So THIS is what I have been missing! I didn't think of something so simple! My dog has always been great about learning leash pressure and learned loose leash as a puppy, but as she got older she just got ahead. She doesn't "pull", but she gets to the end faster than I can so we do a lot of "stop, go, stop, go". I could never figure out why! 😂 Thank you!
I run Click Treat Repeat Canine Coaching,LLC out of Indianapolis Indiana and I just want You to know how helpful your videos are! I give every client aftercare stuff so that they can look back and have something to watch and read when I am not there anymore and your videos are always included. Anyway I just wanted you to know from one trainer to another I think you’re brilliant and thank you so much for making this content!!
I worked so hard at helping my reactive and fearful puppy be comfortable in the world that I didn't notice her becoming tall and strong and very fast. Thanks to you I had already taught her to "go sniff" so that permission is in place. Walking slowly is what we'll practice now. Thanks for all the help you offer here! It's helped me not give up.
I'm in the early days of dog training and this channel is one great, accessible source. I'm currently beginning LLW with a fairly strong puller and this definitely filled in some uncertain spots I'm experiencing with trying to train a dog who isn't interested in rewards while walking.
Every mammal has something they like. We only ever use treats to initially entice a behavior. Daddy always said, “what if the dog isn’t hungry? It should come when you call because it loves you.”
I am so pleased you are covering this. Speed and gait is something we have been pushing in LLW for many years but is hardly talked about amongst trainers. I hope more people will now take up this advise as part of their training classes.
As a new, dog owner, of a 3 mos old puppy. I found these tips very helpful. I particularly found, the visuals helpful. As there are so many variables, when walking a dog, in the city.
Wow. I never thought of it like that. Obvious when someone tells you😆I have a year old husky boy and this explains how his loose leash walking has got harder to manage as he’s grown. I have been trying the teach him the difference between walking and jogging which is helping, so hearing you explain this is super encouraging. 🙏 The tip about getting them to stop and giving them the instruction to sniff is such a good one. I heard that pretty early on, so he has been doing that since a pup - it’s saved my arms and shoulders many times.😅
I've kept my dog on a short leash ever since I decided to teach him that his standard walking position is at my side. Many people misunderstand this as me holding on to him tightly and some people even get it In their head that he's aggressive because of the fact when he"s at my aide, my hand nearly rests on his back. But in reality it's because of the exact reason you mentioned: i want to regulate his pace/gait. If he walks towards something to sniff, i simply let the leash run through my hand, but if he speeds up i tighten my grip just slightly so he feels the pressure. It rarely happens, but if we for example have to pass another dog in tight quarters, or there's a cat next to the walkway, it likely will.
How does he know if he should go sniff? I’m confused… if you are walking for the purpose of covering ground, he should know that sniffing is not allowed. By the same token, when sniffing is okay, you need to tell him so. Otherwise, it sounds as if your dog is doing a pretty good job of training you?
@@gr8H8er unless he's given a heel command, he is always allowed to leave my side as long as he doesn't pull. When needing to cover ground, to cross a street for example, or if there is something around that he should not sniff, he's told to heel. Then he's given a release cue which means he's free to explore again. If he pulls/tries to trot off, i simply close my hand around the leash and he"s not getting where he wants to go. If this in your mind means he's training me... I don't even know what to say to that. I had to train my dog this way for safety reasons as other dog owners in my area have no reservations about letting their dogs run straight up to others, so i keep him at my side in order to go in and block the other dog when that happens.
Very interesting approach, Emily. I actually have this constant trotting problem with my Papillon! I have never been able to teach him to walk at an actual walking pace unless we’re doing focused heeling. Even when at home or otherwise off leash, he always chooses to trot rather than walk, and his trot is faster than my walking pace. Wish I could go back in time and practice walking very slowly with him as a puppy. I will definitely keep this in mind the next few times I work with larger puppies.
And those little legs move so fast!! I would practice games where you walk slowly toward a treat or person that the dog is released to and make sure to mark when the dog looks forward rather than up, cause if the dog looks up, the slow walk will happen when the dogs looking up but then when the dog looks forward they will most likely trot toward whatever it is. It will take time.
Wow, all of your videos are absolutely fantastic! I'm so impressed by your skills and ability to connect with and teach all the pups. Way to go, awesome. Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge.
