 Easy, easy, buddy! Hey, Dee, hey, Dee! Hey, what's going on guys and welcome back to the coolest dog training channel right here on YouTube. I'm Tom Davis, America's Canine Educator. Thank you for joining me. If you have a dog that is reactive, pulls on the leash, barking hysterically and habitually at all dogs and everything in the car, in the house, this video is for you. Today we have another German Shepherd. Go figure into our warden train. His name is Hades. He's around a year old. He has what we would call a severe dog reactivity. I haven't worked with him yet. We wanted to film you guys the whole process so you guys know how to know what it is, as well as step by step know how to fix it at home. So today we're going to be rotating in other dogs, different dogs, different breeds, different temperaments to see how he reacts. Now he's really great with people. It's just dogs. So today I'm going to walk you through the process. Here we go. All right guys. So we're starting off with the slip collar because it's just the collar that we start off with. We got another dog around here and I'm going to walk you through the process, but I figured it'd be nice to just tell you what we have for a setup. We have a safety clip, of course, which I'll explain in a minute how to put that on and why that is important. And then we have just a basic slip collar, dominant dog collar on him. Judging by his size and his strength, we might have to move to different collars, but we're going to see how he does. Break. All right, Kyle, you want to just come right towards me? You can hear his, you can hear his throat, trachea, his larynx having that pressure. Easy, easy, buddy. Obviously he's very strong. So this collar is not going to be safe for him or me. So I'm going to switch to Herm Springer. Now, for those of you who aren't familiar with prong collars, it makes what you just saw not happen. So the amount of, how do you do that? Does that not happen? 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So something new I wanted to give back, this is my first attempt at doing that. Let's raise some money, guys. I think that this is going to be fantastic. The amount of control that I have with him is minimal. Even if he knew obedience, it's a currency thing. He's more stimulated by that dog than he is interested in listening to me. So it comes down to, hey buddy, I know what you want. I can feel you pulling on me, but I'm going to go after that dog anywhere. I'm going to go chasing that dog anyway. That's not good. The more I allow him to do that, the more he's enabled to do whatever he wants. So I'm going to switch to a Hermes Springer. This is a 3.0. I'll leave the link in the description below. So it's going to go on, and it's going to go right behind his ears so it fits nice and beautifully right there. Then what I'm going to do, guys, and by the way, this is my new signature no-bad-dog leash. It's half-inch, four-foot biophane. It's what I use. It says no-bad-dogs right on it. It's what I use in all my dog training. And it's great because you can run sanitizer right through it, and it's not going to hurt it like it would with leather. So I'm going to clip the clip right onto the prong, and then I'm going to take my safety clip, which is right on the actual leash, and then I'm going to put it on his flat collar. So for whatever reason, if this busted off, like you just saw him make me bust my butt, you still have an attachment to him. So now what I'm going to do is when he does that, I'm going to correct him for pulling. It's not acceptable. It's creating a lot of problems for him at home. His owners are very fed up with it, and I don't blame them. He's huge. He just dragged me down. So I'm going to have Kyle. Why don't you just walk back and forth this way, and I'm going to work on leash pressure with Hades just to let him know, hey, buddy, you've got to pay attention to me, not the other dog. So this is the first time we're doing it with him, and you guys are watching it for the first time. And I'm going to do my best to walk you through step by step of what I'm doing. So he does know a little bit of leash pressure just so you guys know. So when I say heal, he knows to turn with me. So he's engaged. You guys are watching. Watch his tail. Watch his ears. He's on this dog. He's on this dog. He's getting ready. He's getting ready. Hades heal. You guys saw that quick pop. I'm going to turn again. Hades heal. Quick pop. Go back. Feathered in lightly, Kyle. Good. We'll come back over here. Good. Hades heal. Yes, good boy. Well done. Now that was absolutely perfect, guys. What you just saw was I said, Hades heal. He's like, screw you, dude. I'm going after this dog. I corrected him with the prong. He goes, well, okay, I'm going to come with you then. And then the second time I did the same thing, I said Hades heal verbally, verbal cue. And I turned and he complied beautifully. So what that means, guys, is just do it right the first time. I'm not using food. I'm using positive reinforcement, but I'm not fumbling around with my food pouch and I'm looking for all these things. I'm just being very assertive. Assertive. And I'm teaching him what he can and can't do very clearly. If you don't listen to me, you're going to get punished. So what this does, guys, as they continue to walk forward, is it counter conditions the problems that we're having? So when I come out like this, go ahead, Kyle, cut that way. So when I come out like this, Hades heal. Yes. Good boy. Good heal. Hades heal. Yes. Hades. Sit. Absolutely perfect. Good boy. Sit. Good. So I'm using a lot of my verbal cues just to voice inflection. So it's punishment. Punishment comes in rewards. Reward and punishment comes in so many different flavors. I think people just revert to punishment, meaning complete and utter harm to the dog. Punishment is when he got up there, I gave him a verbal punishment of like, nope, that's not okay. That's voice inflection. He knew that he did something wrong. He went back into a sit. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to continue to work him around bare, which is our another board and train. And then we're going to switch up to another German shepherd that's semi-reactive J, which you guys saw in my last German shepherd video. And we're going to see if the dynamic changes to walk you through another situation. All right, guys. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to show you a really easy exercise. Like I've done a lot of my videos just to gain control over him and get him engaged with me. The problem with a lot of people is when they go out with their dog, the dog has no control. As you saw in the beginning, he was flying at the end of the leash, pulling me down. I'm a 165 pound dude and he's pulling me down with no problem. You have to gain some sort of obedience. So here's one thing you guys can start doing to make sure that this is going to be scalable over the future and make sure that it lasts. It's engagement back and forth. So let me show you what that looks like. So I'm going to ask him to turn. Hades heel. Little pop. Hades heel. Yes. Good. So getting him engaged with me, guys, is the name of the game. Hades heel. Good. So watch when I turn. Hades heel. Verbal. Yes. Good heel. Telling him good job. Yes. Good. Hades sit. Good sit, buddy. Good. So what that does, guys, is when another dog comes out, instead of focusing so much on stop barking, stop barking, stop barking, because it's very instinctual. It's very primitive. It's very primal for a dog to go, hey, who's that? Who's in my neighborhood? And the dog to react that way. It's not appropriate, but it's a little bit more primal than doing the engagement that I'm doing. So what I'm doing is I'm gaining his attention to say, hey, let's go this way. Hey, let's go that way. So that way, when you're out, guys, you're able to disengage the dog off of the other dog with an actual command instead of just expecting him to stop barking out of nowhere. So it's a little bit more realistic, and it sets you guys up for success. One thing, too, huge. When you guys are working on this at home, don't go out and work on this unless your basic obedience is good. Your heel has to be good. Your break has to be good. Your engagement, just like I just taught you guys here, has to be good. So if you're turning with your dog and they're not paying attention, they're off into the distance, don't try this yet. This is the last step. So preliminary and proactively doing your engagement to make sure your dog is turning on you with the verbal. Am I being mean? Am I being too militant? Absolutely not. I love dogs more than anything, and I need to make sure that when I'm out with this dog, he's not going to pull his owners down just like he just did with me, because essentially that will end up him in a shelter that or worse. Giving your dog consequence and giving your dog some sort of discipline for very inappropriate, life-changing, life-altering, life-sentencing behaviors like this big dude is the most humane thing you can do with a dog. If you're allowing them to just kind of realize that, oh, what they're doing isn't a big deal, and you don't really care, and you're ignoring it, and you're dancing around the other dog with food and the dog's reacting like crazy, and it's an absolute just mess, that is enabling and that is inhumane to do to a dog. Be assertive, be clear. That's not okay, this is. We brought another dog out to German Shepherd Jay, which you guys have saw in my last video. This is huge, because a lot of people are uneducated about the prong, and if we come down here I just want to show you, hi buddy that this prong is going to evenly distribute pressure to the dog, all the way around the dog's neck, not down on his throat. The slip collar was on his throat, the flat collar was on his throat, the harness tells the dog to pull, so the prong collar is one of the safest tools you can use on a dog to clearly communicate to him what he's doing is wrong. So one thing that a lot of people think is these prongs are sharp, and when the dog pulls against it it's correcting or hurting the dog, that couldn't be further from the truth, because a lot of people just don't know what these tools are used for, and they don't know how to use them. And so I understand, and that's my goal, and that's my whole thing here guys, is just to educate and help you guys out at home. So if you guys haven't yet, don't forget like this video, subscribe to my channel, we're doing an awesome giveaway to raise money this episode, which I'm really excited about. So I'm going to let him go, and I'm not going to correct him, which means I'm not going to take the prong and actually pop him, which is what creates the actual correction to happen. I'm going to show you guys, he can actually pull all the way through this prong, and he won't care at all, because it's not the prong that he runs into that creates the conflict or the aversive correction. It's me as the handler, and many people just don't know how to use the prong, which is two things. It's either going to be ineffective, you're going to put it up, because it's not fit right, and you're using a really chintzy model that doesn't work, and other people are putting it on assuming that when the dog pulls against the prong, it's going to fix the problem, and a lot of people are wrong by that, and then they, you know, shelf it. So I'm going to show you, he's going to pull through this prong more than likely, and he's