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Why Your Goldendoodle Barks, Steals Socks, and Won't Settle: Every Doodle Has a Job · The Doodle Pro®: Positive Dog Training for Calm Doodles

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  SPEAKER_00: Somewhere in your house right now, there's a doodle on the clock monitoring the window, tracking the snags, escorting you to the bathroom like you can't be trusted to go alone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nobody hired them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nobody trained them for the position.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nobody's paying them on purpose.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: And that, you guys, is exactly the problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Doodle Pro Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Kring Gearhart, and today we're talking about your doodle's job.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because they have one.
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  SPEAKER_00: I promise you they have one.
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  SPEAKER_00: You just never got a copy of the job description.
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  SPEAKER_00: And by the end of this episode, you're going to look at your doodle completely differently.
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  SPEAKER_00: In a good way.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the best way, honestly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, let me tell you about mine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nestle McCabapoo holds the title of Head of Snack Surveillance, unpaid, extremely committed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every day at 5 15, when dinner prep starts, he stations himself at the exact spot where the counter meets the fridge.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not near it, at it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like a tiny security guard who's memorized where the shift change happens.
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  SPEAKER_00: If I move to the pantry, he repositions.
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  SPEAKER_00: If I open the cheese drawer, and I want to be clear, the cheese drawer makes a specific sound that is apparently audible from anywhere in my house.
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  SPEAKER_00: He arrives before the drawer is fully open.
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  SPEAKER_00: He did not learn this on purpose from me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Believe me, I never taught a class called Where the Cheese Falls.
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  SPEAKER_00: He assigned himself.
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  SPEAKER_00: He saw an opening in the organization and he took it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And your doodle did too.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe yours is the stock acquisition specialist, the neighborhood watch commander, the director of counteroperations, the professional napper with an inconsistent schedule.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go ahead and picture your doodle right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: You already know which one they are, don't you?
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  SPEAKER_00: You're smiling.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can feel you smiling.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, here's where the bet stops being a bit because there's a real principle underneath it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's one I want you to carry around for the rest of your life with your beloved dog.
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  SPEAKER_00: Doodles come from partnership breeds on every side of the family tree.
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  SPEAKER_00: Retrieving partners, water partners, dogs whose entire history is working alongside a person, reading a person, waiting for the next assignment from a person.
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  SPEAKER_00: And partnership dogs expect a role.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the deal they've been offering humans for generations.
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  SPEAKER_00: Give me a job and I will do it with my whole entire heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: So here's what happens when nobody assigns one.
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  SPEAKER_00: They don't wait around, they don't file a complaint, they promote themselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here's the principle: if you write down one thing today, write this an unmet need does not disappear.
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  SPEAKER_00: It gets self-directed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Say it with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: An unmet need does not disappear.
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  SPEAKER_00: It gets self-directed.
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  SPEAKER_00: The barking at the window, the door rushing, the counter patrol.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is not misbehavior.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a doodle running a department nobody created with no manager, no training, and no lunch break.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me walk you through one all the way because I want you to really see this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Think about the doodle who barks at every single delivery truck.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everyone.
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  SPEAKER_00: The 1042 Amazon van, the mail carrier whose schedule they've memorized better than you've memorized your own kids' schedules.
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  SPEAKER_00: That dog did not develop a barking problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: That dog assigned themselves a surveillance shift, full time, no breaks.
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  SPEAKER_00: No one's relieving them at five o'clock.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here's the part that gets me every time.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're exhausted by it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just like you would be.
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  SPEAKER_00: Imagine working a job where the threats never stop coming.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nobody ever says, good work, and you can't quit.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's not a naughty dog.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's an overworked one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now let me give you a second one because once you see this pattern, you can't unsee it.
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  SPEAKER_00: The sock acquisition specialist.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know this doodle.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you live with this doodle.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a sock missing right now, and you both know who's got it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's what's actually happening there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Somewhere along the way, that doodle discovered that picking up a sock produces the single most exciting event in the entire household.
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  SPEAKER_00: You stop what you're doing, you say their name in that voice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes multiple family members join in.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's chasing, there's drama, there's eye contact like they've never received in their life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And boy, it's deliciously stinky, too.
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  SPEAKER_00: From your doodle's side of the table, they didn't steal a sock.
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  SPEAKER_00: They initiated the company team building event.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it worked.
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  SPEAKER_00: It works every time.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's not a thief.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a retrieving dog who found the one retrieval job this household reliably pays for.
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  SPEAKER_00: Which brings me to the part that nobody says out loud.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're all, every one of us, accidentally running the HR department.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whatever gets a reaction gets reinforced.
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  SPEAKER_00: And whatever gets reinforced becomes the role.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your Doodle's job title wasn't picked at random, it was built one accidental paycheck at a time out of whatever your household happened to respond to.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I need you to hear the next sentence in my kindest voice.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is not a criticism of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nobody told you you were the HR department.
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  SPEAKER_00: You didn't even know the company existed.
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  SPEAKER_00: You were just trying to get your sack back without any holes or swallowing.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the reframe I want to hand you today is this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Stop asking, how do I make this stop?
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  SPEAKER_00: And start asking, what job did my doodle take?
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  SPEAKER_00: And is it the one I would have picked for them?
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  SPEAKER_00: That question changes everything because how do I make this stop leads you to corrections, and corrections aimed at a self-assigned job don't touch the need underneath it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what job did they take leads you somewhere useful.
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  SPEAKER_00: It tells you what your doodle's actually asking for.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not more discipline, a better assignment.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a doodle with a better assignment is a calmer doodle, a more connected doodle, and honestly, a funnier doodle because now the jokes are on purpose.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now here's the thing: there are five job titles a doodle can hold.
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  SPEAKER_00: Five.
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  SPEAKER_00: And each one needs something completely different from you.
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  SPEAKER_00: What helps the surveillance dog will bore the unemployed one to pieces.
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  SPEAKER_00: What settles the overworked one does nothing for the one working three jobs at once.
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  SPEAKER_00: Getting the title wrong means solving the wrong problem, which is what most doodle parents have been doing for years through absolutely no fault of their own.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because nobody showed them the org chart.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I built you something.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a quiz, it takes two minutes, and it tells you your doodle's actual job title.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I promise you'll send the result to somebody because they are just so accurate.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a little spooky.
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  SPEAKER_00: People message me like, how did it know about the window?
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  SPEAKER_00: And go ahead, go ahead and take it at the doodlepro.com slash doodle job.
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  SPEAKER_00: All one word.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the doodlepro.com slash doodle job.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then come tell me what you got.
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  SPEAKER_00: Find me on Instagram job title because I'm dying to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I read every single one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Last time I asked, somebody told me their burna doodle got professional napper and then attached a photo of the dog asleep on the quiz results.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think about it weekly.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the Doodle Pro Podcast, where we celebrate how doodles are different.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wonderfully so.