How to Have a Healthy Relationship with Your DOG – Dog Training Video Podcast
all right welcome to another edition of
k9 conversations the podcast that now
can also be seen visually on YouTube
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driving but you can also see me in all
my glory here maybe not today because
I’m wearing camouflage I might be a
little bit invisible but we were just
out doing some bird dog training and I
think this is the right guard for that
week we’re training Duane for his hunt
test which we’ll see how that goes but
today we’re going to talk about
something really interesting and that is
defining healthy relationships with dogs
right I just finished this week doing a
long two-day intensive training at Bound
Angels University for shelter employees
from across the country we had a guy
Anthony really great guy here from New
York City from Brooklyn we had two kids
here from Missouri we had two ladies
here from Yucaipa animal and we had it
was a great it was a great group it was
a really great group we had a lot of fun
we trained a lot of dogs and learned a
lot so that’s always the fun part but
you know the one thing we always get
down to is defining these healthy
relationships like you know in shelters
I always tell Val interior dog trainers
or management not to get emotionally
attached to the dog so in other words
what I don’t ever want people to do in a
shelter environment is to how do I say
it you know to love the dog I know
you’re gonna end up loving the dog and
get attached to the dog but it’s super
unhealthy mainly for the dog because
what happens is this dog was a pet the
dog was loved the dog was you know lived
in a home hopefully slept on a bed you
know or in a bed or you know on the
carpeted floor or something and then
suddenly BAM ripped away from them
they end up in a shelter sleeping on a
concrete floor behind iron bars where
they’re completely freaked out they have
no idea what’s going on they have no
idea why this is happening and then
they go into this feral State right this
state where they they have to fight for
survival and and because they’re afraid
they don’t know what’s going on they
don’t understand that someone might
adopt them or they might get killed so
when that happens to dogs they go into a
feral State and that feral State really
starts to define the person or the dog
that they are the reason that’s so
serious is because we want to utilize
the trust and balance in the dog’s mind
or whatever is left to get them out of
the shelter now when people form this
bond with them they started loving on
him and hugging him and kissing him and
treating him like they’re their pet then
what happens is these dogs bond with
that person now if that person takes the
dog home I got no problem with it right
and I just just I’m going to talk about
this issue with this Malinois after this
but basically the dog then attaches
themselves to another person that they
have 2d attached from or detach from Dee
attached and I think that’s a word to
detach from in order to get into their
next home and I think all of this messes
with the dogs minor messes with their
ability to trust so I try to advocate
for not doing that I think it’s a really
bad idea I don’t like it what I really
kind of advocate people to do is to be a
coach to be a coach for the dog and to
give the dog what the dog really needs
and you know and give the dog a lot more
balance as opposed to love so balance
structure training and all that I think
it’s very healthy for the dog looking at
it from the perspective of love
affection and that I think it’s harder
on little of course we’re going to love
the dog but the idea of that is harder
for the dog to understand it’s a it’s
more changes for the dog so I kind of
advocate not doing it a great example of
that is I was asked there’s this
Malinois at the shelter I’m not
mentioning what shelter and they said
the dog is really messed up the dog is
just crazy the dog is this is that not
uncommon for a Malin well especially in
a shelter because they start to spin out
of control they have no idea what’s
going on they need a lot of stimulation
but the stimulation they receive in the
shelter is something that will often
break them down right it’ll often
confuse them and put them into a
different state this was exactly the
case
for this young female Malley and she was
I don’t know maybe six eight ten months
old not much more than that I got the
dog out the person who works in the
shelter said to me oh she’s really
bonded to me which is super unhealthy
right it’s super bad because this person
this shelter employee is not going to
take this dog home and because they’re
not going to take the dog home this dog
being so attached to her the shelter
worker confuses the dog so I’ll give you
a great example I went up to the kennel
