- Hey, everybody. How are you? It's Jeff Gellman of Solid K9 Training with my "What Would Jeff Do? Dog Training Tip of the Day." Tip #48: Why are dogs aggressive? I'm not gonna make some long thing about this, 'cause I can go on for days about aggression, 'cause that's our specialty. But, probably the number one reason why dogs are aggressive is because nobody told them not to be in a way the dog understands.
Historically, what happens is humans, they see some aggression starting and they assume that it will go away, but it never goes away, so it never goes away.There's also be a dog out there that's, sure, it's just maybe faded away. Usually what happens, though, it's when the owners start putting more structure in the dog's life and they address the aggression through punishment.
The thing is, most people will say "oh, I never punish my dog," but they don't understand what punishment is. They probably, most likely, did. Punishment is not abuse. You're not mad, angry, frustrated with the dog. It's just a matter of fact. You can't do that anymore.
So chances are they did. We're seeing a lot of that. So, just to give everybody a little tip of the day, my tip number 47 of "What Would Jeff Do? Dog Training Tips" (woman interjects) I'm at the airport paying a bill.
I wanna get this done because I gotta get it up before I jump on my plane to LA. I'm gonna start to do more stuff about aggression because so many people are struggling with that, and I got some really, really awesome emails that I'm getting with people being able to get dogs out of aggression just with advice that they're reading about on my page. So that's really exciting. But again, just to shortly recap: the number one reason why dogs are aggressive is because no one ever told the dog not to be, in a way the dog accepted and understood.Madly in love with you. See you tomorrow..
Hi, Mirko here from Healthy Pet Systems. Today I will tell you how to stop dog aggression towards other dogs. So let's dive in. Dog aggression encompasses a range of behaviors that begins with warnings signs and escalate into the attack. There is a wide range of reasons why your dog become aggressive towards other dogs. Whatever the reason, gentle, and kind dog aggression training will curb aggression.
Now let's see how to stop dog aggression towards other dogs in 4 steps: Step number one, leash your dog. You can walk your dog to areas where it can meet other dogs. Give the dog some time to go and socialize with other dogs. However, make sure that you are able to confine just in case it becomes overly aggressive.Number two, isolate it if need be. Exposing some dogs to other dogs can cause stress. If you see aggression signs, isolate your dog from others to give it room for calming down. Number three, make use of commands.
You can use commands such as ‘be good’ ‘calm down’ whenever you see that your dog has become aggressive. And the step number four, reward dog for behaving well. After it obeys you or behaves well, you can reward it by giving it a verbal appraisal or treating it with some nice meal.
To find out more, I created a great guide about dog aggression where I show you step by step instructions. Also, in it, you will find top 14 dog aggression signs, types of aggression in dogs, how to stop dog aggression, how to control dog aggression, how to correct dog aggression, and a lot more. A link is down below in the description. If you like this video, hit the subscribe button to receive more like it in the future. And remember let's keep our pets healthy! Bye!.
Imagine if any behavior challenge you had with your dog, I could give you a pill and boom. It would go away. I used to teach seminars and people would say What can I do for this, like I had some magic pixie dust that youd sprinkle it on your dog's food and then boom. That would go away. How amazing would that be, But today I'm going to share with you how in some cases there actually is a pill that could make things go away.
True story: Hi, I'm Susan Garrett, Welcome to Shaped by Dog And if you're watching this on YouTube, go ahead and hit the like button right now And if you're not a subscriber to this channel, why not Come on it's a great channel, Go ahead, hit the subscribe button and the little bell that keeps you notified. Whenever I put up a new video So back in the mid nineties, I was at an agility trial with my Border Collie at the time Stoni And I could do a whole podcast on how awesome Stoni was. She was just gifted athletically She was the best at everything she ever tried. It was just a joy to have as a dog And she was very sweet.
Actually, my puppy. This reminds me a lot of Stoni I believe that Stoni, who was born in 1990 - I keep saying I think This might be Stoni whos, come back to me because they're the same sweet dog I was at an agility trial and Stoni at the time would have been maybe six or seven years old.
I can still remember this incident. I was just warming her up to go in the ring. I was walking her, so I wasn't really even deep into my warm-up. I was just walking her along the hill away from the ring and one woman went by with a puppy on a leash, minding her own business and Stoni on a leash and normally Stoni. Didn'T even notice dogs, All of a sudden, she turned and sounded like a saber tooth tiger as she lunged at this little puppy.
We didn't get anywhere near her scared, the living bejeebers out of the lady who owned the puppy and scared me Because in all of my lifetime of owning her I'd, never known her to do that.And I thought Holy smokes. Are you possessed by the devil himself? What has gone on here And later that day in that evening, I was sharing that bizarre incident to a friend of mine, And she said: Have you ever heard of Jean Dodds And at the time I think I'd kind of heard, the name Well, Jean, a fellow Canadian, a very famous Veterinarian, who really has done a lot of great things in the name of helping dogs and really get to the bottom of how we can keep our dogs at their healthiest. And she said you should contact Jean Dodds and explain to her what happened And so the next Monday.
I actually phoned Jean and she picked up the phone and I was like oh my gosh. I am star, struck. Because by then I'd done a lot of research on the woman and realized what an awesome human being she was, And so she told me that sudden onset fear, aggression or anxiety quite often can be a sign of thyroid deficiency or thyroid malfunction.
And she said: go and get your dogs blood tested, but be very specific. You don't want the clinic to just take an in house test for T4. You want a complete thyroid panel. She was very specific: A complete thyroid panel with T4 circulating T4 T3 and TGAA And she went on to say if your dog rates below normal or even if your dog is rating on the low normal you may want to consider, especially if you see these sort of incidents happening again, you may want to consider putting her on the lower side Dose for thyroid meds and see if the behavior changes Well, lo and behold, I did see that behavior She was unpredictable around the dogs in the house the next week And so I'd gone to the Veterinarian.
We got the blood profile back, She was normal, but on the very low end of normal, we put her on thyroids and boom. Everything went away, That little incident stuck in the back of my mind And two more times with my own dogs. It has come up and I've taken my dogs profiles in each case. Behavior changes happen So Decaff when she was about seven years old. She became suddenly terrified of thunder, And I remember leading up to that. She would be kind of shaking at different times, which wasn't normal for her I wish I had remembered what Jean said, because I didn't think of thunder. I was thinking aggression, But at the time Dr. Dodds did say to me sudden onset, fear, aggression or anxiety.
how, if you go to Dr. Dodds website and I'll put a link here in the show notes, she has a laundry list of things that might already be affecting your dog. It took me probably nine months before I put two and two together and went Wait a minute.
This weird behavior around thunder - maybe I should get her thyroid, checked And sure enough Decaffs thyroid was low. I put her on thyroid meds. It didn't happen as quickly as Stoni, And here is my theory on that, Because the behavior of being afraid of thunder was allowed to be repeated for almost a year before we put her on the meds, it would have taken her longer to have changed the behavior And with Stoni it was within a week or two that she was put on thyroid meds and her behavior changed instantly With Decaff.
