i just found this channel. thank you for this. i have autism. and watching dogs relaxes me. i have a dog myself. but he doesn't get to socialize with other dogs much. so it's nice to watch a pack of dogs playing. i hope these dogs can find their forever home.
I'm glad your dog enjoys these videos. I believe dogs also learn about dog socialization by watching such a wide variety of dogs interacting over a long time period.
I like to have the dogs looking into the camera so that the dogs at home feel like they're part of it. On a big screen, yeah, I guess the effect is really big.
Some people get this after either 4 hours or 6 hours. I don't know of any way to avoid it. I tested out "live" streaming a while back but never heard anything about whether it fixed the problem or not. The highest quality video I could get was 1080p and I gave up on the project.
Ease don't move camera so much it causes motion sickness... I enjoy watching yo.. some dogs have motion sickness too. SETTING TO WATCH THE WHOLE ROOM.. NOT EACH DOG THAT MOVES... please consider... aweso.e I Dea for dogs at home alone! TY❤
Do you leave the leashes on so it’s easier to grab them if necessary? One of my dogs chews through those kind of leashes within seconds so I have to use chanlink or metal cable leashes for all my dogs. Do you have any issues with dogs chewing through those nylon leashes?
That's part of the reason. Mainly it's so people can rush into the yard during an altercation and separate the dogs. Many dogs are conflict driven and will jump into the fight. It's also neede to separate the fighting dogs as quickly as possible (never pull dogs apart if one is latched on to the other).
@@DogPlaygroupStories that’s sort of what I figured. And you probably edit out any major altercations since that could cause any dogs watching the videos to become distressed or too excited and want to join in. I’m just impressed that they all leave the leashes alone. None of them ever try chewing through their leashes?
@georgettethorsnes9626 They most likely don't even realize they have them. Just like a collar, dogs get used to it. Think about it, you don't feel the shirt you're wearing unless someone points it out. Same with dogs with collars and by extension, leashes.
This is a nice video to watch, is there a reason why the dogs aren't allowed to be pet, and can I ask what is on the table, also is the spray water bottle the man is walking around with, is it in case the dogs start fighting or something like that, sorry for so many questions. 🤗
These are very good questions! We don't pet the dogs because that will cause them to interact with people instead of other dogs. Ideally we don't even make eye contact. The purpose of playgroups is to develop dog socialization. Shelter dogs need this to help with adoptability and for their mental health. The stuff on the table consists of two sets of things. 1) The list of all dogs that are scheduled to be in the playgroup (actually it's all the dogs in the shelter so they can bring in any dog) as well as behavior notes for those dogs: known issues for each dog. 2) The various tools needed to handle the dogs. They're all "aversives" or negative feedback tools. Some people don't believe in aversives, but that's really for one-on-one dog training. When you have a yard full of shelter dogs (strays, abuse cases, neglected dogs, hoarding cases), you get a lot of bad behavior which requires aversives to minimize the chance of a fight. The aversives allow for escalating the negative feedback. Spraying water at a dog's feet is a warning, then spraying on their feet, then on their back, then in their face. Shake cans (with pebbles in them to make noise) affect all the dogs in that one small area. "Thunder jugs" with pebbles are a step up from that. The air horn is serious and affects all the dogs (and alerts dog handlers in the area to run to the yard to help). The hose can be used to get a dog to stop being latched onto another dog during a fight.
@@DogPlaygroupStories Thanks for answering all my questions, and thanks for what you do helping the dogs to get adopted, it must be so hard not to pet them, I would be terrible at resisting the pets 🐕🦺🦮🤗
@@Quackers6 Yes, it's very difficult not to interact with the dogs. For the first 2 years it was easier because I was walking the dogs 12 hours a week. Now I've given up my dog walking status so I really can't interact with them (much).
You should see what it's like for the shelter dogs while they're in their kennels 23 hours a day. The volunteers and staff go to heroic efforts to give them each personal attention, but we have over 500 dogs. These playgroups are fantastic for the dogs' mental and physical health. For most of the dogs, it's far better than the time they spend individually with volunteers. Even the dogs you see that are fearful, most of those dogs eventually have fun in the playgroups.
