Ever felt like you're at the end of your leash with dog training challenges? Well, you're in luck because National Train Your Dog Month is here, and we're unleashing a wealth of knowledge to help you and your pooch overcome those pesky behavioral hurdles. From potty training slip-ups to mastering the art of a calm sit-stay amid the jingle of doorbells, our latest discussion has got you covered. Tune in, and I, Will Bangura, your seasoned host with 35 years of dog behavior expertise, will guide you through the ins and outs of nurturing a harmonious relationship with your four-legged friend.
In our comprehensive chat, we don't just scratch the surface; we go deep into practical advice, peppered with heartwarming tales that showcase the transformative power of reward-based training. Learn how to tackle the all-too-common problem of dogs leaping up in excitement, especially around those who are more vulnerable, like kids and the elderly. We explore the necessity of teaching alternative behaviors, with a focus on safety, patience, and positive reinforcement. Plus, I'll provide you with strategies to help your dog respond to an emergency recall, a command that could literally be a lifesaver.
But that's not all—our conversation also touches on the subtleties of doggy etiquette, from sharing toys to bed behavior. Understanding that canines don't come with an innate sense of generosity, we discuss how to steer them towards peaceful interactions with both humans and other dogs. I'll take your burning questions and offer tailored advice, ensuring that by the time you tune out, you'll be fully equipped with the insights and techniques to enhance your dog's well-being and strengthen the bond you share. Don't miss out on this tail-wagging training talk that's sure to set you and your pup on the path to success.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Did you know that January is National Train your
Dog Month, answering yourquestions, talking about that
and more in 60 seconds don't goanywhere.
We'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Raised by wolves with canine DNA in his blood.
Having trained more than 24,000vets, helping you and your fur
babies thrive, Live in studiowith Will Bangura answering your
pet behavior and trainingquestions.
Ladies and gentlemen, pleasewelcome your host and favorite
pet behavior expert, WillBangura.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Would you like to go on Walkies?
Happy 2024 dog lovers.
I'm Will Bangura and thanks forjoining me for another Facebook
Live.
I'm going to be here each andevery Saturday, or I should say
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the first Saturday of everymonth.
That's one of the changes we'regoing to be making.
Facebook Live I'm going to dothe first Saturday of every
month.
Welcome everybody, and just alittle bit, I want to take your
dog training and behaviorquestions, just kind of waiting
for some folks to join us here.
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But if you've got a questionabout your dog's training, if
you've got a question about yourdog's behavior, please go ahead
and type that into the commentsection below and I'll be happy
to help you.
Don't be shy again.
If you've got a question, writeit below.
Like I said, happy 2024.
I want to talk about changesthat are going to happen to dog
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training today, one of thethings that we're changing.
Last year we did a FacebookLive every week.
I'm changing that.
I'm going to be doing FacebookLive the first Saturday of every
month and my audio podcast, thedog training today audio
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podcast.
I'm doing one to two audiopodcasts every single week, so,
for example, since Christmas.
By the way, if you're notsubscribed to the dog training
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Make sure that you go towherever you listen to podcasts,
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and behavior that I'm doing inthe audio podcast.
But, like I said sinceChristmas, if you go to the
audio podcast episode 140, I dida year in review Now that's a
great one for dog trainers,behavior consultants,
veterinarians, veterinarybehaviorists, applied animal
behaviorists and some of you petowners will enjoy that as well.
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Just recently did audio podcastepisode 141.
That's about boosting yourdog's confidence through play
and positive patterns.
Again, that's episode 141.
And then episode 142, I justalso did a day ago and that's
mastering your dog's impulsecontrol part one Again,
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mastering your dog's impulsecontrol part one.
I'm going to be doing probablypart two today or tomorrow and
have that up in a few days aswell.
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Like I said in the open, januaryis National Train your Dog
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Month.
Okay, I'm going to be gettingto questions in just a little
bit Again, if you're watching,if you've got a question, you
can type it in the commentsection below, and I'm also
going to be reading off emailquestions today as well.
I got a lot of email questionsabout different behaviors that I
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think you know.
A lot of them are nuisancebehaviors.
There's a few questions that Ihad that were related to puppies
, new puppies and potty training.
Matter of fact, did you get anew puppy for the holidays or
did you adopt a new dog for theholidays and are you having
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potty training problems?
Well, if you're having problemswith potty training a dog I
don't care if it's a young puppyor an older dog go to Amazoncom
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You can scan that code and itwill take you directly to Amazon
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It is the most evidence-based,science-based dog training book
for potty training that's outthere, so go ahead and check
that out.
If you know somebody that's gota puppy or a dog that's
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struggling with potty training,please send them over to Amazon.
They can again check out mybook House Training 101, potty
Training Unleashed.
Okay, let me go into some emailquestions right now and
actually I'm going to go.
I mentioned the potty training,so I'm going to talk about some
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.
A question that I got here aboutpotty training hey, will Jan is
here, got a question for you.
We just adopted anine-month-old puppy and the
puppy did not have any accidentsfor about the first two months
and then, all of a sudden, thepuppy how old is this puppy?
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But then all of a sudden, afterbeing with us for two months,
started having accidents.
We can't understand why andwe're struggling to stop it.
Well, here's the thing I don'tknow how old.
You say puppy, but you alsosaid you adopted one, so you
know that could be a four-month,six-month.
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You know some people are goingto consider it a puppy up to a
year, but regardless, you have adog and, let's say, regardless
of age, the first two months youhad it.
There were no accidents.
The dog or puppy was doinggreat, that's fantastic.
I want you to think about ifthat just happened naturally or
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if there were things that youdid to kind of help that along
all right.
Now one of the challenges iswhen we get a new dog and they
don't, at least initially, showproblems.
We don't tend to do proactivework in trying to prevent
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problems.
All right, if it was me being abrand new dog as soon as I got
it, I would be doing lots ofpotty breaks outside.
I would be rewarding withhigh-value food rewards if the
dog absolutely loves its mostfavorite.
Every single time the dog goesto the bathroom in the correct
spot, okay.
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But if you weren't havingaccidents for the first two
months and then all of a suddenyou start having accidents,
there might be some issues goingon.
For example, your dog might.
I'm not a veterinarian, I'm notgiving out medical advice, but
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some dogs can get urinary tractinfections, bladder infections.
So you know, is your dog goingmore frequently?
Is your dog having more urgency?
Is your dog you know we've gotthe accidents?
Is there a foul smell to it?
But what I would recommend,first and foremost, you need to
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rule out, make sure there'snothing medical going on,
because you had great successfor two months and then boom,
all of a sudden somethinghappens.
So let's take the dog to thevet, let the vet do a full exam,
make sure that we don't haveany problems with, say, urinary
tract infection.
Make sure that we don't haveany problems when it comes to
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any other medical issues thatmight be going on with the dog.
But what I need you to do rightnow, the number one rule when
you have a dog that has problemsinside the home, I don't care
if it's a potty training problem, I don't care if it's being
destructive in the house.
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You need to supervise that dog,that puppy.
They need to be in youreyesight at all times.
And if they're new and they'rehaving issues like potty
training issues or they're beingdestructive, I'm going to have
them drag a leash around.
I've actually got a leash whereI cut off the handle, because
if the handle kind of getscaught on things, so it's just
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kind of a straight line leash,you could use a small piece of
rope with a leash clasp.
You really want about three orfour feet of line or a leash
that's dragging behind the puppyor dog.
If you have problems with thedog again being destructive or
having problems in the housewith accidents or the dog's
getting on furniture, you don'twant them to do that or they're
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begging the leash and draggingthat leash or line just allows
you a little more leverage to beable to guide the dog with that
until you don't need to, untilyour dog has good manners.
But proactively you need tostart doing potty training
protocol and you need to assumeand start as if the dog's not
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potty trained.
Yeah, you had two great monthsbut there's issues.
Now You're going to take it tothe vet.
Make sure there's nothingmedically going on.
Then the next thing is hasthere been some recent changes?
Is there a lot of stress thathas happened?
Did this dog or puppy go frombeing a kind of a calm demeanor
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to now a dog that's kind ofnervous, because anxiety and
fear and stress can cause thoseaccident problems too.
So is there something going onthat's different?
All right, if it's anxiety,you've got to deal with the
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problem of anxiety If that's theissue.
So you need to figure out.
You know, is this medical?
Is it about anxiety?
Is this a dog that maybe hadone accident and nobody was
around.
So now it thinks hey, it's fairgame to go to the bathroom in
the house and outside the houseand truly doesn't know Listen,
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if your dog or puppy is going tothe bathroom in the house, they
don't know that it's okay.
If they knew they would gooutside.
Now they know a lot of you comehome and you walk in the door
and a minute you walk in thedoor the dog looks guilty and
sure enough, there's an accident.
You feel the dog knows it didwrong.
No, that's not what's going on.
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Typically, when you see thatlook, that you think is guilt.
What has happened prior to thatis the dog has had many
accidents and many times, if notall times, when you came home
and there was an accident, youpunish the dog.
Something negative, somethingbad, something unpleasant
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happened.
So now the dog is equating youcoming home with something bad
happening.
But unless you're able tocommunicate with the dog in the
act of the dog going to thebathroom, you can't do anything.
As far as communicating withyour dog.
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After the fact, when you cannotsupervise your dog, when the
dog can't be in your eyesight,you need to confine or create
the dog.
Most dogs are not going to havean accident in their crate, and
I don't know if your dog orpuppy's crate train, but if it
is, you need to utilize that.
Anytime you put your dog orpuppy in the crate, make sure
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before you do that you take themoutside for about five, 10, 15
minutes or so and then bringthem in and put them in the
crate, give them the opportunityto relieve themselves.
But again, those are some thingsthat I would want to know in
terms of whether or not there isanxiety Enrichment.
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Is your dog bored?
What kind of physical activity,what kind of mental activity
does the dog or puppy have?
Maybe we've got a dog or puppythat's also bored and we need to
increase that.
One of the podcasts that Irecently did I had it pulled up
a second ago was about how youmastered dog's impulse control,
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and I talked about another audiopodcast that I did, which was
is your dog anxious or is it alack of enrichment?
Boredom can bring about anxiety, but that doesn't mean that all
dogs have anxiety disorders.
You can have anxiety and nothave the disorder, and I'm not
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gonna get into what all thenuances are regarding that, but
when you're working with yourpuppy, when you're working with
your dog, you need to be veryproactive right now.
If you need to take a notebookand write down every time the
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dog or puppy eats.
Write down Every time the dogor puppy drinks.
