I consider myself a balanced trainer (no shock, prong etc collars, but I love negative reinforcement when dealing with leash pulling by waiting and continuing to walk when the dog himself makes the leash lose) but I didn't know how much advanced I'm in the p+ only world I actually am 😂 My Akita is like your bulldog and she sometimes just doesn't want to do one of our walks and I let her decide herself in a similar way you do. It's my Japanese dogs who have taught me to tailor training torwards the individual dog. THey have a mind of their own and no will to please. No matter how good your training is, there will be a moment when they decide that your command is currently not a good idea and will refuse it. Harsh methods would just break their trust and further incearse the problem and repeating the command would ruin the command. So I had to come up with something. An example with my deceased Shiba Inu, my first dog. She knew not to leave the path, only with my command (sitting down, then a free command) but sometimes she just wanted to be a punk, ran torwards the field, looked back at me with a certain glance in her eyes and then ran full speed into the field, meadow or whatever. Me calling made it worse and she turned it into a play. It got worse and worse but she had great obedience and she didn't deserve putting her on a leash for that little thing so I needed to come up with something and I basically fooled her. WHenever she was about to break her obedience I simply yelled "free" and she actually did what I told her even though she technically did something I didn't want her to do. But it had an impact like nothing else. She ran into the field and then suddenly stopped, tilted her head, looked at me like "wtf I wanted to be a punk but actually obeyed just perfectly. What the heck!" and instead of running like a maniac she came back to me. After 2 more times she never ever in her whole entire life ran into a field without me allowing her again. And this method I used for all my dogs and it always paid off especially with my AKita. My Finnish Lapphund was a gift who read my wishes from my eyes and my white Shepherd is uncommonly stubborn for a Shepherd but well, let's say I'm used to these kinda dogs so he found the perfect home 🥰
Susan, love the tip on creeping criteria. This is hard cuz its tempting to say "close enough." But my dog is not a puppy and she should know the criteria by now.
My dog will be training to be a service dog, but we are currently working on obedience training since she’s 9 months old I want to teach her to be able the difference between when it’s time to play and when it’s time to work
Hi Danielle, we have a great video about how to let our dog's know when they are working and when that's over, here's where you can watch - ua-cam.com/video/0g5kwixofEE/v-deo.html
My dogs chew bones/treats I bed automatically, I haven't trained that, they just do it. I think my bulldog Amber watched my dogs (that have now passed) and that is what they did.Rogue by choice lab just watched Amber, there is about 1and a half years apart in age. It surprises me every time x
yes. we got my dad a puppy, who I kept for 3 days. My older dog house broke him with a growl. I had no work with that one. Complete with food refusal training and all. But the first dog was well trained and up for mentoring.
dear susan, i love your videos and my norwich terrierer wilma nearly 3 years old, love to work with me. as for her work is always play (perch training is her absolut favorit thing). but i really would love to really play some normal (not working) games with her, but she is not really interested in playing normal games except surching cookies(snuffling games) in any enviroment that works great. but pulling or something like that does not interest her. must say we got her when she was 2 years and before she came to us there was no playing done. is there a way i could learn my dog to play "dogs-plays" with me as you do as a reward with your dog? many greetings from Salzburg in Austria. And thanks for your really great podcast - love them!!!
Hi Cornelia, Wilma sounds lovely! If you'd like to start playing with toys, here's a game to begin - susangarrettdogagility.com/2018/09/how-to-create-a-motivating-toy/
@@DogsThat dear Susan, thanks so much for your answer. Will try it quickly, than let you know how it goes on. Realy learned allready a lot. Walking on the leech works much more better since we do pivets & spinns.
So my 10 month old Malinois puppy barks when excited. For example when I'm preparing her dinner, or when I put my shoes on, or jacket. She amps herself up and gets louder and louder. What are some increments to train a substitute behaviour or calmer behaviour?