Just purchased your Leash Walking Connected course. I am really grateful for the detail you put into guiding us in this course and in your channel!! Ready to see the change in my relationship with my dogs.
Great vid as usual and not an approach I have come across before. Thank you so.much for sharing your knowledge Emily 🙏 you are very appreciated out here!
Thank you soo much. of all the dog training videos I have seen, yours is down to earth and spot on.... You are amazing and I love the way your mind works for dog training. I've had a pack of 5 border collies and I knew them inside out, however...now they are gone and I have a Golden Retriever who has been walking with my sister as she has a motorised wheelchair but she hasn't taught him not to pull and to walk at her side. I don't have the weight of a motorised wheelchair so I need to re_train him now. I'm hopeful that your videos are going to help me to help Sonny... Thank you so very much......stay safe. Tanya. xx
Wish I saw this before my husky mix pulled my arm off today!! She's been pretty good lately about walking with me but the weather is a little wonky I'm in South Carolina so I think they can tell something is up so I don't know if that's maybe why she's just kind of acting a little funny today but yeah she was definitely pulling like really bad on our stroll today so I have to put these tips in place and I'm going to watch that other video too so thank you so much for that you are amazing!!
Again, you are the only trainer I allow to enter my family’s generational training methods. One ‘argument’… oops, there you go, you’ve addressed it, make a game of walking as slowly as you can. Stop means sit, motion means heel - it is hard not to watch because it’s funny but one of my goals is for my dog to pay constant attention to me, especially when I’m NOT looking. When teaching people how to practice a pleasant walk with their dog one of the challenges is teaching them to NOT look at their dog. The first step is always, having the student walk my dog. As they do, I walk along with them and change the subject from training to family or work, something which will engage them. (I don’t train other people’s dogs, I only introduce concepts, I train people.) After trying with their dog once, I have them walk my dog again but I stay back. At a fair distance I’ll ask them to turn in a direction or to trot while still looking at me. Then I ask them to stop and they are always surprised that my dog is exactly where he was when they first took the leash. He’s a good boy - service dog wash out but great farm dog! Farm dogs are worth their weight in gold, you know? I hope he doesn’t suffer some accident as I plan to get him a puppy in his latter years to teach how to run the place. My family once had quite the reputation for training gun dogs. Daddy taught me how to select a new puppy. After 4 weeks of age, visit the pups, give the owner a deposit of 1/3 of the price, and figure out which ones have the strongest play drive. One way to do this is to scatter some (breeder/owner approved) morsels while engaging with a toy. The puppies naturally more interested in the chase than the reward became candidates. Your treat-centric methods would possibly prefer the treat-driven puppies? Anyway, return once, before 5 weeks of age and reaffirm your selections - no more than 3 candidates. At week 5, return every day at least twice a day and train the selected puppies. 5-10 minute sessions, always ending on a happy note - no treats until the very end and reward all puppies at once. These puppies now know, ‘come’, ‘sit’, ‘lie’, ‘load up’, ‘stay’ (very brief ‘stay’), ‘touch’, ‘fetch it’, ‘drop’ and have been introduced to ‘go potty’. Train for 7 days only. In that time, you will have a favorite, claim your dog and pay another 1/3 of the price. Hopefully, and this part is awful, the breeder will agree to keep your puppy until it is 9 to 12 weeks old(!!!! and allow you to visit often and take your puppy on field trips.) The day will come when the puppy is more distressed by your departure than it is by being separated from its mother and early pack. Bring your new baby home and other than teaching it where to go potty, ABSOLUTELY NO TRAINING AT ALL, WHAT SO EVER UNTIL 6 MONTHS OF AGE. Of course, reinforce the commands it learned during that one week training session but no formal training sessions. We strongly believe that children should be provided the time and freedom to experience their youth and it is no different for canine ‘children’. Always, always comfort any fears and gently introduce new things. Provide teething materials and redirect the behavior to soft chews. Gun dogs should have soft mouths, never give them squeaky toys - I never use squeakers anyway, I’ve heard an animal being killed by a dog. At 6 months of age, training can begin. We use an out door kennel though the dog does not live there full time. Training is a big-damned-deal! 🎉🎉 Bells, whistles, etc. training starts after the pup has spent a good hour quietly in the kennel. Training lasts only 10 to 15 minutes and the dog is returned to the kennel for at least 1/2 an hour following every session. 3 training sessions per day is fine, more is better, 2 are okay, occasionally - like somebody died or you broke an arm or leg… Talk about your dog’s success to other people, in front of your dog and make sure they praise your dog also for past accomplishments!! 🎉🎉 Show off your dog’s training to people who will applaud them and make a big deal of it. So all of that to get to a question: if you were to select a puppy for the purpose of becoming a service dog, what temperament would you choose? (Not bragging but gun dogs wash out at a rate of 2/3’s, my family dogs only one out of three washed out.) And now because I was typing, I need to go back and watch the last half! I do hope you take that as the absolutely gushing compliment that it is… I trust your system, ethics and methods enough to allow your lessons into my subconscious… now I am going to go back and learn what I already know because I already heard you say it. You are welcome! And thank you so very much! (You ask for feed back, let me know if this is more than you meant?) If you would like to see my Twinke Toes in action, he is on my channel ‘learning vocabulary’ I believe is the title.