It's my hope that these videos continue to be played long into the future. Dog culture doesn't change over time and dogs from say 3,000 years ago would enjoy them like dogs today. So it's possible dogs could be watching these videos 3,000 years from now. I believe it takes a combination of working cinematic knowledge and dog language understanding (ideally from a lifetime of watching dogs interacting as well as a lifetime of obsessing over little things within movies) to record these videos, so there might not be a lot of competition. So people in the future might not know this part of the galaxy very well and not realize that dogs were indigenous to Earth. 😁
Based on experience across hundreds of animal shelters, it's important to avoid allowing toys and other resources of any kind in the yard. Many of these dogs come from difficult backgrounds: abuse cases, neglect, hoarding, and lots of strays where the dogs were in survival mode for various amounts of time. You can see a much wider range of behaviors than you see in a typical dog park and the handlers often don't know what those behaviors are going to be until the dogs are together in the yard. Fights will break out with dogs resource guarding things and people. We have a whole army of volunteers who provide various types of enrichment for the dogs. We try to walk the dogs every day (for the dogs that don't go to playgroup on that day) but with the severe overcrowding right now, that's at least every other day. We provide in-kennel enrichment: puzzle feeders, handmade things, and a program where people read books to dogs. We play music.
🐶🐶🐶 The Dogs, in order of appearance 🐶🐶🐶
*Day* *1*
Simba (A831964): 00:00:27
Guardian (A820828): 00:00:33
Alma (A839999): 00:00:54
Monqi (A841486): 00:01:06
Santiago (A828995): 00:06:59
Cheesey Bread (A838070): 00:07:05
Sakari (A834829): 00:14:07
Cash (A679757): 00:16:27
La Prade (A839106): 00:21:47
Geary (A839788): 00:22:03
Loki (A836975): 00:24:18
Nemo (A840561): 00:27:32
Pez (A684890): 00:32:20
Bella Grace (A824985): 00:32:24
Momo (A823085): 00:32:54
Quaffle (A841398): 00:33:31
Luna (A825203): 00:36:02
Frye (A842002): 00:40:28
Kona (A810894): 00:42:48
Griswold (A826510): 00:45:06
Tommy (A796876): 00:47:56
Tater Tot (A727607): 00:48:04
Abby (A838294): 00:48:31
Caledonia (A842643): 01:00:22
Fergie (A842605): 01:02:20
Coco (A718138): 01:08:36
Shikamaru (A828396): 01:12:04
Rocky (A832912): 01:12:11
Braxton (A778848): 01:16:09
Sassy (A837659): 01:16:14
Pancha (A834680): 01:18:49
Ginger Ale (A823283): 01:18:52
Leslie (A835585): 01:20:26
Kilo (A828384): 01:20:31
SnapDragon (A842560): 01:26:23
Vader (A843097): 01:27:34
Nilla (A831569): 01:34:17
Crawford (A829418): 01:34:21
Dobby (A816874): 01:35:33
Bruno (A832979): 01:38:02
Bert (A842657): 01:40:11
Ernie (A842656): 01:40:15
Vaquero (A825337): 01:49:28
Blakeleigh (A834405): 01:49:33
Charlotte (A840389): 01:51:39
Simon (A836019): 01:51:52
Mabel (A836363): 01:55:12
Woody (A802273): 01:55:15
Tommy (A839470): 01:58:29
Razma-Taz (A825268): 01:59:33
Kino (A824648): 02:04:38
*Day* *2*
Sakari (A834829): 02:12:22
Cash (A679757): 02:13:46
Guardian (A820828): 02:16:08
Ash (A799859): 02:17:20
Cleopatra (A840785): 02:21:50
Diamond (A838908): 02:22:15
Breezer (A821081): 02:22:20
Tater Tot (A727607): 02:22:50
Tommy (A841323): 02:23:44
Jey (A839185): 02:23:49
Fab Girl (A837878): 02:33:15
Mookie (A832889): 02:38:04
Sunnie (A842008): 02:44:01
Plum (A842007): 02:44:05
Cheesey Bread (A838070): 02:49:13
Santiago (A828995): 02:50:56
Boulevard (A841872): 02:59:25
Onyx (A799990): 03:02:17
Lothar (A841498): 03:06:19
Braxton (A778848): 03:07:50
Sassy (A837659): 03:08:51
Hercules (A835532): 03:13:18
Spanky (A827591): 03:13:22
Dobby (A816874): 03:16:35
Bruno (A832979): 03:17:11
Bruno (A83615): 03:20:31
Miley (A835034): 03:21:22
Jesse (A841730): 03:30:31
Spock (A841729): 03:30:52
Ripley (A842338): 03:33:00
Watney (A842269): 03:34:26
Hunter (A719466): 03:40:28