Write down every time the puppygoes to the bathroom, whether
it's pee or poop, whether it'soutside successfully or inside
an accident.
Feed your dog at the same timeevery day.
If you start collecting thatdata and you write that down
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every time your dog eats, writeit down Every time your dog
drinks.
Write it down Every time yourdog goes to the bathroom, write
it down.
Is it an accident or did theygo in the right place?
After a few days you shouldstart to see a pattern X amount
of minutes after the dog drinksit's peeing, or X amount of
minutes or hours after the dogeats it's pooping.
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If you keep a good schedule,you will see the pattern that
allows you to kind of predictwhen this puppy or dog needs to
go to the bathroom based on thedata that you've collected.
Why is that important?
So that we can preventaccidents and maximize successes
.
You can go ahead if you knowroughly.
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Hey, maybe the informationyou've collected tells you that
every 20 minutes after the dogeats or drinks, it's going to
the bathroom.
If that's the case now you canset an alarm on your smart watch
or your smartphone or whatever.
You can set an alarm to makesure, like I would set it for 15
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minutes.
If the dog, typically 20minutes after, would go to the
bathroom 15 minutes, my alarmgoes off.
That signals me.
Hey, I gotta get the dog out.
Now.
I'm gonna make sure again.
I've got high value food rewardsand the better the reward.
Think about rewards as currency.
Do you want your dog to do areally good job?
Pay your dog as much as you can.
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And when it comes to pottytraining, nobody likes that
nobody.
It's gotta be the worst thing.
Everybody hates it when theirdog is using their house as a
toilet.
So if you're one of thesepeople that doesn't like to use
food and training, my questionis let's stop paying you for
going to your job.
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You're asking your dog to work.
That food's a paycheck.
Food rewards should be verytiny, about the size of a pea.
You should be using a treatpouch.
You should only be reaching inthere and getting a food reward
after your dog has done thebehavior.
That's a difference betweenusing it as a reward versus
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holding it in your hand, and nowit's a bribe.
You use food the right way,correctly, and it's not a bribe.
You use food correctly and youcan wean off of that food and I
did an article recently aboutthat how to use food correctly
in training.
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Have you guys been to my websiteDown below?
Where is it Right in the middledown below?
Dogbehavioristcom?
Check out my website atdogbehavioristcom.
If you go to the menu, click onarticles.
I've got over 80 free articlesthat cover 80 different topics.
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Basically, I've got articles onpotty training, I've got
articles on fears, phobias,aggression, reactivity, other
nuisance behaviors like digging,barking, begging, jumping,
being destructive.
But I've got an article onpotty training and, like I said
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earlier, if you've got a dog, ifyou've got a puppy that you're
struggling with and you can'tget that dog or puppy potty
train, check out my book, go toamazoncom, look for house
training 101, potty trainingunleashed by Will Bangura.
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All right, let me go to anotheremail question that I have.
Well, we've got a dog thatconstantly jumps.
He is very excitable and wehave actually worked with two
different trainers.
He knows his commands.
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He can sit, he can lay down oncommand, he can walk on a loose
leash and he can do all that.
The thing that we're strugglingwith is he's got a lot of
energy, keeping him very calmand making sure that he doesn't
jump.
We have a small child and alsomy husband's mother lives with
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us and she's elderly and we'reconcerned if the dog jumps on
her she might fall.
All right, I'm concerned aboutyour toddler or your baby.
I'm concerned about yourmother-in-law.
We need to, first and foremost,make sure everybody's safe.
If you know when the dog'sgonna jump, at least right now,
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as a safety measure, have aleash on the dog.
Grab that leash so it can'tjump, okay.
Now the first thing you need todo is make sure your dog is not
in situations that cause it tojump.
Now, that's not the answer,that's not the fix, but it's the
first step to the fix.
If your dog keeps engaging inthat behavior, because the
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opportunity exists that justkeeps getting more and more and
more conditioned and in grade.
We need this behavior toextinguish, and so the first
thing we need to do is avoid allthe triggers and write down all
the triggers what things, whatsituations?
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What things, what people,places, things, situations,
locations, times.
Does your dog jump.
When you know the triggers, nowyou can begin to both
proactively start dealing withthe jumping and you'll know what
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to do ahead of time when thosetriggers appear.
Now there's a couple differentoptions, and those of you that
watch dog training today, youknow there's two philosophies on
training, and one is positivereinforcement.
The other one is where they usecorrections and punishment.
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And today, modern dog trainers,certified dog trainers, dog
trainers that have goodeducation, that know what
they're doing, they don't useaversive tools, they don't use
choke collars, prom collars,electric collars.
They're not punishing andcorrecting dogs.
First and foremost, the dog'sjust being a dog and if we
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didn't take the time to teachthe dog what we want and
alternative behavior to jumping,that jumping behavior is very
normal, matter of fact.
We create jumping a lot oftimes because puppies we pick up
from the ground up up to us andthe dog then learns to jump as
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a result of that and we tend toreinforce it by petting the dog
and picking the dog up whenthey're small, but now they're
big and we don't like it.
Okay, rather than punishing thedog, rather than using
corrections because you don'tneed to listen any behavior can
be trained in.
Any behavior can be trained outusing positive reinforcement.
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If you don't think that'spossible, you just don't know
how to use positivereinforcement the correct way.
If another trainer tells youthat you can't train a dog
reliably, especially withdistractions, with just using
food, that you must usecorrections and punishment, you
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must use things that cause fear,pain, intimidation or at least
the dog being uncomfortable.
They're wrong.
They just don't have the honedhigh-end skills using positive
reinforcement.
Just because somebody can'tmake it happen with positive
reinforcement doesn't mean itdoesn't work.
Just means they're not skilledat it and we need to teach and
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we need to learn more.
But I like to teach analternative behavior for jumping
.
Let's just use the excitabilityof somebody coming home and
through the door.
Now a lot of trainers will have.
You need the dog in the chest,maybe take a can with pennies
and throw it.
Maybe yell no at the dog.
Maybe you've got an electriccollar and you've shocked the
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dog, or you've got a prongcollar and you give a leash pop
correction.
I don't do any of that.
To me that's not fair and it'sunnecessary.
And you have to ask yourself aquestion your relationship with
your dog, should it be one whereyou're inflicting discomfort or
should it be one of benevolentleadership, love, patience,
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understanding and teaching?
The word discipline comes fromthe word disciple, and a
disciple is somebody who'sstudying under and a disciple is
learning, and that's what yourdog is.
Discipline doesn't mean hittingyour dog, doesn't mean
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punishing your dog.
It means educating and learning, and I like to teach the dog to
sit instead of jump.
So one of the things that I dois I start by doing a lot of
repetition of asking my dog tosit three feet back from the
door and I reward the dog, andthen I start working on
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distractions.
The door is not open, nobody'scoming in.
I'm just working on a solid sit, stay about three feet from the
door and little by little,gradually, I'm adding
distractions.
If my dog breaks from that sit,stay.
When I'm doing distractions, Ijust need to back up, lower the
level of distractions, give morereinforcement for what the dog
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can do and take a little bitslower approach.
Listen, when your dog fails atsomething, it doesn't mean your
dog is stubborn or stupid orcan't be trained.
It just means we need to makean adjustment to how we're
teaching.
That's all it means iscommunication.
A lot of people are working toofast.
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They wanna rush their dogthrough something.
Have patients.
Take your time.
It's a gradual, systematicprocess to get your dog to
really listen when all hell'sbreaking loose, when there are
big distractions.
Okay, I'm Will Van Gura and ifyou're watching right now, this
is dog training today.
Welcome, appreciate you guyswatching.
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I'm gonna be answeringquestions.
Right now I'm doing emailquestions.
If you're watching and you havea question about your dog's
training and behavior, do me afavor, go ahead and type it in
the comments section below.
There's no wrong questions, nobad questions.
Ask whatever it is that youwant.
All right, let's go back tothat email question and I'm
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talking about what I would do toteach a dog not to jump.
I'm not correcting, I'm notpunishing the dog.
I'm teaching the dog analternative behavior.
I'm gonna start three feet fromthe door, do a lot of sit stays
Might, do that for about a weekor so and while I'm doing that,
gradually, systematically, I'madding distractions and if the
dog takes the bait, I just putthe dog back in sit.
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The dog doesn't take the baitof my distractions and maintains
that sit.
I'm gonna be rewarding the dogevery single time, showing the
dog what I want through rewardsand shaping that behavior.
If my dog keeps breaking fromthe sit stay, I'm working too
fast.
Slow it down.
Bring those distractions down alittle bit.
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Spend more time.
Then try going to a higherlevel distraction, all right,
once I've got that pretty solid.
Now what I'm doing is I'm doingthe same thing and I'm adding a
distraction of a doorbell ordoor knocking.
Now for some dogs that justreally sets them off big time
and they might be extremelydifficult to control or manage.
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You may need to start teachingyour dog to sit and stay when
the door knocking happens or thedoorbell happens, by starting
with very light, very lightknocking and with the doorbell
you can record the doorbellsound and you can play it at
super low volumes.
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That will help your dog havesuccess.
To start with, maintaining thatsit stay when somebody's
knocking or ringing the bell.
Now, gradually, systematically,maybe over two weeks, we need
to turn the volume of thedoorbell up.
We need to bring the volume ofthe knocking up, all right.
Now when you're having trainingsessions with your dog, they
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should be about seven to 10minutes.
Yeah, they don't need to belong, but make those seven to 10
minutes count, all right.
The next step, if my dog's doingwell, can maintain the sit,
stay, with knocking and thedoorbell ringing.
Then I add the component of thedoor opening up.
But it just opens up a crackand I'm gonna do that a bunch of
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times to make sure that whenthat door opens up just a crack
my dog doesn't get out of thesit stay.
Little by little that doorstarts to open more and more and
more.
Then, when that's going well,I'm gonna have a helper, a human
helper, a stranger, and I'mgonna put them about 15 feet
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from the front of the door.
I'll have them ring thedoorbell, walk back 15 feet.
I open the door.
I want the dog to see there's astranger, but at a distance.
If the stranger starts realclose, the dog might get too
excited and break the sit stay.
I want success, so I'm gonnastart them back and reward the
dog for maintaining the sit.
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I'm gonna do lots of repetitionof that.
Little by little I'm gonnabring the stranger forward and
then we get to the point wherethe stranger comes in the door
and stands at the doorway andthen, little by little, we add
animation or excitability to thetrigger.
So we have that helper, thathuman helper, over time start
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making noises, start moving alittle faster, adding more
stimulation, but gradually.