Forgot to say, when you ask if your puppy can stay with the breeder, let them know you will pay more for the dog. Find out what they feed and buy a large bag as a gift, offer to help with the litter any way you can. The train at 5 weeks for one week comes from dog mushers in the Yukon - they spit in the puppy’s mouth on the first day too…
Woww. So happy that I discovered your channel. I have at this point like a lot of other people problems with leash pulling ☹️with my 2 years old German Shepard.. I have tried so many things, but I don't know why she just don't understand what I want from her. I definitely try this too. I don't give up on her. I just wish to finally one day have a nice/slow walk together 🐶🦮
Thank you for uploading this Emily! My lab suddenly started pulling after 2 years, even though he was fully grown for almost a year by then. I suspect it has something to do with other people (dog walkers or friends taking care on certain days) letting him get away with pulling. We've been practicing more now, but it really seems to take a long time to fix this. He always wants to be in front, no matter what direction we're going.
Thanks, Emily! You have an excellant way of explaining something, the 'why' of it, that I'd never thought of before! I train slooow pace walking, and make a game of speeding up and varying the pace, and add abrupt stops. My pup loves the game and the challenge of keeping right by my side! Then I release her, as I've said before, for some "smell-a-vision" time! One question, it looked like Bliss was walking "like a camel" with both back and front legs moving together on the same side? You were saying to see a vet about this? Could you please explain this? My pup's gait drew the attention of a horse friend, but then she decided her gait was ok. I am unclear on this. Any further info would be greatly appreciated! Thank you, and God's best blessings, Emily! Hugs and Love, JJ and Ruthie puppy
I have to say that I am a creature of habit and Cuddy and I used to take a specific route every now and then on our walks. I do remember taking less and less time for the same route, but it didn't click back then. Now it makes sense why 🤣
I have a bc mix rescue. He's 5 months. He stops frequently in low distraction environments. He really wants to sniff and were working on that as rewards when we practice. There is a lot of stop and start some days. He tends to be cautious when there are 1 or 2 people in the distance In groups of people he doesn't tend to do this and is more apt at pulling. Since we allowed people to give him treats he wants to go up to about half.
As a horseperson, I watch gaits carefully and I see there is a difference between the gaits walk, trot, canter, and pace. All of those gaits were in this video. I think it might be helpful for people to see and label the differences. For example, the canter rhythm is "galumph"; the pace is the feet on one side going at once, the walk is each foot moving separately. But some horses (walkers and Icelandics) have an additional set of gaits which are sometimes very difficult to identify, but I don't think dog people need to try to see those!
Another cool trick when working with larger dogs, is to change direction, turning to the right (when the dog is on your left). That turn ‘places’ your dog behind your leg! Is your hand sign for ‘free on leash’ intentional? I do the exact same thing, hold my arm out straight in front of me. I’m working with two dogs who are being stubborn about doing their business on leash and dang my arm gets tired!!
