 to get situated here as you all hop in and we hang out. I have some some topics I want to discuss mainly just one but I'm gonna make you guys a little bit higher and you guys get here let me know in the comments below where you guys are from I always like to know where you guys are from here all right cool Utah okay looks like cool hello all right we're gonna get started on this guys um so the title of this video is basically something that I've been dealing with with with a lot of my clients for a while so we'll get a client that will call that will set up a call with and we'll talk about hey my dog all of a sudden is like this or my dog all of a sudden is acting a certain way or my dog is all of a sudden being a I'm just gonna take it off and I'm gonna make you guys here sorry about this guys so anyway so we're talking about dogs behavior changing all of a sudden and I want to point out something very interesting about this so when we talk about dogs behavior all of a sudden changing you guys always have to look or you should be looking at the age of the dog so basically what I'm saying is a lot of a lot of the dogs that I work with online a lot of people when their dog hits eight months to 12 months to a year they be they become an adult dog they become a dog that is changing in behavior the dog is not a puppy anymore um and we've been and I've been seeing this a lot I've been seeing this a lot with a lot of different dogs um people coming in and saying hey all of a sudden my dog doesn't like my other dogs or all of a sudden my dog doesn't like puppies or all of a sudden my dog doesn't like x y on z and a lot of that has to do with just your dog becoming an adult dog so just remember that when your dog is a puppy and they start changing behavior between the months of eight to 12 months that just means that they're becoming an adult dog so it doesn't always necessarily mean that your dog is becoming different or your dog is all of a sudden getting a certain way or a certain behavior that just means that your dog is becoming an adult an adult dog so that's really the only thing I wanted to discuss as far as that topic goes and I want to answer some of your your popular dog training questions as people are rolling in from Sweden Kansas Liverpool awesome awesome awesome Ottawa um cool so let's uh let's start let's start asking some questions uh I know a lot of you guys have have been over uh on my Instagram today I posted this whole thing um and then I want to I also wanted to just touch about touch base on that too just because I've gotten so much support on uh what I talked about today and I just I hit like this breaking point and I just couldn't I could not say something so um you know there's a lot of comments on just Instagram or just just in social media in general not necessarily with me I mean everybody has social media and everybody deals with things differently but um I really uh yeah I posted a big story on my Instagram and just talked about how um you know just the the pitfalls and the downfalls of of people being afraid of using tools and uh how you know how much it's affecting dog owners out there so if you guys haven't checked that out I would do so it's a really good conversation so anyway let's get into some questions and uh I want to I want to talk to you guys as much as I possibly can on here and go over some frequently asked questions books and videos are nice but what are the at what point should people seek help from a professional trainer it's a great question um I always suggest you know it's it's hard for me to answer that um simply because I I have so many people having great success with just watching a youtube video from me which I'm really grateful for and I'm glad that you guys you know have the opportunity so it really if you're at your wits end or you're having a hard time with behavioral cases I always would recommend getting getting professional help just in general I mean it's it's even if you're watching videos and you're doing curriculum and you're finding new things out um if you're still having problems or you're unsure of something higher in a professional is always like my first go to like when anybody types like this whole freaking DM on Instagram of like these 16 different pages I I don't even read any of those because it there's nothing I'm going to be able to do over an email or over a DM so hiring a trainer is always a good start and or it's always a good thing to do in general I don't think that there's any timeline that you have to say okay I gotta hire a trainer because the internet isn't um you know working I think hiring a trainer just in general is a is a good idea um but like I said I I have had thousands of people reach out and say that they've they've seen really great improvements with just watching content online not necessarily mine but others as well so anyway if you guys get here like this video we have almost 300 people here thank you guys for hopping on here today I'm excited to get to know you guys a little bit and answer your questions live um the other thing I wanted to mention is I'm drinking tea but um that's not what I wanted to mention but I wanted to tell you guys that uh I've hired a new I've had a new editor for my youtube channel so I used to do all of my edits that you guys would see on youtube uh it took me uh it it takes me sometimes three days to edit those in between you know working and things like that so that's why I wanted to do this live is to just let you guys know that we're going to be putting out content more than we ever have before um so we plan on doing two to three videos every week um and because I've hired a full-time editor to do that so I'm really excited to do that with you guys this week we're not putting out any content because we're catching up um and next week starting next week we're putting out two to three videos a week so uh I just wanted to hop on here and uh you guys support me and I want to support you as much as I can so I want to um I want to hop on here and chat and with you guys and answer your question uh Allie and Odin asks how do you know if your dog is fear reactive or excitement reactive my dog makes the same sound while he's playing when he reacts to dogs we're on a walk but it's but he seems scared it's a good question I think the deciding factor it's probably a little bit of both I think that if your dog is playful with other dogs off leash and your dog is reacting with the same external vocalization it's probably just it looks possibly aggressive I talk a lot about dog reactivity but I think I think a lot of that is probably just your dog is frustrated to get to the other dog to say hello or they want to go and meet the dog um whatever you know whatever it is so it's probably the same type of behavior and the same type of uh of uh yeah behavior that they're seeing so it's a good question but it's probably similar behavior um um cool Michael that was cool awesome that's great yeah my two-year-old spaniel is all of a sudden challenging my older spaniel in some situations out of nowhere and they're both high energy dogs and it's happening more often how can I help them so if your dog is challenging it kind of just depends again you know this is this is a you know hiring a trainer is always nice but I want to talk about these types of situations really quick if you have two dogs that are kind of all of a sudden going after each other they may be again the two-year-old mark and some dogs is that maturity mark so it could be it could be something to to that spaniel is just hitting that maturity mark and he's starting to push the other dog around and he's starting to you know maybe take advantage of opportunities of the other dog for whatever reason I don't know but I think the big thing is just advocating for the other dog that's getting picked on I think it's important for you to make sure that you're advocating for your dog and you're you're telling the other dog like hey Nick yelling across the room hey knock it off like if you know my cat jumps