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So we're gonna dive into the video and create a template on how to build a better relationship with the dog, the proper, the best way to really just get in and say, hey look, this is what you can do. This is what you can't do. I want you to be a dog. I want you to be a puppy and I also want you to listen. So anyway, so we're gonna dive into this video, but if you haven't yet, do not forget to smash that like button. Subscribe to my channel if you haven't already. We're gonna be doing videos like this every single week, sometimes multiple times a week. Anyway, let's get right into the video, guys. Yeah, well he's a rescue dog. Okay, cool. So how old is Chester? Seven months. Seven months. So because it's your first session, what I like to do is create a, hey, pay attention to me. It doesn't matter if they're young, old, we have them for five years or five minutes. If we don't create like a good engagement process, they basically become glorified roommates. They love us, they care about us, they know that we're kind of a family, but the engagement, they don't take direction, you know? So that's what I wanna start off with. We're gonna make sure that that slip is high and tight. Go ahead. Chester, heel, pop. Go ahead, heel. Now one question I get often is, is it okay if his nose is down and he's sniffing? Yes, the answer is yes. Being a new dog, it being a hound. Nose is down, expected, fair, I'm okay with it. It's the leash pressure that I'm really focusing on. Making sure that he's not here or here, he's right here, good heel, buddy. And I'm using my leash here. Pop, pop, pop, there. Pop, pop, pop, yes, good. Good heel, just like that. You see that? So lots of positive, yes, buddy, good heel. His tail's wagging. So there, he's like, do I have to? So this is, don't chase the cat, don't jump, don't lunge. It's a template. Do I have to do what you want me to do? This is a good opportunity. He goes, no, no, no, there's something good here. It's like, empathy, I get it, you're a hound. But at the same time, we're training. Come on, come on, bud. Come on. Yes, good boy. Come on. Chester, come on, let's try it again. Come on, bud. Hold this threshold, come. In his case, he's like, because that's a hardwood compared to the epoxy. I'm gonna switch to a prong really quick. I could pick him up and carry him. That doesn't really help, right? He has all the leverage in the world. So we're just gonna use a Herm Springer really quick and I'm gonna switch back over to his slip. But I wanna see if this works because when he plants like this, he has all the leverage. And so that's a decision he's made to say, I'm not doing it. I either can drag him, I can spend two or three days like, huh, come on, but we don't have two or three days. So I wanna see if I'm able to just eliminate some of his leverage by his dead weight. So it's the same thing as the slip, the same mechanics. It's just safer for him to use. So there's not as much pressure on his neck where it's pulling him. Come on, bud. See? Good boy. Come on. Yes! Good boy! Well done! Yes, good boy! Good man. You see the difference? It's nice, right? Dramatic difference. When I'm doing this, I don't wanna force the dog to do anything. I don't wanna be naive to think, just not taking advantage of me right now. Chester, come on. Yes! Good man! Good man, threshold, sit. Yes, pay him. Good boy. Good boy. Good boy. Okay, break. Call him back over. Chester, come on. Oh, you're so brave, sit. Yes. Can we expedite the process with just using a tool humanely, effectively, efficiently, and sustainable? I don't wanna like, this isn't like a cheap fix. It's just, hey, let's just get over this now. And he's like, oh, okay, sure. If I can do that, I'm gonna do it. The other template is just making sure that you have leash pressure and you have discipline with him. So making sure you're able to give him some sort of punishment if he does stuff you don't like. There's two options, right? We say, okay, I have a dog that I'm responsible for that is I have adopted, I've bought, and I've rescued, I've saved, whatever. It's our responsibility to sculpt this dog's life. We have to teach this dog right from wrong. And so some people will say, if a dog is getting into the garbage, make a really loud clap noise to deter him away, right? It's aversive. I don't like this. I'm getting out of there. It's okay, it's discouraging the behavior. For me, it's just I want it to be about me. Hey, leave it, right? And then it's a template. So when I say leave it, it's trashcan. It's trashcan at your friend's house, the neighbor's house, it's anything, like literally anything. So I don't want something, shape can, noise can, noise maker, to be the distinguishing factor between my dog listening to me and not because they don't like that. I want it to come from me. My enforcer will depend on the dog. It'll depend on the situation. So some people I work with are not professional dog handlers and they can't handle a dog. So they need tools. They need certain things to help them. So I just, for me, it's about what makes sense. There's so many different ways and people are like, this is what you gotta do. This is how you have to do it. And it's like, that really makes sense to me. It's like, hey, let's just do what makes sense. So for me, we set up certain scenarios and we create a template, okay? So he's gonna be into something that he doesn't like. I want my voice to ultimately tell him no, but I also want that to be enforced by something. So go to your room, your kid flips you off. They say, absolutely not, I'm not doing it. You take away their iPhone. So the next day you say, go to your room. They're like, yes ma'am, I'm out, peace, right? They're gone. Cause you were able to give them some sort of consequence, right? So if we switch that and we use maybe purely positive reinforcement training where we don't ever say no to the dog and we ignore the behavior, how long is that going to take you before the dog eats chicken bones and blah, blah, blah? Assertiveness, on time. Hey, that's not okay. If you don't listen, there's, hey, pay attention type thing, okay? We have one, two, three, four, five different dogs in the room. This girl here, she's a puppy. He's younger, he's younger, and the other two, they're all chilling. And we've created this work and play environment through leadership, guidance, and