 Not good What's going on everybody hope everyone is doing well, I'm Tom Davis America's canine educator welcome back to the coolest Dog training channel right here on YouTube today We have a very special video for you a dog coming from Boston, Massachusetts for one session to work on dog anxiety This particular dog guys has really really bad severe anxiety the dog owner can't leave the house the dog owner can't leave it in The car the dog I literally like had to pry this dog away from the owner It's really really bad. So if your dog is suffering from anxiety and you want to know how to overcome it And you want to know why it's created this video is for you So does he have a heel command or anything that he responds to or not Okay So the first place we need to start when we're dealing with really anything with the dog is control Because if we can't if we don't have the control that we need It's gonna be pretty impossible for us to really break through on any other level All right. So what I want to do is I'm gonna have you put this leash on for me, and then I'll have you just sit down for me If I tell you to call them at any time. I'll have you do that. So you see all of this this started When after the the bad encounter at the boarding train place potentially, okay? Okay, so maybe you know it doesn't necessarily always mean that the The dog you got mistreated it could be That but it also could just be he doesn't like being away from you therefore him associating that individual with being away from you could also Be something like that. So you see how much pulling we're getting on the leash and how because he's He's in a very fight-or-flight stage right now So if I were to like approach him he would get pretty upset with me But he's also ripping apart his neck. So he's choking himself out. He's Getting very insecure. So I'm just gonna hang out with him for a second and see if I can gain a little bit of control We are gonna switch from this metal slip collar to something different Because this is gonna continue to fall out of place and not be a safe collar for him But I hate seeing dogs and I hate hearing dogs choke themselves out. It's okay, buddy. So he's very stressed out for sure So my goal would be to ultimately get him because if he's stressed out all the time and He's constantly doing this on the leash with other people being very fearful of people He obviously doesn't have a lot of confidence. We lacks confidence big time, right? He has an unhealthy relationship with you for whatever reason we'll figure out later But he also is unsafe and uncontrolled on the leash, which makes it hard for you to bring him anywhere But it also makes it hard for you to leave him anywhere, right? so he's basically imprisoned himself With you which isn't good. So we're gonna try to change that The first thing I got to do is work on his mental state of mind first as I mentioned before So how about I want to switch to a nylon slip collar first to see how that works We got to get this collar to fit better. I Want you to take this okay, and this is gonna go around his neck It's gonna and it's gonna go in like this Okay, so that's gonna give us way more control So my goal is right now is when I take the leash when he bounces off at the end So see how every time he was bouncing and bouncing and bouncing that that tells us that He's the correction that he's getting or the punishment of the leash pressure He's getting at the end of the leash With the with the chain is not working. He doesn't care So my goal is is to to administrate some sort of correction or punishment when he bounces off the new leash for him to go Okay, I don't want to do that anymore Little bit better So with a dog that's this stressed out. I don't want to I'm only enabling him at this point. I'm like letting him be like this. I need to snap him out of it So now I'm gonna switch to a prong collar Are you familiar with that? Okay, so I'm gonna let him go again Same thing. Okay. This is a Hermes Bringer 2.25 prong collar. I actually just got these in from a Lady named Katie and she makes these really easy to use Clips so it'll make it easier for you to put this on actually you put one over here and here So now what I'm gonna tell you to do is buckle it a little easier for you So, let me take them. So what the prong should do is give us more control. Okay, what do you come? What do you come that's good boy? Good job, buddy Good boy. I got a little tail wag there. That was good And of course guys, what's a video without a giveaway? We're gonna give away three no bad dogs face mask All you guys have to do to automatically be entered to win is leave your dog's name in the comments below letter by letter By letter and I will pick three people in 48 hours to announce the winners So when he bounces off at the end of the leash there He's not getting that real hard choke So I'm gonna do this back and forth Cody come Yes, good boy. Good job Cody come Yes, good boy That was beautiful So there on the third time. I didn't have to pop them. That was nice So he's starting to learn it's good Good job, buddy Good boy So we got some tail wag in there. Okay So you're the holy grail for him So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna see this space here. I'm gonna start desensitizing this space as Not I'm gonna try to diminish and dissolve and to dilute this this This stride right here because as soon as I get close to you, so let's break this down a little bit further I come this way He's fine Okay, but the minute I start getting close to you again, it's gonna get worse So I have to break down this Candyland palace strip to you and I'm gonna do that through leash pressure using the Hermespringer 2.25 and Teach him clearly what I want him to do Which should eliminate a lot of the stress that he has Cody come