I found this out the hard way 🤣 My SDiT, Gravy, grew up and became a 48# creature who I had to really help to slow down. He's so much better now, but I'm keeping this in mind for my next SDiT (hopefully many years from now)
I've got slight mobility issues, so this helps. I'm a new rescue dog owner, and am terrified of being dragged on my face down the road (😂😬) My garden is quite long and thin, and he's so big turning back round is ridiculous for him. Shorter walks on the patio? Ideas please, thanks.
I never put it together that when a trotting puppy grows up to be a trotting adult, they're covering significantly more ground with each step. Unfortunately, my Husky puppy got to rehearse this a lot. If only you'd done this video 4 months ago! 😆
Me too haha! I love how the Kikopup channel always helps us to think about training more from the dog’s perspective and this will surely lead to better results and relationships ❤️ and it’s never too late to change things up, go for it! I bet your husky puppy is a quick learner and a cutie 😆😆
Start teaching ‘back up’ along a wall, so they can’t just turn around. Get it down to a science and make a game of forward and back while walking. Also, turn to the right and go the other direction, just turn right around and start going the other way. Don’t get dizzy BUT it is okay if your dog does (heh heh heh, a dizzy animal will follow instructions.)
i have a newly adopted greyhound (had him for 4 months now) whos in training to be my psychiatric service dog and he finds public places a lot more reinforcing then me almost all the time and im not sure how to fix it. he does focus on me when i ask but immediately goes back to whatever he was doing. i find it really hard to get him to ALWAYS focus on me despite all the attention games ive played with him. training at home almost always goes amazing but any training in public is really hard for me due to my disabilities which really effect the acting fun and making me more reinforcing than the environment, and most training really. any tips on how to get your dog to always focus on you, with psychiatric disabilities?
When I walk slowly to stop my 14-month GSD from pulling, she thinks it is a game and starts to yank, tug, and shake her leash from side to side with her mouth. Otherwise, she will walk behind me and jump up at my back. I find moving her in an opposite direction sometimes helps, but even then, at there are times, she thinks it is all a game and the silliness starts again. Wondering if you have any tips on how to curb this. (I do give her opportunity to sniff when on walks.)
I suggest working at staying at your side with no leash practicing in the house then the yard, then add the leash in the house practice walking around and moving it. The leash grabbing can be frustration related, but it could also be the dog just wants to play with the leash from excitement. But the fact the dog jumps at you makes it sound like arousal or frustration. Yes, you could have a longer leash and invite her to sniff around in areas, then work on the slower walking with treats and short back and forth walks in front of your house. Instead of long walks where the dog jumps at you, Id do this exercise th-cam.com/video/lLyiQODnR1s/w-d-xo.html where you have a settle mat in front of your house or at a park, and you practice going on little ventures away from the mat and return. Because the longer you walk the more likely the dog will be to start tugging and jumping. And then you are far from home or the car when it happens. Dogs can also do this from discomfort and pain, like they are tired from the walk or something is uncomfortable
My dog wails uncontrollably when it's time for walks even when just putting a leash on her collar... Any advice on how to make the whole neighborhood stop hating us 😬
Love it when you include tips for adult dogs!
Very needed especially now that so many have been abandoned!
So THIS is what I have been missing! I didn't think of something so simple! My dog has always been great about learning leash pressure and learned loose leash as a puppy, but as she got older she just got ahead. She doesn't "pull", but she gets to the end faster than I can so we do a lot of "stop, go, stop, go". I could never figure out why! 😂 Thank you!
Same! He’s not even big but he’s very enthusiastic!
I run Click Treat Repeat Canine Coaching,LLC out of Indianapolis Indiana and I just want
You to know how helpful your videos are! I give every client aftercare stuff so that they can look back and have something to watch and read when I am not there anymore and your videos are always included. Anyway I just wanted you to know from one trainer to another I think you’re brilliant and thank you so much for making this content!!
What an incredible amount of knowledge you have, to impart. There really is nobody else who can do this!
I can't believe I never thought of that. So simple and so powerful. Thanks for the tip Emily. I will definitely start to consider that.
This is such great advice, I never would’ve thought of this haha. Invaluable advice as always 😊
nice tip. I'm already a slow walker.
I worked so hard at helping my reactive and fearful puppy be comfortable in the world that I didn't notice her becoming tall and strong and very fast. Thanks to you I had already taught her to "go sniff" so that permission is in place. Walking slowly is what we'll practice now. Thanks for all the help you offer here! It's helped me not give up.
