 Hey guys, Tom Davis here, America's Canine Educator. Thank you so much for joining me if you're here. Go ahead and like this video and let me know you're here. And today we have some really good questions that I got from you guys on my last video. Some really good ones. And as you guys know, we are in the, we're in upstate New York, can you turn that light on? Coronavirus is in full effect, so not much to do, but talk about dogs for me here on the channel so I'm gonna be going over three important things today. The first thing is the fear of children. So dogs who are afraid of kids are typically, it really just depends on the breed, it depends on the age, it depends on when you get the dog, if you've had the dog since a puppy or not. But this question on the community post was my dog is afraid of children, my dog hides from children. Tyler, you're in the mirror, just so you know. My dog hides from children, my dog doesn't like to be around kids. So if your dog is fearful of kids, couple things to consider and to keep in mind that kids to dogs, if they're not used to them or if they haven't seen them before can be a very different thing. So it could be a very different animal. They could be very afraid of these small individual people who move really fast and are high pitched in their voice. And so you have to consider how much exposure your dog has with kids in general. And then from there, the best thing to do to help your dog get over the fear of kids is basically desensitization within a controlled environment which would mean not putting your child or not putting your dog into a situation that really scares, hello guys, I see you all saying hello, hello, hello, hello. But not putting your child or in your dog in a situation that is gonna set your dog up for failure and the kid up for failure as well. So if you can get around a group of really anything, it doesn't really matter if your dog is afraid of humans or other people or kids or grownups or not, but getting them into an environment that allows you to be successful is really the key to making this situation better. Which means not letting people come, not letting make things worse. So people coming up to run up to your dog, kids running up, having a controlled group to say like, okay, this is gonna be a good environment for my dog to get better at. So just making sure that you're picking the people that are around your dog properly and also making sure that your dog is under control. Cause I think that that also has a really good play into all of this. If your dog is a little bit nervous and your obedience isn't that good, then putting them around any environment is not gonna make them be successful or help them be successful. So that's one thing. The other thing I would consider is if you've adopted a new dog and they've never seen kids, just like with humans. I mean, imagine if we've never seen kids ever, ever. Just imagine as the human being never seen kids and then all of a sudden you see this little person, it's like a kid, they kinda are like a human. They kinda look like a human, but they're smaller. Their face is a little different. They have shorter legs. I mean, it could be very different for them. So make sure that if you do adopt a dog and they've never been exposed to children that you do it slowly. Also, I would ask anybody that's here, we have about 70 people and climbing that are in here. If you guys could do me a favor and just hit the like button so I know you guys are watching and you're here. But I would say just giving it time and having enough time for your dog to be socialized properly with children and having enough time for your dog to be around kids that's gonna help them out to be successful. Thank you, Andrew, for liking and subscribing. I appreciate you, brother. We're gonna move on to the next subject and then we're gonna answer some questions in the comments below. And again, if you guys are new here, hello. Leave your questions in the comments below at the end of this video and I'll be sure to answer them as they come in. And as well, if you guys are just getting here, don't forget to like this video. So the next thing is, this is huge. I've been wanting to cover this for actually a pretty long time, which is gonna be the implied stay. So this is something that a lot of dog trainers have given me crap about. Even dog owners have given me crap about. And by crap, I mean they're like, why don't you do this versus not do this? And just so you guys know, I'm on my courted headphones today because yesterday I felt like I was rewatching that video and I was just kind of too far away from you guys. So I got this so I can move my mic closer. But the implied stay. So I'm gonna explain what that is for those of you who don't know what it is yet. The implied stay is very simple. It's basically when you tell a dog to place or sit or down, it basically is then implying that stay is implied after, which means you don't want them to move until you ask them to do something else. You're implying that when you say sit is sit, down is down, place is place, right? Which makes sense, which makes sense. And I'm gonna get into this a little bit because this is a huge topic and I've always wanted