It did go away, but it took probably close to a year before I saw a behavior change. And the last one was my dog Buzz when he was close to being a teenager And he had a geriatric vestibular disorder. The same thing tested his thyroid: And I had another dog with a geriatric vestibular disorder: I'm not going to go into details of what that looks like You can Google it So I had his thyroid done Now. Typically, this sort of episode could last for a week or longer and it might come back and sometimes a dog is left with permanent head tilt when they go through this geriatric vestibular disorder.
But Buzzy his thyroid was very low. Put him on meds, he came out of it within 24 hours had no permanent signs and it never came back again. You might go Well. This is bizarre, Behavior problems and you can fix with a pill. That'S exactly what I'm saying: A behavior problem that you can fix with a pill Now, for me, I have seen this in many dogs over the decades of me teaching When I see people that tell me My dog suddenly is afraid He used to tug in any environment And now he's looking around when I asked them to tug Thyroid Complete panel is really important. They have to send that panel out because they can't just in-home test. Maybe in-home veterinary tests have changed. A lot of Veterinarians may not be aware of the connection between thyroid and behavior. Now, there's a lot of Veterinarians.
Who'Ve been around the block and theyve seen a lot of things in their experience and they'll be able to pick this up right away. But you know some might not be aware of this. And so think about hormones like have you heard of roid rage? Now it's definitely a different kind of hormone, but hormones have effect on behavior The people who decide to pump all the steroids into their body to get faster or stronger for performance events Yeah. They definitely are a little bit angry. And if you look at menopause as I approach my 60th year on this planet, that 70 % of people who experienced any kind of symptoms of menopause, say irritability is their number one symptom and depression rage and anger are high up there with it.
So my point is: behavior, isn't always a choice: Behavior is chemical, It absolutely is chemically influenced And with dogs. The number one endocrine problem is related to the thyroid. When I say endocrine, that is glands that produce hormones in the body. The number one problem with dogs would be thyroid problems.
That'S the most common Now Tufts University has been doing this ongoing study looking at behavior abnormalities and testing those dogs for a thyroid panel. And if you look at Dr. Dodds website, you'll find this study and at the time there was 634 dogs that they had tested.
And I think that's up to 1,500 dogs now Of the 634 dogs they broke them into. Is your dog's behavior challenge And it was aggression that was by far the number one behavior challenge? Seizuring was number two Fearfulness was number three and hyperactivity was number four, And when they tested these dogs of the dogs showing aggression, 62 % of them had below normal levels or acceptable range levels of circulating, thyroid hormone, That of the seizuring dogs, 77 % had a thyroid problem And 47 %, almost 50 % of the fearful dogs had a problem. I think it was a third of all the hyperactive dogs, So my point is, I saw it with my dogs in the age range of I believe, 6 to 13 years of age.
However, as soon as your dog goes through puberty, I mean they could see this in puppies Puppies that have aggression towards people or aggression towards other dogs. It could be that they have a thyroid problem, And so you want to make sure that you check into this Now in that study that Tufts University was looking at. Not all of the cases immediately got better when they were put on thyroid support.
And again, my hallucination as to why that may happen is behavior could be stimulated by hormones. But it could also then become a trigger by something. So if, for example, the dogs were suddenly aggressive and then that aggression caused them to be getting in trouble by their owners and that created more stress and anxiety that it may take longer, Just like Decaff, took longer for her to get over her fear of thunder.
Even though she was on supportive thyroid It did eventually get better, but it wasn't overnight the way it was for Stoni and Buzz, And I think it's because I picked it up on Stoni and Buzz so much sooner.
That'S just a complete theory on my part, but I am presenting really good solid science here. You know this podcast is about dog training but, more importantly, it's about behavior, And I really wanted to talk about this topic because you may never see it with your own dogs And, depending on the breed like there are some breeds that are more susceptible like Goldens Or Sighthounds, In my case it was two Border Collies completely unrelated, like not even common dogs in 10 generation in the pedigree And in Decaff, who was a Jack Russell and one quarter Border Collie and that one quarter border Collie that was in her wasn't related to either Stoni or Buzz.
So it could be breed-specific, But it could happen in any breed, And I just wanted you to know. Even if it isn't your dog that may have this problem, if you hear of somebody saying Wow, my dog was always such a nice dog And then boom, it's like he had a brain, tumor or something He suddenly just became aggressive towards other dogs or aggressive towards people, or suddenly he became really fearful of things and started shaking there's, as I said, a list of symptoms that your dog may show, but those were the four groups of the most common ones when theyve Really been looking at this, So I thought that was super important for you to know. Behavior sometimes isn't as simple as a dog choosing something you would.
Rather, they not do, but isn't it awesome to know that behavior can be influenced by just giving your dog daily doses of hormones to balance them out. That'S it for today, on Shaped by Dog. Please leave me a comment. Let me know and tuck this one back in your memory bank Bring that out whenever you are triggered by somebody saying Well, my dog is being weird all of a sudden You're going to be able to help them See you next time..
Dog aggression. How to wean your dog not to be aggressive towards other dogs. Part 1. 2 00:00:04,08 --> 00:00:00,00 To wean dog aggression, it’s very important to prevent fights with other dogs, not to allow development and strengthening of this behavior. To do this you should understand and see potentially dangerous situations and to react in advance to the conflict behavior of your dog. Flint - heel! Well done! Flint – heel! Flint - heel! Flint! Flint! Flint - heel! In this situation, the instigator of conflict is terrier Jack Russell (Zephyr), which winds up because of the excited behavior of the shepherd Flint.
Jack Russell does not even want to walk. Its attention is occupied by the shepherd and when it lacks the brake, it attacks the neck. Flint, come! Sit! Sit! Yes, sit, sit, sit. Walk! No! Jack Russell is a hunting dog, which should come into direct battle with the beast, thus it winds up easily because of jerks of another dog. Flint, come! Spin! Spin! Spin! Spin! Spin! Spin, stop! Walk! In such situations, it would be wrong to punish only the dog that makes the first shot. If Flint responds to Zephyr, it should be punished as well.
The dog does not reset the situation. The dog is constantly trained in terms of fighting. It’s rather releasing brake of readiness to fight than teaching how to fight. If you allow the dog to fight, when it’s supposedly right, very soon the dog will fight when it sees fit without checking with your ethical standards.Another dangerous situation is competition for the toy. First, let’s take a look at Jack Russell and the shepherd separately. Walk, walk, hop! Go, go! Hold it! Good! Down! Down! You can see that both dogs are interested in playing with the prey. Let’s offer Zephyr and Flint to play together.
To play like Flint does with male-dog Kado and lady-dog Bertha. Flint and Kado. Good! Good! Good! Flint and Bertha Come on, come on, come on! Get it! Good! Hold it! Go! Go! Go! Now look at the behavior of Zephyr and Flint. That’s the try to get them pull the toy without aggression to each other. In close proximity to Flint Zephyr poorly keeps the rag and even when it is possible to provoke it, when Zephyr comes closer to Flint, it loosens this rag. Good, good! Hold it! Flint – sit! Sit!
When Jack Russell gets hot, the shepherd starts to walk away from this situation and does not want to grasp a toy. Flint, take it! Come! Sit! Sit! Flint – sit! Flint! Flint - take it! Flint - sit! Flint yawns; in accordance with all ethological canons this is usually interpreted as stress.Flint, stop! Come! Flint - sit! Quiet, Flint - quiet. Flint - quiet! Hang on! Come! Give! Sit! Sit!
