 All right, welcome everybody to another episode of dog talking coffee with me Richard Hines and Today I want to do a question and answer That we put out to a lot of our subscribers Asking them to send questions in what people would want me to talk about So if I don't use your heart soon hang in because I get thousands of emails right on a weekly basis so I'm gonna start with this one Because it just fits into the theme of all the recent videos. I've been putting up about positive dog training so Start here This is Albert from Miami He has a German Shepherd Grizzly that's four and a half months old So here's what he writes to me. I've been obedience training Grizzly since we brought him home at one month and three weeks He picked everything up extremely fast, especially when we gave him treats He knows the basics sit down stay calm, etc However, when he is in an outside environment Example outside on the front lawn or around people he gets distracted by any and every little thing Which causes him to be only partially responsive to my commands Is this due to age factor too young? Or just poor training on my part I hope you would address this question because I have a couple of friends with dogs around the same age and They are having the same problem So, okay so This just Fits right into all the videos. I just been putting up recently a Hitting the positive dog training theme for some reason like I say in the other videos people actually think or are Convinced by online YouTube or whatever it is That positive dog training will work for a pet dog Okay, so I'm gonna go through a whole thing here and recap It is a rare dog That You are gonna have a trained. I mean well trained pop your dog in The end going through all positive training So this is something that really needs a lot of work and this is a really good example So I do need to manage Regaining control of her here. My first step here is going to be once I finally do get control of her is to put her on a Long lead when your dog is playing chase with you like this. They're having a blast They really enjoy it and they're just looking at it as a game probably But it can be a really dangerous game if it happens at the wrong place So don't engage in a game of chase like this with a dog this young and a nurse this case pretending To leave is usually what gets her to come to me pretty reliably. So let's see if she'll call my vlog I think the best way so now here. We are we're out by the pool So we're gonna attempt to do a little bit of an obedient session right here next to the pool. This is too much for sunny sunny no Sunny sit sit Yes sunny down sunny Sunny yuck So you notice He's not into this right now. He doesn't really want to train. He wants to get on that pool This is an environment that I shouldn't be training in yet. Sunny come here. He's gonna pee on stuff. There's other dogs out here I've got treats my hand right now. He's not even following a lure He's shying away from the food because he wants to go to the pool So I only did this to show you an example of an environment that is too hard to train right now During our training walk is that it becomes familiar to her if I were to just keep going and ever walk like this in a neighborhood setting We didn't get very far at all. I was hoping we can walk past a few houses. She's not there yet I'm not gonna continue to insist on failure out of her. We'll wait until she matures a few feet of tether That's not what we selected for when we made dog. It's a very unnatural skill to when she pays attention me periodically I'll go ahead and reward her right now. See how she's just pulling ahead. I don't like a nurse. Come on. Let's go Let me see if I can get over here. A nurse. Yes I'm successful there. This is gonna be a bit of a challenge here and that's okay. I welcome a challenge There's some goo on the ground over here. I have no idea what it is It looks gross and she's trying to get to it, but that's the real world Things are not going smoothly here at all not in a reliable manner yet a nurse Leave it below the excess of pulling will go back the other way right as she starts to pull I stop and I kind of anchor the leash right here to my hip from what I'm seeing here We have a really long way to go before she's trained to adequately walk on a sidewalk like this That's kind of ambitious, you know You don't care. Okay. Well, maybe not. Okay. We'll cancel the leash walking session because that's just gonna make her frustrated I'm gonna go ahead and pick her up to minimize the pulling because she's very likely to pull all the way over here That's a good example of just testing the water seeing how receptive your dog is to training in a given moment Experience tells me not to force that lesson. There'll be plenty of opportunities to practice that in the future I'm not gonna force it because she's unlikely to comply So I'm putting her in a lesson that she is not yet prepared for look at this I'll take Samson out and we'll do a little bit Samson is actually my working patrol dog and He is a Belgian Malinois. All right, so This is why they're not a great pass. They're very cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs it follow Down the level of command you cheater come here feel down Down You notice I don't use a stay command. I find state. Hey, Louis down told you he's gonna make me a liar Just take your time there, buddy down the level of command down this day is redundant Animals and children never work with them on television Down This is his reward instead of food. This is what he loves to do and he will do this all day long out No, oh Oh Cheater I Told you you're gonna make me look silly Down report Report report So this is a perfect example of an operant dog He's gonna try to figure out what he has to do in order to get to it Again, you notice he didn't come out here looking at other dogs He didn't come out here looking at people. He's like, how do I get that from your hands? This is engagement. No Now you know why we say Malinois are not great pets This is a typical one, right? so Here I'm gonna give you an example of This trainer here in Miami Probably one of the biggest training companies on all of Florida, right? 