 Hey guys, Tom Davis here, America's Canine Educator. Thank you so much for joining me here today. I was gonna go live earlier, but I had some technical difficulties on hooking up a new system for my live. But today, we're gonna stick to the old telephone here on the iPhone and that'll be fine. Today I have a topic of discussion because everyone's off work and staying home. Hey Andrew, what's up bro? Staying home and they're not going out and working obviously because of the coronavirus. So if you're watching this in the future, this was filmed during the coronavirus, but it's still very applicable. How to deal with dogs who were off leash. So yesterday I went to a park and there was a lot of dogs off leash and a lot of dogs on leash, which was great because at the end of the day, the dogs are outside enjoying themselves, which is awesome. So I just wanted to give you guys some really easy tips on how to handle encounters with other dogs who are off leash and some tips on what to do. And then after this, we're gonna get into some Q and A from you guys. So if you guys have any questions, you can ask them after I go over this topic. And today I only have one topic, so it gives me a lot of time to be able to answer your questions after this. So stick tune. If you guys are joining me here live or in the future, just go ahead and hit that like button and let me know you guys are here. Too much sun, too much sun. Okay, so here's some tips on how to deal with that stuff guys. So always be aware of your surroundings. That's like the biggest thing. What I do when I'm out is I'm constantly having my head on a swivel looking for other people, other dogs and really just constantly just looking to make sure that there's no potential threats nearby because a lot of people just let their dogs go. And sometimes they, you know, and I'm guilty of this too is I will literally let my dogs go not knowing that there's other dogs. And I know that my dogs recall as good, but theirs isn't. So I think just that's the first thing is is head in a swivel and be respectful to the people that are around you. I know yesterday I had two of my dogs out and I deal with, you know, one of my dogs is usually off leash running around my duchy. And she's obviously really great at recall because she's E-caller trained on the dog truck. She's great. But the thing is, is a lot of other people don't know that. And I'm guilty of that as well. If I see somebody off leash, I immediately stop and I don't move forward because I don't trust that person and they don't know how well trained your dog is or if they're not. And chances are the dog that's off leash is probably not trained to be fair. So I'm guilty of that as well. So just make sure that you're respectful for other people that are out with their dog because I think it's just the right thing to do. And if you guys are here in this live chat or in the future, like this video and let me know you guys are here. All you have to do is hit that like button. There's over a hundred people here. Woo-hoo, hey Beth, what's up? So now we're gonna move to the second thing is just making sure that you're aware of where you're going as well. I think that that's very important that when you go places, if you're gonna go to an off leash dog park and your dog's not good with dogs, I mean, I don't recommend dog parks anyway, but just know that you're gonna be not avoiding any dogs. But if you're in, like what I do when I go to a pull-off to get my dogs out to a trail or if I'm at a park, I'm checking how many cars are there. I investigate what stickers are on their car. If they have leashes in their car. I mean, I go the whole nine to make sure I know what I'm getting myself into just because that's me taking extra precautions. So now a couple other things that you guys can do is there's some really great tools to deter dogs as well. So there's this tool that's called Doggy Don't. It's D-O-G-G-I-E, don't. I'm gonna link it after this video is off live. So if you guys are watching this in the future, you guys can check out the description and there's gonna be a link in there for the Doggy Don't. And what it is is it's basically a really high-high-end noisemaker. It sounds like a taser. And all you do is you hit a button and it just goes pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, really, really, really loud. And it's typically for telling dogs to not bark. It's just a dog deterrent. And so I bring that, I brought that with me yesterday. Just put it in my pocket. Mainly what I find with the Doggy Don't that works really well is when dogs are coming at you and you sound that doggy don't off and it's going bam, bam, bam. It gives the dog owner the opportunity to go, oh, wait a minute, I didn't know there was a person there or holy crap, I better get my dog back. And so that's why I really like the Doggy Don't because it really just lets you know, especially if you're in your trail or you're hiking and you're on a mountain and there's hills and people can't really see you. The Doggy Don't is a good like, hey, I'm here. And then you can recall your dog. And so that's a really great tool to use. Like I said, I think it's like $30 on Amazon and it's a pretty nice tool to have when you guys are out for walks if you're constantly running into off leash dogs. So