As a trainer, I've never been confident in my ability to train a strong heel, but watching your technique and having you put words to it has given a great deal more confidence. Thank you!
At what age can I start this? I got my heeler girl at 7 weeks. She is 10 weeks now. I have her trained with training treats to come to me and follow me at all time when we go outside to potty. But I am thinking she needs to start wearing a collar and leash even if just to drag it around in the house and get used to it?
dragging a light weight leash when you are paying attn to her is a great idea :) Also, start playing with her to teach her rules and boundaries around play that will get incorporated into EVERYHING else you teach her. I have a playlist that you can watch for teaching your dog how to play
My dog pulls and pulls how do I break them of that . They get excited and want to sniff and they pull on the leash constantly. Mine are nothing like this dog here . I’ve also got 4 pups two months old . What is a good age to start their training. I ended up with a full litter of puppies I sold two of them to friends but I’m keeping the other 4 . They are all showing signs of being good dogs . They know their names and they come but they jump claw and bite like their mother . I wanna break them of that like right now .
I would purchase Ivan's Balabanovs Heeling videos (he has 2). You may think it is only for competition heeling, but the concepts are for any kind of heeling. www.leadoffleashk9training.com/training-without-conflict-resources You can also watch all of my heeling videos, if ou haven't already for other ideas.
I have done w flat collar, but flat collars don't have any "training" aspect to them with pressure on/off (or very little and it all comes from you tugging hard) So if you have a heavy dog or a big puller, then def use a prong collar if your dog is very light weight or soft - not a big puller- and is more sensitive you can get away with a flat or slip lead.
@@leadoffleashk9training thank you for your reply. My dog seems to get the concept of “he has to slow down at the end of the leash/ can’t pull/loose leash beside my side”. I’ve used a slip collar for a bit when he was younger and then have been training with a flat collar. When he gets excited, it’s hard for him to control and start to pull. I’m going to try a slip collar and how it goes again. Thank you again!!
you need to keep doing it with prong for a long while, making sure that you are saying heel BEFORE you use the prong pressure. If you do it this way, he will expect the prong pressure and will not need it OR will respond to you doing a pop on his flat collar cause he is used to prong reminders and that transfers back to a flat collar . If you are speaking of an off-leash heel, that would require an ecollar or, again, very consistent teaching of the command for a while. Heel is a hard one to teach and takes patience as it is on-going command whereas other commands have an obvious finish....Heel is over when you decide it is vs sit ends when he sits. I sometimes use my foot and leg to help keep dogs in the proper position when I don't have a training collar on them, but again I say heel, THEN use the foot. I can get a dog to do an amazing off leash heel in less than a week (have done it with 100's of dogs) - so practice, be patient, and be consistent in your communication - you will get there!
you need to keep doing it with the prong collar for MONTHS until he just stops the pulling all together. or transfer the knowledge to an ecollar. How is it going now?
get a prong collar and use a constant pressure until she is in the spot you want her to be. AS soo as she is out of her heel, use the prong/leash pressure until she is back in the spot then release it. You have to use a training collar with a dog like her. flat collars and harnesses do not have any teaching capabilities of pressure on/ pressure off
use a wall that they have to heel next to so that they cant pull out to the side. Or a hedge or narrow hallway, etc. Also do an about face with a training collar on when they pull away and after 2 or 3 of those tugs in the training collar they should get the message if your timing and effectiveness is spot on. Reward when they turn with you requiring no leash pressure. Make yourself relevant and use a marker word and a reinforcement for turing with you.
@@leadoffleashk9training you cant get prong collars here in the uk. Could you do a video of training heel with a slip lead? Also when I take slip lead or halti off my dog, she pulls ahead again
@@lucym22 it’s the same thing with a slip lead or halti. But your pop is going to have to be really firm. The prong collar doesn’t require as much pressure. To be able to get off of your tools, you need to say the command FIRST and THEN give the leash information (leash pressure in the form of a leash pop or pull.) Since most dogs don’t like the leash pressure, and since you have preempted that leash pop or pull with a word/command, then the dog will start to hear the command and anticipate what comes next and just do it without you having to give the leash information. They want to avoid that leash pressure. The concept is known as escape/avoidance. Look that up on Google. It might come up around horse training, but it’s the same concept. I do have videos on “operant conditions” and escape/avoidance in dog training if you look at that playlist on my TH-cam channel. I hope this makes sense.
