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We are working with a small dog named bear Recently when I took her to the vet she She broke skin on one of the vet techs and she screamed So this dog is a smaller dog dealing with severe separation anxiety This dog has been to the veterinarian has actually nipped a veterinarian or the vet tech before So this dog really just doesn't know what to do in Situations with people that she doesn't know or she's not comfortable with so she pretty much lives her life with a lot Insecurities every single day being very codependent on her owner for happiness and guidance in a very unhealthy manner The number one thing that I want to try to figure out is which is the aggression and the fear Because I and they kind of go like that, you know the aggression in the fear Yeah, as you can imagine that's very frustrating for the owner and also the dog She's really going through her life very afraid of things that she should not be afraid of and not being able to be a dog Now in this session, you'll see that the owner definitely contributes a lot of different things to make these things happen You can't be a dog lover trying to get to know her you have to be a leader on any level Walking in grabbing a leash and walking. She's going. Who are you? Are you gonna kill me? Oh god? What do I do so it doesn't matter if you have a bigger dog or a smaller dog? This video is really great for anybody out there that's dealing with insecurity issues Or if your dog is just fear fearful of things that they shouldn't be Is when I got a little dog I like to travel and I was hoping that she would be she would also like to travel Okay, how old is she right now? She's four. Okay, so she doesn't like to go to new places with new people That's that's Okay, okay, so all right, so it sounds like you have a smaller dog four years old needs help with Confidence building because I think the fear and the insecurities is what's creating the that's what's bubbling up to create the other things The freakouts at the vet freakouts anywhere That's what's like also then programming and enticing like the biting and and just like backing up So as soon as she walks into a room, she almost has like this fight or flight She gets into like I'm either trying to get the heck out of here or I'm just gonna try to fight everybody off Like 16 weeks, and I was like, oh man, we do this for 16 weeks once a week once a yep 16 sessions 16 sessions Right. Um, that's a lot. Yeah, and I was like, oh man by the time like should we find with the car like cuz we'd be doing this What age was that? This was a year ago. Okay 16 weeks she hated every second of it every time every time okay every time so even to now she doesn't like training Okay, she doesn't yeah, okay. Yeah, and I think every single one of those 16 sessions as soon as she came into a kind of a facility Like this, um, maybe Just a new place. Um, she stood and looked at the door constantly. It's like she shook and look at the right She knew that right their way to survival. I guess right. I got it Okay So also make sure you watch to the end of this video to play Tom's trivia a fun little game We like to play to see if you guys at home really know your dog stuff It's I'm sure it's like 99% me because I'm now fearful right. I'm now fearful when I take her to places What is she gonna do? You know, all right So what I want you to do now is I want you to just walk try to walk around the room and get her Acclimated for two minutes and then we'll get to work. All right. So in my opinion, I feel like Again, I have to be empathetic to say like, I know you don't want to leave your owner But at the same time I haven't caused you any harm and I'm not asking you to do anything outrageous So I want to switch to a different collar probably and see how she does with a little bit more pressure Because right now again, like I understand where she's coming from. She's like, I think you're gonna kill me But at the same time, I'm like, but I'm not so I need to be able to Draw her out a little bit more to help her understand that the boogeyman doesn't exist So I'm going so we got a teacher that things are okay So it's all like fear-based Stuff good job there But watch See that so as soon as I get further away from you She then feels more comfortable Comfortable out here. So I'm just gonna use my body pressure to Let her calm down a little bit like if I followed her and release that tension. She's not getting over Like I'm not going to kindergarten hanging on to the minivan type thing if you're just like, yeah, you're right You're not ready for kindergarten. You're 10. Let's go back home way to get next year It's not it doesn't do her any good. So it's a little bit different with dogs because you have to put them through Different way you can't I can't talk to her. I can't say hey I'm an all right guy like you know, I have to literally show her that things are okay So by me just standing next to her it'll help her confidence with me Okay, come here. That's a good girl. So of course in the vet office They're not gonna take nearly as much time and have nearly as much patience a because they don't have time to do that Be it's not their job and see they don't know really how to do all that It's you need like the perfect storm of a dog to be okay to go into the vet office a lot of times dogs Do not like it because it's very Time time management for them. You're in you're out. You're in you're out. You're in you're out. Let's go Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. They're not listening. They're being aggressive sedate sedate sedate. See you next time Boom next one next one next one next one and then and that's why dogs don't ever really have the opportunity to become more Confident and less stressed in a vet office because they simply don't spend the time So I always suggest to people to just go there without of just call them and say hey my dogs are terrified of you guys I'm gonna come hang out in the waiting room for an hour if that's okay And just do that once a month twice a month once a week Whatever you can possibly do to get them associated with something good there, but that's why Because they're veterinarians are not good with animals like on the contrary of what people would believe They spend out of the years of going to vet school sometimes no handling Education none zero and then if they do do it, it's like a 10 hour course 20 hour course They spend and that's okay because I would rather my veterinarian know what to give my dog Procedure science medicine then be a behaviorist if you will but if you're watching her behavior here She wants to get to you and if I let her it doesn't help her But she'll be she'll be more comfortable So what I'm doing is see how she keeps circling back to me and then if I let her out and then I stop her there Come here. Good girl. She does come all the way back to me And then she finds comfort with me as well So she's saying your second string your your first pick, you know So she's she is pretty easy to put trust into somebody, but you have to do it in the right way So you can't be you can't be a dog lover trying to get to know her you have to be a