to cover this. And somebody asked this in the community post, which I was really excited about because it reminded me that I wanted to talk about this. So that's what the implied commands mean, which means if you say something, that means like why would you have to say stay after you've asked the dog to do it? Now, here's my, and again, my way isn't the only way. I'm just gonna give you my opinion and my experience is working with as many dogs and as many dog owners as I have in the past. So when I wrote some notes on my board over here so I can give you guys the best advice I could give you. And also, yes, Avery, thank you. If you guys are here, like this video and let me know you're here. But the implied stay, okay, so for me, it really has to do with my clients already doing the stay or doing the wait, if you will. It doesn't really matter, they're both the same thing. But really, that's what it means to me is when dog owners come in, they've already introduced the stay to the dog. They've already started it, they've already tried it or the wait. And so for me, I, you know, like, yes, I'm an educator and we have the Upstate Canaan Academy and my job is to help people understand to be a better dog owner. But at the same exact time, I do my best to try to roll with some of the punches to not give them too much confusion, dog owners that is, not to give them too much confusion of, hey, because they're already in there and I'm already giving them, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And I'm already giving them a lot of information and they're taking that all in. So when I start talking about the stays and stuff, they get really confused. Like, they've never heard that in their whole life, what's an implied. So a lot of times I don't do implied stays simply because my dog owners that I'm working with have already been doing that with their past dogs and it's really hard for that habit to break. So that's the first, I wouldn't say the main reason, but that's the first reason why I try not to do implied with dogs that are a little bit older, less than a puppy and also dog owners who already say it. And hello, everybody. Again, I'm Tom Davis. If you guys are new, go ahead and hit that thumbs up button right in the top thing and let me know you guys are here and then at the end of this, we're going to take some Q&As live as well. And so as far as the implied stay goes, that's one of the biggest issues that I have with talking about the stays is people are already doing it. Now the second thing is, and here's the big reason why I don't do implied stays with my dogs. And this is an interesting conversation. And I don't think there's a wrong or right thing. I think it's just preference of how you train. But the reason why I don't do implied sit and stays is because when I travel with my dogs, I like to be able to tell them to stay in the vehicle when I open the doors. Then you can say, well, why is your dogs rushing out the vehicle anyway? That doesn't really happen. It's just if I open my door and my dog's waiting to go out, I can then tell them to stay where they're at without asking them to do anything else. Which means if you ask a dog to, if you teach a dog implied sits and stays, which would mean they only stay when you give them a behavior, right? So if you tell them to down or sit or place, that isn't implied that they have to stay in that location, which is fine. There's nothing wrong with that. That's great. But the problem is for me, when I'm teaching my dogs, is when I open a door and they're three or four dogs and they're at a time, I don't wanna necessarily have to ask my dogs all to sit and down in order for them to stay. So I like having the stay command because it allows me to get my dogs to stay in one spot. And it allows me to just tell them safely to say, hey, I don't care what the heck you guys are doing, I'm gonna open the doors. You guys all have to stay in there, run around the truck if you want. It doesn't matter to me. So for me, that's why over time, I had some colleagues of mine say, like, I don't understand why you don't just do implied stuff. I get it, there's nothing wrong with that whatsoever. But I started thinking about it and I started realizing that, well, if I do the implied stuff, then if I open my, my dogs don't run out the door. But if I'm, if I'm doing, if I'm in the, when I travel and stuff and I have my dogs and I'm in the middle of nowhere at a big rest stop with thousands of cars passing every minute, hundreds probably more. But you get the idea and then I just want them to stay. Like if I'm in the back of my truck and all my doors are open because of whatever reason, having that stay command is really great because it allows me to just tell them like, hey, do whatever you want, but stay. So that's a really great question. And there's, I don't think that in my opinion, there's no wrong or right way to say, like, should you tell your dog to stay? But at the end of the day, that's why I don't do stays because of that reason is because, again, if you want, like even if you open your door to go outside, sliding glass door, front door, back door, any door, no matter like where you're at and you're not really in a