 Hey, what's going on guys Tom Davis here America's canine educator. Thank you so much for joining me today you guys today You're about to meet Zeus an incredible dog with an incredible but sad but hopeful story So let me tell you a little story about Zeus guys Zeus is a German shepherd that unfortunately was found in the back of a building in Kuwait with his mouth completely duct tape shut his arm completely blown off somehow and things sticking all in him rhubar and all that stuff just Terrible I hate even saying it out loud But people are cruel and there's monsters out there and today we have an opportunity to make a difference in this dog's life And I couldn't be more grateful Zeus's owner has saved this dog flew him over from Kuwait from a great rescue group And today we're gonna make this dog's life change forever So Zeus has issues with people he doesn't know go figure I wonder why so severe reactivity His owner is working on severe reactivity to other dogs Literally nobody can touch this dog other than two people and some of the immediate family So she's really struggling. She can't really physically correct the dog because the dog has only has three legs So he falls over. It's just it's a sad situation So it's a very emotional thing for me because I'm just looking at this dog And I know that he's been through some stuff and I can't imagine what he went through So it's a really emotional case for me as well as everybody else involved So I I'm really excited because we are the coolest dog training channel right here on YouTube And we're making differences. We're changing lives, and I'm so grateful to be a part of it I'm grateful to be a part of something that I created with you guys So without further ado, let's get in to this video with Zeus. So what's your ultimate goal? Be able to have people around without him losing his mind. When does he normally react to people? What I mean sees on people walk fast. They could be 25 feet away If there's a bicycle if there's kids if there's dogs Okay out of control That's any of my other family can act him over just sees red he thinks that person's gonna come and he's gonna hurt him Yeah, so I'm just gonna take place. I'm gonna work him for a minute, and then I see where he's at My big guy Boy Just hearing his bark. I didn't need to hear anything more I was I knew exactly what we needed to do a lot of it is is you know your relationship with him so that's 9.9 times out of 10 it has absolutely nothing to do with the dog all you 100% that's my job. I'm not in the dog business. I'm in the people business So those are the things we're gonna be working on with you guys is to figure out what you're doing To make him act the way he does sometimes Yeah, yeah It's just gonna be it's gonna be safer for him to use because he's putting all of that pressure Especially if he's got one leg thinks he wants to leave So this is a harm springer 3.0 so have a situation where we have a dog that is obviously reacting and basing his life at a fear and It's something that you guys are obviously struggling with he's not in the right state of mind You can see he's stressed his eyes are bloodshot. He doesn't like acting like this He doesn't want to act like this typically dogs who are kind of born Aggressive or mean if you will are just silent. They're just like I'm just gonna bite you and you get close He's just like get away. I can't do deal with this and so when I have him on the leash She's burning my hand with this rope and he's pulling me because he's saying I got to get the mom I got to get the mom. I got to get the mom. I then have no leverage to say, hey man Let's just take a step back and let's let's talk about this for a second and let's work through this process So if I can't stop him from just dragging me through the leash, then I have no leverage So I also want to talk about His mental state of mind and what we're doing So there's a significant difference between using aversive tools to correct behaviors and the suppressed behaviors so the suppression would be something along the lines of He hates me and I'm correcting him every single time that he tries to come after me and then he just sits there And he's like, okay, I won't bark, but I still want to rip you apart That would be like suppression on that of like we're not fixing the problem. We're not modifying the problem We're just making it uncomfortable for him to act the way he wants to do That's when when very very very very rarely will we ever ever have to do that with correction tools The majority of correction collars are used to do exactly what it says Correct the behavior to modify the ultimate outcome. So my goal is for him to go You mean I don't have to do that and then we're off to the races. How do we build confidence? Well, he's not ripping my hand apart by dragging away from me to hug you and say I can't go I can't do it. I can't do it. I can't do it. It's the same thing as kindergarten We have to correct that behavior with kids. We're like, listen, you have to go. It's like, no, okay Let's okay fine. Let's just bring him back home. No, no, no, so so this collar is gonna be safer for him And then I'm gonna use my signature. No bad dog series leash It meaning it's it's a fourth. It's a trained professional training leash. So you were deployed Oh, I had a friend message me two days ago. She said hey The puppy I'm supposed to be getting the mom died of cardiac arrest to give him birth the puppies are fine But she passed away. Unfortunately. Is there anything other is there any any advice you can give me other than You know loving the loving the dog a lot when I in that those were the words loving the dog a lot when I get him And I was like, yeah leadership. Don't don't give him all love That's gonna ruin the dog because the dog is searching for are you my mom? Are you my mom? Are you my mom and the dog's gonna be better bottle-fed until so it survives But the first thing Emotionally what human beings do is they go I got to love you because you've had a tough life and then they go well Okay, nobody knows what the hell is going on and then you get that It's litter. It's literally clockwork and I and I I am so empathetic in In the process which is you got to look at it from the dog's point of view, right? Holy crap I've been abused. I've been abandoned. I've been neglected. I've been saved I've gone through surgeries who the hell are you and who are you and now I'm here and he's like You know, he needs that. Hey, dude, this is what we're doing. Okay. Thank God got it I always think about the dog's emotional state of mind too when we're working with them is like He's super conflicted because he's like I love you And I love you and anybody else that the dog is known But now he's taken up the risk. He's got we got a disabled dog We don't want to correct him like with really anything physically because he's That least pressure correction will take him off balance. All right, so we're just gonna go Over where my other trainers are we're gonna work on some