Dominic and Sam - Dog Aggression Rehabilitation

 This video is about Dominic and Sam, two male dogs who live together and have been getting into pretty serious fights at home. They initially came to us and started in some private lessons to see if we could help them to get their dogs back together. Prior to coming to us, they had actually moved the dogs into separate homes because the fights were becoming so frequent. 

Throughout the course of their private lessons we were able to get the dogs back into the house together, but they still had to be pretty much separated.So at a certain point, my trainer Katherine, who was working with them, called me in to see if I could help get these dogs actually back together.

 Upon meeting them it became very clear to me that this wasn't the right moment to try to introduce the dogs back together again. Dominic was extremely excited and nervous as soon as he came into the training center. He was shaking and whining and making all sorts of noises. 

Sam, on the other hand, looked completely shut down. I got the impression that he was triggering off of Dominic's nervous excited energy. So I decided to test Dominic by using my own dog Lobo, who has a very stable energy, to see how Dominic would react to him and see if I could introduce those two dogs together. I spent a lot of time making sure that Dominic approached in a calm manner but as soon as he got close enough he went right into the attack.

At that point it became clear to me that we couldn't finish this job in private lessons; we needed Dominic to stay with us so we could spend more time on his rehabilitation. I'm not going to be able to fix this today. We really need to get him into a Board & Train.

 He's like, like I said this is as bad as it gets when it comes to dog aggression. Just that level of 0-60. It doesn't get worse than that. So we just got back from a little group walk with Dominic and my two dogs, Lobo and Charlie. We didn't have the cameras rolling during the walk, it would have been a little bit too challenging, we really had to keep things going at a fast pace and he definitely, in the entire beginning of the walk, just wanted to try and get to my dog.I had him on my left side and my two dogs on my right. 

He just wanted to get over there. He's muzzled but he was definitely trying to bite so I really need to stay focused and keep moving at a good pace. Didn't want to worry about filming for that. The first probably five to ten minutes of the walk were pretty dicey.

 I just kept him on a short leash and just prevented problems and he eventually settled in. As the walk continued he started relaxing, he started actually avoiding eye contact with my two dogs, which was good and the walk ended really peacefully. 

He was looking pretty relaxed so I just wanted to seize this opportunity to have him around them, with them behaving a little more loosely. I've been allowing him to be near them, like this is really great, this, if you can see, just having my dog walk by without him reacting, compared to the last time he was around Lobo, was awesome and especially compared to the walk.

And he did actually, before we went and grabbed the camera, he actually approached both my dogs individually and was able to sniff them, sniff their butts without snapping, which he could not do that before.

 So just that little walk, at least with these two guys, you know that's not to say if I brought in an unknown element, an unknown dog that he'd be equally as relaxed but at least with these two guys he's learning to be able to accept their presence. Not a hundred percent yet but we're getting there. Good boy, Dom. Good job buddy. So it's really important in a moment like this you'll notice the leash is relaxed, I'm not conveying any tension to him, but if you saw the way I sort of braced myself against the wall and changed my stance so I'm in a ready position but I'm not tensing up, I don't want to preemptively project any problems onto him.

I need to give him the opportunity to make choices and just be ready to intervene if I need to. And that was really good, you can see he was a little tentative, he kind of wanted to sniff. Now in the past his MO has been, he's gone in for a sniff and then instantly gone into an attack, so I'm very cautious when he does that. So it's actually nice to see that he sort of air sniffed a little bit from a distance and then showed some avoidance behavior.

So that's really really beautiful. It's just these little things. He is not totally accepting of the situation yet, he's not fully relaxed, but we're definitely moving in the right direction. So now it's a matter of repeating the process and adding different dogs. So this is actually really good, this is just the second day. This is just our second group walk and he's so much more relaxed already.

 There were no theatrics today. Yesterday when we first started he was definitely a little bit dramatic in the beginning. Today he was much more relaxed, a little bit excited in the beginning but no lunging at the other dogs. And this, you see I'm letting him kind of sniff behind these guys here. Anytime he wants to sniff them is generally a good thing. Hopefully when we get back to the training center we'll do a little socialization. 

That was nice to see, the introduction of a new dog that he's never met before, he was definitely more tense. She came right up to him to greet him and he wasn't 100% ready for that and he got a little bit jumpy but it was so minimal compared to what he had been doing in the past, compared to his first meeting with Lobo.

And then the fact that he was able to go up and snif her butt and walk away without snapping at her just tells me that we're making really huge progress with him because he's never met her before and she came in with some pretty strong energy and he handled it. Not perfect but we're on the path. Yeah, good boy buddy! That was good. That was really good. 

Charlie corrected him, he jumped but he didn't lose his mind. That was really really good. What we've done already is we had Sam in a socialization group by himself and what was interesting to see is he came in very excited and very happy-go-lucky, and then at a certain point just sort of switched and started getting highly stressed, started trying to control dogs and manipulate them.

His tail would go from being straight up to being down and tucked, and then you'll see him in a second with the video. He's very stiff, panting and trembling right now. So we then went for a group walk and that's where I brought out Dom and him together for the first time. So I had Dominic and Lobo and Charlie on my left side, him on my right side and then Amy had a few dogs as well, and they did very good on the walk.

Dominic actually sniffed his butt a few times. He's very very avoidant and after the walk we just came in here and basically just started doing some socialization. So this is the first time now in quite a while that these two have been together where they can freely interact. Sam's just dragging the leash right now, Dominic I'm holding his leash at the moment, but I'm basically letting him go wherever he wants to go and they're really avoiding each other completely. 

What's been very interesting is Sam, who, you know sort of thought that this guy was the main source of trouble, Sam's energy is just way off.

 And when Lobo and Olive started playing earlier, Sam actually went in and lunged at them while they were playing and so we had to interrupt that. Dominic, that triggered Dominic to start getting worked up and go back into his old pattern of the stress and trembling and whining, but I just corrected him relatively lightly and he actually snapped right out of it, which was really awesome because previously, once he was in that state there was really no coming back from it, which is why we needed to bring him in to board and train, because in private lessons he would just instantly trigger just coming in the building and then you couldn't really get him back to a normal place within the context of a private lesson.

So it's nice to see him be able to kind of go in and out of that state a little bit more freely. Obviously we'd like to see him not even go there, but the fact that he was able to snap out of it quickly is a really good step in the right direction. So we're just gonna let these guys move around a little bit more.

 Sam's obviously going to need a lot more one-on-one work to get him to a better place emotionally because actually Dominic, who I thought was gonna be the much bigger challenge, is actually turning out to be really chill in socialization. 

He has his moments of course but this guy's a nervous wreck. Sam's a nervous wreck right now so we're gonna have to deal with that. So today is day seven for Dominic and day two for Sam, and I just want to point out how relaxed Dominic is at this point in here. So far today we did a little bit of a group walk, and I just had Dominic on the dog powered treadmill.

Did some work with him on the treadmill as well as him being near Lobo while Lobo was on it so that he could practice not triggering to excitement. That's been one of his things is fast movement; high energy activity is one of the things that triggers him so having him near Lobo while Lobo's on the treadmill, Lobo moves pretty intensely on there, is a good exercise. 

Overall, Dominic at this point, we've got Charlie, Lobo and then Sam his housemate in here, and I don't even really need to keep an eye on him. He's just chill, which is amazing to see. Some people will ask, you know, if he's doing so good, why the muzzle still? You know, we take safety really seriously here. For me, just because the dog's done good for a few days or a few weeks isn't enough, I need to be a hundred and ten percent certain that that dog's not going to injure another dog or a person if there's human issues.

