Brilliant tutorial as always. I can honestly say without hesitation that your 6 week leash walking connected course is excellent. Definitely recommend it 100%. When you was clicking feeding treats my girl was paying full attention & sniffing. We always watch your tutorial videos together. Thanks so much for you endless commitment, enthusiasm & awesomeness. Absolutely loving what you do. Thanks so much.
@@kikopup Always love your tutorials. Have learned so much from you & continue to do so. Always explaining everything in very simple easy to digest, follow & remember Steps. No expensive equipment required. Thank you so much for your dedication. Your the best.
With loose leash walking more than anything: Use it or lose it. I had someone else walk my well trained dog for a while and after I got her back she pulled like hell. We also rehearsed our training for a while and now she's back to normal. Giving in to leash pressure and stopping when you stop are very useful skills! :)
Yeah that happens. It can be so frustrating. I often suggest having the dog sitter clip the leash in a different way, say if the dog uses the leash clipped at the back to have the sitter clip at the front, or vice versa. For some dogs it really helps to tell the "difference" but for others it doesn't make much of a difference.
@@kikopup I think it was because the person allowed the dog to pull, as in, let the dog pull her towards things and pull ahead while walking and not interacting with the dog at all, instead of stopping and getting the dog to focus on where the human is who holds the leash.
@@theamziss dogs should not be in high arousal around treats. Learning can't happen this way. She has some videos on how to train calmness around food, you should check them out. It will help you a great deal with your future pup!
I have a 1 year old German pit and a 5 year old chihuahua mix (I'm not sure about his breed) and I never actually bothered training them till now. I love your videos so much!! They've truly helped me a lot even with the little time I've had to train them.
I always get SOOO excited when you post a new video. I always watch each video at least twice every time. You always give the best tips in a way anyone can understand. Happy Halloween!!!
Love this! Had to redo leash pressure and other exercises with my dog after a holiday (where she was off leash very often). Always nice to see new videos fr you 🥰
Yeah that can happen. I stopped walking my dogs off leash in this one trail where we went head to head with a pack of a coyotes. I screamed my lungs out...But after that everyone was on leash and it was a little bit frustrating for all of us but after 2 weeks we were back on track. It was just not worth the risk of loosing one of my small dogs forever...
Useful video. I'm in the process of refreshing loose leash walking with my 16 month old dog. She was doing pretty well until a couple weeks ago when we got a bunch of snow and cold temperatures. I think it's a combination of the uneven terrain (people aren't good at shoveling sidewalks in my neighborhood) and the cold making her want to move faster. I tolerated it just enough that the pulling became reinforcing. I think I need to really start emphasizing the leash pressure game. The other variable is that I've been using a 15 or 20 foot long line while we're hiking to give her more space to explore, and I'm hoping it will emphasize that she needs to stop or return to me when she hits the end of that line. She often does that anyways, but I'd rather get that closer to 100%!
Thanks for this summary. That Leash Pressure Game is vital. We have tried several things: Turid Rugaas, My dog pulls! What do I do? Grisha Stewart, Silky Leash Walking, Denise Fenzy, Cutting Corners to Loose Leash Walking. We have had the best results with your course: Leash Walking Connected. It is very complete and very doable for handler and dog. You're the best!
@@kikopup Don't get me wrong. It always is a good thing to have options. But for our dogs - we have three and walk three other ones - your course turned out to be the best.
I have a travel size beach towel. I'm going to try and take that with us on our walks and use as her "mat." My dog is very overly excited when walking and wants to pull and smell EVERYTHING. The calming mat placemen every so often is a good idea!