door I’ve got a pretty solid presence
I’ve got a usually pretty easy time
getting dogs to come out to go with me
the dog saw me looked at me saw the
kennel saw the employee the shelter
employee and immediately was super happy
when I went to go get the dog the dog
ran and hid in the back cubicle of the
kennel and wouldn’t come out when the
girl who works there went into the
kennel she came out and she was all over
and nuzzling or happy happy happy and it
looks cute right so we all would say oh
how sweet how cute the dogs bonded with
somebody but it’s not right because what
happened is I took the dog down the
hallway out the back and into the yard
and the dog would not connect with me at
all now granted somebody’s gonna say
well eventually the dog will bond with
you and that’s true
the problem with that is that eventual
picture doesn’t make sense to a
potential adopter even a potential
rescue so this dog is wasted all this
time bonding with this employee and
hasn’t really had the opportunity to to
understand that it should be kind of
neutral to her so I’m sure she’s giving
it affection she’s petting and loving
and doing all this stuff which is the
greatest thing for the dog per se but
it’s also very unhealthy for the dog
because the dog can’t bond that all
can’t get a solid picture of what the
dog should be doing so let’s look at
something and that is how do we how do
we affect or enact healthy relationships
with dogs I’m going to break this down
into three categories first one being
puppies second on a rescue dogs three
being adult dogs you know when we get
puppies puppies hopefully come from a
good breeder they come from a rescue
they come from a shelter but let’s hope
they’re coming from
to start with a good breeder they’re
well reared their well bred their health
checked their they’re well socialized
and during the whelping process and the
rearing process when the dog is brought
up the dog must be exposed to many many
many things right and in that it
shouldn’t it’s not that it should just
be coddled and loved and hugged and
kissed because that’s not healthy for
the dog that’ll oftentimes build a dog
with separation anxiety or too much too
many connection issues to a person so we
want the puppy you know the way it’s
raised is really really critical so one
thing that ends up really giving us
really terrible dogs is puppies that
aren’t raised with other puppies right
puppies that are let’s say the only one
that survives out of the litter and it
doesn’t learn any skills from other
puppies or god forbid puppies that are
raised whose mom died and I know people
who have raised puppies like this so
there’ll be a bottle foster and they’ll
they’ll take these puppies and they’ll
raise him they’ll bottle feed him and
they’ll do this and inevitably
inevitably these people feel so bad for
the dog that they protect him from
everything they they treat him super
softly and super timidly and they’re
walking on eggshells around him but when
the puppy is raised by the mom the mom
is super harsh with the dog that is she
sometimes walks on it she picks it up
with her mouth throws him the other side
of the whelping box and all that and the
mom knows exactly what she can do to the
dogs I saw Maya raising a litter of
puppies and she was amazing but she knew
exactly how hard she could play with
them but knew not to go beyond that
other puppies tend to play rough with
the other with with the other puppies
that teaches the dog really this
structure it teaches the dog how to play
it teaches it bite inhibition it teaches
it boundaries and all that stuff which
is something that people aren’t going to
teach their puppies so what they do is
they baby-talk the puppies they coddle
the puppies they hug the puppies
everybody has to hold the puppy even if
they don’t know how to hold a puppy up
sometimes puppies fall down and you know
people get upset with puppies they yell
at puppies or they over baby puppies so
it’s not one or the other but it’s the
balance that we’re really looking for
right so we want
neutrality with puppies we want them to
see the world you know we want them to
explore we want them to mist it make
mistakes we want the puppy to fall down
and get back up now I’m not saying that
strictly like I want the dog to fall off
a table I don’t ever want that but you
know the old Japanese added seven times
fall down eight times get up means that
I want the dog to to learn to stumble
learn to recover and learn to move
forward and go on in its life that’s
really critical and oftentimes people
don’t let puppies do that so they also
don’t want to ever correct puppies now
if a puppy is sucking on the moms nipple
looking for milk and she the puppy bites
too hard the mom will correct the puppy
if the puppy plays too rough with
another puppy the other puppy will
correct the puppy or the mom will get
