Don't Waste Your Money On These 9 "Dog Training Tools"
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- It's EASY to get caught up in good marketing and buy a bunch of junk you DON'T NEED for your dog. AVOID these 9 "dog training tools" that are overrated and will set you back in your dog training!
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Don't Waste Your Money On These 9 "Dog Training Tools"
00:26 - Pee Pads Can RUIN Your Puppy Potty Training
01:25 - Giving Your Dog Clear Information Will Transform Your Training
02:07 - There Are Better Ways To Stop A Dog From Chewing EVERYTHING
02:46 - Avoid This Dangerous Dog Leash
03:21 - Get A Quality Leash Not A CUTE One!
04:05 - You Want A Dog Leash That You Are In Control Of
04:46 - What Kind Of Dog Leash Should You Use?
05:22 - Dog Toys Are Fun BUT They Aren’t Always Safe!
06:01 - What Kind Of Dog Toys Should You Use With Your Dog In Training?
07:09 - A Harness Is Not The Answer To Loose Leash Dog Walking!
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Now that you’ve got the right equipment, we need to talk about The MOST Important 20 ft. In Your Leash Walking Training!:
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How do you feel about the Gentle Leader. I've used it before with my dogs. I was surprised that you didn't mention that one.
The amount of conflicting information out there is insane! Zak George & Victoria Stilwell say use a harness from day 1. The instructor in my puppy socialisation class says don’t play tug with your dog. The person who trained me to be a dog trainer is a fan of pet corrector spray under certain circumstances (combined with a verbal cue). No wonder dog owners are confused, frustrated and many give up on training and simply tolerate bad behaviour. Love your content. Keep up the great work!
And some use different methods. In the end do what works with your dog. If one method doesn’t work at all then maybe adjusting the method might help. I did multiple classes with different trainers, eventually I use a mix between their methods.
This is a great point, marcedwards7026! Always consider the source of the information, especially when it comes to advice on social media! It’s worth your time to research the trainer a bit and find out about their history, experience and depth of knowledge. If it doesn’t “feel right”, do more research!
Happy Training!
@@rosagroen2964 That was my conclusion too. It’s also the advice that I give my clients. If they aren’t comfortable with what I’m telling them, then let’s have that conversation because there are almost certainly alternative approaches and perspectives we can discuss.
I agree. I've had 3 dogs I've trained myself (no professional training or classes and very limited on using youtube videos) very trial and error for me and all extremely different circumstances for each very different breed of dog. I had a prong collar for my shep x rottie and it worked well for him. Not much pull on him. Then I used regular leather collar on Min Pin and it actually ended up damaging his throat before we switched to harness and he's maximum pull hard dog. I started harness on boxer pup with 4 ft lead and he's doing the best of the 3 so far really. So it's all helpful information but because there is so much we can pick and choose wich methods work best for which dogs. 😊
After spending too much hours viewing all videos of dog trainers, I can say it loudly and clear that Mccann family is the best source for information on the internet in this field, god bless those extremely professional family ❤
My pup (now an adult) broke the front ring on a no-pull harness as soon as he saw a maltese terrier run past. Leather leads are the best. I still mine from the early 2000s, locally made by a lovely man who added rings to the handle to make it either shorter or to sling over the shoulder when off-lead.
Great video! I would like to offer one small amendment regarding harnesses. Some small dog breeds can develop tracheal damage from collars. Harnesses are great for these breeds- even puppies- because they’re pulled from the back instead of by the neck. Toy or XS dog? Check breed guidance & with vet before using a collar.
i had a german shepherd puppy back in 2009 that i never fully got walking well on a leash. when he was about a year old and 100 lbs already, i tried one of those "easy walk" harnesses that attach in the front and he'd just keep pulling as it cut into his armpit, until it made him bleed, and he'd just keep pulling. i learned my lesson and never used one of those again.
The trainer told us to get a special type of harness, and she even gave us the link. She pulled as soon as I put it on her. No matter how much training and treats, nothing worked. I tried the collar, and what a difference it made. She still has some work to do but a huge improvement. Thank you!!!
I use a front clip harness for my dog since we are still working on leash walking. She doesn’t pull on the harness but does on just a collar and I worry about her neck.
