 Hey guys, Tom Davis here, America's canine educator. Hope everyone's doing well and safe during this crazy time of the coronavirus. So today I wanted to go live. When you guys get here, like this video for me, do me a favor, let me know that you're here through the like button. And if you're watching this in the future, thank you so much for joining me. Today I wanted to hop on here live and talk about a question I get often, which is about when to step in with dogs when they're playing, how to decipher the difference between aggression and playing. And again, when's the right time to step in to stop the dogs from playing or whatever. So one thing I will say is dogs speak dog better than us. So when they communicate, they are communicating with each other and they know for the most part, depending on age, which I'm gonna talk about in a minute, whether or not the other dog is playing or not. So a lot of times us as humans, we hear growling, we see teeth, they're rolling each other over, they're playing, they're having a good time and we get the question a lot of where do I step in? Should I step in? When to step in? How to step in? And so I wanna go over that today and then at the end of this one little segment here, I'm gonna answer your questions after, which is always really fun. And if you guys are here and you're joining me, please do me a favor and hit the like button. That would be awesome, thank you. So all right, so again, dogs communicate via their teeth. Dogs communicate via their mouth and they may show signs of vocalization and what may look like aggression to us probably isn't really aggression. So again, dogs have a bite force that could potentially break bones. So they're very, very powerful and when they're playing and they're rolling each other around, it really is play. And you will see one dog trying to get away from the other dog if it's something that they're not enjoying. The other dog will try to run away, the other dog will show their back and try to discourage the other dog from playing and so on and so forth. And so when they are playing and you see the teeth and you see the dogs and you hear the dogs and they're playing, it's okay, let them play. Now, I think the really big question and the most important thing to this scenario or the subject is when do you step in? That's what I really wanna talk about. Now for an example, my Dutch Shepherd Lakota which you guys met yesterday and Thompson which you also met yesterday, my St. Bernard, they're both two ends of the spectrum. One is my Lakota is a Dutchie, she's very excitable, she's very high energy, she's over the top just about everything she does. And then my St. Bernard is the exact opposite, he's very calm, cool and collective, he likes to sleep a lot. And so when she comes in, she gets very excited to see Thompson and so she'll get really excited and she'll go up into his face and we call it pretzeling, so she'll wrap her whole body around him and she'll get really excited and lick him and throw his jowls up in the face and he's just kind of just sitting there looking at us. Now I know that that's not necessarily play and what we were talking about earlier of like is it aggression, is it not? How to tell the difference between their vocalization and things like that. But I step in when I can just see him getting annoyed if he's just trying to lay down and she's just all over the place getting crazy. That's when I step in to say like, okay, enough is enough, I'm gonna turn off the heat here because it just kicked on. Hope you guys are well by the way, if you guys are here in the live, go ahead and like this video. I'm at the facility today, as you guys can tell a little bit different from my living room or my dining room. But so that's when I step in is when I feel like, okay, my dog's getting super annoyed, I'm gonna stop this. I'll say, okay, Lakota, like leave him alone, go lay down. But as far as the play goes and as far as the dogs playing and they're interacting potentially aggressive, like I said, you're gonna know rather or not the dogs are having fun or not. I think one factor comes in the play with a puppy. So if you get an older dog, any dog that's not a puppy and then you get a puppy, that puppy can be very overwhelming, mainly because they just came from a litter of one to however many dogs. And all they literally have done for their whole life since they can open their eyes and walk has been playing and having fun with their brothers and sisters and running around and mouthing each other. And that's why we always get the question of like, why does my puppy mouth so much and bite so much? Is because that's all they know is to play with their mouth. And so anyway, so that's kind of the deal with that. But I think it's safe to step in for dogs who don't really know each other and one dog is being overbearing. I also think it's safe to step in when a puppy is overbearing to an adult dog because what happens is, is if you allow that threshold to keep getting pushed and pushed and pushed, then the other dog could, the other dog can then correct your dog and then make it about like, okay, well, if you're not gonna handle this, I am. So I think that that's that line of, if you know the other dog is eventually just gonna snap and correct another dog and you don't want that to happen, especially if it's a puppy because they don't know any better and they're being very adolescent and innocent, if you will. They're very vulnerable and susceptible to a correction from an older dog because they don't get the hint. You know, at the same time, they also get the opportunity to learn from an older dog or another dog that what they're doing is not appropriate. So anyway, that's kind of the deal with that. So I think that that