on the counter I'll yell across the room to get him off and he'll jump off so like if you see your dog kind of lining up with the other dog and they're getting kind of weird you can holler at him and kind of correct him that way with voice inflection the other thing is is just maybe start to really analyze and audit if there's anything changed in your life if you've moved if if somebody has entered the life left the life routines have changed situations have changed sometimes these types of environmental changes can also trigger a dog to start acting up towards another dog exercises another thing if your dog is not getting enough exercise or maybe getting less exercise than they're normal normally used to they could also start acting up so and then to be honest with you there's just sometimes where dogs get to a certain point where maybe they just you know they don't see eye to eye in certain things and they're starting to kind of have it out with each other and there's really nothing that's that's changed and there's nothing that you've done necessarily wrong and it's something that you're just going to have to manage with obedience and management with this with the systems in place at home so anyway let's see wow there's a lot of questions coming in um whoa cool um let's see geez um can I use the e-collar on a puppy um the e-collar is an extension of your communication should you correct the dog with an e-collar or correct the puppy on e-collar I'd say no I wouldn't do that but if you want to use an e-collar to extend your communication with the dog look a lot of us do with the remote collars you can totally do that just have to make sure that you know what you're doing with the e-collar I think that that's like the biggest thing I wouldn't use it to correct um no what are your thoughts on neutering and do you think it's a good or bad idea to do so wow that's a question we we get a lot too um so for me my I have dogs that are intact and I have dogs that are fixed in my pack so my Saint Bernard who is 11 which is pretty old for a large breed dog he's intact there's certain behavioral traits there's I will say that there's I did a podcast with a with a a veterinarian talking about this if you want to look at the read that you can um it's it's it's a tough question it just depends on the breed depends on the temperament of the dog but I think generally speaking if you if you let your dog the reasons why people will ask you to neuter your dog or fix your dog early there's a ton of them I mean obviously there's overpopulation um we don't want any random breedings we don't want any unpredictable breedings you know dogs having puppies and things like that that's not good um so I mean there's that but if you're just talking about a dog that you got home and you're wondering about if you should fix your dog or not I mean there have there they're in my opinion there's definitely some correlations and behaviors with intact males um not getting along with other males for sure maybe being a little bit of pushy but the pros of keeping your dog intact until they fully mature I think sometimes outweigh those behavioral things like to give you a perfect example is my Saint Bernard doesn't do well with other dogs but I'd rather my Saint Bernard live longer and not get along with dogs he doesn't know so it's really just there's so many variables with fixing your dog if you adopted a dog randomly um you know and it's a dog that you're not breeding for certain reasons to to train and things like that and you're just like wondering I would wait for them to really develop their bones and get their hormones going and then fix them you know around one years to one and a half years um but again it really just depends on so much I mean there's there there's 10 different answers with 10 different people on that so it's it's hard but that's my opinion on that Anna let's see my eight-year-old husky is virtually blind from glaucoma he's recently lost his dog housemate he is now very nervous in situations how can I decrease his stress levels well um I think again just being there for your dog and advocating for your dog um uh CBD helps uh just getting getting it's you know CBD I did get a question on here I saw Kevin flying in about CBD at CBD is great it's definitely not it's not you know it's it's nothing that takes things away it just kind of takes the edge off but CBD is good to kind of like relax a dog just you know a little bit it's not like a sedative or it's not uh like medication or anything like that but if your question is I have a blind dog that was successful with a dog that had recently passed that lived with us and now is nervous that's uh that's a normal regression of okay the dog's shepherd if you will through life is not there anymore so obviously we're going to be nervous we're going to be anxious so just do the best you can to guide your dog around the situations that they're nervous with and um there's nothing that you can do to to really help with that other than just kind of push your dog through these situations together and work as a team um but you know CBD helps to kind of calm down any anxiety but I would just help your dog um be a little bit more I guess independent to teach teach your dog what they need to be doing that they're having problems with and just work through it together Lauren Lopez asks about the reactive Sheltie um can you use a prong and a reactive dog absolutely um I'm actually making a video it's in production right now it should be out next week going over the sizing of the prong collar that's probably my most frequently asked question I am making a particular video about that that you guys can watch I can't every single dog is different but that's how I'm going to address that situation about how to address that yes you can correct the dog for reactivity and the sizing of the prong collar I have a ton of videos on but you can watch that maybe um next week when it comes out so it's a good question um Andy let's see we recently adopted a 20 month old lab pit mix he is very shy and fearful we're trying to build structure and leadership uh can doing too much too fast hinder that pushing him too fast um yeah I mean I I think just in general pushing any dog too fast can hinder anything um so I I wouldn't you know I wouldn't worry about it so much just with him being nervous I would just worry about pushing a dog in general too much but I think just slow and steady um going out and and working in incremental sessions for 10 to 15 minutes or or more um and just helping him get helping him do new stuff so putting him on a place command helping him go up the stairs anything that he's afraid of helping him get over it's kind of like people like we're afraid of doing something we're like we're afraid of this tea it's like the scariest thing ever and this could be anything for your dog whatever this is and then they try it and they're like oh it's not so bad and you just keep using positive reinforcement and you know just uh keep um uh desensitizing these types of situations so uh yes you can go too fast with any dog but I think with a more insecure dog lots of positive reinforcement lots of motivation and lots of patience and consistency and I think you'll be fine but don't overdo it I wouldn't be doing anything more than the most 20 minute sessions with that dog um is it true that a prong collar can fuel certain dogs to be more reactive absolutely Aaron um see that's the big thing about equipment guys that I'm I'm just like exhausted uh about not not from that question just like in general is I'm certainly I advocate for tools you guys so I use e-collars I use prong collars I use martin gales slip collars harnesses food treats I mean I use everything in the toolbox to work with dogs that I work with because we have thousands of dogs coming in from all over the world and we have to make sure that our toolbox is full of the things that we may need in diversity to make sure that the dogs that we are working with are going to be successful so um just one