between to scrub you know feuding
puppies and break it up and all that
makes for really healthy healthy
boundaries with puppies because usually
people don’t give the puppy freedom
because they think it’s cute it’s a
puppy let the puppy be a puppy let the
puppy do what it’s going to do and you
know where the puppy grows up that’s
when we’ll give the puppy Corrections
and then it’s too late because then it’s
a dog then we have a puppy just like a
child that’s gotten away with everything
everything everything over weeks and
weeks and months and months and suddenly
we’re gonna start correcting it and
that’s not gonna happen so the dog is
gonna get frustrated the dog is gonna be
resentful the dog is be kind of going to
become obstinate and really start to
resent you whereas if you just enacted
some boundaries early on it would be a
much healthier relationship with a dog
so puppies need structure they need
solid interaction they need to learn to
stumble they need to learn to you know
fall and get up like I said
metaphorically obviously they need to
learn boundaries they need to learn what
they can do and what they can’t do what
will allowed what we won’t allow like
Goofy’s trying to nuzzle me right out no
goofy lie down I’m working here trying
to do a podcast he’s right here
anyway goofy go lie down go so now let’s
talk about rescue dog something I’ve
worked with extensively for years and
have so many you know issues when people
do this incorrectly so it would
in inevitably happens people rescue a
dog and constantly remind the dog of the
dog’s past there oh he was abused or I
rescued him from a meat farmer I rescued
him from a shelter or he was one day
from being put down or you know they had
the needle in his arm and I rescued him
all these great sob stories which and I
know I’m gonna catch a lot of grief for
this but the bottom line is forget that
bull right forget all that just make
sure that when you rescue the dog you
have rescued this dog to give it a
better life and that life starts now
right that life starts the minute you
rescue the dog not any other time so
don’t remind the dog the dog came from
deplorable conditions don’t remind the
dog that the dog was abused don’t remind
the dog with the dog hag you know
nothing else it’s the dog now has three
legs at once at four legs the dog
doesn’t care the dog is living in the
present right now right now the dog is
living in this moment which you’re not
you’re thinking about the past the past
the past how terrible it was and how
good you want to make it in the future
and the dog doesn’t care about that the
dog only cares about right now do I have
a treat to have a bowl of food to have a
ball to play with and that’s really it
so the other thing people do with rescue
dogs they always will say the dog was
abused right the dog oh my dog is afraid
of a broom I guarantee you he was beaten
with a broom my dog doesn’t like men he
was kicked by men my dog doesn’t like
children children poked him in the eye
where now if you know that’s true that’s
one thing I give you some credit let’s
say okay you know that’s a really good
thing to to know don’t remind the dog of
it but if you don’t know it don’t assume
it right don’t make it worse for the dog
if the dog is afraid of a broom
introduce him to a broom I got goofy at
9 weeks old he was scared to death of
flags and balloons so what I did I
introduced some flags and balloons a
video on YouTube that shows exactly what
I did and it made it really easy for him
because I introduced it to him around
his food he couldn’t eat unless he was
going to get around a balloon with the
middle appeared if I think it was ten
days or maybe two weeks goofy was in the
yard popping balloons and jumping all
over him had no issues with her ever
again so you know the other thing people
always rescue dogs from the worst story
and I’m going to do another pod
on this because it’s something that
really upsets me I hear all the time oh
we got the dog from the Korean meat
market we got the dog from a Chinese
meat farm and you know there’s we’re
killing thousands of dogs in this
country every year thousands of dogs in
this country the thousands of dollars
you and I’m not saying you but people
spend to rescue a dog from Korea or
China or wherever they eat dogs
those thousands of dollars could save
many dogs in this country and I’m gonna
talk about it later I’m gonna stop right
there on that topic but when you when
you go into the story of the dog the
rescue dog how you’re gonna relate with
that dog should be neutral it should be
as if the dog just showed up in your
life and you know nothing about the dog
which you usually don’t and you’re going
to give the dog a a fair shot at a
normal life and the only way you’re
gonna do that is to not remind the dog
of their past
give the dog structure give the dog