I have been diligently watching your videos to work with my soon to be 5 month old puppy. She does really well with me during training sessions walking indoors (even with distractions) but the moment we start training walks outdoors it seems she is so reinforced by the environment, that she forgets everything. I also am working on undoing what we may have done mistakenly by sending her on actual walks (just to explore) with my husband before she has been trained to walk is to have her super-reinforced by the outside. Keep up all your good work. If you ever start boarding puppies (& handler :-)) for a short term and train them, let me know and I'll be the first to sign up :-) In the meanwhile I just signed up for the dogmatics self study packages and will work on this in the coming weeks
These videos always help me so much. Thank you for making them. My main problem with loose leash training is that my dog is SO good at walking with a loose leash when I have treats (he knows the training bag, if I just have them in a pocket or if I'm trying to hide them so he doesn't focus on the treats). If he realizes that I don't have anything to give him, he goes right back to whatever he wants to do. It makes a lot of sense because he's so curious and I try to let him sniff and do whatever, but because he's a big, young boxer I'm afraid that when he gets so excited and suddenly pulls that he will hurt himself. I feel like my reinforcement is probably not timed correctly.
I suggest treating loose leash walking like a "moving settle" - with the settle you are feeding the dog for not thinking about the food when they are relaxing and just chilling. So with leash walking, as you walk and your dog is casually at your side looking forward use a calm marker and give a treat, if the dog then thinks its time to train you can show empty hands and say "all done, go sniff" or some other cue to keep enjoying the walk.
Hi Emily, I appreciate your efforts in putting together the leash walking connected study course and I have been following through each step, however I am still having issues with walking my dog, particularly when going home. I have a 2 year old corgi named Waffle who only wants to walk a specific route when I take him for a walk. When i try take him on another route, he is extremely hesitant and normally puts on the brakes. Your course has helped him move along a different route just slightly before he begins to put on the brakes again, so i am just hoping overtime this becomes better as I continue practicing the different training exercises. Funny thing is, when my partner takes Waffle for a walk (we don't even live with each other and my dog doesn't even see him that often), Waffle does not hesitate to go anywhere with him, we can go any route and he is happily fine to walk with him. My assumption is that he is way more exciting that I am? But i'm not sure how to fix this. Please provide me any suggestions! Thank you (you're my number 1 dog trainer on youtube :)
which video explains the clicker thing? like i get it from context, but i bet they have a lot more insight than i've gleaned from watching training videos.
This video th-cam.com/video/V80JVAibXLQ/w-d-xo.html but you can just use a work line good or yes as a marker. It’s just that it’s easier for me to talk and click at the same time to present material but also I like using the clicker for certain behaviors
Hello! I'm excited to watch another one of your awesome videos! I have seen your video on how to work with dogs that aren't super food motivated. Mine is somewhat food motivated, but he won't work for low to medium value treats only for high value. He hates his kibble so it's not used in training. Do you have any advice for me? Thanks!
Yes avoid using the kibble for training. There's no big deal about the dog not working for certain food. Dogs have their own likes and dislikes. You could try using the kibble as you are about to feed the kibble, but Ive seen dogs oddly enough reject the kibble fed by hand but then excitedly eat the whole bowl... Training just before a meal is great for low interest in food, but training after a meal for dogs that are too excited.
Excellent video ! I have a one year old toy xolo that has no training at all. He is a sweet boy but where to begin? He is afraid of stairs and I can coax him up but he refuses to follow me down. I have tried coaxing with his favorite treats and toys but to no avail. I have a harness being delivered and he must begin training in the house on leash to begin socialization beyond the fenced area. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I’ve been watching all your videos, almost. Question for you, I want to bring my miniature Australian Shepherd to walk with me around the neighbourhood and moving on to more of a city setting. I have been avoiding dog parks and anywhere that has lots of dogs right now. Jax is only a puppy, 16 weeks old, and I have been leash training him at home and he gets it. I moved on to training him outside on my yard and he is doing great with lots of distractions such as cars passing by, birds and etc. I teached him how to settle as well. My question is, at what age and what kind of behaviour will I have to see from him in order for me to slowly transition to a more busy setting for instance walking in the city to go to a cafe? I’m concerned to take a step too far or not realizing if he’s ready such as if he gets really distracted he will leash pull for a bit. Then I take a step back and like you said, refresh his leash training. Also, for the settle, once he masters it, would I slowly use a verbal cue “settle” in public without a mat? He settles even without the mat. Thank you.
