CAN YOU TRAIN A WOLF? كيف تدرب الذئب

Hello and welcome to animal watch and this week we are

train

ing wolves and

wolf

dogs. Today I will talk about whether it is possible to

train

a pureblood

wolf

and the techniques used. I will also meet one of the best wolfdogs in the UK. trainers who supply wolfdogs to the film and advertising industry, can we tame the wild? These experts will show you how to make the wild wolf free and independent all recipes for disaster when it comes to training or often seen in movies like Game of Thrones and Wolf Totem has been shown with some gentle training technique and positive it is possible to work alongside these beautiful animals that deserve a high level of kindness and respect.

Khalid, a famous dog trainer from Iraq, captivated the Internet with the amazing video of him. about socializing a wild and aggressive wolf who didn't like being around humans, he saved it from the exotic pet trade and decided to give it a home, but to do so he needed to teach the wolf to trust him and be touched by humans. Take a look at this amazing video, as you can see in this video, Khalid was very kind to the wolf and used positivity to force him to accept him. He spent years just sitting with the wolf and tolerating its biting and biting, and rewarded it when the behavior was acceptable, eventually the wolf turned around and followed him exactly like a dog would, not once did Khalid hurt him, he just he showed he was going nowhere so a combination of leadership and gentleness finally earned the wolf's respect and they became friends he named him ronnie so what about high and medium content wolfdogs?

How easy is it to train them and what are the techniques used that will conquer them both in body and mind? Today I am visiting one of the best wolfdogs in the UK. Trainer Natalie Lagstrom of Watermill Walls, who not only trains dogs and wolfhounds of all types, but also prepares them for roles in television movies and for events such as weddings and cosplay festivals. Full Blood Walls are very difficult to train for movies due to their nerves. A good alternative is wolf dogs, as not only do they look a lot like wolves, but their dog DNA makes them much easier to train and gives them much more confidence.

Hey, hello, it's nice to see you, hey, look who we have here. Come on, of course, I want to come in, come on, I was introduced to some of Natalie's, Wolfhounds, James Bond, Grey, and Alice and his medium-content Ice Bear films, which I was in the process of developing confidence, then I invited a welcoming howl from Winston, the high-content black wolfdog that had filmed before howling at him, his leadership quality resonated throughout the venue and all the other wolfdogs joined in the melodious chorus that had previously filmed Winston, his high-content wolfdog, two years ago. and it's fun to see the difference in greetings between high and low wolfdogs, as you can see here.

Winston is a very confident high content multi-generational wolfdog and I had my fair share of bumps on the nose which is totally normal and okay as long as he doesn't get hard on your nose which can make you cry. the eyes. Hi, I'm Natalie Lagstrom and I'm the head trainer here at Water Me Walls Wolf Dogs, we train wolf dogs for educational and performance purposes and we also help people with their dogs and their dog behavior and training issues as well. First of all, we were invited for on-set film training by his handsome and confident protagonist, Mr.

James Bond, who was very interested in showing us the talents he had, so this here. He is Mr. Bond and he is one of our many stars here, but I think he would like to consider himself the biggest star of the show and today we will go over some of the fun little tricks, stunts and things like that. He does that as part of his role acting, uh, pretending to be a wild wolf on television, so one of the first things I'm going to show you today is one of the basic elements of acting that goes and stops at a mark of weight, weight mark and weight expect very good bear puppy so another thing we have to do with the wolf dogs is of course make them look a little bad, they always have to play the big bad wolf although as you can see, They are soft and gentle. anything most of the time, so we teach them to pretend to grimace and growl, but it's all a fun game for them, it's just something they do, it's part of play behavior, it actually starts out like if you teach them any play normal. any dog, so you teach him that first and then what you're looking to do is look for the natural variants that the dog gives you and if he barks a little more wrinkled on the nose, then he gets an extra special treat, something else of course , what they have to do is attack people and of course again you can see that they are very, very friendly, it's not something that they're naturally going to do, so what we really do is teach them. jumping in a very, very specific way when we ask them for a visual cue that we give them, which in this case is an arm raise, we want them to feel comfortable doing this precisely when we ask them to, not when we don't want it, that is. the important thing and we also want to make sure that if we pretend we're being attacked they won't be scared or distressed by it so we practice a lot to teach them to be comfortable with that kind of and have a lot of fun and you'll get to see my amazing acting skills good luck good boy good boy oh no help help I'm being attacked ah good boy Mr.