I'm in the early days of dog training and this channel is one great, accessible source. I'm currently beginning LLW with a fairly strong puller and this definitely filled in some uncertain spots I'm experiencing with trying to train a dog who isn't interested in rewards while walking.
Good luck with your training 😁
Every mammal has something they like. We only ever use treats to initially entice a behavior. Daddy always said, “what if the dog isn’t hungry? It should come when you call because it loves you.”
I am so pleased you are covering this. Speed and gait is something we have been pushing in LLW for many years but is hardly talked about amongst trainers. I hope more people will now take up this advise as part of their training classes.
Yeah its annoying when info just never is catchy enough to spread... You have to keep finding ways of saying it that make people get it and spread it
As a new, dog owner, of a 3 mos old puppy. I found these tips very helpful. I particularly found, the visuals helpful. As there are so many variables, when walking a dog, in the city.
Wow. I never thought of it like that. Obvious when someone tells you😆I have a year old husky boy and this explains how his loose leash walking has got harder to manage as he’s grown. I have been trying the teach him the difference between walking and jogging which is helping, so hearing you explain this is super encouraging. 🙏 The tip about getting them to stop and giving them the instruction to sniff is such a good one. I heard that pretty early on, so he has been doing that since a pup - it’s saved my arms and shoulders many times.😅
I've kept my dog on a short leash ever since I decided to teach him that his standard walking position is at my side. Many people misunderstand this as me holding on to him tightly and some people even get it In their head that he's aggressive because of the fact when he"s at my aide, my hand nearly rests on his back. But in reality it's because of the exact reason you mentioned: i want to regulate his pace/gait. If he walks towards something to sniff, i simply let the leash run through my hand, but if he speeds up i tighten my grip just slightly so he feels the pressure. It rarely happens, but if we for example have to pass another dog in tight quarters, or there's a cat next to the walkway, it likely will.
How does he know if he should go sniff? I’m confused… if you are walking for the purpose of covering ground, he should know that sniffing is not allowed. By the same token, when sniffing is okay, you need to tell him so. Otherwise, it sounds as if your dog is doing a pretty good job of training you?
@@gr8H8er unless he's given a heel command, he is always allowed to leave my side as long as he doesn't pull. When needing to cover ground, to cross a street for example, or if there is something around that he should not sniff, he's told to heel. Then he's given a release cue which means he's free to explore again. If he pulls/tries to trot off, i simply close my hand around the leash and he"s not getting where he wants to go. If this in your mind means he's training me... I don't even know what to say to that. I had to train my dog this way for safety reasons as other dog owners in my area have no reservations about letting their dogs run straight up to others, so i keep him at my side in order to go in and block the other dog when that happens.
Thank you for this alternative perspective! This definitely will help me with my 1.5 Dal and my 3 month Aussie pup.
Very interesting approach, Emily. I actually have this constant trotting problem with my Papillon! I have never been able to teach him to walk at an actual walking pace unless we’re doing focused heeling. Even when at home or otherwise off leash, he always chooses to trot rather than walk, and his trot is faster than my walking pace. Wish I could go back in time and practice walking very slowly with him as a puppy. I will definitely keep this in mind the next few times I work with larger puppies.
And those little legs move so fast!! I would practice games where you walk slowly toward a treat or person that the dog is released to and make sure to mark when the dog looks forward rather than up, cause if the dog looks up, the slow walk will happen when the dogs looking up but then when the dog looks forward they will most likely trot toward whatever it is. It will take time.
Wow, all of your videos are absolutely fantastic! I'm so impressed by your skills and ability to connect with and teach all the pups. Way to go, awesome. Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge.
I never even thought about this. This is a great tip. I will be trying this on my next walk.
I don't have a puppy, but your discussion of gait as they grow was a light bulb moment!
Just purchased your Leash Walking Connected course. I am really grateful for the detail you put into guiding us in this course and in your channel!! Ready to see the change in my relationship with my dogs.
It is always amazing to hear your tips, a big thank you from Portugal!
Great vid as usual and not an approach I have come across before. Thank you so.much for sharing your knowledge Emily 🙏 you are very appreciated out here!