kind of answers the question about when do you step in? I think it's just a matter of, and then I'm gonna answer your questions. Like I said, I think it's just a matter of you guys being able to decipher dogs play. They play with their teeth, they play with their mouth. They get very, very vocal. But again, if they're engaging with each other and they're rolling each other around and having a good time, you're good. You don't have to stop that unless it's becoming disruptive to the environment like the house, they're knocking things over or they're, whatever. I mean, then you can step in. But anyway, so I wanna take some of your questions because that's always a lot of fun. At what age is a puppy considered a puppy? I mean, to be honest, realistically, you know, I really don't consider anything past six months a puppy. I think that they're growing up, they're making their own decisions. They know the difference between right or wrong. But they mature mentally and physically up to a year to two years depending on the breed. Let's see. Olivia asked how to deal with stubborn owners. See, that's a good question because historically for me, I train a certain way. I'm very open about the way that I train. I'm very transparent about the way that I educate. And if you want advice from me and you want to work and help with your dog, then they come, so people come to me. So you just have to be careful on how much you are like shoving down people's throats. Like, let me train your dog, let me. I never, ever, ever, ever, ever do that. I'll never like seek out that type of stuff. I mean, sure, we used to advertise a lot to gain businesses when we were younger business. But I really, really tell people like, hey, this is the options that you have in my opinion. Here's what you can and can't do. So to answer your question about stubborn owners, I really just give them the product of the decisions they're making or the end product of the decisions that they're making. So meaning like, if they don't want to be consistent, I'll tell them like, hey, just so you know, your dog is fully capable of doing these things. However, if you're not consistent, you're not going to get to that level of where you want to be. So I'm really big about pressure off, hey, you know, if you guys want help, I'm here. I'd love to help you guys. It's about the dog. But at the same exact time, if they're pushing back about, you know, being stubborn or lazy, then that's their money down the drain. And I tell people that frequently. I just did two board and train pickups today and I told people, hey, if you come in here and you spent all this money and we spent all of our time training your dog for the last three to four weeks and you go home and don't do anything, then the likelihood of them being successful are very slim and you just wasted a lot of money doing that. So I really just tell people up front that we don't force any of our programs on people. We certainly expect some sort of consistency and responsibility of them as owners to make the success happen. But right from the consultation before they hand over any money, it's very clear. This is your expectations as a dog owner. Here's what you need to do to make it successful. And if you don't, nobody's going to be successful. There's nothing, there's no sprinkle magic dust we can put over this scenario to make it work. It has no, I mean, that's why I call myself an educator not a trainer because as you guys know, the majority of the success is going to come directly from the dog owner. And that's what I really try to do is I'm a coach. I try my best to just teach and teach and teach and tell people what they can and can't do. And if they don't do it, it has nothing to do with me. And I read this one time, people were talking about certain dog trainers not being effective in the future. And it's like, no crap, they're not going to be effective in the future because the time that we have as dog trainers have literally very little to do with the success in the dog and a scalable rate has nothing to do with. In two weeks, the dog still should be fairly trained but if the owners aren't doing anything, it's not going to be trained at all. So you can't judge a dog from, it's like building the house. You can't judge a builder by letting somebody live in the house for a year, completely trashing it and going in and saying this house sucks, that builder sucks. It has nothing to do with the actual builder that built it from the ground up and it was really nice when they got it. It has everything to do with how you maintain it and maintenance. So that's how I deal with a lot of that stuff. Laura asked, does it get hard when people don't listen to you? How do I handle that? It doesn't get hard, it gets frustrating. But again, I'm very, very grateful for my position in the industry and how I created my business. Again, people, I am very clear and upfront. Yeah, it's frustrating to see the dog go through. You're looking at the dog and you're like, man, this dog can be so, so, so good but the owners aren't paying attention and they're not following through. That's very frustrating. But a lot of times I'm dealing with dogs on a behavioral level. So I'm not dealing with a lot of obedience where people are, here's some money, make my dog obedient. I'm dealing with normally, with what I primarily do in my business is I just do behavior stuff. So I'm normally dealing with dogs who are on the last leg or their dog's owners are about to give up on them. They have no other choice. They've worked with other dog trainers. So for me, I think I have a different advantage to those types of situations because people are desperate for what they need to do. But it still happens. People still need help and I finally get them