all that stuff. Hey, this is the cat, the trash, the neighbor, whatever. This is that. You're going to be interested into this. It's going to go in here. He's going to go, mm, that looks good. I'm going to put this down. I'm going to let him have it. Good. Okay. Totally fine. Now, we're going to do this again. Chester, sit. Good. Sit. Leave it. So I corrected him, right? He went in. First thing I did, verbal, leave it. No, no. And he goes, no, but that's, and I went, went, went, and he's like, right? So now he knows the food's in there. He's a hound. He could smell this tomorrow. Leave it. Correction. Sit. Good. So impulse control is, hey buddy, I know you want this and I let you have it. And I may let you have this one, but it's not on your terms that's on mine. It's our jobs because we care to provide structure, guidance, leadership. Not because we're being alpha or whatever. We're being clear. We care. I mean, he'll never do that if you, if he runs and finds the cat food. Right. And he gets there before you do and you say, leave it. Yup. That's a great point. One of the biggest differences between the dog actually conceptualizing and capture and respecting the leave it command is in my opinion, in my experience, because my opinion, my experience of two different things, my opinion is what I think, my experience is how many times I've done it and what works and what doesn't. Cause I've tried so many different ways of working with, I've been doing it for 13 years every single day. And I've, and I'll do a lots of this way and lots of that way. I switch it up. I don't want to be a one man show where I'm like, this is the only tool. This is the only way. To me that doesn't make any sense because I want to help as many dogs as I can, not just one size fits all, okay? So the biggest difference is, is the correction, the punishment. What are we doing to enforce it? What's the enforcement, right? So the punishment is what makes sense. So we go to the bank, we rob it, we leave, they go, hey, that was rude. You go, oh, sorry, right? Counting all your money. The next day you do it again. So really is the punishment is how this world goes around. Put this down. We could do negative punishment, which would take it away. So we put it down, leave it. That's punishment. So even people who think that they train purely positive and never use punishment and they took the food away, it's punishment, it's negative. You're taking that away. That's punishment for the dog. So what I like to do is use positive punishment. I'll leave the food down and I'll add something to the mix that's punishing to him. And I say, no, no, no, it's a math equation. So I'm gonna put this down, Chester, leave it. Good. Dog psychology, this is huge because there's a lot of people who think dogs don't have the ability to remember punishment, to understand and to capture. They don't understand when they be punished. They just think you're cool. He is literally like, I'm not in trouble. I'm out, peace. I can't handle this, I'm gone. You let me know when I can have it, I'll come back. So he fully understands when I'm walking around and he knows that I can enforce the leave it where he's like, I don't wanna get in trouble. He's like, yes, sir. And then this transfers to your whole life and it becomes this very valuable, respectful, contrasting, it's very balanced. Just like with kids. Marketing manipulation out there too. And unfortunately dog owners and dogs are at the risk and the short end of the stick when it comes to this marketing manipulation because they say, we're fear free dog trainers. Don't force your dog, don't scare your dog into things. For me, if my mom looked at me a certain way, I was like, all right, my bad, right. So that type of fear is what keeps things alive. I do want a little bit of fear because when I say leave it, it's not because I'm trying to be a big shot. Respect is what saves lives. Leave it. I want that fear. I want that fear. That fear I love, yes. Right, because it's gonna save his life. I want him to go, no, I don't wanna get in trouble. I'm fearing, fearing getting in trouble. So I take it very seriously. Same thing with recall. If I say come, not because I want you and I love you and I wanna color you, it's because I don't want you to get hit by something. Same exact thing with leave it. It means so much to me that when I say leave it, it's for their safety. And I'm gonna enforce it if they don't comply. And by that, it's just popping the collar with the Herm Springer. So is it a matter of doing training exercises like this for quite a while with the collar and then taking the collar off and trying to reinforce it and seeing how he does without it. And then continuing to just practice that, but now you don't need the collar. Correct, so let's break it down until like an experiment here, okay? So we'll take enforcer off because we've reinforced it, right? See you later. Take slip off and then we'll put the flat collar on. So in theory to many people, we could never do this because the dog isn't only listening because of that. Well, let's see. Leave it, sit, stay. Seven month old puppy, hound, we taught and forced, ah! So he knew, because I've done that before, he's got consequence. So to me, the question is when you're training your dog and it doesn't matter what you're training them for, do you want your dog to respond to, let's just hope that this works or do we want them to have some sort of click in their brain that goes, last time I got in trouble for that, not unlike it, no brainer for me. I train for reality. You're gonna go home, you're gonna live with this dog, with your family and he's gonna get in this stuff because he's a puppy and you just got him and you love him and you don't want anything to ever happen. Now we have the ability to enforce it. Hey, knock it off and he's like, got it. So, yeah. Because we don't want Venice. Right. And it's fine, but I just want to have the confidence that he will listen. Yeah. And we say, no, you can't have this, but you can have this when we say you can have it. I feel like now we have a good grasp. All right you guys, that's a wrap for today. Thank you so much for joining me. If you haven't yet, do not forget, kick that like button, smash that subscribe button. Don't forget to cop yourself some no bad dog. Merch, link in the description below. I will talk to you guys next time. Peace out.