He doesn't have human issues. And especially if we're gonna bring in other dogs that belong to other clients, we don't risk anything here. You know, this isn't a television show. We're not going for sensationalism. This is real, real world rehabilitation and muzzles are there for safety. 

So you know he's only here until the end of this week. I probably won't really remove the muzzle in an off-leash socialization setting within that time frame because it's certainly not enough time for me to have seen him doing good to be that 110 percent certain, and we just don't want to take any chances. But you'll see him, you know, wandering around.

 He's just looking fantastic, and I'm just really focusing on Sam now. Sam's got some insecurity and confidence issues and he tends to shut down a little bit more in socialization, so we're working on just some really simple agility equipment just to get his feet moving. And to get him and Dominic moving around each other a little bit more because yesterday they just sort of avoided each other for the most part and that's basically it for today.

Good boy, Sam! Yeah! Good boys! Good job! So this play that's going on is awesome because this type of energy is exactly what used to trigger both Dominic and Sam. Sam would just go right in for a bite in the past when stuff would get this energetic and Dominic would start going into his total stress state, trembling, whining and then eventually kind of going in and wanting to be involved in that, so the fact that they both learned to just accept this type of energy and to not have reactions to it is such an important part of their rehabilitation because it's the excitement that would often trigger them to then get in fights with each other at home. So much of our work has been about not reacting to situations that previously would cause excitement.

 Good boy buddy, good job! So today's actually the last day that we have Dominic and Sam he re, and today we also have Kya the Rhodesian Ridgeback. She's just here for day training. She comes in once a week or every other week for some day training and she's a very fearful dog and has socialization issues because of her fear with both people but but also other dogs.

And there she is here. And so it's just awesome when we get dogs like Dominic and Sam here, and they've been with us for a while. At this point their behavior is so good that I'm actually using them to help work with Kya. So we just got back from a group walk and now we're just socializing and it's just the four of us here.So I have Lobo and Dominic and Sam and Kya is over there. And you know these guys are just paying it forward.

 They've been here working it hard, working hard and they've come really far and now they're able to help contribute to the rehabilitation of another dog which is always a beautiful thing. You know, the big thing is, you guys have started with your obedience, that's all good, but I don't want you to become over dependent on that. I think the key is making sure that you are who your dogs need you to be, you know what I mean? You know, they need to see you as in control, as, you know, protecting them and keeping them safe, as moderating their behaviors, as, you know, putting parameters on their choices.

But if we just say okay you're gonna lay down there, you're gonna lay down there, don't move, we're not allowing them to make choices so we're not influencing their choices. So at a certain point we have to have them around each other and that's where the muzzles come in to make things really safe. Good boy Dom! And so I just wanted to make sure, he might be, you know, with you guys present sometimes that changes things. We especially want to see if there's any jealousy, or anything like that. This is now a new experience for him being around other dogs around mom and dad.

 That's a new experience. And this is something we can do more of in private lessons even, right. And so if I'm watching him and his behavior is getting to a level that I'm uncomfortable with, I would just step in and tell him to stop, you know what I mean. I don't need to necessarily wait until he snaps. If his ears start going up and forward and that tail is sticking straight up and he's puffing his chest out, I might step in right there and just say no, enough.

Hey! And that's all it takes with him. It's easy, right. And again because he goes right into surrender, you don't have to, it doesn't need to be any more than that. See this is controlling space, you see it? and Lobo's being very respectful but he's moving Lobo. He's keeping Lobo at the perimeter of the room there, you know. Again, some of that's normal but it starts to become excessive, right. See how he's doing it? He's doing basically what we have you guys doing with the food and everything else.

 This is the natural, where it comes from. So you can see Dominic was like "oh yeah Lobo's here," got a little excited, but he was able to let it go a little bit more easily.And that's what I mean, like that's a little hint of what I mean when I say he's a bit more unstable. He actually, he's able to move on easier. He's hard, like when he's in that high intensity, he's hard to pull out of that, but from an emotional level he's actually, it's actually easier for him to move on.

 He's still clinging to his need to control. He needs to see you guys are in control because that's what makes him feel safe. Sam needs to see you guys in control because he's a control freak, and he needs to know that it's not his job to control everything, you know what I mean? He needs to let go of that. He's hanging on to that so hard, he needs to just let it go. That's the whole name of the game.Things that cause excitement, we want to practice calmness. You don't need to worry, I'll keep you safe. You need to stop being a control freak. That's the conversation.

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Puppy Biting n Fighting Can Cause DEATH - Stop & Control | Aggression in Dog Breeds | Badal Bhandari

 They are chewing electricity wires, it might lead their death if you beat him, he might get injured. But if the injury is severe, then we will have to take him to the doctor. There is a huge difference between the biting force of humans and dogs. Chewed 1 lakh rupees phone understand what his compulsion was behind doing this Hello, everyone - I am your friend, your host Baadal Bhandari, and I welcome you in your favorite YouTube channel. That is DOGS, YOUR FRIENDS FOREVER. `` INTRO MUSIC'', Dear friends, today we have a German Shepherd puppy with us and I will share some important things with you all. 

Can dogs live together after fighting?

I will tell you that how we can control puppy-biting and how we can control our baby. Usually our dog chews, a lot of things. Many people wonder that why our dog does so much harm to us. Today I will explain all these things to you and before that I would like to say something when our dogs chews, something he chews something and eats something that could be your shoes for Rs 20000. chewed phone worth Rs. 1 lakh Try to understand that your dog does not know these things were so expensive. He does not know that money runs in the world and he does not know that all these things come from money. 

How do I get my two dogs to stop fighting?

It is very important to give values to relatiosnhips In this life. The one who has love has a lot. He who does not have love does not have many things. He is not aware of what he is missing. These speechless pets give us love, They give us their unconditional love and we do not give them anything in return for love. We don't have to pay them anything like expensive gifts. 

I get many calls and people say that their dogs have become very naughty and that their dogs are growing and has started biting People say that sometimes their dogs try to chew their legs. Sometimes it tries to hold their arms and tries to chew it. 

How do you discipline a dog after a fight?

The dog is doing all this and I am not saying that the dog isn't doing all this. Of course, the dog does all this, but you try to understand that what would have been his compulsion to do all this like. If we talk about human babies, when their milk teeth start coming out, then they try to put everything inside their mouth. They will put anything inside their mouth, whether it is a mobile, a pencil keys or a T.V remote. They put everything in the mouth. They find that soothing. It provides massage to their gums. 

They put saliva on it, We usually ignore it because its our own kid, we stop him due to the fear of infection. We do not stop the baby due to the fact that he will spoil anything expensive. If I talk about my kids, my son, ( BUNNY ) is 2.5 years old. Normally, if he is holding a mobile, he will play with it, but if he is angry, he picks up the phone and slams it But it does not mean that he wants to damage the household products. He just meant to remove his frustration. 

Just like that, child wanted to remove frustration. Similarly, our pets are also children and they also want to remove their frustration. If they have itching, then they can't speak that we are feeling itching in our teeth and our new teeth are coming and we want to massage our teeth. That is why they try to chew your shoes, slippers and furniture. The most important thing is to start telling him not to do it. Give him a NO command. The `` NO'' command is very important like. If I don't try to manage this dog by giving him some chewsticks, then it will be difficult to manage him. 