the other thing that I suggest people to do is if you're walking, yeah, an air horn is good too. You can do that. Just a lot of times people don't carry air horns with them because they're bigger. The Doggy Don't is like, it's like this, it's small. So anyway, yeah, you can do an air horn as well. The other thing I recommend is carrying an extra leash with you, especially if you're hiking, walking or whatever with somebody else because I've come into the opportunity to have handing my dogs off to the person I'm with and being able to take that leash and approach that off leash dog because sometimes off leash dogs are not with an owner. They got out of their house or whatever, depending on where you guys live. It could just be an off leash dog that's living on the streets. So a lot of times what I do is I bring an extra leash with me and I'm able to then approach the dog that's off leash by simply handing the leash off to somebody else handling the dog. So that's another really great thing tip for you guys to do is to simply bring an extra leash so you can go and approach that other dog, leash the dog up and walk it back to the owner or at least play it safe. Because one thing that I will say about this that it doesn't really matter if your dog is, it likes dogs or not, it's all about the other dog. And even if that dog likes dogs and your dog likes dogs, that really rushed meet and greet is not a good idea regardless of the circumstances. So even if you have two dogs that are semi-friendly or friendly, that whole I'm running after you meet and greet is not ideal anyway. So do the best you can to avoid those types of meet and greets at all costs, especially if there's not a dog owner around. Because I think that that's really big. The other thing is just telling the other dog owner, it's very simply like, hey, waving them down and telling them my dog's not friendly. Because as you guys know, you're gonna run into a lot of that unfortunately. You get that person that's like, hey, my dog's friendly. It drives me crazy. We've even thought about making shirts like with my dog's friendly with a circle and a cross through it just to tell people like that doesn't matter. That's not really, that's not really, none of that matters. It's all about the dog that you have. And it's all about respect. If you're out for a walk with your dog and join yourselves. I mean, even like for me, having like an elderly dog with me who can't really stand up that good, can't walk that good, is a little wobbly, a little insecure because they can't see or hear good. It's just not a good vibe at all. So just, that's the other thing I tell people is just waving your hands and saying, hey, my dog's not friendly. I've even thought about making a sound box that says my dog's not friendly just to tell people like, get your dog. Because at the end of the day, I think that the most important thing is the dogs, it's not the dog's fault, unfortunately. Like if you let your dog off leash, which leads me to my next tip and safety guidelines with handling these types of situations, but it's not the dog's fault, it's the owner's fault. So if there's a happy-go-lucky six-month-old dog that's like, hey, another person, another dog, I love both of those things and both of your dogs or one of your dog doesn't like other dogs or whatever, it's not the dog's fault, unfortunately, it's the owner's fault. So that kind of leads me to my, one of my last things about this type of situation or this environment is just making sure that if you do let your dogs off leash at any given time that you have responsible, consistent recalls, I think that that's huge. If you're gonna be that person that says, like I did it yesterday, the park that we were at is a Saratoga Park here in upstate New York and it's got a big open golf course in the middle. And the golf course isn't open right now but it's nice enough yesterday, it was like 65 degrees and it's really nice to go out and be able to enjoy the outdoors. And I had my dogs off leash but out of respect to other people, as soon as I see other dogs, two things is I don't wanna say, hey, my dog's off leash, that means they're friendly because that's not, I don't think that registers through people's minds. They automatically do assume that. They don't register like, oh, that person has really good recall and they're responsible. That's why their dog is off leash. A lot of times it's, hey, your dog's off leash, they must be friendly and they might wanna play and then you get that other person that goes clip, boom, and the dog goes and it's terrible, it's a nightmare. So anyway, if you guys can do me a favor, there's over almost 150 people in here. Really quick, we're gonna get into your questions but do me a favor guys and like this video and then after you like this video, leave your questions and I'm gonna get right into questions today instead of going into other topics but I hope that those topics help you guys. Pepper spray is another thing that you can do if it's something that happens frequently and your dog is being attacked for sure. So anyway, let's get those likes rolling in and if you're watching this in the future, thank you so much for joining us. We're gonna answer some dog training questions as well from dog owners so this will be interesting and let's see, okay. Let's get some dog training questions in here. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. How do you stop attack? Good question, Andrew. Pretty much exactly how I was talking about doggy don'ts, air horns, pepper spray. There's really not much you can do. That's a really good question actually. What I like to do, if I see an off-leash dog and I've done this before when I was a dog walker, if I see an off-leash dog coming at us and I don't know that dog or whatever, I'll try to find a car to get on to, a truck bed, a porch, anything that I can try to get away from this dog and protect the dogs that I'm with. So that's a really great question actually. So we got a question here, it says, how do I stop a seven month old mouthing hands when excited? Well, I think this is something that I cover pretty much every live but I think it's just such a common question. Puppies are meant, I shouldn't say that, puppies are used to living with mom and dad and brothers and sisters. And so they will mouth and they will teed throughout the first 10 weeks and beyond of their life. And they basically play like this and they communicate like this. And so when you get them, that's exactly how they communicate to you. So when you're dealing with a puppy that's biting, don't give them your extremities. They'll just make a fist if they're biting you. It's not as fun. The other thing is, is just not giving them anything to chew on that's you and giving them something to play with. I think too is, so that's one thing I would recommend. And the other thing that I would recommend too is when a puppy's biting, you can just pinch their cheek in so they chew on themselves. But I think it's just important to know that puppies are constantly playing with their mouths. That's how they communicate until we humanize them and make them not a very primalistic animal anymore or very domesticated because even when we get dogs at like eight weeks, they're not, you know, they're still dogs. And then when we get them, we teach them how to like be a little bit more coexisting. So I think just being patient with it. But anyway, so let's see how, Brett, good question. How young is too young to start working a dog on a prong collar? So the prong collar is just a reinforcement tool that is used very, very nicely with communication. It's one of the safest tool to use on the contrary of what people believe. The prong collar is one of those tools that can also look scary and also could be used wrong, unfortunately. So some people don't like them because of those reasons, but the prong collar could be administrated pretty much as soon as the dog knows what you're asking. So again, the prong collar is something that we're gonna be using to reinforce what we're asking. So if we tell a dog, I mean, you can use it to teach certain things like heel and things like that. But I would say at an average six months and a little, just depending on the breed, six months is definitely like totally cool. But if a dog is pretty intelligent and not sensitive at an earlier age, you can certainly use it then. So hello, hello everybody. My dog barks at neighbors when in the garden, should I try promo? I think promo means, I don't know, I don't know. What? Oh, the prong collar, maybe. You could, but again, like the prong collar, you guys like the prong collar isn't there to be that magic tool to fix everything. The prong collar is just to reinforce things. So when we're using remote collars, when we're using prong collars, it's there to just reinforce what we're saying. So they have to know what you're asking. So yes, you can use it and say, you could put the prong on and tap the dog and say leave it, but you wanna teach the leave it before you do that outside of that source or outside of that environment. And then you can apply the prong collar in that fashion. How do you start training your dog to walk off leash? Good question, David. I think that the most important thing with training your dog off leash is having a system. If you guys know, I really, really like being responsible and using a tool that communicates with them off leash. But I think the step from leash to off leash is a long line. Get yourself a 15 foot to 30 foot long line and start the process of recall and teaching the dog to check in with you. And that's the start, I would say. Let's see, these questions are rolling in. Thank you guys. Hey, if you guys are here, go ahead and like this video. I would appreciate that. Have you ever used an extra leash, like a whip to the other dog? Yeah, I guess you could tell a dog to back off like that or a stick, like to just kinda like basically herd the dog away. How did you get into professional dog training? Andrew's full of questions today. I'll give you a crash course on how I got into dog training if you guys want. And I have this on my podcast. If you guys haven't listed my podcast, it's the No Bad Dogs podcast. But I started getting into dog training very organically. I started a dog walking company. Geeze, probably 11 years ago now. It's something that I went to school for law enforcement for a little bit, didn't really like that. And then I just went with something I really loved, which was animals, dogs specifically. And I started a dog walking business and I got one phone call