 never seen another dog do this in my entire career you can see he starts to shake. What's going on guys Tom Davis here America's Canon Educator thank you so much for joining me I have a very odd case something I've never dealt with in my entire career I have a Malinois that was literally left in the back of a U-Haul to kind of live by himself so obviously he was neglected abandoned and mentally abused and this dog is in our boarding train program he's our newest boarding train member he's in his name is bones he's super sweet but obviously has some very very hardcore wired characteristics that are making it very hard for him to live a normal life because of his upbringing he suffers from everything from anxiety to being terrible on the leash his owners actually cannot walk him really anywhere without the harness and without him constantly trying to back up out of it it's very dangerous for him he's had a lot of complications throughout this process so today we're going to be doing the first session with bones and introducing how to build confidence how to reduce anxiety with the dog and hopefully get over this really weird cork if you got cork cork cork not cork like a bottle but cork cork cork anyway if you guys haven't yet do not forget like this video subscribe to my channel we'll be uploading every Tuesday and Saturday at least and I appreciate you guys watching let's get right into the video alright you guys I'm just gonna go grab bones now I have a couple different leashes I have of course our no bad dogs training leash I also have a 15 foot long line and then I have just a regular slip leash so I brought all three of these things for different reasons so I'm just gonna go in I'll bring them out and we'll we'll figure out what to do I don't know this is such a weird case we've never seen it before so we'll just get them out and see what to do as I mentioned guys before bones has a really hard time he's he's really had this weird thing with him having to go against walls and you can see he starts to shake any barks watch what he does is he's very clingy and then he doesn't want to get away from people so when he clings on to something and then he barks and he reacts and so like I was saying before guys like super anxious obviously you're seeing the vocalization very insecure if you if you notice through his body language ribbons and this is the first time I've met him too so he doesn't really know me that well but you can tell just in his body language his tails tucked a bit he's constantly looking for an escape as you can see he feels most comfortable on a wall because of his his foundational past or whatever so this is the part guys that I was talking about he's literally pinned up against a wall I've never seen another dog do this in my entire career where he feels most comfortable against a wall so he'll literally come out and then he'll pin against the wall because of his you know what happened to him in the beginning of his life all right so we're gonna be working on anxiety leash pressure confidence building and just getting this dog in a better state of mind because just watch his behavior guys he's very insecure he doesn't really know what to do or what his job is supposed to be and there he goes back against the wall so it's it's very like almost OCD type of behavior where he's he's just got like a he's just got like a really bad problem with anxiety and you can hear him vocalize so and he tries to back out which is really tough that's why we have a harness on them guys is because he literally would try to back out of anything so as you can tell high levels of anxiety not good so let's try to figure this out with mr. bones so first thing I'm gonna do for a little bit more control guys because a dog that's anxious needs exercise and control so first thing I'm gonna do is just get out my little slip and I'm gonna start working on leash pressure with them so for those of you who don't know what a slip leash is exactly how it sounds it's basically a leash with a slip right in it I know buddy come here bones it's been it's been weird for me to see a dog do that as well just literally bark into the blue at literally nothing so it could be some genetical stuff guys could be some stuff you know up in here that we're working with but we're gonna do the best we can to make it better good bones come and again guys what I'm doing is I'm giving him direction he needs some sort of job right now and I'm doing that and the long line is on him just because he's so infamous for backing out of stuff so it's just a safety precaution so back and forth leash pressure guys good so my overall goal with him guys is gonna be to eliminate a lot of the barking and vocalization that you're seeing as well as eliminate a lot of the pacing and anxious behaviors he's creating so that's my goal is just giving him a job and continuing this till I feel like he's a little bit calmer and then we'll do some other exercises to build the confidence in general so I want you to watch why this works it's not just me walking back and forth I want you to actually conceptualize why this is working so I come out the dog goes one way bones come good he did a good job there good job buddy good I'm gonna do it on this end bones come good so he's getting a lot better now before he was bouncing off at the end of the leash non responsive not taking direction and that's what this is about guys is the dogs not taking direction at all so if you have a dog that's anxious like this guy right here he doesn't know exactly what he should be doing or shouldn't be doing so you can tell he's just constantly like looking he's on he's constantly trying to figure out what he wants to do and a dog like that regardless of why this is happening whether it's neurological or genetic or both or whatever he needs a job he needs something to do so literally by going back and forth giving him structure giving him something to do with directional changes and starting to knock the camera starting to cue like the heel or the come is the first step into doing that so we're gonna continue that come on bones a lot of again a lot of directional changes guys so what you want to do cut the dog off go a different direction cut the dog off go a different direction cut the dog off go a different direction wow the other thing that I'm looking for guys on top of the stuff I've already talked about is to stop sweating just kidding it is blazing out here but anyway is engagement I wanted to start looking at me so again over time continually engagement with me looking at me not barking at all and continuing to just get better somebody sit good job good sit good job good job so I want to just watch his behavior for a second see where he's at that's part of the process guys is on sit good so I asked him to sit I'm gonna make sure I'm following through with that guys so big inconsistency and again the big thing is is not letting him make decisions and if I asked him to sit and then he gets up and walks away that puts him back in the driver's seat no dog with this state of mind should ever be in the driver's seat and this is part of the process so one thing to notice guys is his eyes so his eyes are a little bit calmer they're not as escapee as they as they were sit again just putting him back into a sit and making sure that he understands that there's no to sit he's not making decisions and that's like been a lot of the problems probably at home with him