situation. Like if you're in a crowded area, right? And again, like if you would say, well, your obedience should be perfect, like blah, blah, blah. Yeah, but there's a lot of dogs that, the way that I train, see, that's the thing about me is I'm not a competitive dog training, obedience person. I'm training for real life dog owners that have problems with their dogs, that want their dog safe and want them to have a great relationship with them. And that's what I train for and that's the advice I give for. Now, if you talk to somebody that's in a competitive obedience world, this would all be different. That's not me, I'm talking to people out there that are just regular dog owners that have problems with their dogs and that implied stay can be kind of conflicting when you're out, there's a bunch of people around, say you're at a beer garden, you're at a coffee shop or something and your paper flew away and you had to go out and get it and your down from a distance isn't that great and your dog gets up and you don't really necessarily want to put them into a down and stay, or down and then an implied stay because they don't know it that well from a distance or you don't want to put them into a sit because they don't know what they'll, they don't know it that well from a distance. I like just applying that stay, which means, dude, I know you're up, I want you to just stay right there. So having that stay is kind of like the cherry on top for safety for me. I don't, like I said before, if you, there's people who come in and even some of my other trainers, I have three full-time trainers that work with me, some of them do implied stuff and we all share clients so it's not a big deal. But I think implied's just like a style of what you like to do and I get that question a lot and I try to just explain to people why I don't do implied stays and those are my reasons. So anyway, if you guys are here, like this video for me really quick, I'm going to take a drink of water and there's over a hundred people in here. So if you guys can just hit that like button really quick and what happens when you hit that like button guys is it tells all the other people who are subscribed to me or all the other dog people who are on YouTube that there's dog stuff going on here. That's why I'm telling you to hit it so we can get more people in. Third thing for today, which is another really great question that we got, which was the question, I don't have the questions right here because my computer's about to die but the question was basically somebody asked, hey, I know that you talk about not treating your dog too much or I'm sorry, it was a puppy question, not treating your dog or your puppy too much. Why do you do that? And then also how to wean away from that. So the real underlying question was is this individual had been working with her puppy and she watched one of my videos and it kind of like hit with her and she said, that makes sense. And so the question is, she's been doing treat, treat, treat, treat, treat, treat. And now her dog's a little dependent or her puppy is a little dependent on that treat and she wants to know how to move away from, ooh, too bright. She wants to know how to move away from depending on that treat and maybe how to wean off of it and I'll explain it really simply. Again, it's a great question. First thing is, is the reason I don't love to use food with every single thing that I do is simply, hey, that's your question. Yeah, see, I told you I'd answer it. So the reason why I don't, first of all, the reason why I don't do food every single time when I'm doing stuff is because the dog then becomes a little dependent on it. Just like with us, like if we went to work and we got paid every single minute for doing whatever and then all of a sudden they're like, hey, I don't have any money on me and or we can't, whatever, I'm gonna pay you hourly. That's gonna cause a riff in your relationship because the expectations have then changed. Now when you're teaching, I use food every day when I'm training dogs, but I'm also the same person that tells people to be very careful how you use food because it's such a strong drive for dogs, a very strong drive. Like a food drive for animals is huge. So you gotta be really careful how you use it because it can go, it can work against you. It can work against you pretty hard actually because they're like this and they're so like crazy on that food that they completely check out what you're actually teaching them. It's kind of like me on a Friday night after working 12 hours and there's cold beer around, I'm not listening to anybody, I'm just ready to have a beer. So it's the same thing with dogs is you gotta be careful how you administrate and deliver your food because it plays a big role in your relationship with your dog because then they become potentially dependent on it, which would be the dog not downing or sitting because you don't have the food which becomes a problem. I can't tell you how many times when people come in, I say, hey, what does your dog know? They say sit down, stay and heal. I said, great. And they go out and they asked their dog to sit and the dog's looking at him like, what the heck's that? And