Guera (A765573): 03:41:40
Kandi (A842354): 03:45:11
Pickett (A841938): 03:45:57
Ziva (A750033): 03:50:41
Chewbacca (A837515): 03:51:30
Rebel (A831952): 03:57:17
Cereal Milk (A842069): 03:58:09
Fred (A831820): 04:01:59
Baily (A829214): 04:03:08
Daggett (A834632): 04:08:46
Mabel (A836363): 04:12:10
Woody (A802273): 04:14:02
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Cash (A679757): 04:24:50
Sakari (A834829): 04:24:54
Felicity (A838481): 04:25:45
Bruno (A836145): 04:30:10
Bubbles (A812071): 04:31:19
Jefferson (A840755): 04:34:09
Simon (A836019): 04:34:58
Iowa (A827684): 04:36:35
Charlotte (A840389): 04:38:52
Ginger Ale (A823283): 04:43:47
Pancha (A834680): 04:44:23
Steven (A839931): 04:43:27
Subaru (A816248): 04:53:34
Santiago (A828995): 04:55:50
Cheesey Bread (A838070): 04:55:55
Starship (A840756): 04:58:02
Sugar Cube (A838574): 05:00:30
Seuss (A835937): 05:01:55
Crawford (A829418): 05:03:46
Nilla (A831569): 05:06:27
Zoomie (A835884): 05:09:51
Jimmy (A835061): 05:13:00
Vaquero (A825337): 05:14:55
Blakeleigh (A834405): 05:15:14
Jasper (A841382): 05:15:36
Zeus (A837786): 05:17:31
Athena (A837791): 05:18:41
Barbara (A837647): 05:21:16
Tater Tot (A727607): 05:21:48
Alice (A841381): 05:23:18
Tommy (A796876): 05:24:03
Loki (A756047): 05:24:38
Kilo (A828384): 05:27:58
Leslie (A835585): 05:28:02
DNO (A817367): 05:31:10
Miklo (A842488): 05:32:58
Coleen (A842342): 05:33:50
Breezer (A821081): 05:34:11
Diamond (A838908): 05:34:16
Bea (A830851): 05:37:42
Cuoco (A839802): 05:39:57
Eve (A823545): 05:40:28
Cleopatra (A840785): 05:41:03
Haiku (A835511): 05:41:07
Elowen (A839804): 05:41:23
Mabel (A836363): 05:47:51
Woody (A802273): 05:49:03
Captain Hook (A840820): 05:51:29
Rooks (A842040): 05:52:05
Sunflower (A842017): 05:57:10
Kimon (A821776): 05:57:33
Rhonda (A829035): 05:58:13
Shikamaru (A828396): 05:59:55
Rocky (A832912): 05:59:59
Armin (A842048): 06:03:31
Cutey (A813166): 06:03:35
Charmer (A842588): 06:06:05
Bailey (A835457): 06:08:00
Walter (A836221): 06:09:21
Herbert (A820865): 06:10:37
Roane (A836063): 06:10:54
Staffinia (A839264): 06:12:01
Happy Feet aka Betty (A842451): 06:12:56
Lucky (A842589): 06:14:52
Paddington (A841197): 06:16:36
Miss Frizzle (A841221): 06:16:40
Cannoli (A841355): 06:16:43
Luna (A825203): 06:21:13
Twilight (A842571): 06:22:02
Kona (A810894): 06:26:30
Frye (A842002): 06:26:24
Banjo (A825550): 06:26:47
MJ (A639577): 06:30:03
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Griffey (A835688): 06:36:06
Truffles (A836364): 06:36:49
Luna (A825203): 06:37:31
Seymour (A839513): 06:37:35
Lola (A844041): 06:40:54
Santiago (A828995): 06:42:26
Serana (A843346): 06:44:04
Roggi (A843344): 06:44:15
Dobby (A816874): 06:47:34
Yoaguai (A841969): 06:48:06
Estrella (A844040): 06:48:53
Guera (A765573): 06:53:58
Hunter (A719466): 06:54:02
Griswold (A826510): 06:55:50
Armani (A839189): 06:59:13
Junior (A835581): 06:59:53
Jesse (A841730): 07:04:17
Wilbur (A831902): 07:05:32
Coffee Bean (A843605): 07:09:07
Carlotta (A843201): 07:13:59
Hodgeman (A839496): 07:15:58
Jax (A840086): 07:17:03
Princess Julia (A844257): 07:29:09
Archer (A829516): 07:29:51
Fanta (A830017): 07:29:59
Bailey (A844253): 07:30:43
Jarby (A844258): 07:35:01
Luna (A843373): 07:38:03
Lucky (A838751): 07:38:33
Molly (A844268): 07:41:42
August (A830867): 07:42:50
Peaches (A826070): 07:42:56
Rowdy (A844269): 07:47:18
Marley Mae (A750109): 07:52:54
Bailey (A829214): 07:53:05
Toblerone (A835277): 07:54:24
Onyx (A799990): 07:54:57
Boulevard (A841872): 07:55:00
Billy G (A833476): 07:57:44
Walton (A842584): 07:59:12
Kate (A839916): 07:59:16
Able (A824933): 08:01:56
Razma-Taz (A825268): 08:03:05
Tommy (A839470): 08:04:25
Eeggo (A843503): 08:08:40
i just found this channel. thank you for this. i have autism. and watching dogs relaxes me. i have a dog myself. but he doesn't get to socialize with other dogs much. so it's nice to watch a pack of dogs playing. i hope these dogs can find their forever home.
