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- Cannot get her to focus on me when she's outside ,She wants to focus on the squirrel, she dozen't come , when she's called, she just trances out , [Instructor] When you walk her, how does that look? , She pulls like crazy , [Instructor] Why don't you show us at the walk , She'll be good now , Come on Piper, come on, come on, come on , (blows kisses) , Come on, come on , (blows kisses) , That's a good girl , That's good, you stayed still , No , [Instructor] Can you come back , Walk nice, walk nice , [Instructor] So when I make comments, I'm not trying , to pick on anybody , No, no, no, no, no, she's pulling me all over the place , So what we see here is we see a dog, that , if you drop the leash , Bolt , That's right , To me, that's what dog training is , That's what we need , [Instructor] When we drop the leash, where's our dog, , and I want my dog to be next to me and stopped , That's my biggest concern , She won't come back to you, because it's , Unless I have food in my hand, she Ian't coming , Even then, squirrel, dog , Exactly, she focuses on everything but me , Exactly, so the goal is to get the dog , to start focusing on you , The problem is, is your dog's out in front of you , Right , So, um, most people know how I work with dogs , I'm not a huge fan of a harness and I'll tell you why , Harnesses are made for sled dogs, they're made for pulling , And obviously this dog can pull as hard as it wants, , and it'll never, it won't hurt itself , Right , The reason why harnesses are there is , because they don't choke, I agree, they don't choke , But the goal is, is not to get your dog to pull, so , It's really hard to get a dog not to pull on a harness, , because this right here is the strongest part of their body ,the goal would be to get the dog to start being , next to you, and not pulling, so , With the neck collar obviously she pulls like crazy , She pulls even worse , Yes, that's why , And you'd think the dog would learn , to stop choking itself, , again when the dog feel that , (choking sound) , they actually wanna get away from it , So, the goal would be to always have a loose leash, okay? , So the goal is gonna be to control the dog's movements, , and once we start controlling the dog's movements, , we start getting that better connection with them, okay , So, if we can walk every dog here should be able to walk , perfectly on a leash, like, by noon , That's the goal, because it's not that hard to do , Usually only takes a couple minutes , So this is good, now , Piper , Are you open to other collars? , We all know I use prong collars , (dog whines) , Um, I'vie never actually , Okay, so lemme introduce your dog to one , Sure, we can give it a try , Um, the goal of this is to get every dog to walk on it , And I understand some people are uncomfortable with them, , and I highly respect that, that's fine , I use them on W% of my dogs , Right, I'vie seen that , And it's highly successful , She's Dion' this now , So, could we get it as close as we can? , Mm hmm , Just so I give you , Are those the German ones? , These're the German ones , That are rounded out? , So lemme give everybody in a, if you're uncomfortable, , no one is forced to do anything I do today at all , And I want you to know that , and I'vie never seen a dog harmed on a prong collar , Mm hmm , So is it happening? , Maybe somebody, but I'm not seeing it, so, the ones , I use are from Germany , Mm hmm , These are rounded edges , Mm hmm , It's impossible to choke the dog, , it's impossible for it to pierce the thing , So, um, it's at an angle , If it was one prong, it probably would impale , It's a row of prongs , The concept is that it gives a universal, even , on a flat collar, and I'ma use your dog as an example , When a dog is pulling on a flat collar like this, , notice how there's space behind the back? , W% of the pressure is from here to here, W% , We're actually choking our dogs, we're actually , causing harm to our dogs , It's not a choke chain, choke chains actually , you can kill a dog with , This only goes so small , Everything now, when everybody's walking I notice we're , using a lot of our, um, almost our whole body, , a lot of hand manipulation , With a prong collar, we're gonna be going like this , So obviously if someone's uncomfortable with that movement, , you're probably going to be uncomfortable with what I do , Are probably going to be responding to , It's, now: the goal is to get the dog to listen , without a collar, but we can struggle for months, , and sometimes years , How long have you had this dog? , W months , Okay, so