This is it! Take that! Dogs stubbornly refuse to play together. Flint tries to leave with a toy, and Zephyr either does not play, or rushes to Flint. Get it! Hold it! Give! Take it, take! Hold, hold it! Flint, hold it, hold!
Now, when Flint holds a toy, Zephyr does not want to take it. Terrier strains, lifts up its head, stretches forward and it’s ready for the dart. The shepherd, stimulated by the trainer, does not pay attention to the terrier, and tries to seize the toy, sets it free and moves closer to Jack Russel. Flint, hold it! Hold! Come on! Come on! Come on! At a time when both dogs set the toy free, and the distance between them is small - this is the moment when fight begins.
Zephyr bites Flint and as shepherd’s mouth is not busy with a toy, it reacts impulsively and attacks Jack Russel. DOWN! OFF! QUIET! COME! DOWN! CALM DOWN! COME HERE! COME HERE! Each and all are alive and fresh, so after the conflict do no separate dogs wide apart each other and stop their communication.So, what do we have here? Sit still! Sit and don’t be afraid. Intentional demonstrative rudeness of the trainer affects dogs overwhelmingly, and prevents possible continuation of the conflict.
Right after the fight (if dogs don’t have traumas and don’t need immediate assistance of the veterinarian) dogs have to work together, close to each other, switching them from aggression to execution of commands. In this case Flint knows that it should not fight. Zephyr is frightened. There’s no toy between them, so such closure limit of dogs is permissible. Sit still! Quiet! Sit!
Don't be afraid! As usual, dogs are not afraid of their masters and do not really respect them, thus after a fight DO NOT REPEAT THIS! End of part 1.To be continued… Professional Dog Training School WalkService..
- If you're a new puppy owner, or you're about to become a new puppy owner, you're probably doing lots of research about how to give your puppy the best information. Well, in today's video, we're going to give you five tips for puppy training that will set your puppy up for a lifetime of successful learning. I'm Ken Steepe. - And I'm Mark Herfert. - And this is Rev. - Is Rev. - Welcome back to McCann Dogs.
(guitar strumming) (puppy barking) So Mark, talk a little bit about using a house line with Rev. When you might use it, why you're using it, you know the benefits of using a house line. - Yeah, so with a little puppy like this honestly at this point she doesn't really know a whole lot and she's just gonna be a little wild child at the house and running around, so I need some way of being able to maintain a little bit more control on her.
Throughout the house, if this kid gets away from me, she's running underneath tables, she's running behind the couch, and the last thing I want to do is run after her because if I'm running after her then she's like, "Hey, this is awesome!" And it's just a game of catch sort of thing.
So by having this long line, if she decides to go a little way of distance from me and I need to get her closer to me, I can just step on it and I have full control over her.- Yeah, so anytime we're working with our puppies we want to make sure we do have control of them in case they decide to scoot away. It just gives you a little bit more control and it makes you look like a dog training superhero because you don't have to actually take hold of them for you to have a little bit more control.
- Yeah and the beauty is that even if I went out in the backyard I still have that long line on, she's only gonna go, you know, when we're in the backyard maybe seven, eight feet away from me but I've got this long line on me that I can easily catch up to her at any time. - You know something that a lot of us trainers will do with our new puppies is something called hand feeding, and I know, Mark, you feed her raw, you feed all of your dogs raw, but it's something that you could do with your feeding process with your puppy, now tell our audience a little bit about what hand feeding could mean for them.
- Yeah, no matter what you're feeding, it's really good because what the purpose behind why we're doing that is we want these puppies to begin to realize that all good things come from us. And of course food, and especially a puppy being eternally hungry sort of thing, if the food comes from me, the puppy knows that I'm the one that provides all the necessities for it. And it just builds that relationship between us as handlers and the dog that much stronger.- Tell us a little bit about loading your puppy's name and how you can do that at their regular feeding time.
- Yeah so at this point right now there's no point in calling Rev's name cause as much as Ken knows Rev's name, I was gonna say Ken knows Ken's name, (laughs) as much as Ken knows Rev's name and I know Rev's name, Rev has no idea what her name is at this point.
So if I just sit there and call her name and call her name, nothing's gonna happen and we're just gonna deaden that command. So what we like to do is we take a high value reward, hopefully she's got a hungry belly, and we take that food, place it on the nose, call her name and that will lure her towards us.
The reality is she's following the food not the call to her name, but right away there's name, reward, name, reward, name, reward and she starts to build value in that name. - Yeah and Mark mentioned something really important. So if your puppy isn't paying attention to you, you can use that treat, put it on their nose and guide them back toward you. Once you have that undivided attention, you can break that up a little bit, so Mark would say, "Rev," then reward. "Rev," then reward, "Rev," then reward. It really is a Pavlovian idea of ringing the bell, and your dog starts to associate that with something.
So what you're doing with your eight week old puppy, is you're really building value for that work by saying your puppy's name, then feeding them.
It doesn't even need to be a complicated process. It's a pretty quick training opportunity but man oh man does it ever build value for that name. The one thing you do have to be careful of though is that you're not calling your dog's name throughout times in the house where they can make a mistake. Mark mentioned that you really run the risk of reducing the value of that word if you're using your puppy's name when you don't have an opportunity to follow it up.
So in the house, Mark might use something like, "Here pup pup!" or anything else other than Rev's name when he needs to get her attention or when he's having fun with her in his home.
- Yeah absolutely, at that point we're just making up nicknames that will have no real expectations for it later, so pup-pup-pup-pup, half the time I'll probably call her monkey-monkey-monkey or something like that. - Right, yeah! - I will have no expectations for that word later, as opposed to her name, I will have a lot of expectations for.
- Now we are really loading a ton of great exercises into these meal times and one thing you can do is teach your puppy that taking their collar is a really great thing. And how would you do that with Rev? - Yeah, so it's really important cause what we want is a dog that's very calm when we're grabbing their collar, we don't wanna see that thing that you see all the time, a person was grabbing the collar and the dog just deeks away - Totally - and wants to get away from mom or dad.
So what we will do is we will make it worth it to the dog to allow us to grab that collar. So again, I'm gonna grab food, you can see a recurring theme here, so I'm gonna grab some food, put it on my dog's nose.
While it's pretty much on the dog's nose and the dog is nibbling away at the food I'm gonna reach in, grab that collar ever so softly, say, "Yes, good dog," give my dog the food, and then I'm gonna multiple times just going in, grabbing, going in, grabbing, and calmly holding that collar. - Yeah, it's such a really nice opportunity to teach your dog that the moment you have control of their collar, you can "yes" then reward them and this is something, as Mark mentioned, there's so many people who their dog will know exactly how long their arms are.
They will come in to that point where you can almost take hold of them, but if you start by really making it valuable to have control of your dog's collar early by gently taking their collar and then rewarding them for that, you will very quickly teach them that it's worth being close to you.
That it's worth you having control of them, because you're gonna need to do it when you take their leash, you know, when you're gonna attach their leash. Maybe if you need to pick them up for one reason or another.
There's just so many times you want to be able to take control of your dog's collar and by really front loading the value while maybe during a meal time or while you're working with your puppy, it's such a beneficial skill.