from a client that said, hey, you're the dog guy. I walked downtown with, you guys get the message. I mean, you see those dog walkers with all those dogs. And I mean, that was me. I devoted my entire life in my 20s to dogs and professionally. But I've always had a really good connection with dogs. We have pictures of me handling dogs and I was three to four years old. So I've always had a good connection with dogs. But long story short, somebody asked me to help them with their dog and I did. And at that point, they had worked with three other professional trainers in the area and all of those professional trainers accumulated over a hundred years of experience and I was able to break through the best. And that to me was like, what, I did something differently than they did. And they said, oh, this is unreal. And so at that point, I said, okay, maybe I have something here. And then I offered dog training for free for many, many, many weeks until I started having a waiting list. And long story short, I got my own facility in an abandoned garage basically. And I worked really hard and everyone laughed at me and said, I was dumb and stupid for wanting to train dogs for a living because it wasn't a real career and fast forward to now. I'm where I'm at now. We have eight to 10 employees at any given time with four full-time trainers at daycare and we're growing and we're building and building and building. So it's pretty much how I got into it in a short crash course here. Take some more questions. If you guys are here, don't forget to like this video. Woo, if you guys like this video right now, I will get Lakota out and let her be cute if you guys want. All right, so let's see. This is a good question, little deb cakes. What do you suggest when you bring home a new dog? Currently, we have a 16-month-old Rottweiler male intact for now, bringing home to a new dog that's also fixed. So this is a question I also get a lot. So this is a great question. So the question is guys basically is we're bringing home a new dog. How do you integrate them properly? First thing that you do not wanna do is you do not wanna throw them in your house right off the bat. That's like the worst thing that you can do unless you have puppy one, puppy two, no big deal. But if you get any dog pretty much over six months that six months of age and they're mature, that's something that you're gonna run into a problem with. So crash course on that really quick. Ready? What we're gonna do is get the dogs out to a neutral location. So texts call and say, hey, significant other, friend, neighbor, mom, dad, brother, sister, let's meet at the park, let's go for a walk together. You go for a walk, you trail one dog behind the other like this, vice versa, let them sniff each other. And at that point, you'll be able to tell how they feel about each other. Now, if you're still a little bit nervous about having them completely interact, the best thing to do is find a fence. If you can't find a fence, you can't think of a fence. Think of a tennis court. Every tennis court that I know of has a chain link fence. So getting them, meeting through a chain link fence without a lot of pressure. A lot of people put a lot of pressure on the leash to make that situation very uncomfortable and very vulnerable for the dog. So making sure you're nice and relaxed, calm, take a deep breath, let them meet through the fence and read their body language. If it's good, then you can proceed to maybe walk towards and then you go to your neighborhood. Still not your yard, still not your house. Go to the neighborhood, do some laps with each other to make sure that there's no territorial issues because dogs will claim neighborhoods. That's where they mark. So that's what you would do. And then you'd go to the yard and then you see how they do. And then you go to the backyard and see how they do. And if you live in an apartment or an area where you don't have yards, then driveways, parking lots, elevators, whatever. And then once you feel good about that, the last step would be dog proofing your entire house. No bones, no toys, no food dishes, no bowl, nothing. Nothing that your dog can value. I would probably leave the leashes on as you do a meet and greet and kind of go from there. One thing, if you're still a little nervous, there's always muzzles, there's always baby gates that you can separate the two with, but that's a process. So I think that's like how you would do it. But the most important thing, how to not do it, throw them in the house and see what works. It's really not a good idea. Dogs are extremely protective of their surroundings. And if you throw a random dog, be known to them that you've been wanting this dog for six months or whatever, it's not a good idea. The other last thing on that is if you can get an item, if you're adopting that dog, fostering or getting it from a foster, if you can get some of their, they're maybe having them sleep on a pillowcase for a couple of weeks and then bringing it into your house, that's another way you can start integrating that dog into your house. So I hope that help. Yeah, and then the other thing, good call Cheryl is a hire a trainer. They can help you. Let's see. Amber asks, what if your dog is the one pulling and putting pressure on the leash? Mine gets too