@@Emma-iu3fs I never used prong collars until I started training dogs and then needed something more gentle to use (for my own body's sake) which is when I discovered how effectively a prong collar transfers leash pressure with very little tension/force. Having said that, I have trained so many dogs without prong collars and applied the same tactic to the flat collar, the slip lead, etc. You don't have to have a training collar, it just is easier on you and the dog, as well as crystal clear communication when done well. So you can actually do the exact same thing with anything. If you have a heavy strong dog, it just requires more strength from you.
It is part of the heeler breed sometimes (like some other working dogs) to dock their tail. You would have to do your own research as to why, and the pros and cons. Thanks for commenting and watching!
The Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog is not an Australian Cattle Dog with a docked tail. He is a naturally bob-tailed breed and stands square with plenty of leg length under the body. But it seems like in other countries (than Australia) they dock the tail of blue heelers due to the confusion between the two breeds. (sorry for replying to an old comment)
I would get going on the play as the reinforcer - esp if it is a puppy - don't waste time! Get them playing while they are young because that is really all that they want to do besides eat. Then teach it an "out" command and then you have the best way to reinforce any other command you teach - thru play as the reward. It will keep the motivation high. Watch this playlist for more info th-cam.com/play/PLJW_ZGMoNMMa8QvRgZEOJtXC2uwllsMPn.html
That collar is awfully low. Concerning that he is so sensitive to leash pressure with the collar that low. For anyone curious, your collar should be sitting as close to the lower jaw as possible for optimal control that requires the least amount of pressure.
I start with a training collar (prong or martingale) and then move to ecollar. I teach leash pressure this way with food lure in the beginning to help.
I am sooo following you. You sound like me telling my daughter as she helps me. Except you are way smarter! I really love your style. My last was 14 mo. Hit by car- To say the least I’m devastated But I am teaching a new 4 mo puppy He’s harder to train than my last one so I’m really going to follow along your videos to see if you can help me
Michelle Gray good luck w the training. 60-90 min a day of structured “training sessions” With the rest of the time being conscious of how you are interacting with your dog, meaning make them wait at thresholds, make them wait for food, look for eye contact from them...basically they want to look at you for permission to do whatever is next. If you do that every day in two or four weeks you will have an amazing dog! Remember, give them more structure now than freedom and affection. If you do 100% structure for two weeks you’ll be done! Also I hope you have a crate! Keep me posted.
My Heeler pulls. So, when I pull him back with the leash to make sure he stays next to me instead of ahead of me, it messes with my shoulder. Any other tips?
I would defintiley get a training collar like a prong or slip - depending on how much/stron pulling happens. Use it teach teach "heel" with calssical conditioning and then you can get off of the training collar. Hope this helps!
As a trainer, I've never been confident in my ability to train a strong heel, but watching your technique and having you put words to it has given a great deal more confidence. Thank you!
Great to hear!
Nice techniques yet it's hard to hear you
Yes, old camera at the time. Doing the best I can to help people with free content 🤪
Great explanation as you went along and great camera work so we could see closely the dog is to your leg and your leash movements!
Thank you for watching and commenting. Glad it’s helpful 😊
At what age can I start this? I got my heeler girl at 7 weeks. She is 10 weeks now. I have her trained with training treats to come to me and follow me at all time when we go outside to potty. But I am thinking she needs to start wearing a collar and leash even if just to drag it around in the house and get used to it?
dragging a light weight leash when you are paying attn to her is a great idea :) Also, start playing with her to teach her rules and boundaries around play that will get incorporated into EVERYHING else you teach her. I have a playlist that you can watch for teaching your dog how to play
My dog pulls and pulls how do I break them of that . They get excited and want to sniff and they pull on the leash constantly. Mine are nothing like this dog here . I’ve also got 4 pups two months old . What is a good age to start their training. I ended up with a full litter of puppies I sold two of them to friends but I’m keeping the other 4 . They are all showing signs of being good dogs . They know their names and they come but they jump claw and bite like their mother . I wanna break them of that like right now .