Trying to make my way through all your videos for our 7month old pup can you clicker train more then one thing at once before que words are added? She has the basic, sit, lay down, an average stay, but would like to get these better and more, can I say clicker train sit stay aswell as something like this ? Or do they have to master one before moving on, thanks for the videos
Yes I suggest working on multiple behaviors to add variety into training as well. Here is a video on how long to train th-cam.com/video/Wn9qtqlZguY/w-d-xo.html
Do you have any tips for mounting? My puppy is about 8 months and he's starting to do it more often and I'd like to come up with a plan before he starts doing it too much and the behavior becomes self-reinforcing. It seems hard to me because it's hard to predict when it will happen, sometimes he plays for an hour and doesn't mount once, other times he'll do it several times in the first 5 minutes of play, other times he won't for 30 minutes and then randomly start. And he also has a hard time listening when he's playing with another dog. So I can't predict when it will happen to prevent it, and no command seems to interrupt him (I would like 'off' to be the word but I use that for jumping from somewhere higher to lower so I don't know if he's connected that with getting off another dog). So what I've resorted to is physically pulling him off by grabbing his harness and having him sit by me for ~10 seconds to hopefully chill out before he can play again. But this feels so reactionary and I'm not showing him what I'd rather him do- which is just to keep playing, but how am I supposed to reward him for playing nicely when the best reward for that is continued play? Maybe I'm just over thinking this. Anyway, I've tried researching this specific issue multiple times and I can't find any methods that seem like they will actually work. Hopefully you have a magic answer? 🤞🏻
Great video, I had never seen these tips about stopping and walking with multiple dogs. I don't know if you have one, but also would be amazing to know your strategies to walk a dog with a bike, It could be beside you, or in front of you (like bikejoring a mushing modality). I would love to take my dogs for a walk with my bike, but I'm afraid of an accident if they decide to go chasing squirrels or another dog.
howlingdogalaska.com/ has great gear for mushing. I am not an expert on bikes and attachments. I suggest getting in contact with Urban Mushing groups for set ups and training needed
It depends what you want to train and the dogs genetics and personality. Most service dog breeding programs have a 50% pass rate and the other dogs just are not meant to be service dogs.
@@kikopup that's disappointing, but thanks for your honesty. I wonder what specific things a dog that won't be a service dog can't do, but I know you will tell me it depends on the dog of course
Hi Emily, that's very helpful, but I found that my dog (18 months old collie x Labrador, hasn't castrated) is walking well, he loves rewarding by treats and very focus in the house or in the garden, however recently when we go out, even just on our driveway, he is very very alert to every single thing and extremely crazy with sniffing. Also he doesn't want any treats outside even it's his favourite sirloin, sometimes he would take the treats, then just split it out on the ground.
I suggest doing what I suggested in the video, settle on the mat and then settle on the mat outside on leash. This exercise can actually get dogs to start eating when outside because it helps them calm down enough for their body to start wanting to eat again.
Do you mean dogs that get easily over aroused and frustrated? All my material on calmness and impulse control are meant for dogs who have those issues.
What if you have a 4 month old pup who doesn't care much for treats and sometimes tries to pull right out of her harness if you stop when she pulls. Everytime she pulls I stop and try to call her back or change direction and she starts pulling herself backwards from her harness or biting my shoes if she's frustrated. And everytime we cross the road she attacks my feet and growling lol. She isn't nervous but she is excited when we ever see another human or dog. And people don't help by calling to her or trying to pet her without asking. Sigh. Yet at home she will come to me and stand by my side perfect when I say heel.
Yes, I suggest do what I suggest in the video- work on the settle on the mat and go places and just settle on the mat then venture away and return. Tell people to back off in a nice way. Sometimes I say "this is not my dog" as no one can argue with "no" after that.
@@kikopup that's a great idea :) I'll try that as I find saying no fast enough difficult. We've been doing mat settles and relaxation protocol at home, I guess it's time to take it out and about! Thank you ❤️
I started enforcing the rule that my boy is not allowed to pass in front of me. He can explore out to the side as far as the leash will reach, but he's no longer allowed to pass me by. That being said, we need to practice this evvery walk because he is still very young and tends to forget any- and everything if he finds an interesting smell!