And it's a great thing to do with those brand new puppies. With those eight week old puppies cause it's so simple to teach. Let's talk about luring for a moment. What sort of things are you doing to teach your puppy to sit, to teach your puppy to lie down, talk about what you're doing with that eight week old puppy that will set them up to be faster learners as they get older.
- Yeah so again, it's nice and simple stuff with such a young puppy we can't expect too much, and we have to make it really obvious to them what we want them to do. So what we're doing is luring, which is exactly that.
All we're doing is grabbing that high value treat, I can put that treat on the nose, and then from there, just as the word says, I'm luring the dog to do the action that I want it to do. So if I want to do it on a sit I would just place the food on the dog's nose, raise it back, the dog is basically just following the food.
The dog has no idea that it's actually doing the command, it's just following the food. And with regards to that command too, at this point you are certainly not putting a command on to it, it's simply following the food. - Yeah, that's great.
And one thing I want you to be sure of is because these are brand new things for your puppy, new positions, you're gonna be really deliberate about those luring techniques.You're gonna slowly guide them maybe up and into a sit, you're gonna slowly bring them into a down position and maybe if you get a little bit more advanced you can guide them into a stand. But at no point are you using the words.
We're really building on a solid foundation here and we wanna show our puppies that being in those positions is ultimately what we want them to do, but at this point we're not associating with the words, we're just guiding them into that sit and guiding them into that down and by doing that, you're really setting them up so that when you do start to pair those actions with a word they're gonna learn it so much faster.
- Yeah and I will say this too, when we are luring, using that food to lure the puppy, and as Ken said, guiding the dog, remember this that a dog has an attention span of about six inches. So if that food is on my dog's nose, chances are my dog's gonna follow me.
As soon as you go six inches away, there is way more interesting things out there for this puppy to focus on. - Absolutely Good thing to remember with you guys with those brand new puppies at home. So now that you've given your brand new puppy all sorts of great information, you should check out that puppy training tips playlist next to us. It will give you all sorts of tips and tricks for training your puppy as they get older.On that note, I'm Ken. - I'm Mark, and this is Rev. - Happy training. Bye for now!.
That wonderful feeling, when you brought home a new puppy, that little canine can bring a total happiness to the house until he starts fighting. I know, puppy biting can be very frustrating, especially when you have one of those herding breeds such as this baby alligator. This guy was a nasty biter he's always gon na bite.
My foot my hands, my pants and you just literally couldn't touch him so today, i'm going to share a story about how we finally overcome puppy, pay, [, Music, ], hey guys, welcome back to my channel and today i'm going to discuss about how to stop puppy Buying, as we all know, puppy biting is one of the most common problems. When we brought home a new puppy puppies are always going to bite because they explore the world differently than us humans using their nose and their mouth now, one of the most common method that i personally think is super effective is redirection.
Redirection simply means that when your puppy tries to bite you just redirect them using bite, toys such as ropes, buttocks, old cloths or other chewing toys that you can find on your local pet store because, as we all know, all puppies are going through a teething face. So puppy biting is a natural behavior and there's actually no way we can stop it. So redirecting will work.
It'S like there's no way to stop them from biting so make them bite something else. The second thing to keep in mind is that you shouldn't let your puppy play rough with you here, i'm showing a video of 7 weeks old kai, which i literally couldn't touch. No, i wasn't encouraging him to bite me just wanted to show you how a nasty biter he was, but, as he grew older, i never tried to put my fingers to his mouth, encouraged him to bite me or any kinds of rough play.
What i did was giving him new bite, toys, chew toys and chew, treats while taking the opportunity to teach him what he can and cannot fight playing talk is a great option. It creates a good relationship between you and your job. It also builds their drive, their strength and their confidence as well. You can also fly or drop kong toys which i personally love. They are made from strong rubber and you can put treats inside of them, so it can encourage your puppy to bite and chew. In a positive way, instead of fighting your pants on the furnitures, so like people used to say let puppies be puppies, be very gentle with them just be patient.
I heard many people say that when your puppy tries to bite you just pinch their nose or pinch their tongue so that they feel uncomfortable and stop biting well, i don't think it will work. Also. I never heard any professional dog trainers giving those kind of advice. So don't try to pinch your puppy's nose or tongue puppies will usually stop biting at the age of 4 to 6 months old or when they finally fully develop their adult tea. But you know every puppies are different because we didn't have this kind of problem. With rex our rottweiler, he destroys zero furniture in this house and he literally stopped biting my hands at the age of three months.
But on the other hand, kai was a nasty fighter, because you know belgian melanogs are called maligators for a reason. So i wasn't quite surprised, kai, finally stopped biting hands feet at the age of around 4 months and finally stops biting furnitures at the age of 6 months, the stage when he finally kinda understands what he can and cannot bite. He is almost 10 months old now and technically still a puppy, a puppy that has completed his teething phase, but still we need to work on the basic commands, particularly in the leafy command, especially when he found new things on the floor. So, that's it just be patient with the face. Do not encourage rough plays and redirect them using fun.
Toys and chew, treats trust me. I know it's kind of frustrating right now, but you will definitely miss those puppy biting days. I even kept kai and rex's teeth that fell off as something to remember, because i really miss them in their puppy fighting days. Thank you, so much guys for watching give this video a thumbs up. If you think this helps be sure to subscribe, to check my other videos and i'll see you in the next video you
Hey everybody today I'm going to be talking about how to teach your puppy not to mouth or bite at your clothing accessories or your hair. What I've already worked on with this pup, I've only had him a few days, is working on the calm settle for food which he's doing right now so I can talk to you. Now naturally when I train dogs I never want to let them rehearse the undesirable behavior so in my videos you'll never see the dogs doing the things that they're not supposed to do.
I only show you the small approximations of how to train the dog what you do want them to do but in this case because I get a lot of requests of people saying hey how come you're never using untrained dogs it's because when you train with positive reinforcement it always looks like the dog is already trained because you're breaking the steps up small enough that the dog can succeed every step of the way.
So this puppy has never had any training with mouthing and biting and I will show you that my puppy does mouth and bite at clothing when it moves around but it's not very good training to do this. On this rare occasion I will show the dog rehearsing the undesirable behavior. This is because the behavior of tugging is one I do want for when playing with tug toys in the future. Also showing this specific undesirable behavior is not stressful for this dog.
Seeing what the dog does in a situation before training actually makes the dog more likely to do those behaviors in the future. Instead a smarter training plan is training in small easily achievable steps where the dog doesn't even have a thought to do the undesirable behavior again. As you can see this is a normal puppy. Puppies naturally want to grab at anything that moves fast or is dangling like a dress or your hair or some jewelry or this dish cloth or a sweater sleeve as you're putting it on. So this is a normal puppy but you'll see during the training the puppy is not going to be doing this type of behavior.
The point of this exercise is to teach the puppy that when things are dangling around it means to ignore them and you can still play tug with your dog but it's really important to put that on a verbal cue like "get it" and always say "get it" before you offer your dog a toy to tug on so they don't get the wrong idea that anything that's dangling in their face is fair game to be tugged on. In this exercise you can either use a clicker or a verbal marker.
So you can either click and then feed a treat or I have a nice calm marker, "good", that means I'm going to slowly deliver the treats to the puppy like that. The game is pretty simple. You start off with distractions that are very easy for the puppy to ignore. So with this sweater, for example, if the puppy's over here settling or you can have your puppy on a leash and you could have a helper.