then they go over and they get a piece of food and then the dog sits and it's like, okay, well your dog only knows sit because you have the food which is a problem. So I'm not gonna get too much. I mean, I could, there's really nothing else to do here in the coronavirus, but we'll talk about it maybe a little bit later, but again, thank you guys so much for jumping on here and hanging out with me. Again, I plan on doing this every day because we're quarantined and I wanna give you guys content until we're back to getting all of our clients in and filming some other stuff. But thank you guys so much for joining me. I appreciate you guys. This is fun. But going back to the food discussion, what you can do is like, say you're telling a dog to down. So you go down, good down, and you're giving them food. Well, if you normally pay them with food every single time, all you have to do is simply just wean away from that food and just use your verbal. So just say, yay, good down. So usually when we're doing marker training and you can mark with food and you can mark with a verbal which would mean marker would mean when the dog does it you're doing something to capture the behavior to say that's what I want you to do. So you go, yes, good down or whatever you're using. Gets a little confusing, but you're using food to reward and then you're also using verbal. So what I suggest people is just teach them with the verbal instead of the food. So if your dog is dependent on it, if you give your dog a treat every single time, do it maybe once every three times or once every four times and then eventually your dog just goes, hey, like this is great. And then they become very excited just to hear your voice. So food is the very, very cherry, cherry, cherry on top. And the problem is, is if you use that food right in the beginning of teaching very basic stuff that your dog will probably do with a little pressure on the leash and verbal praise, you can't ever really one up that. And then your dog becomes a little lazy. They become less driven because they've gotten all that stuff in the past. So it's a little tricky. You gotta be careful how you use food because again it's a hard drive for dogs and it could become very distracting. So wean away from it with just isolation of instead of once every time, do it once every four times marking with your voice so the dog is still getting motivated. So anyway, that's that. So those are the three questions and that's what we've been doing here live. Now I wanna answer some of your questions and we're probably gonna do this again tomorrow. So no worries if you guys don't get your, I just don't wanna go like super, super, super, super long on here and so anyway, all right. So let me just rewind a little bit and see what we have. So Brittany asks, how to engage my dog on walks? She year old, Collie Healer Mix. She's nervous, doesn't like strangers, has nipped a couple. Well, Collie Healer Mix, they're very prone to knit people they like and who they don't like. That's just in their nature because of their breed. But what I would do is just try to teach your dog either a focus commands or teaching your dog to focus on you but also doing a lot of directional changes. So when you're out with your dog and your dog is looking around and not paying attention to you, change direction and get your dog to make sure that they're velcroing on you. So they're paying attention to you. I do a lot of tune ups in my session. So if I'm out with my dog and they're not paying attention to me, I'll turn and go the other way and say heal. And if they're not paying attention, they get the leash snaps and they're like, whoa, whoa, sorry. And then they go and I keep doing that to get the dog's attention. The other thing is it's just making sure that you have some sort of motivation with your dog. Good boy or good girl. You can use a little bit of food. You can use a toy. Don't forget to bring out your toys, especially with that really prey driven dog because they're gonna wanna chase stuff. So just making sure that you're doing something for their motivation. And when you're out and they're a little nervous of things, there are certain things that you can do to get your dog a little less stressed about the areas that you're walking. But I would say just giving them a job is the best way to take their mind away from what's going on around them. But that's what I would do. But also making sure your basics are good. Heal, leave it, sit maybe just to get your dog tight. Don't go out in that environment and work with your dog if you don't have basic obedience because you're probably gonna fail with that. So getting your dog engaged with you, letting them on a long line, giving some food out, getting them on you. If you don't have an exercise to get your dog engaged with you, then you're not gonna be able to do it out in public. So try to do that before and teach them like, hey, look at me, this is where I come. All the good stuff comes from me. And then go out and work with your dog. If you guys are new here, go ahead and hit that like button for me. I'm answering dog training questions of all the sorts here. Here, this just popped up. Sydney asks, I have a rescue I've