excited with other dogs. Prong color works wonders from afar, but we'll still pull up close. Well, I think that's a good question. So basically the mechanics of the prong, you have to use leverage in order for it to work properly. So if you get a dog like right here and then they go, whoop, boom, it's not gonna be exact. So I would be working on impulse control, but I also think that you have to be, I think, courteous and responsible and empathetic to the fact of if another dog is coming to you off leash, it's really hard for you to just tell your dog, like, hey, sit there and do nothing. I mean, if the other dog is controlled and you guys can both work on sit stays and say, okay, let's have the dogs meet, that's fine. But I think that there's that switch of once they get close enough, I think it's a responsibility and a respect thing to say like, I can't expect you to just sit here and do absolutely nothing as this other dog approaches. So I think impulse control is like the best thing that you could be doing. Yeah, so that's what I would be working on is being realistic. Like if another dog is that close and they're charging your dog, you can't really expect your dog to ignore that. They're gonna go and be a dog. So I think just creating boundaries with other dog owners as you're out for a walk and doing it that way. So let's see, Sarah asked, my three-year-old German Shepherd mix rescue lives in isolation, very fearful, starting to show signs of aggression. What do we do about growling, teeth bearing, taking things away from her and controlling her? Good question, Sarah. Lived in isolation. So I don't think that they live in isolation now. So it's a very fearful dog and aggressive because of the isolation, probably from the lack of exposure. You're welcome Amber, enjoy, cheers. All right, you guys, we have, if we get 120 likes on this, I'll get Lakota out and she'll be cute. So go ahead and like this video if you guys are here. But let's talk about a dog that was in isolation and how to work with that and how to make things better with the isolation. I think it's important for you to understand that dogs who are in isolation, just like with people, lack of exposure, lack of stimulation, lack of, hey, what is life? 120, I'll get her out right after I answer this question, thank you guys. Lack of exposure, lack of all of that stuff will make a dog be really overexposed. I also think that it has a lot to do with the dog's breed and the dog's temperament. I've worked with dogs who have been abused and neglected and they do not care. I mean, they just pop in your lap and they act like nothing happened. So I think it has to do with the breed and the dog and the age. But I would say that slowly and surely, a lot of structure, I'm babbling. A lot of structure, a lot of creating, a lot of walking, a lot of training. Find something that your dog likes. If it's food, if it's a ball, if it's a squeaker toy, whatever, get them out, put them on a leash and say, let's go train. I wouldn't let them possess things because it's gonna create that resource guarding. If your dog has been isolated for their whole life and you give them toys and stuff, they're gonna resource guard that likely because they've never had those high value things. So lots of structure, lots of creating, lots of training to get your dog to a great relationship with you so they trust you. Trust starts a lot of times with structure. Hey, you're in charge, you got it. Dogs don't like being in charge. So if you get a dog that has been isolated by themselves their whole life, they don't know the good from the bad. So I would make sure that you're doing a lot of that structure to create, put them on a leash, go out for a walk, do some healing, do some sitting, do some placing. Lots of positive reinforcement. And that's how I would approach that situation because your dog is fearful for a reason. Your dog is, it can be a very traumatic experience for dogs who have been isolated for a long period of time. But that's, people are scumbags and people don't, they don't take care of animals, they're bad people. But if you do take that dog in and you make a decision to do right, take your time. Some dogs need weeks, maybe months to get them better. And so just, I would say depending on how long you've had the dog, be patient and do the best you can to apply structure. The last thing you wanna do, because I think that the most important thing is, is I tell you what not to do with a dog like that. Don't let them do what they want. Don't, do not not give them structure. Don't, because some of the worst cases I've ever seen in my entire life with behavioral cases have been people getting dogs and feeling sympathetic for them and showing that through emotion. I'm gonna get you, I'm gonna let you do whatever you want because you've been abused. I'm gonna give you all these treats, all these toys without working at all. You can jump, you can pull on the leash, you can bark, I don't care because you've been through a lot of crap. That's like the best way to ruin a dog completely. The first thing you should do is gain all of that back. Say you have nobody in the driver's seat and I'm gonna help you with that, I'm in charge. It's not a militant thing. It's not even, it's not a punishment thing by any means. It's just