thing I want to point out with the prong collars is I don't use prongs and every dogs I don't use e-collars on every dogs um there's there's people out there that use these tools uh unfortunately bad and they can mess dogs up and anybody that doesn't know what they're doing can mess a dog up with any tool not just prong collars and e-collars but with food and with harnesses and leashes so when you're using tools in general you guys it's not the only thing that I use when I put out videos here on content forms platforms like youtube and instagram I'm using tools to to educate I don't need to educate people how to put a normal leash on a dog or how to teach a dog to sit because everyone knows how to do that I put out content that I feel like people don't know how to do properly that's why I've built the platform that I have because I think everybody I shouldn't say that I think I think some people are like that guy only uses equipment and I certainly don't I use equipment I use equipment on some of the dogs that I work with I put out content on equipment because I feel and I fear that people are using them wrong and I love dogs more than anybody or more than the next person and I don't want anybody to misuse tools and I don't want any dog to be um you know further back so there's that but yes you can use if a dog is reactive physically and conflicted and really uh just built up and you pop them with the prong collar and create that conflict it can absolutely create more frustration and more animosity towards whatever they're reacting to or even you they can redirect on you so there's certainly different things that you can use to get your point across and to help dogs understand what you're trying to do and your behavior modification process but absolutely the any tool like you can a treat make a dog more aggressive in training yes kind of harness yes anything to really agitate the dog if you're not you know doing a lot of precision and not knowing how to handle the situation can can absolutely uh you know you know not not do what you want it to do it could backfire all right I'm gonna take a sip of tea I want you guys to uh we have uh over 330 people in here it's freaking awesome I don't even know 20 people so it's really cool I'm gonna drink some tea when you guys are here just like this video I'm going to continue to answer your dog training questions and this is going to live on YouTube forever so um anyway um I was told correcting a dog was psychological abuse can you debunk that Allie and Odin um I think I already answered one of these questions for you but that's okay um um again like I I'm not here to argue with with there's two sides the reality is guys is there's people who are going to be comfortable and agree with correcting and punishing a dog for bad behavior that's one side the other side is going to be people who do not believe in that and all of their facts data research backs that and then on the other end of the spectrum everyone here that believes in punishment and discipline is the same thing so it's this constant left and right thing of this and they're never going to go okay let's agree it's never going to happen so anybody who doesn't support corrections tools or anything like that is always going to fight and attack and I disagree with all of that but that's where I've that's where I I I try to come in and I said wait a minute how come I've just how come I just did this thousands of times documented it hundreds of times have all these people that are really happy with the success and it's still it doesn't I could cure cancer tomorrow with a prong collar and people will hate the prong collar because of the agenda that they've built up in their own mind it's it's a roadblock in their own defense I don't care I don't care to argue with anybody who disagrees with the uses of prong collars and equipment my goal is is dog owners there is something else out there that can help but to answer your question how can I debunk the fact that psychological abuse can mess up a prong collar can create psychological abuse well I think that that's the same thing of saying like if you yell at it if you yell at a dog or you yell at a person it's going to create psychological abuse I think to some extent you certainly could do that if you just hammered it in all day and the dog is just sitting there and we're just correcting a dog for absolutely no reason eating popcorn like absolutely but that's my point is is you have to realize that the people who aren't backing or pro equipment will do anything in their power to just say that that's what will happen and so how do I debunk it I have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and other the people have done it thousands and thousands and thousands of times so there is no there's no like research data that I can pull up right now to say if you use a prong collar everything's going to change but I can tell you that if you misuse tools you can mess up anything and I also can say that if you use tools properly in the way that they were intended to mainly by veterinarians and clinically issued doctors for these types of situations you can make things better so you can't always listen to one side I believe that you know as a balanced dog trainer I use mainly purely positive training mainly positive positive positive only but 10% of my training because of the amount of dogs that I work with that have behavioral problems and issues I have to I don't have to but I choose to use punishment because it's streamlined the communication more than anything else I never started working with dogs one way or the other I just I tried every single system that I could do professionally and I learned what worked best and that's what I went with so moving on um let's see okay where does the first collar for a puppy any collar um really uh just a flat collar martin martin gale collar is like my favorite like go-to collar um so I would say like a martin gale collar it's safe it's easy to use I think that all the people who submitted their stories about using training tools on your instagram today debunks the psychological abuse fact absolutely just what I mean just one person I have a dog sitting right here that loves her prom collar um debunked I guess I mean it's not yeah so my gsd has has a very high pack drive have you ever had to deal with this what's the best way to deal with the separation from dog without putting them into drive she will jump off a balcony well I think just um separating the dogs individually would would do you good um so putting them on leashes and separating them would be a great idea um how to get my dog to focus heal if he isn't food or toy motivated um just the least pressure uh it's tough I mean definitely if if your dog isn't motivated by something I would urge you and encourage you to try harder um so there's different things that you can do like try a tastier food try chicken or beef something like that or if you get a squeaker toy or something like that put it on the end of a long line and really get your dog built up for that um but if not you can just use a little bit of leech pressure and it's going to take a little bit more time you can use leech pressure to kind of keep your dog up there's also healing sticks so there's actually sticks that you can use to when you're and I'm assuming that this is for competitive obedience for those of you don't know competitive obedience um for a competitive heal is getting your dog to look at you as your healing um you can actually get like this stick it's but it's literally just a stick it's a piece of wood and you can kind of encourage the dogs head up and reward them verbally if they're not taking food or treats um so my dog gets along with most dogs but some dogs he starts barking and lunging at how do I stop the barking and lunging behavior and how do I properly train this aggression well I think the the question is is um how are you how are you handling the situation when it happens so if your dog is um reacting to another dog um how are you