Basically, we have to channelize his energy. We have to divert his attention from that mischief, whatever they are doing, whether they are causing some damage to your belongings. They are not doing it intentionally. They don't know that it will take a lot of money to rebuild it. Sometimes they chew electricity wires. They don't know that the wires have current in it and they can get an electric shock. 

It can lead to an accident they might die because of that. They do not know that the shoes they are chewing have dirt under them, because we roam around the market everywhere and there are 100s of infections, dogs chew the shoes. The soil goes in intentionally or unintentionally. The soil goes in and it is causing infection in dogs which can lead to stomach infection due to which the dogs might suffer from vomiting or loose motions or the infection might increase. We should always be ready for all this. We should always be careful. 

If we have a small child in our house, then as a precautionary measure, we have to get these things avoided. Now, if I am offering this baby his favorite snack, then his mind will get diverted for the next 15 to 20 minutes The toys that we like it is not acceptable to make dogs like them. It is not necessary that if we buy expensive toys then they might like them. 

I am giving you an example. This is a rope toy. He loves to play with this toy because when he wants to chew the lace, then he has these threads to chew. He has this cloth to chew. When he wants to chew the shoe or something hard, then he can chew this part. These are washable toys. There are a lot of toys like this. I will put a separate vlog on the toys. What can and can't be given what kinds of toys are liked by our pets, because it is a very big issue. You spend 500 1000 and 1500 rupees on dog toys and later on, the dog does not even play with that toy. 

It becomes a waste when the dog starts chewing on something we become angry. We scold him for why he is doing it. Sometimes we react try to understand this, that sometimes our reaction can hurt both for us and our dog. If we beat our dog, he might get injured and if the injury is severe, then we might have to take our dog to the doctor. 

And sometimes that injury cannot be cured, the injury is so severe that we have nothing but regret they do not damage our money and belongings intentionally they are trying to share their helplessness that they want to chew. There are different varieties of eatable snacks. There are different varieties of chew toys available in the market. 

I have this 2 month old, German Shepherd. His problem is excess of puppy-biting, but try to understand this. If he doing puppy biting then - and we could not control it, then we have to hold its mouth like. I always tell we can even hold his leg and, if required, we can even put a light slap but do not beat him with a stick so that he does not suffer from a severe injury. 

Scold him put some kind of fear in your dog for eg roll a newspaper and show it to him and hit it on the ground. No, why have you done this for eg? If I talk about him Suppose his name is Jimmy, then you can scold him by saying that `` Jimmy. Why have you done this? I will beat you very bad .''. When you will try to scold him in a commanding way, then definitely it will make a difference. Try to keep all your precious belongings away from the reach of your dog. 

Because we cannot blame the dog that he has found and damaged the things, then this is not the case. Because what did the dog like we never know? We never know how the dog will react. Sometimes they tear the car mats, they chew the scooters they tear the furniture and sofas kept in the house. When do they do this? They do this when they don't have a source to channelize their energy.

when they want to have fun, then you can give him his favorite toy or his favorite toy. Let them play let them run after you, so that their energy is channelized. Now his snacks have finished, and now it will try to mess with me. Now I am trying to give him a toy so that his mind could be diverted 

Mind diverting is the perfect solution: calcium multivitamin, a healthy and balanced diet is very important for the dog so that their teeth could come properly and on time milk teeth will fall within 4 to 5 months. Many people think that their teeth are broken. They get worried about why their teeth are falling off, but there is nothing to worry about. That is a very normal thing. Milk teeth will fall off, hew will again feel itching in his gums when his new teeth will come. 

And this process will go on for about 7 to 8 months. Just take a look at him. He is again trying to bite me It's not because he is not trying to show his anger or I would not say that he has become aggressive. We have to manage this because we don't know how to manage this, and we simply say that our dog has become aggressive. While it is just a part of his play. He will show equal excitement whenever he will play with his dog. Sometimes when we buy a toy or snacks. 

We think that it is a hard toy and wonder that how our pet is going to chew that Or the biscuit is very hard, don't look at it from your point of view. If you look at it from a dog's point of view, then it is just perfect, because there is a huge difference between a dog's and a man's biting force. They like chewing hard things they enjoy. It. I have made this short video just to show you that when our dog is chewing, it is not that he is going to damage your belongings intentionally. 

Don'T punish your pets for this, but try to understand them. It is very important. Try to understand your pet, his helplessness and his problems. Don'T treat him like your dog, treat him like your family member and, like your kid In case, if my child will damage any household thing, then I will t beat him with a stick. 

How do you stop a puppy from attacking you?

Someone called me and he said that my dog has chewed my apple mobile, so I hit him with a stick and broke the stick by beating the dog. People are like this in the world that he broke the stick by beating his dog. How hurt would that dog be? The dog did not know that It is an Apple phone and what is its market value? He found that it was hard and he started chewing it. 

Look at him. He is misbehaving now, good boy. All that he is doing is a normal thing. Look at him! No, when he tries to bite, hold his neck, like this And hold his face like this: if you will try to catch a straight face, then he will let himself free and then he will try to chew your hands. 

Now I am holding his neck so that he does not jerk off his mouth and he does not hurt himself. I am holding his neck gently, but now I can't seem to get his full force on my hand. 

Let'S count till 10 after that he will start licking my hands 10 or 15 at the max 1. 2. 3,4. 5. 6. 7,8. 9. 10 done good boy. Such a beautiful baby, Don'T do this If a count of 10 does not work, then count till 20. I hope you like this video. If you like this video, then click on the like button share. This video, If you have not subscribed to our channel, then do subscribe to our You Tube channel so that you don't any important topic. God will bless us and our loving pets, thankyou and Love you all. God bless you

Understanding and Preventing Reactivity and Aggression in Your Dog #29

 Hey everybody Welcome to Shaped by Dog I amSusan Garrett and today we are going to tacklethe topic of reactivity and aggression in yourdogs, And I want to preface this by saying.This is a serious, serious issue. Andif, you have a challenge with your dog. I strongly advise that you seek out the help ofa certified veterinarian behaviorist One thatis, equipped to deal with problems like this in areinforcement-based program And one that whereneeded will use pharmaceutical interventionto help create a different reality for your dogso. That your dog doesn't go through life feelingthat. 

How do you reduce reactivity in dogs?

They need to react, Create a better realitythrough pharmaceutical, better living, throughpharmaceuticals And then eventually you'llbe able to wean off of that. But that kind ofstrategy will come to you from a professional So today, I'm for the rest of you, I'm going toshare how different has led to aggression, forsome dogs and how a lot of aggression reallyis learned. 

It isn't that there's somethingwrong with the dog. Now, there are some dogs justlike there are some psychopath people that theirbrain just doesn't work quite right. There are avery few dogs, a small percentage of dogs who areaggressive or reactive because ofa serious problem with the brain.But for the rest of those dogs, today I'm goingto give you some insight into how it happens.

How do I stop my dogs reactivity when walking?

And I'm going to share with you acouple strategies that you can useto help your dog and you have better outcomes. Okay. So, let's just, I'm going to talk a littlebit of science first, the word stimulus. It's,It's a thing. Stimulus is an event or a thing thatcreates a behavioral response in your dog. Yourdog has got a checklist that rolls through hisbrain that he doesn't even think about of stimulithat are good that he says, Oh yeah, I love that,yeah. So, it could be, it could be treats.Itcould be activities that he loves. It could bepeople he loves, it could be places he goes. So,there are things that create like a stimulus thatcreates the thought that, Oh, I love that. 

