 So this is just like the reality of life, you know, people are weird and crazy and do stuff. No. Hey, what's going on guys, Tom Davis here, America's Canine Educator. Welcome back to the coolest dog training channel right here on YouTube guys. Today, we have a video with a dog named Bubbles, sweetest name of all time, I know, trust me. Bubbles was working on confidence building, unfortunately this dog was attacked several times in her past life with her past owner, but the new owner, she's doing so well with this dog and we're just tweaking a couple little things on getting this dog more secure with her surroundings. So she's doing these types of things guys, she's coming in the room, she's a little nervous, she's a little insecure, she's not demonstrating some of the things that we normally see with some of our insecure dogs barking, running away, reactive, whatever. She's just a little insecure. So in this video guys, step by step, I'm going to walk you through and the owner through how to develop a better relationship with this dog as well as build confidence in this dog. So we had to go a little bit out of the box with Bubbles guys because she's not that motivated by food, she doesn't really care about tug toys that much and so we did a bunch of different things creatively to get this dog to a point where she's like gaining confidence, I'm afraid, okay, now I'm not afraid and we do it multiple times in this video. So it's a great video, I hope you like it. If you haven't yet, do not forget you guys, like this video, subscribe to my channel, turn on your notification bells because we are doing a giveaway in this video of course just like any other video that we do, I hope you like it, let's get right into it. She's insecure for sure, but she's also in a new place so that's not unlikely. But what we can do is we can work on some confidence things to get her more comfortable in new places and stuff because you can see she's kind of hesitant, she's reclusive a bit, she's withdrawing her presence from people. We're going to create some exercises that you can start to do with her to get her more confident and comfortable into new environments and then that way you'll have a better state of mind with her when you're introducing her to new things. So first thing I want to do is just pop one of our slip collars on and then what I want to do is I want to go work outside with her a little bit to take her out of this like contained space to get her a little bit more comfortable and I'll start working her on the leash. Hi guys, so what I'm doing is I'm just taking her away from her owner just to see how she is and again, she's definitely insecure so she's going to be a little bit more hesitant to be okay with me, so I'm just pressure testing her right now and I'm just bringing her out to a new location with new pressures, so new cars, new environments, things like that just to see how she does with me. So she walks absolutely beautiful on the leash which is nice. Good job baby girl, come here baby, good, good job bubbles, good job, good girl, all right you guys it's giveaway time as usual it's going to be letter by letter by letter individually in the comments below leave your dog's name and you automatically get entered to win a online session with me that's right a 30 minute online session me no matter where you are in the world to talk about your dogs and anything that you want to work on ready set go good girl baby good job good so now she's sniffing me good so there's that pressure test I'm talking about guys as I'm moving good job baby good girl and she's moving with me so watch when I turn good she follows me so that's really good good job bubbles I want to show you guys how she's responding so for me her responsiveness to me is a respect thing which I really really love and so I'm moving forward and I want you to pay attention to her her eyes and her body and how aware she is of me so if I slow down and stop she looks at me good baby good job good so this is kind of like hey man you guide me you tell me what you want me to do which is which is great so I'm gonna turn and see how this were oh good job baby girl good and so I'm kind of guiding her through this process because she's insecure yeah and so what I want to do is create like a realistic situation for you guys so I'm basically gonna recreate these stressful situations that you would normally deal with and walk you through the process as well as read her body language and her energy and her behavior to tell you what's happening as well as what to do when it happens sound good perfect now I'm just gonna add some distractions good so then you take your so take all of you see how you're yeah there you go good there you go you can just tell like your energy is like focused on her right because realistically like I'm like if I'm sitting down having a conversation with you you want to be more focused on me and not here because once you're because your body language was here your head was here so just be as realistic as you can but that's part of the process to make sure that you know how to do all of this in reality basically what you want to do is create this confidence in you so when she's going like this to you and you're like if you're in charge and she's doing this and you're just sitting there chilling just like that then she's gonna be less anxious because of the dog she is good yep and then just catch her each time so see so what's happening is that like me going around because dogs don't like especially like insecure fearful dogs do not like anybody behind them especially yes yes exactly right so now we're like going through the cycle of like okay this is what we need to be working on anyway all right cool so I'm gonna decrease the I guess the the distraction by not going around I'll just go like a half circle around you guys and then let's see how she does good so she thought about getting up there cuz she thought I was going behind you guys good so this is just like the reality of life you know people are weird and crazy and do stuff but at the same time if your goal well there's two things there's like a micro on a macro here is where we are gonna build confidence in these exercises but it also is desensitizing her to like really intense stuff you know like this type of stuff we're just taking things that she may be afraid of and then we're helping her get over those things good all right give her a break that was good good so that's a trigger for her so do you are you picking up what she's triggered by because that was one of your goals so what's yes exactly so she does so so in the future again realistically like we know that one of her triggers is people going behind her so if you said I want to go here or whatever whatever that is you have to take into consideration like can I sit on a wall where there's not gonna be people around her to make her more comfortable so that's already something that we're figuring out so that's good so we're gonna do the place and then you're just gonna walk away like go towards the gate and see how she does good yep so she's not comfortable with that so we're gonna work on that that's but that's what I'm saying is like that confidence building thing is taking something that she's afraid of that she's like nope can't handle that and we're just like getting her over that process you've done really good like a lot of really great work with her everything about you is like set up like good like you could tell you've done your work yeah yeah and a lot of that is just honestly it's coming down to getting like if you have a dog and that's like that's like one of the hardest things for a lot of dog trainers is getting a dog like this where especially if you're not if you're not necessarily dealing with a lot of behavior modification where you're dealing good you're dealing with you're dealing with a dog that like you have to go outside of your your box and your normalcy of like what you're doing in order to gain gain ground this is the trigger she can't handle this trigger but we need to get her over this trigger because it's something she's afraid of right so let's move that closer and then have you work over this trigger good good so that's like step one did good that jingle now just open it walk towards her as you open it yep perfect and then let the gate slide and then face her and then walk backwards sorry how's trying to get it now just walk backwards perfect now stop see how she see her body so go towards her reward her like good place and then break her perfect that was awesome well well done well done yep that was really good as soon as you start see that like sloppy like okay this is gonna get slipper here then you just you set her up for success by stopping the program if you will and then on your terms breaker so whenever you're doing like this type of obedience with her to build confidence if you see her do that perfect exactly you saw it we saw it you're like okay this yep and then you just go to her and you break her before she breaks so setting her up for success that was wonderful let's do that one more time so you get a good feel for how to do it see that's better right she didn't have that like jumpy hesitation stuff good now give her a break that was really really good right you guys that's a wrap for today I hope you liked it sincerely I do if you haven't yet do not forget to like this video subscribe to my channel of course and I will talk to you next time please