teaching your dog that that's an appropriate behavior so I think that that's like the the big thing um is your dog's probably not like aggressive your dog's probably reacting so if your dog's friendly with most dogs and then sees a dog and then gets overly excited and um stimulated they may react and it may look aggressive but um just working on leave it and working on your leech pressure um would be a would be a good idea you can get a healing stick uh you can use anything use just use a stick it's just a stick you just kind of raise the dog's head up to kind of teach them uh that sort of thing if you guys are here don't forget to like this video this is fun I'm gonna keep going live uh here on my youtube channel and I'm going to answer your dog training questions I appreciate you guys hopping on uh again I'm doing this live because I'm not putting out a video this week because we're editing a bunch of new stuff for next week um okay now there's like uh there's so many questions I can't keep up um what kind of e-call or do you recommend dog trip uh how long does a fear period last depends on the dog depends on the breed depends on the behavior um depends on what you consider fear generally speaking they go through like puppies go through like a fear stage anywhere from a week to three weeks um they kind of like all of a sudden they're like puppies go through this like I'm on top of the world to like oh my gosh there's um you know there's other things in this world and they get scared for a little bit um any tips to stop my gsd from barking and jumping at cyclists and joggers teach your dog that that's not okay how do you teach your dog well you have to correct them you have to punish them we talk about this a lot um with dogs and just using operant conditioning so if your dog does something that you don't like like if your dog jumps up here and they're crowd surfing they're eating things off here you could tell them off that probably isn't going to work because the the currency of the cheesecake that's on the table is way more important than you're off you can say hey get down or else you're in trouble and he's going to be I don't care I'm going to keep doing what you want the same template when your dog is jumping and barking at bicyclists is you're going to say off no please don't you have to enforce it what's your enforcement they're going to do this to you when you do that they're going to say I don't care I feel like I want to do this you're telling me that you don't want me to I don't care how you feel so you have to correct them you have to teach them hey leave you know just using your leash leave it pop give them some sort of discipline some sort of structure some sort of correction for for doing that um and that's the fastest way I've I've been able to work with dogs uh in school um with some of the dogs that we've worked with as well as um just being in the training academy with hundreds of dogs um what should the process look like for finding the right tool for your dog good question Kelly I think I think it's a matter of um understanding your your outcome and your goals so for an example let's break it down to like healing if you're having a hard time healing your dog and your dog isn't conceptualizing heal and you're doing this the whole time and the dog so so sometimes what we do is we start off with a flat collar dog comes in with a flat collar the dog is unresponsive to the flat collar for obvious reasons the flat collar has no action there's no action to the collar it doesn't do anything it doesn't come together nothing happens so when you're doing like leash pressure if you have a collar that has action like a slip collar or martingale or a pinch collar or something like that that actually teaches the dog you just kind of go up in in increments I have some dogs that are really responsive and sensitive enough to a slip collar that's all they need is they need a little bit of pressure and they they understand it and they get it um and then you kind of go up from there okay my dog is completely ignoring me with a prom collar with whatever um then you switch to something else so you just have to find what your dog responds to your equipment that you're going to be using is your communication with the dog so you have to just find what the clearest communication is with the dog if you want your dog to stop pulling and they're blowing through everything that you're putting on them you just have to switch the the the system um that's how I that's how we do that at the facility what brand of collar dog cha do you recommend any E collars that won't break the bank the good one seems to be expensive well it's a good question Gabriella but investing in a good E collar is the difference between the E collar being an E collar versus a shock collar um because if you get like a really crappy collar they typically don't have communicative levels they have like really high levels to just correct your dog and not communicate so I know dog cha's units are anywhere between 150 to you know on up um I would just do the best you can to maybe go on amazon find something used um or something like that but I wish I could give you an alternative to find something cheaper than $150 for an E collar but it's just one of those things that you really want to get a good quality E collar because if you don't get a good quality E collar it's not going to work as good as it can or um you know whatever so is there a certain age when you can use a slip collar or slip or prong um talk about this a lot of my podcast um but a slip collar is is something just using pressure just using action pressure in general I think is something that you can start off with pretty easy if you're skilled enough you don't want like a young puppy choking themselves out and you know possibly doing damage to to any part of their body because they're young and they're fragile and correcting them with anything really physically for that matter you don't ever really want to do that but I think just using a slip leash like a kennel leash that slips together is is a good good good thing to start off with just to teach that directional pressure which I have a video coming out um next week uh on um on leash pressure so how do you feel about raw diets love them all my dog is on raw raw diets um whereas your training academy it's in upstate new york my boy is reverting back to his fear reactivity after three years of me rehabbing him and you reason why all of a sudden he's falling off the wagon um I would just try to maybe try some different things so if you're using different collars I would try to maybe switch him up but again just like Rebecca work with find a trainer I mean that's what we do as trainers is we problem solve that's what I'd like to do anyway when you come in I problem solve with other trainers other trainers come in and we train they're like hey what do you think about this or you know I'm having a problem with this dog so I think just finding yourself a creative trainer to help you get back on the wagon that you think that you fell off it would be a good idea having that support and that that you know just somebody that third eye is always a good idea so um anyway I'm going to take a sip of this there's almost 350 people in here you guys are awesome I appreciate you guys supporting me I mean it's a world to me I'm never going to stop as long as you guys keep supporting it because I do it for you guys I don't um it's it I mean that's that's what I talked about today in my instagram story is I could retire tomorrow probably and my my business is is actively running really well with the 10 times x amount of employees that we have and I I do this for you guys I really want to help um you guys become better dog owners and that's something that I think about often is I just want to help you guys so I'm appreciative and grateful for you guys hopping on here and hanging out with me tonight um okay let me get back to some questions here my border collie melissa asks my border collie husky mix starts