Some much needed advice 🙌🙏 thank you for being such a great resource to help me train my border collies :) they can be real stubborn sometimes haha
Thank you soo much. of all the dog training videos I have seen, yours is down to earth and spot on.... You are amazing and I love the way your mind works for dog training. I've had a pack of 5 border collies and I knew them inside out, however...now they are gone and I have a Golden Retriever who has been walking with my sister as she has a motorised wheelchair but she hasn't taught him not to pull and to walk at her side. I don't have the weight of a motorised wheelchair so I need to re_train him now. I'm hopeful that your videos are going to help me to help Sonny... Thank you so very much......stay safe.
Tanya. xx
Great tip, hadnt thought about speed at all. Thank you
Thanks so much
I wish I would have seen this 2 months ago before my GSD was 5 months old lol. I'll be visiting the link in the description next...
Its ok. Sometimes dogs hit adolescence and they get newly excited about the world so want to speed up anyway
Wish I saw this before my husky mix pulled my arm off today!! She's been pretty good lately about walking with me but the weather is a little wonky I'm in South Carolina so I think they can tell something is up so I don't know if that's maybe why she's just kind of acting a little funny today but yeah she was definitely pulling like really bad on our stroll today so I have to put these tips in place and I'm going to watch that other video too so thank you so much for that you are amazing!!
Thank you, that‘s a really good (and even so simple!) advice!❤
What we think we’re training.
What we are actually training.
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Love it.
Again, you are the only trainer I allow to enter my family’s generational training methods. One ‘argument’… oops, there you go, you’ve addressed it, make a game of walking as slowly as you can. Stop means sit, motion means heel - it is hard not to watch because it’s funny but one of my goals is for my dog to pay constant attention to me, especially when I’m NOT looking. When teaching people how to practice a pleasant walk with their dog one of the challenges is teaching them to NOT look at their dog. The first step is always, having the student walk my dog. As they do, I walk along with them and change the subject from training to family or work, something which will engage them. (I don’t train other people’s dogs, I only introduce concepts, I train people.) After trying with their dog once, I have them walk my dog again but I stay back. At a fair distance I’ll ask them to turn in a direction or to trot while still looking at me. Then I ask them to stop and they are always surprised that my dog is exactly where he was when they first took the leash.
He’s a good boy - service dog wash out but great farm dog! Farm dogs are worth their weight in gold, you know? I hope he doesn’t suffer some accident as I plan to get him a puppy in his latter years to teach how to run the place.
My family once had quite the reputation for training gun dogs. Daddy taught me how to select a new puppy. After 4 weeks of age, visit the pups, give the owner a deposit of 1/3 of the price, and figure out which ones have the strongest play drive. One way to do this is to scatter some (breeder/owner approved) morsels while engaging with a toy. The puppies naturally more interested in the chase than the reward became candidates. Your treat-centric methods would possibly prefer the treat-driven puppies? Anyway, return once, before 5 weeks of age and reaffirm your selections - no more than 3 candidates. At week 5, return every day at least twice a day and train the selected puppies. 5-10 minute sessions, always ending on a happy note - no treats until the very end and reward all puppies at once. These puppies now know, ‘come’, ‘sit’, ‘lie’, ‘load up’, ‘stay’ (very brief ‘stay’), ‘touch’, ‘fetch it’, ‘drop’ and have been introduced to ‘go potty’. Train for 7 days only. In that time, you will have a favorite, claim your dog and pay another 1/3 of the price. Hopefully, and this part is awful, the breeder will agree to keep your puppy until it is 9 to 12 weeks old(!!!! and allow you to visit often and take your puppy on field trips.) The day will come when the puppy is more distressed by your departure than it is by being separated from its mother and early pack.
Bring your new baby home and other than teaching it where to go potty, ABSOLUTELY NO TRAINING AT ALL, WHAT SO EVER UNTIL 6 MONTHS OF AGE. Of course, reinforce the commands it learned during that one week training session but no formal training sessions. We strongly believe that children should be provided the time and freedom to experience their youth and it is no different for canine ‘children’. Always, always comfort any fears and gently introduce new things. Provide teething materials and redirect the behavior to soft chews. Gun dogs should have soft mouths, never give them squeaky toys - I never use squeakers anyway, I’ve heard an animal being killed by a dog.