Again, if the dog keeps losing,if the dog keeps coming out of
the sit stay, you need toreinforce more at the previous
step.
You're working too fast.
Slow it down a little bit,it'll happen.
You just gotta work at thedog's pace.
You can't work faster than thedog's pace.
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And then I'm gonna startgeneralizing that once the dog
has that, with differentstrangers coming over, now you
can do the same thing by sendingyour dog to its better place
instead of sitting and staying.
You could do the same thingasking your dog to lie down and
stay rather than sitting andstaying.
But the key here is teachingyour dog a different behavior
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that if your dog's committed tothat different behavior, it
would be incompatible and thedog would not be able to do the
behavior you don't want.
You don't want the dog to jump.
Well, the dog can't be sittingand jumping at the same time.
The dog can't be on its betterplace and jump at the same time.
The dog can't be lying down andcommitted to that behavior and
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jump on somebody at the sametime.
So teaching an alternativebehavior is absolutely,
absolutely critical.
I'm Will Van Goura.
Hey, thanks for joining me.
If you're just joining us now,I'm a certified dog behavior
consultant.
I've been doing this for 35years.
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I specialize in working withdogs with severe fears, phobias,
aggression, anxiety, reactivitybut I also work with puppies
basic obedience, nuisancebehaviors like jumping and
barking and being destructive orhaving potty accidents,
something like that.
So those are some things thatwe talk about.
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If you've got a question aboutyour dog's training or behavior,
do me a favor, type it in thecomment section below.
Don't be shy.
If you've got a question, letme help you.
Write it in below.
I'm going through emailquestions right now and if
you've got a question, like Isaid, put it in the comment
section.
I will get to that as well.
All right, let's get to the nextemail question after a sip of
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the coffee here, all right?
The next one is from John.
John, actually Alaska.
Okay, you don't tell me whatkind of dog you have.
I was wondering if you had aMalamute.
Anyway, john says that he's gota dog that bolts out the door
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and the dog takes off runningand it's next to impossible to
get the dog back.
My concern is he's gonna getout and get hurt.
What do I do?
Well, john, there's a couple ofthings here that we need to
talk about.
One is what is the impetus,what's the trigger that your dog
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?
Why is your dog running out thedoor?
Is your dog running tosomething?
Do we need to desensitize yourdog to that something that your
dog might be running to?
Maybe it's not that, maybe yourdog's just excited, wants to
get out and sniff.
But there's a couple of things.
One proactively we wanna teachdoor manners.
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Okay then the second thing wewanna do is make sure we have an
emergency recall.
All right, an emergency recallis getting your dog to come when
called, but it's different thanyour everyday come command.
An emergency recall is neverused except in an emergency.
An emergency recall you aretraining constantly for the
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dog's life and you hope younever have to use it Now.
If you go to my website,dogbehavioristcom there it is
down below dogbehavioristcom andgo to the article section,
recently I did an article on theemergency recall.
I can't remember or not whetherI did an audio podcast.
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There might be an audio podcastembedded in that article how to
teach the emergency recall.
But let me just give you just areal quick synopsis on that.
So the first thing you wanna dois get your dog's attention.
Drop a couple high value treatson the floor and give the cue
that you're gonna use to get thedog to come on the emergency
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recall.
Now this should be a wordthat's rarely used.
I had a client that usedPoughkeepsie.
Let me tell you the story.
So the client had two goldenretrievers.
They went on vacation withtheir kids and they get a call
from the dog sitter.
They got a dog sitter that'sstaying at their home watching
the dogs and the dog sitter'sfrantic crying, sobbing because
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the dogs ran out the door.
Down the road.
She's running after them tryingto get them to come back.
They're not coming back.
They think it's a game.
She's scared because she spent20 minutes trying to get them
back.
She can't get them back.
So finally, she calls theowners and the owners say what I
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want you to do in a loud butnot scary voice, but loud enough
they can hear it.
I want you to say Pekipsie, andthey should come to you and if
they do, give them a high valuefood reward, go quickly, get in
the house and get some rewards.
They're in the cookie jar.
So she gets it.
She goes out there, she goesPekipsie, dogs turn around, come
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running to her like rockets.
The emergency recall is soimportant, so very important.
So I start by going Pekipsie, Idrop a couple of treats on the
ground.
Then I say, pekipsie, I runback two steps, drop treats on
the ground.
Then I say, pekipsie, I runback four steps, drop treats on
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the ground.
You get the idea Little bylittle.
Every day I'm adding a littlemore distance to that.
I'm doing about fiverepetitions of that every single
day.
Now, once the dog isunbelievably reliable with
distractions.
Now I'm going to do that once amonth.
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I'm gonna have a trainingsession on that to keep it solid
, all right.
So the emergency recall if theyget out the door, you gotta get
them back critical.
Check out my website,dogbehavorscom, and check out
the article on the emergencyrecall.
The other thing that you need todo is teach your dog
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doormanners, and what I do is Itake the dog and I put them
about three feet back from thedoor.
I like to have a doormat insidethe house and when I open the
door and I'll have a leash onthe dog when I'm training this,
the dog must stay behind thatdoormat, about two, three feet
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behind the door, and I'm gonnaturn and face the dog, put my
hand by them and tell them wait,I'm gonna take a step back,
facing the dog.
If the dog follows me, I'mgoing to guide the dog back
where I had them, put my hand infront of them, tell them wait,
now I'm gonna take a half a stepback.
Remember, the dog failed on astep.
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Take a half a step back.
If the dog doesn't move, I'mgonna reward the dog.
Then I'm gonna take anotherhalf a step.
If the dog doesn't move, I'mgonna reward the dog.
Little by little, I'm teachingthe dog to wait, not move
forward, when that door opens.
All right, now the other thingyou could do exactly what I was
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talking about with the other dogthat we were teaching, that
sits, stay, that likes to jumpon people when they come over,
right, teaching an alternativebehavior.
That would be incompatible.
If your dog was committed tothe behavior couldn't run out
the door.
So maybe the strategy is everytime you need to open the door,
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you've asked your dog to go toits bed and lay down and stay
there and little by littleyou've taught that.
Okay, but there's two thingsdoor manners you've gotta teach
the dog that, hey, you always gothrough the door first.
Then you call the dog to youand do me a favor and make sure
you don't let the dog wait rightat the threshold of the doorway
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.
Put the dog back.
So you got that little cushion,that little window of two to
three feet.
As you see the dog move towardsyou or towards the dog or door,
you're able to pick up yourleash and then guide the dog
back.
All right, and you wanna dothis daily again.
You wanna spend about five toseven minutes every day doing it
.
If you can have multipletraining sessions, it's just
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gonna go faster, but shortsessions are a lot better than
very long sessions.
I'm Will Bangura.
You are watching Facebook Livethe dog training today show.
I'm here the first Saturday ofevery month where I answer your
questions about your dog'sbehavior and training,
challenges and problems.
If you've got a question aboutyour dog's behavior and training
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, please type it in the commentsbelow.
I'm gonna be answering yourquestions.
I mentioned that January isNational Train your Dog Month.
So what does that mean?
It means that as a trainer anda behaviorist, I'm supposed to
encourage you to train your dog.
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You know there's nothing betterthan having a dog that's really
well-behaved, that you can goanywhere with it.
You can take the dog anywhere.
You can have anybody come overto the house.
You're not frustrated, you'renot angry and it takes five to
seven minutes of training everyday and being patient and it
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doesn't take long before yourdog starts improving.
But it's a process.
Everybody wants a quick fix andthe problem with quick fixes is
they typically don't last.
You know, training is abouteducating and it's about
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creating muscle memory.
You've gotta do enoughrepetition with your dog on
whatever you're training andteaching where your dog doesn't
have to think about it, where itjust happens automatically,
it's a reflex.
You know, maybe I should writean article on reflexive training
.
And you know we talk aboutclassical conditioning and about
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reflexes and responded learning.
You know, pavloff, who wasstudying salivation in dogs,
realized that when the dogs werefed they salivated, and he
realized that they started tosalivate before the food came.
They started salivating whenthe helpers came into the room
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because they knew those helpersonly came in the room to feed.
They made that associationbetween the person and the food.
Now all they've gotta do is seethe person.
They start drooling becausethey anticipate food.
That is a reflex.
They didn't make themselvesdrool, it happened automatically
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because of so much repetition.
So Pavloff saw that and he goeshmm, what if I?
Rang a bell, gave food.
Rang a bell, gave food.
Rang a bell gave food.
Rang a bell, gave food?
Would I eventually be able tojust ring the bell and get them
to salivate without any food,like I think I'm seeing them
salivate without any food whenthe people that come in to help
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feed walk in?
Sure enough, pavloff did theexperiment rang the bell, gave
food.
Rang the bell, gave food.
Rang the bell, gave food.
Eventually, all he had to do isring the bell.
They'd start drooling Withenough repetition, with enough
consistency.
You wanna train where your dog.
It's an automatic reflex.
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Most people do not have dogstrained to that level and they
need to repeat commands.
Their dogs fall apart whenthere's distractions.
They can't work.
So those are some things that Ithink are very, very important
that you've gotta have patienceand you've got to know that
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training is a journey, it's notan event, and that quick fixes
don't typically work.
And make sure, if you'relooking for a professional to
help you train your dog, thatyou find somebody who is
certified.
You need to go to thecertification council for
professional dog trainerswebsite.
In their directory they've gotcertified dog behavior
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consultants and certified dogtrainers.
See, the dog training industryis unregulated.
Anybody can call themselves adog trainer.
You get online, you look at awebsite.
You just assume they know whatthey're talking about.
Well, there's no requirementfor education, there are no
standards, so literally anybodycould call themselves a dog
trainer.
Make sure you find somebodythat's been certified.
(42:56):
All right, got a question herefrom somebody who's watching
Maria.
Maria says what can I do to getmy pirate ore to lay in his bed
?
We adopted him a month ago andhe refuses, only wants to be on
the couch.
He is a year old.
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Well, how about you start byputting the bed on the couch and
see if you can get him in there?
You can take some food, maria,and bring it to his nose.
High value food words, maybe apiece of dried liver or a piece
of chicken, or a piece of bacon,or a little bit of hot dog or
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cheese.
See if you bring it to his nose, can you slowly lure?
Can you lure?
Can you take that food and lurethe dog onto the bed and then,
as soon as the dog's on the bed,give the food.
Don't worry about the dogstaying there first, just worry
about getting the dog on there.