The helper is just going to show the sweater and move it slowly and as you move it you mark and then feed a treat so the puppy is associating that when the sweater moves and they stay still they get a click and a treat and basically you're training the puppy to do nothing when they see this happen.
"good job!" When your puppy is having success you can start to make things more exciting. So I'm gonna move the sweater past the puppy like this, "good, good job" I'm gonna dangle my sleeve "good job, good boy" Once your puppy has mastered settling with the distractions you can now practice when you and your puppy are standing up and moving which is harder for most puppies so you'll need to go back to marking the moment the distraction happens at first to set your puppy up for success.
"good, good, good" When your puppy looks calm and can easily ignore the distraction you can increase how long you make the distraction happen before you mark. You can also increase the difficulty of the distraction. Most puppies find fast erratic movement harder to resist than slow predictable movement. If you have a puppy that's extremely excited about grabbing moving things you can feed the treat AS you move the thing at first. So I'm moving this thing and feeding the puppy like that.
"good job" And now I'm going to move the leash first and then mark and feed. If your puppy were to grab on to whatever it is that you're working with put a high-value treat to your dog's nose and then start over by making it much less arousing.Also I have a video on how to train the cue drop so that you can teach your puppy to let go of things that they start to pick up or they're tugging on.
You can also use a kissy noise or the recall if you see your puppy going over to someone else to pull on their shoelaces or to get their clothing. You can make your kissy noise, attention noise or call your puppy to you so that your puppy isn't practicing that behavior. When you see your puppy get interested in something like someone's shuffling feet or shoelaces interrupt your puppy and redirect him to something you do want him to be doing like playing with his toys.
Then make a mental note to work on that specific distraction in a training session. Here's a list of the steps: Step 1 mark as the distraction happens Step 2 mark after the distraction begins Step 3 add more time before you mark Step 4 add difficulty and variety to the training. For the most successful training you want to work on the distractions before the puppy is exposed to them in real life.
For example, having your kids move in front of your puppy for the first time in a training session and reinforcing your puppy for remaining calm as it happens. Beginning first by having the kids simply walking past your puppy. And now I want to mention that this video is dedicated to one of my youtube sponsors *Ted Jack*.
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Hi everybody! This video is on the topic of teaching your puppy what to do when he feels pressure on leash either when he's run out and hit the end of the leash or when you've had to add pressure, say for example your puppy runs into the road and you need to move your puppy out of the road using leash pressure.
Now of course you can pick your puppy up in emergencies but if you have a puppy that's going to turn into a larger adult dog at some point in his life you're going to have to move your puppy with the leash. Now without any prior training most puppies and dogs, when you pull on their leash, they 1 find it aversive and 2 usually lean the other way.
The same happens with human beings. If you had a harness tied around your chest with a leash coming out of it and someone pulled on it, you naturally would counterbalance by leaning backwards rather than just following whoever pulls you.
So basically in this exercise we're teaching puppies that when they feel the pressure on the leash it's simply a cue saying "come with me, we're moving in a different direction" and by creating a positive association with the feeling of pressure on the leash, it simply becomes a cue for the dog to want to move with you.
Now if you work on this exercise with the young puppy right from the beginning before the puppy starts pulling a lot on the leash when you're out and about, it actually can teach your puppy to walk on a loose leash. This is because if you work on the exercise enough your dog is going to have a conditioned response where they feel the pressure on the leash and it will cue them to come back to you. Here are some exercises you should work on first before playing the leash pressure game with your puppy.
This is because you want to reinforce your puppy for moving towards you, moving with you and moving with you when you make direction changes and once you've reinforced all of these behaviors it will make it way easier for the puppy to want to choose to move with you when you add the leash pressure.
In my opinion the 4 exercises that you want to work on first are: the attention game, the recall, reinforcing your puppy for standing next to you and walking next to you and reinforcing your puppy for direction changes while walking at your side.
Check out the written description below for links to video tutorials on how to train these. This is footage of one of our first outings to the park after letting my puppy explore and sniff the park I spent 1 to 2 minutes playing the attention game, reinforcing the position at my side and direction changes.
The leash pressure game. Step 1 Add light pressure on the leash as you lure youpuppy forward and then feed a treat. The point of this step is to accustom the puppy to the sensation of the leash pressure so it's not a sudden surprise. I suggest attaching the leash to your dog's harness when you play games like this as well as walk your dog. If you're going to be walking your dog with the leash attached to the front of your dog's harness you need to work on this exercise with the leash attached to the front as well as in the back.
Keep an eye on your puppy's tail and make sure it's in a natural position and the puppy is not tucking their tail. If the puppy starts to tuck the tail you can work on games like the attention game, the recall, as well as handling exercises rather than working on the leash pressure game yet. Step 2 Put a distraction down on the ground that makes the puppy pull on leash. Use your attention noise or a treat lure to get your puppy to turn around and come back to you.
What to do if your puppy doesn't turn around: 1 Practice from further away from the distraction. (You can have a helper put down the distraction to make this easier) 2 Use a lower value treat as the distraction and a higher value treat as the reinforcer.
Step 3 Put a distraction down on the ground that makes the puppy pull on eash. When the puppy is on the tight leash move in the opposite direction of the puppy without jerking him. Mark and reinforce when you see your puppy turn in your direction.
If the puppy doesn't turn toward you within two seconds use your attention noise or treat lure to get your puppy to turn around and come back to you. Good boy!
Mark the moment the puppy turns towards you and feed the puppy the treats as close to your body as you can to train the puppy to come all the way to you. Mark and reinforce multiple times for the puppy being at your side or being in front of you before you repeat the exercise.
If your puppy sits or lays down simply revert back to using the treat lure.
So she went out, she felt the least pressure and that made her want to come back and not be on a tight leash. Basically your teaching the dog when they feel the tight leash, they should come near you to loosen the leash.
Now if you keep proofing this game your dog is going to generalize it so you can use different types of food, different types of toys, different types of people and dogs and places to sniff, like a fire hydrant, you're going to teach your dog when they see things they want the only way to get there is on a loose leash.
Hey pup pups? So I'm going to move the distraction over here and do the game again. So pressure on leash, click and feed. What you're not doing is jerking your dog.
You're holding the leash against your body to move your dog. Good job. And be careful that you don't back up and trip on something because that happens to me a lot. Especially in public. Step 4 Practice with different distractions in different situations.
I suggest playing this game for 1 to 2 minutes 10 to 12 times in the first few weeks that you on your new puppy or dog. This is Martina's Border Collie Lumos at 6 months and you can see he has a positive emotional response when he feels the pressure on the leash and he knows what to do when he feels the pressure.
If you notice your dog starts to pull again it's a great idea t go back and do brush up training sessions. Here's an example of working on the leash pressure game with a high level distraction.If something is too much for your dog you'l notice that they won't be able to turn away from the distraction. So if this happens you need to make the distraction less exciting or move further away from the distraction.
If you're doing this exercise correctly, you'll find that your puppy will stop pulling altogether. This is a good thing! If he keeps trying to go for the distraction it means the distraction is too difficult, to close or you need to spend more time marking and reinforcing him for staying with you after he comes back. In real-life situations if your puppy starts pulling on leash you can simply back up until he is on the loose leash then wait a bit until you have made a connection with him again before walking forward.
