 Alright, a few days ago, I put up a video of the universal problem that everybody has in the world and struggles with. When you're out in public, your dog's shooting off of you and jumping on people in the public. Hey! Alright! Hello! Hey girl! Okay, and I was explaining that all areas of dog training have this problem, right? Service dogs, I see it all the time. Police dogs, you know, just the public in general. So even dogs are supposed to be trained. I see it all the time that just fly off the heel and jump on people, okay? So it just happens that yesterday, day after I happened to put that video on YouTube, a client calls me and says that her dog, constantly in public, pulls off her in the heel and goes to everybody in anything, right? So the impulse control is not there, which is normal and most common issue probably with everybody with their dogs. So I'm going to take you today into something little more advanced than I did in the last few days ago, okay? So I figured since I had put the video up that I might as well just show you the whole class, right? Of what we did there to stop the dog from doing it and get it under control, right? By the end of the session, very shortly within a few minutes, we pretty much had it in check and the dog was staying at the heel now when we would come in and pet it and, you know, kind of taunt it to see if she would make a mistake and break the heel and go to us, okay? Alright, good girl. Hi. You're so beautiful. Hi. Good girl. Hi. So I'm going to show you that as I get there, you're going to see the dog just jumps all over me, blows out of the heel and then we go and fix it and I'm going to show you the class of how we did this, which I usually do not do, okay? This is going to be unique where I'm going to allow you into the class and watch how I went about fixing this. Now, before we go do that, the last video I put up about this, there are steps to this to have this really well, okay? So number one, your dog's heel has to be phenomenal, okay? And when I say phenomenal, I mean you should be able to walk all over town with a loose leash. That dog is perfect with their collars lined up with you always, right? No matter what comes around in life, the dog is always attached to the leg, would never think about trying to go and engage with another dog, another human wouldn't even think about it down this way and you'll do it. You need no leash help to control your dog ever, okay? That is a rare thing, even with dogs who went through dog training, okay? So, I was showing my puppies and my dogs of how that heel is supposed to look and this is what's out of leash on it. Oh, wow. Also, you see there, we get automatic sits when we stop the leg from moving on our heel without being told sit. Not mandatory, but better, right? Easier and helps things more if that's the case, right? Because one thing we know that if the dog or puppy is sitting automatically when the leg stops, we have high attention in the heel game and the dog we know now understands that the leg is everything and walking in life. That they must know where that leg goes all the time in every moment. So, when they go and we stop our leg, right, all of a sudden they just start sitting automatic and you see there, I never say sit, it's an implied behavior no matter how old the puppy is or dog. The moment we stop walking, they sit automatically right next to the leg. Telling us, we have a fluent heel game. There's an understanding of how this game is played that we match our collars up with leg all the time, right? So, they're going to have to be watching the leg all the time so that when it stops, they notice it automatic. So, we have high attention to leg. So, leg is overriding everything else in life. Then we get the automatic sits attached to that as well like we're saying here, okay? Which just makes the whole game complete, high attention, which takes away from everything around us. The heel is also so critical, right? For, it's the power control position of dog training, okay? At the highest levels. So, the heel, as we're talking in this video, if I have this really good, I mean really good, which is rare to see, okay? This jumping stuff and forging is going to be a piece of cake. We're not going to have a problem. Hello. Hey, girl. Now, also, the power of the heel command being great also leads to everything else, right? Protection training. Protection training, the heel, that heel position is critical in having a high level protection dog, right? We'd say high level, we're talking ultimate control of a dog who's taught aggression, right? To be totally controlled, no outbursts without being asked, never forging anything, no mistakes, total control over that dog and its mind. All right, and here, Sue turns him on into aggression. I'm making all sorts of moves. I left my little things dangling and driving some crazy and then Sue's going to tell him to out, shut off the aggression. No more talking to me, no more lunging, and here I should be able to come in and pet him. Just like I'm going to do right now. I walk back out. He shouldn't react to me at all. Then here, Sue turns him back on. Now, you see there, he went right into engagement with Alicia and he was going to take off. He held himself from taking off to try to attack me, just like he should, self-control. Here, I'm trying to bait him again. A lot of movements, a lot of jumping around to make him really, really try to come off his game. But he's holding it terrific. Then here, Sue's going to shut him off again, and then I'm going to come in and pet him again. Exactly the way protection should be. Light switch on, light switch off. Then here, we're going to send Rocco to bite because we want to make sure that when we had shut him that we don't damage his bite at all, that he doesn't go anymore