Hi @Le Wang, if you know what you want her to do, you could start training that. The podcast about "the thing before the thing" is a great resource for this type of barking, here's where you can watch: ua-cam.com/video/L2n5xGBuVhE/v-deo.html
If you'd like to see how my built-in crates work, there's a video over on our blog:
susangarrettdogagility.com/2020/02/built-in-dog-crates/
I consider myself a balanced trainer (no shock, prong etc collars, but I love negative reinforcement when dealing with leash pulling by waiting and continuing to walk when the dog himself makes the leash lose) but I didn't know how much advanced I'm in the p+ only world I actually am 😂 My Akita is like your bulldog and she sometimes just doesn't want to do one of our walks and I let her decide herself in a similar way you do. It's my Japanese dogs who have taught me to tailor training torwards the individual dog. THey have a mind of their own and no will to please. No matter how good your training is, there will be a moment when they decide that your command is currently not a good idea and will refuse it. Harsh methods would just break their trust and further incearse the problem and repeating the command would ruin the command. So I had to come up with something. An example with my deceased Shiba Inu, my first dog. She knew not to leave the path, only with my command (sitting down, then a free command) but sometimes she just wanted to be a punk, ran torwards the field, looked back at me with a certain glance in her eyes and then ran full speed into the field, meadow or whatever. Me calling made it worse and she turned it into a play. It got worse and worse but she had great obedience and she didn't deserve putting her on a leash for that little thing so I needed to come up with something and I basically fooled her. WHenever she was about to break her obedience I simply yelled "free" and she actually did what I told her even though she technically did something I didn't want her to do. But it had an impact like nothing else. She ran into the field and then suddenly stopped, tilted her head, looked at me like "wtf I wanted to be a punk but actually obeyed just perfectly. What the heck!" and instead of running like a maniac she came back to me. After 2 more times she never ever in her whole entire life ran into a field without me allowing her again. And this method I used for all my dogs and it always paid off especially with my AKita. My Finnish Lapphund was a gift who read my wishes from my eyes and my white Shepherd is uncommonly stubborn for a Shepherd but well, let's say I'm used to these kinda dogs so he found the perfect home 🥰
Entertaining real life lessons! 🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪
Feature's antics reminded me of the camel and the tent story.😆
Me and my dog would never be where we are today without you! Big thank you 🙏 🥰
Thank you SO MUCH, YOU ARE THE BEST!!!!
Hey Susan, How about a podcast on teaching appropriate greeting for an overly exuberant puppy?
Susan, love the tip on creeping criteria. This is hard cuz its tempting to say "close enough." But my dog is not a puppy and she should know the criteria by now.
My dog will be training to be a service dog, but we are currently working on obedience training since she’s 9 months old I want to teach her to be able the difference between when it’s time to play and when it’s time to work
Hi Danielle, we have a great video about how to let our dog's know when they are working and when that's over, here's where you can watch - ua-cam.com/video/0g5kwixofEE/v-deo.html
My dogs chew bones/treats I bed automatically, I haven't trained that, they just do it. I think my bulldog Amber watched my dogs (that have now passed) and that is what they did.Rogue by choice lab just watched Amber, there is about 1and a half years apart in age. It surprises me every time x
yes. we got my dad a puppy, who I kept for 3 days. My older dog house broke him with a growl. I had no work with that one. Complete with food refusal training and all. But the first dog was well trained and up for mentoring.
dear susan, i love your videos and my norwich terrierer wilma nearly 3 years old, love to work with me. as for her work is always play (perch training is her absolut favorit thing). but i really would love to really play some normal (not working) games with her, but she is not really interested in playing normal games except surching cookies(snuffling games) in any enviroment that works great. but pulling or something like that does not interest her. must say we got her when she was 2 years and before she came to us there was no playing done. is there a way i could learn my dog to play "dogs-plays" with me as you do as a reward with your dog? many greetings from Salzburg in Austria. And thanks for your really great podcast - love them!!!
Hi Cornelia, Wilma sounds lovely! If you'd like to start playing with toys, here's a game to begin - susangarrettdogagility.com/2018/09/how-to-create-a-motivating-toy/
@@DogsThat dear Susan, thanks so much for your answer. Will try it quickly, than let you know how it goes on. Realy learned allready a lot. Walking on the leech works much more better since we do pivets & spinns.
So my 10 month old Malinois puppy barks when excited. For example when I'm preparing her dinner, or when I put my shoes on, or jacket. She amps herself up and gets louder and louder. What are some increments to train a substitute behaviour or calmer behaviour?
Hi @Le Wang, if you know what you want her to do, you could start training that. The podcast about "the thing before the thing" is a great resource for this type of barking, here's where you can watch: ua-cam.com/video/L2n5xGBuVhE/v-deo.html