to a point of like, holy crap, this is working and they still go against what I would recommend. But I think that that's with any business. I don't know any business out there that their clients that paid them to get to that point because they don't have what it takes innately are gonna regress at some point anyway and that's just part of business. And that's why I really, I get discouraged when I see other dog trainers talk about the sustainability of pet dog training and it's different when you train competitively and you've worked with the dog for years and it's your dog, you would expect that dog to be really great forever. But when you're talking about pet training, it's so interesting to hear people talk about plateauing and not progression after the dog owner is done with the training because it literally entirely, if you know anything about dog training has nothing to do with that particular dog trainer in the future. It has everything to do with how much sustainability and how much work the dog owner has done. And that's something that we run into a lot and that the reality is is as a dog trainer, I can't tell you how many people come through that door right there and tell me about all the other dog trainers that they've worked with that doesn't, they don't do good or I mark that as like, okay, check if you're doing it to them, you'll do it to me and I'm very aware of that when somebody comes in and says that they've worked with another training company and it didn't go great. I take it with a grain of salt and realize 99% of the work that dog trainers do have everything to do with people. I always tell people, I'm not in the dog business, I'm in the people business because that's all it really comes down to. There's no point and there's no accreditation for me to get a dog to that point really quickly if the owners don't know how I did it. But at the end of the day, like I said, I, you know, it's sustainability with the owners and it's really hard for them to do that because they're not professionals. So anyway, hi Tom, hmm, that's an interesting name. Hi Tom, my American bully is eight months old. He is great with older dogs but quite dominant with dogs younger than a year old. What should I do to stop this behavior? Again, I think you have to look at like the breed. You get a big dominant breed and they may be trying to like help the other puppies, understand what life's about, maybe giving them corrections, maybe guiding them and navigating them through what's good and bad. So you really have to like read between the lines there to see like, is the dog actually being dominant or is the dog being like a teacher? Like, hey, this is what I want you to do. So you have to really be clarifying to yourself and audit the situation clearly to make sure that you're understanding that it's not really dominance. It could be just like, I have dogs that are really strict on puppies because puppies are crazy. And so I don't look at that as dominance. Yeah, I look at that as like an older dog trying to teach the younger dog. So I think making sure you're watching the behavior really clearly to see if it's actually dominance or is it actually just a dog being like a leader? But I think to answer your question, how to stop it if it is dominance and they're just being a jerk, correct them, get your leash, tell them, hey, leave it. But I think it's like unfair to put a older dog in with a bunch of puppies or a puppy and expect them to get like, if your dog doesn't like it and they don't like that energy, which I talked about in the beginning of the video, then it's not fair to put them into that situation. So anyway, let's see. People and comments as well, recommendation on harnesses or collar, that's a question you guys can answer. Will you come to Germany? I go to Germany at least once every two years. Well, actually, when I say I go to Germany, I go to Bavaria, I go to Munich. We actually are planning on trying to get to Northern Germany next year. Love Germany, it's where a lot of my family's from, so definitely like that. Nicole asks, I have a one year old Husky, explanation. So I have a one year old Husky, been working on E-collar training with her. Do you find that they are harder to train? My dog is stubborn and knows the commands. Yes, Nicole, the hardest breed, and I know I don't want to scare you, but the hardest breed to train is the Siberian Husky. They are consistently every single time the hardest breed to work with. And by hard, I just mean pushback. They don't like obedience because they're not really bred to be obedient. They're bred to work. They are working dogs. And they become very attached to certain people which makes that person really hard for them to be a good leader. So as long as you're staying consistent and push through it, I've had dogs that normally should take a week to train on the E-collar. Siberian Huskies will take four weeks. It's a laughing thing around here at the facility and it's definitely a thing. So don't feel bad, just keep working hard and be inconsistent. So anyway, it is what it is. But did your Cleveland event get rescheduled? So right now on, the Cleveland event is on because it's in May. So we still have the rest of March, which is a couple of days, and then all of April and then a couple of weeks in May. So I think we're gonna be okay with that. We are going to make that call in the middle of April because I haven't pushed it. I think we have a couple of working spots left. I know we have a lot of audit spots because of this whole thing. But if we can make it work and it's safe, we're gonna do it. But we still have two, well, probably like two months or most fully. So I'm really planning on getting to Cleveland and doing that. I really, really would like to