because we were shutting him off. The heel is the foundation piece in a great protection game. Also, when we do aggression training, stopping dogs from outbursting aggressively at other dogs, people, whatever it is. The heel is the focal point and critical to stop that behavior and get the dog's mind out of aggressive states. So when I go do aggression cases, which is my life all day, we always start with the heel because the heel, it's not about the dog walking properly when we're doing aggression cases. It alters the dog's mind, puts focus, calms them down from being internally like this because the focus on a leg and a good heel game takes away everything else in life and environmental stimulus. And this is the case for all the categories. So heel is the most powerful critical command in all of dog training. I mean without question, hands down. So when your dog has a great heel, you can do so many things in life with that dog in all areas because you have control of your dog and you have them mentally with you. But this is not the case 99% of the time in the public, even if they went through dog training. I see it all day long. So from here, I'm going to take you to this class and it's the first time we're doing it. You're going to see it raw. Everything being done in one session. And how we go about this. Now start off, I just want to stay here. This German Shepherd has also, the owner has been using treats for two and a half years. Right with this dog. Using food and she loves treats, loves food. And has not been able to get her at all to stop doing what she's doing and get out of control out in public. So I just want everybody to know as we go into this, that's why we're not doing treats. We're not doing reward. Generally I will not do that anyway because I want this quick. I want it done and I want it over and I want happy dog and I just want everything to be quick and done in one session. And she's already been through that. It's not working for her. So just want to give you that as we go into this because this is going to be using the remote collar and getting this done very quickly. So you're going to see here right off the bat. The owner starts coming down to me and as I start walking towards them as soon as they got close enough. The dog lost couldn't help herself anymore and just took off out of the heel and came right to me crashing into me. And then jumping up all over me. Hey. Alright. Hello. Hey girl. I'm telling you. She doesn't get it all usually. Okay. Okay. See what I mean? It's a big party. And she does this to everybody. Dogs and public people. I mean she loves everybody and everything. She's a very social sweet dog. Okay. So as now we start this. You're going to hear me talking to the owner. And just know that the game is going into this because I do have my mic on in there and you'll hear me talking to the owner. Every time she breaks off that leg there's going to be a correction with the collar. Okay. She has to learn leaving that leg without a permission word is unacceptable. Okay. The game is black and white. So if we say heel and she's in a heel she can never leave the leg for anybody. Anything. Not grass. Nothing. Okay. Unless she hears the word break. Okay. Or okay. Whichever. Right. So you're going to see that here throughout the video too. So in order to do this properly you your dog would need a very good release game. Okay. So all our dogs have it. And this puppy had it because I trained her as a young puppy. So you're going to see here we're going to do the exercise. We get her under control. And then when she's behaving and doing well we release her. Okay. To me to be social and say hello to me and we can do our thing and better and have a good time. So what we're going to do is release her to me. Okay. All right. Okay. Good girl. There you go. Good girl. So you're going to see us balancing out this exercise between her holding, disciplining herself, controlling her emotions and her throttle. She does well when I come in my pet and I get her all. She will randomly release her so she understands the game. When you are told heel unless you are told the release word you must stay in the heel and stay on that leg no matter what. Don't emotionally overload because you must stay attached to that leg. Okay. When you are told to get out of there your release word breaker okay. Usually the words we use you can leave the leg with no problem and you can go socialize. All is well. You must balance those two things out perfectly for a dog not to be confused. Okay. So if they don't have a good release game or a good heel game which is what I see mostly in life again from even trained dogs if we give discipline for trying to leave the leg they're stuck. They don't know if they should go or not now. If they don't have a good release game right it's counter right. The release is not there so they're not sure if they can go. If the heel is not good they get disciplined. So we have this confusion because the two things are not balanced out properly. So we really need that to start with for things to go very smoothly okay. And this dog has it perfectly the release game okay. So we're okay with her you're going to see no problem when we release her. She comes right to me alright. So I'm going to show the video now and show the class as we went and just show how we went about doing it. So now when you're healing. Because right away when that emotion comes you know she's going to like she just did right. So we're going to play it where as you do that again as you start coming I'm going to start meeting you any forging right she's going to have to tighten up. And then when you stop I'm going to start coming to you if she jumps it we say nothing the prong the line will be a little bit so she only has room to take one step forward