you need to help the dog create a better life through structure and that's what the military does for a lot of people as well is their loss, they don't know up from down, they don't know anything and they do that. So let me get my dog out. Taylor, can you open that? I'm gonna have Taylor let Lakota out. You guys can ask some questions as Lakota gets out. She's gonna go crazy and come here, Cokes. She's gonna go eat the other dog's food first. Taylor, grab her for her. Come here, Cokes. Come say hi. Come on. Where's my girl? You guys asked for her and here she is. So Lakota's my duchy that you guys primarily see in my dog training videos that I do or my Instagram. So she's four years old and she's a good girl. She knows three different languages. She knows French, actually French, German, English. Yeah, she doesn't know them. She responds to their commands. So yeah, she's very beautiful. So a lot of people think she's a Malinois and to be honest, a lot of people are right because the Malinois and the Dutch shepherds, especially stateside, if they're not being bred in Holland or overseas in Europe, have different lines in them that are all pretty much mixed. So like her breed is Dutch shepherd but her litter has Malinois in them because of the color. So it's really just a coloration thing. So she's gonna see a girl. Anyway, so that's Lakota. Thompson's over here. You guys can see him. Thompson, come here pups. You guys can see Thompson. It's a two for one people, two for one. Come here ham. So this is my big boy. So Thompson is actually a St. Bernard obviously but he's about, he'll be 11 this year. So he is an 11 year old St. Bernard that went for probably a two and a half mile walk with us yesterday. He's on a raw diet and he's trained but he's not like Lakota. So he doesn't have a lot of, he knows his obedience but he's not as fast like Lakota is but this is pretty much his life here. Yeah. Anyway, so let's get back to some questions. So I appreciate you guys hanging out with me today. Let's see. Yeah, they loved him Taylor. Okay, so do you offer any type of shadowing program? I do. So right now, obviously I've canceled many, many trips. I was supposed to be all over the country doing training but so obviously after this whole coronavirus pandemic thing slows down. Yes, we do a shadow program where you come and you can stay with us and actually you can shadow me and my other trainers as much as you want, they're in programs and but right now obviously we're kind of in lockdown and we're also developing some new stuff to have people come and hang out with us for a while. So let's see. Where do you get your raw food from? Yeah, I get it locally from a place called Roganix. It's a local farm that's actually around here. I would suggest people, let's say how to Taylor. Taylor, she's doing a puzzle but I would say just finding a local farmer or a butcher or somebody that you guys can get your locally sourced protein from and then mixing in your other stuff. So let's see. So this is a good question. I don't know how to say this name correctly so I'm sorry but Indre maybe. Basically asked, my concern is, no, sorry. What kind of tools should I be using for everyday walks for a dog that's reactive? When you are not training a session do you give a dog a break? I'm not gonna answer it just like that. So that's a great question. The tools that you're gonna be using all kind of represent your environment and your ability as a dog handler. So I tell people that, like I have a remote caller on Lakota because of the environment. So if I'm out and she'll recall to me almost every time but if there is, I have to be realistic. So I have to think about squirrels. Like yesterday there was ducks, there were deer tracks everywhere, there were other dogs off leash. So for her, like your equipment is gonna be based off of your environment. So if you're gonna walk in an area that has a lot of dogs or a lot of people, which chances are if you're in this coronavirus a pandemic thing like everyone is, you're gonna see a lot of dogs more than usual on your walk and you're gonna have to plan appropriately. So I think the real question is, how do you give your dog a break? Well, for me, it's all about the break command. So with like any of my dogs that I train, the first thing I teach them besides heal is break. So teach, this is what she does. She gives so many kisses, which is why she's in the crate if she's not working. But yeah, I know. So what I would do is teach your dog a break. So what we do in our program is work and play. It's on, it's off, that's it. There's no real in between gray area. So if your dog is healing, they're healing until you say break. If your dog is staying, they're staying until you say break or anything like that. So I have videos on the break command on my channel I would recommend to look at. But yes, absolutely, when you're out with your dog, if you're gonna tell them that they have to work, I think it's absolutely fair and crucial for you to also be able to tell them to turn it off because they get confused. There's that gray area of, hey, you want me to heal, but now I don't have to heal, what's that? You say break and then they do what they want. So the break command is one of my top, top, top, top commands to teach a dog. So that's big, break