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I don't care if you got asprinkle a bunch of treats on
there, very tiny, to keep themthere.
You do what you need to do tocreate the behavior and then
start labeling it.
Don't ask for it because thedog doesn't know what it is.
Create the behavior with a foodlure and when your dog actually
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gets on the bed, then say thecue or command you want to use,
whether it's bed.
Try to make it one word, onesyllable, very simple.
Or place or spot bed.
Lure the dog with food, get thedog on its bed.
As a dog gets on the bed, saybed and give the food reward.
Make sure you do that about 10times in a row, do that every
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single day.
If you can do it more than oncea day, that's fantastic.
Then start eventually, asthat's going well for a few days
.
Then have the food in your handbut close the hand, bring it to
the dog's nose and then moveyour hand towards the bed and
ask for bed If your dog doesn'tgo.
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Your dog needs a little morerepetition with a food lure and
then eventually, hey, even whenyou've got that closed hand and
you guide the dog over and youpoint to the bed, make sure you
open that hand and reward thedog and then eventually do it
with no food in your hand.
But once the dog gets on thebed then you are going to reward
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the dog for that each and everytime.
You know I don't know what thebed looks like and I don't know
if it's you know one of thesebeds that is kind of high.
You know maybe a different bed,but you know most dogs.
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You know if you take a foodlure you can kind of lure them
up there.
You may have to put a leash onthe harness and give a little
guidance.
Don't force the dog on therebecause that's just going to
make the dog want to go thereeven less.
If the dog's having a badexperience related to that bed,
if you're like pulling on thatleash, you know, or putting
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pressure on the collar, yeahit's going to be a problem
because the dog's just going tosay, well, anything related to
the bed is punishment, becausethe dog doesn't feel good, the
dog's experiencing somediscomfort.
All right, let's see here.
Good morning Manny, michael andLewis here from Pittsburgh, pa,
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listening with our dogs Boxley,boxbombo.
Then it says M, a three yearold golden retriever, what else,
where is it?
Three year old golden retriever, four month old golden doodle
Right?
How do I get my dogs a threeyear old rat terrier and a four
month old, okay, golden doodleto share toys?
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They want the toy the other onehas at the time and that's
actually from Elaine.
All right, so, elaine, here'sthe thing Dogs don't share, dogs
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don't share.
And if dogs do share, that'smore of a odd abnormal behavior
than what is normal.
The question should be do theyfight over toys?
Do they fight over objects?
Okay, if they're not fighting,don't worry about it, they will
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work it out.
They'll work it out.
Dogs don't share.
That's not in the geneticnature of a dog and they're
going to want the other toy andthat's what they do.
Same thing happens with my dogs.
I just make sure that there'splenty of toys that they can get
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something in their mouth andplay with.
If my dogs were fighting overtoys not sharing and fighting
over toys then I would dosomething.
I'd be concerned.
But you're trying to get dogsto do what people do, and people
share.
They're not people, they'redogs.
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I don't know that you probablydon't like that answer, but
that's the fact of the matterand I think you know it's
probably more concerning for youthan it is your dogs.
What do you think?
Do your dogs seem upset whenthis is going on?
Are they upset?
Is there distress?
Well, if there is, let me knowand you know we'll see if
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there's other things that we canaddress as it relates to that.
Okay, okay, back, manny.
Thank you.
I see you said good morningfrom.
I got your message mixed upwith Elaine Morning from
Pittsburgh, pa, listening to herdog, listening with her dogs.
Moxley, mox, momo M Is thattheir cute little names?
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Dog's name is Moxley.
I think you've got nicknameslike Mox, momo M.
Yeah, I've got a lot ofnicknames for my dogs as well
Three year old golden retrieverand good rich G Go-Go.
Okay, 11 year old chocolate lab.
I love labs.
I had several chocolate labsthroughout my life and they're
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great dogs.
I'm Will Bangura and you arewatching Dog Training Today.
If you're just joining us, I'mhere the first Saturday of every
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If you've got a question aboutyour dog's training, if you've
got a question about your dog'sbehavior, do me a favor and go
(50:04):
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glad to help you out and answeryour questions.
I've also got some emailquestions here that I can go
through, but I like to take thistime to answer your questions.
Need to take a second to talkabout calm dogs.
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If you know somebody thatthey've got a dog that could
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All right, enough of that.
Let me go back into see if Ihave any questions here right
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now.
Go into the email questionsalso, also those that are just
joining.
In addition to the monthlyFacebook live where I do a Q&A,
then I'm going to be doing thefirst Saturday of every month
I'm doing one to two audiopodcasts every single week.
For example, if you go whereveryou listen to your podcast and
(52:58):
if you don't listen to podcasts,you should.
There's so much greatinformation.
You can go to Apple podcast,google podcast, you can go to
iHeartRadio, spotify, stitcher,buzzsprout.
Those are all different placesyou can go to listen to podcasts
.
Do a search for the dogtraining today podcast.
Make sure that you subscribe sothat you never miss an episode.
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A lot of people here we'retalking about issues that also
relate to impulse control.
These dogs that boom run outthe door, or dogs that boom jump
they need also impulse control.
I just did part one of how youteach impulse control to dogs
and it's up there right now onthe audio podcast.
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All right, let me get to.
I think I've got time for maybe,maybe one more question, one
more email, unless somebody'sgoing to type a question that's
watching right now and I'll jumpinto that and run a little bit
over, but I try to end alwayswithin the hour.
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I don't like these to go longerthan an hour.
By the way, the audio podcastnow they can go anywhere from 20
minutes, 45 minutes.
Well, it's in a great while tobe long, okay, but I'm trying to
keep them a little bit shorter.
Keep people more interested anddo me a favor.
If you've got ideas, if thereare things you would like me to
discuss on dog training today,you can go ahead and shoot me an
(54:51):
email.
Email me at info atdogbehavioristcom.
That's info atdogbehavioristcom.
Also, if you are looking for aprofessional help, you you can't
find anybody that you think isqualified and can help you where
you live.
I do behavior consultations allover the world.
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I do virtual consultations.
It's extremely successful.
I know you think that we needto be there in person.
We don't.
We need to be good teachers,good educators and teach you
what to do to get your dogbetter.
But if you are looking for help, go to dogbehavioristcom.
You can send me a message andwe can see if I can help you.
I've got, like I said, clientsall over the world in Australia,
(55:35):
in the UK, all throughout theUnited States and they're all
doing a great job.
I'm so proud.
I know a lot of my clientslisten to the audio podcast or
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I'm going to be here.
Let's see.
When is the next Facebook live?
Get into the calendar here.
I think it's February 3rd, butlet me get into the calendar.
Yeah, february 3rd.
So the next Facebook live whereI'm going to be answering and
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doing Q&A is going to beFebruary 3rd and I'm going to be
here at 11 am Eastern Time, 8am Pacific, 10 o'clock Central.
And if you're in Arizona andyou're in Arizona, it doesn't do
daylight savings, it starts at9 o'clock.
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But again, january, nationaltrain your dog month.
If you have a dog that you'vehad for a while and it's had
problems and you've avoidedtraining, make that a new year's
resolution that you are goingto take some time to train your
dog.
Also, want to let you know for2024, one of the things that I
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want to do is do more interviewswith other dog training and
behavior professionals, andthose interviews that I'm going
to be doing throughout the year,those are all going to be
uploaded to the Dog TrainingToday audio podcast.
So make sure that you havesubscribed to that, elaine?
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What is your calming choosecompared to fluxitine for dogs?
Well, fluxitine hydrochlorideis the generic for Prozac and
it's a pharmaceutical.
You know, if the dog is supersevere, the dogs might need
medication in conjunction withbehavior modification.
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Calmed dogs works very similarto some medications like
fluxitine, but it's all natural.
But what does fluxitine do?
Now, I'm not a veterinarian.
I'm not giving out medicaladvice.
I do have very specifictraining and education in
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psychopharmacology and I cantalk about that.
So serotonin is boosted whenyou use Prozac fluxitine.
What it does, serotonin is aneurotransmitter.
It's kind of the feel goodneurotransmitter.
We use Prozac a lot with dogsthat have severe anxiety, fears,
phobias, aggression andreactivity.
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But no pill is going to justcompletely change a dog and
there are some dogs that need it.
You know dogs have mentalillness.
We don't call it mental illness, but dogs have mental illness.
They have anxiety disorders,they have bipolar, they have
schizophrenia we just don't callit that.
They have a nervous system justlike we do.
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They get PTSD and sometimesthere's a need for medication in
conjunction with behaviormodification.
Sometimes a natural supplementmight help.
My supplement can help a lot ofdogs.
Will it help your dog versusthe fluxitine?
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I don't know.
First of all, I want you totalk to your veterinarian.
Do not take your dog offmedication.
Do not switch something withouttalking to your veterinarian.
Also, if your dog is currentlyon behavioral medication, you
cannot give the calm dogs withthat, because your dog could get
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what's called serotoninsyndrome, having too much
serotonin, because calm dogs isvery powerful.
Is it as powerful as apharmaceutical?
No, no.
But it also doesn't come withall the side effects too.
Now, I don't want that to scareyou.
Prozac is a very safe, goodmedication.
We've used that with hundredsthousands of dogs myself
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personally and you'd never knowthey're on medication.
It doesn't make them a zombie.
It doesn't make them a zombie.
But you can get on.
Elaine, go to doganxietycom orcalmdogscom.
Look at the science behind thecalm dogs.
Look at the ingredients.
I mean I've got a ton ofscientific studies listed,
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everything.
It's a great supplement.
Is it going to help every dog?
No, some dogs need medication.
And if your dog's on medication, talk to your vet if you're
thinking about switching, andmake sure your dog's off of the
Prozac and off for a littlewhile, a couple of weeks, before
you start giving calm dogs.
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Now I'm not telling you to dothat.
You need to talk to your vetabout that.
Okay, all right, I'm going torun over just a little bit.
Katie has a question how do youstop a dog from playbiting other
dogs?
Well, first of all, why do youwant to stop it?
That's how dogs play.
It's called playbiting.
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Okay, when dogs are aggressive,they sink their canines into
the skin, they puncture andthose canines go into the skin.
If your dogs are not breakingskin and you called it yourself
playbiting, how do you stop adog from playbiting other dogs?
That's what dogs do.
(01:01:28):
They communicate with theirmouth.
Now, there might be some dogsthat didn't have proper canine
socialization and they don'tknow how to play, and maybe your
dog is playbiting some dogsthat don't know how to play
because they've got some issuesand they take that playbiting as
(01:01:49):
a threat and maybe they'regoing after your dog.
