Teaching My Son To Train Protection Dogs Episode 1 | Malinois & Dutch Shepherd

Welcome back to bluegrass on this beautiful September day. This is the first time in a series we'll be doing this fall where my main man George learns how to

train

personal

protection

dogs

and what we consider traditional guard

dogs

we now don't do for the public. We don't do it for a living, my son is at that age where he thinks that kind of stuff is cool, so we're doing some dogs this fall, so no need to email me, there are plenty of people in your area I'm sure we like

train

ing dogs like this because we like training labs as far as my wife and I are concerned it's okay because we're old and we like nice little dogs that love to go out and hang out With George, he's, uh, you.

I know he is a teenager, so he likes dogs that are very strong and want to chase and bite things. Okay, so I'll introduce you to Lexi right now. Lexi used to belong to a friend of mine. He had to go to work. She's a pretty good dog. a

dutch

shepherd

for those of you who don't know what a

dutch

shepherd

is he's like a german shepherd but with steroids and crack and everything lexi does she does at 110 miles an hour now george is used to walking a lot of dogs and a lot Of them are quite athletic, but none of them are as agile or as elastic as these dogs, so I'm going to walk this dog and then I'll let George Walker and then we'll go. finished, we're going to start playing fetch with her and I'm just going to talk to you about the differences between trying to train this type of dog and a sporting dog, so come on, Lexi, now one of the things you'll notice immediately about a dog like Lexi is that everything she does is fast and springy, so getting her to be able to get out here and walk our little course, which is pretty challenging for most types of dogs. this is super boring, okay, from her perspective, this is like a kindergarten level thing, she doesn't even see any reason to do it, it's not a challenge for her at all, you know, she just wants to get it over with so she can chase him. the ball or the doll or something, she also likes to hit other dogs, so she may be looking towards the kennel from time to time waiting for a dog to come out the door so she can hit it, which is another reason . that most people in the dog turning business don't really like to play with these dutch shepherds or

malinois

, you know, because they're tough on the other dogs, but look what's going on here, you see how she's just me speeding up the course and she's Come on, come on old man, well, normally, what would happen here when we're working dogs, if we have one that's going too fast, we'll get a treat and keep it down here. and I say, hey, look, I have a treat and a dog will go, oh, a treat, I'll slow down and try to get the treat.

He looks at Lexi and she says, uh, yeah, so what I don't really care about is that candy. It's okay now, but what she does care about are things like this right now, so she looks at this, focus on her eyes. Amy likes boys, so if I have something like this, then she gets really excited. Now you will see many people. "I do something and consider it a mistake when working with these dogs, which is trying to work on calm, attentive and polite obedience with this as the promise of a motivator, what ends up happening is that these dogs end up receiving only themselves" .

It just destroys them, they get very anxious and that's why they are constantly forging and I don't like doing this kind of thing here where I pretend that I'm going to throw the ball the way I like. What I need to do is take this type of dog and use an attrition strategy where I'm going to play fetch with her in a little while, but we're not going to play fetch until she's calmed down and finished the course. . with a modicum of control, okay, so I'll go out here and sometimes I'll walk a dog like lexi, as you know, 20 times if I have to go up and down the hill around the field, up and down the hill around the field and then when is calm, I will go and try to practice her calmly holding the retrieval object or the Pull and then once she has shown me that she has made some progress in being calm when the retrieval object or the Pull is presented to her, then I'll get her into more active behavior like fetching okay so this here for us what we do is we keep walking them until they calm down and that's our main strategy okay we think that's the best strategy, so that's the one.

We are going to use it during the fall. I have another little dog there named Goose. I will show you the same way. However, I will hand this over to George so he can walk her on this course. several times because I'm getting older and these country trips are starting to pile up, so I'll put her here, sit, stay and my main man George can take over so you guys will notice. That one, George, shows up and George has, uh, his mom bought him a vest, it's very similar to mine, so you know he thinks he's going to take over the business here soon.

