One of the most important dog training obedience commands
leave it yeah
yes leave it down yeah
Luca come come
Oh
yeah leave it
yeah
all done logo good job buddy okay guys
so check it out I just wanted to
demonstrate the leave it command I
didn’t care about anything else in there
okay I haven’t done anything with Lucas
since he had the seizure like episode
nearly killed him so I’m very careful
what I do with them but what I wanted to
show here we had a good discussion on
one of the post yes s someone made about
the leave it command a lot of people say
it’s useless they don’t use it I can’t
imagine that there’s three things that
my puppies learn first leave it means
don’t touch it out drop whatever in your
is in your mouth and come to me those
three things are vital the thing with
leave it it quickly becomes possibly the
strongest command in my dog’s repertoire
that’s a big word
that’s French I think as well as my
clients dogs very important guys what
you see is it works much faster more
effectively than the recall or anything
else I don’t know the science behind it
but it does and I don’t talk about
anything or debate anything or argue
anything unless I’ve done it hundreds of
times if not thousands of times so
there’s nothing that drives me crazy
when someone says well my dog one dog
doesn’t matter ten dog doesn’t matter
tell me after a hundred dogs after a
thousand dogs so the reason that I talk
about the leave it command is because
it’s extremely beneficial to people
extremely helpful guys if a rabbit took
off right now and I’ve shown this on
film I’ve set Lucca up with this if a
rabbit took off running right now a cat
a deer anything and he wanted to go
after it
all’s I have to say is leave it there’s
no yelling there’s no screaming and it’s
automatic the dog doesn’t even think
about it so I wanted to demonstrate
there you see his insanity for the ball
his Drive
so even going down being worked up I’m
holding him back he’s shaken I send him
I say leave it it’s automatic and what
does he do he’s looking at me and then
from there I can tell him down I can
tell him come I could tell him anything
and he’s going to
okay so then what I demonstrated the
last time there is I gave him the recall
I think on the way to the ball and you
see hesitation you see a little
confusion because the drive overrides
that but the drive never overrides the
leave it command not sure why I think in
my mind maybe the dog figures let’s say
it’s chasing an animal you tell them
leave it maybe they think well well
if I catch it I can’t touch it anyway so
what’s what’s the sense but it’s
extremely effective I don’t understand
this concept of not just being literal
with the dog okay I’m going to teach
what I preach all the time I’m gonna
tell the dog exactly what I want so if I
don’t want him to touch something I’m
gonna tell them to leave it there is
nothing simpler than that that is the
simplest form of communication between
human and dog being direct and letting
him know exactly what you want now if
you don’t believe in the command or you
think it’s useless and you want to give
the dog you know a Down when they’re
about to approach something you don’t
want him to touch or you want or weak
that’s there’s nothing wrong with that’s
on you but unless you have a lot of
experience teaching a dog leave it many
dogs you you can’t you can’t debate that
it’s very difficult to because it works
not just with my dogs with all dogs
again it’s probably the only command
that I teach where there’s no rewards
ever and there’s very few Corrections so
for the most part when I’m teaching a
puppy if the puppies off leash and I
tell them they you know and the reason
is they give you many opportunities to
get repetitions and right repetitions so
if the puppies going to touch something
and I tell them leave it and I move them
away you know they’re going to keep
trying I gave an example on that post
yesterday mango the first correction or
the first punishment I ever implemented
with mango was at 8 weeks old and that’s
because she’s extremely extremely
hard-headed there was a dead bird eight
weeks old in the road and she of course
wanted to get in it and I said leave it
she wasn’t on a leash if she was on a
leash I just say leave it and pull her
away no
least correction no nothing I just
remove her like I do with clients dogs
and just by repetitions they learn very
quickly but with mango I said leave it I
moved her away well guess what she went
right back to it
I said leave it one more time and moved
her away the third time when she went
back I took the scruff her neck gave a
little quick pinch and she yelped the
bird was no longer interesting could I
have done that the first time yeah but
it’s not important to me you understand
what I’m saying
so with Luca or any of my dogs even
buddy who I don’t work with I don’t
train if we tell our dogs to leave it
that means don’t touch it it’s
off-limits and that’s how it’s always
going to be I’m very literal with my
dogs
I’m gonna tell them exactly what I want
again I’m going to teach what I preach
I’m going to explain to them and show
them exactly what I want I don’t
understand the concept of telling a dog
if your dog’s going out and there’s a
big pile of cow poop and you don’t want
them in it for me I don’t understand the
concept of telling them to down or come
that’s just foreign to me because to me
then the dog never learns eh I don’t
want you to touch that and I want the
dog to know hey that’s off-limits I
don’t want you to touch it but if that’s
your style and that’s what you prefer
again there’s nothing wrong with it
but don’t discount someone else’s style
especially someone like myself who has
shown it for years years I did a video
years ago with my four dogs in the
kitchen with the ribeye steak on the
floor right told leave it and I went to
cook the rest of the dinner if the dogs
are down and there’s a steak in the
middle of them and I don’t want them to
touch it what else can I tell them I
don’t want to recall them I want them
where they’re at I don’t want them to
stand there in a down so I tell them
exactly what I want be clear to the dog
explain what you want leave it hey don’t
touch it that’s off-limits okay I don’t
want to see that Luca knows that one
other thing when I teach it I see a lot
of people do this I’m not saying it’s
wrong I don’t do it though I see a lot
of people teach leave it with rewards
meaning they’ll put some food some
kibble the dog’s kibble or some treats
on the ground they restrain the dog
whatever and they tell the dog leave it
and when the dogs doing well and not
touching it they mark it and they
released the dog to get the food again
not saying that’s wrong but I don’t do
that okay I don’t use rewards for that
command and I never in the teaching
process use something that I’m teaching
them not to touch okay so for instance
if I’m teaching the command leave it I’m
not gonna then turn around and allow
them to have what they want once they
know it very well like I did with Luca
now then you could use it for different
levels of very advanced obedience which
you guys have seen him do many different
things but if you take all of those
things that I’ve done with look in
videos all the more advanced obedience
there’s nothing advanced about it it’s
all the basics know very well in all
situations so my challenge to anyone if
you think that’s not a good command and
by the way there’s no tools there’s no e
collars there’s no leashes if your dog
can’t respond to the verbal command at
the highest level arousal and
distraction your dogs not trained and
that’s just a fact I can’t do that with
mango right now because she’s not
trained to that level but she will be
shortly you understand what I’m saying
so anyone who discounts that and you say
you’re gonna use something else just
make some videos show it in a really
high state of arousal no tools some of
you will do it very successfully no
matter how you teach it and some of you
will fail miserably but you won’t talk
about it or show it there’s a lot of
people talk and in today’s world there’s
a lot of videos that you can watch
punishment punishment punishment
Corrections Corrections Corrections
that’s what we hear right there’s so
much emphasis on on punishment and
Corrections very little emphasis on
teaching and training the fact is the
better you get a training the less
Corrections and the less punishment
you’re using that’s a fact no one can
dispute that nothing wrong with
punishment Corrections but when your
whole training system is based around
that that’s just not my style anyway you
know that’s that’s not my style but
again I back it up with my dogs I back
it up with my clients dogs
you understand what I’m saying it’s very
important if your dog performs under
that situation it doesn’t matter how you
teach her or what commands you use or
how you approach it as long as it works
but I’m saying for those of you that
struggle in those situations getting
your dog to recall from those really
high level distractions animals bikes
joggers cars anything the leave it
command I can guarantee you will work
better than anything else always I hope
this hopes again as long as you’re
getting to success guys and the results
and your training you mainly do what you
got to do as long as it works peace