Bond well then we were introduced to Frosty Bear who was a classic example of a medium to high content wolfdog that needed to be trained with care and gentleness because he is more nervous than the average dog, the next thing we're going to look at a little bit is the type of basic training you can consider doing. With a newbie dog we first need to establish a little relationship and reward base, so for him I tell him what this is and that means I want him to pay attention and he will get a little reward from me.

Whatever we teach you, follow. the same basic principle of what they call a b c, you ask, you get the behavior and you give the money, so the next important thing you need to be able to do is teach your dog to walk near you, the goal is for me to try and talk to him and encourage him and entice him and really use the leash as little as possible dogs don't respond naturally to leashes they feel very threatened by pressure just stop and sign good firm good boy ice cream this way what is this oh good man and firm Good boy, Frosty, in this way he was this good boy, good man, so the next thing we're going to work on a little bit is the idea of ​​leaving things alone.

It is very tempting to be negative when trying to get things returned and we have to think. Well actually, have you taught them constructively that it is best for them to be patient and that if they wait they will get something good, wait, go, wait, wait and I really want him to wait with a good lead, I'm going to reward him for letting that bee good boy wait good wait frosty bear very good boy wait let me pick him up very important we don't want him to compete with us to catch the food that very good man very good boy so what are we going to do Now, with Frosty Bear, we are introducing you to Annika in a positive way.

The idea is that it is always important that this is done on the dog's terms, so it is important that he feels in control, so whenever you have an animal that is a little reserved, it is always about encouraging them to come to you. you Frosty What is this? Good boy, good boy, good boy, very good boy. Frosty, very good boy. The first time you greet a dog and want to have some physical contact, hold one hand like a saucer while you feed him. Frosty while he eats, I start scratching him under the chin and that's how he starts to get used to contact with strangers.

We finally decided to give Winston from two years ago some agility just to show them how wolfdogs can be too. trained to do agility, sit, good boy, wait, wait, as I mentioned before, you can see walls and wolfdogs appearing in many dramas, movies and television advertisements. A very famous wolf star is Quigley, who played the huge white direwolf ghost in Game of Thrones. Initially for some scenes from earlier episodes, but was replaced by animation later, as his owner and trainer, Andrew Simpson of Instinct Animals, thought it was stressful for the wolf to travel to Ireland just to highlight this point.

Andrew Simpson decided to breed an entire herd of Mongolians. wolves in mongolia for over three years for the film wolf totem as he felt it was the only way for the wolves to feel safe and confident on set without the stress of travel, filming them exactly where they were born and raised with the humans. To talk about the careful and gentle way we humans need to train and socialize wolf dogs, Natalie sat down with me to chat about why, even as a pet, it's important that you understand how to treat and train a wolf dog gently. and correct while raising them. mistreating one of these sensitive animals as a puppy can have big consequences that many people cannot come back from, so it is best to do it correctly the first time someone decides to have one as a pet and we hope it is the best. suitable person for the dog, what should you do according to your experience to make that puppy feel at home and also to prevent any problems that a wolfdog would present and that a normal breed would not present due to its ability and intelligence? to what extent they can do things is usually much more extreme, a jack russell could bite the leg of your table, a wolfdog, if it decides to bite your sofa, you won't even have a wooden frame left and I have had it with my very first wolfdog the first time I decided to leave him unattended and I went to the store for 15 minutes 15 minutes 15 minutes and I came back and there was a wooden frame where my couch had once been and each piece of fabric there was about a foot of snow on it the room, the degree of damage they could cause is much more significant and you can't get mad about it, it will happen to a certain extent if your house is proud of not having a wolfdog, they are going to go. wanting to do something all the time they are awake, if you don't entertain him, he will find ways to entertain himself and that will essentially be using your house and the items in it for his own pleasure.

To teach things like proper games, how you play with people, what objects you play with, a lot of people focus a lot and say: don't do this, don't do that, you shouldn't go there, actually, what do you have to do to start with? all day collecting toys and looking at this, isn't it so amazing, isn't it so fun? So before something inappropriate becomes a habit, fun is by far your best tactic, just pick something they should have, should be chewing on. instead, and it gets their attention in the sense that you don't wait to make a mistake, so you have to assume that if you're going to leave the room to make yourself dinner, you're going to leave that puppy unsupervised, and you also have to to do something about it.

