 try something really quick just to see what he would do well he remembers that that's good good that's better good job bud good good boy so my game plan here for just session two is to simply just I mean we're already picking up right where we left off which is good that means he learned something last time and he's he's he has enough cognitive abilities to remember what we're doing the only thing right now that he's doing is you should do that vocal little spiking bark I think a lot of that is just suspicion I call it suspicion he's basically unsure of what's that why are you moving I didn't say you could do this I didn't say you can do that but again I think it's just that hybrid between him going I don't know what you're gonna do and also I don't know I don't want you to do anything so being a brat and being fearful at the same time so I'm just gonna continue to work him on the box just getting him to do new things I may bring out some other cots to get him to do alternative place commands and then hopefully we can continue to do some obedience and get him to take some food from us and be able to work on obedience with them okay place good sit good I'm just gonna give him a little correction for that just a little pop in that Martin Gale just to pop him when he does the little bark leave it leave it leave it and have you guys just ignore him because I know last time he was really trying to hit home base a lot to check in with you guys and I want to take that away from him so he focuses more on me and the task at hand place good boy nickels sit I know sit good do here is I'm just gonna try to desensitize because every time he's kind of like a Harley-Davidson every time I do this he he reacts so it's like twisting a throttle every single time so what I want to do is just this popped in my head is I want to desensitize him pot this might work it might not but I want to desensitize him to the leash and I'm just gonna I'm just gonna sit there and do this for a little bit and these aren't corrections because it's just a Martin Gale so it's more just like tapping him so it's not constricting him to a point of correction but it's it's more just a an attention-getter but that's his big problem right now is every time I tap him with this collar that's when he's barking so I'm just gonna keep popping this in a non-corrective way just like this you see to desensitize him to the leash because that's when he has his big freakouts is when we sit like this goes stagnant and then boom he reacts I'm just gonna keep doing this for a little bit to get him used to this collar pressure a little bit more again without giving him any aversive corrections good boy good I'm just kind of just jiggle in the handle around a little bit good job but boy he's like what the heck you doing good yes good job so that worked because every other time other than that one he he kind of came at me like where we going break good job buddy all right so me moving away from him also creates conflict I'm gonna stay right in this alley right here T good so I'm gonna desensitize that as I continue to desensitize the leash good he's gonna desensitize him moving backwards good a little little growly there I want to try something really quick just to see what he would do bring something to the table two two things is I want to see why we're why we're getting the bar as much as we are it's just a new object makes him that he does it at home too yep so again it's kind of the same thing as like this in the first that in the first session was pretty much me so I was trying to do two things I'm trying to figure out his intentions of how far he would go and he's very fearful so he I don't think he ever would actually bite me which is why I pushed him just a little bit just to see if he'd knit me and he was like doing this that's one thing and I also wanted to just see how how much of his barking is actually the suspicion versus brattiness and it's a lot more suspicious because as soon as they brought that out that's where he really fired up so I'm just testing him a little bit I'm gonna help him I mean you could do this with anything the piece of paper anything that he's unsure of he just takes a little bit of time to get comfortable with come on Nichols yes good boy good boy come on all we're gonna do is we're gonna take our time around this it seems silly and it it I mean to us it is and so we're just gonna take our time around this and then we're gonna we're just gonna get him closer and closer until he gets more comfortable with it all right come on yay good boy good boy good job good job man you know it's really scary it's really scary come on place place place place place place yay good boy we okay with this no second to be okay second to be okay good good boy huh I'm not I'm not giving him any opportunity I'm just like let's do it cuz good boy good job yeah buddy a little nervous that's okay nice nice buddy go ahead yes good boy Nichols good man good man thank you want to grab me one of the fake dogs of the police and just takes a lot of patience and just trying to get his this is all just a big puzzle for him and I it's the reactivity that's making things not I'll do it just good I mean it's a very fear-based thing mix he's got a lot of like conflicting compartments going on in this behavior where it is fear-based that like little he's kind of just like slow mo like he doesn't want to do it he just doesn't know what else to do but he's also hurting because that's he's an Aussie so it makes sense to want to see how he acts without you guys in the room so I just want to evaluate his behavior without the owners come on so I'm gonna take all the things he's afraid of basically just put him at this gate so I'm taking what he loves and what he hates and combining them together to make him a more confident dog tried to anyway so what I'm doing is I'm just putting I'm just trying to build his confidence by putting all the things that he's afraid of and then putting it at the threshold or the portal that he wants to get to do thanks wants to get to the most to help him desensitize to some of these meaningless objects that he's afraid of and then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take