 Hello everybody and welcome back to the Dog training channel right here on YouTube. I'm Tom Davis America's canine educator. Happy new year first and foremost I hope everyone's holidays were fun and safe today I am back on YouTube with the second episode with bear the small white dog How do you start transitioning this to your everyday life and how to create more confidence with her? I am physically tense right now. If you haven't watched the first episode just click the link above So now in this second episode We're gonna get into the meat and potatoes of how to build confidence in any dog and in this particular case You'll notice a significant difference in the jump in confidence in this dog in a very small time So if we remember the first session it looks something like this Yeah, this dog didn't want anything to do with me at any given time We started breaking ground towards the end of the session and then the next day it's about to go down right now She's doing very good It's it good girl So now that she's to this point with me I'm gonna hand off the leash to you in a second and then we're gonna go over what we talked about before of How do you start transitioning this to your everyday life and how to create more confidence with her and how to how to make Have a better relationship with her as well Yes, good girl Nice. Oh my goodness. What a good girl. Let's go this way Nice and the good thing about all this is I don't have to give her Hardly any pressure with the prong. So that's the beauty is she's doing all of this if I move forward She's so hooked on me. Just wonderful Good. She's in a way better spot Mentally, it's just great and training she's doing fabulous all of the Anxiety stress and insecurities are here And it's creative off your relationship So I'm not gonna try to tackle So much like fixing All of that because it's a by-product of your relationship And that's what we're gonna work on now and I'll be able to help you with that Just with how you handle her so couple Tips before we get started is when you're walking with her Every dog is different and and with her She's kind of on the verge of like am I doing it? Am I doing it? It's like a little kid trying to ride the bike for the first time or whatever you want to be like Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're doing a really great job. So Historically, I would tell people not to look down at your dog and give them too much talking pool. So tell her a good girl But try not to have too much conversation with her and try to be focused on where you're going Versus looking at her the entire time But I will encourage you to look at her a little bit more than I normally would tell people Just because she's trying to figure out this big scary world And if you help her and hold her hand if you will through that process with your verbal like good job I think that she'll be more inclined to be motivated to do so So I'm gonna handle each off to you and then I'm gonna have you try all this stuff So let's put her yep, put her on your left side Just like how I was handling her and yep that side and then I want you to just heal her around the room He'll in like I said before dog training is a versatile thing. It's not oh, this is what this is This is what you have to do with this. It's like it's like cooking You can kind of add a little bit to your dish as you'd like so heal for us is just having the dog in the left The left side of us in this position on a loose leash. That's what One thing I would do is just take this leash put it here. I want you to be as Calm it's not so much about calm because you're very calm. It's more about I don't want you to have a lot of Projects going on. I want you to just be like this is what we're doing So I don't want you to so the left so the so if you can just hold the leash all in one hand it Discourages you from going like not because now when you're doing this see like some people will and there's a time and a place for this for Competitive healing and what have you but when you're doing this Your brain Consciously is focusing on this hand and this hand and then the dog So if I can just go like hey just hold it all here because you've got like a four pound dog Just walk just with one hand so you're more Good and you're handling hand nice and relaxed put it down a little bit. There you go nice and Then I would also just do choke up on your leash a little bit So pull it up just a little bit. Yep, because the more leash you have for her She'll have all that room too There you go. That's that's pretty much perfect right there Back into the middle of the floor here. Just ask her to sit Beautiful good Good and then go back into a heel That was good So you stopped yourself from physically giving her a reward and touching her because it looked like you kind of reached it to pet her and You can pet your dog. However with her She's just you've been overkill with her for so long that I want you to start just looking at her and saying like hey Good job. So because again, we're trying to step back from Dependency and if you're physical It's very very like it's a different type of affection and reward So another thing that she does that I want to go over too is I'm gonna pull this seat out and then in this next section That we're about to do It's it's a really cool thing for me to learn as much as I possibly can about working with smaller dogs and working with These types of things I try to be as creative as I can in each session with any dog that I'm working with to try to better The experience for the dog and the owner and to better myself as well as an educator So this next session is really really cool because I try some things that I haven't