How do you prevent the reactivity of a leash?

There are things that are innocuous. Like,you know what, thats pavement, that's anotherhouse. Like those are innocuous. I notice them,but I don't really notice them. They're just,you know, white noise to him. And there's things,always things he loves, things that are innocuousto him, things that he hates and things that he'safraid of.

Now he has his running catalog orin his computer, in his brain and all of thoseare created through experiences that he's hadin his lifetime up until this point. Okay.Now, what happens when we come upon something thatis different? Something that the computer doesn'thave an output for, for that dog. Different couldbe maybe a combination of senses. So differentcould be something that the dog sees. 

So, like the sight of a tennis ball createsexcitement for a dog, but they don't come outof the womb going, Oh, tennis ball. I lovethem. Although with some Labrador retrievers,you might think so.

 Tennis balls are somethingthat experiences, and rehearsals of thoseexperiences have created I love tennis balls.So, the sight of a tennis ball creates oneresponse, but the sight of say nail clippers forsome dogs, creates a different thought becauseof the experiences attached them the same withsounds. So, the sound of car keys for dogs wholove to go for a car ride, the sound of car keysmay mean something completely different then.So, you get a different response like excitementversus a knock on the door.A knock on thedoor might create a different response ofarousal and excitement and barking and chaos.

 Then there's the sense of touch. My dogs get amassage every week they see the massagetherapist come to the house for them.They love it. They like stand in line. I want tobe first. All right. Picture a dog the first timeyou put booties on a dog, if, have you ever seenthat? If you haven't, Google that on YouTube or doa YouTube search for it. Because it different withbooties is like they go Cray-Cray, so differentversus something that they know isgoing to create a different response.Dogs can smell excitement.

 They can smell fear onus. And that creates different responses in them.Taste. Why did some dogs avoid the taste oflike medicine versus the taste of a treat? So,experience has created a catalog in the brain forthese dogs, but new or different enter the dog,walking with new boots on createsa completely different response.So, different in dogs and people.

It createscuriosity. Now curiosity could be engaged like,Hey, what's that? kind of curiosity.I'm interested in that. Hey, what's,what's going on over there? Curiositycould also be a cautious curiosity. Andboth kinds of curiosity could lead to reactivitydown the road. Stick with me on this one.Take the example of it could be a child skipping,or it could be like, if you have a, a small whitedog, it could be a big black dog.

 Theyreinterested, theyre curious, what's Oh,I've never seen that before. Now, if you'rewalking with the dog and they're showinginterest in the kid skipping, and they might startpulling towards that kid skipping. Now you mightpull back on that because you'regoing in the opposite direction.And when you're pulling away from something, thatactually for dogs they want to pull into that.In a lot of dog sports when we want to createdrive for a thing, like the sport of agility,we want to create drive for our dogs to gofaster over obstacles.

For bite work we wantto create drive for the dog to spring andbite asleep. We use that opposition reflex,where we pull the dog back from something.So, if you're walking and your dog showsinterest in something and they start pullingtowards it and you pull them away from it,the next time the brain sees thatthey're going to pull harder.They're going to maybe start vocalizing. They'regoing to start going, Hey, I want that thing!

And the vocalizing might create a trigger inthem. So maybe the third or fourth exposurethey're going to immediately see thatthing whether it be another dog or a child,they're going to immediately startvocalizing.

Especially with a puppy itcould be out of excitement, Hey, Hey, Hey! But as these experiences go on and they'd neverget to figure out what exactly that experienceis, the triggers create barking, creates growling,the dog because of their lack of ability to beable to understand what it is on the other sideof the skipping child or the black dog, you nowhave a dog who is just reacting in a barking,growling way. If you were to take that leashoff, they would charge at that thing now.

 Allof that pent up, not being able to go. Now theymight charge and just start sniffing, but theymight charge and start circling and barking. Theymight charge and circle, bark, maybe even nip.So that is how just curiosity and in commoninterests can escalate to reactivity and possiblynipping. Okay. Now the other curiosity. The othercuriosity, it could be a curiosity of the cautiouscuriosity.Could be that the dog is fearful.The dog might show that fear with their tailtucked. They might get their eyes wide.

 If you go to episode four, here on Shaped by Dog,I talked about TEMP. The dog is going to show youwith their posture and their mouth, that thereare alarm bells going off in their brain. They mayactually do what we referred to as alarm bark. So,if a dogs got a medium tone bark, woof, woof,woof, when they are showing curiosity that'sbeing cautious, they might get very shrill atthe end of that bark. Instead of, woof, woof,it might go, Woooo wo wo wooowoooo. That'san alarm bark.Danger Will Robinson. Okay. 

Igot to stop using that reference because like 99%of you are too young to even know what it is.So, the alarm bark or a dog that curiositythat is cautious, it might be growling. Oohh,I don't know what that is, oohh. Um, now itcould escalate to, or it might just trigger likeimmediate fear that panic, I've got to get outof here, or I want to run behind my mom's legs orI've got to try and escape this situation. Theymay pee on themselves. And if they can't get awayand they are in close proximity with somethingthat they were cautiously curious about, they mayjust lunge. 

Lunge and snap, possibly even bite. That is how curiosity that is cautious could turnto an icidence of reactivity or aggression.Think of yourself, you walk home and it'syour birthday. And all these people popout from behind the coach, surprise!And that's kind of like curiosity and thenexcitement versus you're lying in bed atnight and you hear a thump downstairs.Uh, thatkind of curiosity is like, Oh, that's different.I did you hear that? Okay. Where's,where's the dogs? Let's go.All right. 

 So different createscuriosity. Curiosity isn't always good,but what's important is what happensduring and afterward. And that's whereyou and I come in as the owners ofthose dogs. So, the dog is sayingeither, Hey, I'm interested in that. or thedog is saying, Whoa, I'm afraid of that. Whoa,Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa. I'm afraid of that. If adog says, Hey, I'm interested in that. or I'mafraid of that. you need to believe them. And youneed to take that feedback as their owner and say,I'm here for you.

Let's figurethis thing out together. So,the two strategies you need to be aware ofare, in the moment and after the fact.Two strategies. So, in the moment strategy isgoing to involve either as I spoke about in aprevious episode, you're going to either goingto ignore, your going to manage, or you're goingto train. When we have a challenge that's whatwe're going to do in the moment. Are you goingto ignore, are you going to manage, or are yougoing to train? That could be your strategy afterthe fact too. Oh yeah. He went off at somekid on a bike, but you know, whatever that,you know, maybe we won't see that kid again.

 If you ignore when your dog is saying, I amworried or I am interested and you donothing, you plan nothing for the future,behaviors don't stay static.So that is verylikely now there's a chance the dog might getused to it and go, Oh, that's a kid on a bike,oh that's innocuous. That's not a problem,but you're rolling the dice because it could alsogo the other way, where they get more and moredriven to want to react to that stimulus. So, you're in the moment you could choose toeither punish or reinforce. And you're going togo, Whoa, Susan.

 Reinforce my dogs acting likea bit of a goober? I'm going to reinforce that.Let me tell you a story. I was at an agility trialmany, many years ago. I did a little workshop.And I went to an agility trial and the peoplewhose home I was staying in, they had a bunch ofAustralian Cattle dogs, like a gaggle of them.I don't know. There was maybe five, six,seven. I don't know what a gaggle is.They were all in an ExPen.