had for seven years. She does great with people, but there's one person she hates. Whoa, sorry, hold on. You're welcome. There's one person she hates a lot. I don't know why she's on guard around him. Any advice why this could be? Great question, Sydney, I deal with this a lot. You know, one thing that I find humans us that do and they do wrong is when you see an animal that's afraid of you, we automatically talk like this and we get really excited and we get down and we're like, hey, and then that freaks them out, just like I just probably freaked you guys out in the camera. So one thing I would suggest, who knows why she doesn't like him. If they don't know each other and she doesn't like him, then who really knows why that happens, right? But the most important thing is managing your people or managing the people around your dog that makes them nervous. Just say, hey, please don't look at my dog, ignore my dog, no eye contact, no talking, and your dog will find comfort in that. If your dog's a little sketchy, it could be past experiences if you've adopted your dog and they had a bad experience with an individual that maybe smells the same, looks the same, has the same job or whatever. They could be associating that and then that freaks them out. So having that person completely ignore your dog is the best thing to do. And then also going out and doing activities with that person. So you walk your dog and have that person walk with you guys. Sometimes things don't, okay, she was used as a bait dog and was starved. Well, people suck and that sucks, but I'm glad you got to save her. Good for you, Sydney. But I would say it probably has to do with past. So just do the absolute best you can to associate that person with, because I mean, if you think about a bait, what type of person a bait dog is, I mean, they're living with absolute monsters. So they're gonna do everything they possibly can to get that dog out. And so just ignore the dog completely, go out and do exercises until you've built trust. Sharon asks, how can I keep my healer from attacking the Broomer vacuum? Well, that's a prey drive. So like we talked about before, your healer, like a Border Collie or a Blue Healer or any type of those herding dogs, they're gonna go after anything that moves, which is their job. And so you can't really like train them necessarily to not want to do that. Like you can't tell a fish not to swim. It's just like you can't tell a herding dog not to chase things that move. However, you can certainly work on your obedience to counter condition this behavior. A place command and a stay command is something I would be working on. You're not gonna be able to tell your dog, like, hey, don't care about things that move because it's a herding dog. But you can certainly counter condition this type of behavior with obedience. So I would, my dogs do it all the time. Even when I'm snow blowing, lawn mowing, my Dutch Shepherd will do that all the time. And obviously that's not safe. So I have to tell her to go lay down and she will. So working on your place command and your stay command, I would suggest. This is fun. Thank you guys for hopping on here and joining me and having a good time. Let's see, I'm trying. This is just a lot. Okay, so Meg asks, I think I'm saying that right. Our female three-year-old German Shepherd loves us but she attacks anyone at the door. We've tried so many different things. How can we break this to having friends over? So this is a question a lot of people deal with. This is basic. I have, first of all, I have videos on this. But when dogs associate something with something, it could be something on one end of the spectrum. It could also be something on the other end of the spectrum which means you can get keys and a leash and your coat and your dog's gonna go, okay, we're gonna go somewhere. It's the same exact thing dogs will do with bang, bang, bang on the door, ring the doorbell. It's an association. So first couple of times your dog probably had no idea what that was. But what happens is they start over time associating, they start associating somebody at the other end. Basically alert barking. So somebody knocks on the door. They may be the nicest dog in the world but they're gonna light up to let you know, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, you know, they're doing their job. I think you said it was a German Shepherd, very vocal dog. So when a dog knocks at the end of the door, the dogs are gonna go like, hey, there's somebody on the other end. I have to investigate. You have to think about your dog as an animal. So when they're in their home and they're doing their own thing and they're laying down and then bang, bang, bang, they go, whoa, and they go over and they bark and it doesn't really set that person up for success by any means. So what I would suggest to do is start to desensitize the door with just having somebody work on it with you. Don't be afraid to use your leash and your collar with your dog and going out and using a leash and a collar to work on leave it. But I mean, honestly, if this is a really big problem and you've tried, I think you said so many different things, then go to the core and say, okay, this dog is