okay. So it's going to post her not pull her back okay. And then you're going to go when she gets posted tick tick tick but I'm going to hold off and not allow her satisfaction because she jumped it. So I'm going to have to the person that's helping you is the one who's got to play this properly because if they let her go and they keep coming in to go oh it's okay right. She got it yeah that's what everybody's going to do they don't even care they're going to go oh hi baby she's going to go boom and now it's like too late no yeah right and they're already like oh it's okay it's okay I don't know right now she already got it even though she got tapped all right so what you're going to do is you'll make a yewee okay so right there you stop good now go girl good girl tick tick tick tick tick tick tick a little higher level good girl good very good good now when I go back out she moves to follow me perfect good okay yeah oh I know she's brilliant oh beautiful good girl hi good girl hi you're so beautiful hi good girl right mm-hmm and mm-hmm all right obviously trying as much what she would see in the public hi baby hi baby right oh you're so beautiful can I pet her oh my right we want that emotion that stimulation that dogs go through in public this is what people do to dogs right so oh my god you're so and the emotion and the moving towards and the right so they get the dogs going in front in the stimulated state of mind so I'm mimicking everything that I could try hit getting low right and you see the moment I go low she breaks so now I'm gonna take the leash off and we're gonna do it without the leash it's like pay attention girl so you'll start to walk her we'll do a restart and how good girl very good right mm-hmm right tick tick tick tick and what you do is you would back up a step tick tick tick tick tick right and make her find the leg right they're gonna come right back in right just a few steps right there good girl all right good girl ah good girl right good girl we can see them because you know okay and then what we're gonna do is release her to me okay all right okay good girl there y'all good girl good girl all right okay good and then we'll try one more time so he's gonna take her out and what you'll do is as you come in you're gonna talk to her and get her more excited as you're healing her and then when you stop I'm gonna add a little more and I'm gonna okay we'll say right with a crack right there right there good girl good girl yeah very good all right good girl yeah good girl good okay and then release okay yes good girl yeah she got big she got really big good girl and then what you're gonna do is you're gonna tell her to come to you back to the heal and I'm gonna come because I'm looking for her weaknesses right what most dogs are drawn to right so I see now she's holding I can't get her out of there anymore by petting her in all the right so I try something else now I go low which most dogs fall for right because what do people do in life even owners these you go hi come here be become bait right so that position becomes boom acute behavior like ooh that's a good position right in invitation position so once we had her going with the pet and stimulation of verbal and petting now of course I'm gonna pull that one off to see if she's gonna fall for it and she fell for it right away okay so we correct her she goes back we replay and I go right back at the behavior that she failed that and every time she drops to the floor and it down we correct her for her to come back up into the sit where she started right because her going to the floor and laying on the floor like that is her way of trying to trick the system right so she gets low she gets away from the leg and now she thinks she's gonna be able to creep or pounce away from the leg so we counter her right playing chess with her we know that when you drop into the down you're trying to play sneaky with the game and we won't allow it so we give her taps and she pops back up into the sit and we stabilize her right telling her when we stop and you sit you stay and sit unless I ask you for the down okay especially in this scenario because we know what she's trying to do and what we're trying to fix okay so she was basically trying to out clever the game okay so we have to take that away from her right good and then what they will do is right all the way in and then he'll pet her right there she's like who's this guy yeah and then if you start playing and then what you do there then you come all the way in to give to her because she held the lick because what happened there is if we if we pull that too much and she's going look I'm trying to lick you but I think you're just a little out of range I'm gonna have to take that step right she held it so if I see there that she's really trying she doesn't realize she's being baited so then for holding I come and I give my face going right because if you held it off the exact position I will give you the lick here but don't creep out on inch or two to do it so I reward the behavior because she did it right good girl yeah try one more time she's a licker are you being a good girl are you being a good girl are you doing lessons today what do you see over there what's over there I'm gonna release her okay good girl you play with the cat right so she did fantastic first time ever doing it and fantastic okay so I just want to give you a raw look at me going to a class and doing a real class with an owner and seeing exactly how we went about fixing it in one class we get under control right and from here on now the owner just has to stick to the game and it'll be done over and you're right one day they should be able to go out now from here on and have no problem with it so there you go master class so till next time Richard Hines Mind Me Dog Whisper