done before And we go straight to school and really try to get creative to help this dog gain more confidence At the fastest rate possible So the next level and the next part of the session is a little bit more educational and experimental But it's something I had a lot of fun doing and I learned a lot And then we're gonna give her a little break and then I want you to just sit down and I want to I want to see how she acts with you when she's Ground level and you're sitting because that's something I know she has a really hard time with Or you might have questions about Get up from my seat the minute I get it from my seat she would sit on my seat One until I don't know what it's then and there right where my Yeah, body was yeah, so it's interesting that we're doing this. Yeah, if you guys are new to the channel welcome Thank you so much for joining us Just so you know we play a fun game on every video that I post if you leave a comment and like this video within three Hours and you live in the United States. Sorry you automatically get entered to win some free no bed dog merch So all you have to do to enter leave a comment below and like this video When they when they're used to getting picked up they're like well, this is really lovely because now I have advantage, but then I Find that that creates More protection stuff because you you have your dog on your persons if you will so now you have this dog That's insecure and semi-protective and then you put literally put it right here And then I did this I did this little experiment on Thanksgiving a couple years ago My cousin has this little tea cup type Yorkie. I mean it's like this big It's like she's small compared or she's big compared to this dog And so I would like go to like say hi to him and then the dog would try to bite me and he's like I don't get it I'm like well, okay. Let me show you something. I go the only reason why your dog is doing that is because they feel like when They're here. They're like a little like shield and they become like a little gremlin there And then he gave me his dog and he tried to say hi to me and then she tried to bite him And he was like whoa, and I'm like it's not so much your dog is protecting you your dog feels like when they're in this position They have no they have nothing else to do because they're vulnerable. They don't have feet on the ground They're just they're just dank like imagine being in a harness is dangling and you're like, I don't you're just you don't know There's nothing else you can do so I think that there's so many different Combinations of things and we'll never really know exactly why these behaviors happen But I can tell you that it makes sense to me that dogs become extremely vulnerable And and this they because they're it's not natural Because they should be down there figuring life out and then they become more protective because Because they're in front of you, too You're like We really want well-behaved dogs to be dogs. Yeah, not should not be on the top of the couch I wouldn't say that I you know like for me You know that would be very hypocritical for me because I let my dogs on the couches all the time But I think the most important thing is and this kind of leaks and dives into a little bit of like the dominance theory that everyone talks about That is you know a truly dominant dog is extremely rare But that's just like a word everyone likes to throw out because they've seen it on TV before so One of the problems you'll have with dogs doing that is if you tell them to get down and they won't and then if they become Protective of that because they're higher than you or at the same level as you so I just find that it's not you know There's so many different combinations. It's not a binary thing of like if you let your it's just very situational So I don't know but yes I mean if you're having problems with like if your dog is always in the back of the the couch and then Your guests sit down on the couch and then your dog reacts You need to be like whoa you're now down here because that's not where you're supposed to be because if you give them an Opportunity to be on top they sometimes act like they're on top and that's where they get that like Napoleon complex of like I'm up here get the heck down and that creates problems. So let's have you sit down and I want to go over that Like if we created so see this is why I wanted to do this because see how she's She's how she's jumping up to get to you She's going to try to do that probably when anybody else comes into the house Or I think just at any time you sit down in a place. That's not home And she may even do it at home. So what I would suggest to do is do what you did but also Try to be empathetic towards what she's trying to do. She's trying to say like I'm not comfortable down here and we might You know, we might have to look at that as like a Okay, yeah, you're right You're like a tiny little dog a smaller dog than the majority of dogs if you will so maybe we can give give her a little bit of um a Little bit of that without giving it all the way which would then like if you had a chair or a Couch or something that you primarily hung out in at home or even if you traveled with one of these little beds So go ahead and ask her to get up there good So I would um so then put yeah, so correct her down a little bit Yeah Good Because that's that's what she wants. So actually just let her do it Let her do it. She wants for a second just let her do what she wants I want to see what she does because this is like a little problem solving for us to figure out what's going on Do whatever do whatever. Let's just do a combination of things there. Okay, so again, like that is