I would purchase Ivan's Balabanovs Heeling videos (he has 2). You may think it is only for competition heeling, but the concepts are for any kind of heeling. www.leadoffleashk9training.com/training-without-conflict-resources You can also watch all of my heeling videos, if ou haven't already for other ideas.
Oops I just saw somebody else’s comment. Can I do this training with a regular flat collar or doesn’t it have to be a prong collar? Thank you.
I have done w flat collar, but flat collars don't have any "training" aspect to them with pressure on/off (or very little and it all comes from you tugging hard) So if you have a heavy dog or a big puller, then def use a prong collar if your dog is very light weight or soft - not a big puller- and is more sensitive you can get away with a flat or slip lead.
@@leadoffleashk9training thank you for your reply. My dog seems to get the concept of “he has to slow down at the end of the leash/ can’t pull/loose leash beside my side”. I’ve used a slip collar for a bit when he was younger and then have been training with a flat collar. When he gets excited, it’s hard for him to control and start to pull. I’m going to try a slip collar and how it goes again. Thank you again!!
I Take it back.. I just walked my big boy and it worked 90%of the time!!! The first time around.. I will do this for 45 min every day now 💗💕
great job!!
Im finding it a little difficult to have him heel once he is off the prong collar, he just goes back to his old self
you need to keep doing it with prong for a long while, making sure that you are saying heel BEFORE you use the prong pressure. If you do it this way, he will expect the prong pressure and will not need it OR will respond to you doing a pop on his flat collar cause he is used to prong reminders and that transfers back to a flat collar . If you are speaking of an off-leash heel, that would require an ecollar or, again, very consistent teaching of the command for a while. Heel is a hard one to teach and takes patience as it is on-going command whereas other commands have an obvious finish....Heel is over when you decide it is vs sit ends when he sits. I sometimes use my foot and leg to help keep dogs in the proper position when I don't have a training collar on them, but again I say heel, THEN use the foot. I can get a dog to do an amazing off leash heel in less than a week (have done it with 100's of dogs) - so practice, be patient, and be consistent in your communication - you will get there!
you need to keep doing it with the prong collar for MONTHS until he just stops the pulling all together. or transfer the knowledge to an ecollar. How is it going now?
@@leadoffleashk9training thank you so much for all your training. He is actually doing very, very well. He is now heels pretty much on command. 🙏🙏🙏
@@TheMaddman187 great to hear!!!
It looks too easy...my pit almost pulls me off balance..how do I stop that
i am glad you got it sorted out!
I'm trying to fo this with my staffy but the check wont affect her, she will still constantly pull.
get a prong collar and use a constant pressure until she is in the spot you want her to be. AS soo as she is out of her heel, use the prong/leash pressure until she is back in the spot then release it. You have to use a training collar with a dog like her. flat collars and harnesses do not have any teaching capabilities of pressure on/ pressure off
thanks for watching the video
Hope this video has helped you with your dog 🐩
Hai can you tell me competition heel
Vinay Kumar I am sorry. I don’t teach competition heel Look up Michael Ellis for it
Awesome. Just got a 5 month old blue heeler rescue. The best dogs! He is my 3rd heeler now or 25 yrs of awesome companionship! Timmy C Arizona
Thank you for watching! Have fun with your boy!!
I may need some tips then for my red Heeler lol
@@deannabanana9344 i also have one lol
I just got a rescue from the shelter. He’s unlike any puppy I’ve ever had.. can’t walk 3 ft without the bios. Any tips?
Love my Shiflis blue heller ….
Thanks for watching!
Great 👍 and we can go up 🆙
Yes we can!
My dog doesnt pull forward but out/to the side which it tricky.
use a wall that they have to heel next to so that they cant pull out to the side. Or a hedge or narrow hallway, etc. Also do an about face with a training collar on when they pull away and after 2 or 3 of those tugs in the training collar they should
get the message if your timing and effectiveness is spot on. Reward when they turn with you requiring no leash pressure. Make yourself relevant and use a marker word and a reinforcement for turing with you.
