My Puppy’s FIRST REAL WALK!
yes I’m assuming it was in her I’m Zack
George I trained dog and this is my new
dog inertia I’m taking you along as I
train her from day one you can start
from the beginning or pick up anywhere
and start learning
welcome to the dog training experience
in this episode of nurse’ll we’ll
experience her first real walk we’ll
continue working on acclimating her to
the main part of the house I’m gonna
check in and see how she’s doing on
getting her teeth brushed and we’ll all
get some tips from Trevor Smith on
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description it’s a pretty exciting time
now because inertia is finally legal to
go out in public by legal in public I
mean she’s got her vaccinations and it’s
safe for her to go in public we live on
this wonderful park here and I’ve been
waiting to be able to take her on her
walks out there so this is gonna be her
first walk I’m not going to enforce too
much training but I am going to enforce
wait while I open this gate I don’t want
her running through any doorway or
anything like this without permission
wait yes good
yes okay let’s go good job nice work for
the rest of this walk I’m going to have
very few expectations in other words I
just want inertia to get out and explore
the planet right now
now of course I’ll intervene if she gets
into something she’s not supposed to
I’ll keep her from running into the bike
path and others common-sense things but
in general I’m gonna be pretty tolerant
so we’re pulling over running right here
I’ll get her some exercise going up that
hill you’ll get a lot of exposure to
people out here she’ll get exposure to
new smells maybe even some dogs at a
distance it’s really is a nice place to
train because you can see distractions
coming in the distance we’re just gonna
walk through the field here and let her
do her thing and you might notice too
I’m using an extra-long lead I’m not
trying to keep her on a short leash for
this particular training session I want
her to have room to explore with inertia
being so young she’s bound to see hear
and smell things that she’s never
encountered before like bikes roller
bladers people walking other dogs out
for a walk and so on how you doing there
she sees a bike thank you I appreciate
that she doesn’t know yet that everyone
doesn’t want to be your friend hello
she loves you guys okay come on let’s go
and so there I’m just gonna encourage
her to keep the walk going I don’t want
to condition her to just run up to
people it really is a balance of letting
her check things out and keeping the
walk going okay let’s go boy you can see
she just really wants to get out there
and see what everything is all about
she’s pulling ahead now I would expect
after probably just a few minutes of
this she doesn’t pull quite as
rambunctious Lee right now she’s just
excited so I’m gonna be tolerant of that
it’s probably pretty faint to you guys
but there’s some sirens going on in the
background
I’m just gonna let her react to it it
doesn’t look like she’s nervous but I’m
not gonna insist that she continue on
the walk if she wants to pay attention
to the sirens inertia is now right at 15
weeks old and she gets right now
probably 40 minutes of exercise
throughout the day in general of
moderate exercise like walking or some
fetch for five six minutes at a time
whatever she’s feeling with young dogs
it’s really important because
Servat of with their exercise but you
still want to give them lots of
experiences just take it easy when
they’re young that would make the most
sense and she held her state do you want
this so she is taking treats there so
I’ll go ahead and give her a treat right
there but I’m trying pretty hard to make
this not too much about an obedience
training lesson and more of a explore
your new park kind of lesson you can see
that loose leash there she’s starting to
relax a little bit and she gets to the
end of relief see how she’s looking back
she’s like okay she’s a little more
satisfied and not quite as energetic you
really have to be tolerant at the
beginning part of these walks and then
after five six seven minutes or so she
is starting to become a bit more
manageable come on let’s go she’s been
really responsive to let’s go and follow
me there’s no need to really reward with
food here because the environment
appears to be really reinforcing to her
that’s a satisfactory currency if you
will so in other words she gets to keep
exploring I love this path right here
because you have pedestrians and bikers
so it allows you to really train at
close range I have a separate pedestrian
path here there are so many benefits to
a training location like this for young
dogs you can introduce distractions at a
low level because you can easily control
the distance that’s why I like training
in big open parks where possible this
this morning was so amazing I mean look
she’s like roaming through the grass and
walking you can see how happy and
content she is
let’s go come on she’s really distracted
by these people come on let’s go there’s
a dog over here Yorkie under if she’ll
notice the dog look like it