Yes, if they pass to the other side that can be dangerous, as you can trip over them. I first teach walking casually at the side without crossing over before then teaching my dogs to walk ahead, so they dont zig zag. You brought up an important teaching point
@@kikopup I've actually taught my boy to pass to the other side behind my back, and only on command. I actually narrowly avoided a serious injury some years back when walking a friend's dog who was doing the zig-zag-thing in front of me and wouldn't listen when I tried to tell him to stick to one side. With the same dog, i actually had to kneel and lay the leash down on the ground so a bike could pass by (as in run over the leash...)...
True. I like to think of it this way. When I was a young child, people would constantly say "wow! I cant believe how fast you have grown!" and "Do you remember me? I saw you when you were a baby?!" Our brains work differently as adults. When you are super young, you grow and you don't remember everything you saw or learned as a baby and toddler. The same happens with puppies unfortunately. We think 6 months ago was nothing, but for them it was a lifetime. Like us as a teen trying to remember a person or thing we saw as a baby or toddler.
@@marybowman4847 The same is true for punishment. Unless there was some extremely traumatic event or extremely reinforcing event which would be more likely to be memorable.
Brilliant tutorial as always. I can honestly say without hesitation that your 6 week leash walking connected course is excellent. Definitely recommend it 100%.
When you was clicking feeding treats my girl was paying full attention & sniffing. We always watch your tutorial videos together.
Thanks so much for you endless commitment, enthusiasm & awesomeness. Absolutely loving what you do. Thanks so much.
Thanks so much to you for always taking the time to comment! I know it makes a big difference to how many people see the video :) :) :)
@@kikopup Always love your tutorials. Have learned so much from you & continue to do so. Always explaining everything in very simple easy to digest, follow & remember Steps. No expensive equipment required. Thank you so much for your dedication. Your the best.
With loose leash walking more than anything: Use it or lose it.
I had someone else walk my well trained dog for a while and after I got her back she pulled like hell. We also rehearsed our training for a while and now she's back to normal. Giving in to leash pressure and stopping when you stop are very useful skills! :)
Yeah that happens. It can be so frustrating. I often suggest having the dog sitter clip the leash in a different way, say if the dog uses the leash clipped at the back to have the sitter clip at the front, or vice versa. For some dogs it really helps to tell the "difference" but for others it doesn't make much of a difference.
@@kikopup I think it was because the person allowed the dog to pull, as in, let the dog pull her towards things and pull ahead while walking and not interacting with the dog at all, instead of stopping and getting the dog to focus on where the human is who holds the leash.
@@theamziss dogs should not be in high arousal around treats. Learning can't happen this way. She has some videos on how to train calmness around food, you should check them out. It will help you a great deal with your future pup!
Congrats on your Guinness Record! You are an amazing trainer. I love your videos and pass them on to help many dog owners.
I have a 1 year old German pit and a 5 year old chihuahua mix (I'm not sure about his breed) and I never actually bothered training them till now. I love your videos so much!! They've truly helped me a lot even with the little time I've had to train them.
Thank you for making such great videos!! You have no idea how much your videos have helped me and my dogs!🙌🏻❤️
Awe thanks! That makes me so happy!
These last videos have been amazing, hitting all the topics that I'm interested in. Especially the one about high distraction recalls
Oh yay!
I always get SOOO excited when you post a new video. I always watch each video at least twice every time. You always give the best tips in a way anyone can understand. Happy Halloween!!!
Awe thanks! That means a lot to me!
Love this! Had to redo leash pressure and other exercises with my dog after a holiday (where she was off leash very often). Always nice to see new videos fr you 🥰
Yeah that can happen. I stopped walking my dogs off leash in this one trail where we went head to head with a pack of a coyotes. I screamed my lungs out...But after that everyone was on leash and it was a little bit frustrating for all of us but after 2 weeks we were back on track. It was just not worth the risk of loosing one of my small dogs forever...
