THE BEST WAY TO TRAIN A FEARFUL/NERVOUS DOG!

she's afraid of her own shadow I want to be able to take a walk and just finish my walk I don't want to have to turn around because you know someone is coming at me with a dog I have no consequences so I care I have no structure I can come here whenever I want I can go here whenever I want I can go here whenever I want and there is no responsibility for my actions the first thing we'll start with is because I Normally I don't see any obvious things when a dog comes in and is trying to rip out my throat.

I'm like, okay, that's what we're working on, what are your biggest concerns? Things you want to work on because she's afraid. she's not doing any of those things, but usually when we walk she can be reactive, it just depends on the situation and it's random, certain dogs usually if they are bigger than her, if there are more than two people, some men, some men that we they talk. So my main concern is being able to accompany her without her doing that because right now I'm in a neighborhood where there are no sidewalks and not many people, but eventually I plan to move where there are sidewalks and more people, for sure, with more dogs, let's pretend that she she doesn't have any of those, like little behavioral flaws, she usually pays attention to you, interacts with you and walks well, it depends on her mood, let's work on it, okay, so the first thing I want to do I want to see you work with her , so I'm going to let you work on the room here and I want you to work on the basics.

It's not a test or anything. I just want to see how she relates to you. To see how she responds to you, I want to see how she acts in a new environment and then I'll be able to take that information and be able to sculpt from there. She of course is being perfect, yes it happens all the time. When did you try the tip? I've tried it off and on for the past three years. Well, did you have a

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er for her before I had two of hers? Both were to help with reactivity. The first one was definitely more food. food which I don't love, the second one was definitely more specialized in behavior modification, but she wanted me to practice avoidance and I don't want to avoid it, yeah, and it doesn't really solve the problem of the dog being

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, so what?

I want to start with this, I agree, I think you know the heart, the heart, I talk a lot about the harness, we get a lot of questions about it and the harness really is safe for dogs when the dog has pressure against it. harness and they are turning out well because the other day I was walking downtown and I saw this puppy and this guy with a harness and he was a little smaller than her and he had the harness on and the dog would like they would walk like this and the dog would turn around to sniff or he would turn to get into the snow or whatever and the guy was correcting the dog and the dog's shoulder was going up and then the ribs were sliding over here. and he kept shaking this dog's entire chest cavity and shoulders, so when you correct him and try to say hey, that's enough and apply pressure, it just looks disgusting, as it sounds.

It is and there have been studies of harnesses causing some harm to that type. Now the front clip harness is also good and may not have the same effect as a back clip. Yes, however, I was working with a client online yesterday and he was working on The resource of protecting the front clip harness will only be really beneficial if the dog is at your side and a little in front of you so you can apply pressure when this guy had the front clip harness on and had his dog in front of him. and when we were working on resource protection, it was around food, so we had to explain what to do and the problem was that when the dog was in front and we put food on it and then said hello.

I can't have that until I let you go, the front clip didn't work because all your leverage actually comes from when the dog is in front of you and you're pulling back because he's pulling back muscles or pulling back. There's pressure here and it's pulling the dog back, but if the dog is in front of you and the dog is trying to chase something, you can't get that lever right, so I think we should switch to the basic sliding leash that I have here, I've tried it too, yeah well so it doesn't slide down, that's what I was going to say is everyone tries everything until they get it right, you can do everything wrong with any piece of equipment, same goes for the food, so these slides that we have have this tab strap that is custom and patented for this is actually made of a very hard plastic that is made for gun holsters, okay, so it's very durable, it doesn't moves.

It flexes and what it does is it slides down and then it doesn't move, so as you can see, the tail is tucked in, we're a licking lizard a little bit, we're very

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, there's a good chance Molly won't do it. react because she is very nervous now that she is home and walking around her own neighborhood, she may feel a little safer to react and that is why some dogs react in other places, they feel a little more protective in certain places or they just have a little more trusting and they become more reactive in those environments now one thing I never want to see a dog do is how Molly is being picked on with her tail nervous insecure it is inevitable that some dogs are obviously nervous and insecure and

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and I am suspicious of certain things, but what I don't want to see is a dog like that for a long period of time, so what I'm going to do is get rid of the obedience just for a couple of minutes and really try to see if we can open Molly up and make her a little bit happier and more comfortable working in the environment.