I'm glad these videos help you! Almost all the dogs eventually find a home: sometimes it's a foster home and they might eventually come back.
@@DogPlaygroupStories great to know! i look forward to watching more of these videos.
wonderful dogs, look after them and raise them every day to feel love for animals👍👍👍👍👍
my dog loves siting and watching thanks for doing this and sharing. Have subbed and try to watch daily.
I'm glad your dog enjoys these videos. I believe dogs also learn about dog socialization by watching such a wide variety of dogs interacting over a long time period.
Thanks, Charlie favorite show!
I'd glad it's Charlie's favorite!
To all who love dogs: You bring so much light to the world. My pup and I are thinking of you and wishing you nothing but the best 🐶💖✨
THANK YOU HUMANE HUMAN FOR DOG PLAYING FOR 8 HOURS HAVE DOGS PLAYING ALL THE TIME DAY OR NIGHT FOR DOG ENERGY FOR LIFE.
You are welcome!
I feel that dogs are always playful and active. I just subscribed to your channel to always follow the videos you share.❤❤❤
Awesome! Thanks!
I love doggy’s ❤ 🐶
Even the cat enjoys watching ❤️
Yeah, lots of viewers have said their cats enjoy watching these videos. I don't know why.
I think it's funny when you do the close ups of the dogs. I have a big screen TV, and it's like their looking into my soul
I like to have the dogs looking into the camera so that the dogs at home feel like they're part of it. On a big screen, yeah, I guess the effect is really big.
This video is amazing for learning to sketch doggos. Thank you :)
Oh, wonderful! I never thought of that. UA-cam allows you to play videos is very slow motion, so you could watch slow changes in the video.
I love dogs❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂
2:39 😊😊
"That means *you've* gotta run!"
"Love the energy of your dogs [9:30] ! I shared some fun games to play with farm dogs on my channel-come join the fun! 🐶🎉"
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“Video paused. Continue watching?”
Guess not, my dog didn’t press “yes”.
Some people get this after either 4 hours or 6 hours. I don't know of any way to avoid it. I tested out "live" streaming a while back but never heard anything about whether it fixed the problem or not. The highest quality video I could get was 1080p and I gave up on the project.
@@DogPlaygroupStories It's a setting that can be disabled. The commenter must not have disabled the inactive check setting.
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This is good for my dog with horrible anxiety when I leave the house. This keeps her quiet and doesn’t wake up my neighbors. I’m dead serious btw
That's great to hear!
Ease don't move camera so much it causes motion sickness... I enjoy watching yo.. some dogs have motion sickness too. SETTING TO WATCH THE WHOLE ROOM.. NOT EACH DOG THAT MOVES... please consider... aweso.e I Dea for dogs at home alone! TY❤
Do you leave the leashes on so it’s easier to grab them if necessary? One of my dogs chews through those kind of leashes within seconds so I have to use chanlink or metal cable leashes for all my dogs. Do you have any issues with dogs chewing through those nylon leashes?
That's part of the reason. Mainly it's so people can rush into the yard during an altercation and separate the dogs. Many dogs are conflict driven and will jump into the fight. It's also neede to separate the fighting dogs as quickly as possible (never pull dogs apart if one is latched on to the other).
...I've seen the leashes save a dog's life during a really bad altercation.
@@DogPlaygroupStories that’s sort of what I figured. And you probably edit out any major altercations since that could cause any dogs watching the videos to become distressed or too excited and want to join in.