command, yeah, for sure. Let's see. Chrissy asks, I got a new puppy and whenever I try to tell her to do something like sit or come, my other dog will come and where's the confusion? Very simple. When you're training a new dog and new behaviors, you want to be isolated from any other animals in your house. So I get the question a lot about, like I was telling you guys earlier about Lakota being trilingual. That's why I do different languages with my dogs is because when I'm training them, I don't want them to get confused. So the most beneficial answer I can give you is if you're training a new dog, new behaviors, especially if you're using food, that other dog is gonna be boop right here, ready to do the work as well. And it's not gonna be beneficial because then they're gonna get distracted. So just train separately from the other dog until you feel like they know the difference between each other. And the also thing is voice inflection on their names. So hey, new dog, do this. No, not you other dog. So Samantha asks, I've got a four month old Doberman. Heals nicely, however, doesn't focus on me. How can I encourage him to continue to look at me while I heal? Well, that's a good question. So there's something called a competitive heal or focused heal. And that's something that people work on. It's a very, very difficult thing for people to accomplish if you're trying to just randomly do it. So a focused heal is something that if you watch my recent video of is playing tug with your dog a bad thing or can make them aggressive, you'll see Lakota doing focused healing and I taught her that. So what I tell people is teach your dog how to touch on a touch pad. And I have a segment of videos on how to do the focused heal. You can look up in my YouTube channel, but teach the dog touch and then teach them to focus on you and then you put it into going forward. And it's something you do incrementally. So you go from A to B, B to C, and then you go A to C and so on and so forth. So it's something that takes a lot of practice and just teaching your dog the focus command and teaching your dog the heal command and combining them in increments will allow you to do that. Or this is something that you have to practice. Okay, let's see. How do I set up a shadow program? It's not on the website? It's not. Just email, you can email us. You can find our email on our website and Taylor will take care of it. So this is a good question. Christina, I am actually putting on another podcast. I'm doing at least two a week right now during quarantine because I'm doing a lot of online sessions. Can you retrain a dog on an E-collar as positive reinforcement or positively after a bad experience? Yes, that's a good question. So you definitely, definitely, definitely can. All you have to do is put the collar on the dog for about a week. Don't even turn it on. Just put it on the dog and do your basic training with a lots of positive reinforcement. Now, if your dog is shying away from the collar, just take your time. Once it's on, positive reinforcement, tug toy, whatever they're motivated by, tug toys, food, whatever, and then you just go down to their levels. So that's why I closely work with Dogtra. They're my favorite remote collar training company and they make really great collars that are very user friendly. There's many other collars that are out there but Dogtra really focuses on being extremely user friendly and digestible which matches exactly my education and my training philosophies as well. I wanna help as many people as I possibly can without diving too deep into a lot of dog training terminology that's gonna make people go crazy. So the Dogtra units are really great because they have low levels. So you start off on a very low level. If it was trained wrong, they probably used high, high levels on a dog and it didn't make sense to them and potentially is not beneficial. So retrain through positive reinforcement and motivation on really low levels. That's the best advice I can give for that. This is fun. If you guys are here, go ahead and like this video. Let me know you're here. Let's see. All right, 15 month old lab, great in everywhere, excited for new people, new dogs, et cetera. How can I work on this during quarantine? 15 month old lab, I would be working on, labs are great, one of my favorite breeds to train. I would be working on, I would be working on the place command. I would be working on impulse control. So teaching it, again, you have to ask yourself, if you haven't done any pre-existing behaviors to manage the situation, to manage the dog, heal, sit, stay, place, et cetera. So if somebody comes up and you haven't taught your dog how to sit and stay and they're sitting there like excited to see that person but they're not moving, boom, that's it. That's the first thing you gotta do. You can't, there's no way you're gonna be able to stop a lab from getting really excited about people but you can certainly control it. Like, same thing, I'll show you with Lakota. Like, she wants to play tug with this little emoji toy here. And so if I just ask her to, Kota, house, Kota, out. See the problem is that she's on this thing but, so like with her, like impulse control, like she wants this really bad, right? It's her favorite thing in the world is a tug, she's