it a step further so a lot less vocal without his parents and I don't I don't know how he's going to be I'm just explaining out loud what I'm seeing and this isn't I mean this is leash pressure but he doesn't know leash pressure and I can't really teach him leash pressure in this state of mind and so a couple people were asking with this particular case wouldn't it make the most sense to teach him the foundations of leash pressure yes it would make the most sense but he's in such a state of mind where he's not gonna he can hardly learn how to take food there's no way I'm going to be able to teach him the principles of a pressure release escape training scenario he can't think clearly so you have to deal with this as it comes you can't you can't go to the textbook and say you get an insecure dog who's terrible on a leash let's teach him the principles of leash pressure and put him against the wall and teach him how to escape pressure up and down my body it's not gonna work with a dog like this you just have to try to get creative and dig into different things to help the dog out with what you're dealing at that time so again I'm putting on all the stuff he was at first very afraid of kind of cheating I've never done this before I'm just doing it because it's what is popping in my head right now oh remember you were terrified of that yeah a little bit huh bud good good now I can start doing a little bit of just pressure in general desensitizing he's smelling all these things but I'm also using my body to block his threshold of what he wants which is the door I want to see how his behavior does when the owners come back in because then if he turns and freaks out on everything right here that tells us the significant variable doesn't necessarily mean it's their fault it just means that they are the variable of why he's as reactive as he is because if you're noticing he's so less vocal without them in the room he has he's not really barking as much as he normally would just come over here I'm gonna make you a threshold so just stand with your just spread out a little bit good just stand like this but face me good don't try this at home kids good so what I really need to do with this dog to make things significantly better at the fastest most efficient pace is to simply just do a board and train with them to get him for at least two weeks to work with him so that way he's not constantly fight or flighting to try to find his parents so again I know he's I know he's gonna bash through those those animals but what it does is it tells me and it gives me feedback that he's not necessarily terrified of those animals or those objects because he's going barging right through them so for whatever reason when the owners come back into play and he turns back on the animals it just gives us one more piece of information to the puzzle that we're trying to figure out good job good job buddy good job nickels still a little suspicious but for him to just wheel on that 30 foot line and to come this close to me is pretty good for him and then we're gonna try to recall him back because again that would be ideal oh just teach him leash pressure and recall him back it's a little hard when he's that obsessed with his owners and he's so dependent on them for security but I'm gonna try nickels come on good man come on you got it dude I good job big man good man good man that was very good taking a treat from my hand it's another first hey let's get used to that good boy that was good nickels come good boy what a good job you are doing is oh good boy good job moving my body around a lot a lot better than I've ever done before with them so this is good so again he's a young dog and he doesn't have a lot of or any obedience with him so it's hard for me to correct him for not recalling correct him or punish him for not sitting but he's making behavioral mental progression which is more important than structured traditional obedience because that stuff's the easy stuff we can do in the future so over the last like I don't know ten minutes they've been gone I think he's maybe barked two or three times and that's a significant difference between when the owners were present so as a dog person the the the best thing to do is play investigator what variables make other variables react what can we take away to make things better so if we don't if we want to minimalize reactivity stubbornness and barking then we put the owners away and then all of that decreased so that's where we can I identify and compartmentalize exactly what's making him react the most and now this is a dog that I can work with with basic obedience and multiple other things and avenues to progress him as a dog but it's very clear as I mentioned 478,000 times that the owners are probably what's setting this off now like I said before it's not fair to blame the owners to say they've messed the dog up and this is where he's at there's a lot of different things that go into it that make this situation the way it is so now what I want to do is bring them back in and then see how he reacts with them coming back in like good boy good boy but again now like you see when he comes up he's in he's he's looking for something where before like I said before it's like and then he's fighting fighting release rap and so it's a very non-traditional way to work with him but he's the type of dog that if you were to like not give him any pressure and not give him any physical like come on come on come on come on come on what I'm doing is I'm just putting oil on that wheel and I'm just making it just a lot more fluid a lot more faster right and my head I'm thinking of it like just like loosening up that jar that's really tight like each session we're just gonna keep getting looser and looser and he's just gonna get more fluid with things because even on his face you can tell he's a lot less panicked and stressed you can see it in his face where he's like whatever where before it was and we're gonna still see those little signs of freakouts but it's gonna be way less than we were and even like when I do this and he complies to me without me dragging him in like before it's progression you guys have any questions on this okay cool