100% positive They're proud of that. They boast about it. So the world gravitates to it, right? So They have a huge clientele and it's not just Miami They probably have one of the biggest schools in the whole state of Florida And that's all you got to say is a hundred percent positive, right? And the world will gravitate to you in this day and age, right? That's a given You don't even have to do marketing. You don't have to wait and they just say a hundred percent positive and you will have flocks of People just going to you easy peasy, right? So Here's the owner of that company Posting on her website Right now, I would never do this if I was her, right? This is You don't say these kind of things on your website because if anybody knew better Anybody was thinking, right? Which is obvious they're not because they're going to her in hundreds, right? A week. I mean flocking in there So they're obviously Not reading this statement that I'm gonna give you here in a second or They read it. Don't care ignore it Don't listen to what it said and just go do what they feel like doing because they do a hundred percent positive They're gonna ignore what she wrote there. Okay so this is the owner's story, right and Posted on her website so as public knowledge and again, remember this is a hundred percent positive dog training only so the owner has on the website that I Arrived for a private in-home lesson appointment with my client Whose dog I've been training every week For the last six years Every week once a week for six years six years straight Every week once a week six years The client writes here You've been coming to my house every week One time a week for the past six years And my dog is only halfway through And I have no intentions of having you go anywhere So this is just giving you right The other trainer here with his own dog a mess can't get her under control You know six seven months now. He's been working with this puppy and he still hasn't been able to get her to do anything Right outside Let's say right now I wasn't in a fenced area. Would you want your dog doing this in public inertia come here? If we can get her to not pull all the way to that door, that's kind of ambitious You know what I have chicken right now? You don't care. Okay. Well, maybe not Okay, we'll cancel the leash walking session because that's just gonna make her frustrated I'm gonna go ahead and pick her up to minimize the pulling because she's very likely to pull all the way over here That's a good example of just testing the water seeing how receptive your dog is to training in a given moment Experience tells me not to force that lesson. There'll be plenty of opportunities to practice that in the future And I'm not gonna force it because she's unlikely to comply So I'm putting her in a lesson that she is not yet prepared for look at this Here This Owner of this positive company is saying to you And here she goes through also how many clients she has That are in the same category as that client that she's been going years and years and years And they're still not even close to having the dog trained What Right I mean seriously Six years and still going and they're only halfway there right And then There she's saying she was going to sign many many more to contracts because she's got so many clients like that, right I mean I don't even know what else could be said to you This is watching a professional supposedly dog trainer With his own dog doing only positive and cannot get this dog his own dog to do anything right outside Here this trainer of one of the biggest companies in florida Is going to clients for six years and beyond with most of their clients Because they just can't get the results right I mean This is self-explanatory right and this is watching owners and supposed to be specialists in positive And the game and gimmick to positive is Keep going keep going keep working at it keep working at it and someday it will eventually happen And i'm here to tell you That that day for 99 of you out there is never going to come not even 12 years from now So But this is the truth of the method. This is why Albert you're not alone. You are the majority of the population It just is what it is and i'm telling you from the side of a grand master At positive dog training methods That is not going to happen unless you have a certain kind of dog Now Let's Recap a little bit of why it appears to work In other circumstances for other people okay, so going back To the previous videos that i had done on this to explain the difference of See animals and the Sequeriums and all that when they do the shows and all that Why the animals perform for these trainers? And it's primarily because they're starved In order to get The animals motivated to perform on those days of the show Right it's plain and simple. There's no mystery to that Now saying that one of Now good friend of mine that was down here to go to my training school moshi kafri who's now Got a successful company up in denver up in colorado him talking to a dolphin trainer When he went To go have the experience playing with dolphins The trainer told him straight up That no matter how much we starve them That there are days that the dolphins will just lay on the bottom of the pool And will not come out of those enclosures Or off the bottom of the pool Knowing that we're calling them to go do the show even though we starved them in their hungry. They refuse to perform Right That's just nature when you're going positive, right? You're giving them choices And Good luck with that The dolphin doesn't feel like performing. He's gonna lay on the bottom of the pool You're not gonna have a show with that one this day. So let's hope all the other ones work right so I hope That clears up for you albert And the rest of the world that is trying to believe in this and reads millions of people saying that this this is the way and the method and that right these are experts here right Of the method that they can't even get their own dogs to listen with their clients six to nine twelve years later So these are not exceptions. These are the rule right This is not An unusual at this guy can't get his dog to listen and this other trainer here in miami Working with clients dogs for six to twelve years because they still haven't gotten there after six years Of every week positive positive every day positive positive This is the norm Not the exception. It's just that one or that one That's how it goes with all. That's why we have the rules to the clubs. That's why because they know right so albert you and your friends Just keep in mind if you don't change that method and technique You're going to be doing this the rest of your lives Right the dogs are never going to learn well So That's the end of this session dog talking coffee with richard so Anybody who's confused about methods or Have been brainwashed and convinced and Saturated with positive dog training. I hope this opens people's eyes to understand the truth Because enough is enough witness So till next time Richard Heinz miami dog whisper