drooling, yes, good. Out, she, out, good. So the problem is that she's on this bench so every time I hold it, she's pulling so it's hard for her to out but yes. So anyway, yes, good, bye. So anyway, so impulse control, teaching your dog what they can and can't do is crucial. I mean, having something that they really wanna do but being able to control that on and off switch, huge. All right, we'll take a couple more. Let's see. Carly, that's a good one. I could probably do that at some point. And I do have a code for dog trip. If you guys are interested in dog trip, I do have a code for them. You can use no bad dog. So NBD 10 and you get 10% off during checkout. Kota, go. There's a lot of questions. Wow, there's a lot of questions coming in. I'm trying to, how long have I been training dogs? I've been working professionally for about 11, almost 11 years but training, I've been training for six or seven, I think. How do you, Jesus. Melissa asked, how do you stop a dog from window barking? Okay, so if your dog is barking at the window, a couple things is like if there's somebody coming by and they're walking, right? Your dog's natural instincts is gonna say, hey, I'm alerting everyone here on the property that there's somebody out there. So that's something that like, so don't be so about how can I get my dog from stop barking in general, but more about how can I get my dog to stop barking once they start? Because I think it's unrealistic to say, how do I get my dog to stop barking at the window? It's a little hard when there's squirrels and people walking by and other dogs and whatever. So mental stimulation, so exercise is really important. So getting your dog out and giving them something to do is a great idea to make sure that they're exhausted mentally because if they're basically, I see this all the time, like when I'm walking, especially during quarantine, a lot of dogs are sitting inside and they're doing this because they don't get to go out. So they're bored. So I would say that's one thing. Second thing is just teach them to leave it. So like with Lakota, you guys have seen many times in this video, if she barks because she thinks you hear something, I don't get mad at that. I say, okay, leave it. And I disengage her that way. If it's at the window specifically, you can work on your place command. You can work on all that stuff in order to disengage that. But you have to correct it and you have to reinforce it. So putting a leash on your dog during that time and so on and so forth to take care of the situation. You guys know I'm really big about if you're having a problem with your dog, but you haven't addressed it properly, it's never gonna get better. So I'm actually getting some new equipment to go live, which is why I didn't go live earlier at the time because I'm setting up a new live equipment system where I'm gonna go live from my Sony instead of my iPhone. So it's gonna be a lot clearer. I'm not gonna have to worry about lighting as much and stuff. So I'm gonna be doing that. I'm excited about that. And let's see. So I have a seminar in May that I think is gonna happen. As of right now, New York State is supposed to be mandated to shut down all non-essential businesses until April 26th or something like that, which then opens us up to hopefully go back to semi-normal travel and stuff like that. So I do have an event in May in Ohio. It's really hard right now. I'm not pushing it for people to sign up because I don't know what's gonna happen, but keep in touch for that because it's one of the only events I'm gonna do this year for sure because of this whole thing. And it's in the middle of May, which gives us enough time, I think we'll be okay with that. You guys can visit that on my website at America's Canon Educator slash calendar. You guys can sign up there and get more details on that. And then as well, so earlier I posted in the community thing on YouTube, like what questions you guys want to be answered. So when I do that, that's the questions I'm gonna answer. So if you guys want me to answer questions, you just go to the community board when I post and I say, hey, I'm gonna go live today or tomorrow. That's where you guys can leave your questions about the next live video. So anyway, so I'm gonna try to do this again, maybe tomorrow, if you guys wanna hang out and do that. If you guys haven't yet, don't forget like this video before you exit this screen. You guys can follow me on Instagram at Tom Davis. You can follow my business at Upstate Canaan Academy. And of course, if you guys haven't yet, subscribe to my channel if you want more of these videos. And we're gonna be doing a dog trip giveaway, actually. I don't know if it's next live or the one after that, but we're gonna be giving away a dog trip remote collar, which is really awesome because that's a cool thing for them to do. So we're gonna be doing that. And if you guys want, you guys can watch this video after it's live. It's no big deal. And like a video, comment below, let me know what you wanna see in the next video as well. I always look through those comments to see what you guys want. But thank you guys so much. I hope you guys are safe and well. And Lakota and I are gonna enjoy the rest of the day. So thank you guys so much for joining me. I'll talk to you next time. Bye.