do that. It just depends on the safety, of course, that's what matters the most. But I think this last quarantine over the next couple of weeks until the end of April should, we should be okay after that. So let's see, Irene asked very cool. Yeah, totally. If I'm in Germany, keep tabs on me on Instagram at Tom Davis and shoot me a message when I'm there and we can get a beer or something. Let's see. What do you think about Bernie's Mountain Dogs? Ariel asked. I like them. I think they're cool. Again, like knowing your breeds and knowing their purpose and what they're supposed to do. Like they're not gonna be competitive, obedient dogs and getting out there and working on high levels of obedience but they're great dogs. They're good family dogs. They're sweet. They're funny. They're pretty and so I like them. Akitas are very interesting breeds. I like Akitas as well. Very loyal and they like their people just like the, well, a lot of dogs that are like Akitas but what's a dog I'm thinking of? Shiba Inus are very similar. Oops. Sorry. All right, so my mastiff was attacked at a year old by two staffies and it took a year to get him over it. Then New Fallon ran aside of him at a park and stood nose to tail before attacking. I don't really understand that question. Tea cup, golden doodles. Christina asked, I mean golden doodles are a thing and itself over bread I believe and then if you get tea cup it's like bread down again so you should have to be careful. It's a lot of times it's taking a breed and putting them in places they shouldn't be so I don't really know how I feel. But anyway, going back to that one question your dog is now reactive after getting attacked. He was so well behaved before this. Well, that's just unfortunately that's just what had happened. You're not gonna be able it's like kind of like a PTSD thing if something really traumatic happened to your dog and they, they're animals. So they're now going to be guarded and vulnerable in situations where they feel that that could happen again. So you definitely have to make sure that you're desensitizing the situation and helping your dog get over it through positive reinforcement in situations around other dogs making sure all the other dogs that are around you are leashed. I always tell people try to find a group training class in your area that has well controlled dogs. If you guys can do me a favor there's over 130-ish people in here. Like this video really quick I'm gonna get a drink of water and then we're gonna get back to some questions but if you guys are here, do me a favor like this video. All right, we're gonna get right but hey, wow, 20 people liked it. Good, I appreciate you guys. And again, if you guys are here go ahead and like this video and we're asking Q and A, Tom Davis, professional canine educator help people with their dogs and relationship based problems. Go on and do this hard thing, yes they are. Let's see. That's a good question, Ross. What was your hardest case you've ever worked on and how did it go? Ooh, that's a good question. It's a really good question. I had this, all right, story time. I had this one German shepherd that came in I can't remember his name. He came in and it was the hardest case because this particular dog would, so I would like to say that I've only had maybe one or two dogs in my behavioral cases that I've worked with that I haven't been able to push past like the breaking point of them getting better because it was a lot of the genetics. So anyway, this particular German shepherd came in it was the most reactive dog I've ever worked with just would not stop, would not stop was so consistent on reacting. The owner did everything right. This was probably three years ago now and I could just remember this dog not breaking down. And for me, what I like to do is really get the dog to modify the behavior. If they're reactive to strangers I wanna get them not reactive to strangers. So I think ultimately I would mark it as like the hardest case just because I wasn't able to modify that behavior and that is very rare. Like I said, maybe one or two cases out of my career I haven't been able to do that in. Knock on wood and that was one of those cases. This dog just would not let me near his owner. This dog was so, so aggressive. Barking has attacked multiple people. And it was one of those cases of like, when you talk about the quality of life of the dog I mean this guy had a really good handle over him after he realized what is happening with his dog and the behavior. But we did everything right with management and I don't know where the dog is now and what he's doing. But that was a really tough case for sure because I pulled a lot of rabbits out of my hat to make it work. And I would like to say I'm pretty creative when I'm out there with dogs and it was pretty tough but that's kind of how it went. This dog would not stop, did not care about anything. He would just react every time and he was serious about it. And I think that that's what made it the hardest thing is I get a lot of dogs that act like they wanna bite me. I get a lot of dogs that, you know, whatever look like they're gonna bite me. This dog would have every single time. I think that was the hardest part. So anyway, let's see. What are your thoughts on dog agility? Is it helpful with obedience training? Sure, anything that you can do with your dog productive is great. Anything that you can get out and do with your dog, agility is great, barn hunting is great, fly ball is great, dock diving is great. Anything that you can go out and give your dog a job and give them something to do is wonderful. Now agility is kind of different from obedience but they definitely flirt with each other on some things, you know, but yeah, I think it's