is hey we have a super insecure super nervous dog with low confidence but again sit he's making decisions on an everyday basis and he shouldn't be that's part of his confidence issue he somebody needs to take the wheel of this dog and help him become more confident nope sit good sit good and then it's gonna be on me when we break him guys that's all nope sit good okay once break good job buddy good so that's just a quick exercise anybody can do out there with the dog that's a little insecure I'm gonna put him on his long line and let him do what he wants now but if you want to just come over here and give these guys a visual on him actually just staying stationary so this is big for him good job bones yeah he's a good boy yeah he's a good boy all right you guys so the next phase I'm gonna do is just after we've done the leash pressure and building confidence in the leash much better I just went in to talk to Zach one of our trainers and just said like hey he's not hugging the wall anymore so that's really good but one thing I'm gonna do now is introduce food so whenever you have a dog that's insecure and a little bit nervy outside control their resources if they like food use it to your advantage so one thing I have never tried before is I want to get this dog's attention and engagement on me and because he's so focused on everything else he gets into like this fight or flight thing where he's constantly like moving around as you guys have seen so what I'm going to do is I have a big thing of food here guys and I know it seems a little nontraditional but that's what I'm about as I don't really follow the book I want to just do its best for the dog so I'm gonna use this big piece of food he doesn't know I have it yet and I'm just gonna get him on me and I'm gonna teach him the place command as well so that will hopefully keep us focused on me long enough to decrease the anxiety and the insecurities as well bones yes good boy this is working out good he's not chomping at it like I thought maybe he would good job good job buddy yes good okay come on good good so the micro guys here is I'm teaching him to follow me around we'll build we're building a relationship the macro or the bigger picture guys is he's not anxious which is the only thing that I care about during this first session because of his anxiety good job sit good boy so again guys he's working on this food here good I'm gonna remove it a little bit go ahead yes good job engagement beautiful yes good job we can start working on focus command good focus yes buddy okay come on let's go let's go good job big man let's go switch over to his long line come on buddy yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes good boy I'm gonna pay him good boy come on let's go yes bones let's go let's go let's go yes bones sit yes bones let's go over here place he's like what the hell's that yes good place good job good so again guys I'm gonna work on that sit command holding him here I'm also gonna direct him at me good good focus good boy yes good focus so yes yes good focus buddy good focus focus yes good job good job good job buddy good so this is working out really really nicely I'm getting engagement and like I said I'm gonna run this a little bit longer do the same thing with directional change I'm gonna wrap it all up here in a second and we'll just see like all the exercises that I've done in the last 15 minutes I'm gonna put it into one and we're gonna see if we have a dog that is changing again in my on my channel guys I'm really big about I'm taking realistic situations not in a studio not in a close set with a dog that just came in from New York City that has real problems and we're trying to not fix them in one session gain progression film it upload it for you guys so you guys can go home and work on some of this stuff and hopefully help your dogs at home if you guys haven't yet don't forget do me a favor like this video smash that subscribe button and leave a comment in the comments below telling bones what a good job he's doing good job buddy all right so now what I'm gonna do guys and again like this is how much he's taken out hardly any so if you guys can see that he's only taken out just a little bit of of food actually so he's not eating the whole thing that would be a real counter productive thing by feeding him one of these for a sit or something so now what I'm gonna do guys is I'm gonna work on leash pressure so I'm gonna take the long line off because I feel confident that he's not gonna try to back out anymore because he's doing much better this is very basic stuff that we're doing very easy stuff but I'm not so much working on the obedience as I am working on his mental state of mind he'll good job bones and look at that guys he's looking at me yes buddy yes buddy good job bones sit yes buddy good sit absolutely wonderful this is a dog I just talked to my trainers about barking hysteria I saw him in the beginning barking hysterically spinning trying to get off the leash zero zero engagement with the handler to what we're seeing right now I'm so happy I'm so so happy with him good job bones heal good man good heal yes buddy good heal and in the future guys of course he's looking at me for the food it's a bit of cheating right now but I do not care this is absolutely fantastic progression for this dog that was raised in a U-Haul good job well done well done I'm gonna pause for a second I want to check his state of mind really quick just gonna stay neutral not ask of anything he offers me a sit I'm gonna pay him a little bit of free shaping I didn't ask him to do anything but he did a nice behavior good and I'm just again I'm auditing and checking his state of mind he's showing me a little bit better yeah buddy good much better good job bones good man good man look at this loose leash guys I'm so proud of this dude it's not me guys it's this dog he's doing absolutely fantastic first session knocking it out of the park well done bones well done well done bones okay bones sit yes buddy good job see if I can actually break them off some good job buddy good job so you guys oh well done this is a dog that I did an online with living in New York City and they really couldn't bring this dog out anywhere on the leash because he would spaz as you guys saw in the beginning of the session and we just went from not sweating to sweating no but we just went from absolute complete and utter like anxiety-ridden backing out of the harness whining habitually barking out of nothing and now we're we're in a better spot yes I'm using food to help just using a very simple setup with a slip here I started off with the long line on his harness because of how many times he's tried to back out and we've made very very very good progression with this dog very fast so that's a wrap for today it's the first session for any of you working on dog anxiety when you go home there's a couple key components of keeping it short and sweet keeping it very engaging as you can tell he's gonna start getting a little anxious a little bit here but that's okay because he's he's he's doing a lot better than he was I couldn't even hi buddy good and he's checking back in with me very good just I'm just super happy with it anyway guys again I'm signing off for today catch me next time don't forget like this video hit that subscribe button if you guys haven't subscribed yet and I'm gonna go and take a shower I think but well well done bones good job