I don't know.
I'm speculating, katie, give memore information if you can.
I mean, I could teach you waysto stop it, but you're fighting
a lot of genetics and your dogsare playing.
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I don't know, katie, I'm hopingthat you're going to type in
some more information about this.
If it's not play, if it's trueaggression, they're going to
sink their teeth into the otherdog.
It can sound like when dogs areplaying.
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It can sound like they'rekilling each other, absolutely
killing each other.
Scott's saying maybe fromescalating is what she means.
Well, if it's about startingoff with play and playbiting and
you're concerned about itescalating, you have to say okay
, at a certain cap, at a certainlevel, I'm going to call my
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dogs to me on a recall or a comecommand which will stop that
behavior, and you can rewardthem for that rather than
correcting them.
Still waiting to see if Katieis going to give me more
information.
Katie, katie, katie.
But yeah, if they're escalating, you need to get involved.
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Call the dogs to you, andthat's where constantly working
on your recall, constantlyworking on having them come when
called, is so important,because it's a great way to
interrupt unwanted behaviorswithout having to use
corrections, without having touse punishment, which in many
cases, isn't fair because we'venever done the work that we
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needed to do to teach them whatit is that we want them to do so
well.
I was hoping that Katie wasgoing to give me a little more
information, but I I gotta go.
Guys, it's been a great show.
I appreciate all the questions.
Please come back on February3rd where we do our next
Facebook live.
Please make sure you subscribeto the Dog Training Today
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podcast.
Have a good weekend, everybody.
I'm out of here.
Did you know that January is National Train your
Dog Month, answering yourquestions, talking about that
and more in 60 seconds don't goanywhere.
We'll be right back.
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Raised by wolves with canine DNA in his blood.
Having trained more than 24,000vets, helping you and your fur
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Ladies and gentlemen, pleasewelcome your host and favorite
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Would you like to go on Walkies?
Happy 2024 dog lovers.
I'm Will Bangura and thanks forjoining me for another Facebook
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I'm going to be here each andevery Saturday, or I should say
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the first Saturday of everymonth.
That's one of the changes we'regoing to be making.
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Okay, I'm going to be gettingto questions in just a little
bit Again, if you're watching,if you've got a question, you
can type it in the commentsection below, and I'm also
going to be reading off emailquestions today as well.
I got a lot of email questionsabout different behaviors that I
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think you know.
A lot of them are nuisancebehaviors.
There's a few questions that Ihad that were related to puppies
, new puppies and potty training.
Matter of fact, did you get anew puppy for the holidays or
did you adopt a new dog for theholidays and are you having
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potty training problems?
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Training Unleashed.
Okay, let me go into some emailquestions right now and
actually I'm going to go.
I mentioned the potty training,so I'm going to talk about some
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.
A question that I got here aboutpotty training hey, will Jan is
here, got a question for you.
We just adopted anine-month-old puppy and the
puppy did not have any accidentsfor about the first two months
and then, all of a sudden, thepuppy how old is this puppy?
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But then all of a sudden, afterbeing with us for two months,
started having accidents.
We can't understand why andwe're struggling to stop it.
Well, here's the thing I don'tknow how old.
You say puppy, but you alsosaid you adopted one, so you
know that could be a four-month,six-month.
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You know some people are goingto consider it a puppy up to a
year, but regardless, you have adog and, let's say, regardless
of age, the first two months youhad it.
There were no accidents.
The dog or puppy was doinggreat, that's fantastic.
I want you to think about ifthat just happened naturally or
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if there were things that youdid to kind of help that along
all right.
Now one of the challenges iswhen we get a new dog and they
don't, at least initially, showproblems.
We don't tend to do proactivework in trying to prevent
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problems.
All right, if it was me being abrand new dog as soon as I got
it, I would be doing lots ofpotty breaks outside.
I would be rewarding withhigh-value food rewards if the
dog absolutely loves its mostfavorite.
Every single time the dog goesto the bathroom in the correct
spot, okay.
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But if you weren't havingaccidents for the first two
months and then all of a suddenyou start having accidents,
there might be some issues goingon.
For example, your dog might.
I'm not a veterinarian, I'm notgiving out medical advice, but
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some dogs can get urinary tractinfections, bladder infections.
So you know, is your dog goingmore frequently?
Is your dog having more urgency?
Is your dog you know we've gotthe accidents?
Is there a foul smell to it?
But what I would recommend,first and foremost, you need to
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rule out, make sure there'snothing medical going on,
because you had great successfor two months and then boom,
all of a sudden somethinghappens.
So let's take the dog to thevet, let the vet do a full exam,
make sure that we don't haveany problems with, say, urinary
tract infection.
Make sure that we don't haveany problems when it comes to
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any other medical issues thatmight be going on with the dog.
But what I need you to do rightnow, the number one rule when
you have a dog that has problemsinside the home, I don't care
if it's a potty training problem, I don't care if it's being
destructive in the house.
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You need to supervise that dog,that puppy.
They need to be in youreyesight at all times.
And if they're new and they'rehaving issues like potty
training issues or they're beingdestructive, I'm going to have
them drag a leash around.
I've actually got a leash whereI cut off the handle, because
if the handle kind of getscaught on things, so it's just
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kind of a straight line leash,you could use a small piece of
rope with a leash clasp.
You really want about three orfour feet of line or a leash
that's dragging behind the puppyor dog.
If you have problems with thedog again being destructive or
having problems in the housewith accidents or the dog's
getting on furniture, you don'twant them to do that or they're
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begging the leash and draggingthat leash or line just allows
you a little more leverage to beable to guide the dog with that
until you don't need to, untilyour dog has good manners.
But proactively you need tostart doing potty training
protocol and you need to assumeand start as if the dog's not
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potty trained.
Yeah, you had two great monthsbut there's issues.
Now You're going to take it tothe vet.
Make sure there's nothingmedically going on.
Then the next thing is hasthere been some recent changes?
Is there a lot of stress thathas happened?
Did this dog or puppy go frombeing a kind of a calm demeanor
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to now a dog that's kind ofnervous, because anxiety and
fear and stress can cause thoseaccident problems too.
So is there something going onthat's different?
All right, if it's anxiety,you've got to deal with the
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problem of anxiety If that's theissue.
So you need to figure out.
You know, is this medical?
Is it about anxiety?
Is this a dog that maybe hadone accident and nobody was
around.
So now it thinks hey, it's fairgame to go to the bathroom in
the house and outside the houseand truly doesn't know Listen,
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if your dog or puppy is going tothe bathroom in the house, they
don't know that it's okay.
If they knew they would gooutside.
Now they know a lot of you comehome and you walk in the door
and a minute you walk in thedoor the dog looks guilty and
sure enough, there's an accident.
You feel the dog knows it didwrong.
No, that's not what's going on.
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Typically, when you see thatlook, that you think is guilt.
What has happened prior to thatis the dog has had many
accidents and many times, if notall times, when you came home
and there was an accident, youpunish the dog.
Something negative, somethingbad, something unpleasant
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happened.
So now the dog is equating youcoming home with something bad
happening.
But unless you're able tocommunicate with the dog in the
act of the dog going to thebathroom, you can't do anything.
As far as communicating withyour dog.
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After the fact, when you cannotsupervise your dog, when the
dog can't be in your eyesight,you need to confine or create
the dog.
Most dogs are not going to havean accident in their crate, and
I don't know if your dog orpuppy's crate train, but if it
is, you need to utilize that.
Anytime you put your dog orpuppy in the crate, make sure
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before you do that you take themoutside for about five, 10, 15
minutes or so and then bringthem in and put them in the
crate, give them the opportunityto relieve themselves.
But again, those are some thingsthat I would want to know in
terms of whether or not there isanxiety Enrichment.
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Is your dog bored?
What kind of physical activity,what kind of mental activity
does the dog or puppy have?
Maybe we've got a dog or puppythat's also bored and we need to
increase that.
One of the podcasts that Irecently did I had it pulled up
a second ago was about how youmastered dog's impulse control,
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and I talked about another audiopodcast that I did, which was
is your dog anxious or is it alack of enrichment?
Boredom can bring about anxiety, but that doesn't mean that all
dogs have anxiety disorders.
You can have anxiety and nothave the disorder, and I'm not
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gonna get into what all thenuances are regarding that, but
when you're working with yourpuppy, when you're working with
your dog, you need to be veryproactive right now.
If you need to take a notebookand write down every time the
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dog or puppy eats.
Write down Every time the dogor puppy drinks.
Write down every time the puppygoes to the bathroom, whether
it's pee or poop, whether it'soutside successfully or inside
an accident.
Feed your dog at the same timeevery day.
If you start collecting thatdata and you write that down
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every time your dog eats, writeit down Every time your dog
drinks.
Write it down Every time yourdog goes to the bathroom, write
it down.
Is it an accident or did theygo in the right place?
After a few days you shouldstart to see a pattern X amount
of minutes after the dog drinksit's peeing, or X amount of
minutes or hours after the dogeats it's pooping.
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If you keep a good schedule,you will see the pattern that
allows you to kind of predictwhen this puppy or dog needs to
go to the bathroom based on thedata that you've collected.
Why is that important?
So that we can preventaccidents and maximize successes
.
You can go ahead if you knowroughly.
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Hey, maybe the informationyou've collected tells you that
every 20 minutes after the dogeats or drinks, it's going to
the bathroom.
If that's the case now you canset an alarm on your smart watch
or your smartphone or whatever.
You can set an alarm to makesure, like I would set it for 15
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minutes.
If the dog, typically 20minutes after, would go to the
bathroom 15 minutes, my alarmgoes off.
That signals me.
Hey, I gotta get the dog out.
Now.
I'm gonna make sure again.
I've got high value food rewardsand the better the reward.
Think about rewards as currency.
Do you want your dog to do areally good job?
Pay your dog as much as you can.
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And when it comes to pottytraining, nobody likes that
nobody.
It's gotta be the worst thing.
Everybody hates it when theirdog is using their house as a
toilet.
So if you're one of thesepeople that doesn't like to use
food and training, my questionis let's stop paying you for
going to your job.
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You're asking your dog to work.
That food's a paycheck.
Food rewards should be verytiny, about the size of a pea.
You should be using a treatpouch.
You should only be reaching inthere and getting a food reward
after your dog has done thebehavior.
That's a difference betweenusing it as a reward versus
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holding it in your hand, and nowit's a bribe.
You use food the right way,correctly, and it's not a bribe.