oh no spoke too soon she noticed a dog
that’s good she’s basically tuned the
puppy yell come on let’s go let’s go
come on
it’s gonna encourage her to come along
runners dogs like to chase people who
run that was our first exploratory walk
with inertia and I think she did really
well she’s reacting normally she’s
getting lots of exposure to lots of
things not to mention I imagine I will
be doing a ton of training back here
after a decent walk like that or any
type of exercise it’s a wonderful the
best time ever to practice your real
world settle that’s because dogs are
much more likely to be in a genuinely
relaxed state of mind the more they
experience a real world settle like this
the more likely they are to behave this
way organically in the future this is
how you start phasing and more freedom
throughout the house when they’re
chilling this they’re satisfied they
don’t feel the need to be into
everything or constantly seek attention
or play they’re just happy because they
had a good workout make how you feel
after a workout post exercise is also a
great time to work on potentially
stressful activities like tooth brushing
– so I’m just doing a tooth brushing
lesson with her here just to get her
more and more comfortable with it even
though inertia still has her baby teeth
it’s never too soon to begin getting
your dog used to things like this
my objective isn’t really to do a
thorough tooth brushing but more to get
her used to the feeling in the process
so just one two three seconds at a time
followed up by a great reward I’m
currently using a finger brush as this
gives me a little bit more control
though I might use a more traditional
brush in the future yes oh good yeah
that was good
yes nice job good job to get your dog
comfortable with their teeth getting
brush just go real slow make sure you’re
using a high value currency I’m using
baked chicken here wait yeah good job
right there that’s it that was a good
one that was a real good one here you go
yes uh-huh
leave it leave it alone
leave it
yes no leave it dogs at different life
stages require different kinds of
exercise not too long ago my friend and
fellow dog trainer Trevor stopped by
with his own two Border Collies he
shared some awesome things with me about
ways to keep dogs safe and fit at the
same time today we’ve got Trevor Jade
and Daisy from the doggie dojo and you
can follow their YouTube channel I’m
gonna have a link below trevor happens
to be a certified canine fitness trainer
from the university of tennessee and an
elite agility dog trainer in fact Trevor
with his dog Daisy was a 20-19 AKC
agility national finalist today we’re
gonna cover some ways to keep your dog
exercised and happy inside and why you
should be doing exercises like this
throughout the year regardless of the
weather so Trevor tell us what k9
Fitness is and why we should care about
it cani Fitness is all about
strengthening your dog so that they can
excel in daily activities and prevent
future injuries the good thing about k9
fitness and the things we’re gonna cover
today it’s really good for puppies who
are still developing and of course
seniors who will need to stay in shape
and keep limber and flexible so there
are five major aspects to canine fitness
what are they there is flexibility
strength cardio balance and mental and
really all the exercises that we’re
gonna cover today combine that mental
and physical element to exercising or
dogs so I’m thinking we’ll start with
flexibility yeah before you start any
streets exercise you want to make sure
you have good warm-up and then after
you’re done exercise you gonna have good
cooldown so these exercises are gonna be
good for both the first game will show
you guys is a really simple one it’s
called spin and twist you’re gonna take
your dog’s nose to their rear end and
spin them around like this and you also
you want to go the other way to make
sure they’re flexing the other way as
well or how does this make them more
flexible it’s really helping kind of
stretch out their spine okay I’m making
sure that’s kind of getting warmed up
before you start any active movement so
the next one is one of my favorite it’s
actually figure eights between your legs
you’re gonna take your dog and you’re
gonna lure went through one part and
then the other way back and forth and
what’s really neat about this is that
you can actually change the dynamic of
your stretch depending on how far apart
you put your legs so right now she’s
doing what’s called collection where
she’s very tight but if I take my legs a
little further apart I actually get
what’s called a little bit of extension
and this is more stretching the spine
out too just by virtue of them learning
how to weave through a tight space like
that they’re forced to go slowly and
they’re also forced to use a lot of
muscles that looks like and then this is
all helping training if you’re ever
going to do a sport
Jilla t i’m helping them understand how
to get those weed pulse spins and figure
Eight’s is warm up I do with my dog
Daisy right before she runs everytime an
agility at 10 years old they can start