That is her and again like we can't be too punishing to her to like say hey That's totally bad because that's what she's done her whole life because she's for right so say actually I want you to come on here and then you can because she wants just that's comfort for her And it's created comfort which means for me. I just made that word up But it means to me that it's created comfort which means like when she was a puppy She didn't do that it was created like you created like this is where you're comfortable and so Like I said, I don't I'm not trying to say like don't have your dog do that because it is small enough to do that Which is why you have a smaller dog But at the same time you have to be careful how they view it Like if you're it becomes selfish for us to say hey, I want you up here And then your dog's like well if I do anything else, but there then I'm insecure and I can't be a dog Which is a problem. So Why don't you just get up and then put get her back down and then let's try to Let's try to just put her on the place and then you sit down next to her And she's not going to want to do that But use your leash to catch her before she jumps to teach her that that's that's like an alternative good Saying like yeah, you can hang out, but Like you can't get on me because you have stuff to do and then of course like you don't want her to become Defensive like if you're sitting say you went to the hotel and you had your little pad You want to sit down and have coffee or whatever and do you do your work? you don't want hurt on your lap and then like looking at everybody as they walk by because Again like when we do protection work with like police dogs and just like schutzen and ring sport stuff We put the dogs Generally right in front of us because it automatically creates that protective drive and dogs We say hey, there's the bad guy and then here you are We don't ever train a dog behind us to bark at the bad guy because we actually want them to be in charge We want It's a it's not like that's so I'm talking about like protective instincts that is more of like you're making yours You're like the way that we do it again. I'm really big on that like the way that I do it isn't like Textbook of like that's just what I believe in is when you have a gate or a door It's nice to when you're having like issues with the dog Not sure where they're at with life and where they're at with you Telling them to sit and then walking through the door creates that threshold awareness of it's just like putting a bull down And then breaking the dog to that because the source and the The reward is going to be the food or the treat or the ball that's on the ground that you then release your dog To it's the same concept as the door it becomes a portal We don't look at it as that we don't look at it that like we're just going out the door But for them, they're like yeah, let me out So it's the same concept to say like you have to work before you get what you want and also like hey I'm making decisions and you're not and it's a good way to start your day with the dog All right guys, it's now time for a little game We like to play here on the channel Tom's trivia All you have to do is simply leave your answers in the comments below and it's a little fun game We like to do to see if you guys know your dog facts So the question in Tom's trivia of the day is what country has the highest population of dogs You guys take a good guess or if you know the answer leave it below So good so anyway, so I would suggest again to develop them This relationship status is to just say like what I would do is just take your leash and again Like start practicing just being nice and relaxed and hanging out right there And if she gets up no place and you may even give her like a little bone to work on and let her do her own thing But good good job there That's good Yeah, it's a good girl Good girl So so do you see what I'm saying like if I were to Walk into your hotel and I saw this I'll be like all right They have they have it down like these guys have a good relationship because you're a human you're eating breakfast Doing your thing and your dog is just coexisting with you your dog isn't sitting there going like can I have food? What do you have? Can I get on your lap? Can I protect you? Who's that? What's that sound? What do you think of this? Is that yogurt? Is that like you're just like hey, dude Like you're a dog and I'm a human and I love you and we're gonna do as much as we possibly can together but there's gonna be restrictions that we have because your dog so so anyway, so like this is like the first step to your New relationship if you will they just say like that's you. This is me Realized my body was all tensed up. Yeah, right after you real you did that. I actually Mentally like yeah, I am physically tense right now I'm not in danger. So just relax. Yeah, and I relaxed and she laid down. Yeah, it's amazing It's incredible and when you come up here, you're gonna say bear place Yes, good place good Good place. So what you did is you said bear place and then good bear totally like not detrimental However, it get it you're missing an opportunity to mark this behavior So so where what I want her to do and then the good after yep, so the good Correct. So the good Or no good it'd be good heel good place so yeah, so good Signifies to her the way that we say good means we've done something good You can say bad just say it like bad she'll go. Yay But just the way that we're doing it is good and she's gonna go. Okay. That was good. What was that? I just did he'll good heel. Okay heel. This must be heel Yeah, so And then good Think about it like a like a problem-solving brainstorm