great. Yeah. What do you think about Dutch shepherds? I really want one when I'm older. Well, I have one in that picture right there. So I have a Dutchie, they're good dogs. You know, they're very similar to a Malawa making sure that you know how to, they're not. So like in the dog world, Dutchies and Malleys are something that you're gonna wanna get when you're experienced. So you don't wanna, Dutchie and Malleys are not a good first dog, it's not a dog that you wanna just, and it's not, it doesn't have anything to do with like how good you could potentially be. It has everything to do with how good you are right now and the experience you have right now. If you're not experienced with working dogs and high drive dogs, not a good breed, same thing with like Border Collies, Aussies, those types of dogs people overlook because they're not like a German Shepherd or a Dutchie or a Mal or a Roddy or whatever, they're still high class working dogs. You gotta be careful what you get. So anyway, who are your, oh, this is a good question. Hey, if you guys are here, like this video, do me a favor if you're here, let me know you're here. Who are your favorite YouTube dog trainers? You know, that's a really interesting question. I'm glad you asked that. So I don't watch a lot of other people and I'll tell you why, here's why. And the same reason why I don't follow, there's so many great dog trainers, very skilled, much more experienced than me, better than me. There's so many great people out there but I can tell you that I don't like following other dog trainers on social media because when I go to try to do something and if I watch what they do and I'm similar and I do something the same, I feel very, I have a guilty conscious if that makes any sense. So I don't like watching, I like watching dog trainers that are very different from me. Like I watch a lot of positive reinforcement trainers only because I know that I can gain something from them but I'm never gonna like repeat that information. So for me, that's a great question. I'm really glad that you asked that. I find myself disconnecting myself with watching other dog trainers. Not be, I shouldn't say, I definitely, definitely, definitely watch other dog trainers. Larry Crone is a great dog trainer that I watch. My Tyler Muto, my friend Tyler Muto, Force Mickey, Michael Ellis, all of those trainers, like the whole Lerber crew I pretty much grew up on. But I don't like search and try to find other dog trainers that I don't familiarize myself with. Just because of that reason I feel really guilty. If I repeat information that I was gonna say regardless that they said, it just like, I don't like that in my head. It kind of like makes me, I don't know, feel a certain way. So it's a really great question but the answer to your question, I really don't like actively try to find those type of people only because like that reason but I definitely like watching a lot of dog training seminars, new things and things like that podcast and stuff. But I just try to not, because it gets very political, especially if you're talking about dog trainers that are disagree with everything you do. And I just try to do my own thing and go with what feels good with me. And I watch a lot of my friends that I've been acquainted with for many years that I have the opportunity to work with, like all the people I just mentioned. So anyway, so I hope that answers your question but I just have some sort of like, same thing with Instagram. There's so many great trainers out there but I just, I try not to like follow them because I don't want it to like spark anything in me when I'm training in the future. So anyway, let's see. What's your opinion on treats during training? I think it's great. I think if you can use motivation to train your dog to teach them new behaviors, I think that that's wonderful. I also think that treat training can also work against you if you don't do it properly. That's right. I said it, sometimes people get confused on that. Like, oh, how could you ever mess up treat training with a dog or how could you ever do something wrong with treats? Very, very easily actually. I always tell people, hey, if you're against collars and tools and using discipline on dogs, that's totally fine but be also careful and I respect that. Also be careful how you use food because a lot of times food, like I just did two board and train pickups. Dogs are, these dogs were here for three to four weeks, both of them. And I didn't use any food during the pickup and I didn't realize I wasn't using food. I just had the expectations of, hey, I don't need food. So I love using food to teach new behaviors. I love using food to keep a dog motivated but I find using food through the duration of the training after you've taught them becomes a lot of times dog owners specifically become very dependent on it where if they don't have the food then the dog won't do the behavior which is what we run into all the time. And if you guys could do me a favor, there's 150 people here, hit the like button. I'm gonna take a sip of water. I'm gonna keep answering your questions if you guys keep bringing them in but do me a favor and like this video when you're here. Please. All right, thanks guys. So have you heard of Victoria Stilwell? I've heard of her. Don't know anything about her. The only thing is, is like, I think a lot of people don't realize the entertainment business that comes along with dog training. I started dog training and then started putting my video, my really crappy videos out and people enjoyed them and they learned something from them which I thought was valuable. There's also other people who don't really know dogs that well, don't really train dogs but they have signed an entertainment contract