to slow down so this is actually one of
the more important things to do before
you run your dog and agility what else
can we do is stretch our dog out and get
them nice and warmed up well on the
theme of doing tricks and your dogs to
warm them up we also can do rollover so
there’s different planes to warm up your
dog in different ways to move your dog
so spin did a kind of rotation
yes well leg we’ve did kind of a lateral
movement and this is also getting our
dogs to do a head over shoulders is
there anything different about a
stretching rollover that we need to do
or is it the same as any other rollover
that’s a good point I would say that
you’re stretching rollover is just like
anything else when warming your dog up
you want nice and slow and controlled
movements you don’t want your dogs
jerking around once your dog is warmed
up and they’ve exercised you also want
to make sure that you’re cooling them
down so you could do all that we’ve done
already with the spins and in figure
eight and also rollover but you also can
do what’s called cookie stretches you’re
just gonna take a treat from your dog’s
nose you’re gonna lure their nose to
their shoulder just twist their head a
little bit just kind of stretch out that
neck and shoulder area yes and ever kind
of a braced up against my sides that way
we’re working on just one side of our
body at a time and then we’re gonna go
from nose to chest and this is words
things are going to start get to a point
we have to watch your dog and how much
they want to do if your dog at any point
is stopping and not whine take their
nose all the way to the chest your dog
might not be flexible enough to get
there so don’t force your dog to do this
exercise make sure that you’re listening
and letting them choose to come back and
forth you’re not taking their head
physically and shoving it into their
side right the best thing you could do
for them is have them learn to control
themselves instead of you have to always
lower it because more than likely if
they’re in control of it they’re gonna
make sure take their time and not do
something might over stretch them you
ready to cover strike next
oh yeah how do we build strength with
our dogs we think of building strength
and human fitness we think of two major
exercises push-ups and sit-ups so today
we’re going to show you the dog version
of a push-up in a sit-up now we’re going
to do some puppy push-ups and it
involves a simple behavior that you’ve
already probably taught your dog and
that is stand and down first we’re going
to dog into stander and go from their
nose their toes and going all the way
down into a Down and then we’re gonna go
back up into a stand as the dog is
actually physically doing a push-up the
point of a push-up is a full body
strengthening
exercise from their rear all the way to
their chest and their shoulders and
their back they’re engaging all their
muscles so push-ups look solid you
mentioned sit-ups though now this is
gonna be interesting it’s also involving
the same game of stand but also sit to
achieve this exercise okay start the dog
in a stand ask for a sit and then after
they get to sit you stand so what are
some ways that we can make these
exercises more effective by adding
equipment you’re not only going to
increase the strengthening of that
exercise but you’re also gonna add a
dynamic of balance to it and so we have
this fancy looking prop here but if you
didn’t have something like this you
could easily use a couch cushion or a
pillow or something like that right
correct by keeping your front posture
like this it actually makes the exercise
a lot more effective for the dog having
this decreased stability here really
teaches dogs how to use their muscles
more efficiently effectively and you can
imagine that not only is she really
engaged in his core right now but she’s
also building a lot of strength up in
here you’ve shown us how to use their
front paws what about their rear legs
thing take this bone scoot it back just
a tad so that way the dog’s rear paws
head this and do the exact same exercise
sit oh there we go sit yes stand yes and
then also going back to the puppy
push-ups we can go down stand and it
looks fantastic
yeah with young dogs obviously we want
to not overwork them and be pretty
conservative with their exercise let’s
see how it would work with the senior
dog okay I can’t wait to see what you do
with this so once your dog has been
doing equipment and they understand this
puppy sit-ups and push-ups you can
actually start designing reps and sets
and we don’t want to that with puppies
too much because you don’t want to wear
them out until they’re fully grown with
adult dogs we can actually start to
gauge and figure out how well they’re
doing and progressing in their fitness
if we can add some reps so reps being
the repetitions of exercise so if we do
a sit and then we do a stand that is one
rep and then if we ask our dog to do
that’s it
and then stand three times in a row that
can be a come one set of three reps then
what we would do is at that point
probably take a break and let the dog
kind of rest for a second and then