Useful video. I'm in the process of refreshing loose leash walking with my 16 month old dog. She was doing pretty well until a couple weeks ago when we got a bunch of snow and cold temperatures. I think it's a combination of the uneven terrain (people aren't good at shoveling sidewalks in my neighborhood) and the cold making her want to move faster. I tolerated it just enough that the pulling became reinforcing. I think I need to really start emphasizing the leash pressure game. The other variable is that I've been using a 15 or 20 foot long line while we're hiking to give her more space to explore, and I'm hoping it will emphasize that she needs to stop or return to me when she hits the end of that line. She often does that anyways, but I'd rather get that closer to 100%!
really helpful video (as always), thank you
thanks for leaving a comment it means a lot :)
Thanks for this summary.
That Leash Pressure Game is vital.
We have tried several things:
Turid Rugaas, My dog pulls! What do I do?
Grisha Stewart, Silky Leash Walking,
Denise Fenzy, Cutting Corners to Loose Leash Walking.
We have had the best results with your course: Leash Walking Connected.
It is very complete and very doable for handler and dog.
You're the best!
Well each dog is different :)
@@kikopup Don't get me wrong.
It always is a good thing to have options.
But for our dogs - we have three and walk three other ones -
your course turned out to be the best.
@@tedjack9184 Thanks Ted :)
I have a travel size beach towel. I'm going to try and take that with us on our walks and use as her "mat." My dog is very overly excited when walking and wants to pull and smell EVERYTHING. The calming mat placemen every so often is a good idea!
I have been diligently watching your videos to work with my soon to be 5 month old puppy. She does really well with me during training sessions walking indoors (even with distractions) but the moment we start training walks outdoors it seems she is so reinforced by the environment, that she forgets everything. I also am working on undoing what we may have done mistakenly by sending her on actual walks (just to explore) with my husband before she has been trained to walk is to have her super-reinforced by the outside. Keep up all your good work. If you ever start boarding puppies (& handler :-)) for a short term and train them, let me know and I'll be the first to sign up :-) In the meanwhile I just signed up for the dogmatics self study packages and will work on this in the coming weeks
These videos always help me so much. Thank you for making them.
My main problem with loose leash training is that my dog is SO good at walking with a loose leash when I have treats (he knows the training bag, if I just have them in a pocket or if I'm trying to hide them so he doesn't focus on the treats). If he realizes that I don't have anything to give him, he goes right back to whatever he wants to do. It makes a lot of sense because he's so curious and I try to let him sniff and do whatever, but because he's a big, young boxer I'm afraid that when he gets so excited and suddenly pulls that he will hurt himself. I feel like my reinforcement is probably not timed correctly.
I suggest treating loose leash walking like a "moving settle" - with the settle you are feeding the dog for not thinking about the food when they are relaxing and just chilling. So with leash walking, as you walk and your dog is casually at your side looking forward use a calm marker and give a treat, if the dog then thinks its time to train you can show empty hands and say "all done, go sniff" or some other cue to keep enjoying the walk.
Thank you! I"ll try this! 👍👍👍
Awesome video as always! Thanks Emily
You're welcome
Thank you for the content which is super helpful. You are doing awesome job. 😊
Oh thank you!
Off topic but Splash is so cute in the thumbnail, shes smiling and winking :)))
Hi Emily, I appreciate your efforts in putting together the leash walking connected study course and I have been following through each step, however I am still having issues with walking my dog, particularly when going home. I have a 2 year old corgi named Waffle who only wants to walk a specific route when I take him for a walk. When i try take him on another route, he is extremely hesitant and normally puts on the brakes. Your course has helped him move along a different route just slightly before he begins to put on the brakes again, so i am just hoping overtime this becomes better as I continue practicing the different training exercises. Funny thing is, when my partner takes Waffle for a walk (we don't even live with each other and my dog doesn't even see him that often), Waffle does not hesitate to go anywhere with him, we can go any route and he is happily fine to walk with him. My assumption is that he is way more exciting that I am? But i'm not sure how to fix this. Please provide me any suggestions! Thank you (you're my number 1 dog trainer on youtube :)
which video explains the clicker thing? like i get it from context, but i bet they have a lot more insight than i've gleaned from watching training videos.