not going to care about the prong. Then I'm going to actually correct the dog properly, and show you the difference. So you guys see, he's pulling right right through this prong. Doesn't care about the prong. It's not the prong that's making him stop. It's giving me a little bit more help, but as you can see, I'm going to let this play out. I want you guys to just realize so watch the effective correction I'm about to distribute to him. Hades, heal. Heal. Heal. Sit. Heal. Hades, heal. Heal. Hades, sit. Good. My goal is to just educate. So many times, companies, facilities, countries, organizations, shelters are banning these tools because they just simply don't know what they are. And I hope this video shows you exactly what they mean and what they can do for a dog. I've worked and volunteered. I've dedicated my whole adult career, the last 13 years of my life, dedicated to animals. Congratulations to these guys who won the three face masks in our last giveaway video. So my goal right here, guys, is to simply just get Hades around Jay. And we're just going to be healing him around. And so you guys can watch the process of us getting close to each other for the first time. And my goal isn't for him not to be interested in the dog. That's not fair and realistic. My goal is to take him from the disastrous mess that he was 20 minutes ago to a calmer dog around other dogs. He doesn't need new friends. He doesn't want new friends. He's a little bit of lungy still, but no vocalization. So really minimalizing the reactivity and the stimulation. Hades, heal. Yes, buddy. Well done. And as you guys remember, Jay from last time was in the same boat Hades was last week. So this is great progression for both of them. So again, guys, I think too many people also get conflicted on. He's looking. That's okay if he's looking. He's not barking. He's not reacting. He's in a sit. He's doing really well. So what you guys can do at home is simply verbal reward. So I'm going to show you all you need to do to the dog. Again, no treats, no balls, none of that stuff. Hades heal. Good heal. Positive reinforcement. Hades heal. Positive reinforcement. Good. Hades heal. Yes. Good. Hades heal. Yes. Good. Good. Right now, Kyle, we're going to just get a little closer here. Good. Good. So both of the dogs are going to get a little grumbly as we get closer. So Kyle, why don't you take a step back and follow us? So Jay is going to get a little bit more reactive because Hades is behind him. So we're going to switch this. And why don't you just walk directly next to me instead of either of them being behind each other? Hades heal. So this guy's just going to leave it. Give him a little correction. Hades heal. Yes. Good heal. Good decision. Good. Heal. Good. I'm trying to leave in as much as I can for you guys at home to see the realness of this. Hades heal. Good. Good boy. Heal. So you guys saw that correction. Quick snap just to snap him out of it. So it's skillfully handling as well as, again, like a four foot biothane leash will really help you guys because it's the proper amount of distance. Down. It's the proper amount of distance between you and the dog. You don't want to have six feet. That's too much. You don't want to have less than four. That's why we created this leash for you guys to say, hey, I want everything that you're working with because I want to be successful. You got the leash. You got the herm springer set up and you got the safety clip. So all of this coming into play creates the good situation. So what happens here, guys, as Kyle continues to heal around with Jay, which was also really reactive you guys saw last week. What's happening? Why is this happening? Why are you guys getting this success and why are you guys breaking through? Well, the reality is, guys, is you either are correcting behavior you don't like to diminish it and to discourage it from happening, or you're beating around the bush and you're trying to figure out a way of, like, and I'm just I'm just being real. I'm not bashing. I'm not trying to be negative. I'm just being real. This is the reality, being very assertive and just telling the dog when they're doing something wrong and correcting them effectively and efficiently. Like, bam, right there. No more of this. And one thing I will mention is this is reactivity. Both of these dogs are reactive. If this dog actually wanted to eat this other dog, it would take weeks and weeks and weeks to get to the process of really overcoming the situation. When a dog's reactive, they're just taking a situation and they're becoming frustrated on the leash. They're like, let me go. Let me go investigate. And I'm saying no. They're barking. They're pulling. They have no control. The obedience is whack and so on and so forth. So this is reactivity. This is fear-based, unsocialized reactivity. This isn't real aggression. If this was real aggression and the dog actually wanted to hurt each other, it would be a little bit of different approach and it would certainly be not as easy as it looks. All right, guys. That's a wrap for today. Thank you so much for watching. Hades, you're doing a lot better, buddy. I'm excited to see this guy's progress. Don't forget, guys, let's raise some freaking money for people who need it. If you're new here and you're watching this, subscribe to my channel. Like this video. Leave a comment in the comments below. Type out new and let me know you guys are new to my channel and for every single comment for every new, single new subscriber donating 25 cents. We want to grow the movement. We want to grow the channel. We want to help dogs. You guys are the absolute best. Thank you so much for watching. Hades, you've done good, my friend. I will talk to you guys next time. Peace.