repeat and one of the really great
things dogs are so unlikely to show us
when they’re uncomfortable and so when
you’re in habit of doing regular
exercises like this it’s more likely to
tune you into the more nuanced parts of
how they’re feeling yeah because if you
say we’re doing three reps for three
sets rake early and your dog off son one
day was not able to do even one set
couldn’t see that your dog does maybe
mean to go to that yeah so it’s a really
good way for you to be very in tune with
your dog physically overall fitness in
general will help your dog it’ll make
them more conditioned and less prone to
injury because they’re learning how to
use their muscles they’re also prepared
for lots of different types of physical
activity you may also see that this
could also decrease the risk of things
like arthritis because their form is
better and their muscles and joints are
stronger one of the common questions
that I know both of us are asked getting
your dog’s energy out especially when
they’re inside weather is bad can be
super challenging so what do you
recommend for that well we have this
great game called bed to bed sprint ah
that sounds like fun so I noticed you’re
starting with the mats really close
together right yeah we will make sure
the dog understands how to go from one
bed to the other bed so in the beginning
of the stage here you could take a treat
in the room from bed to bed if your dog
doesn’t understand its quite yet alright
so once they’re going from bed to bed at
a short distance now I’m assuming we
make them farther apart so we’re gonna
do is we’re gonna start off on one bed
right here and at first you may have to
walk side by side with your dog just to
get them going and also to gauge the
speed cuz we’re trying to get the dog’s
heart rate up and these are like sprints
for people right yeah this is what you
do while inside you do it in short
bursts get their heart rate up but then
give them plenty of time to recover and
you would want to over do something like
this alright so you’ve got a squeaky
tennis ball here huh daisies absolutely
yeah so she lights up her focus is like
really on that ball so let’s see if this
really builds her speed and intensity
during this exercise that would be the
point I would imagine right little ball
over here okay tell your dog ready okay
there you go good a real great benefit
for a senior dog like Daisy is getting
those joints moving and making sure to
keep them moving without having to
nestle
one-mile walk around the block for some
senior dogs it’s really hard to an older
age and this is our very simple and
short mobility exercise to keep those
joints moving there’s two kinds of
cardio here I mean you have the intense
kind of cardio where your dog’s heart
rates up for a short period of time like
fetch and sprinting we call that an
aerobic cardio right yeah then there’s
that lower intensity endurance exercise
like distance walking that’s an example
of aerobic cardio both types are
important for exercises and you can see
just in the short period of time she’s
panting she’s had a healthy work
dog it’s a chance to work out even when
it’s bad weather outside they’re gonna
be happier and healthier
so you’re seeing here how we’re hitting
all of the different aspects of canine
fitness but balance is an especially
important one for dogs you’re too much
of a pro for this let’s bring in the
young dog Jade and see how she’s doing
all right so you basically do the same
steps that we covered before with with
something that’s you know a little bit
more challenging like this yes this is
so challenging you’d be surprised the
rear end as you can see she’s working a
little extra harder yeah but the rear
then she was with her front Oh
see right there look at that I mean it
and you got this hole in the middle that
makes it a little more challenging and
right well as you can see she’s moving
around and here’s the cool part so if
you dog knows how to do touch here’s a
really neat trick that you can do you
can actually ask for touch a different
angle so touch in front of um touch to
their side as they’re engaging touch
with their nose where their nose is
touching your hand they’re having to
move their body around and start to
engage that core so if your dog knows
shake a paw one of the cool things you
can do with this exercise actually ask
for a shake with their right paw whoa
when she put all her weight onto one
Paul it really started to move shake
with the left paw and I’ll see how
that’s moving and she’s having to
balance all onto one paw that makes it
really difficult and if you don’t have
props like this get creative I mean as
we mentioned you can use things like
couch cushions you could teach your dog
to sit pretty on a flat surface which
encourages them do their balance teach
them fun tricks like a back stallin so
there’s a million ways that you can
encourage your dog to increase their
balance
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continued barking and whining in the
crate we’ll do some more leash walking
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