A lot of k9 handlers fail at letting their dog be a dog occasionally. If you treat them like a tool you’ll never have a truly good relationship with them. They will bite you out of frustration and have no care because you have no relationship. The relationship is built through trust and love. When it’s time to work they will work to make you happy if you have the right relationship with your dog. This is just my experience as an explosive detection k9 handler. The dogs I’ve had a relationship with and let them be a dog at home have worked the hardest for me at work. When I first started I took the having a tool approach, and it will work but the dog will work 10 times harder if you build a relationship and let the dog BE A DOG!
Spot on - with a proper relationship with the dog, they will enjoy their time with you, respect you and protect you as well as work with you. Reminds of a GSD import I got back in the 70's. Met him at an obedience class with his original owner and I had another dog. Beau went from original owner to the trainer's husband, he had Beau for about 6 weeks and called me and asked if I was interested in him. He was 18 months old at the time. Guy said he "didn't want to work". I bought him and took Beau home. Then, knowing he wasn't giving time to adjust and grieve from first owner, I took my time with him. Spent the first 5 weeks just being his friend, took him out, for walks, etc and never issued a SINGLE COMMAND. Then, eased into novice obedience and gradually tightened up his sloppy habits. After having him ~6 months and zero issues, with pristine obedience - I took him for protection testing. Gave him a stern watch command, he alerted as soon as agitator moved across and when he did the run by I said Get Him! He nailed the sleeve above the elbow and locked on hanging. Gave him 4 or 5 more bites, same full mouth bite and hold. He was a phenomenal working dog and great around the neighborhood. I used to play hide and seek with the neighborhood kids with Beau. One of the young lads inspired by Beau, later became a well known IPO trainer. You won't get schitt out of a dog treating it like a tool - bond with them, love them and you will have an amazing experience.
Well Said Chris. This is a difficult thing for some first time dog handlers - they have all been cops for a while and it can be hard for them to allow a dog to get close to their heart. Some never do, but those that do fall in love with the work.
@@efrawley55 that is the truth! It’s not always their fault I know a lot of older trainers tend to push “the dog is a tool” logic and I’ve seen it work a lot but never seen it let the dog work at its fullest potential. When the relationship is built and the dog starts to work for you instead of for just a reward it’s a game changer those are the most loyal and best listening dogs I’ve worked with! In fact my current k9 is a dog when he’s at home and my 3 year old daughter can give him all of his basic commands and he listens and enjoys it! They’re play fetch regularly I think making the dog apart of your family is also super important. Of course do this with care and SLOWLY integrate especially with kids but we’re at the point now where my k9 is just as protective of my daughter as he is with me because he knows his place at home.. and his role in our pack… and again speaking from my experience it makes him work 10 times harder at work because he knows we have a job to do AND a family to get back to.
@@zangzang1268that's a brilliant way to approach training dogs, away from dogmatic views either old-school and pure-positive ones. Relation and bond with the dog is paramount.
Commendations to the LEO for continuing to work with this dog. Hopefully issues get worked out & the K9 is re-educated. Agree- really good advice here to back down on e-collar & go back to reward based training. Best wishes 🐾
Took a dog with a bad history and habits and went into training way too soon. You nailed it right away, it's about the relationship between dog and handler. No relationship, communication and understanding just isn't there. He never took the time to evaluate the dog. High rank drive and low experienced handler isn't a good formula if that's the case. Reactive dogs are not that difficult to deal with, high rank drive is something else. This dog could be far enough along with the bad behaviors to be a real project to straighten out. No working dog would bite me 6 times. :) But yeah, definitely need to unpack and understand the dog's history before moving forward. Before any behavior modification is attempted one must first understand the motivation behind the behavior. The relationship with to dog is the key and it needs to be healthy.
Yes, it’s totally about the relationship even if you have a strong dog, I believe if you can’t really change it genetically then you manage it and you become a better handler and a better dog owner and reach your dog in no exactly what he could do and he cannot do
@@watchmoivies123 Correct-a-mundo. And to really accomplish that, you need to know the dog and that takes time and is never the same journey from dog to dog.
This was very good Ed. I have been watching your TH-cam’s and buying your products for many many years I believe, even when you were breeding the German shepherds. Hoping you could put more tubes up with training on them so we could watch Also wanted to say you look really good and wanted to wish you a very happy holiday
So I was thinking about possibly buying your marker training video. Is it only on the Internet I can get this. I’m not good with things. I have to download or save and I’m wondering do you have it on a regular DVD and if the answer is no is it something very easy where you would just send it to my email and I’d be able to click on it and open it up or do I have to get a program to open it or something like that and also if I buy the one online do I keep it forever? Does it go into myphotos or file and I could watch it forever and ever or does it disappear after a certain amount of time thank you again
A lot of k9 handlers fail at letting their dog be a dog occasionally. If you treat them like a tool you’ll never have a truly good relationship with them. They will bite you out of frustration and have no care because you have no relationship. The relationship is built through trust and love. When it’s time to work they will work to make you happy if you have the right relationship with your dog. This is just my experience as an explosive detection k9 handler. The dogs I’ve had a relationship with and let them be a dog at home have worked the hardest for me at work. When I first started I took the having a tool approach, and it will work but the dog will work 10 times harder if you build a relationship and let the dog BE A DOG!