training give have expectations for the
dogs have boundaries for the dog because
that’s gonna give the dog the best
chance at adapting you want the dog to
become normal just like with a puppy if
you have a puppy and you treat it like a
puppy puppy puppy always then it’s
always going to remain a puppy it’s
always gonna have that immaturity to it
because you’re not expecting or giving
the dog the the ability to live up to
becoming a dog it’s just like with
children you know I see these guys
coaching kids you know soccer in the in
the park up here in Malibu and they’re
playing all these games oh my god that
was the greatest goal of all times it
wasn’t it wasn’t the greatest goal of
all times Pele or these great you know
these great athletes they score the
greatest goal of all times a
three-year-old is not scoring the
greatest goal of all times and I think
and I’m coming from a place where I
taught karate to kids for years if you
if you make these little achievements
monumental achievements for a child they
don’t ever have to go further now I
believe in rewarding it believe in
praising and and and being very very
generous with praise but don’t lie don’t
make it greater than it was and that’s
what people do with the dogs they over
coddle them they over cuddle the puppy
they over puppy the puppy and the
puppies stay stuck in that realm or in
that age bracket because you know at
what point do you correct the puppy in
other words if you don’t correct the
puppy when the puppy is two months old
or three months old or four months old
well then six months old then eight
months ten months twelve months it’s a
year 18 months it’s it’s a mature dog by
the time it hits 24 to 36 months and you
haven’t given it the structure so the
structure is something that we want to
layer in but we want to make sure it’s
present from day one all right new
sheriff in town I always tell this to
people with adult dogs which we’re gonna
go into next that when you have a dog
the first day that dog is with you the
dog is a blank slate the dog doesn’t
know what to expect the dog has no clue
on what you are going to do to it for it
or with it so if you’re going to be an
abusive person hit the dog kick the dog
punch the dog abuse the dog or if you’re
gonna love the dog hug the dog kiss the
dog and and coddle the dog the dog
doesn’t know the dog is starting from
neutral place so obviously you don’t
want to do either of the two that I just
mentioned but you want to come in in the
middle there are expectations there’s
you know I expect my dog to behave I
expect my dog to respect me I expect my
dog to respect the environment the house
wherever we are and the dog must listen
I will teach the dog what I want the dog
to do but the dog must listen and if the
dog doesn’t listen well then you know
the dog is gonna have some consequences
to deal with because a dog that doesn’t
listen is not a good dog it’s it’s a
very hard dog to live with it’s a very
hard dog to keep safe because we want
the dog to listen because we want to
keep the dog safe right those are
critical critical things adult dog so
sometimes you know you’re gonna get a
new dog because you you know you
whatever your dog died or you know
somebody gave you a dog they couldn’t
keep it or whatever that reason is you
know what do you know about the dog
that’s the key thing what was the dog’s
past life like now the reason I’m saying
this is because you hear you actually
have a chance if somebody gives you a
dog a friend or something like that you
kind of know what the dog did is the dog
dominant as a dog good with cats kids
bicycles birds what you know whatever it
is if you know that then utilize it but
still give the dog structure if the dog
had no structure and it’s come
into your home you’ve got that shot the
longer you let the dog go on without
structure without obedience without
expectations the longer you’re letting
this dog fail and more importantly the
longer you’re letting this dog get away
with the behavior that’s not healthy and
it’s not something you want so I try to
get into that right away day 1 when I
got Maya she was I think four years old
or something like that and and she’s
gonna turn nine here soon but day one it
was structure these are my expectations
this is what I expect of you this is
what I will do and I will not tolerate
anything else and based on that Maya
became a great dog when I first got her
I couldn’t get her around other dogs she
was gnarly she would pull on a leash yet
horrible manners but she was a beautiful
dog so that’s why the people who you
know my clients bred her and then said
well she’s a hard dog to keep would you
like her I got her after training her
for a while but anyway the you know the
biggest thing I think people get into
with a dog in the early phases of owning
that dog is affection and affection is