reactive. You need a command to let her know that she has to leave that, she has to stop that behavior. So you have to teach her what leave it is first and then after you've taught her how to leave it, then you can start applying that to that practice. So texting each other, whoever's living with you and your family, your dog, just say, hey, I'm home, knock on the door, have your leash and your collar on your dog, they react, leave it, correction, leave it, correction. I personally would also be working on a place command because once your dog's at the door, it intensifies. So putting your dog into a place downstay. Like if your place downstay is perfect, somebody knocks on the door and your dog barks and then you tell them to basically shut up and say, hey, leave it and they do, you're golden. But the problem is 9.9 times out of 10, which is probably what I'm about to tell you is people don't work on counter conditioning, obedience. They just want the problem to go away. My shepherd's barking at the door and somebody comes over and knocks on it. That's very likely for that to happen. It's a very natural primal inherited. I'm protecting the house type of thing. So the absolute best thing to do is for you not to try to completely take that away because it's unlikely and it's unfair. I would work on, hey, thank you, leave it. You go, okay, go to your crate, go lay down because it's not safe for that person to come in because your dog's gonna be like right there, revved up. So I would spend a lot of time working on your obedience to make sure that your obedience is good. Spend a week on each behavior and master them. Place, leave it, stay, all of those things and then start working on those behaviors in practice, banging on the doors, ringing the doorbell, so on and so forth. But it's not an overnight thing. Getting an animal, putting that animal into your house and expecting them to coexist and live by your rules is not likely. It takes a lot of time, it takes a lot of patience and it takes a lot of practice. Now, one thing I find out in my profession is is a lot of people say, well, my other dog, my last dog, my neighbor's dog, my mom's dog, my brother's dog, you got lucky. So I understand sometimes you get some lucky dogs in your life that don't care about anything and they're the best. I have one my own, but sometimes you just have to practice all of those things in order for that to be successful. I'm gonna answer a couple more. If you guys haven't yet, hit the like button up top, please. So let's see. Can I use, here, Ian asks, can I use the page button on the E-collar as a correction for my shepherd? That's a fantastic question, Ian. As you guys know, I've partnered up with my friends over at Dogture this year and Dogture and I are doing some really exciting things. So for those of you who don't know what a remote collar is, it's very simply. No, it's not a shock collar. Can it hurt your dog? Sure, if you want it to. But when we train on remote collars, it is a very low level to get your dog's attention from a distance to make sure that you can responsibly recall and communicate with your dog. That's what we're talking about when we talk about remote collars. When I get my remote collar out, my dog goes crazy, they get so excited because I actually ran with my dog earlier with the remote collar with no leash because of the remote collar ability. So very good question. Can you correct your dog with the pager? For those of you who don't know what a pager is, it's a vibrating session on, or I'm sorry, it's a vibrating setting on a remote collar. You absolutely can use that pager as a correction. You just have to be careful. What I would suggest is not just getting the pager or getting the remote collar, putting it on the dog and using it. I like to just use the remote collar in a lot of other different ways to make sure that it's not aversive, it's not correct if your dog gets excited when they see it because they know they're going outside, they know they're going off leash, they know that they're working, food will be involved, and so on and so forth. So to answer your question, I would say making sure that you have a really good relationship with the dog with the remote collar on the low level stimulations first before you use the remote in any way as an aversive. Good question, Ian. Okay, let's see, Amy asks, please help me. I have a pit bull that around six years old is very reactive and fearful of people and dogs. I'm pretty sure she has anxiety and can't hardly get her on a walk she is dragging me in. It's really hard to say with that information. I would say Hunter, the E-collar that you're talking about is this good collar, yep. But going back to what you were saying about your dog being fearful. If there was a traumatic experience, whether you know it or not, it's gonna take a little bit of time. One thing that I would suggest is making sure that you're using a collar that allows you to motivate your dog to move forward and you can use your motivation, or I'm sorry, your momentum to move the dog forward as well. So a lot of times when you get a dog that does not want to go anywhere and you sit there and have that conversation with a harness or a flat