Okay, Georgie, go ahead and start walking her now, one of the things you'll probably notice is that Lexi is giving George a hard time. She might even start freaking out on him and try to get those pot dolls out of her bags. That's what she was doing to him before. What George has to be very careful about while he does these exercises is that he doesn't talk to him too excitedly. You know George is at that age where, like his vocal inflection, the control of his voice and his posture, you know he's not a very big guy, so no, he doesn't have much presence, so he has to redouble your efforts and make sure you communicate what is expected in a very clear and concise way.

Well, ultimately, guys, that just comes from practice. to get out here and you just have to try hard, remember what I was telling you, you know, make sure you use calm motivators when you want calm behavior, George has his tugs with him and he has a bar with them and he has his dummies with them, We like the dog to know that they are going to come into play at some point in the future, but we don't like to stimulate them with those elements while we are working on healing or balancing elements that are high off the ground, we just find that it creates kind of an agitated state and a dog and it doesn't do much for our long-term goals of giving us a dog that is calm, attentive and polite, but can engage in, you know, high.

Energy

protection

behavior if necessary. Well, then George seems to be doing pretty well. Okay, now Georgie, if you can go around the field, I want you to put the leash on, like hang it on your finger a little bit, and if you can, go around the field. with just the leash practically hanging out of your hand, so we're going to move over here and show you how to fetch with these types of dogs. Very nice, now George might have to adjust his pace a little bit because Lexi is a quick, fast walker and if he tries to make her walk too slow they're going to get into a little conflict, we can work on that later, and you'll see right there she rushed a little bit and george was just a little bit behind her, so she didn't, she didn't come out of that swing exactly right, slow, there just a little bit, georgie, easy, take your right hand and put it in front of her a little, oh, now look.

That's what happens if you're in a hurry, okay, come back here and take your right hand, stop signing, wait there, go, let her sit there for a second and calm down, sometimes you just have to take a little time, It's like in sports when the pace was against you sometimes you just have to say time out, let's think about this for a second now she seems calm so take off again easy wait very nice very good make sure she doesn't chase you The pig jumps now, let's go around the A-frame here, the little A-frame, watch out, cameraman, you're going to bump into the pig on the imitation table, very nice and then you're going to put her on the exam table and make her stand and walk . away from her and remember when you are, now you have to get a little better ticket than that guy, there you go, stop sign, darth vader, put your hand on the table, now that you're leaving, don't pay attention to her, look at her. her out of the corner of your eye because you don't need a dog to stay when you're looking at them that's the worst way in the world to teach to stare at a dog because then the day you're not looking look at her and you're getting something out of your van, she'll think she's not supposed to stay tight, that's pretty cool, now let's go over here and talk about something hot, okay Georgie, put her here on the faux table and take her strap on okay, now I want you to see something.

Now George is going to take her leash off and now he knows she's going to be able to play fetch here in a second, so look how excited she gets to get out of the way. georgie so they can see you, look out, she's walking, she's just walking around, georgie, in the grass, you know, and everyone's watching her walk everywhere, georgie, yeah, so this is basically what happens when she she thinks there's something attractive involved, so she's going to be super focused and all over the place now the problem with this is come on, we're going to keep going down here, George, you walk up there past the rubber doll that you guys look at all the way to the end.

Here she will be super obsessed with George now, if you ever wonder why you see so many dog ​​trainers with Dutch Shepherds, Malinois, and Border Collies. Well, this is why, guys, you know she makes you look like you're an expert dog trainer. because it's the kind of dog that you picked right so you can say George is engaged, that's what they call it, we think it's a silly word, but okay, come over here some Georgie, right here in the middle of the field, he's okay, cameraman. you come this way george back up this way back up here a little bit closer but cameron i want you to be able to see george's whole body and then george take your pacifier and throw it out there a little bit in front of you and guys, watch that dog just run after of that doll and then he'll come running back here and it'll be kind of a mess now, Georgie, when I bring that to you, I want you to do it. turn to the cameraman, okay, then throw him again, okay, there he goes 100 miles an hour and when he comes back, turn here, Georgie and I want you to see the way he tries to get George to understand him, notice that he's nice. to bite it, she's basically what happened when she was young and a lot of these dogs do this, they love to bite and they want to look for something so much that they get excited and start biting it if you put it down.

