 All right, welcome everybody to another episode of dog-talking coffee with me Richard Hines And today's episode is Gonna be on one of the weirdest perplexing I Don't understand Commands that's been built in to To The dog training society mostly the positive movement and Which makes no sense whatsoever if you understand anything about training dogs, right? The look at me command The environment that he's trying to pull towards up here see a little bit more challenging now. This is normal because I mean just a few feet away from the house Is a completely new environment to many dogs and he wants to get it is The craziest weirdest thing I've ever seen in my life if you understand anything about dog training and the way dogs work What is the look at me? command Based on what is the purpose of it? Why do these trainers use it and teach it? So It's really to me what I consider a band-aid effect. You always see it being used when a Dog has reactionary behavior Towards anything in its environment right now So I'm gonna try and be one step ahead and get his attention on me. Come here. Yes. Good. Come on Brutus this way come on come on this way. Nope So my task next time is to be more interesting than I was that time or to create distance between us and the moving car Come on this way this way come on Yes, yes good good boy. He looked at me He just glanced at me when that car was driving by that's what he was like. I'm thinking about listening to you To be it became clear that getting too close to the road really complicated communication So my job is to go back to the last known place of compliance from Brutus and work from there I won't take treats you need to create distance You can't be in front of a heavy distraction if they're like I care more about that distraction this issue obviously But this is where you start your next step is getting them to glance up at you and reward him as much as you can for doing that right examples here dog wants to squirrel and And so it doesn't look at the squirrel want the squirrel we go look at me Right, and we have the dog turn and look away from the animal and look at our face and Give it a treat for not looking at the squirrel and looking at us Look at all these birds around here and look he doesn't want to eat that if you're doing leash training And your dog won't take a treat like I got a big old handful of turkey right here And you can see how Bentley doesn't even want it because the smells are overwhelming the sights sounds all of that or Dog reaction right reactivity towards dogs Do you see how she won't take the treats right here? That's because she is so focused on these dogs that are walking right now I can't even push the chicken in her mouth because she wants to get to those dogs over there I need to get her attention on me So my goal is to create distance away from the distraction So I'm going to go that way right now and get away from those other dogs Yes, yes almost almost got to go farther, so I'm still not far enough away from the distraction I got to keep going now. I'm going to test for compliance over here said no just as examples right Dogs who are well trained Don't ever need to look at our faces No matter what they're doing how high level of state they're in When the training is done to a high level and elite level and When I say that I mean that those levels really mean that a dog is trained right there They're trained they're fluent in their understanding of training So give you a few examples Here just one of roof Here's a dog That day that I just started that was crazy and could not be controlled the owner never walked the dog anymore Because it sees a dog it goes out of its mind Trying to go after them bite them and Within a few minutes we have the dog Passing by the dog back and forth because we got control now and we don't mind the dog looks at the dog Right we pass we never avoid looking at the other dog look at it Right, but because we just taught you how to behave in life. We don't need to teach you avoidance. I Want you to see the dog coming I want you to be able to look at the dog that you were blowing up at all out of the out of your crazy head at Right and now learn to be controlled Passive by yourself Without any help from owner handler that I need to tell you hey, hey look at me So that when we pass this dog you don't go crazy, right here obvious You see the blowing up a few minutes later teaching them how to walk properly Walking next to us and the dog was blowing up at perfectly going back and forth pass and no Crazy and we're not trying to take the dog's attention off of that dog Right, we're teaching it. You're gonna see a million dogs in life And I don't want you blowing up at any of any more, but I don't care what you do. You don't have to look at me I don't mind you look at the dogs Just don't have a crazy moment. So we never read direct at dog's attention off of what it wants Right to be able to focus It must learn how to go through What drives it crazy with out our help and redirecting the dog's attention to us? Yeah, you want we'll get close Then you know you really did it you haven't trained you fixed it You did not put a band-aid on it If the dog can't walk past dogs and go