screaming if there's a reactive dog that has tunnel if there's a reactive dog that has kind of and the e-caller and prong do not face him how do I correct this behavior well melissa to be honest with you I very rarely it's so it's not about the it's not about the equipment it's how you use the equipment so I would have you direct do a lot of directional changes so if you're out with your dog see that's the thing too is you have to realize that some dogs just don't care about any correction you could turn your e-caller all the way up hit it they won't care they're like yeah I don't care I want to go after that happens all the time same thing with a prong collar we're like sitting in there and we're like hey do you pay attention to me what are you doing what are you doing they're like yeah okay I want to go kill that dog so um that happens but it's the way you use them it's the exercises that you do with them so I'd be doing a lot of counter conditioning with obedience so working on your heel working on your leave it um and nine times out of ten a prong collar correction not working means it's not fit properly so you want to make sure that that prong collar is high and tight not down here it should be way above your e-caller sitting right behind the dog's ears so that's what I would do I have a lot of videos on that um so that's the first place I would start is don't worry so much about hey this thing isn't working worry and focus on how you're using it how often do service dogs not often um it's not my forte I primarily work on relationship building and behavior modification um so my facility does some of that too um how do you build confidence for dogs in public areas who are nervous um I like so if I have a dog that is nervous now we have a dog in right now little cute little puppy um he's super cute but he's afraid of everything so what we do is you go to an area and you try to supply them with anything that they love so if they love treats you bring treats if they love their toy you bring toy if they love you know being pet you bring your hands so when you get out to these scary places like Home Depot or something like that and they're like oh man um you just you let you let them soak it up you let them soak it in every time that somebody passes that they're unsure of um that that nothing bad happens to that dog then they develop confidence and so desensitizing things that they're afraid of is a great thing to do um you just want to expose them to the right places at the right time um so lots of positive reinforcement lots of good job buddy good job you know um and just desensitizing them to these things so um that's what I would do all right my gsd once caught and killed a squirrel and now I'm super obsessed with them any tips to deal with squirrel obsession she's not interested in food on walks um yeah I think just a is you know like whoa so many questions I think um just in general prey drives dogs are are natural uh so it's primal instinct for a dog to want to chase little fuzzy things that squeak um that's why they chew on squeaker toys like we think it's cute and it's funny that dogs are like grabbing these little teddy bears and ripping them apart they're killing it it's what they're doing when a dog um here's a squeak in the couch and they rip up the couch they think it's a mouse um so dogs are natural killers if you will um they're animals they're they're canines and so if he actually caught a squirrel uh he's like hooked and he's obsessed with like okay I can actually you know tangibly catch one of these things and actually have it um it makes total sense you know it's like getting the stuffed animal that he's always wanted um so you just be working on obedience would be leave it it would be healing um it would be on disengagement I wouldn't be focusing on hey my dog is paying attention to squirrels I would be focusing on hey if you're paying attention to squirrels but you're in a nice heel I'm okay with that and if you work on a focused command back to you um for little bits of time I would be working on that too so um I would just you know and then try to try to actually take take advantage of that prior drive and maybe use a tug toy or something with a squeaker in it to pay him for paying attention to you um so anyway um where can you purchase my merch you can go to I think shop no bad dogs.com it's on our website it's on my Instagram profile if you go to at Tom Davis the link tree thing you can shop right there but we have all of our merch and we're coming out with new merch every month starting this spring which I'm really excited about um so any good dog trainer in Long Island um your book till summer yeah um well I just I just did a Instagram post uh encouraging dog owners to tell people and dog owners where they're from dog trainers I mean go on my Instagram post and type it in say hey I'm looking for a dog trainer in Long Island and hopefully somebody can pick that up how do I work on training the new environments when my dog won't take even high value treats well I I have a video specifically on this that'll give you 20 minutes of straight information Avery um it's on my youtube channel and I think it's called um training your dog without treats or training your dog without food or something um but it if your dog isn't food motivated or anything like that you just a lot of people deal with that you know and that's how a lot of people end up with me is because they work with the trainer that their whole training cycle and whole structure is predicated off of reward based systems and when the dog isn't motivated by hot dogs you fail miserably and that's common and so it just depends on what you want to accomplish so it's it's hard to answer but you have to look at your you have to audit your actual goals that you want and try to figure out individually how to do that so don't be discouraged if your dog just doesn't um oh it's called getting your dog to behave anywhere yes I think that that's too much thank you so much for putting that in but that video I would check out because that's like I honestly personally it's like one of my favorite videos I did it with Lakota um and it's a really good one it talks about what are you gonna do if your dog doesn't respond to food and some dogs when they're out and they're stimulated and they're like holy crap this is the real world they're not gonna care about food they don't care about food so don't predicate your training off anything other than your relationship with your dog yes you're welcoming me good luck and my nine month old female pit barks at everyone she doesn't stop also when she walks she pulls and even chokes herself I would recommend a pinch collar for your dog it's the safest one of the safest tools to use definitely the safest collar you can use on the dog um to stop a dog from pulling and hurting their tracheolarylionics um so I have I have a lot of videos on how to introduce that and how to pick the right collar for your dog so um you just need more control that's all I just wanted to say you've helped me trim my while I'm watching your videos thank you so much I appreciate that I really do that's why I that's why I'm here I want to help you guys my passion um since since I can remember has been helping dogs so I'm really grateful for the platform we've created you guys are the freaking best really really are I'm so excited to to see what we're gonna do this year we have a lot of cool stuff on the plate so um let's sir I just got a puppy cleared for not being innocent whoa clearbred of health good no not innocent in content okay sorry I thought my puppy got cleared for but not being innocent our dog is terrified of anything in public he is fearful of pressure around his neck he was dumped in a neighborhood at four months old before we got him what tool approach would be best for him well I'd have to really see you know that's something that again like again I would hire a trainer to help you um sometimes when we are dealt with a hand that we don't know what to do that's why we hire a