Well. Its a no for collars for me. My two are small and the last thing i want is to choke them. The harness works for us. I agree about the retractor lead however i use those ehen we're walking thru the park or beach walk.
I tried not using a harness on my doxie and he chocked himself. Collars are definitely better at conveying information, but if your puppy has a faulty self preservation instinct, a harness is not a terrible second choice; although it takes a bit more effort to make them understand not to pull
I'm very disappointed you did not give a caveat that harnesses are a necessity for smoosh-faced dogs like Pugs and Frenchies. Collars should not be used on these dogs for anything other than holding their tags and looking cute. Attaching a leash to their collars could result in serious injury.
so agree, @MCannDogs be careful about promoting collars inform which are safe including harnesses
Yeah, I have a Shih-poo and use a harness because I was told to avoid a colar because their windpipe can collapse easier.
She only pulls on walks if she sees something she wants to catch up to.
Completely wrong on harnesses. Stop relying on lead corrections to communicate to your dog and you may change your opinion on harnesses. Harnesses are often safer, especially for puppies with delicate necks, they remove the risk of permanent neck damage in dogs that pull and are safer to use in the car and on long lines. The idea that for your dogs to understand lead pressure that it needs to be attached to their neck is nonsense. Consistency in teaching them tension in the leash means they can't keep going, and focusing on positive reinforcement to reduce frustration in the learning process, is the way to go.
Leash + collar corrections don't always work for all dogs. Sometimes their better for usually big to medium dogs, but they don't always work or fail.
Veterinary dentists here in the US warn against nylon bones because they can break teeth.
Never again. We’ve had two dogs that broke molars on nylon bones. Painful for the dog, expensive to fix
My dog hot horners syndrome from pulling on collar (he doesn't normally pull but was in situation where he just got a bit excited) use a harness now no further problems
I tried one of those "no pull" harnesses, had it adjusted just right. The first correction from the side pulled my dog's front legs out from under her and she landed on her face. It immediately went into the trash.
How do you feel about gentle leader head collars, I have one for my dog?
Do you believe in shock collars or remote electric dog training collars, tens unit ?
In my opinion a small dog needs a harness. A collar can seriously damage a small dog. Maybe it’s different with a large dog because I have only had dogs under 15 pounds. Every breeder, trainer, and vet I have talked with in my 40 years training dogs insists on a harness for health reasons.
Agreed, I wish they would show training with small or toy breeds too. A coller correction on these guys is stinking impossible and it's hard to get one small enough to fit.
We have a puppy and we do use the bitter apple spray for cords because I mean I think you know why we also use a tranning leash for our 5 month old puppy only for now because she is still getting use to walking on a leash and she dose not have a recall
Can you explain what the problem is with harnesses? I worry about my dog damaging her trachea on her collar when she pulls or lunges on the leash.
Hey sarahwbs! We published a video recently with a veterinarian explaining how trachea damage from collar use is a myth. But in terms of training, here’s a video explaining why a collar is a better choice than a harness: Is There A BETTER WAY To Stop Leash Pulling With Your Dog?
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Happy Training!
@@McCannDogs Could you link to the vet video please? I've always thought the trachea damage issue was dubious but that was only instinct on my part. I'd love to see the professional's opinion.
Hi there, gaileverett! This will help: Veterinarian Reveals The TRUTH About Dog Myths
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Happy Training!
Thank you sooo much for this! I felt guilty for using the collar and not the harness, because I was told that the collar could dammage the spin. My dog hates the harness although we bought a siper comfortable one.
Took our puppy to basic training, and they told us to use a harness and she still pulls. If we switch to a collar, will it help with the trainning.