to go on TV to create people to get to you. So when you're talking about people who are national television and have big networks backing them, most of that is smoke and mirrors to be honest. You have to just be careful on what you see and high production values. I've been a part of, oh my gosh, I can't tell you how many times I've been a part of networks, pitching new ideas and filming pilots and working with people from all over the world in the entertainment business on every end of the spectrum from you name it to streaming services to networks to so on and so forth and I've had those really big meetings and a lot of times it's just a, it's a hairy slope. It's an interesting thing. So when you're talking about big things like that, a lot of the creativity and the content that is actually distributed to the audience such as yourself is not exactly what happened and I find that's why for me, those opportunities of doing big projects on those platforms, I'm a little hesitant to because you gotta be careful because they're not in it for you, they're in it for money and for people to watch what you're doing. So anyway, I don't know anything about it really. Let's see, okay, all right. Could you film your dogs next time you play with them? Sure, I could do that. Like the video, always appreciate your content. I'm more interested in positive only-ish training but I really like your approach to balance training. Thanks, cool. What dogs do I have? I have a St. Bernard, Thompson. I have actually, two of my dogs are right here and then Lola, she's about 16. She's in the truck, she's just chilling. Let's see. I have a female German Shepherd and I hear they can't live with other female dogs. Well, I'll stop right there, that's not true. German Shepherd, it doesn't matter the sex of them, they can live with any other dogs. That's definitely not true. Now, definitely having male and female dogs intact is a different story. What's your favorite dog breed to train but what's your favorite in general? Good question. So as a professional dog trainer slash educator, whatever the heck you want to call me, my favorite breed to train are pit bulls and Labrador retrievers. For whatever reason, I've gone over this too before but pit bulls and labs are just so responsive to training. They want to do what works the best and that's why I love pit bulls and labs because they're just really responsive to training and I like every breed. I love rescue dogs, I love mixes so it really just depends on what mood I'm in. If I'm laying on the couch editing something, I love my Saint Bernard. If I want to go out and train and be really crazy with obedience, I love my duchy and so it really just depends on what mood I'm in. Lola is a mix. When do you, so okay, so when do you know when your dog is ready for off leash after training with the E-collar? Great question, I always tell people to, oh by the way, if you guys are want me to, I can get one of my dogs out at Lakota and I can work her on live and just go over some basic obedience. If you guys want, if you do like this video and leave a comment, let me know. But as far as how to basically know when your dog is ready off leash when you've done the E-collar training is very, very, very easily to say with your long line. Get your 30 foot long line and make sure that your training with your dog to a point that they are very responsive on the long line. And I would be doing like a week of online or E-collar training with the long line and making sure that the dog is very responsive to the long line training and making sure for safety that you can step on the long line if it gets to that point. But it's a good question, but I would say making sure that you're doing your 30 foot long line stuff in recall settings and everything else. So just make sure that you're doing that. Somebody just asked, is pack leader a real thing as well as being alpha? That's a great question. I talk about this a lot. Yeah, I mean, so again, conversially, so when we talk about the alpha thing, like that's a big season Milan thing, I have a lot of respect for season Milan. I have a lot of colleagues that work directly with him and are very, very well represented. And I think he's great at what he does. I think, again, being on national television, it doesn't matter if you're on there literally touching dogs and saving their lives. People are gonna hate it one way or the other because a lot of people are watching you. So he'll alpha thing, obviously got really popular with the dog whisperer. But really alpha has nothing to do. So alpha usually, alpha usually in dog packs and stuff like that are the wisest, most calm, level-headed animal in the pack. It has nothing to do with strength or anything like that. So yeah, I think that there's some validity to that, but at the same time, a lot of people overthink. If your dog is pushy or your dog is stubborn, they're dominant and things like that. So I've only met two real dominant dogs my whole life. One of those videos is the popular one on my channel that has like two million views of the German shepherd with the muzzle that tries to eat me and his owner. That's a really dominant dog. But I mean, it gets really sticky when you talk about dominancey because it's very hard to gauge what a true dominant dog is. But people don't realize that a dog that is dominant just doesn't wanna get off the couch and may growl at you for doing that versus a dog that is very big and aggressive. It's not dominancey. So it's a very thin line. So hey, so let's see, let's take one more and then it looks like you guys want me to get Lakota out, I can get her out and work her for a couple of minutes. You're not gonna be able to hear me but I'll work her if you guys wanna see her. She would love