Your hand down there, if you don't, if you're not careful, then they bite you, you know, or they put it on the ground and expect you to pick it up, go pick it up, but don't pick it up. georgie, right here, sometimes what happens is you know you're going to pick it up and if you have a shopping center or a dutch shepherd runs there to pick up the item you want at the same time you pick it up and then the dog bites you and you think : "Oh, my dog ​​bit me." These guys are just careless because, like I said, they take steroids and crack, they want to go really fast all the time.

One of the things we work on here, guys with the dogs they have. There's a lot of momentum like that and they're very oral. We're really trying to get them to calm down, focus and be in control of their mouth, where their mouth is, pan around their cameraman, see their face a little bit, so see. I have George ignore and watch as she's a little nervous because the camera will zoom in, zoom down like she's going to pick it up again, Georgie, see if she looks at it, starts backing away and then grabs it and picks it up. .

Saying what we want to do during the course the next few weeks surround it there. What we want to do during the course the next few weeks is that the teacher would like to take all that momentum and energy and put it into recovery. Okay, but he hands her over. we want to be calm, so we're going to go back to the mime table and work on a nice, calm delivery right now. Okay, Georgie, get him up on the mime table. Okay, now she looks how she jumped there, guys, she looks. Look how he put your hand back, Georgie, make him jump there and see how reckless he is.

Look how reckless she is with the way she grabs. That's one of the most common complaints that I see in emails is that people have uh Dutch Malinois. shepherds some bloodline German shepherds that work and are so quick to grab and bite, you see how that is and guys, she's not, I mean, she's not really trying to be mean to George, she loves you or He loves playing with George, but that's what he is. Can you see the cameraman? That's what it's like trying to play with these guys. I mean, you look at what you see on YouTube and you have one of these dogs and you say, do you know why this dog keeps biting?

Yo, why is she being so harsh? Well, they're just like that, guys, they're high-strung, high-energy dogs that love to fetch, so what am I going to make George do? and work on calming the dog, take your pacifier, georgie, okay, so I'm going to put this little leash on him, okay, and what I'm going to have george do is stay here like this, now remember how. I'm always talking to you about whatnot now I don't feel like you have a good grip on your long line with your ball, it's the ball of your foot, take it to the ground, now tell it to wait. there and throw your long line, throw, throw to your recovery idol, it's okay, okay, okay, call you again, you're just leaning in to bring her closer to you and then you'll take the recovery item. next to you while you move well, come on, come on, there you go, now bend down and grab it when she passes by, very nice, don't grab it, there you go, very nice, now step on your leash, now just tell her let's go.

Leave her outside, don't make it a tug of war, I'll come help you, stay there, stay there now, see you guys, see the difference when I approach the dog, see how she let it pass, no, let me sit down. uh go ahead, that's what you're going to run into when you work with your professional trainer and like I said, this is not some amateur job that you can do yourself, you need a professional trainer to help you with this. but since you are going to work with her, never hesitate to ask your trainer to come and supervise you or observe you because they will treat the professional trainer with more respect because he has been there and done that and is not intimidated by her little movements, true, he can read their movements pretty well, you know, having been with these dogs a lot and it's been a while since I've played with them, but like these guys who are with these dogs a lot, they know what the dog does .

It's going to do it right before the dog knows what it's going to do most of the time, okay, and the way they learned that was by biting it, so George had some problems and then I had to come here and take the control now, not this. It doesn't mean that the dog doesn't like George, that's fine, it just means that the dog isn't particularly interested in going out of its way to play with George in a polite, calm and attentive way, that's fine, that will happen if your dog bites. you like it if you have this type of dog don't think he hates you right he doesn't hate you he loves you you just know he doesn't think he has to treat you with respect and that's what a professional trainer will show you how to get from your dog is a little bit of respect, okay guys tune in we'll do another one of these videos next week and we'll try to do probably six or eight weeks in a row okay I'll see. all of you later