really something that’s kind of
confusing to dogs because we give this
affection freely dogs earn affection
they earn praise they earn respect we
just kind of dole it out because we
think the dog is cute dogs don’t look at
you and think you’re handsome or cute
unless they’re looking at me and you
start to give you affection right dogs
will really give affection based on what
you’ve given them so if you give a dog
some really good food the dog will be
affection to you it’s appreciative and
it’s it’s going from that perspective a
dog will give you affection if it’s you
know if it’s in a cuddly face if it’s
bonding if it’s doing all these things
but a dog doesn’t just do it willy-nilly
and if you do it will you know if you
just give it to the dog you’re kind of
setting the dog up for expectations that
confuse the dog I’m super affectionate
with my dogs I’m gonna go on record here
my dog sleep in bed with me Janet and I
sleep with our with our dogs we always
love having one of the dogs in the bed
with us it’s it’s fun we you know we
have we have a joke in the morning
boom goofy and Maya pop up Jimmy was
probably been sleeping there all night
and we loved it right we think it’s
great I hug my dogs I kiss my dogs I
love
love love my dogs are my life so when I
tell you to be careful with affection
I’m telling you that because I want you
to give your dog love I want you to give
your dog affection but I want you to
give it to the dog in a way that he’ll
understand and with healthy parameters
around it my dogs will get a correction
my dogs will do what I ask him to do
they will learn to do what makes me
happy because what makes me happy is
important to them because that’s the
relationship of the dog right the dog
understands that that rank-and-file
people always tell you Oh dogs don’t
lovable I see so many people other
trainers picking my stuff up and then
going on their page and criticizing it
but you know if they criticize it here
they know they’re gonna get corrected
because they’re wrong so and people say
oh dogs you know everything a dog does
it doesn’t have a reason it does though
everything we do has a reason everything
I do has a reason and there is a Nash a
natural reason to life that that things
eV and flow very beautifully but there’s
still rational and reason behind them so
I always look at with adult dog adult
dogs do they love me or do they respect
me right and in the dog kingdom respect
comes first and then comes love they
need to respect you because they need to
feel safe they have a drive in their
minds where they need to know that
they’re safe and if they’re safe they
love you and that love is an
unconditional love it’s the best love I
mean it’s it’s just super powerful but
you must have it within structure if not
the dog will love you and bite other
people around you’re a bite all the dogs
that come near you and become you know
start resource gardening and stuff like
that healthy decisions about bringing
your new dog home is going to be the
single best thing you can do for a dog
because you’re going to give them the
tools to thrive the tools to survive the
tools to make you happy and the tools to
live a very balanced life so what I’m
saying all this stuff I’m not saying it
because I don’t want you to give
affection to your dogs I’m giving it to
you because I want you to give affection
to your dogs and I want you to benefit
from that affection but more importantly
I want the dogs to benefit if a dog
doesn’t benefit from the life they have
with you then the dog is failing the dog
up in a shelter the dogs have killed I’m
in the shelter’s I see it it breaks my
heart every single time I’m there I mean
Janet says how do you do this how do you
even stand to see these dogs in the
shelters and the answer to that is I do
it because if I don’t do it they’re not
getting out they’re not getting a fair
shake of things there’s nobody really
doing this as much as with what I do and
I love doing it I love helping these
dogs and giving him a shot so that’s
about it for healthy relationship with
dogs I know I talk about this all the
time
I’ll do some more podcast about it in
the future but let’s get to some
questions and answers here’s one
Jane Haven says hey there I’m looking
for some advice on how to deal with
resource guarding between my two dogs
they’re both rescues I adopted earlier
this year separately a four year old
female great rescue Greyhound and a
seven year old Great Dane crossed
Neapolitan Mastiffs the problem I’m
having is at dinner time after they’re
both finished eating the greyhound tends
to sniff around the Danes mix Bowl after
he’s done or at the table where I
prepare their food and he has attacked
her a few times now when she’s doing
this completely randomly over the month
I’ve been there to step in break it up
and no one has ever hurt but the fact it