Bring the puppy with you and make sure he has something he's definitely interested in. The idea of ​​someone trying to raise a wolfdog without having safe enclosures for it is almost impossible because you can't care for it 24 hours a day. day, if you tried, you'd actually spoil them quite a bit in his personality, frankly, when you're dealing with something like a wolfdog, you have to treat him the same as a child from a quantity standpoint. of the time you spend, you would never think of having a baby in your house and leaving it unsupervised, if you were going out you would have a babysitter of course, and in fact, with a very small child, certainly, with some of the taller ones. happy animals, you need to make sure you have a support structure around you of people willing to interact and participate.

You really want someone the wolfdog knows and trusts to take care of them while you're away and you have to think even if you're not planning on going on vacation, you don't know that you might have to go to the hospital or that anything could happen, so I think it's always important for people to have backup plans. Yes, the high content ones in particular like to take things and make If it's yours, be prepared and make sure there's nothing for them to grab onto because when they've stolen something in a way that the damage has already been done, the instinct The animal's natural nature in that scenario is to protect what is its own and assume that you are there to provoke a confrontation, yes, so what you have to do is disagree with its analysis that it is a confrontational situation.

I've made Winston steal things he shouldn't have done, and in fact, the worst thing you can do is go wrong. boy, because that instantly tells him that I'm here to confront you and that will only create an escalation, start with a much more positive approach, what a good boy, Winston, what do you have there?, oh, what a smart man, do you want to bring that to me? ? and in fact, because I've interacted with him a ton, yeah, compromise and bring me things, you can have things, there's agood chance for the other thing to start working and this is again where preparation is the most important factor. pre-prepared for Winston, there is one thing that will trump everything else and it is a particular type of sausage and he has a code word for it, so even if I don't have it on hand, he knows we are going to run. and he goes and gets it, addressing fear and how to address fear is very, very important, we hear a lot about socialization and we think this means exposure.

Put the wolfdogs in all these different situations. Show them this and this and this and this and this and. They will get used to everything if you push them. They are an animal at heart and become stressed and overwhelmed, which can actually do more harm than good. You have to put him in situations so that he is able to learn what is good so that the negative feeling of fear is not as strong. It negates any good thing you can get out of the situation that is different and unique to each animal. Basically, to address fear, there are three tried and tested methods, so first we have this habituation, which is just the right length of exposure. be long enough, secondly there is the idea of ​​gradual desensitization, so it is about increasing the extent of exposure over time, so we start by allowing young animals to keep their distance and move forward very gradually as that they feel safe to do so.

The third and this one. This is where your training comes in, it's what they call counterconditioning, counteracting a behavior or emotion you don't want with something you do want, a lot of the fun, positive training we do, teaching them to enjoy receiving rewards, essentially that's for them. gives the dog alternatives instead of just being scared, so it's that combination of habituation, gradual desensitization and counterconditioning, those are the tools you have to help you with your young wolfdog to teach him how to accept and understand this strange world. The most important thing is to be patient, you must remember that things take time, you are developing a genuine bond that will last a lifetime, you bond with someone and a family for life and that truly becomes your pack, so you take them and you put them in a dog home. that can really ruin them: a wolf and a higher content wolfdog, it is an extremely self-aware animal, they worry, they anticipate that they need to feel in control of the environment they live in, versus an animal that is so used to understanding completely to the people.

They live with the environment they are in to lose, which creates traumatic stress on the animal extremely quickly. Putting an animal like this in, say, a rescue kennel, is very close to no explanation. A stranger comes up to you, kidnaps you, puts you in the back of a van and takes you to a completely different life, no one tells you what is happening, no one tells you what the future holds for you, you have simply been kidnapped and That's what you're putting your animal through if you can't commit to love. them and take care of them no matter what, I hope you enjoyed this episode of Animal Watch with the fantastic Natalie and all these beautiful wolves and make sure to give us a big thumbs up and subscribe to the channel by clicking the button at the bottom. corner and natalie, what is your website if people need to know more about the work you do? watermelonwalls.co.uk as the sign behind us says.

I've had a wonderful day today and I hope you enjoyed this episode too and Catch Me next week when I'll bring you more great episodes about dogs, wolves, animal rescue and conservation, bye for now.