If only this video was uploaded a month ago lol! 🥴😩 we are expecting our Furbaby to arrive within the next week, and I started purchasing so many items for her ahead of time. She does have bones and toys that you can put treats inside of but I also got her harnesses that I’m sure she will not fit by the time she is done training lol. I also got her a toy that have smaller toys inside for her to take out. Also, I don’t know if this is a pro or con but the collar I got for her is more decretory than anything, but it does seem to still be good quality. 😩
My 4-month-old Australian Cattle Dog is very aggressive and sometimes lunges at me and tries to grab/bite my hands or arms. She is constantly nipping at my feet and toes. I have watched most of your videos on biting and have gained lots of tricks but she still will go from calm and settled to a lunging, out-of-control dog in a split second. She is slowly getting better but I have dozens of bits and scratches on both arms and more on my hands. I use the house line and grab ner collar but that just provokes her even more. at times she is so out of control I must give her a timeout just to settle her down. Later I get her out of her crate and she is sweet as pie and calm and then listens to me. She is very food motivated and sits and obeys when I give her treats, but ten minutes after she is jumping and wanting to bite me. Help, What can I do for the jumping, biting, and lunging at me?
Probably needs more exercise?
She was probably teething ... how's it going now? We rescued a 10 week old plott hound 3 weeks ago. The training is going exceptionally well so far. She was very nippy the first 2 weeks, but I stayed consistent with positive and negative reinforcement.
We have a Jack Russel Terrier mix. We have now been leash training for 3 months but with little success. As soon as he discovered there is not going to be a constant flow of tiny treats he simply ignores us. He does not seem defiant, just disinterested. If we keep his attention with tiny tiny treats, we do not get far before he needs to throw up. He pulls. We switch directions, we distract with treats, but he has a very short attention span and is hyper aware of everything else. He loses his mind at bicycles, motorcycles, children, cats, birds, and cars. Seems curious but OK with other dogs. This dog was abused prior to our rescuing him just shy of being 1 year old. He does not seem defiant, but he ignores commands unless there is a treat. If we speak loudly, that gets his attention but he freezes, and if we walk towards him, he runs. We tried house leashes, he simply destroys them in minutes even while we try to get hold of it. We are at wits end. We are retired and on a low fixed income. We might need to give this dog up. He can be sweet and want loving but is very hard to train. I am in my 70’s and have successfully trained several other dogs. But this one is a major challenge.
Jack Russell's are very active and love to chase things. Mousers by nature. Instead of treats all the time, try having an interactive tug toy to pull out to switch out with to draw them back when their attention goes from you. Dogs get bored with the same thing, so switch up the training rewards. Find a combination that works best for you. Best wishes.
try beckmans dog training
I can't pretend to know what will or won't work with your dog because Im no professional and my 17 month old Aussie x Maremma is the first dog I've ever trained beyond Sit and Down.
It sounds like your dog is as excitable and reactive to the environment as mine is.
The only way I've gotten anywhere with her on a leash (she lunges for anything that moves including leaves blowing, as well as anything like a stick she could want to pick up or sniff at) is by working all these months to teach Tug and Fetch (with Drop It involved so that she is learning to give up the toy).
Whatever toy she's MOST OBSESSED with is the toy that came with us on our training walks for 6 months.
No walks are "normal" walks. I leave the house every day (sometimes multiple times a day) with the mindset of "we're not going for a walk, I'm taking her on a training walk."
We do the "change direction if she puts *any* tension on the keash tjing (not even actually *pulling,* just the very first indication of the leash not hanging loosely from her collar). This used to result in us taking half an hour to go, like, 20m down the rural road and return. Zero tolerance for tension on the leash.
Meanwhile, when a vehicle approaches (it's a pretty busy rural road), I make sure we're on the shoulder of the opposite side of the road, and I put her in a Sit and I enforce that she holds the Sit. If she has problems, I put her in a Down instead. If she wants to break from position, I literally hold the leash to the ground to keep her head down.
The second the vehicle has gone by, I release her, give a gentle toss of her toy in the opposite direction as the motion if the vehicle to break her sight fixation, and we play Tug for a few seconds before continuing on our practice walk.
She reacts to people so strongly that I can't get within 50m of them, so I take her to parks and parking lots where we can find spaces where we're more likely to be able to keep our distance to practice being "near" them.
All of it hinges, for us, on practicing Sit (hold Sit until you're released), Down (same as Sit), and walking on the leash a TON inside the house (although we're at the point where if's Heel that we're practicing inside the house now)
Plus I put her in a Sit to put her leash on at the door, and if she breaks the Sit as I open the door and step outside, we go back inside and I close the door and we start over, until she waits patiently; similarly, if she pulls on the leash after I've invited her outside but Im still closing the door and getting myself organized, we go back inside and I close the door and we start over.