professional um like my snow blower just broke I am not a I am not mechanically sound at all I am not going to spend my time and energy trying to do that I'm going to hire a snow blow small engine mechanic to fix that for me so my best suggestion for you is to find somebody that can help and I know that that doesn't really help me because I'm help you because I'm I'm I'm sure you probably have um but um you know motivation you don't have to use a collar you can use something else that he's more comfortable with if he's more comfortable with a harness but I would suggest trying to trying to desensitize a collar because that's going to be the safest thing for you to work with him um so you can help him uh through time you know get better and get desensitized but I think again just lots of positive reinforcement um you know I've I've I've had a lot of breakthroughs with dogs with the prong collar um it is it is something that dogs will shut down on in the beginning because they don't you could put anything on them and they don't like it but the prong collar has really helped me break dogs through I have a I have a um a video on my youtube channel uh with a pit bull that I probably did um in the last three months he's a tan pit bull and um I would recommend watching that because that was a dog that shut down all the time and we used the prong collar to break him out of his shell and to get him more confident and now he's living a really really great life because of that so hmm can you talk about the introduction of tools to petite dogs my dog is four pounds and we use a paper or I'm sorry only a pager collar but I would love to upgrade to a dog truck yeah dog truck makes an IQ mini which is a very very small unit um and in the reality is like hey I have a four pound dog a lot of things are going to be big for that four pound dog because it weighs as much as this candle cap so um dog truck I believe makes a IQ mini that's like really small and petite I would check that out that's a collar that I would check out Lauren ass I live in a smaller town and we only have positive reinforcement trainers about four different companies super disappointing when dealing with a reactive dog I would agree a lot of people are dealing with that which is why balanced dog training is through the roof we I know myself and my colleagues we cannot keep up so it is unfortunate but I do know that dog owners out there are understanding some of these realities of things and so the I have found that the hardest part with a balanced dog trainer more than likely is they're completely booked so that's the unfortunate thing but you can do online session with me or somebody else that does balanced dog training that can actually help you with these things so that's something that you could look into too so you can you can work with somebody remotely I've been doing online training for about five years been doing it a long time and well I would consider that a long time and this was before COVID off obviously so once COVID hit I know a lot of other people jumped on doing online stuff so that's what I would recommend have you worked with Shiba inus yes I have I have a nine year old Shiba that is very feisty towards other dogs sounds about right um yeah Shiba's are one of the only dogs Shiba's great Danes and Huskies have been in my opinion the only consecutive dogs that their breed has dictated their behavior if I get it somebody's like oh I have a German Shepherd or have a golden I don't care like what you say they are every dog is different I've never had dogs act the same continually and consistently except for those breeds so correcting the behavior when it happens Shiba's are very cat like dogs they are in it for themselves and they're they could be very bossy like you said so just making sure that you're correcting the behavior you don't like again that's a template for anybody out there I had an online today struggling with this reactivity we we've tried working with a trainer and the trainer only wanted to reward the dog when they barked and blah blah blah it's like I get it but listen if your dog is reacting and doing things that you don't like doing things to a point where you're almost getting rid of the dog and that was the case for these trainers and this morning correct it I always tell people okay so you're having all these problems and it's a really um it's really stressful or whatever but you've never corrected your dog and people are like well you say leave it and you know we throw a shoe across the room or whatever but none of that stuff works dogs need to be communicated in a very assertive like hey hey me pay attention to me don't do that that's bad and they go oh that's bad yeah that's bad don't do that and then they don't do it and then you pay him and they get cookies and treats and all that fun stuff opera conditioning just like how we raise children so how do you stop puppy communication biting at a 10 month old wait 10 month old 10 month old German shepherd husky still uses his mouth more when he's bored to pay attention it's stressing out of family so I'm gonna say it again correct your dog correct your dog correct your dog punish your dog tell them that it's wrong that doesn't mean literally tell them that it's wrong because they're not going to care about that you gotta use a collar use a communication collar use something that's going to get to the point say hey what are you doing you can't do that just putting a martin gale collar and a basic color coda come here baby come here I'll show you guys a martin gale collar so this is a martin gale collar that like herm springer makes right so you put this on and you put your leash on here and your dog bites you and you do this you go leave it and you pop pop and they go hey I don't like that you go well stop biting me because you're ruining our lives okay and you mark it with a leave it and they stop and then you pay him so I hope I hope that that's that helps I'm gonna take a sip of water answer some more questions it's a problem about being passionate about something is I just don't stop and I gotta take a quick water break but if you guys are here like this video how do you book an online session go to my website americascanoneducator.com better yet go to my instagram there's a little tab that says book now I am completely booked right now uh until I think I don't know but I don't know when I'm booked till to be honest with you but you just gotta stay updated on that but that's a book um I usually do morning sessions Monday Tuesday Wednesday 9 a.m to 12 eastern standard time in the morning I usually do all my online so if you don't have availability and it says that there's no availability it refreshes every two weeks we don't book anything out more than two weeks because my my schedule changes so quickly how was it working with wolves it was awesome it was really really cool a great experience really great experience they're absolutely uh beautiful beautiful let's see um do you think neutering a two-year-old uh male driven shepherd would help with aggression maybe um like I said before neutering is one of those things that it's really tough to say if it's going to help or not but it could I don't think it's going to do any if your dog's already two and you neuter them it's probably not going to do anything worse so it I think it can only help um how do you tighten a dog's heel and recall use a leash um no it's not standard to continue to correct your dog that just means that they don't understand what you're correcting them for probably so if we're doing this the whole time heel heel heel heel heel your foundation your fundamental healing in your leash pressure probably isn't existing so your dog probably doesn't know fundamentally what heel is so a lot of times people will tell their dog to sit and their dog looks at them like they have ten heads it's like what what does that mean uh they don't know sit so just I guess my my answer to that is just make sure that your dog fundamentally knows what heel is before you try