Yes, buddy. That was all on him. So the less pressure I give him The more he's understanding what I'm trying to do So as I keep entering these little radius is closer to you He's gonna get harder and harder to you, but eventually I'm gonna get close to you To where I'll be able to pull him away Just like you just saw here without any pressure. That was so good bud Good. So lots of positive reinforcement from me. So you're always paying attention to me Cody come. Yes. Good boy Well done Cody So see how I'm getting closer. He's getting like very fight or flight He'll get more anxious as he gets closer to you So I'm decreasing the stimulation and magnetic pull from you by going in and out Cody come Yes, a little body pressure. Good boy. Good man Cody come Good boy Good boy So see that quick pop now that was probably the fastest correction. I've given him and Just watch what he's doing now He's looking right at me, right? So now he's like Right so when you take anything that's anxious if it's a person or if it's a dog and You start to go. Hey you You know and they're sitting there like well just how he was right do this But I don't do it You're like, okay fine And then all of a sudden the anxiety starts to go down because you have a job you have a task You have something to do. So now what I've done is I've taken this space and I've made it neutral where you're not magnetically pulling him any longer and I do this Cody come Very good boy. Good. Right. So I draw him out the big picture here is The amount of times I've asked him to come to me For an example would be 20 The amount of times I've given him a physical correction for non-compliance Three to five right very fair Where before it was daddy saved me. I'm gonna get closer to you But look at his engagement with me Good. So you just ignore him for me now. We're as close as we can to be to you So you just stay neutral for me What a good boy you are What a good boy you are. Oh my goodness Good Would you say 20 minutes? We've changed some things pretty drastically It's good So we're gonna talk about behavior in a minute different in his body language, right? So his his tail his body language has changed his tail Cody's a good boy He's a little bit more happy there He's curled to me and has given me the opportunity to comfortably and when I say comfortably tails whip in and he's not running away from me Be able to pet him which is nice Hmm Yeah Good, so let's talk a little bit more about behavior. Why are these things happening? Multiple different reasons. I mean I've known him for less than an hour. It's hard to say exactly what's going on I mean for the most part that's hard to say with any dog behaviorally wait Have you guys subscribed to my channel yet? If you haven't yet smash that subscribe button and like this video right meow No, seriously dog anxiety again historically speaking can be Variations of many different things it could be again breeding so neurological issues of just having bad pedigrees and the dog just Kind of being crazy Could be something you've done could be traumatic experiences from day one Could be something that happened when he was a puppy which has made him feel a certain way. I Love dogs so much like it's why I started to do what I do. It's the only reason why I Started working with dogs is because I love them. I started the majority of Mike I didn't ever I made enough money to pay my bills and a cup of coffee and a peanut butter sandwich for about five years and I Continue to work with dogs because I love them so my point is is with this type of case it hurts me to see a dog so Nervous around people that they don't know due to probable cause of something prior happened. So somebody created that essentially Likely anyway, who really knows for sure when we when we go through the process of How do we get a dog under control and make them less anxious? Well dogs are animals, right? so every single animal for the most part in the animal kingdom is born and almost 15 to 30 seconds after every single animal in the end of King animal kingdom is born They're being taken care of Told what they can and can't do nourished fed Loved whatever they have somebody above them always And it doesn't matter if it's a whale giraffe a coyote wolf or a dog so Their whole life of what they know about life until they're about eight weeks. They then go to a human family that human family The majority of times where I see a lot of problems with dogs and how to negate most behavioral problems is We don't treat them that way So mom did all the hard work and then we give them to people and then all that goes out the window Because we love them. They're cute fluffy and small So then they go, huh, this is weird. I'm at this new place and they don't have fur So for some reason they're squealing when I try to play with them which is biting, you know People are always like my dog is biting, you know And they're not being told what they can and can't do and they have no structure more importantly bigger picture, right? There's no structure involved that's the first step of a dog starting to go a little off the deep end where they start going well, okay Then I guess I'll try this and I'll try that and we do such weird things with them in order for you know Our ourselves to be happy or whatever the moral the story is is dogs need leadership in order to be Mentally stable they need somebody to tell them what they can and can't do this dog, you know You came from Massachusetts. You have around an hour with me You're having and I don't like to see a dog like this either So I'm gonna do everything I can to say okay, buddy. Hey, it's okay. So slipcaller didn't work now I'm just running through options. Okay. I want to let you know full transparency of other things We could have done I could have had you exited the