we can struggle for W months, we still , can't walk the dog , Yeah , (truck noise) , So, this way takes W minutes , The goal is not to always have any collar on him , I wanna have it off for a straight jog, that's my goal , (truck noise) ,So what we're gonna do is, pass this around and feel this ,Yeah ,Cause they're round , [Instructor] So the way we introduce the collar , to the dog , (dog coughs) , I never imagined she'd , So now, so now all I'm gonna do is this , (dog huffs rhythmically) , The dog is just gonna do all the work right now , The way we introduce the collar is I'm gonna , stand over here, and I'm gonna do gentle pressure , Good! Good, good, good, good, (dog huffs rhythmically) , good, good, good, back up a little bit , Good, good, good, good, good , So, I'm just gonna let the dog do all the work right now , Good, good, good, good, good , All I'm doing is, when the dog starts coming to me, , good, good, good, good, good , Not schoolgirl good, because that'll probably get , the dog to jump on me, that's another thing about energy: , it's like when we do this high-pitched, enthusiastic stuff, , if I was an agility trainer, that's what I would do , If I was a search-and-rescue trainer , walking down the street, it's not a trick , So again, so I'm just gonna go like this, , good, good, good, good, good , Okay ,Good, AAA! , There you go, good, good, good, good, good , Hard to look at, and there's a great video I put up, , from a shelter in Charles town, where a dog was , jumping up at the leash, because it did that with , anytime it had a leash on at all, , is all it wanted to do is go where it wanted to do , It's more of an objection, like that was , a little objection right there ,Mm hmm , Good, good, good, good, good , (murmured approval) , So now, when we walk our dogs, the goal is to have , our dog next to us , Like, we'vie all ridden bicycles, so just down , low like this, we're not carrying handbags , You know, just like this, and I'm gonna keep about W inches , of leash right here , So if I feel any pulling from my dog, , I'm just gonna go like this , Can't start a forward motion, the dog's gonna be like, , oh, gee, I'm not supposed to be rushing past this guy , So I'm just gonna start, I'm gonna do the same walk , that you just did, we'll see how it goes , (truck noise) , And I'm a pretty fast walker, but I'ma take it slow , And you'll notice, I'm just doing minor little wrist taps ,When I turn, and I'm not gonna say , anything to the dog at all, and if my dog wants to just , put the brakes on or go right or go left, I'ma do my best , just to keep my hand right here and talk at the same time , Now notice how I'm not focusing on the dog , I want the dog to focus on me , Okay, I want this dog to, and don't walk around like this, , like everyone'll make fun of you , (students laugh) , But I'm just showing that we're not, like, I'm not , white-knuckling, I'm nice and relaxed , And when I come to a stop, I don't tell dogs to sit, , I just put 'em there , When you, you're older, when you get in the car, , what's the first thing you do, besides put , on your headphone and play a video game? , It's, what do you do? , [Child] What'd he say? , When you get into a car, what do you do? ,What's the first thing you do when , you get in a car? , [Child] Put my seat belt on? , Bingo, thank you , When you were two, your mom used to have to help you , You know it now, you don't have to be told , I want this dog to know that, hey, when I'm walking around, , you're at my side , When I come to a stop, we'll politely sit , Why? , Because maybe I'm talking on the phone, texting, , looking at an outdoor restaurant menu, giving somebody , directions, I'm at a parade, I'm at a football game , I want this dog to just sit there , Now, if anybody has a hard time looking at a dog like this , and thinking, oh my good, he looks so sad, well, then, , we're not going to have much success today , If people are looking like, holy shit I'm sorry, , holy Molly , (laughter) , Your mom's there, so holy Molly, , (laughter) , um, I'vie never seen a dog so quiet before, ah! , Maybe I'm the guy for you , So, this is what I'm looking for , To me, this is dog training , (truck noise) , When we can all stand around and we'vie got , a nice, obedient dog, and when I'm ready to go, , I just go , I'm not gonna ask the dog, you know? , You notice how, again, if you get any objection at all, , just your forward motion, your forward motion does it , You don't remember the Jefferson's, George Jefferson? , Ya huh , Walk like George , (students laugh) , Always walk like George , (student laughs) , George was