Spot on - with a proper relationship with the dog, they will enjoy their time with you, respect you and protect you as well as work with you.
Reminds of a GSD import I got back in the 70's. Met him at an obedience class with his original owner and I had another dog. Beau went from original owner to the trainer's husband, he had Beau for about 6 weeks and called me and asked if I was interested in him. He was 18 months old at the time. Guy said he "didn't want to work". I bought him and took Beau home. Then, knowing he wasn't giving time to adjust and grieve from first owner, I took my time with him. Spent the first 5 weeks just being his friend, took him out, for walks, etc and never issued a SINGLE COMMAND. Then, eased into novice obedience and gradually tightened up his sloppy habits. After having him ~6 months and zero issues, with pristine obedience - I took him for protection testing.
Gave him a stern watch command, he alerted as soon as agitator moved across and when he did the run by I said Get Him! He nailed the sleeve above the elbow and locked on hanging. Gave him 4 or 5 more bites, same full mouth bite and hold.
He was a phenomenal working dog and great around the neighborhood. I used to play hide and seek with the neighborhood kids with Beau. One of the young lads inspired by Beau, later became a well known IPO trainer.
You won't get schitt out of a dog treating it like a tool - bond with them, love them and you will have an amazing experience.
Well Said Chris. This is a difficult thing for some first time dog handlers - they have all been cops for a while and it can be hard for them to allow a dog to get close to their heart. Some never do, but those that do fall in love with the work.
@@efrawley55 that is the truth! It’s not always their fault I know a lot of older trainers tend to push “the dog is a tool” logic and I’ve seen it work a lot but never seen it let the dog work at its fullest potential. When the relationship is built and the dog starts to work for you instead of for just a reward it’s a game changer those are the most loyal and best listening dogs I’ve worked with! In fact my current k9 is a dog when he’s at home and my 3 year old daughter can give him all of his basic commands and he listens and enjoys it! They’re play fetch regularly I think making the dog apart of your family is also super important. Of course do this with care and SLOWLY integrate especially with kids but we’re at the point now where my k9 is just as protective of my daughter as he is with me because he knows his place at home.. and his role in our pack… and again speaking from my experience it makes him work 10 times harder at work because he knows we have a job to do AND a family to get back to.
@@zangzang1268that's a brilliant way to approach training dogs, away from dogmatic views either old-school and pure-positive ones. Relation and bond with the dog is paramount.
This is an absolutely GREAT video. I would love if he contacts you. I would love to follow this as a story. You are passionate about this one!❤🐾🐾
Amazing video. Thank you!
Commendations to the LEO for continuing to work with this dog. Hopefully issues get worked out & the K9 is re-educated. Agree- really good advice here to back down on e-collar & go back to reward based training. Best wishes 🐾
Took a dog with a bad history and habits and went into training way too soon. You nailed it right away, it's about the relationship between dog and handler. No relationship, communication and understanding just isn't there. He never took the time to evaluate the dog. High rank drive and low experienced handler isn't a good formula if that's the case. Reactive dogs are not that difficult to deal with, high rank drive is something else. This dog could be far enough along with the bad behaviors to be a real project to straighten out. No working dog would bite me 6 times. :) But yeah, definitely need to unpack and understand the dog's history before moving forward. Before any behavior modification is attempted one must first understand the motivation behind the behavior.
The relationship with to dog is the key and it needs to be healthy.
Yes, it’s totally about the relationship even if you have a strong dog, I believe if you can’t really change it genetically then you manage it and you become a better handler and a better dog owner and reach your dog in no exactly what he could do and he cannot do
@@watchmoivies123 Correct-a-mundo. And to really accomplish that, you need to know the dog and that takes time and is never the same journey from dog to dog.
Haz from Shield K9 once mentioned that the Dutch Shepherd has the "come up the leash" and bite almost genetically inside of him.
Such good advice .
This was very good Ed. I have been watching your TH-cam’s and buying your products for many many years I believe, even when you were breeding the German shepherds.
Hoping you could put more tubes up with training on them so we could watch
Also wanted to say you look really good and wanted to wish you a very happy holiday
Excelente la definición del trabajo de perro de policía
Great video.
good demo of lift off thanks
Thank you! People are in denial of genetics...
So I was thinking about possibly buying your marker training video. Is it only on the Internet I can get this. I’m not good with things. I have to download or save and I’m wondering do you have it on a regular DVD and if the answer is no is it something very easy where you would just send it to my email and I’d be able to click on it and open it up or do I have to get a program to open it or something like that and also if I buy the one online do I keep it forever? Does it go into myphotos or file and I could watch it forever and ever or does it disappear after a certain amount of time thank you again
Thank you
That's a dead dog...