Plus she's 55lbs and in the winter the deck out the back door can be very slippery, so once Im organized after we've closed the door behind us, I lure her into Heel for the 6-7 steps it takes to get off the back deck (whether it's slippery or not); if she breaks the Heel before I release her, we go back to the back door and start again.
I swear that door routine helps, even though it was frustrating yo implement and still requires extra minutes if training almost every time we leave the house.
The past 6 weeks, Ive finally got enough traction with her on the practice walks that she's finally interested in food as a reward. Before now, the thibgs that caught her attention so COMMANDED her brain that she was disinterested in food. The toy - being able to release some of her excitement and *move* - was the only thing that could come close to competing with the environment. But now she's able to work with me enough in the face of mangeable excitement that I can transfer rewards to the *calmer* reward of high value food.
We *still* only ever go on training walks, because she *still* reacts in unacceptable ways, but now we can sometimes go for almost 1km training walks (still changing direction/doing circles if she starts putting tension on the leash, still requiring a Sit if a car goes by, and also if I see something I think she'll lunge at, I require a Sit at a distance while she examines the situation from afar and then we approach it doing circles).
Im sure a more experienced trainer could fix this much more quickly than I can; Im sure I miss picking up on signals from her and Im sure my timing with commands/feedback/rewards must be off despite all of the videos Ive watched, but Im on long-term Disability and I can't afford classes. Im doing the best I can while continuing to review McCann videos on TH-cam (I always rediscover bits that it turns out I wasn't doing something correctly!) and while it has been exhaustingly slow, I *do* see significant progress.
She gets her exercise at home, playing Fetch and Frisbee with me (and trying to get her to burn off d
some energy that way, or with training, BEFORE we go on a training walk is important too... I cant always manage that sequence, but I try).
I hope you find whatever the key is to being able to get through to your dog so that he can hear you. It can be so hard to learn the "language" your dog speaks...
Good luck!
Edit: OH, and when my dog becomes obsessed with a new toy, that toy goes AWAY and is never brought out for anything but training walks.
McCann dogs. I sent an email a few days ago needing help to decide which training class to purchase for my puppy. I did not get a response from that email. Is there a telephone number I can call or a different email address to where I can ask a question and somebody would respond? Thank you.
I CAN’T believe how many people are still training their dogs on a harness after all of the studies showing the impact they have on the dog’s gait. This is a great opportunity to advance the culture of dog training. Let’s move forward trainers! I saw someone who claimed to be a vet saying they use one for a dog in training…might be a good topic for your next CE. 🤦
Smart eagle 92
when does puppyhood end?
Some dogs need a harness. A shiba will shake a collar in a second.
For some dogs harnesses are better for them. Because just like us, they have their preferences sometimes. Sometimes a dog will HATE collars and like harnesses. And ofc, vice versa.
If you can't train a dog to walk on leash with a harness on, you're training them wrong. End of story.
Please be more specific about the “dangers” of the Easy Walk” harness. This brand was specifically requested by my trainer - who has been an exemplary instructor with no financial gain in recommending this product. One does have to be mindful about how to fit and place this harness but, when applied and used properly, I see no evidence of untoward effects.
An overzealous application of correction with a neck collar seems more likely to cause harm.
Naw my dog will break his neck he does not care and he has no control, keeping the harness….
Fast soldier 48
Promoting leather at this time and age for something that's really unnecessary... just why?! 🤦♀️
Came here to say this!
Re the harness: It feels like this channel only cares about 'giving information to your dog whether they like it or not', rather than their actual welfare. Leash corrections via the neck makes a dog uncomfortable, so of course that works, but there are more humane ways to train a dog not to pull. Same with that clip of your trainer pushing the dog down for trying to grab the food - it's not necessary to do it that way at all. Again, it works, but it's 2023 - we shouldn't be forcing our pets into certain positions to make us happy, dogs can easily learn to resist things because they get good rewards for doing so, not mini physical corrections. Zak George all the way