building I could have exited the building taking him away, but he still would have been trying to find you eyes on you Right and then we and like I said we have an hour So if you were to come in and say Tom, I have an hour with this dog If this if we can't make some progress, I have to euthanize them or I have to get rid of them or whatever I know that that's not the case, but the point is is if you came in and said Let's let's break ground quick. I'm a I'm a I don't like beating around the bush You got to be in dogs don't either. They don't want to they don't want to have that Like, you know, that's crap. Should I have gotten food out and dangled him around the room with hot dogs? First of all, he's too stressed and too anxious to care about food Second of all, even if he was like, oh, hey, he's interested in the food and when the food went away There's still the problem. The point is is if you let this dog make decisions He's gonna continue to be anxious and stressed. That's gonna be your turn Okay, so good slow down a little bit tighten up on your leash choke up on your leash a little bit There you go. Keep them tight. There you go. Good good. Nice and relaxed, but good. That's good. That's good. Turn Good here slow down slow down The faster you go it's heart the harder. It's gonna be he's got four legs. You have two, you know Don't wrap that up. He'll yep. Go ahead. Keep moving. Tell him good. He'll good Good turn again heel. Good heel good reward him make sure you pay him good Catch him catch him. There you go. Now catch back up. There you go Good now walk forward slow down. Tell him good heel Good nice job. And when you turn again heel Yep, but stop Perfect. Good. So just stop right there and then you walk forward a little bit you keep them right there That's how you want to be who's in charge and you got to teach him. That's why you're so anxious Exactly Exactly and so when you walk into a situation and he goes first Who's in charge right here? You're the guy that's behind everybody's not in charge, right? So Another thing your goal is when you turn and tell him to heal I Think you're anticipating you having to do the correction And you don't have to and that's that means you've done everything you've needed to do So make sure when you turn And you say heal and he follows your leg like he has been Good heal. Let him know like that's it buddy. That's what I want you to do And then you just straighten yourself right back out boom boom boom He'll he turns and heals with you Good heal and you keep moving The only it's kind of like fishing the only time that you pull back is when he pulls Okay, so if he pulls out Pop but keep moving and again try to just pay put your shoulders straight walk forward pay attention to what you're doing Okay, because again don't get in fix-it mode where you're you have this little space to work in and you're this Kind of you got to shake that off and represent a leader with him. Okay, so go ahead again So turn again Good Look at me. Yeah. Good. Stay on me. Good Good good better now turn and go the other way heal heal Good now you look forward. Good. Just keep going forward Correct him right there a little bit. Yep. Now keep going. Don't stop when you correct him. That's all keep coming back this way Now choke up on your leash a little bit choke up on your leash a little bit get a little tighter So I would catch him So remember when you're walking back this way Roll up your leash tighten it up a bit that way you can catch him from you don't you basically don't want his shoulders to go past your legs Good There you go You're gonna your homework is going to be doing this heal exercise back and forth In a non-distracted area. So even this is a little distracted. So you're not going to do it outside You're not going to do it on your walk You're going to do healing inside in the hallway in the garage in the side yard maybe And then so put him back in the sit sit Good So replace boy with sit so good sit next time that's okay So what we want to do is we want to teach him exactly what we what why is he good? So it's good Command whatever he just did good. So when he's in the heel good heel not good boy When he's in the sit so it compartmentalizes. What am I doing good at? So when he's trying to figure out good what good boy good boy. What's boy because then he sits and you go good boy Right good. You capturing that behavior good heel good sit. So he understands that give him a break. So say break break So get a little bit more excited break break good good So the reason why I said break is because matty's coming in So I knew he's going to get excited. So what I did is I said, hey, I'm going to break you before you break yourself So you win and he doesn't So now he's on his break so he can do kind of whatever he wants. He's excited So when you're sitting there and you see another dog or you see a female or whatever he's going to be excited about He we haven't done enough obedience for you to keep him in that sit when that new person comes in So instead of letting him fail You're going to go break and he's going to go whoo, and then you're going to be like, yeah It's it's basically like, you know reverse psychology I'm going to break you because I know what you're going to do but it's on your terms Right. All right you guys that's a wrap for today. Thank you so much for joining me I really do appreciate it if you guys thought that this video was insightful or helpful Please do me a favor like this video and in the comments below leave me some love and subscribe to my channel If you'd like we do this stuff all the time or the coolest dog training community We've created such love and and just growth in the comments. Everyone is so nice to each other It's just a great great vibe. 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