to come out and train. So let's just answer this, Justice asked, my mom's dog has tried to bite people a few times. He always goes after their left arm, gets his mouth around but never bites down or injures them, why does he do this? Well, the really easy answer is because your dog is probably correcting that dog or your dog is correcting that person. They feel threatened, they feel insecure, they feel violated, not violated, vulnerable. The likelihood of your dog doing that is probably everything to do with your ecosystem. If your dog is insecure and your dog is not secure with the people around them to make decisions and keep them safe, your dog is gonna take, shake charge, happens all the time. That's why leash reactivity exists for the most part. If the dog doesn't feel comfortable and confident with the owner, then they're going to react accordingly to do their job and be a dog and protect their house. So leash that dog up, give them more structure, bring them out for walks. Sounds like all those things would be a really great idea. So what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna do this again live. If you guys like this live and you're watching it after, do me a favor and leave a comment. Like I did the, so I don't know if you guys see this but if you're doing positive only reinforcement or I'm sorry, I'm reading comments. When I do community posts and I leave like, hey, who wants questions? Some people answer and some people don't. But so what we're gonna do is you guys can leave your questions in this video when it's posted and I'll answer them the next live. That's the best thing to do. So anyway, let me go grab my dog. You guys can, you're not gonna be able to hear me but I'm gonna work her, I'll bring her out. And you guys can watch me work one of my own dogs. And if you guys want, I'll bring Thompson out too so you can see him, I'll let him outside. A lot of people ask me about him. I'm gonna use a, I'm gonna use a tug toy with her. So it's something that we talked about in my last video but I'm gonna use a tug and we'll just do some obedience routines and you guys can see her work with me and it'll be fun. Thompson, he's about 11 years old. He's my big buddy. Let's close that, I'm just gonna stay. Just gonna use a bite pillow. So this is a wedge. So it's something that's used for building drive and dogs, teaching them bite techniques, teaching them grips, all that stuff. So I'm gonna be using this as her reward because my other tug I think is in my truck and I don't wanna waste your time and go out there and get it. So I'm gonna work her on this. I'm gonna do a little bit of barking with her too so you guys can see she'll do a bark on command. She'll do a heel on command, obviously. So she'll do like a focus heel. Yes, that is Hawk. So I said yes and she's Cora, Hushay, Hushay, stay. So yeah, that's Hawk but what I'm gonna do is do some healing, do some barking with her, do some releasing with her and just having fun, just no equipment, just having fun. So this is primarily what you'll get when somebody asks about a duchy, just being able to cap all those behaviors and work with them but it's really great if you can do it. So I don't like to grab it unless she's calm so I'll calm her down. So she keeps jerking it out and she's not like, watch, she can't leave my left side unless I break her. She likes to have fun. But if you guys can see, I don't know how much you can hear me but this is what she likes the most, is Cug. So she likes this the best and she's not being mean or anything like that. She's just trying to play, this is her play. No fooling. So a lot of impulse control guys so if you watch quicker. So she won't take this. Even if I put it right here, she won't take it unless I say Y-E-S, which is very strong. If you guys want, I can get hawk out too. If you guys want me to get hawk, let me know in the comments. Make sure you guys like this video, too. Seats, stay. So yeah, that's, so I can get hawk too. He's a malinois that we have over here in this corner. He's a goof man. He's really, really funny. He's a lot of fun to work. I've been working with him on and off for a little bit of time. He's a lot, like I said, he's a lot of fun. He really, really likes food. He's not like that great with the out command just yet with the tug but I'll get him out and work and he's a beautiful malinois. He's got a great color. If you guys haven't met him or you don't know him, he's really, really striking. I just wanna make sure that my phone is charging. I think it is. But anyway, yeah, I'll get hawk out. I'll put Lakota away. I appreciate you guys joining me. I hope this has given you entertainment during this whole coronavirus isolation type stuff. Lakota's getting tired. Korda. Yes, good girl. To show you guys is, I wanna show you some impulse control with like the bite sleeve. So a lot of people ask me about the bite sleeve. I wanna show you a little bit of that too. When I get her out, you'll see the change. She'll get a lot more excited than she is now. Like you can see her now with the bite pillow. She loves it, but wait till the bite sleeve comes out. She gets very, very excited. So she immediately dropped the other thing and wants this. So once you teach a dog how to like play tug, the same material on that little tug or that pillow is the same thing as this. And then what you do is you target the dog to bite certain parts of the sleeve and they're not necessarily attacking. By the way, I wouldn't recommend anybody to do any of the stuff that I'm doing with their dog. She's highly trained. I'm a professional. I just wanna show you a couple different things of like what dogs can do cause it's fun. But the bite sleeve is something that is used for high levels of obedience. Dogs