You use food correctly and youcan wean off of that food and I
did an article recently aboutthat how to use food correctly
in training.
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Have you guys been to my websiteDown below?
Where is it Right in the middledown below?
Dogbehavioristcom?
Check out my website atdogbehavioristcom.
If you go to the menu, click onarticles.
I've got over 80 free articlesthat cover 80 different topics.
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Basically, I've got articles onpotty training, I've got
articles on fears, phobias,aggression, reactivity, other
nuisance behaviors like digging,barking, begging, jumping,
being destructive.
But I've got an article onpotty training and, like I said
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earlier, if you've got a dog, ifyou've got a puppy that you're
struggling with and you can'tget that dog or puppy potty
train, check out my book, go toamazoncom, look for house
training 101, potty trainingunleashed by Will Bangura.
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All right, let me go to anotheremail question that I have.
Well, we've got a dog thatconstantly jumps.
He is very excitable and wehave actually worked with two
different trainers.
He knows his commands.
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He can sit, he can lay down oncommand, he can walk on a loose
leash and he can do all that.
The thing that we're strugglingwith is he's got a lot of
energy, keeping him very calmand making sure that he doesn't
jump.
We have a small child and alsomy husband's mother lives with
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us and she's elderly and we'reconcerned if the dog jumps on
her she might fall.
All right, I'm concerned aboutyour toddler or your baby.
I'm concerned about yourmother-in-law.
We need to, first and foremost,make sure everybody's safe.
If you know when the dog'sgonna jump, at least right now,
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as a safety measure, have aleash on the dog.
Grab that leash so it can'tjump, okay.
Now the first thing you need todo is make sure your dog is not
in situations that cause it tojump.
Now, that's not the answer,that's not the fix, but it's the
first step to the fix.
If your dog keeps engaging inthat behavior, because the
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opportunity exists that justkeeps getting more and more and
more conditioned and in grade.
We need this behavior toextinguish, and so the first
thing we need to do is avoid allthe triggers and write down all
the triggers what things, whatsituations?
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What things, what people,places, things, situations,
locations, times.
Does your dog jump.
When you know the triggers, nowyou can begin to both
proactively start dealing withthe jumping and you'll know what
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to do ahead of time when thosetriggers appear.
Now there's a couple differentoptions, and those of you that
watch dog training today, youknow there's two philosophies on
training, and one is positivereinforcement.
The other one is where they usecorrections and punishment.
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And today, modern dog trainers,certified dog trainers, dog
trainers that have goodeducation, that know what
they're doing, they don't useaversive tools, they don't use
choke collars, prom collars,electric collars.
They're not punishing andcorrecting dogs.
First and foremost, the dog'sjust being a dog and if we
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didn't take the time to teachthe dog what we want and
alternative behavior to jumping,that jumping behavior is very
normal, matter of fact.
We create jumping a lot oftimes because puppies we pick up
from the ground up up to us andthe dog then learns to jump as
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a result of that and we tend toreinforce it by petting the dog
and picking the dog up whenthey're small, but now they're
big and we don't like it.
Okay, rather than punishing thedog, rather than using
corrections because you don'tneed to listen any behavior can
be trained in.
Any behavior can be trained outusing positive reinforcement.
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If you don't think that'spossible, you just don't know
how to use positivereinforcement the correct way.
If another trainer tells youthat you can't train a dog
reliably, especially withdistractions, with just using
food, that you must usecorrections and punishment, you
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must use things that cause fear,pain, intimidation or at least
the dog being uncomfortable.
They're wrong.
They just don't have the honedhigh-end skills using positive
reinforcement.
Just because somebody can'tmake it happen with positive
reinforcement doesn't mean itdoesn't work.
Just means they're not skilledat it and we need to teach and
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we need to learn more.
But I like to teach analternative behavior for jumping
.
Let's just use the excitabilityof somebody coming home and
through the door.
Now a lot of trainers will have.
You need the dog in the chest,maybe take a can with pennies
and throw it.
Maybe yell no at the dog.
Maybe you've got an electriccollar and you've shocked the
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dog, or you've got a prongcollar and you give a leash pop
correction.
I don't do any of that.
To me that's not fair and it'sunnecessary.
And you have to ask yourself aquestion your relationship with
your dog, should it be one whereyou're inflicting discomfort or
should it be one of benevolentleadership, love, patience,
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understanding and teaching?
The word discipline comes fromthe word disciple, and a
disciple is somebody who'sstudying under and a disciple is
learning, and that's what yourdog is.
Discipline doesn't mean hittingyour dog, doesn't mean
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punishing your dog.
It means educating and learning, and I like to teach the dog to
sit instead of jump.
So one of the things that I dois I start by doing a lot of
repetition of asking my dog tosit three feet back from the
door and I reward the dog, andthen I start working on
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distractions.
The door is not open, nobody'scoming in.
I'm just working on a solid sit, stay about three feet from the
door and little by little,gradually, I'm adding
distractions.
If my dog breaks from that sit,stay.
When I'm doing distractions, Ijust need to back up, lower the
level of distractions, give morereinforcement for what the dog
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can do and take a little bitslower approach.
Listen, when your dog fails atsomething, it doesn't mean your
dog is stubborn or stupid orcan't be trained.
It just means we need to makean adjustment to how we're
teaching.
That's all it means iscommunication.
A lot of people are working toofast.
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They wanna rush their dogthrough something.
Have patients.
Take your time.
It's a gradual, systematicprocess to get your dog to
really listen when all hell'sbreaking loose, when there are
big distractions.
Okay, I'm Will Van Gura and ifyou're watching right now, this
is dog training today.
Welcome, appreciate you guyswatching.
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I'm gonna be answeringquestions.
Right now I'm doing emailquestions.
If you're watching and you havea question about your dog's
training and behavior, do me afavor, go ahead and type it in
the comments section below.
There's no wrong questions, nobad questions.
Ask whatever it is that youwant.
All right, let's go back tothat email question and I'm
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talking about what I would do toteach a dog not to jump.
I'm not correcting, I'm notpunishing the dog.
I'm teaching the dog analternative behavior.
I'm gonna start three feet fromthe door, do a lot of sit stays
Might, do that for about a weekor so and while I'm doing that,
gradually, systematically, I'madding distractions and if the
dog takes the bait, I just putthe dog back in sit.
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The dog doesn't take the baitof my distractions and maintains
that sit.
I'm gonna be rewarding the dogevery single time, showing the
dog what I want through rewardsand shaping that behavior.
If my dog keeps breaking fromthe sit stay, I'm working too
fast.
Slow it down.
Bring those distractions down alittle bit.
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Spend more time.
Then try going to a higherlevel distraction, all right,
once I've got that pretty solid.
Now what I'm doing is I'm doingthe same thing and I'm adding a
distraction of a doorbell ordoor knocking.
Now for some dogs that justreally sets them off big time
and they might be extremelydifficult to control or manage.
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You may need to start teachingyour dog to sit and stay when
the door knocking happens or thedoorbell happens, by starting
with very light, very lightknocking and with the doorbell
you can record the doorbellsound and you can play it at
super low volumes.
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That will help your dog havesuccess.
To start with, maintaining thatsit stay when somebody's
knocking or ringing the bell.
Now, gradually, systematically,maybe over two weeks, we need
to turn the volume of thedoorbell up.
We need to bring the volume ofthe knocking up, all right.
Now when you're having trainingsessions with your dog, they
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should be about seven to 10minutes.
Yeah, they don't need to belong, but make those seven to 10
minutes count, all right.
The next step, if my dog's doingwell, can maintain the sit,
stay, with knocking and thedoorbell ringing.
Then I add the component of thedoor opening up.
But it just opens up a crackand I'm gonna do that a bunch of
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times to make sure that whenthat door opens up just a crack
my dog doesn't get out of thesit stay.
Little by little that doorstarts to open more and more and
more.
Then, when that's going well,I'm gonna have a helper, a human
helper, a stranger, and I'mgonna put them about 15 feet
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from the front of the door.
I'll have them ring thedoorbell, walk back 15 feet.
I open the door.
I want the dog to see there's astranger, but at a distance.
If the stranger starts realclose, the dog might get too
excited and break the sit stay.
I want success, so I'm gonnastart them back and reward the
dog for maintaining the sit.
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I'm gonna do lots of repetitionof that.
Little by little I'm gonnabring the stranger forward and
then we get to the point wherethe stranger comes in the door
and stands at the doorway andthen, little by little, we add
animation or excitability to thetrigger.
So we have that helper, thathuman helper, over time start
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making noises, start moving alittle faster, adding more
stimulation, but gradually.
Again, if the dog keeps losing,if the dog keeps coming out of
the sit stay, you need toreinforce more at the previous
step.
You're working too fast.
Slow it down a little bit,it'll happen.
You just gotta work at thedog's pace.
You can't work faster than thedog's pace.
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And then I'm gonna startgeneralizing that once the dog
has that, with differentstrangers coming over, now you
can do the same thing by sendingyour dog to its better place
instead of sitting and staying.
You could do the same thingasking your dog to lie down and
stay rather than sitting andstaying.
But the key here is teachingyour dog a different behavior
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that if your dog's committed tothat different behavior, it
would be incompatible and thedog would not be able to do the
behavior you don't want.
You don't want the dog to jump.
Well, the dog can't be sittingand jumping at the same time.
The dog can't be on its betterplace and jump at the same time.
The dog can't be lying down andcommitted to that behavior and
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jump on somebody at the sametime.
So teaching an alternativebehavior is absolutely,
absolutely critical.
I'm Will Van Goura.
Hey, thanks for joining me.
If you're just joining us now,I'm a certified dog behavior
consultant.
I've been doing this for 35years.
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I specialize in working withdogs with severe fears, phobias,
aggression, anxiety, reactivitybut I also work with puppies
basic obedience, nuisancebehaviors like jumping and
barking and being destructive orhaving potty accidents,
something like that.
So those are some things thatwe talk about.
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If you've got a question aboutyour dog's training or behavior,
do me a favor, type it in thecomment section below.
Don't be shy.
If you've got a question, letme help you.
Write it in below.
I'm going through emailquestions right now and if
you've got a question, like Isaid, put it in the comment
section.
I will get to that as well.
All right, let's get to the nextemail question after a sip of
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the coffee here, all right?
The next one is from John.
John, actually Alaska.
Okay, you don't tell me whatkind of dog you have.
I was wondering if you had aMalamute.
Anyway, john says that he's gota dog that bolts out the door
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and the dog takes off runningand it's next to impossible to
get the dog back.