I’m just impressed that they all leave the leashes alone. None of them ever try chewing through their leashes?
@georgettethorsnes9626 They most likely don't even realize they have them. Just like a collar, dogs get used to it.
Think about it, you don't feel the shirt you're wearing unless someone points it out. Same with dogs with collars and by extension, leashes.
This is a nice video to watch, is there a reason why the dogs aren't allowed to be pet, and can I ask what is on the table, also is the spray water bottle the man is walking around with, is it in case the dogs start fighting or something like that, sorry for so many questions. 🤗
These are very good questions! We don't pet the dogs because that will cause them to interact with people instead of other dogs. Ideally we don't even make eye contact. The purpose of playgroups is to develop dog socialization. Shelter dogs need this to help with adoptability and for their mental health.
The stuff on the table consists of two sets of things. 1) The list of all dogs that are scheduled to be in the playgroup (actually it's all the dogs in the shelter so they can bring in any dog) as well as behavior notes for those dogs: known issues for each dog. 2) The various tools needed to handle the dogs. They're all "aversives" or negative feedback tools. Some people don't believe in aversives, but that's really for one-on-one dog training. When you have a yard full of shelter dogs (strays, abuse cases, neglected dogs, hoarding cases), you get a lot of bad behavior which requires aversives to minimize the chance of a fight. The aversives allow for escalating the negative feedback. Spraying water at a dog's feet is a warning, then spraying on their feet, then on their back, then in their face. Shake cans (with pebbles in them to make noise) affect all the dogs in that one small area. "Thunder jugs" with pebbles are a step up from that. The air horn is serious and affects all the dogs (and alerts dog handlers in the area to run to the yard to help). The hose can be used to get a dog to stop being latched onto another dog during a fight.
@@DogPlaygroupStories Thanks for answering all my questions, and thanks for what you do helping the dogs to get adopted, it must be so hard not to pet them, I would be terrible at resisting the pets 🐕🦺🦮🤗
@@Quackers6 Yes, it's very difficult not to interact with the dogs. For the first 2 years it was easier because I was walking the dogs 12 hours a week. Now I've given up my dog walking status so I really can't interact with them (much).
This is the equivalent of me watching jail
You should see what it's like for the shelter dogs while they're in their kennels 23 hours a day. The volunteers and staff go to heroic efforts to give them each personal attention, but we have over 500 dogs. These playgroups are fantastic for the dogs' mental and physical health. For most of the dogs, it's far better than the time they spend individually with volunteers. Even the dogs you see that are fearful, most of those dogs eventually have fun in the playgroups.
Playing under fat police officers 😅
That must mean something in another language?
Tuscon Arizona USA - Earth
Really ?
It's my hope that these videos continue to be played long into the future. Dog culture doesn't change over time and dogs from say 3,000 years ago would enjoy them like dogs today. So it's possible dogs could be watching these videos 3,000 years from now. I believe it takes a combination of working cinematic knowledge and dog language understanding (ideally from a lifetime of watching dogs interacting as well as a lifetime of obsessing over little things within movies) to record these videos, so there might not be a lot of competition. So people in the future might not know this part of the galaxy very well and not realize that dogs were indigenous to Earth. 😁
@@DogPlaygroupStories Touché.
@@bigsarge8795 That actually wasn't my thinking when I put "Earth" in there. It was just meant to be funny. 😄
@@DogPlaygroupStories it was funny. I liked it.
@@DogPlaygroupStories You should put a green filter over the video and then set the location as Saturn. See if anyone notices.
the worst part of the whole video is the human commentary.
I try to keep the commentary to a minimum.
This is a bad environment for dogs. no enrichment, no toys,,,
Based on experience across hundreds of animal shelters, it's important to avoid allowing toys and other resources of any kind in the yard. Many of these dogs come from difficult backgrounds: abuse cases, neglect, hoarding, and lots of strays where the dogs were in survival mode for various amounts of time. You can see a much wider range of behaviors than you see in a typical dog park and the handlers often don't know what those behaviors are going to be until the dogs are together in the yard. Fights will break out with dogs resource guarding things and people.
We have a whole army of volunteers who provide various types of enrichment for the dogs. We try to walk the dogs every day (for the dogs that don't go to playgroup on that day) but with the severe overcrowding right now, that's at least every other day. We provide in-kennel enrichment: puzzle feeders, handmade things, and a program where people read books to dogs. We play music.