a powerful man , When I come to a stop now eventually, I'm doing , a little bit of leash pressure up, and a little bit of , pushing down, don't use your whole hand , (kissing) , Don't I'm sure the dog will sit if I do this, , but don't push your hand on the dog's back , Just like how the dog pulls, ,and we pull, and they pull more? , Historically if you push on a dog's back, they'll actually , back up on it , Two little fingers? , Like you can walk a W-pound dog, two little fingers, boom! , The butt goes down , So, hanging out like this , You know, just keep moving, I mean I'm not running around, , I'm just walking around , And you're gonna do a lot of this, this motion , And you don't need to look at your dog , Why, because if I feel ,(murmured approval) , That's another thing about praise, is, , since I don't give dogs tons of praise for really , simple things, just going like this , means a lot to a dog , To some people that dozen't mean a lot, but when you, , when you don't shower dogs with a lot of affection , or praise, just going like this, they're like, , Oh, wow, good, I did a good job , They don't need, like, you're doing so good, that , cause if anything, if you give most dogs a lot of praise , when you're first starting training them, what do they do? , They get excited and they jump up at you , Great, what are we training them to do? , Are we training them to jump up at us, or , are we training them to not jump up at us? , So, it's really important that we understand that , we have to create calmness , When dogs are calm, they tend not to misbehave , They don't bite, they don't bark, they don't growl , So , And, a little lower , Just...make him come , There you go, that was good , Good dog, now you turn , Good, good, good, good, good , There we go, good , Nice and calm, and you wanna get to the point where , if you feel your dog getting a little bit ahead of you, , you just give it, we're talking minimal pressure, , minimal leash pressure you're doing , And then come to a stop, and little bit of , leash pressure up, and sit, down, there we go, good , So let's do that one more time , And now you can also tell, the dog is not on this , search and destroy mission, either ,Um huh , That was, again, they're gonna look now, if you drop , the leash the dog would possibly stay a little bit , closer to her, than it was before , Don't drop the leash, but this is how we start , getting dogs to actually focus more on us , One of the things you said was , your dog dozen't focus on you , And, a little bit of leash pressure, and, boom , How does that feel? , Great , Good, so this is, so when I say we can get dogs to walk , in five minutes or less, we can , Now, how long are you walking your dog a day? , Actually they're usually in the yard , Okay , I take them for walks , So, another thing is you gotta start walking them more, , but you know, the average dog , I usually get fed up after like, five minutes , (student laughs) , Well, I bet you could walk for W minutes right now, so , So, that's the basis of a lot of what we do , If we can't walk our dogs, if we can't train his focus , to us on the walk, why would they come back to us? , Why would they do a one hour down-stay? , Why would they listen to us, like getting off a counter? , They won't even respect the walk ,That's why we're here today , The walk, the walk is huge, so , Everybody knows Solomon, right? ,Yeah , Solomon's that dog that I rescued that was gonna , be scheduled to be killed, the black and white dog? ,Yeah , So here's a dog that, it bit nine kids, highly nervous, , highly active, scared like crazy in his crate, what do you , think the first thing that I did with him? , This right here ,Take him for a walk , This is the exact same thing I did right here , And then W hours later, he lost all his nervousness, , (train whistle) , he lost all of his bad energy, and I can , finally start working with him , So the concept of, you know, when we're in rescue, , we always think, oh my god, the dog was abused, , the dog was left in a shoe box, the dog was , in a dumpster, the dog was the drug dealer's dog, , the dog was kicked down the steps, the dog I know, , whether it's true or not, whatever, we can't change it , It sounds really heartless when you say that , But what does that have to do with today? , I'm not gonna let the dog carry that baggage, , and I don't wanna carry that baggage from the dog , What I'vie gotta do is say, listen, I know how to train you, , I gotta stop you from this nonsense, and guess what? , We're gonna start going for a walk , So ,Excellent , That's the walk , You wanna try? (dog whines)