 And whenever anybodywith a dog walked by, they all went at the fence,aggressing, barrier barking, Ra ra ra! Itsounded like they wanted to rip off somebody'slimb.As you could imagine, they were not a fanfavorite of everybody who had to walk by that.And to be fair to the poor dog walking by, that isunfair for them to have to deal with that. And so,I said to them, if you like, while I'm here thisweekend, it was a three-day show, I will help fixthat.

They're like, yeah, that'd be cool. So, I had, I created small little treats,everything from cut up carrots to some pieces ofmeat and just interesting treats. Various levelsof value. And I put them around that the dogcouldn't get, around the outside of the ExPen.And I put a little sign at everything.If you're walking by with a dog, pleasejust throw in a handful of treats. Now Imade sure I asked the people who own the dogs,These dogs won't be aggressive to eachother, would they? If we threw some treatsin there. and they said, absolutely not. So that's what we did. Now after the first day,people walking by and the dogs were barking,aggressing at the ExPen, and I, you know,just keeps throwing. Now I did it myself. IfI was around, I would just throw cookies in.

They were concerned. They're like,Susan, am I not feeding my dog forbeing aggressive towards another dog? And that's what people at the end of theday around the bar said to them, Whywould you letting her tell you to dothat? Your dogs are getting cookies for beingjerks. But there are two responses in life.There is a response you think of like, I'm goingto plan to stand back here and scare you.Or there is a response you have no controlover.

Like when somebody grabs you from behind,you're going to scream and try to run away,that's a reflex. With those dogs, those triggershave been built in that we bark at the fence. Byday two, they were still barking at the fence,but not with the same gusto. By the end of daytwo, there was just the odd one. The young dogwould bark and look at everybody else andeveryone else is looking for the cookies.Day three, there was no barking. 

And so, what we were doing was changingthe trigger. So, when you're in the momentand your dog is reacting or showing interest,your dog is saying, I'm curious. What you wantto do is minimize the fear by getting further awayfrom the distraction. So, if it's a kid on a bike,get as far away from that kid as you can. Playthe search game where you turn the dog away andyou throw cookies on the ground.

Now, if they'rereally fearful they will not going to eat. My favorite is to get them to tug on a toy.And then that's in the moment, I want to minimizethe stress of that experience. What most peoplewould have you do, like the dog, he startsgrowling at a child, you would say, Hey, whatare you doing? or worse you might correct thedog. That's actually throwing gasoline on a fire.Your dog is saying, I'm uncomfortable.I'm a little afraid. And you're saying,I don't care. 

You're not allowed to be afraid.Would you do that to a kid? I'm a little,I'm a little bit afraid. Well, some peopledo that when they've paid to see Santa,the kid shows, and they're afraid and they go,here, take my child. Not really a good plan.If your dog is saying I'm afraid, believethem.

Go to episode 24, where I talked aboutthe distraction index, increase the distance away.Set the dog up to be reinforced and then go homeand create a plan. What am I goingto do in this environment? So again,ignore, manage, or train. The management wouldbe, I'm never going to go near children onbicycles again. And that's really out ofyour control, not a good strategy. 

Ignore,take your chances but there's a lot of reactivedogs around this world with people who took theirchances and it didn't go so well for them. So, let's train.And the train is going tobe creating a journal for that challenge,writing down what happened, where you were,what happened before it.

 So were you just in acrowd and a bunch of dogs put their nose up yourdogs butt, your dog was already stressed ordid you just get in an argument with a parkingmeter person and your dog could sense that stressand then they went off like what happened beforeand what's your plan to counter condition it? So, counter conditioning is being intentionalabout changing the trigger. 

What is dog leash reactivity?

So if it's somethinglike a child on a bike, what's your dog like withone kid walking? And, you know, build up so thatwhen you see a kid walking, good things happen,we're going to play a game of tug, or we'regoing to play some hand targets.When yousee a kid walking, then when you see a kidskipping, when you see a kid pushing a bike,when you see a kid and pretty soon akid is either going to move from fear toideally innocuous.

 They might even moveto love. Look, mum, there's a kid!That's a good thing, isn't it? Right. So different can lead to reactive or aggression.But it doesn't have to be that way. It's allabout you helping your dog to catalog experiencesin a way that is appropriatefor their future and wellbeingand yours and all the dogs around them. That's it for today on Shaped by Dog.

Please,if you haven't done so, sharethis podcast with your friends. Ilove to hear from new listeners and what theirbig takeaways are from this podcast. So, leave mea comment. I promise I read each and every one ofthem. We'll see you next time on Shaped by Dog.That's the reactive dog. We don't want that.

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Dog Aggression assessment

 This video shows Noah, a young dog who was adopted from the SPCA and labeled as dog aggressive. Since his owner adopted him, she hasn't attempted to put him around any other dogs, but she wanted to see if he could potentially be suitable for a dog daycare. We weren't actually planning on recording so we didn't get on camera his first introduction to the dogs, but take our word for it, he was quite explosive. 

How do you test a dog for aggression?

It looked a little bit like this. In our attempts to recreate his explosiveness, we used two dogs. One was mine and one belongs to one of my trainers. My dog Lobo has been trained to greet dogs on cue so it was easy for me to direct him to go up to the gate and go nose to nose with Noah, which is how we were able to trigger a little bit of his aggressiveness. The second dog we used, Olive, has not been trained to greet on cue but is a very well socialized dog and I wanted to include a little bit of the interaction so that you can see how a well socialized dog reacts to the kind of energy that Noah was putting off.

How do you check a dog's temperament?

What is important to note when you're looking at this is that Olive has not actually witnessed any of Noah's aggressiveness. She is simply responding to the subtle body cues and energy that he is giving off. Although to the untrained eye it may look as though Noah is relatively calm here, Olive is actually telling us a different story. Prior to us getting the camera and beginning filming, we did witness Noah explode at the fence towards the other dogs in the yard two times, and we did discipline him for that behavior. 

What classifies a dog as aggressive?

The form of discipline that we used was simply a squirt of water from a squirt bottle. That was all it took to send Noah the message that we disagreed with his actions.After doing that two times, Noah started making different choices at the fence line and that's when we determined it was okay to start introducing him to other dogs.

 We did this with a muzzle on at first for safety because we had seen how explosive Noah could become. Through our careful process of introducing Noah to the right personalities at the right times, we were able to fully integrate him in with a group of 15 dogs without any further explosions or any further corrections needed.

Can you train aggression out of a dog?

After about 15 minutes of Noah showing us that he can make good choices with his social interactions, I determined that I felt confident enough to remove the muzzle. Noah did great for the remainder of his session but this does not mean that we're gonna bring him into a daycare just yet. We're gonna want to repeat this process several more times to make sure we have consistency in his behavior and that he can start and finish the process without any outbursts at all.

Nail-Biters Try To Stop Biting Their Nails For A Week

 - Oh, oh yuck. (cough) It really stays with you. (smacking) (sound effect) (quirky music) - I'm Sam and I am a nail-biter. I'm Max and I'm pretty much a lifetime nail-biter. - I started biting my nails because my brother bit his nails when I was a kid and I thought it was really cool. And then I just couldn't stop. - I've been biting my nails forever. I am a musician so the thing I'm always trying to avoid is biting my finger nails so that they hurt when I press down on things like a keyboard or guitar. 

How can I stop biting my nails in a week?

