaning. And behavior follows meaning every single time. And here's the part that breaks my heart a little bit. Honestly, I talk with doodle parents every day who are exhausted from trying, not from not trying, from trying. They've done everything. The internet, their neighbor, their father-in-law told them to. They spent the money, saved the videos, bought the special treats that are now in a drawer. And they're quietly embarrassed. Like everyone else got a manual. They didn't. Or maybe their dog just will never get it. Some of them have been carrying the same problem for years. Years, you guys. Listen to me. You are not set up to fail. You were just not set up. Nobody handed you the system. They handed you confetti and called it a plan. So here's what I want to do about it. Four days from now, on Monday night, September 7th, I'm kicking off the five-day doodle parent challenge. It's free, it's live, and it's the system. Five days where I hand you the box top, not 47 tips. One sequence in order where each day builds on the one before it. Built for the way doodles actually live. You'll finally understand why your doodle does what they do. And then in the right order, what to do about it. Last time we did this, doodle parents from 25 states and 10 countries showed up. Barbados to British Columbia. And by day three, the messages I was getting was just incredible. People saying, I understand my dog for the first time in six years. That's day three. Yes, it starts Labor Day evening on purpose. You're already home, the cookout's winding down, and there's no better way to jump into fall than with an actual plan for the fluffy chaos agent on your couch. One night, one hour, in your pajamas, and we're off. Go ahead and save your spot at the doodlepro.com slash challenge. All one word. That's the doodlepro.com slash challenge. And when you register, hit reply in the welcome email and tell me about your doodle, their name, their job title, if you took the quiz, and the one thing you'd change if you could. Because I actually read those every single one. And I fill the live calls around what you tell me. This is the Doodle Pro Podcast, where we celebrate how doodles are different, wonderfully so.