How to improve your dog walks with Ian Dunbar
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- In this video, dog training expert Ian Dunbar explains how to make the most of our dog walking time. He explains why our walks need quality over quantity.
Dr Dunbar suggests ideas for improving your walks for both yourself and for your dog and discusses how to utilise the walk as an opportunity for training your dog and maintaining this training for the rest of his life.
Find out how to encourage your dog to be more chilled out, slow down and also how you can join in with group walks and benefit from attending the fabulous training based group walks that are springing up all round the country at the moment.
This is a great article for:
People wanting to improve their dog's lifestyle
Dogs that need training reinforced on a daily basis
Dogs need mental stimulation
The benefit of walks for living with a calmer dog
Thank you for the informative video! We adopted our dog from a rescue. Unfortunately, she was trained with negative reinforcement, shock and choke collar. Your videos and advice changed our lives and most importantly, our dog’s life. Although we were told to not let her sniff on walks from people who were more concerned about “disciplining” her, we tried your method with letting the dog sniff on walks and it works! She is a much happier dog. She is calmer and less nervous on walks. Much thanks!
That’s lovely to hear, thank you very much for sharing
Just finished reading Dr. Dunbar’s book “After you get your puppy” and I’m now starting “Before you get your puppy” (yes I know, backwards). We get our miniature poodle next Friday and I’m trying to prepare to do things right from the get go. I love his processes!
congratulations! good for you!
So like……… take time and smell the roses. Makes for a more enjoyable walk all round if you ask me. ‘Hoomans’ have completely forgotten that our relationship with dogs has always been a symbiotic one. If it’s not working for the dog it won’t work for you. You slip into having to find ever more complex training and numerous tools, trying to control the dog. Relationship is the KEY to you both having the best life.
This is great input.😊
Thank you
Lovely advice
Dr Dunbar is just SO DAMN COOL!!! "Positive Only" training really doesn't work with my high drive working line German Shepherd, he DOES need some corrections (sometimes a lot) to understand what's desired, appropriate behavior--but on the whole, Dr Dunbar MAKES SO MUCH SENSE. Love him!! He's got an awful lot of "educated" common sense, lol!!!
Thing is corrections can still be positive. It just has to stop the dog doing something you don’t want.
I reward my dog whenever she’s calm
Lovely stuff :)))
Fantastic, I want to organize group walks, group train, group socialization in my area...... any suggestions ?
Depending on where you are I’d like to join
Florida, where are you
@@DF-te2vm unfortunately I’m in California.
@@DF-te2vm I'm in the Orlando area...what part of Florida are you in? I'd love to join a group like this.
I don't like dogs! I like this man.
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Put your phone in your pocket, too. Pay attention to your pet, talk to them, too.
I put marking on cue for my dog who’s favourite thing to do is pee on things 😊 worked like a charm.
В России Силки редкая порода собак, у меня девочка.
most of the time the dog is pulling though
Dr Dunbar has some good points, but training wise Cesar Milan's methods make more sense and works for me.
Why?
Have you tried treating yourself with Weedborn CBD products?
I like this idea but what if my dog wants to eat everything she sniffs?
Yipes--you mean, everything? Grass? Goose poop? In any event, I'm pretty positive Dr Dunbar DOES have videos on the "leave it" command...
Also--is your dog healthy weight? Over weight? I do a lot of obedience work with my working line German Shepherd during walks, we do 50% "structured walks" at heel position, 50% "sniff & be a dog &,relieve yourself & be a dog", broken up in 5-10 minute increments on a 40-60 minute walk (otherwise, he's a reactive, pulling nut). He gets his main meal in the evening, but gets A LOT of treats during walks & playtime. Maybe doing intermittent obedience with higher value treats on walks, including offering higher value treats for " leave it" command might help? Or MAYBE (depending on your dog's overall weight, etc), offering a meal prior to walks would curb the behavior if he's excessively hungry prior to walks? Splitting up meals into 2x daily if your currently giving just one? This may lessen his desire to "work" for treat rewards during walks though, if you're doing treats for obedience on walks. Just things to consider, hope it helps.
@@Karina-Loves-Andreas thanks! I appreciate those ideas and will try them.
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@@Find_Your_Fit how did u go? Hope all worked out:)