to do it outside if your dog half-ass nose heel kind of and you go out and you do it in a very distracted environment there's a good chance you're going to constantly be yanking on your dog so so can you explain relationship-based reactivity my dog Winnie is with you right now and Kyle told me that he believes her reactivity to other dogs uh could be relationship-based so relationship it's not relationship-based reactivity that just means that the dog is reactive because of the relationship with you more than likely I don't know uh I can't speak for Kyle but um that if somebody says that the dog is reactive because of their relationship that means that the dog is reactive because of the relationship that you have with um with that dog do you know Caesar Milan no I have a lot of friends that that work with Caesar every day um but no we've never we've never met off-leash training suggestions for my eight-month-old lab well I mean there's there's two things you're either off leash with a remote collar or you're on leash with a long line and I and to me um I might like I I did a post today in my story and I just I never have to really use my e-caller with my dog but I always have my e-caller on my dog when I'm in public places off leash because I just don't know what other people are going to do so I have a e-caller video on how to introduce the e-caller on my channel on recall I have I'll repeat that I I have a e-caller introduction video specifically for recall on my YouTube channel it's two videos ago in my latest post I would highly recommend checking that out because to me I love animals and love dogs too much to be naive to say oh well I'm just going to use treats to get my dog to come back off leash because once they get a whiff of a rabbit or a squirrel or a chipmunk it's over it's all over Johnny so I like using an e-caller to be able to communicate where areas I can't touch um manual you got a herm springer for your dog it's too small and I when I get extra links do I put one on each side or can it be even doesn't have to be exactly even but you can yeah I mean it doesn't have to be exactly even um how do you fix a dog that's e-caller wise put the e-caller on as much as you possibly can and not use it I think that that's like the best way to to do that um and and just desensitize the e-caller being out and not using it what do you do about dog's noise phobia I've never even heard of that so sorry big fan from Canada cool thank you so much my boxer is hit or miss with other dogs we are totally sphere aggressive but selective um he's fear aggression he has fear aggression but it's like yeah I mean certain dogs are if they're if they're fearful if your if your dog is fearful um if your dog is fearfully reacting oh my sorry guys my hair is a little lit if your dog is fearfully reacting to other dogs it is going to be hit or miss to who or she he or she reacts to because he's going to be he or she's going to be reactive to dogs that he is fearing versus dogs that he may be comfortable with so it makes sense but I would just try to socialize your dog as much as you can um with with um uh with sorry positive reinforcement uh so getting around the right dogs is important um don't get around a bunch of dogs that are going to be overwhelming for your dog um so how much is to book an online session I think it's 220 uh USD per hour how do you positively associate a prong collar put it on uh once it's on it doesn't do anything um so I think I think the question is maybe is how do I associate the dog how do I associate the dog with the prong collar positively over versus corrections is when the collar is on you have to think about the correction should only happen once or twice um you know in a little segment and that correction is quick and uncomfortable for the dog to teach them and punish them and just say hey nope that's not it we're not doing that uh and it's over so it should be a lot a lot of positivity like when I'm training with the dog with a prong collar they're excited to put it on um I've never had a dog cower with with a prong collar uh to to say that they didn't like it so you just have to make sure that you're using it properly what do you suggest for a toy obsessive dog to react to what do you suggest for a toy obsessed dog to redirect behavior he will pass for hours looking for them and will not come down to play pace for hours sorry looking for them to play come on um I would just find a different outlet so if your dog is obsessed with toys I would get your dog to train and take that energy and put it towards something else like if your dog is like I gotta get a toy I gotta play with a toy say no you don't actually you can play with me or you can you can hold that toy so the toy's on you and you do obedience with it so is it true that male dogs won't attack female dogs nope that's not true what do you recommend for control of a strong dog if they're triggered by a prong collar triggered I don't mean um triggered meaning like gets mad about the prong collar or gets upset or has a conflict it just depends on what you're working on I mean the prong collar again it's a communication so it's kind of like anything else guys like the prong collar is literally just something that just communicates for you better that's all it is it's not like this you put it on and your dog's trained or you put it on and all of a sudden the training starts no it's just a communication it's just a it's just a it's just a communication it's just like here we're talking it's communication is a prong collar good for a blind or senior dog I don't know it depends on the prong collar is a communication guys it's just it doesn't it could be sure I mean I wouldn't put a prong collar on a blind old dog and correct it like crazy absolutely not no that's something I definitely wouldn't do no wouldn't do that don't stress your dog the prong collar should not be initially stressful for your dog the prong collar can create stress because you're breaking through new things that they didn't want to do or you're helping them overcome different behavioral things that they do but stress is part of dog training in general anybody out there that says stress is bad in dog training well if you're doing something new and you're doing something different and you're you're modifying or you're changing or you're drastically changing the dog's perspective of things that's stressful so buying a house stressful going on a first date stressful first day at your dream job stressful so there's always stress involved with progression so remember that um why does my dog think he needs to protect this all time probably because you're not clearly showing that you're clearly showing to your dog that you're um a a positive not positive a a good leader that's probably why so a couple of things that I'm doing that I wanted to to tell you guys is again I'm getting I hired a full-time editor awesome so we're putting out the most content we've ever done this year so I'm really excited about uh we're putting out new merch we're doing a whole new line with no bad dogs coming this spring super super pumped on that so we're going to put out new merch drops every month and then also we're we're developing this is the game plan is we're developing classes for you guys to download so no we're not making merch for babies classes that you guys can download so much like you see in a lot of other companies like leerberg or other companies that you can download a module or a class we're going to start to do that with some of the cases that I do so we're going to create um actual we're going to be a little bit more on our higher production and we're going to actually create modules that you guys can purchase and download and watch as many times as you want so we're going to be having modules for leash walking prom collar introduction e-collar introduction so on and so forth we're going to put them on the website you guys can download them and it's going to be a step-by-step guide and tutorial and blueprint on how to do these