collar, you're gonna go nowhere and the dog's gonna win. So what I always suggest to people is make sure you can literally get your dog to move forward. Don't have that conversation with them. Don't turn and say, hey, why don't we go on this way? I think it's gonna be great over here. It's not a good idea. You don't wanna have that conversation. You literally just turn and go and move with your dog. If you don't have a collar, a martingale is the very least of what I would do. A martingale is just a collar. Hey, Taylor, can you let the coat out for a second? I'll show you what a martingale collar is, but making sure that you have just some, come here, I'll show you what a, coat up, come here. She's so sick of like, and she does my online's with me, come here. So a martingale is a collar like this. So it has just a little buckle and then you're allowed to pull it. So it creates some sort of pressure on the dog. So it's just a normal flat collar with a little, let's take this off, bye-bye. It's a normal flat collar like this and it has a little pulley system like this. So it's the least you can do. You can, Amazon it right now, martingale collar for my dog and it allows you to put pressure on your dog and going out and just moving. Good boy, good girl, good boy and just chugging along and chugging along and chugging along and getting furthest away from your dog or from your house and just sit there and just relax and have a picnic and hang out, play on your phone, do whatever and just start that association. But if your dog shuts down and you have no leverage and you can't move forward, your dog is training you. So the fear becomes more of a, hey, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna work. All right, I'll take a couple more. Diana asked, Kate's on my dog is reacted towards other dogs and I'm trying to socialize her more. What do you recommend taking her to a dog park with a muzzle? Nope, I think that would make things a lot worse. Dog parks are, it's gonna, no, don't do that. It would make things a lot worse. So when your dog is fearful of other dogs, you gotta really take a look at the situation. They're very skeptical. They're like, I don't know about this. And then you throw them in a situation with, boom, all these other dogs coming from all over the place, very overwhelming, they can become very vulnerable. If you put a muzzle on them and they get attacked, which happens every single day in a dog park, it's gonna really set them up for, not good, not good. I would be getting, I would find yourself a group class trainer that has group classes that you can get around other dogs that are moderately trained or halfway trained that you can get around dogs that are calm. Cause you could think about it. If you're afraid of something, say you're afraid of, let's say you're afraid of flying, right? And you get up there and your flight's like this, you know, and it's just a bad flight. You're gonna hate that flight cause it wasn't good. It wasn't a good experience. You're not gonna like it anymore. But if you get up there and you're smooth sailing, boom, you're like, hey, it's not so bad. Get around dogs that are gonna respect your dog's boundaries, understand body language cues and so on and so forth. So no, I would not bring your dog to the dog park to socialize if they're fearful. It's going to make things worse. Get around dogs that are calm, neutral, and just take your time with it and go from there. Matt the dog trainer, hello Matt, how are you man? I'm a prior Air Force dog handler trainer. Can you recommend additional psychology, recommendations, education, a good book? It's a good question. I get this question all the time. I really don't have a lot of books. I'm really like bad at reading, not bad at reading, but I just don't, it doesn't register with me that well. A lot of people can read and register it I'm a hands-on person. The most I can tell you is hands-on. That's how I learned. That's how I got to where I'm at is just working hands-on with as many dogs as I possibly can and making sure that you're training with somebody who does behavior. Because if you're going to do basic obedience and puppy stuff, you're not gonna see a ton of different behaviors. You're gonna see very adolescent, similar behaviors and that may not be a value to you. All right, if everyone here right now just likes this video really quick, I'm gonna answer two more questions. Okay, yep, 132 likes, 126 people watching. You guys are the best. I'm gonna answer two more questions and then we will do this again tomorrow. If you guys haven't yet, don't forget, subscribe to my channel, turn on your notification bell and I'll see you guys tomorrow after these last two questions. Okay, here we go. Yeah, Matt, no worries, brother. Yeah, just get out there and maybe just ask another trainer who does well with books. I just, it's not my thing and I don't wanna act like it is. It's just not, I'm not, I can't. I can, but I can't. Okay, so let's go. What questions do we have here? You're the coolest, you're the best. You guys are the best. Thank you so much. How to train a deaf dog? That's a good question, Christina. To train a deaf dog, what I have found the most successful way