<p>When our dog is stressed, we often find our connection breaks.</p>
<p>Picture a Venn diagram where two circles, stress and connection intersect. It is here that we need to find our way back into connection and away from the dark cloud of stress.</p>
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<p>While connection has much to do with our dog's ability to perform the behavior you have cued, stress can prevent a known behavior from being able to occur in an environment for which you cannot or do not train, like a trial.</p>
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<p>In the episode, I discuss how you can look for this stress, how you can use class to train through it and examples of how I moved that dark stressy cloud out of my way.</p>
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<p>Keep in mind, each team is different, for some stress-relieving behaviors before entering the ring are paramount, for others they are detrimental. </p>
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