happens completely randomly has me
stumped I’ve tried feeding them
separately but the issue is the smell of
the area post feeding and sometimes he
doesn’t care about her doing it at all I
should also mention that while the
Greyhound is usually very wary around
the Dane mix for a few days after the
fight she has no problems licking her
face and acting normally five minutes
later these are the same dogs and swap
bones and chased each other around the
yard any other site would be much
appreciated so first of all you’ve kind
of you’ve got two dogs
earlier this year together like not the
same day but you got them separately but
together it was too much time and you
haven’t imposed structure on the dog so
the dogs will this will get works by the
way you’re saying that they’re they’re
you know they’re swapping bones and
running around when the resource isn’t
that great and when you’re not there so
I have a feeling this has something to
do with your structure with the dogs how
the dogs see you because it’s happening
around you you’re there to break it up
what I would really do is I would impose
a immense sense of structure on it and
what I would do is how you can feed them
in the same place I hope you’re big
enough to break up a Great Dane mix and
what’s the other one great a greyhound I
mean that’s not those are big dogs I
hope you’re a very very powerful woman
in order to break this up because and
I’ve trust me I’ve know a lot of women
who could do a lot better job in
breaking up talk fights and Men you need
to be able to control the dog so what I
would do to make this really simple is
that would find the dog that you know is
the fairest dog which is obviously the
female because the male is is kind of
jumping on and doing these things I
would feed the female first and have the
great boy and a sit then I would feed
the boy and I would I would really I
mean mealtime would be so structured for
me with these dogs so that this wouldn’t
happen again and I would do this for
minimum of 30 days I would go down I
would hunker down I would have these
dogs sitting waiting eating next one
eats then when the first one is done the
first one lays down and just teach them
structure structure structure structure
will solve this other than that you
ain’t gonna solve it next one goes out
to newer shark oh five I’ve always been
curious about this if you come
face-to-face with a highly aggressive
large dog who’s going to chase and
attack you what is the proper action to
take that’s a good question
I what the key thing is first of all if
a dog is chasing you if you’re standing
still that it will not trigger the dogs
prey drive as much as if you’re moving
so the more you move the more you run
away the better shot the dog has of
getting more frustrated and the attack
becoming much more aggressive I probably
would suggest trying to stand still I’ve
had plenty of dogs lunge at me and if I
stand still they suddenly just stop or
even if I take a step in towards them it
startles them that being said if a dog I
knew was going to attack me I would I
would strike out and I would I would
start try to startle the dog I’ve seen
people do this before Janet did it with
an Akita that was attacking Dwayne
tomater she got in and Janet’s not a
large woman but she was very powerful
with her energy she got into the face of
this dog and the dog just kind of
startled for that second and that’s all
you’re gonna really get you’re gonna get
that one section one second startle time
and hopefully you can do something
hopefully you get a stick or a rock and
and and and protect yourself when this
dog does this standing still not
triggering the dog sprayed you have the
more you run the faster you run the more
the dog has frustrated unless you
you know Carl Lewis or Edwin Moses then
you’re not gonna get away from these
dogs next one goes out to LeBlanc do
coaching hello how do you prevent your
dog from jumping I have a big German
Shepherd
if I put a toy like you he just jumps on
me please tell me how to do it correctly
well your dog needs to respect you the
dog needs to understand and this is the
same thing that I’ve seen with Janet and
Dwayne tomater he is much more engaging
to Janet to play because it’s a more fun
game and he’s going to try to push it
and dominate it and win the game where
with me he knows I control the game and
that makes it actually a lot more fun
for the dog in other ways but you’ve got
to make sure that you can control the
dog don’t bring toys out until you know
you’re solid structure don’t bring the
drive of the dog up until you know you
can control the drive of the dog at all
those different levels so go slow find
something that’s a little less valuable
to him keep him on a line correct and
when he does it step into them make sure
the dog understands that you’re in
control
