Best Trick To Stop Your Dog Pulling On The Leash

So welcome back to Fenrir K9 training and today we have another Fox Red lab with us and we have another case of extreme

pulling

that is driving the owners crazy and this is another friend of a friend's dog that we have to At the point where this is becoming a nightmare is a young one year old lab who works online so he needs exercise but because of how poorly he pulls, exercising him has become incredibly difficult so today we are going to go over my process of how to do it. I take a dog from an extreme puller to a very good walk on a loose

leash

as quickly as possible.

Now in this video I'm going to go into a little more detail about my three-step philosophy for correcting most undesirable behaviors. These are the three steps. which you can also take at home now, the first step to correct bad behavior like

pulling

is that we have to let the dog know that this behavior is not acceptable and we call this stage the correction stage, dogs need to know when they are doing something wrong , otherwise they will just be guessing what you want from them, so we must have the ability to make it very clear what we want and what we don't want, we absolutely must have the right tool for it. work, as is often the case when dogs become extreme pullers, start hurting their windpipes, start making those horrible noises, and because people don't want to see their dogs in danger, they will opt for a harness-based solution, but The harness often makes the problem worse.

The harnesses are amazing. This is our Fenrir harness, but you need to have the right tool for the job and the harness is not the right tool to address intensive or extreme pulling on the tool we are going to use. today it's my trusty slip lead, so we're going to switch to that, we're going to go nice and high right behind the ears and make sure it's tight to get to the root cause of a pulling dog. really serious is a lack of guidance and direction and why have I been talking, you have seen that that is exactly the case, at no point does George look to me for guidance and direction, he looks into the distance and makes his own decisions and those own The decisions he is making are wrong decisions, that is what creates a lashing out and can often turn into reactivity or aggression, so what we are going to correct in this case is George's lack of engagement with me when he engages with me.

I have a pocket full of treats and I'm going to praise and reward desirable behavior on him, bringing his attention back to me and that's what we call our tune-up exercises, the exercise you see me do many times before, but With each dog it is slightly different, so this is another great opportunity for you to see exactly how it works. Well, George, yes, good boy, George, well, yes, better, well, well, good boy, so you can see the difference in what was maybe 20 to 30 seconds. has improved astronomically. I'm going to give you an example now of when I said george, come on, good guy, well, and this time he wants to appear in front of me because he needs to be more aware of me, george, well, I'm I'm starting to shape it here on my left side. , judge, yes, good boy, good boy, good George, good boy, yes, what a good boy, sit down, good boy, yes, good boy, huge, huge improvements, that's essentially the first step.

I am happy with the correction stage. I made it very clear that now you should not pull this advantage when we walk together. Now I can do a whole video on this correction phase and we have done many in the past and those videos have helped hundreds of people. Thousands of people will be able to obtain miraculous results now as a canine behaviorist. I would never want to return a dog to an owner at this stage, even if the owner is incredibly happy with this outcome. Ideally, you have taught him this in a positive way from day one and then there is no need to use such intense corrective or compulsive methods.

We use these methods just to quickly say hey, no, that's no longer acceptable, but then we move on to step two and three, so step one is the correction, step two is then the redirection and the step. three is reinforcement and that is where we want to live and if we only

stop

at step one in the world of correction, we are missing out on a huge realm of incredible opportunities to not only teach

your

dog wonderful things but also to build a better relationship. with the. That line in the sand we are now going to move forward positively, so the second step is redirection.

I need to redirect it to the behavior I want, which is when we start formal heel training and that formal heel training follows an incredibly positive taper. Procedure based on marking and then reinforcing as we redirect, we must teach them what we want them to achieve, so we have corrected the undesirable behavior, but now it is our role and our duty to redirect them to the desirable behavior we want. from them, which is where we can freely shape the behavior, which is what you just saw me do every time he is in the correct position and then praise and reward that behavior and then I can begin to identify that behavior from the term heal and then you.

You are left with a beautiful way to communicate with

your

dog, you can reinforce the desirable behavior, tell them what you want from them and then you can pay and reward them when you offer them that desirable behavior of being here on my left or right side, it doesn't matter, but with a loose

leash

, but now you also have the missing component that most people don't have, which is the ability to say "hey, buddy,

stop

," but what you will find is as you practice this and this has developed in the last 10 to 15 minutes, the requirement to correct your dog becomes low or non-existent because we have eliminated that undesirable behavior, that undesirable behavior is now reduced from 100 times to maybe zero, maybe one two. five percent of the time, so the amount of correction we have to use is minimal, but because we are also redirecting and reinforcing the desirable behavior, that behavior will increase and if the undesirable behavior is five percent, then the desirable will be 95, which means we can praise and reward 95 percent of the time and only need to correct 5, the more we do it, it is absolutely possible to get your dog to have 100 desirable behaviors, so only praise and reward zero percent of undesirable behavior, George, come on. so I hope you enjoyed that video guys if you did don't forget to like and subscribe because we make videos like this every week to help you get the dog of your dreams that you absolutely deserve to have a wonderful relationship with your dog and To be the leader your dog deserves, so I can't wait to see you on the next episode of Family Ok, and I train him.