leader on any level Walking in grabbing a leash and walking. She's going who are you? Are you gonna kill me? Oh god? What do I do? And then if you're going it's okay It's like a movie where people get really close to her and because she's little they talk really high and then she's Really freaking out and then that's where she'll be a rattlesnake. She can spam and then she'll just fire off That's what you do not want to do because she's already immediately looking you like Oh, and then you present all that and she doesn't know what that is so the best thing to do is to just grab the leash and If anything like it just tell the people hey just ignore because she's not gonna care if you just ignore Because she's trying to figure you out. So if you just are neutral You're gonna be good So if I get really submissive with her she kind of submits with me She's like she feels like me being Submissive with her and she kind of tells me to like I'm okay And right now I'm not holding her but I'm trying to get her more comfortable with me without her running away So this is very typical. She's yo-yoing back and forth. She's going I go that way and I'm like no you don't It's not gonna give her what she wants as well. So basically what this is is right now she is Fighting that slip collar. So that slip collar is coming up and just giving her a little restriction Okay, but it's only one point of pressure So with this these are not so when a dog does this it that's not the correction So when a dog does this this does these don't hurt They these aren't sharp or anything a lot of people think that the correction is coming from the dog pulling against this Which is causing uncomfortability and that's not it ever because they will pull through this all They'll prove if you don't use this right they'll pull through it just like that this this is not the correction This that's not how you use this so what what the correction is is when the dog comes You just do a little pop like this and so what this does is it harnesses? All of these different prongs up into one single correction and gets the dog's attention and shredded. Yes, of course So when a dog pulls against it, this is what it does and then imagine that with a layer of fur So what I'm going to be doing is doing this. Hey, hey, hey, hey, and so these aren't sharp So this is not the correction. It's it's getting their attention like this And so I want to try this to see if this will be more effective for us. So this So it's as you can see it's not like gonna be this dramatic a lot of people do think as soon as that comes on They're gonna go If she was gonna do that she would have done it with the slip just from the pressure So this just allows me to work with her more effectively and a lot less pressure because with that she's gonna go Choke herself out and with the harness if if I didn't have a collar actually on her to dictate her power steering She's just gonna sit in that harness and just do the road runner until basically she gets either too tired I give up. I have no option to go None when that happens So what I'm doing is I'm taking the collar and I'm trying to eliminate the amount of pressure That we give her on the leash to teach her that if she works with me It's okay, and then over time the macro or the bigger picture. She's gonna go This isn't so bad. So the micro in the small picture. She's going Why does this guy want me to go over here and she doesn't see that it's just like kids going to school Kindergarten through whatever is gonna get in the college then real world. It's the same thing that I'm trying to do here Just on a different level Don't forget guys our no-bad-dogs giveaway is going on until the end of this year All you have to do to enter to win is simply leave a comment in the comments below Within three hours of this video being published and you automatically get entered to win some free no-bad-dogs merch So it just gets her attention a lot more so instead of her scurrying and choking herself She's I have more pressure So it's two four six eight ten two four six eight ten instead of just one So it's not as gaggy and chokey. She's it's more harnessing than anything just coming up in unity and going Let's go from here. Let's go. Yes. What a good job. Oh, what a good job that was What a good job that was Yes, what a good job that was good job there Good job. Come on Yes, good girl. So the goal right now is I want you to just watch her leash pressure. Good girl Yes, good job. Let's get up here. Yes. Good girl Huge that little circle very minimal pressure and then we got up here and she did something that was a breakthrough right there Just that little 15 seconds of compliance tells me that she has the mental capacity to switch that. Oh my god I'm gonna die off Which is it's all and after that the train training is the easiest part Be behavior modification is hard. It's like going to a therapist after you have PTSD or something so hard You can't just say hey, just don't don't worry about it. It's not that easy It's I want you to watch her leash pressure So the less she bounces off that leash tells us that she's like, it's okay. I'm all right. This is okay This is gonna work. This is not so bad and each time that she goes in a circle without constantly pulling is A win for us each second that she moves forward in my way without without pressure is a huge w And the fact that she's getting on here and saying like okay, I'm gonna do something is just extra See that loose leash good girl Oh Good girl Come on bear Come on bear. Let's get up here up up up up up up. Yes. Well done. What a good job That was so good. Okay, let's go So loose loose leash good pop pop. Okay this way. Yeah, good job. Let's get up here. Well done Well done Good job bear Good job. Okay, let's go. I go this way loose leash points points Points points points points. No run to owner thought about it little pressure. Well done place good Yes Good job. So this is really good right here. So see this This is her making the mental decision without any pressure from that tool To say, okay, I'm gonna listen to this guy. I'm gonna follow this guy. This guy's got the driver's seat. I'm I'm just here. I'm gonna teach her a little bit of leash pressure. She goes against me She gets those few little taps on the leash. She was okay. What am I supposed to do? So it's kind of like bumpers when you're bowling she goes bang bang bang And then she starts to figure her way out how to bowl. So now she's going straight with me Good girl Good girl bear. What a good job What a good job? What a good job? What a good job. Let's go place Let's get up here. Come on. Yay Good job. That was so good. That was so good. Come here. Come on. There's a good girl That was so good. That was good. So she's starting to trust me and last in an hour we've gotten to a point of complete meltdown to Okay, this guy's not so bad Yes She's so cute All right, everybody you've made it to the end of the video Which means you guessed it time for Tom's trivia All you have to do is simply leave your answers in the comments below Out of these three things which comes first to a puppy. Is it a eyes? 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