type thing um, this just popped my head almost like charades and This is what I mean by that like when you place your aides You're like this know that know this you're like close and then when they get it You're like thing like you got it right? So this is what I mean by that. Let me show you so when you when you do this You're gonna go bear place. Yes, good place. Well done And then good place Place good and now now that was it that was the other thing I wanted to show you is Again to immediately gain more confidence in a dog and build your relationship for the better Have control over everything so I told her to place. She did really well and then she jumped off So that's like little Timmy Go to your homework they go and then they walk away and you go yeah, okay. That was good enough that no That's actually not good enough. I want it. Okay. Now Timmy you're done with your homework now You can go play so making sure you're the gatekeeper it creates that structure And it's just like with kids if you have that structure of like did I tell you you can do this did I tell you You can do that and it's not because us as parents are trying to be militant We just care and we want to teach structure and we want to teach responsibility and respect and we're trying to develop something And so when you say place good place and then we can talk about implied stays or sit stay or however You want to do it, but do not let her get off until you say okay break and then yay now she can do what she wants So we're gonna throw it into like the real world. So this is what you would do Okay, so you're gonna place and then you're gonna sit and do your thing So just catch her you got it like that's that's what your prom collar does is it just says There so just give a little break and do it again And just make sure because she's fast and she's little and she can do all that stuff Nice place So yep use your leash use your leash good There you go nice Good and then choke up on your leash so you have more control. So yep, so that's all you'll do yep That way she sees see there But just try to keep that nice and relax and you basically just flick your wrist and catch her and she'll and then she'll And then she'll probably just lay down again, but this is all new for her So it's not she's not making mistakes if she was taught to do the other thing over and over again So it's not a big deal. She's gonna continue to go. Yeah, but we usually do this and we usually do that. You just say Yeah, yep, so just you're just teaching her To to be nice and relaxed right there, which is wonderful Good and then why don't you try to just drop the leash and see what she does? good nice job Good, so what we'll do to Make this better is we'll teach her the place we may teach her the down stay or Whatever we want to do. We'll we'll talk about that after to make this more a thing So you want to so if you so that's where I think some dog owners get very frustrated is You're gonna try this is the big picture and then when you go and do it in like your hotel That's the big game. That's like the big the biggest picture But if we go and if we take it's like three steps backwards and we say let's master this part first Make this really nice foundation Then we'll build to this but she knows this really well. You're gonna be more successful So you're building a better foundation. So you're not gonna be all flaky in the future over time What you'll do is you'll you'll help this out by getting up. She's got to stay there moving your arms She's got to stay there having a conversation with yourself. She's got to stay there moving around things like that twisting and just Desensitizing her because right now if you were to just twist your body to your right see what she does Yeah, your whole body. There you go. So see how like that's going to make her go where we going So over time we're gonna desensitize all of that and then you're gonna move just make motion with your body Good there nice and then you would then say good stay or good weight Or if we're doing implied stuff you would say good place or good sit just depends on how we want to do it But so what you're seeing in the next couple scenes is really cool because all we're doing is we're compartmentalizing the individual Commands to make the road less bumpy for not only bear but for the owner So we're just practicing very basic commands and very basic behaviors So that way the dog in the future or bear in the future knows exactly Oh, I know what you want me to do because we've practiced this so many times And it gives the owner an opportunity to say hey, I'm in a new environment. Here's what I want you to do We've practiced it a bunch. So that's all we're doing right now But it's a very crucial and important role in the training and being successful in these types of situations Stay So see how she's sideways So what I would do is if you wanted to break if you wanted to face that way have her come up here place Right because you you made her play even go as far as putting bear into a place It's day having the owner walk out the room and as you can see bear does really well with that as well And so from even yesterday Bear has come a long way bears owner has come a long way. I've learned some new things We're trying to constantly grow at the upstate Canyon Academy. And so that wraps up this session in this series with bear It was a lot of fun I hope you guys liked it if you did of course, just leave a comment like this video It's the best way you can support me turn on your notification bell So you don't miss anything you don't miss any opportunity to win some no bad dog merch and I appreciate you guys very much. I will talk to you next time. Peace