- Things have gotten pretty desperate. And that's why we turned to you, the Buzzfeed community, to tell us how to stop. - So I guess I'm definitely not the worst at this.That's good. Malvas? - [Sam] It's probably one of those things that tastes really bad. I've just bitten through that. - Exercise. - I exercise. Ish. Okay, putting band-aids on my nails helped over the summer. - Yes, that's clever. - Snow and white? Snowanwhite17: Honestly, I play with Silly Putty while I'm nervous and it really helps. I would play with silly putty. 

Is biting your nails a mental disorder?

- We read all of your responses and we're going to try five ways to stop biting your nails.Fidget spinners or fidget toys, Silly Putty, We're going to try the Band-aids, Malva nail? - Whatever makes your nails taste bad. - And then lastly, - Well I'm gonna get anacrylic manicure. - I will not. - We're gonna do five days of this during the work week when you're stressed so if we start to see some improvement that'll at least be an indication that there is hope. - Let the games begin now. - Prove me wrong. I wanna be wrong. I wanna succeed. 

How do you stop an obsessive nail biting?

(swoosh) Day one of the stop biting your nails challenge. Today I have to put band-aids on my fingers, and I'm on my way to a trivia night, so that's gonna be socially acceptable.(quirky music) - The band-aids so far are not the worst, but as much as I liked them when I put them on, I cannot use a cell phone. Typing is not very easy either. So the band-aid has been inconvenient, but I have not bit my nails yet. (swoosh) - I'm here watching Sam put this nail polish on over her - [Sam] Over my dry, brittle disgusting fingers.

- (laughs) Probably, I don't know how this works. - Now what I'm dreading is the fact that in order to see whether this is working, I'm gonna have to taste it. - (smacks) Okay, that's disgusting. - Yeah I've tasted so many bad herbal teas in my life, this could be one of them.- I'm still not recovered. This Malva stuff has ruined my afternoon because there's this really nice bit of fruit here, and I literally can't touch a piece of it.

 I'm about to go bobbing for apples into this thing and just eat it with my face. - It's been six hours since I put it on, and it actually stopped me from biting, so there's hope. (swoosh) This is day three of my attempt to stop biting my nails. The Malava stop, Mavala stop? I don't know how to pronounce it.

 (ding) It is still working. I licked my finger right now, yeah, still gross. - This morning I'm glad that my tool is a fidget cube, cause I forgot my headphones and already this is my new favorite toy, and my favorite way of distracting myself. - Today I'm trying this fidget ring. You can see it spins. We're gonna see how that works. - I'm having an excellent time with this toy. I think I'm still picking at my nails, but I am going to play with this forever. - I didn't really use it, but I'll tell you what I did do.

I did accidentally lick my fingers near my mouth, even when I was like eating things with my hands, and the Mavala stop is still on. Honestly the bad tasting nail polish might work. (swoosh) - Right now we're on our way to get my second manicure ever, and your? - I've had a bunch but I've never had a gel manicure before. - If I kinda have nice nails that have been treated well, maybe I will continue to treat them well. - I always get mocked by the manicurist cause my nails are so short. - [Ben] (laughs) - So, I'm expecting more of the same. - On the way out the nail salon. How'd that go for you? - It went so well. Well I still have my fidget ring on just in case the nail polish doesn't work, but I'm hoping it does.

- Hopefully, I can keep the manicure on for more than two weeks, and make a long term lifestyle change cause, let me tell you how good it feels to see your nails. (swoosh) - An alternative today, I have Silly Putty. I have not seen this in about 20 years. - Kate, is that what you're playing with back there? - Yup, silly putty. - You bit your nails too, right? - Yes, constantly.

- You think it would stop you from biting your nails though? - No. - I'm optimistic because, so far the thing that helped most was the distracting bandaid. So I don't know, maybe having a little fidget toy will be of use. - This is going well. I don't think I'm getting the urge to bite my nails because they still have nail polish on them, but we'll see. - On a positive note, the silly putty can bounce which is pretty fun. (multiple thuds) If I could catch it.

 - We're finished with our five day experiment to stop biting our nails. - I feel like I have been a little bit tormented. - I'm not gonna lie, I kinda relapsed in a meeting yesterday. - Yeah I mean I clearly haven't stopped. I'm not looking too good right now.

What is it called when you can't stop biting your nails?

- It was a good experiment to see just how much I've been tempted.- My most successful day was the first day. (ding) I'm gonna try the band-aid again. It was helpful because it was the only thing where you literally couldn't do anything about it. So that was really good. - I think my most successful day would've had to have been the gel manicure. (ding) As hellish as the experience actually was because manicurists are bullies. It is really a deterrent to have this really strong shellacked nail that you can't just gnaw into. - Thanks so much to the aesthetic pepper for the suggestion for the band-aids. 

I'm gonna think of you every time I wear them. - And thank you to Katlady with a series of numbers after it for recommending the gel manicure. I really hope this is the long lasting solution. If anyone knows a manicurist nice enough to not shame me for my tiny nails, hit a girl up. - Don't forget to bookmark this video and check back in.

In five years, we'll do a follow up. - We're gonna do the reunion tour. - [Ben] (laughs) - [Sam] And we'll have no fingers left because we bit them off. (quirky music) (swoosh) (door creak).

How to Train your Puppy to Stop Biting

 Tamil hi, Today's video is sponsored by Petflow puppy biting is an inevitable part of having a puppy, But it can also be one of the most frustrating and painful Flurry is just under four months old now and he's going through a pretty significant puppy biting stage At The Windscreen yeah - I don't need to windscreen anyway Today, we'll show you how to teach your puppy to stop biting you Yeah. 

What age does a puppy stop biting?

This is the right dog for this video click thumbs up for flurry and trust me if you've got a puppy You're, definitely going to want to subscribe to. My channel Pick up a copy of my book too, for the complete guide to raising the perfect dog. If you're new to my videos Understand that I strongly discourage the use of training collars like choke prong and electric collars, that's because those types of collars are Specifically designed to train with pain, and that does nothing to promote a bond between a person and a dog.

 How do you get your puppy to stop biting and fast?

That'S the single most important Factor when teaching any dog. I want to encourage you to get your pet supplies and your dog food from a company that feels the same way By getting your food Automatically shipped to you from petflow. At any time interval you prefer you're, making your life easier and making a statement that you Support companies that put our dogs, well-being. First I'Ll have a link and a fantastic discount code to get your all set up in the Description below. 

Why is my puppy biting me aggressively?

But have you ever heard that when your puppy is biting you like this, that you should say ouch and walk away from them ouch And we can definitely say [ that ] now what we thought that this was a bit of a shallow way to Address this, Because you're addressing the symptom, the biting and not the cause, your dog's desire to interact with you. There are two main reasons that [ puppies ] bite like this, because they're teething or because they're trying to engage the world. 

This is how they grab things. If your puppy is teething, you'll definitely want to make sure they have Regular access to safe, chew toys of lots of different textures. Now it's going to take a few weeks to really resolve puppy biting and dogs can be really nippy until they're about five months old or Even longer. If it goes unchecked, you must commit to being very patient with them right now. You and your dog don't yet have Really Crystal clear communication together and every interaction you have with them needs to be focused on building that communication. Addressing puppy biting is one of the best opportunities to do that. In addition to the exercises I'm about to cover make sure you have a strong focus on desensitizing your dog to being touched firmly by a person. 