At 6 months of age, training can begin. We use an out door kennel though the dog does not live there full time. Training is a big-damned-deal! 🎉🎉 Bells, whistles, etc. training starts after the pup has spent a good hour quietly in the kennel. Training lasts only 10 to 15 minutes and the dog is returned to the kennel for at least 1/2 an hour following every session. 3 training sessions per day is fine, more is better, 2 are okay, occasionally - like somebody died or you broke an arm or leg… Talk about your dog’s success to other people, in front of your dog and make sure they praise your dog also for past accomplishments!! 🎉🎉 Show off your dog’s training to people who will applaud them and make a big deal of it.
So all of that to get to a question: if you were to select a puppy for the purpose of becoming a service dog, what temperament would you choose? (Not bragging but gun dogs wash out at a rate of 2/3’s, my family dogs only one out of three washed out.)
And now because I was typing, I need to go back and watch the last half! I do hope you take that as the absolutely gushing compliment that it is… I trust your system, ethics and methods enough to allow your lessons into my subconscious… now I am going to go back and learn what I already know because I already heard you say it. You are welcome! And thank you so very much! (You ask for feed back, let me know if this is more than you meant?) If you would like to see my Twinke Toes in action, he is on my channel ‘learning vocabulary’ I believe is the title.
Forgot to say, when you ask if your puppy can stay with the breeder, let them know you will pay more for the dog. Find out what they feed and buy a large bag as a gift, offer to help with the litter any way you can.
The train at 5 weeks for one week comes from dog mushers in the Yukon - they spit in the puppy’s mouth on the first day too…
Thank you! Great tips!
You’re so awesome! Thanks for all that you do! I often share you videos to my training page and clients
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Awe thanks so much for the comment it means a lot!
Woww. So happy that I discovered your channel. I have at this point like a lot of other people problems with leash pulling ☹️with my 2 years old German Shepard.. I have tried so many things, but I don't know why she just don't understand what I want from her. I definitely try this too. I don't give up on her. I just wish to finally one day have a nice/slow walk together 🐶🦮
Really good tip! Didn't realise that aspect of habit.
Very useful video. Love the training game suggestion to go with it
GREAT tips! I haven't considered it before, and it makes total sense. Thanks!
Great advice. I am so glad I found your channel!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for uploading this Emily! My lab suddenly started pulling after 2 years, even though he was fully grown for almost a year by then. I suspect it has something to do with other people (dog walkers or friends taking care on certain days) letting him get away with pulling. We've been practicing more now, but it really seems to take a long time to fix this. He always wants to be in front, no matter what direction we're going.
This is invaluable advice. Thank you for taking the time out to share.
Another great video. Thank you so much
Thanks, Emily! You have an excellant way of explaining something, the 'why' of it, that I'd never thought of before! I train slooow pace walking, and make a game of speeding up and varying the pace, and add abrupt stops. My pup loves the game and the challenge of keeping right by my side! Then I release her, as I've said before, for some "smell-a-vision" time! One question, it looked like Bliss was walking "like a camel" with both back and front legs moving together on the same side? You were saying to see a vet about this? Could you please explain this? My pup's gait drew the attention of a horse friend, but then she decided her gait was ok. I am unclear on this. Any further info would be greatly appreciated! Thank you, and God's best blessings, Emily! Hugs and Love, JJ and Ruthie puppy
Great tips, thanks! I walk a pair of 5 month old labs and I will definitely try this with them
I have to say that I am a creature of habit and Cuddy and I used to take a specific route every now and then on our walks. I do remember taking less and less time for the same route, but it didn't click back then. Now it makes sense why 🤣
I have a bc mix rescue. He's 5 months. He stops frequently in low distraction environments. He really wants to sniff and were working on that as rewards when we practice. There is a lot of stop and start some days. He tends to be cautious when there are 1 or 2 people in the distance
In groups of people he doesn't tend to do this and is more apt at pulling. Since we allowed people to give him treats he wants to go up to about half.