My concern is he's gonna getout and get hurt.
What do I do?
Well, john, there's a couple ofthings here that we need to
talk about.
One is what is the impetus,what's the trigger that your dog
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?
Why is your dog running out thedoor?
Is your dog running tosomething?
Do we need to desensitize yourdog to that something that your
dog might be running to?
Maybe it's not that, maybe yourdog's just excited, wants to
get out and sniff.
But there's a couple of things.
One proactively we wanna teachdoor manners.
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Okay then the second thing wewanna do is make sure we have an
emergency recall.
All right, an emergency recallis getting your dog to come when
called, but it's different thanyour everyday come command.
An emergency recall is neverused except in an emergency.
An emergency recall you aretraining constantly for the
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dog's life and you hope younever have to use it Now.
If you go to my website,dogbehavioristcom there it is
down below dogbehavioristcom andgo to the article section,
recently I did an article on theemergency recall.
I can't remember or not whetherI did an audio podcast.
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There might be an audio podcastembedded in that article how to
teach the emergency recall.
But let me just give you just areal quick synopsis on that.
So the first thing you wanna dois get your dog's attention.
Drop a couple high value treatson the floor and give the cue
that you're gonna use to get thedog to come on the emergency
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recall.
Now this should be a wordthat's rarely used.
I had a client that usedPoughkeepsie.
Let me tell you the story.
So the client had two goldenretrievers.
They went on vacation withtheir kids and they get a call
from the dog sitter.
They got a dog sitter that'sstaying at their home watching
the dogs and the dog sitter'sfrantic crying, sobbing because
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the dogs ran out the door.
Down the road.
She's running after them tryingto get them to come back.
They're not coming back.
They think it's a game.
She's scared because she spent20 minutes trying to get them
back.
She can't get them back.
So finally, she calls theowners and the owners say what I
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want you to do in a loud butnot scary voice, but loud enough
they can hear it.
I want you to say Pekipsie, andthey should come to you and if
they do, give them a high valuefood reward, go quickly, get in
the house and get some rewards.
They're in the cookie jar.
So she gets it.
She goes out there, she goesPekipsie, dogs turn around, come
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running to her like rockets.
The emergency recall is soimportant, so very important.
So I start by going Pekipsie, Idrop a couple of treats on the
ground.
Then I say, pekipsie, I runback two steps, drop treats on
the ground.
Then I say, pekipsie, I runback four steps, drop treats on
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the ground.
You get the idea Little bylittle.
Every day I'm adding a littlemore distance to that.
I'm doing about fiverepetitions of that every single
day.
Now, once the dog isunbelievably reliable with
distractions.
Now I'm going to do that once amonth.
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I'm gonna have a trainingsession on that to keep it solid
, all right.
So the emergency recall if theyget out the door, you gotta get
them back critical.
Check out my website,dogbehavorscom, and check out
the article on the emergencyrecall.
The other thing that you need todo is teach your dog
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doormanners, and what I do is Itake the dog and I put them
about three feet back from thedoor.
I like to have a doormat insidethe house and when I open the
door and I'll have a leash onthe dog when I'm training this,
the dog must stay behind thatdoormat, about two, three feet
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behind the door, and I'm gonnaturn and face the dog, put my
hand by them and tell them wait,I'm gonna take a step back,
facing the dog.
If the dog follows me, I'mgoing to guide the dog back
where I had them, put my hand infront of them, tell them wait,
now I'm gonna take a half a stepback.
Remember, the dog failed on astep.
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Take a half a step back.
If the dog doesn't move, I'mgonna reward the dog.
Then I'm gonna take anotherhalf a step.
If the dog doesn't move, I'mgonna reward the dog.
Little by little, I'm teachingthe dog to wait, not move
forward, when that door opens.
All right, now the other thingyou could do exactly what I was
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talking about with the other dogthat we were teaching, that
sits, stay, that likes to jumpon people when they come over,
right, teaching an alternativebehavior.
That would be incompatible.
If your dog was committed tothe behavior couldn't run out
the door.
So maybe the strategy is everytime you need to open the door,
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you've asked your dog to go toits bed and lay down and stay
there and little by littleyou've taught that.
Okay, but there's two thingsdoor manners you've gotta teach
the dog that, hey, you always gothrough the door first.
Then you call the dog to youand do me a favor and make sure
you don't let the dog wait rightat the threshold of the doorway
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.
Put the dog back.
So you got that little cushion,that little window of two to
three feet.
As you see the dog move towardsyou or towards the dog or door,
you're able to pick up yourleash and then guide the dog
back.
All right, and you wanna dothis daily again.
You wanna spend about five toseven minutes every day doing it
.
If you can have multipletraining sessions, it's just
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gonna go faster, but shortsessions are a lot better than
very long sessions.
I'm Will Bangura.
You are watching Facebook Livethe dog training today show.
I'm here the first Saturday ofevery month where I answer your
questions about your dog'sbehavior and training,
challenges and problems.
If you've got a question aboutyour dog's behavior and training
(38:50):
, please type it in the commentsbelow.
I'm gonna be answering yourquestions.
I mentioned that January isNational Train your Dog Month.
So what does that mean?
It means that as a trainer anda behaviorist, I'm supposed to
encourage you to train your dog.
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You know there's nothing betterthan having a dog that's really
well-behaved, that you can goanywhere with it.
You can take the dog anywhere.
You can have anybody come overto the house.
You're not frustrated, you'renot angry and it takes five to
seven minutes of training everyday and being patient and it
(39:34):
doesn't take long before yourdog starts improving.
But it's a process.
Everybody wants a quick fix andthe problem with quick fixes is
they typically don't last.
You know, training is abouteducating and it's about
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creating muscle memory.
You've gotta do enoughrepetition with your dog on
whatever you're training andteaching where your dog doesn't
have to think about it, where itjust happens automatically,
it's a reflex.
You know, maybe I should writean article on reflexive training
.
And you know we talk aboutclassical conditioning and about
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reflexes and responded learning.
You know, pavloff, who wasstudying salivation in dogs,
realized that when the dogs werefed they salivated, and he
realized that they started tosalivate before the food came.
They started salivating whenthe helpers came into the room
(40:40):
because they knew those helpersonly came in the room to feed.
They made that associationbetween the person and the food.
Now all they've gotta do is seethe person.
They start drooling becausethey anticipate food.
That is a reflex.
They didn't make themselvesdrool, it happened automatically
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because of so much repetition.
So Pavloff saw that and he goeshmm, what if I?
Rang a bell, gave food.
Rang a bell, gave food.
Rang a bell gave food.
Rang a bell, gave food?
Would I eventually be able tojust ring the bell and get them
to salivate without any food,like I think I'm seeing them
salivate without any food whenthe people that come in to help
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feed walk in?
Sure enough, pavloff did theexperiment rang the bell, gave
food.
Rang the bell, gave food.
Rang the bell, gave food.
Eventually, all he had to do isring the bell.
They'd start drooling Withenough repetition, with enough
consistency.
You wanna train where your dog.
It's an automatic reflex.
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Most people do not have dogstrained to that level and they
need to repeat commands.
Their dogs fall apart whenthere's distractions.
They can't work.
So those are some things that Ithink are very, very important
that you've gotta have patienceand you've got to know that
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training is a journey, it's notan event, and that quick fixes
don't typically work.
And make sure, if you'relooking for a professional to
help you train your dog, thatyou find somebody who is
certified.
You need to go to thecertification council for
professional dog trainerswebsite.
In their directory they've gotcertified dog behavior
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consultants and certified dogtrainers.
See, the dog training industryis unregulated.
Anybody can call themselves adog trainer.
You get online, you look at awebsite.
You just assume they know whatthey're talking about.
Well, there's no requirementfor education, there are no
standards, so literally anybodycould call themselves a dog
trainer.
Make sure you find somebodythat's been certified.
(42:56):
All right, got a question herefrom somebody who's watching
Maria.
Maria says what can I do to getmy pirate ore to lay in his bed
?
We adopted him a month ago andhe refuses, only wants to be on
the couch.
He is a year old.
(43:18):
Well, how about you start byputting the bed on the couch and
see if you can get him in there?
You can take some food, maria,and bring it to his nose.
High value food words, maybe apiece of dried liver or a piece
of chicken, or a piece of bacon,or a little bit of hot dog or
(43:39):
cheese.
See if you bring it to his nose, can you slowly lure?
Can you lure?
Can you take that food and lurethe dog onto the bed and then,
as soon as the dog's on the bed,give the food.
Don't worry about the dogstaying there first, just worry
about getting the dog on there.
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I don't care if you got asprinkle a bunch of treats on
there, very tiny, to keep themthere.
You do what you need to do tocreate the behavior and then
start labeling it.
Don't ask for it because thedog doesn't know what it is.
Create the behavior with a foodlure and when your dog actually
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gets on the bed, then say thecue or command you want to use,
whether it's bed.
Try to make it one word, onesyllable, very simple.
Or place or spot bed.
Lure the dog with food, get thedog on its bed.
As a dog gets on the bed, saybed and give the food reward.
Make sure you do that about 10times in a row, do that every
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single day.
If you can do it more than oncea day, that's fantastic.
Then start eventually, asthat's going well for a few days
.
Then have the food in your handbut close the hand, bring it to
the dog's nose and then moveyour hand towards the bed and
ask for bed If your dog doesn'tgo.
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Your dog needs a little morerepetition with a food lure and
then eventually, hey, even whenyou've got that closed hand and
you guide the dog over and youpoint to the bed, make sure you
open that hand and reward thedog and then eventually do it
with no food in your hand.
But once the dog gets on thebed then you are going to reward
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the dog for that each and everytime.
You know I don't know what thebed looks like and I don't know
if it's you know one of thesebeds that is kind of high.
You know maybe a different bed,but you know most dogs.
(45:49):
You know if you take a foodlure you can kind of lure them
up there.
You may have to put a leash onthe harness and give a little
guidance.
Don't force the dog on therebecause that's just going to
make the dog want to go thereeven less.
If the dog's having a badexperience related to that bed,
if you're like pulling on thatleash, you know, or putting
(46:12):
pressure on the collar, yeahit's going to be a problem
because the dog's just going tosay, well, anything related to
the bed is punishment, becausethe dog doesn't feel good, the
dog's experiencing somediscomfort.
All right, let's see here.
Good morning Manny, michael andLewis here from Pittsburgh, pa,
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listening with our dogs Boxley,boxbombo.
Then it says M, a three yearold golden retriever, what else,
where is it?
Three year old golden retriever, four month old golden doodle
Right?