I think he's enjoying the massage, So the more they're used to this, the less likely they are to nip at you. You know I've even heard some dog trainers recommend biting your dog back, So they know how it feels, but those are really silly ways to teach it on. If your puppy play bites really excessively, Then you've probably got a high-energy dog. If that's the case, then exercise early in the morning and throughout the day is mandatory, if you want relief Sooner rather than later, Chances are, if you've got a puppy biter on your hands, You're, probably getting pretty good at predicting when they're about to be bitey. 

For example, in Flurry's case, It's all the time simply hoping for the best and reacting negatively when your puppy bites. You is not going to resolve this efficiently. Fast. Success comes when you're one step ahead of your dog. Now I know you can do this you're a person there, a dog most of you are smarter than your dog. I hope. First, let's talk about how you need to get good at using a toy to curb puppy biting, Since I know that flurry is likely to bite me when I go to greet him. 

I want to be one step ahead of him by having a toy that I know he likes already with me. He likes that snake. So look! This is okay to bite. My flesh is not So we want to continually divert our dog's attention To the toy, the thing that is acceptable to bite over time. Your dog is going to start to realize alright, So there's some things I'm allowed to buy some other things. I'M not just they're not born knowing this, so you have to take the time to teach [ them ]. It'S not reasonable. 

To expect a dog to just be calm all the time, your goal should be to get them to release energy and Play when we asked them to, rather than waiting for them to ask out on their own. So now, let's talk about how to use treats to curb puppy biting. I mean your dog has to know the proper conduct when encountering a person. Remember when your dog is biting, You, like we've been seeing flurry do they're, just trying to engage [ you ], we just have [ to ], show them and teach them that we prefer a different kind of engagement, a more civilized form of Engagement. 

Since I know that flurry is very likely to start biting me when I engage him, I've got to be one step ahead of Him, so I've got a treat right here now. We'Ve done some basic training with him and he knows how to sit and a couple. Other things I'm going to encourage him to sit for a treat like that. 

It'S worth noting that many puppy biters Don't know how to take a treat gently and they really bite your hands while trying to get that treat. So if that's your dog just simply treat them open palm, It's a good idea to have treats easily accessible at all times if you've got a new dog. Let'S take all of that exuberant energy and turn it into learning power. 

Now, right off the bat when you're using treats That's likely to subdue your dog's desire to bite Just because they get in Food mode. When a dog is in the mood to eat, they tend to be a little less bitey. Since I know flurry is Likely to bite, I'm going to ask him to sit Nice work. Now you might be wondering ``, hey. Am I rewarding my dog for biting in this situation? ?'', No you're, not because we asked him to sit first. There ya go good job bud, So ideally, you asked your dog to do something else. Maybe it's `` sit'' 

 Maybe it's `` lie down''. Maybe it's `` come'', That's a good roll over buddy and reward for the thing you DO like. So you can see by training like [. This ] We're satisfying his urge to want to interact with us and our desire to have a well-behaved dog. At the same time, 

Initiating a 30 second to two minute training session, like this teaches your dog to respond to you, rather than simply behaving impulsively. This is why it's important to make great effort to understand why your dog is acting a certain way, rather than simply focusing on correcting unwanted behaviors after they occur. Imagine it if you were really consistent about asking your dog to sit every time you greeted them. 

A thousand times in a row, Your dog would quickly get into the habit of sitting to greet you. Instead of biting you How great would that be Use both of these approaches that we've gone over so far and use them often when encountering any dog going through the puppy biting phase. Now, when you notice instances of licking where your puppy used to bite you'll know you're on the right track, And you should notice that becomes a bit more frequent with time. 

How can I train my dog to stop biting?.

Puppy biting can take anywhere between a couple of days and a couple of months with extreme biters. So it's really important to keep your expectations in line. So what do you do if you're just hanging out in your caught off guard by the puppy biting Well, number-one promptly initiate one of the training sessions that we did today, Exercise [ your ] dog or place them in a boring environment for a few minutes until they calm down a bit. Parents of young kids understand that it's your responsibility to teach your puppy not to bite, not your kids, But you can make it Petflow's responsibility to get your pet's food to you. 

I'Ll, have a link in the description where you can get your dog's food automatically shipped You want more great dog training videos and I really want to make them Make a voluntary contribution to The Dog Training Revolution on Patreon. That link will be in the description, Give Flurry a thumbs up subscribe to my channel and pick up a copy of my book Dog Training Revolution. We'Ll see you guys in the next video

First Week Puppy Training - The 6 Skills To Teach First - Professional Dog Training Tips

- The first week home for a new puppy is a very impressionable time. And there are a few exercises that you should be doing with your new puppy during their first week home that will really help speed up the learning process. 

What should I teach my puppy in the first week?

In this video I'm going to teach you six exercises that you can do with your new puppy that will help them to become a well-behaved four-legged family member who loves to listen. I'm Ken Steepe, this is Hippy Hippy Shake, welcome back to McCann Dogs. (acoustic instrumental music) (dog barking) Now the first thing you need to keep in mind is that puppies have tiny bellies and they also have really short attention span.

 So as you're working with your puppy for the first couple of weeks, keep those training sessions really short and take advantage of all the natural training opportunities that are presented to you. 

What can I teach my 6 week old puppy?

For us, we'll often portion out a little bit of the puppies food, whether it's their breakfast or lunch or dinner or whatever and use that for training. We know that we have a motivated dog to work for food because it's their feeding time and we're also not giving our puppy too much food over the course of the day.Now the first thing I want to talk about is the response to name. 

What order should I teach my puppy commands?

Now, before your puppy knows their name, it's just a word, they've never heard it before. So we need to do something to build value on that word and the first thing we're going to do for the first few repetitions is just say their name then reward them. And it goes a little something like this, I'll say, Hippy, then reward. Hippy, then reward. Hippy, then reward. 

Now I'm making it really easy for Hippy right now and I'm building value on that word. But in just a few sessions you'll be able to make it a little bit more challenging for your puppy. Now here's where we're going to increase the challenge of that response name a little bit for your .

I want you to wait for a moment when your puppy's distracted which probably won't take that long because puppies are naturally pretty distracted by all of the things in their environment. But have a few treats in hand. When your puppy gets distracted, call their name and put a treat on their nose, turn them in toward you and yes, reward when your puppy is facing you.

 That way they're gonna start to understand that every time they hear their name they need to turn in toward you. And I'll show you how it goes, kind of like this. I'll get her distracted. Hippy. I'll turn her toward me.

 Yes, good girl. So do that a few times. And I'll try it again. Hippy. Turn her toward me. Yes, good girl, very nice.Hippy. Turn her toward me. Yes, good girl. Hippy is starting to understand that every time she hears her name she needs to turn toward me because something good is about to happen.

 Now something you need to keep in mind is that when you've got your puppy at home avoid using their name all the time unless you're training this exercise. The last thing you want to do is water down how important that word is.

So we use something like, "Here, pup, pup, pup." or "Here, here, here." or something like that until we're ready to train our puppy's name and that way that name is always something valuable.

Another thing that we like to do for the response to name training is after you've had a few successful repetitions of turning your puppy away from a distraction, you and a partner will sit at either end of a hallway and one person will hold the puppy and get them really excited.

The other person will have some food and they might use some exciting language to really keep the puppy's focus and keep their attention. 

Then they'll call the puppy's name and that partner will release the puppy down to them. It really builds motivation and drive for an excited response to name. In those first few days of your puppy coming home, make sure you have an opportunity to get them accustomed to their collar.Now, when you pop your puppy's new collar on for the first couple times, they may itch and scratch at it and it's just them getting used to it, it's like you wearing a new pair of glasses or something like that. 