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Is your dog super excited when you get ready to take him out for a walk, Jumping and whining when you put on the leash and then he'll drag you out the door and down the driveway? Many dog owners feel that once the dog will get outside, the dog will calm down, but often the opposite is true, With all the activities and smells outside the dog becomes even more excited.
When a dog starts the walk in this highly excited state, it is almost impossible to have him calm down and walk nicely on a loose leash. Hello welcome Bee Walker with Modern Canine Services, and today's video is about teaching your dog to start the walk calmly. We'Re going to give you some tips on how to calm your dog so that he won't be pulling on the leash.
This video is part of a series of videos that we did on proper leash, behavior If you want to see some of the other videos, you can check the description below, We have a link for you there or you can look at the top of the video now and we'll have a suggestion card for you to find that Playlist ) see you Later, Every time you take your dog for a walk, you have two opportunities to communicate to your dog that you want him to be calm.
The first is when you put on the leash and the second, when you go out the door Most dog owners that have an excited dog will just fight to put the leash on and then rush out the door allowing the dog to go through the door. First, We recommend that you don't put your dog on the leash when he is in an excited state.
Pick up the leash and simply stand still for a moment without talking to your dog, wait until he calms himself and then put on the leash, With the leash on the dog, stand quietly for a few moments and then walk into the house away from the front Door, walk back and forth to the door until the dog is following you, rather than pulling you towards the door. Now you are ready to go to the door and go outside but pause for a moment.
If your dog is intensely looking at the door, Open the door just a little bit and then close it. You are looking for your dog to look at you and not the door. You may need to do this a few times When the dog sits or stands back and looks at you. You can start to open the door a little bit more Gently close it. When the dog moves towards the door. There is no need to talk or give commands.
Let the door do all the work once the dog stands back without rushing towards the door walk through the door and your dog will follow behind you. Hi did you notice Apollo coming through the door behind me? Remember, behavior modification does take time and dogs do learn best by repetition and consistency, so work with your dog about 10 to 15 minutes every day on putting on the leash and walking out the door calmly.
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Today were going to learn: potty training, -Hey its Aaron and Guppy, and today were getting some puppy training tips with -Shannon, -Guppys, asleep so theres an important question. I need to ask you -Mmhmm -Potty training, -Oh yeah, Mmhmm -Yeah. How do I get him to pee on the right spot or even go outside if thats possible -It is absolutely possible?
-What should I do to make sure he doesnt have anymore accidents in the wrong spot, -Right, so youre going to maintain where hes going You dont want him out of your sight for too often -Okay -And the thing is accidents happen.
They do -A lot A lot -Its, okay, but heres the thing you cant get mad at Guppy, you cant, correct Guppy after hes had an accident.
-Okay, So the only time you can correct is in the act -So when hes peeing -When hes going Yep. What do I do if I see him peeing right there in front of me? What am I supposed to do?
Uh-Oh -Is that what Im supposed to say, -Yeah say it: -*clears throat*, -UH-OH, -Oh, yeah,
-That was good -Like, a manly -Yeah manly, -Uh-oh -Ok. Then when I say `` uh-oh'' whats he going to do -Well.
How much does Petsmart potty training cost?
He probably wont stop going to the bathroom, but you kind of want to make him feel uncomfortable like ``. This is not a good thing to do: Guppy'' -Okay. So with that being said, what do you think you should when you go outside -Yes, -Yes thats? The first thing you want to do:
But then youre going to throw him a puppy, potty party -A puppy par..
What is the easiest way to potty train a puppy?
a puppy, potty -Yeah like this -Woohoo, You did it -While hes peeing, outside -YAY,
-Thats, exactly right -I can do that. So if he does have to go inside, how do I make sure that he actually uses the puppy pad -The puppy pad? So you know they actually make a spray that is meant to encourage the puppies to go on a specific spot like the puppy pad -Really
-Yeah So like this -Yeah thats, exactly the one -So, what do I? I just..
Yep, so youre just going to spray it on his little puppy pad over here, -Now youre, going to spray that on there and that will encourage Guppy to go in one spot. -How much do I spray
So youre going to want to spray around the corners and in the center There you go yeah dont, be shy.
Get it nice and saturated Perfect? Oh wow, Fancy .
-Yeah -Did, you just write your name -Yes. I did Wow -How. Do we get him to tell us that he has to go to the bathroom -Yeah -Is there a way to do that?
-Yeah absolutely One way we do, that is with potty bells''.
What Whats he supposed to do with these So the idea here is that we create a pattern for Guppy. This sound means -Its the potty door, open -Do. I have to have this on the same door or can I have to have it on all the doors You want to have it on one door? So you dont want to confuse him.
So it needs to be on the door that you want to be the `` potty door, ,'' the magic potty door.
-This is the door. He goes out every time he goes to the bathroom -Okay. You know what I think he might okay for us to try. This out, Let's do it You got his leash -Yes -Perfect -Alright, so why does he need the leash -The leash is really important so that he can go to the same spot every time and then that way it keeps him on task.
-Ready Lets go potty, Guppy -Lets go potty, Alright, Guppy lets go potty.
Alright, you guys are going to want to come to the same spot kind of keep him in the same area, so go ahead and put him down. This is going to be his potty spot And now youre just going to wait. You want him to stay on task, Be patient!
-And how long should we wait? -Usually a good general rule is about five to fifteen minutes -Five to fifteen minutes. Cmon bud C'mon
There'S very few things as exciting as bringing a brand new puppy home to the house And often what happens is we walk in the door? We set the puppy down and we realized that our puppies don't know anything, And suddenly things are going to be a lot harder than it seems Mistake Number one that dog owners make is not having a realistic idea of what a puppy understands when we bring them Home And sometimes that can lead us to set them up for failures because we're expecting them that they understand the rules of the house, the second they come home Or they understand how to respond to their name or not to pee on the carpet or not to bark.
In their crate, These are all normal puppy things that are going to happen, And the most important thing is that you have a game plan to make sure that, when these things pop up, you know exactly what to do to work through them. It'S really common when puppies first come home to be a little bit more cautious, they're, still trying to figure out the lay of the land
They tend to follow us a bit more They're, really snuggly And then, as the dog starts, to get a little bit more comfortable in the home.
You start to see some of those normal puppy behaviors, And it's important that, even though the first week goes brilliantly that you don't let down your guard and start giving your brand new puppy all this freedom and opportunity to make poor choices.
Did I make a mistake getting a puppy?
What'S really important is that you realize that the first little bit could be smooth sailing and that you need to be ready for your dog to start investigating. You know how the couch tastes - and you know different things around the house - that they might start to be curious about
It'S important that you predict those things and you're able to work through them until you really have a problem, That's hard to go back and fix. We have a lot of great videos on our YouTube channel to help you, with your first day home with your puppy.
What new puppy owners should know?
Also your first week home with your puppy, but really what it boils down tois having a great combination between good management skills And then also getting started with your basic training right away. Now, having the right expectations combined with the next four tips that I'm going to give, you is really going to help you to avoid failure in your puppy training.
I'M Kay l McCann. This is a little Beeline.