Let's try to have some fun with it. She's fine, so I'm going to take, I'm going to take the strap. As you will see she will put her feet in the mud yes until I drag her no there is no lever now if I apply something like the slip that has action so the slip will actually slide in and out like this that this would be so. harness where it's almost stagnant momentum there's no action at all and then the molly slide comes boom just like that come here boss so now I'm touching her to get her attention what's that?

She's interested in the ball, which is good, okay, she goes get it. a good girl, oh where's that ball? where is? there's a tail wag we're looking for good girl baby take your ball yeah good girl well done except oh good rest yeah good girl that's a good advance get a little play bow get a little cat and a mouse, okay, so now, as you can see, we're not a change dog, but we're a completely different dog than we were five minutes ago, so if the overall goal is what you're seeing at the tip of the iceberg or what I call the external behaviors again the reactivity the growl that comes from I'm not so sure I don't know about this I suspect who you are what's going on I can't handle this I'm insecure and vulnerable that's what I just worked on was the core of why are we doing this and is it because of insecurities again.

I don't trust you, I don't know you, she basically has social anxiety, yeah, right, that's a good way to say it social. anxiety, she needs to be, you know, resocialized, so what I like to do with any type of dog, like if you're talking about stray dog, abused dog, insecure dog, feral dog, just going for a walk, I mean, no you have to be in charge immediately with a dog like this that will come in time, that's why I like to go into the facility because it keeps me on my toes oh, come on mom, oh, there's a good girl, there's a good girl, so it's typical of a dog like this.

Therefore, if you see a dog that likes to nibble people on the butt or the back of the legs or, if applicable, approaches and sniffs people from behind, it is just a question of trust, It's like you know. The same goes for people, if people have a hard time looking people in the face, sometimes it can be a little insecure, so that's what she's doing here, she feels more comfortable behind me, so that's It's what he's doing, so I'm being neutral and not exaggerating anything. what a good girl momo hi oh that's good hi honey so developing that confidence and not moving too fast is huge.

There is a good mama girl, so when you handle her I want to work on how you use the leash. You are spinning when you apply pressure. What you want to do is more of a pop rather than a pull. What I want to do is I don't necessarily want to put the dog back in her position. I want to correct the dog to modify it. The dog actually pulls first, so when you turn heel pop pop heel like that good girl, yeah, snap, she'll do a lot better for you 'cause right now she's got her eyes on the prize, yeah, so look, That was a big pull for you.

You heard her crawl on the floor, which is fine, that's why we're using the right slip, because if we were to use the prong collar, it's probably going to be more sensitive because it doesn't, it just has guard hair. coat, she doesn't really have an insulating coat and then heel, yeah, so you have to give yourself a little bit of a strap like that, look, now you're loose, now turn heel, heel, pop and then just turn again, but when you're turning You're tightening, so you're losing all your influence, when you're healing, you're perfect like this and then as soon as you're going to turn, you tighten, which takes away all your influence, all your slack, and then when the dog hits the end of the leash, you drag it forward, okay, so you have to work to keep my arm down the entire time, right, it's not easy, so now turn again, heel, heel, pop, pop, pop, pop, again, there you go, that's perfect, that's better.

Kids may find it interesting that we have a dog that comes with reactivity or that we have a dog that comes with aggression, so why do we start working on obedience from the beginning? Why do we start developing leash pressure at the beginning instead of just attacking? reactivity or attacking aggression or whatever the problem is is a very simple solution for me over the years. I have really learned that a lot of these external behaviors that we don't like, barking, pulling whatever, have to do with the relationship, so there is an underlying reason why the dog is

fearful

and reactive and in Molly's case it is very simple: it is insecurity, it is vulnerability, it is fear, and so what we are going to do is use obedience as a ploy to help her recover. she feels more comfortable in certain environments, for example, she is afraid of the place command, I won't do it, I don't want anything to do with it, I can't, that's the same representation of maybe another individual or another dog that she can react and in about five to six minutes, she immediately gets down to business and works, so all these little things, hey, I know you're afraid of this, but let's get over it, they'll help us have building blocks to make her a most complete dog.