How do I get my dogs a threeyear old rat terrier and a four
month old, okay, golden doodleto share toys?
(46:58):
They want the toy the other onehas at the time and that's
actually from Elaine.
All right, so, elaine, here'sthe thing Dogs don't share, dogs
(47:20):
don't share.
And if dogs do share, that'smore of a odd abnormal behavior
than what is normal.
The question should be do theyfight over toys?
Do they fight over objects?
Okay, if they're not fighting,don't worry about it, they will
(47:49):
work it out.
They'll work it out.
Dogs don't share.
That's not in the geneticnature of a dog and they're
going to want the other toy andthat's what they do.
Same thing happens with my dogs.
I just make sure that there'splenty of toys that they can get
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something in their mouth andplay with.
If my dogs were fighting overtoys not sharing and fighting
over toys then I would dosomething.
I'd be concerned.
But you're trying to get dogsto do what people do, and people
share.
They're not people, they'redogs.
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I don't know that you probablydon't like that answer, but
that's the fact of the matterand I think you know it's
probably more concerning for youthan it is your dogs.
What do you think?
Do your dogs seem upset whenthis is going on?
Are they upset?
Is there distress?
Well, if there is, let me knowand you know we'll see if
(48:58):
there's other things that we canaddress as it relates to that.
Okay, okay, back, manny.
Thank you.
I see you said good morningfrom.
I got your message mixed upwith Elaine Morning from
Pittsburgh, pa, listening to herdog, listening with her dogs.
Moxley, mox, momo M Is thattheir cute little names?
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Dog's name is Moxley.
I think you've got nicknameslike Mox, momo M.
Yeah, I've got a lot ofnicknames for my dogs as well
Three year old golden retrieverand good rich G Go-Go.
Okay, 11 year old chocolate lab.
I love labs.
I had several chocolate labsthroughout my life and they're
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great dogs.
I'm Will Bangura and you arewatching Dog Training Today.
If you're just joining us, I'mhere the first Saturday of every
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If you've got a question aboutyour dog's training, if you've
got a question about your dog'sbehavior, do me a favor and go
(50:04):
ahead and type it in the commentsection below and I will be
glad to help you out and answeryour questions.
I've also got some emailquestions here that I can go
through, but I like to take thistime to answer your questions.
Need to take a second to talkabout calm dogs.
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This is for dogs that haveemotional upset, okay, and I
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Or you can go to doganxietycomand give it a shot.
If you know somebody thatthey've got a dog that could
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All right, enough of that.
Let me go back into see if Ihave any questions here right
(52:33):
now.
Go into the email questionsalso, also those that are just
joining.
In addition to the monthlyFacebook live where I do a Q&A,
then I'm going to be doing thefirst Saturday of every month
I'm doing one to two audiopodcasts every single week.
For example, if you go whereveryou listen to your podcast and
(52:58):
if you don't listen to podcasts,you should.
There's so much greatinformation.
You can go to Apple podcast,google podcast, you can go to
iHeartRadio, spotify, stitcher,buzzsprout.
Those are all different placesyou can go to listen to podcasts
.
Do a search for the dogtraining today podcast.
Make sure that you subscribe sothat you never miss an episode.
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A lot of people here we'retalking about issues that also
relate to impulse control.
These dogs that boom run outthe door, or dogs that boom jump
they need also impulse control.
I just did part one of how youteach impulse control to dogs
and it's up there right now onthe audio podcast.
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All right, let me get to.
I think I've got time for maybe,maybe one more question, one
more email, unless somebody'sgoing to type a question that's
watching right now and I'll jumpinto that and run a little bit
over, but I try to end alwayswithin the hour.
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I don't like these to go longerthan an hour.
By the way, the audio podcastnow they can go anywhere from 20
minutes, 45 minutes.
Well, it's in a great while tobe long, okay, but I'm trying to
keep them a little bit shorter.
Keep people more interested anddo me a favor.
If you've got ideas, if thereare things you would like me to
discuss on dog training today,you can go ahead and shoot me an
(54:51):
email.
Email me at info atdogbehavioristcom.
That's info atdogbehavioristcom.
Also, if you are looking for aprofessional help, you you can't
find anybody that you think isqualified and can help you where
you live.
I do behavior consultations allover the world.
(55:12):
I do virtual consultations.
It's extremely successful.
I know you think that we needto be there in person.
We don't.
We need to be good teachers,good educators and teach you
what to do to get your dogbetter.
But if you are looking for help, go to dogbehavioristcom.
You can send me a message andwe can see if I can help you.
I've got, like I said, clientsall over the world in Australia,
(55:35):
in the UK, all throughout theUnited States and they're all
doing a great job.
I'm so proud.
I know a lot of my clientslisten to the audio podcast or
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A lot of people watch it whenit's not live.
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I'm going to be here.
Let's see.
When is the next Facebook live?
Get into the calendar here.
I think it's February 3rd, butlet me get into the calendar.
Yeah, february 3rd.
So the next Facebook live whereI'm going to be answering and
(56:20):
doing Q&A is going to beFebruary 3rd and I'm going to be
here at 11 am Eastern Time, 8am Pacific, 10 o'clock Central.
And if you're in Arizona andyou're in Arizona, it doesn't do
daylight savings, it starts at9 o'clock.
(56:44):
But again, january, nationaltrain your dog month.
If you have a dog that you'vehad for a while and it's had
problems and you've avoidedtraining, make that a new year's
resolution that you are goingto take some time to train your
dog.
Also, want to let you know for2024, one of the things that I
(57:09):
want to do is do more interviewswith other dog training and
behavior professionals, andthose interviews that I'm going
to be doing throughout the year,those are all going to be
uploaded to the Dog TrainingToday audio podcast.
So make sure that you havesubscribed to that, elaine?
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What is your calming choosecompared to fluxitine for dogs?
Well, fluxitine hydrochlorideis the generic for Prozac and
it's a pharmaceutical.
You know, if the dog is supersevere, the dogs might need
medication in conjunction withbehavior modification.
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Calmed dogs works very similarto some medications like
fluxitine, but it's all natural.
But what does fluxitine do?
Now, I'm not a veterinarian.
I'm not giving out medicaladvice.
I do have very specifictraining and education in
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psychopharmacology and I cantalk about that.
So serotonin is boosted whenyou use Prozac fluxitine.
What it does, serotonin is aneurotransmitter.
It's kind of the feel goodneurotransmitter.
We use Prozac a lot with dogsthat have severe anxiety, fears,
phobias, aggression andreactivity.
(58:33):
But no pill is going to justcompletely change a dog and
there are some dogs that need it.
You know dogs have mentalillness.
We don't call it mental illness, but dogs have mental illness.
They have anxiety disorders,they have bipolar, they have
schizophrenia we just don't callit that.
They have a nervous system justlike we do.
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They get PTSD and sometimesthere's a need for medication in
conjunction with behaviormodification.
Sometimes a natural supplementmight help.
My supplement can help a lot ofdogs.
Will it help your dog versusthe fluxitine?
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I don't know.
First of all, I want you totalk to your veterinarian.
Do not take your dog offmedication.
Do not switch something withouttalking to your veterinarian.
Also, if your dog is currentlyon behavioral medication, you
cannot give the calm dogs withthat, because your dog could get
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what's called serotoninsyndrome, having too much
serotonin, because calm dogs isvery powerful.
Is it as powerful as apharmaceutical?
No, no.
But it also doesn't come withall the side effects too.
Now, I don't want that to scareyou.
Prozac is a very safe, goodmedication.
We've used that with hundredsthousands of dogs myself
(59:57):
personally and you'd never knowthey're on medication.
It doesn't make them a zombie.
It doesn't make them a zombie.
But you can get on.
Elaine, go to doganxietycom orcalmdogscom.
Look at the science behind thecalm dogs.
Look at the ingredients.
I mean I've got a ton ofscientific studies listed,
(01:00:24):
everything.
It's a great supplement.
Is it going to help every dog?
No, some dogs need medication.
And if your dog's on medication, talk to your vet if you're
thinking about switching, andmake sure your dog's off of the
Prozac and off for a littlewhile, a couple of weeks, before
you start giving calm dogs.
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Now I'm not telling you to dothat.
You need to talk to your vetabout that.
Okay, all right, I'm going torun over just a little bit.
Katie has a question how do youstop a dog from playbiting other
dogs?
Well, first of all, why do youwant to stop it?
That's how dogs play.
It's called playbiting.
(01:01:07):
Okay, when dogs are aggressive,they sink their canines into
the skin, they puncture andthose canines go into the skin.
If your dogs are not breakingskin and you called it yourself
playbiting, how do you stop adog from playbiting other dogs?
That's what dogs do.
(01:01:28):
They communicate with theirmouth.
Now, there might be some dogsthat didn't have proper canine
socialization and they don'tknow how to play, and maybe your
dog is playbiting some dogsthat don't know how to play
because they've got some issuesand they take that playbiting as
(01:01:49):
a threat and maybe they'regoing after your dog.
I don't know.
I'm speculating, katie, give memore information if you can.
I mean, I could teach you waysto stop it, but you're fighting
a lot of genetics and your dogsare playing.
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I don't know, katie, I'm hopingthat you're going to type in
some more information about this.
If it's not play, if it's trueaggression, they're going to
sink their teeth into the otherdog.
It can sound like when dogs areplaying.
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It can sound like they'rekilling each other, absolutely
killing each other.
Scott's saying maybe fromescalating is what she means.
Well, if it's about startingoff with play and playbiting and
you're concerned about itescalating, you have to say okay
, at a certain cap, at a certainlevel, I'm going to call my
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dogs to me on a recall or a comecommand which will stop that
behavior, and you can rewardthem for that rather than
correcting them.
Still waiting to see if Katieis going to give me more
information.
Katie, katie, katie.
But yeah, if they're escalating, you need to get involved.
(01:03:14):
Call the dogs to you, andthat's where constantly working
on your recall, constantlyworking on having them come when
called, is so important,because it's a great way to
interrupt unwanted behaviorswithout having to use
corrections, without having touse punishment, which in many
cases, isn't fair because we'venever done the work that we
(01:03:38):
needed to do to teach them whatit is that we want them to do so
well.
I was hoping that Katie wasgoing to give me a little more
information, but I I gotta go.
Guys, it's been a great show.
I appreciate all the questions.
Please come back on February3rd where we do our next
Facebook live.
Please make sure you subscribeto the Dog Training Today
(01:04:01):
podcast.
Have a good weekend, everybody.
I'm out of here.
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