Welcome back to McCann Dogs Having the right expectation goes hand in hand with leadership. Leadership is really important because it's going to be what helps you get through some of the unwanted behavior that you're going to get from your puppy like barking when they're not supposed to or maybe nipping and biting at you and your family members. It'S extremely important that when you're starting to establish yourself as a leader that you do it in a very calm and concise way, and that everybody in the family is on the same page.
It'S important to have a little family meeting and trying to determine what things your puppy is going to be allowed to do and what things are going to be completely off the table.
Once you've established the rules, then we're going to work on controlling our puppy to make sure that those unwanted behaviors, don't repeat themselves.
Over and over again. The absolute best way to have great leadership over your puppy is to set your puppy up for success and eliminate the repetition of your puppy.
Making poor choices, One of the most common things that puppy owners complain to us about is the fact that their puppies don't listen to them.
One thing you need to keep in mind when you're, trying to teach your puppy to listen reliably to you is make sure you're training, always using the three P's prepare proofing and practice. Let'S break an exercise down, so you can learn a little bit more about them.
Let'S start with prepare and we'll use, something like teaching your puppy to respond to their name as an example. So prepare means that you're going tu be prepared to ensure that your puppy is going to turn and respond to their name. Every time that you call it in the beginning stages of their training - And this is a common mistake that people often make is they start to use their puppies name and all kinds of different scenarios, and they repeat it over and over wht hout actually expecting or teaching.
The puppy to move towards them each and every time We recommend that, when you're teaching this that you set your puppy up to be successful by making sure that anytime you're going to use their name, you're, always prepared to back it up with some type of lure Or reward food toy
That'S going to ensure that they turn towards you and they need several weeks of practicing name followed automatically by some type of lure to encourage them to tuhn towards us.
That'S going to make their name much more valuable, And it's also going to start teaching a really reliable response right From the beginning, Once your puppy has a good understanding of that skill. You'Re going to need to move into the proofing phase, And this is where things get really fun, because we want to make sure that our puppy's learn to respond to their name even around distractions, without having that food or treat on their nose.
They need to be able to turn away from other dogs and people things in your home, So proofing that's going to be really important now, in order to get into that phase, though, they need hundreds of repetitions of doing it right before we start to make it Harder, The other thing to keep in mind when you go into the proofing phase is that you need to be ready to know what to do If your puppy makes a mistake And that circles back to our proactive and a reactive training if your puppy doesn't respond To their name, what are you going to do about?
Are you going to keep calling it ove you going to have a backup plan? Are you going to have your puppy on a leash or a line, or are you going to go back to using some food and toys a little longer to ensure that you have a really reliable response, each and every time and next comes practice?
Now, there's a common saying out there that practice makes perfect, but we, like the saying, perfect practice, makes perfect, And this is really important in dog training, because dogs learn through repetitions and it's best if they learn through repetitions of success.
So our goal is to practice it as many times as we can. The other thing that's important to note about practicing is where you practice make sure that you're, not just practicing in the kitchen or in one room at your house, make sure that you're changing the scenery a little bit for your puppy working all the way up to Being able to work at the park Now, this formula is going to be applied to anything that you teach your puppy to.
Do. We talk a lot on this channel about the importance of setting your puppy up to be successful and not allowing them to rehearse the wrong things over and over again.
The next tip you need to know to avoid failure in your puppy training is having a clear understanding between when reactive training is appropriate and when proactive training is appropriate.
Let'S use the example of somebody coming to your home to talk about proactive and reactive training.
Now, when you have a baby puppy and somebody is going to come over to your house, do you have a plan in place? What are you going to have happen? Are you just going to let somebody knock on the door and see what happens It's much smarter to be more proactive, which means you're going to anticipate a possible problem or anticipate a possible win and be ready to either prevent or reward your puppy.
So, for example, if I know somebody is coming to the door, I'm going to a have them text ahead of time.
So I'm ready I'm going to have my leash, I'm going to have my treats ready. So if somebody approaches I'm ready to be at a distance rewarding my puppy for being quiet being calm, I might work some sits and work on teaching my puppy right from the beganning not to get over excited and rush and jump all over Everybody that come in the door now for reactive training.
That means that if I'm a little slow to get control - and you know the puppy happens to wiggle on my hands and get to somebody, I need to make sure that I have a way to work through that exercise quickly.
Before my puppy gets a long time of self rewarding Hi babe, So if my puppy rushes the door and I have Alicia on, I can easily stop my puppy and I can diffuse the situation very quickly rather than letting my puppy rehearse for weeks and weeks on End rushing to the door barking jumping on people Did you know, there's a few exercises that you can do with your puppy.
That'S going to teach them ho have more self impulse control. Maybe you have a pretty impulsive puppy already Now these aren't obedience exercises but they're little games that you can play that will teach your puppy to independently make good choices Again. We have a lot of great videos on the channel about something that we refer to as rule-outs Now this is really important.
So I want to break down an example for you that you can literally use with your puppy today. Something like you know, jumping up the door in order to go outside. This is something that little B-line used to do when she was a puppy. She loves to go outside and play and all that excitement would lead to bouncing and spinning and going bananas at the door. So what I would do is, I would have her on leash, and I would simply wait for the moment for her to take a break in her jumping in her spinning And I would wait for her just to stand calmly.
And when she would do that, I would say yes And then I would open the door and let her go outside each day. We would practice this each time she wanted to go out. She learned very quickly that the faster she calmed down and she settled the faster we would be able to go outside And it got to the point where she would run to the door sit and look at me as, if to say.
Look at me, mom, look at me, I'm being calm, And then I could let her out from there So I took something that she wanted like going outside and playing, And I made sure I got something that I wanted in return like sitting and being calm.
Now that you have a better understanding of how to train your puppy, and you have some ways to avoid failure in your training, The next thing you need to know is what to teach your puppy Check out this video right here, It'S our puppy training schedule by age Now, if you're looking for some more help in your puppy training, make sure you check the link in the description below to our puppy essentials online program, where you can work with one of the McCann Dogs instructors to make sure We help you, through all of your puppy training challenges.
On that note, I'm Kayl! This is Beeline. Happy training,
Another gold star for you, Young lady, Now it's pretty straight forward. If you have a schedule and you plan Carefully puppy, potty training, puppy house training with your adorable young puppy will go pretty smoothly.
Now I mean sure You might have the odd accident, but once you've got that schedule a step Not to worry puppy owners in this video. We'Re going to talk about the biggest mistake that puppy owners make when it comes to puppy house training and how you can turn things around. I'M Ken Steepe.
This is Hippy Shake Welcome back to McCann Dogs Here in our training facility, we've helped more than a hundred thousand dog owners who are just like you would overcome the same dog training challenges that you have. So if this is your first time on the channel make sure you hit that subscribe button so that I can help you to have a well behaved four legged family member.
What should you not do when training a puppy?
Now I want to make a quick point just to start off the exact same tactics that I'm going to talk about today can also be used for things like pee pad training as well.
Now, with tens of thousands of puppies that we've had an opportunity to work with, we actually know that people had training can often get a little more complicated for puppies, and we want to give our dogs the best information possible.
What age should a puppy be house trained by?