reactivity So again, we're gonna use the e-caller because we can't physically correct them because it'll fall freaking down What do you guys think? It's good You know what it comes down to is a lot of the work that we did earlier With discouraging the reactivity to allow him overcome his fears of other dogs and other people So you have three new people two new dogs With no reactivity. It's very good. So obviously by correcting the behavior that we did inside We've modified his outlook on Other dogs and other people, right? So if we suppressed it with the correction and He just said I don't like this correction, but I still want to bite me dog dog He would be going now, but he's not because he's learned And again, we're not completely out of the woods. I'm just saying like what a difference By being able to be out and be social with him without him struggling on his one leg to react to the other dogs So see how he's starting to like breathe a little bit heavier So what I want you to do is say his name tell him to leave it so that little build so Zeus leave it You want to just walk by again, Zach? Zeus Good boy So then again if we get into a situation where another dog passes and so I want to I want to break this down is He historically over time, which is why you drove five hours is reactive to people and dogs and so over time what we've been able to do is Discourage interrupt correct the behavior. We don't like right? We figured out a way to say we're going to use the e-caller to give him a correction because we can't physically correct him And he doesn't care about food in these types of situations So we're not going to beat around the bush and we can't use a collar to correct him It doesn't matter if it's a slip martin gale prong collar or anything the collar that using the herm springer allows you to walk Him nicely, but we're not going to correct him with it because he'll lose his balance so You have to make sure that when another dog is around and he starts to go okay, and now I'm getting a little uncomfortable We're gonna say his name. We're gonna deliberately tell him very voice inflection leave it And then when he does you also have to remember to give him verbal praise and reward him so operant conditioning We're not gonna do that. We're gonna we're gonna and then we're gonna reward when you do good I'm just gonna work her a little bit. Okay, and I want you have to practice your Communication okay, you're the one that's got to drive that ship because if you leave it up to him He's gonna make decisions based on how he feels and you have to parent him through that okay So watch for the build there This is where the rubber meets the road here when this dog comes out He's like I got to do this right so he's like I got to go after this dog She's moving around and I got a I got a I got to get her out of here I got a skier away. That's his tactic soon as he starts to build you need to tell him that that's not okay So he has the opportunity and a fair chance to get acquainted with another dog and be okay with it Like he was earlier The reality is is You want to be able to Live the best life with him as stress free and as anxiety free as possible to give him the life that he wants because Up until now it's you can't bring him anywhere because he's as reactive as he is really just about This is cool. I'm cool with this. I can I can live a life with this. I can go out and be Two feet from another dog and be okay. I can get up I can have other dogs walk around me anything more than on top of him He's gonna have a problem with and so what so what I same thing with her now I'm just gonna she's just gonna bark so it might startle him a little bit, but just Good Zeus That's where you mark. Okay, so you get something that normally we would be probably reactive too and He's like doesn't bad and so that's that's the modification that I'm talking about is you we didn't We didn't crank him down. We didn't yell at him prior We just she barked and he said I don't care. That's a changed modified behavior. That's different. Am I am I right? Yeah, so that's the goal Watch him Good give him a break and just release him away Good job leave it leave it Good, so see that correction. That was good. Did you see that? So he went that that was perfect. So I Started moving her around and he started going. Oh, oh, hmm. That's a little too much leave it correction Okay, fine. So you diverged him off of that. So that was good. Do you feel like this is a better system? Okay, never had his muzzle off and been this close to Anybody, I mean it's his first trainer that handled him was able to get his muzzle off and could pet him the way that you did I'm gonna be able to sit because he finally trusted her after so many months of training with her Okay, but as far as anybody else He can't even be in the room with anybody that doesn't have a muzzle on okay So like this is a whole new world. I can't even believe that Okay, but do that which is phenomenal. That's what I wanted. That's all I wanted was a way to navigate that for him Yeah, and just that he could be in the same room as people and not be scared. Okay. Is this person gonna hurt? What do I do you guys ever looked into like getting that like one of those amputee type things or I could find somebody I look into like 3d printing for a while I think like you know as a dog lover myself. I Like when people like yourself do the things that you've done. It's like I want to give as much as I can I've already helped, but I want to try to give back especially with like my platform Yeah, and I know everybody that you know subscribes and follows also has a love and compassion for dogs I know that we can raise enough money to cover the cost Yeah, we'll cover the cost of whatever it's gonna take to to get him You know yeah, yeah, of course Do you feel like the tools that we've used? These last couple days On top of the management and the handling that we've done are the key to success that you're seeing right now Right and you've defined it Yeah, but it has to be cracked Correct right Yeah, and you guys so now it's our time to shine let's raise some money in the link below is a go fund me account for Zeus We're gonna raise money anything over we don't know what it's gonna cost yet But anything over what we do is gonna go directly to the organization that help fly Zeus over It's it's a Kuwait organization that helps dogs just like Zeus out every single day So all the money left over is gonna go there and hopefully we can raise enough money to get this dog A new leg so he can go back to his normal life of living. I appreciate you guys watching I appreciate Zeus's owners for I mean everybody involved. I'm just like to me. I'm just so little in this whole picture I'm just so grateful for the opportunity to help and be involved if you guys haven't yet like this video Subscribe to my channel. We put videos like this out at well not this particular video This is a little different but every week. I appreciate you guys. I talk to you next time. Peace