and this could be out of your comfort zone, this could be out of your whatever, but the best way that I've successfully trained a dog has been the remote collar and that tells you how much the remote collar varies in the user and how you use it. I train, I've trained six month old deaf dogs on the remote collar, beautifully, beautifully recall, sit, stay, et cetera. So basically what I would do, he's 10 years and he has lumps. Okay, so he's deaf because he's older. Well, if you're trying to teach new behaviors, it may be a little bit difficult, but I would start doing hand commands for basic obedience and that's probably the best you can do it at that moment is just do hand commands and you can start to get into remote collar training if you'd like, but that's what I would do is just try to find, if it's something that you're serious about, it's something that you could do. Shame is just do the best you can. I know it's crazy out there. It's really bad. It's really bad. All right, let's see. I'm gonna answer this one here. So Tina ask, that's a cool way to say Tina if I'm saying that, right? Is it fair to muzzle my dog? Taylor, do you think Tina T-E-E-N-A? That's cool. Is it fair? I always ask Taylor these questions. She's usually pretty good about it. Is it fair to muzzle my dog while introducing him to my mom's new puppy? He's very reactive when it comes to dog. I'm nervous. This is a great question. How to introduce a dog that's reactive to a new dog? We have to understand that the puppy, if the puppy has come from a litter and your dog is literally like playing with a bunch of other dogs, so excited, they look at your, the reactive dog, your mom's dog's gonna look at your dog and go, hey, you're just a bigger whatever. And he's gonna come running up and he's gonna be, yay, let's play and boom, there could be like some sort of attack. So you gotta be, you gotta be really, I'll answer that in a minute, Trish. You gotta be really careful how you do that. The best way to do it is, I have a video on this that we did live. It's not like the best quality because it's live and outside and you can't really hear me that well, but the best way to introduce a new dog safely, a couple things, is using a chain link fence so you can bring them up on a leash, but the most important thing is, is don't give them a lot of pressure. So if you bring them up and you're tight on that leash, it's gonna create a lot of conflict, it's gonna create a lot of frustration. So when you're doing this, make sure that if you're going up to a chain link fence, letting them sniff each other and seeing what happens, that's the safest way to do it. The other thing you can do is simply go out and go for a walk and literally just walk around with your dog and the other dog, not letting them interact, not letting them sniff and see how things go. Off of your property, do not let the dogs on your property inside the house immediately. To do that, it's gonna create a lot of problems. But so going out, going for a walk, using fences, using gates to have them meet and play it by ear. Your question was, is can you muzzle your dog? Absolutely. If it's a puppy and your dog is only gonna be like a sweet little, like, hey, I'm a cute little puppy and there's no malicious intent and no worries and whatever to the other dog, you can. But I wouldn't do it at first because it could make the situation sour. So just be really careful how you do it. I would do it at the end. I would put the muzzle on at the end if you're gonna let them in the house and in the yard and play with each other. So walks, fences, and gates, then the muzzle, that's totally fine. So hey guys, I'm gonna head off. I've been here for 40 minutes. Thank you guys so much for joining me. If you haven't yet, don't forget, like, subscribe to my channel. If you're watching this video later on, what we're gonna do is this, leave your comments in the comments below on this video. So if you guys have already asked your questions, when I post this live, there's not gonna be any questions on the video so you have to go and re-ask them. So you guys ask your questions in this comments and in the video after this, I get off and I will answer those, I'll pick those questions for tomorrow and then I'll see you guys here tomorrow. This is so fun. Thank you guys so, so much for hopping on here. It makes time go by while we're in the coronavirus, whatever. If you guys have any room possible, dogs and shelters are being euthanized because people aren't allowed to go to the shelters to take care of them. If you guys reach out to your local shelters to see if they need help, if you guys have room to foster and you have the ability to foster, do so because dogs are unfortunately going to be wiped out of shelters because nobody's gonna be legally allowed to go there as this thing kind of progresses. It's very sad, hurts my stomach. There's nothing I can do because I'm full here and then we can't go to the facility really to do that. So if you guys haven't yet, reach out to your shelters and see what they need. Rescue, see what they need and just do the best you can to advocate for those dogs who don't have a voice. I will talk to you guys tomorrow. Thank you so much.