things because you guys are seeing on youtube anyway I don't know if you guys follow me and other things but you guys are seeing me upload an hour session working with a dog owner and I'm we're me and my editor are breaking that down to 10 to 15 minutes at the most so there's a lot of information and there's a lot of stuff that I wish you guys can see but um we're we're doing this we're breaking down tutorials so these videos will be sometimes an hour long just going over the do's and the don'ts and answering all of these questions so you guys can actually download them on your smartphone your tablet or your computer and you can rewatch them and do whatever you want with them so we're really working on that that should be out this summer um and I'm really excited about that because it's going to be really nice to just send you guys to my cart and to just say like hey buy this we go over all of this right there so we do like we do do that on on youtube I mean that's a lot of things that we do here on youtube but like I said these are going to be more long form tutorials of people who really want to dig deeper and into this information so we're going to take some more questions here I have two female German shepherds we both who both fought with a new female German shepherd what is happening they never fought aggressive like this we have two female German shepherds who both fought with a new so you got a new dog and they're fighting um that sounds pretty likely um that doesn't necessarily surprise me that much if you brought a new dog home and they're not getting along how do you safely socialize a reactive dog live in a large apartment complex with lots of dogs well um you know to me I I don't I don't I don't think all dogs should always meet each other I don't I don't like when I'm out with my dogs I don't have my dogs meet with anybody so I think it's important for you guys to know that that just because your dog is reactive and your dog is um you know potentially aggressive or maybe maybe not even aggressive maybe your dog just doesn't like other dogs or whatever the case may be I think that's okay and I think that you should just avoid those situations at all costs but I would also encourage you to get to the core of what's going on so if your dog is fearful how can we develop a stronger relationship or stronger confidence is your dog actually aggressive well then you know yeah get oh maybe you're gonna have to if you're if you're if you're looking for advice on how to curb a reactive dog's reactivity when you live in a place where there's a lot of dogs you have to start you have to start with the reactivity so you know making sure that your dog understands leave it and heal and all those things so um um I would love to know more about dog behavior yeah we're gonna do all that stuff um which geez uh what brand e-collar would you suggest on a $300 budget depend the e-collars are really just predicated off of how far you want them to go especially with the dog tree units through uh you can get a 1900 s or an arcans free for less than that and the arcans free is is a nice popular unit um so it's like a dog training course from day one by day when you get your dog kind of it's just going to be modules of everything that you guys want to know in longer format so you guys post I post a video of like hey this dog is aggressive let's see what we can do you're going to watch it it's going to be 10 to 15 minutes long but in the modules and the new courses they're going to be they're going to be broken down a lot more so um if you guys haven't yet do me a solid freaking favor like this video when you get here leave in the comments and let me know where you guys are from I'm going to take a couple more questions um I have a white swiss shepherd that is really anxious and fearful when people want to pet her and approach do you suggest build her confidence with people since she's been like that since day one if she's been like that since day one and she was born insecure there's a good chance she's not going to like random people coming up and petting her so I would highly suggest just telling people that she's in training and she's nervous and they are not to come up and pet her so my gst only responds to my commands on a prong collar and leash how do I transfer commands on a normal leash or even off leash that's because um the training you're not doing quality training um I would assume alexis you have to make sure that your dog is responsive to the things that you're saying and not just responsive to a correction and not just responsive to um uh treats or food um so you really have to again get down to the foundation of of your training um to make sure that your dog understands what you're doing Boston UK what else we got where else are you guys from um Boston UK Belgium what's good that's awesome people Poland born and raised in Clifton Park awesome San Diego sweet Poland cool Jacksonville Florida Netherlands Portugal UK Ontario California Israel Minnesota Minnesota Long Island Germany Canada Miami Indiana Indian Miami Indiana that's right cool Lebanon uh Toronto I'm actually going Scotland Ireland Michigan I'm going to Florida in a couple weeks um to do some private training which I'm excited to get out of this snow weather New Jersey Niagara Falls I just sent somebody home from Niagara Falls today Toronto Houston Indiana Lebanon all right let's Sweden Ohio do you guys have any uh final questions at the end if you guys want to blast off some some any any questions you guys can ask me it doesn't matter it doesn't have to be about dog training it could be about dog training if you want any any questions here at the end Glens Falls New York cool brook that's where I grew up kind of Arizona um Toronto does the prong collar have to be as high up as possible even if it's tight it should be up as high I mean it doesn't have to be if it's down it's not a big it just doesn't work that's all can we see your dogs um yeah I think well Lola's in the truck my older dogs in the truck kota any funny training stories yeah every day is funny come here baby let's see Lakota come here this is Lakota come on she's my Dutch shepherd come here come on oh baby oh this is coax she's my baby she actually heard her pad because it's really it's really icy here so my mom came over and and through with her and um she cut her pad so she's kind of sore her pad right now so she'd be in a little baby just so you guys know she always does this with her ears there were some videos that I put out with her see her ears are back somebody was like oh my god she's so terrified nope touch she always is um all right let's you guys want to see Thompson I'll show you Thompson wait where is Thompson where is that big boy let's see if I can find him oh there he is oh buddy oh that was my big boy all right cool all right you guys he always slaps me all right I'm gonna go get some dinner I appreciate you guys so much for watching if you haven't yet go over to my instagram and hop on how equipment has changed your life there was a comment on there on youtube that somebody said that they would rather euthanize a dog than correct a dog with a prong collar and that's something that's happening all over the world and I'm doing the best I can to share success stories of equipment and how it can change people's lives if you haven't yet do me a favor there's always 300 people in here go over to my instagram tag me in your story telling me or showing me or just a picture with your dog with equipment and how it's helped you in your in your relationship and I can share it with the world and I'm going to create a a little icon in my story highlight in my instagram to put all of those success stories if you guys haven't done that yet go do it um we're trying to advocate and we're showing people how I mean there's more people out there using tools than not but I want to make sure that we have a documented file of how important it is to understand what tools are so all right you guys have a good night I'll talk to you next time bye