As a horseperson, I watch gaits carefully and I see there is a difference between the gaits walk, trot, canter, and pace. All of those gaits were in this video. I think it might be helpful for people to see and label the differences. For example, the canter rhythm is "galumph"; the pace is the feet on one side going at once, the walk is each foot moving separately. But some horses (walkers and Icelandics) have an additional set of gaits which are sometimes very difficult to identify, but I don't think dog people need to try to see those!
Thank you. That was new and interesting information.
Glad it was helpful!
Super helpful!
As always, great advice!
thanks!
Another cool trick when working with larger dogs, is to change direction, turning to the right (when the dog is on your left). That turn ‘places’ your dog behind your leg!
Is your hand sign for ‘free on leash’ intentional? I do the exact same thing, hold my arm out straight in front of me. I’m working with two dogs who are being stubborn about doing their business on leash and dang my arm gets tired!!
I found this out the hard way 🤣 My SDiT, Gravy, grew up and became a 48# creature who I had to really help to slow down. He's so much better now, but I'm keeping this in mind for my next SDiT (hopefully many years from now)
We are to have some rainy days, so a good time to try all inside. I think I now understand how I’ve been giving mixed signals … ☹️
I've got slight mobility issues, so this helps. I'm a new rescue dog owner, and am terrified of being dragged on my face down the road (😂😬)
My garden is quite long and thin, and he's so big turning back round is ridiculous for him. Shorter walks on the patio? Ideas please, thanks.
Awesome! Thank you!
This is great advice.
I never put it together that when a trotting puppy grows up to be a trotting adult, they're covering significantly more ground with each step. Unfortunately, my Husky puppy got to rehearse this a lot. If only you'd done this video 4 months ago! 😆
Me too haha! I love how the Kikopup channel always helps us to think about training more from the dog’s perspective and this will surely lead to better results and relationships ❤️ and it’s never too late to change things up, go for it! I bet your husky puppy is a quick learner and a cutie 😆😆
Start teaching ‘back up’ along a wall, so they can’t just turn around. Get it down to a science and make a game of forward and back while walking. Also, turn to the right and go the other direction, just turn right around and start going the other way. Don’t get dizzy BUT it is okay if your dog does (heh heh heh, a dizzy animal will follow instructions.)
I was wondering if you have tips specific to beagles?
How do I get Luke, (my Aussy), to refrain from wanting to jump up when greeting new people.
i have a newly adopted greyhound (had him for 4 months now) whos in training to be my psychiatric service dog and he finds public places a lot more reinforcing then me almost all the time and im not sure how to fix it. he does focus on me when i ask but immediately goes back to whatever he was doing. i find it really hard to get him to ALWAYS focus on me despite all the attention games ive played with him. training at home almost always goes amazing but any training in public is really hard for me due to my disabilities which really effect the acting fun and making me more reinforcing than the environment, and most training really. any tips on how to get your dog to always focus on you, with psychiatric disabilities?
When I walk slowly to stop my 14-month GSD from pulling, she thinks it is a game and starts to yank, tug, and shake her leash from side to side with her mouth. Otherwise, she will walk behind me and jump up at my back. I find moving her in an opposite direction sometimes helps, but even then, at there are times, she thinks it is all a game and the silliness starts again. Wondering if you have any tips on how to curb this. (I do give her opportunity to sniff when on walks.)
I suggest working at staying at your side with no leash practicing in the house then the yard, then add the leash in the house practice walking around and moving it. The leash grabbing can be frustration related, but it could also be the dog just wants to play with the leash from excitement. But the fact the dog jumps at you makes it sound like arousal or frustration. Yes, you could have a longer leash and invite her to sniff around in areas, then work on the slower walking with treats and short back and forth walks in front of your house. Instead of long walks where the dog jumps at you, Id do this exercise th-cam.com/video/lLyiQODnR1s/w-d-xo.html where you have a settle mat in front of your house or at a park, and you practice going on little ventures away from the mat and return. Because the longer you walk the more likely the dog will be to start tugging and jumping. And then you are far from home or the car when it happens. Dogs can also do this from discomfort and pain, like they are tired from the walk or something is uncomfortable
I have a standard poodle and I walk with a walker he is a three years old
Great 👍!!
My dog wails uncontrollably when it's time for walks even when just putting a leash on her collar... Any advice on how to make the whole neighborhood stop hating us 😬
Great advice. Thanks for sharing ! ❤