But it's going to be important down the road for you to keep your puppy safe, keep your young dog safe that you can have a collar on them safely, you can clip a leash to it. And even more importantly, be able to put on a house line, which is something we talked about in a previous video and I'll link that in the card above. Puppies explore the world with their mouths, so a great way to engage with them is by using something like an interactive toy.I've got this Bungee Tug here.

The other great thing is for those of you who want to do dog sports in the future or you want your dog to have a great retrieve or a fetch. Having toy driving your dog is going to be really important. The other great thing that you can start doing with your puppy is laying the foundation for their out by engaging with the toy and then presenting some food, Hippy's gonna start to learn what the out command means. 

So let's get started. With your puppy I want you to get that interactive toy and animate it on the ground. Make it look really exciting, so that your puppy get gets interested in it. I'll show you with Hippy Shake. Ready? Okay, get that tug! Tug, tug, tug! So when your puppy gets... Hippy Shake's got it now, she's starting to tug on it.

When your puppy gets a hold of that toy and it seems really excited about it, you're gonna say, "Out" and then you can present the food.Very nice, good girl. We'll try it one more time to get her even more excited. Ready? Get that thing. Oh, she's very excited now.

 Tug, tug, tug, tug, tug. You can see how much she loves playing this game. I'm gonna tell her "Out" and then present the food. The great part about using these interactive toys is that not only does your dog have fun playing with the toy but they begin to understand that the toy is only fun when they get to play with it with you. 

Now another exercise will always do with our young puppies are some luring exercises and that's simply teaching our puppy to follow food. Now following food is going to be really helpful if you want to train your dog to do any tricks or you want to teach your puppy to walk on a loose leash.

It's even helpful for things like the down and sit command. But with our puppies, as they're eight, nine, 10 weeks old, we're just going to lure them around a little bit. 

And when they really commit to that food, we might make it as challenging or as easy as your puppy is capable of following. We're just going to lure them around, we're not gonna give them any commands, we're not going to ask them to do anything.

 All they need to do is follow that food. Now if your puppy gets distracted easily or doesn't like, seems to not be that interested in the food. You might need to reward them a little more frequently or pick a little higher value food reward.

Now don't make it too tough, you just want to maybe turn your puppy a little bit. Yes, and reward. You might want to... Let's see if I can get Hippy Shake to just move around. She went into a down position.

 I can, yes, reward her. We're not really looking for anything specific but we definitely want our puppies to follow this food. Okay, buddy. And these luring exercises are really going to help you down the road with some of your obedience training. 

Now we often talk about the value of a crate when you're training a puppy And whether you're using it as a safe place for your puppy to be when you aren't able to supervise them.Or you're using it as a limited space area so that you can speed up their potty training. The crate is a really useful tool. Now, something we need to do with our puppies is have them build a positive association with that crate.

 

And a great way to do that is by feeding your puppy each of their meals inside the crate. So I'm just gonna tell Hippy Shake, "Okay" and then I'm gonna put her dinner inside here.Now if you have any challenges with your crate training, we posted a video not that long ago. And I'll post a card to it above that you can check out and it'll really teach your puppy to love being in their crate. 

So by doing these exercises in the first few weeks that you bring your puppy home, you're really starting to lay the foundation of learning for your puppy. You're also beginning to understand how they like to learn, which can be a really helpful tool when you're training them.

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What is the first step in training a puppy?

We publish new videos every single week to help you to have a well-behaved four-legged family member. Do you see that playlist beside us? That's actually our puppy training tips playlist and I think you're gonna find some of those videos helpful as well. On that note, I'm Ken, this is Hippy Shake. Happy training.

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Basic Training :: Getting Started with an E-Collar

 For a dog trainer, the e-collar is just another tool that we can use in our program. It's going to take the place of the leash, and we will start to substitute using the e-collar in the leash's place. This cannot be used to teach while we're working with the dog. They need to be taught prior to applying the e-collar.

 

How do you start training with an E collar?

Once they've learned their skills and they're comfortable doing their skills, then we can use this in place of the leash. When you first take your collars out of the box, and your transmitter out of the box, you want to charge them. Put them on the charger for two hours. They'll go to a full charge in that length of time and be ready to use. 

What age should you start training with a shock collar?

You'll know that when they need to be recharged, the light on your receiver will be blinking red and the light on your transmitter, when you press the button, will be red instead of green. If you've got a green light here and a green light here, you've got plenty of battery life.

If you've got a red light when it's blinking and you've got a red light here, that means you can train a little bit longer but you're going to need to get this thing on a charger pretty quickly. 

When should you start using an E collar?

Okay, to turn the unit on, we're gonna turn the receiver on. It has an on/off button on top of the receiver. You're going to press that button, and the green light will start to blink saying that it is on. The transmitter does not have an on/off button. It is on demand. When you press a button, any of the three buttons that are on it, it's on but when you release the button it's off. 

Can e-collars make dogs aggressive?

Therefore you don't have to turn this on and off. As soon as you turn this on, you want to send it a signal from the transmitter just to make sure that they're synced up. I'm pressing the continuous button right now and you see a continuous red light here.

 That means that they are paired and they're ready to go. As you start to introduce your dog to the e-collar, one the first things you want to do is put it on the dog.

How do you stop pulling on an E collar?

Tension and tightness here is very important. There's multiple ways to do this. My rule of thumb is I pull it to a specific hole on the collar strap, where it's very tight, and I'll back out one hole. That allows you to get a finger underneath it, and that you can get a finger under the collar, and you know it's not too tight. 

It's not strangling him. Once that is done, then it's time to do something fun. So, immediately after you put your e-collar on your dog, it's time now to throw a tennis ball or throw a bumper and make him start to believe that when this goes on, we get to do something fun. So he looks forward to you putting an e-collar on. 

It is his uniform to get to go play in the game. So how do we get a dog to understand that this is nothing more than a leash? In our training, as we start to teach this dog, we're going to be applying leash pressure with our leash on his neck. That's where the leash will contact him. As we use the e-collar, it's going to be contacting the dog at the exact .

Same location. So now, each time that we give a tug on the leash, we're going to give a light bump with a transmitter to send the signal to the e-collar, to give the dog the stimulation. It's just a light tap. Each time that we use a tug on the leash, we're going to tap him with the collar. Before too long, in his mind, these two, the leash and the e collar, are the exact same thing.

There is no difference between them. Now with that, you need to be careful. Probably the first two weeks, we're gonna have a min/max rule. No more than five stimulations per session so that you can avoid over stimulating the dog and having him start to worry about this. Get at least three stimulations in, so that he can start to learn the lesson we're trying to teach him.

 That this and our leash are the exact same thing.As you start to stimulate your dog you're going to use low levels of stimulation, and what we're looking for is the reaction from the dog. 

It could be for him to stop and turn his head and look at you. What I typically look for is a little bit of head drop and a swallow response out of the dog. If you look closely, most the time when you see that they're saying I understand.

 I accept. I know I've done something incorrect here. Once we see that response, then we're going to start to think about that level on our intensity and stay in that level. Any time that you see your dog vocalizing, you're out of bounds and you need to turn that wheel down.

Rule of thumb here though, is to always use the minimum amount of pressure necessary to get the dog to respond and to stop what his instincts are trying to tell him to do.

Used properly, this is much easier on the dog than a regular leash is, because it's less contact, it's less intensity, but they've just been conditioned through training to understand they have to stop when they feel this. It's the word "no" to them. It tells them to stop their actions..