This video th-cam.com/video/V80JVAibXLQ/w-d-xo.html but you can just use a work line good or yes as a marker. It’s just that it’s easier for me to talk and click at the same time to present material but also I like using the clicker for certain behaviors
Hello! I'm excited to watch another one of your awesome videos! I have seen your video on how to work with dogs that aren't super food motivated. Mine is somewhat food motivated, but he won't work for low to medium value treats only for high value. He hates his kibble so it's not used in training. Do you have any advice for me? Thanks!
Yes avoid using the kibble for training. There's no big deal about the dog not working for certain food. Dogs have their own likes and dislikes. You could try using the kibble as you are about to feed the kibble, but Ive seen dogs oddly enough reject the kibble fed by hand but then excitedly eat the whole bowl... Training just before a meal is great for low interest in food, but training after a meal for dogs that are too excited.
Excellent video ! I have a one year old toy xolo that has no training at all. He is a sweet boy but where to begin? He is afraid of stairs and I can coax him up but he refuses to follow me down. I have tried coaxing with his favorite treats and toys but to no avail. I have a harness being delivered and he must begin training in the house on leash to begin socialization beyond the fenced area. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thank U ❤️
I love your videos. What do you recommend for a puppy Shiba who hates harnesses
Kiki my nervous rescue always pulls going back to the house. Any tips?
I’ve been watching all your videos, almost. Question for you, I want to bring my miniature Australian Shepherd to walk with me around the neighbourhood and moving on to more of a city setting. I have been avoiding dog parks and anywhere that has lots of dogs right now.
Jax is only a puppy, 16 weeks old, and I have been leash training him at home and he gets it. I moved on to training him outside on my yard and he is doing great with lots of distractions such as cars passing by, birds and etc. I teached him how to settle as well. My question is, at what age and what kind of behaviour will I have to see from him in order for me to slowly transition to a more busy setting for instance walking in the city to go to a cafe? I’m concerned to take a step too far or not realizing if he’s ready such as if he gets really distracted he will leash pull for a bit. Then I take a step back and like you said, refresh his leash training.
Also, for the settle, once he masters it, would I slowly use a verbal cue “settle” in public without a mat? He settles even without the mat. Thank you.
Trying to make my way through all your videos for our 7month old pup can you clicker train more then one thing at once before que words are added? She has the basic, sit, lay down, an average stay, but would like to get these better and more, can I say clicker train sit stay aswell as something like this ? Or do they have to master one before moving on, thanks for the videos
Yes I suggest working on multiple behaviors to add variety into training as well. Here is a video on how long to train th-cam.com/video/Wn9qtqlZguY/w-d-xo.html
@@kikopup wow thankyou for such a quick reply
Do you have any tips for mounting? My puppy is about 8 months and he's starting to do it more often and I'd like to come up with a plan before he starts doing it too much and the behavior becomes self-reinforcing. It seems hard to me because it's hard to predict when it will happen, sometimes he plays for an hour and doesn't mount once, other times he'll do it several times in the first 5 minutes of play, other times he won't for 30 minutes and then randomly start. And he also has a hard time listening when he's playing with another dog. So I can't predict when it will happen to prevent it, and no command seems to interrupt him (I would like 'off' to be the word but I use that for jumping from somewhere higher to lower so I don't know if he's connected that with getting off another dog). So what I've resorted to is physically pulling him off by grabbing his harness and having him sit by me for ~10 seconds to hopefully chill out before he can play again. But this feels so reactionary and I'm not showing him what I'd rather him do- which is just to keep playing, but how am I supposed to reward him for playing nicely when the best reward for that is continued play? Maybe I'm just over thinking this. Anyway, I've tried researching this specific issue multiple times and I can't find any methods that seem like they will actually work. Hopefully you have a magic answer? 🤞🏻
Great video, I had never seen these tips about stopping and walking with multiple dogs.