Do you heel her everyday
Are you using a prong collar here? Can you train a dog that pulls without one? Near two year old v boisterous lab
YES! get a prong collar and watch the intro to prong videos in my "tools" playlist
@@leadoffleashk9training you cant get prong collars here in the uk. Could you do a video of training heel with a slip lead? Also when I take slip lead or halti off my dog, she pulls ahead again
@@lucym22 it’s the same thing with a slip lead or halti. But your pop is going to have to be really firm. The prong collar doesn’t require as much pressure. To be able to get off of your tools, you need to say the command FIRST and THEN give the leash information (leash pressure in the form of a leash pop or pull.) Since most dogs don’t like the leash pressure, and since you have preempted that leash pop or pull with a word/command, then the dog will start to hear the command and anticipate what comes next and just do it without you having to give the leash information. They want to avoid that leash pressure. The concept is known as escape/avoidance. Look that up on Google. It might come up around horse training, but it’s the same concept. I do have videos on “operant conditions” and escape/avoidance in dog training if you look at that playlist on my TH-cam channel. I hope this makes sense.
Ah that explains why it looked so Easy. Prong collars are illegal in Sweden so cant use it
@@Emma-iu3fs I never used prong collars until I started training dogs and then needed something more gentle to use (for my own body's sake) which is when I discovered how effectively a prong collar transfers leash pressure with very little tension/force. Having said that, I have trained so many dogs without prong collars and applied the same tactic to the flat collar, the slip lead, etc. You don't have to have a training collar, it just is easier on you and the dog, as well as crystal clear communication when done well. So you can actually do the exact same thing with anything. If you have a heavy strong dog, it just requires more strength from you.
What kind of collar does he have on?
Herm Sprenger prong collar. I have a "how to introduce a prong collar to your dog" video in my "tools" playlist
@@leadoffleashk9training Okay at first I thought you were using a slip lead until I noticed the attachment. Thank you!
Why his tail is cut ??🥺
It is part of the heeler breed sometimes (like some other working dogs) to dock their tail. You would have to do your own research as to why, and the pros and cons. Thanks for commenting and watching!
The Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog is not an Australian Cattle Dog with a docked tail. He is a naturally bob-tailed breed and stands square with plenty of leg length under the body. But it seems like in other countries (than Australia) they dock the tail of blue heelers due to the confusion between the two breeds. (sorry for replying to an old comment)
First i need to teach my dog how to sit 😂
I would get going on the play as the reinforcer - esp if it is a puppy - don't waste time! Get them playing while they are young because that is really all that they want to do besides eat. Then teach it an "out" command and then you have the best way to reinforce any other command you teach - thru play as the reward. It will keep the motivation high. Watch this playlist for more info th-cam.com/play/PLJW_ZGMoNMMa8QvRgZEOJtXC2uwllsMPn.html
@@leadoffleashk9training theyre 1 now
@@mvally2714 not too old at all- I would be working that play asap!!
@@leadoffleashk9training ok will do thanks for the tips!
That collar is awfully low. Concerning that he is so sensitive to leash pressure with the collar that low. For anyone curious, your collar should be sitting as close to the lower jaw as possible for optimal control that requires the least amount of pressure.
thanks for watching!
Do you use a slip lead here in this video or just a regular collar?
I start with a training collar (prong or martingale) and then move to ecollar. I teach leash pressure this way with food lure in the beginning to help.
I am sooo following you. You sound like me telling my daughter as she helps me. Except you are way smarter!
I really love your style.
My last was 14 mo.
Hit by car- To say the least I’m devastated
But I am teaching a new 4 mo puppy
He’s harder to train than my last one so I’m really going to follow along your videos to see if you can help me
Michelle Gray good luck w the training. 60-90 min a day of structured “training sessions” With the rest of the time being conscious of how you are interacting with your dog, meaning make them wait at thresholds, make them wait for food, look for eye contact from them...basically they want to look at you for permission to do whatever is next. If you do that every day in two or four weeks you will have an amazing dog! Remember, give them more structure now than freedom and affection. If you do 100% structure for two weeks you’ll be done! Also I hope you have a crate! Keep me posted.
My Heeler pulls. So, when I pull him back with the leash to make sure he stays next to me instead of ahead of me, it messes with my shoulder.
Any other tips?
I would defintiley get a training collar like a prong or slip - depending on how much/stron pulling happens. Use it teach teach "heel" with calssical conditioning and then you can get off of the training collar. Hope this helps!