have to work on high levels of impulse control as well as thresholds and where to bite when not to bite. So a lot of people look at it as like aggression and sometimes it is when it's trained improperly but she loves it. She's not attacking me. She thinks she's playing tug with me with just a new thing that slipped on my arm so it looks a certain way. A lot of times police dogs are the nicest dogs ever. They're very nice to people. It's just when you turn them on to let them know hey, it's time to work that they can do that which is what makes them a working dog versus just a pet. So anyway, I'll do a little bit of that. It's a lot of fun. She'll do the same thing with this. What else? Fool me. She hasn't seen this in a long time. So anyway, so you take the same thing that like this was on, right? This is tug. She's playing tug with this. You just switch it to this and then you teach them impulse control. So same thing here. Like she wants this more than anything but she won't take it unless I tell her to. So I'm gonna work her for a second and then I'll show you how it works where she has a really good, she loves it. But again, please do not try this at home. She's a professional. I'm a professional. She's been trained not only by me by other certified decoys as well as police officers. So left. So this is, so she'll just do a bite right here. Normally we do inside tricep bites which does hurt because I don't have a gauntlet on which is basically a safety sleeve. So again, impulse control. Push it. Awesome. Right when I say yes, she's gonna take a bite. She's gonna thrash. She's gonna get really excited and she's gonna have fun with it. So that doesn't hurt at all. And then you can let her have it. Good job. Of course she's having a good time. Absolutely loves it. So on the contrary of like what people think that is she's not attacking me. She's not being mean or malicious. She's playing tug with an item that I transferred over to my body through time. So don't go out and get a bite sleeve and do this with random dogs. Really not a good idea. I had one guy tell me one time, oh, I can definitely get my dog to bite me. Don't. That's a terrible idea. But anyway, I'll grab Hawk out and put her away. But the more of you guys that join here and like this video, it's a lot of fun. This is cool. So this is Hawk. He's a Belgian Malinois. So a little bit different than Lakota. Just a little bit bigger. He's a male. So I'll do some healing exercises with him. I use a lot of food with him. Very motivated by food. Hop down, hop sit. So Hawk's a lot of fun to work and I'm going to bring him over here so you guys can see him a little bit more. I know. So this is Hawk. How old is Hawk Taylor? What? Almost two. He's almost two. Anyway, he's a lot of fun. Take him off here. You can tell he's very energetic. Malinois are a handful. But anyway, Hawkie, come here. So anyway, here we are at the facility. We got some no bad dog merch stuff. You guys can hit the link in the description to purchase some of that. You guys want to see a little behind the scenes of the facility. A lot of you guys probably just see what you see on the videos. So I'll give you a little bit better view of the front room. So here, so when you walk into the front door here and then we have all sorts of different certifications from our other trainers going to school and college and all that stuff. Over here we have a map of all of our clients that have come here. So you can't really see them because it blends in but we have a ton of pins on there. Over here we have some stuff. Some of my friends, Forrest Mickey, Michael Ellis, multiple newspaper cutouts, coffee machine, you know, the important stuff. And then let's see, over here we have, this is my favorite hoodie we've made by the way. It's the most comfortable hoodie, absolute garbage all over it. But it's my favorite. Over here we have our group schedule. Over here we have a bunch of other newspaper articles from the last couple of years. Some of my clients up here, it's Logan Paul, Patrick Mahomes, bunch of the Colorado Rockies players, MLB players. Just have some of their jerseys up with their picture of their dogs and me. Hawking Fui, Thompson's out there, Taylor. Come here, bub. Good. Gonna put Hawke away. Come here, bub. He's so crazy. Anyway, we have Oliver Merch over here. We have Dr. Collars as well. Back here we have some more stuff hanging on the wall, some YouTube plaques. That is a certificate of merit from the Senator, Tedesco, that was presented to me at an event that I got invited to that I unfortunately couldn't go to because I was on the road. It's me and the governor. He's making the news a lot lately. So I work with Governor Como very closely at the governor's mansion working with a captain, which is this dog. Great dog, great dude. Spent a lot of time with them and continue to do. This is some of our merch back here. So we have beanies, we have hoodies. Let's see, we have all of our laptops and iPads on here. That's our daycare thing right here. So it gives us a view of all of the entire facility. But anyway, so, and then we have offices and stuff in the back, which I can bring you guys to next time if you want. But I appreciate you guys watching. This has been a lot of fun. Hawk and I are gonna sign off. If you guys are watching this in the future, dog training questions, leave them in the comments. Let me know what you guys wanna talk about next time. And I'll see you guys next time for live. Thank you so much for joining me. I had a really good time. I appreciate you. I hope everyone stays safe. I hope everyone is, oh, look at these. I got these little plants. I thought I was being really cool about that. Thank you guys so much. Don't forget like, subscribe to my channel.