next one mr. X mr. 13 King I think
that’s what it is what do you do when
the dog cries in house if you leave the
house and leave her in a crate this is
my problem with six-month-old Frenchie
she sleeps in her crate at night with no
accidents and she knows the command
crate but does not like when we leave
the house so first of all it’s not as
much a crate issue as it is a separation
issue the dog doesn’t like you being
away what you’re going to want to do
with the dog like this is you’re going
to want to disappear into different
rooms of the house while the dog is
there and not leave right so the dog
needs to see a difference of pattern
like if every time he sees that you put
him in the crate you close the door you
walk out and you’re gone for a long
period of time you’re gonna set the dog
up to fail so put the dog inside and
when you do leave leave the dog with
something exciting leave the dog with
something that he does not get when
you’re there like a big Kong filled with
his favorite treats or a big Marrowbone
or something like that something to keep
the dog very very busy put some music or
TV on and so the dog has some kind of
something to keep a company and that
should really help that okay the next
one goes out to wild entry dog training
hi Robert thanks for providing such
clear information I love sharing your
videos my training clients thank you for
doing that I am reaching out because I
have a client with a one-year-old hi dr
german shepherd that has not been
receiving adequate training and exercise
to meet his mental and physical needs I
provide private at-home sessions with
him and the dog has become increasingly
excited over by my visits as I suspect
these make up the majority does mental
outlet time this makes it challenging to
demonstrate introductory training
techniques that the owner can utilize at
home to address this deficit of mental
stimulation do you have any
recommendations for ways to manage this
or suggestions for training exercises
that would help him learn to settle
during our sessions well you know dogs
will often get super excited when you
get there because you know better how to
play with the dog and how to read the
dog than the owners and you’re the new
factor you’re the fun guy when you come
every the dog gets to play and the dog
gets to do all those things so that’s
really normal I’ve seen that with my
clients you know over the years and you
know I don’t really think there’s any
way to combat that what you’re gonna
need to do is have the you’re gonna need
to do less with the dog and have the
owners do more so I would do with dogs
like that I do a real quick
demonstration this is what I want you to
do boom I hand it over to the owner I
let the owner be the bringer of more
excitement into the game than me during
those sessions because it’s it’s just
the fact that I’m so charming I’m so
much fun the dog is just gonna love
being with me more than with the owner
and that ends up me being being really
hard on the owners and the owners take
it personally and then the dog refuses
to play with the owners and those are
the times when they just crossed my arm
turn away and just don’t don’t pay any
attention to the dogs it makes it easier
for the dog to understand have the owner
be more involved have the owner do a
majority of the training demonstrate a
little bit it’s it’s our habit as dog
trainers to try to really show off the
potential of the dog and do all that
stuff and a lot of times it’s not really
that that beneficial for the dog so good
keep up the good work they think it’s
gonna be really important for that
person to understand that goofy I get
another one more question
goofy’s nothing under my arm right here
so very Jones as mr. Cabral a bit
confused in some videos you throw the
treats so the pup will have to back away
from you for the treat and other times
you treat is given right in front of you
I am confused as to when to give treat
up close as opposed to slide tell us
behind the puppy I’ve addressed this
several times I’m gonna dress it one
more time for you I just be just like
you’re confused I want the dog to be
comfy
I don’t want the dog always predicting
that the treat is coming from my hand if
the dog always always always predicts
that then the dog becomes contingent on
it it will always break coming forward
if there’s other things sometimes the
treats going behind them sometimes going
in front of them sometimes going left
the dog will wait to see where the
release is and then release the reason
you’re doing that is to teach the dog to
be patient on the release and to let the
release fall where it will and then
break don’t become predictive with your
dog dogs are very smart they follow
patterns and they get that so that’s
going to wrap it up for this podcast I’m
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