opposite look at me look at me Right, that is just absurd Now here I'm gonna just throw some other Scenarios as a little bit of a So Here you're gonna see this Doberman One of my clients We're like 50 yards back, right? The owner doesn't mind he goes and chases dogs and has a good time So here you'll see him chase dogs They all fly to the water and then the dog is gonna be running on the water ledge He wants the ducks, right? He wants to get in the water. He's trying to figure out how to get close enough to the ducks and Then out of nowhere He's gonna ask for a sit command while the dog is hunting the lake while he's not looking at us 50 yards away I don't think so I mean I walk here all the time, I don't think so Right, so there he asked him as the dog is trying to figure out his mind He's got ducks on his mind. He's trying to figure out the water How he's gonna do this and get in there or get the ducks to come close? We ask for a sit command 50 yards away. He's not looking at us and he sits right away While he's still looking at the lake and the ducks when he sits Not looking back to us and the owner that is Obedience training Here Highest state of a mind being somewhere else in chaos, right? You're gonna see Rocco here the shepherd biting me. I Tell the owner to tell him out Now he's not looking at her. He's on me and his back is to her He lets go right away. He does not need to look at her and From there She tells him to down Right while he wants to bite me again tells him down and he downs instantly without having to look at her She's behind him and his mind is on me and he can't see her So he outs out of aggression. He downs out her this is High-level dogs Right, there's no such thing as look at me to get them, right dog should be able to listen from Wherever you are with their backs to you. They understand fluently the commands Right, he knows he must let go the first time. He's told he instantly. Let's go Perfectly without looking at her or knowing where she is Down boom in his mind. He's thinking about Rebiting but he listens to her while his mind is somewhere else and she's all the way behind he doesn't need to be looking at her or seeing her to respond to commands and he's in a highest state of Aggression fight mode right now and he still listens perfectly When she tells him to do something and he's really in an emotional state somewhere else Here I show one of my goal retriever puppies Loves this other little puppy, right? They play together. They go crazy together So I'm using this little puppy against the golden to test her skills of Listening when she's not paying attention. This would be the same as her going to a duck Her going to an animal whatever it would be her passion to play with dogs and this little dog she loves I'm using it just as if she was going to go chase an animal, right? so Here you're going to see From the corner screen. She dives bombs into the ground and Wants to get under the owner and play with this puppy and as soon as I call her home She flies out in an instant Looking at me not seeing me and just hearing my voice in a split second room right back to me Then I let her go again to test her. Can I stop her halfway this time? Wow And Boom just like that with me behind her and her not looking just from voice control Boom and turns and runs right back to me perfect This is how you do dog training Right Never ever we use a command in my system. I have never done it. I will never use it Right, it makes no sense. It says to people who know anything That the trainer who's using that technique is amateur and does not Know dog training at a high level Right because we don't need to control the environment around us for our dogs to listen the look at me is a Command that has been built into a system that Needs a lot of help Right again Controlling your dog because you know that you won't be able to control it in an environment where it wants something else So it's meant as a distractor From reality because you will never be able to control that dog Why because that tells you that your dog is Not trained well enough to be able to deal with anything That has that your dog has interest in in life You will never be able to keep them under control. You will lose them. You know, you will lose them So the look at me has been built in to a weak system of a of a method right to be able to read direct because Those dogs will never be able to look at life around them Right as long as things are calm and passive that dog might be fine Anything that comes to the environment that gets it going at all is Going to be a big problem and that owner in life will never ever no matter How long they work at the look at me? Will ever be able to control their dogs in society? When their dog wants something else because they've never taught the dog to go through it and actually learn How to check itself will control itself. It's only been redirected to this so we can't look at what it wants avoidance behavior Most people who see that come in actually think it has purpose and that it has a function So I hope I cleared this up that it has no place in life If your dog is well trained you will never ever need that so Till next time Richard Heinz Miami dog whisper