More importantly, she will teach the owner how to build confidence and leadership within her own dog. Well yeah, here we go again, it's no surprise and it's really good for Molly because you have another man she doesn't know and a bigger dog. that she doesn't know I'm shocked you guys are shocked you went too far okay guys if you don't know the official no bad dog members club it's a subscription members club where you can get the full videos of what which they are watching here on youtube, so they are watching the 15 20 minute videos here on youtube and in the subscription club they get the full video, sometimes it lasts more than an hour and they also get a lot of unreleased images. that we receive and take away from different seminars and different sessions that we simply do not put here on YouTube.

It's also an amazing community of dog owners who empower each other. It's a safe place to talk and ask questions about her dogs without having to worry. ridiculed on the internet, I am so excited and proud of the Bedless Dog Members Club, click the link in the description below to join now, my biggest obstacles will be because she wants to smell everything to break that habit you know. when I want to just walk and not sniff, yes, if you're just going for a walk or a potty break or just an exercise, the dog doesn't need to heal next to you all the time. and in fact, it's not even fair to ask, let's say you're walking down a sidewalk and you see a dog, you might say, okay, Molly Heel, just so you can say, be in control, loose leash, don't be in my face at all. .

You want to be able to activate your obedience when you want it and when you need it when I leave my house just to continue like you know our normal 15 minute walk to sniff and do whatever she wants up to a point that you know, obviously. um I'm just going I'll show you exactly how to do it you're out with her say it again I'm just imagining downtown or just a busier area there's not much to do here we'd have a break and then you see a dog or you see to a person or you see a man or you see whatever or you just want to practice healing, then you would say molly heal and then you would engage in that work again to get past that distraction,okay rest and then I would let her be a dog so it's almost like school versus recess and it's your words that make that happen now when you're walking with her and you see this.

The reactivity, where do you see it the most? ? The park is usually pretty bad just because you know there are people doing random things everywhere. That's where she reacts the most. Yeah, okay, so give me an example along the way. It's probably from here to there, there's the other side. so it's a good distance away and there was like a dad and his teenage daughter and she was fine but then she heard the guy talking and she reacted but it was like we were already over them at that point so it was like she didn't I would have done.

I don't like the sound of her voice and she wasn't even talking to us, she was just talking to her daughter and she was like Adam, so she lunges and barks, yeah, she barks and lunges in a situation like that, it's like, what are you doing? like the leash popping works fine that's what I'm saying when she like I said she gets here if you just say hey and you're down here hey please don't stop no she's not coming down the lane again reason. The reason it is increasing is because of the fear of it and many times, as she was saying yesterday, the fear is created by the lack of that, the things that we are doing right now.

Okay, no consequences that matter to me. I have no structure. I can go here whenever I want I can go here whenever I want I can go here whenever I want and there is no responsibility for my actions it's okay when you're dealing with a problem like this and the dog says I'm fine Okay now I'm not fine and they go into mode psycho and you have a front clip harness while they lunge and lunge and lunge. I have to go after this person for whatever it is because he talked to her daughter and that's not okay with me, right? if you're some kind of husqvarna pulling the ring back it won't do anything even if i set you up with a herm springer tip or whatever if you're not using it correctly and you and you don't have the basics with this it's not going to work Regardless of all the things that you're doing right now are preparing you for the reaction and even the tip and even some of the other tools don't, sometimes they don't work, you have to be able to say hey, what are you doing, but don't Do we want them to just look and then correct?

We want to teach them that when they do it it's wrong and the way to do that is to teach them to heal, so when we go out and say, okay, molly, you have to heal and then she reacts, you can correct her and punish her and it's fair because you've worked for three days, you can't pull me and now you're pulling me, so I'm being corrected, so she knows how to relieve the pressure because she's like, oh yeah, I'm supposed to be healing, so you'll counteract the reactivity with obedience, so basically the Frame and foundation work will eventually make me matter more. that whatever else she wants to do, she understood, everything you are doing with the leash right now will be applicable no matter what tool you use correctly, if you know how to drive a car, you can get into any vehicle and operate it.

If you wanted to switch to this, all you would do is use the same leash that you just put on, you would put the toe on it and then you would put the leash on here, so if she went out for a walk and you did all this obedience and she understands the heel and she understands the rest and you guys are doing it right and she goes off and she goes crazy, there's a person and you say, hey, leave it or you say heal and the sliding strap is not enough like the um the harness is not enough so you can use this and it's not about oh well this will inflict more pain it has nothing to do with pain it has nothing to do with any of those things it has to do with How much pressure can you give him to actually care about it?