So if you have an opportunity to choose to use the outside, even if that means using a balcony or placing a pee pad in a very clearly different area than indoors choose that. But as I talk about potty training house training for your puppies over the course of this video, I want you to sort of replace the words on their pad whenever I say outside.
But you can use these same strategies for Pee pad training.
Now the biggest mistake that people make when it comes to puppy house training has a lot less to do with the steps that you're taking when you're teaching your puppy to hold their bladder. And it is a lot more to do with what's happening in between those accidents in the things that you're doing And you're going to learn how to recognize when your puppy really needs to go out.
And they've probably got some kind of schedule established I'll.
Take my puppy out every hour I'll make sure I take them out every time they eat, But there's actually five times that I want you to be really aware of that. Your puppy is likely to make a mistake They are before and after they go in their crate before and after a meal after a nap before and after a play session,
And any time that you're just not sure whether your puppy has to go or not take them out, So you've got those covered, But what about those times They just go Sometimes there'll be like looking directly at you and they will pee. First things:
First, you need to be a good dog trainer for your puppy, And that means you need to have good timing.
You can't fix what you don't see So supervision of your puppy, while you're trying to fix these house training issues is an absolute must. We have lots of videos on our channel that talk a little bit about house lines and why they're so important how they can be so helpful.
It'S even more important when you're struggling with tennis training to be able to get a little bit more control of your puppy Come on buddy! Remember! If you don't see it, you fix it.
I want you to focus on quality time with your puppy, while they're out of their crate. It'S not about the quantity of time.
So this means, when they're out you're focused on them You're playing with them You're training with them You're snuggling with them, but you were focused on them So that the moment they start to sniff the floor in a weird spot or they maybe scratch or they do A little circle
You can mark that with an eye or Hey before they start to go Now.
This isn't necessarily going to stop your puppy midstream, but it's really going to Mark that moment for them.
Now some people, maybe even clap their hands, really abruptly a sharp sound that your puppy knows immediately that they're making a wrong choice. Now, if your puppy does stop, that's great, You can pick them up, take them outside and they can quickly finish their business.
But if they don't leave them in position, it's so much easier than cleaning a trail of piddle all the way out to the door. Keep in mind your puppy Isn't trying to be defiant, but if you've ever used an outhouse before you'll know.
That indoors is a much more comfortable option for doing your business, And the thing that's really working against you is that puppies are going to do whatever feels good and emptying their bladder, and their bowels is actually kind of rewarding.
Now, if you're struggling with puppy, potty training supervision is going to apply Even when you go outside puppies are so easily distracted, All of the sights and the smells and the sounds even with a full bladder.
They may completely forget why they're out there So if I'm outside, with my puppy on leash, I can easily redirect them away from something they get distracted by, But even more importantly, I can make sure that my puppy is actually gone. That way, When we get back inside she's much less likely to have a full bladder and squat and pee right at the door.
If you have a puppy who will go pee immediately after you bring them back inside that, I'm talking to you directly right now, when you come back in, you really need to watch your puppy closely.
You'Re doing your best to teach them what to do, but it's just as important to tell them what not to do. I talked a little bit about that negative verbal reprimand.
So if they make a mistake and start to pee on the floor, you'll use that verbal repri and with an `` AH'' or a `` HEY'', or something to Mark that moment, so that they understand that this isn't the right choice. You probably may never have had to hold their bladder before
So this is going to be where your direct information is going to help them really understand the rules of your home.
At this point, you're, probably thinking, there's absolutely no way. I can possibly supervise my puppy every minute of the day And you're, absolutely right.
That'S why using a crate or a limited space area, It can be so effective, effective for teaching them to hold it.
I'Ll list, a video in the description that talks a lot about using a crate for your puppy house training.
So if you're new to puppy training you'll, definitely want to check that video out puppies are the ultimate opportunists. And it's the moment you let your guard down that you're going to see them, make these choices and make the wrong choices. So it's really important that you have a plan because, like any other aspect of puppy training, if you fail to plan, then you plan to fail So by supervising your puppy really closely.
While you get through their house training issues, you're actually going to learn a lot about them. You know you're going to start to notice what they do just before they squat
You, you might start to notice, and this is a classic one.
Your puppy disengages from you Maybe you're playing with them And they just all of a sudden decide They want to go elsewhere in the house. These are some of the cues
They can't hold their bladder any longer and identifying and understanding Some of these signs will be the key to fixing your puppy house training issues, And it's actually going to the kind of thing be.
The kind of thing that carries over as your puppy grows up as your they turn into a young dog They'll they'll show you some of those same signs and that's how you can continue to be giving them great information. Puppy house training Isn't the kind of skill or behavior that once they've learned it they'll never forget.
It it's much like the rest of their dog training. It'S a dynamic process.
Some days you feel like your head, they haven't had an accident in a couple of days Other days you feel like they've, completely regressed, but what's really really important for you as the puppy's owner. Is that you're keeping a close eye on them? You'Re right there to give them the right information when they need it.
The most actually, some of the puppy house training can start the very first time they come out of their kennel in the morning.
I'M going to throw back to a clip that we did about teaching your puppy .
How to let you know when it's time to go out? We know that after your puppy has been in their crate all night that they're going to have to go So here's what I want you to do, You're going to grab your puppy's leash!
You'Re going to go open your puppies crate and pick them up clip on their leash and then head up to the exterior door that you're going to use to take your puppy outside to potty.
The reason we pick the puppy up is that we don't want to risk the chance that your puppy is going to have an accident when they come out of their crepe between their crate and that exterior door. So the best thing you can do is pick that puppy up so that they don't have an opportunity to make that mistake, And then you can take them up to the inside of that exterior door.
Now most people will do at this point is take their puppy directly outside, but here's the trick.
At this point, we want you to set the puppy down and hang onto the leach. Your puppy's really got two choices:
It'S either a have an accident on the floor, which we've talked about in previous potty training.
Videos. You know it's not the best outcome, but it gives you an opportunity to tell the puppy that that's not what you want, or your puppy is going to indicate they're going to maybe sniff or they're, going to maybe go towards the door or they're going to look To you, They're going to look a little bit uncomfortable
And that's the moment you Mark with your: do you want to go outside, And this is the foundation for this skill that your puppy needs to come to you to indicate that they need to go outside Now.
This isn't the kind of skill that will be learned in one session, You're going to need to plan the same routine, a few mornings in a row as well. At other times of the day. You need to be really supervising your puppy and very aware if they start to indicate that they need to go potty, and maybe those signals are sniffing or looking to you or scratching or whatever they might be you're going to learn them in those morning sessions.
If your puppy indicates they need to go outside, do you need to pick them up and immediately So getting your puppy started the very first day they come home. The very first thing every morning is a great way to really show them. What your expectations are, what you want them to do to show you that it's time to go outside So keep that in mind, But the biggest takeaway of this video for you needs to be these nine words.
If you don't see it, you can't fix it One of the fastest ways you can help train your puppy is by using a crate appropriately .
Now, there's some really big mistakes that people make when it comes to crate training And, if you're new, to create trainings.
You want to check with that card right there. It'S going to tell you about the biggest mistake that people make when it comes to puppy, crate, training,
And if you'd like some help and guidance with your puppy training adventure with some help from McCann dogs instructors, then make sure you check out the link below in the description to our puppy essentials program. On that note, I'm Ken happy training..