I don't know if you have one, but also would be amazing to know your strategies to walk a dog with a bike, It could be beside you, or in front of you (like bikejoring a mushing modality). I would love to take my dogs for a walk with my bike, but I'm afraid of an accident if they decide to go chasing squirrels or another dog.
howlingdogalaska.com/ has great gear for mushing. I am not an expert on bikes and attachments. I suggest getting in contact with Urban Mushing groups for set ups and training needed
Hi, I have a question, do you think any dog can be trained effectively?
It depends what you want to train and the dogs genetics and personality. Most service dog breeding programs have a 50% pass rate and the other dogs just are not meant to be service dogs.
@@kikopup that's disappointing, but thanks for your honesty. I wonder what specific things a dog that won't be a service dog can't do, but I know you will tell me it depends on the dog of course
👍
Hi Emily, that's very helpful, but I found that my dog (18 months old collie x Labrador, hasn't castrated) is walking well, he loves rewarding by treats and very focus in the house or in the garden, however recently when we go out, even just on our driveway, he is very very alert to every single thing and extremely crazy with sniffing. Also he doesn't want any treats outside even it's his favourite sirloin, sometimes he would take the treats, then just split it out on the ground.
I suggest doing what I suggested in the video, settle on the mat and then settle on the mat outside on leash. This exercise can actually get dogs to start eating when outside because it helps them calm down enough for their body to start wanting to eat again.
do you have a course that teaches high drive dogs?
Do you mean dogs that get easily over aroused and frustrated? All my material on calmness and impulse control are meant for dogs who have those issues.
What if you have a 4 month old pup who doesn't care much for treats and sometimes tries to pull right out of her harness if you stop when she pulls. Everytime she pulls I stop and try to call her back or change direction and she starts pulling herself backwards from her harness or biting my shoes if she's frustrated. And everytime we cross the road she attacks my feet and growling lol.
She isn't nervous but she is excited when we ever see another human or dog. And people don't help by calling to her or trying to pet her without asking. Sigh.
Yet at home she will come to me and stand by my side perfect when I say heel.
Yes, I suggest do what I suggest in the video- work on the settle on the mat and go places and just settle on the mat then venture away and return. Tell people to back off in a nice way. Sometimes I say "this is not my dog" as no one can argue with "no" after that.
@@kikopup that's a great idea :) I'll try that as I find saying no fast enough difficult.
We've been doing mat settles and relaxation protocol at home, I guess it's time to take it out and about! Thank you ❤️
I started enforcing the rule that my boy is not allowed to pass in front of me. He can explore out to the side as far as the leash will reach, but he's no longer allowed to pass me by. That being said, we need to practice this evvery walk because he is still very young and tends to forget any- and everything if he finds an interesting smell!
Yes, if they pass to the other side that can be dangerous, as you can trip over them. I first teach walking casually at the side without crossing over before then teaching my dogs to walk ahead, so they dont zig zag. You brought up an important teaching point
@@kikopup I've actually taught my boy to pass to the other side behind my back, and only on command. I actually narrowly avoided a serious injury some years back when walking a friend's dog who was doing the zig-zag-thing in front of me and wouldn't listen when I tried to tell him to stick to one side. With the same dog, i actually had to kneel and lay the leash down on the ground so a bike could pass by (as in run over the leash...)...
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It's frustrating with puppies how they randomly unlearn good behavior. Like, I thought we were past that?!
True. I like to think of it this way. When I was a young child, people would constantly say "wow! I cant believe how fast you have grown!" and "Do you remember me? I saw you when you were a baby?!" Our brains work differently as adults. When you are super young, you grow and you don't remember everything you saw or learned as a baby and toddler. The same happens with puppies unfortunately. We think 6 months ago was nothing, but for them it was a lifetime. Like us as a teen trying to remember a person or thing we saw as a baby or toddler.
Good explanation of how their minds work with training and reinforcement
@@marybowman4847 The same is true for punishment. Unless there was some extremely traumatic event or extremely reinforcing event which would be more likely to be memorable.
@@kikopup oh wow never thought about that! Such a valid point! Makes perfect sense. Thanks for the reply!! You're awesome!