You know, here in the controlled environment where she's not really freaking out, that's fine, but I feel like out there in the real world, that's probably a better option, this is probably what she could have had as a bigger tip. , yeah and a lot of people like the tip size and these are gauges so it's going to be a 3.2 so it says the wire gauge is 3.2 that's the actual tip gauge okay so this one it's a 2.25 so see how the process feel like it's a little bit more of the size you can use so you can get a more precise correction a and b you can get a better fit in a more custom fit shape with a smaller tip so if you pulled out one of these maybe too big or too tight and then if you put one in maybe it's too big and with this you have a little more precision and you can always alternate like between them so when I go out and I'm

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ing I will sometimes I will have one I will have so many things I'll have treats I'll have a squeaker I'll have a ball I'll have a spike I'll have a slip I'll have everything I need in case I need to shift gears with a dog I'd rather be I'd rather have more than enough equipment to handle the dog I'm working with versus the one that is not right, I just think that the biggest flaw in dog training in general is that there is a political agenda of people that prohibits them from improving their skills with dogs, you put the leash right there, okay?

Now, does it matter which one? one, you put it on, well, that's a good question, this is going to be a triangle right here, so you always want that nice clean triangle, so you put the strap on the top ring and then this other ring. People like Why is this called a dead ring? So if this is my leash clip and I trimmed it here and trimmed it here this would be a dead ring so the tip is disconnected it won't correct the dog a lot of people think the tips are what gives the dog an aversive correction and it's not because I have to give her this and she could walk across the room and she won't care about that, it's the action. of when you pop the thing like this and to be honest, like with a friendly leader or an easy walk, this is more defined here, so you will have more control, basically the difference between the tip and the slip and the martingale and the harnesses will evenly distribute pressure around the dog's neck rather than in the chest cavity and shoulders or the trachea and larynx.

It will just give you that pressure. around the dog's muscle, so it is much safer to use the correction. Where does the slip put the pressure in the same place, just in one place? So when you put the slip on it just gives pressure here, look at the bottom, yeah, so when the tip the collar distributes, it's giving pressure 2 4 6 8 10, so there's 20 different pressure points over and over. Perhaps the biggest mistake, especially in the dog world and even in legality in some countries, is education and ignorance about what they are, these are not sharp, I would never do it. putting something sharp on a dog, that would be crazy, all it does is just correct the dog safely so he doesn't know he's choking and gives you control, so at the beginning of Molly's first day, the lizard with the tucked tail does not lick. approaching anyone growling at the camera without knowing the place without knowing how to stay without knowing heel like knowing how to sit what they just saw what remarkable progress between the owner and the dog I am very happy for them now we are recovering a little a little distracted but we are recovering now we are sitting on command we have learned place we have learned stay we have learned to rest and we are passing another dog not to mention that this dog came in afraid of men and big dogs They saw their pigeon dog and its owner, all very happy to see where these guys end up, but like me, I talk about a lot of my videos, the relationship between Molly the dog and Molly's owner is improving, so everything external. things from reactivity and maybe pulling on the leash and things that we work on all the time are improving and maybe changing and won't exist in the future, but their relationship over time until the dog passes away in the future is better and that's long term, it's invaluable, it's sustainable and that's what really excites me and that's what I love to do.

I came to build confidence in my dog ​​and I learned that you know he takes time, you have to go back to the basics and once you get there. If he is comfortable with the basics, then confidence will come. It's obviously very sweet. He definitely has some insecurities. He has some strange danger. Which is normal for some dogs. As for him getting used to other people in the future, it would be something like this. What I did was just work on her food that you know she likes or whatever treats you have that she's good with, but a lot of that is just pushing her past her limitations so she's more confident, so when you're working on obedience with her when you're out, so if she reacts, it would be that she didn't really react here, it would be leaving it and then a correction on the prong collar and you're also going to counteract with a lot of the heel work that we've done, asking her to recover, asking her to sit down, asking her to stay doing all those things when you're out and seeing people, the most important thing for her is to make sure that when you're dating her that you're looking forward to it and you're going straight to her, you're not Don't worry, don't get nervous and change things because then she will get nervous.