 Welcome back to my channel I'm Tom Davis America's canine educator thank you so very much for joining me here today today I'm going to talk about what you guys should know about dog parks I just got back. Working in Virginia and LA and San Diego and then I'm flying out again this weekend I believe to Miami so we got a lot of dog stuff coming up and what I'm trying to do is trying to. Correlate and take all your information and all your questions and put them here on YouTube for you guys so you guys can learn some new stuff I hope that you're enjoying the channel I truly appreciate it dog parks. Okay, let's have a conversation. First things first is I want to talk about what you guys should know about dog parks dog parks oh and by the way leave a comment in here and let me know you guys are here. That way I know who's here dog parks are a great idea. Now before you guys take that the wrong way or you perceive that the wrong way dog parks are a good idea however the actual park itself. Sometimes doesn't hit the nail on the head and what's what's its intended for and its overall goals so I absolutely adore and by the way just so you guys know. Dogs and dog training in the dog world that we live in is not a binary thing. I am not the end know all I my way isn't the highway I don't know everything I don't pretend like I know everything I'm not pretending I am the best at anything that I do I'm just giving you all of my. Passion in my in my in my experiences working with dogs and I'm putting out there for you guys and I and I hope and the goal is just to help you guys so please take this the right way. But dog parks are a great idea I absolutely love the idea of the town saying hey here's here's here thank you so much Jade for joining I appreciate you being here. Here's a here's an area that is intended for dogs and their owners. Only this is it this is where they can go in the city this is where they go into the whatever an off leash park if you will. So again the idea is great but the deliberation usually fails very badly and that sucks and the reason that is is because of other people so you get a beautiful dog park. Some of you live all over the place Newfoundland Ohio London Boston Florida Kansas City bunch of you guys are here so you guys are living all over the world Florida Canada what's up Utah. So every dog park is different so I'm not trying to say that every dog park is bad and I'm not trying to say every dog park is is is something that you shouldn't go to so please take this with a grain of salt just saying normally. Big city dog parks are just dog parks in general there's two things you'll never find there a dog trainer and a veterinarian. I'll show you guys owning the facility and working with the amount of dogs that we work with. I can tell you and that's what that's what you guys are here for is you're like hey this guy has been doing it for a long time with a lot of dogs. What does he think well I can tell you professionally I've seen more bad things happen from dog parks than good things so that's that's the unfortunate thing and that's the saying of you'll never find a dog trainer or veterinary in the dog park because. There's so many diseases that are spread because people don't pick up their dog poop it's disgusting people aren't really paying attention to their dogs in general usually when they're at dog parks. So a lot of times people will bring their dogs the dog parks and not pay attention so obviously from a safety and health standpoint that's not good because if your dog has like here in the day care in the facility. Our daycare girls are so good about watching every single dog if they go to the bathroom even their urine is it is it normal does it have blood in it like things happen with dogs and we are to report back to their owners. As best as we possibly can and in dog parks people bring their dogs and they just let them go so unfortunately with that is the cleanliness of dog parks in general the sanitization sanitization that's not a word. The sanitized aspect of the dog park is not existent so you know like you get hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of dogs over the course of however big your dog park is. And you got to think of how many people are not actually sanitizing the area and if some places are that's wonderful props to you but I'm just talking generally these places are not very clean at all. So the other thing that I find with dog parks is is there's a lot of dogs who don't like them. So I think dog owners who go out and buy adopt rescue babysit whatever a dog they go to the dog park because they don't really know what else to do and having 3020 1015 five dogs run up on top of you and you've never been into the hey Seattle what's up. And you've never been into that situation that can be extremely overwhelming for a dog that's never been exposed to more than five dogs never been exposed to big dogs little dogs intact dogs etc. I mean the list goes on and you can imagine if you put a dog into that situation and they're bombarded by all these other dogs there's a quick escalation of a potential fight. Then that fight turns into five dogs 10 dogs 15 dogs 20 dogs 30 dogs 50 dogs two dogs etc. And it becomes a fight try break try breaking that up without somebody getting terribly heard not going to happen. So I say this over and over again and it's unfortunate that almost people every single time will come back to me like man you were right I should have listened to you. My dog got attacked my dog got terribly sick my dog got hit by somebody who knows I can't tell you how many times people have come back to me and said you were right. I didn't think it was going to happen but it did I was leaving the gate and the dog just completely attacked my dog I've seen it so many times that's why I'm giving you this information. Your vulnerability when you're putting your dogs into these situations into these uncontrolled environments. Now puppy owners I want to talk about puppy owners and small dogs really quick. Imagine taking this little tiny puppy into this big open area and then somebody adopts a dog that they've never really worked with before. And this particular somebody says hey I literally have never hung out with this dog I think the best thing to do is just let's go to a dog park let's see if they can play with other dogs that's that's not how dogs work. Dogs literally are putting the situations and immediately try to overcome potential boundaries territory etc. And then you get this little tiny cute puppy. Boom and there's a fight and there's a death and there's a lawsuit and a lot of times you don't know that person they're in their car and they're leaving by the time or before you can even get their information. And so there's so many moving variables that you cannot control and if you're responsible and you pick up your dog poop and you know that your dog is balanced and stable isn't going to start a dog fight and your dog has all your shots. You're you're opening up the entire the entire community and sometimes not even just the community people who are traveling people will look up dog parks and they'll just drop them off or they'll just go in there and they'll finish emails people who will go there. After work to finish an email like I love the idea of you putting in work to to go out and do this with your dog and say I'm going to go to the dog park that's so wonderful but alternatively. You can spend more time just walking your dog I can promise you it's going to be far more productive and more effective to get your dog structured on a path and just to walk with maybe one or two other dogs in the neighborhood rather than it is to just dump your dog at the at the local And like I said like you know I always get invited to dog park openings and the ribbon cuttings and things like that locally and I appreciate it so much and I'm very grateful for anybody to think about me and a dog related incident because I that's so cool for me but. It's very hard for me to support it because the people that go there a lot of times not all the time but a lot of times just they don't understand pack mentality so if there's a fight or there's a dog that's being bullied. There's a dog that's being picked on or whatever it may be you you you don't have an a leg to stand on you have no leverage you came to a public place and let your dog go just like if you brought your kid to the local pool and somebody was bullying your kid and dunk them underwater and they got sick and they were what I mean that's that's. That's the that's the choice that you're making and unfortunately a lot of times especially with smaller dogs is it doesn't really work out that way. I'm going to take a couple questions really quick like this video really quick so I know that you guys are here if you guys want to ask a couple questions. Ask him right now I want to do this more often on the live setting as we upload obviously filmed and produced other videos I want to do this live. So let me hear let me see your dog questions really quick and I'll take a couple and I hope this video is informative if you haven't yet like this video and leave your comments below after I go live you can leave your comments below and I'll answer them. So let's see here let's see we get this dogs need to have contact with other dogs. Yes socialization is really important aspect to the dog world and how they communicate and that's just not me saying like that guy thinks that it's just how it is it's just like with people. If we've never been to a big city or if we've never been around people 10 people three people it becomes very scary when we do see all those things so. Dogs definitely do not have to be over socialized to a point where we they have to go out and and be around all these different people and all these different dogs and they don't they're good with what they have so. Socialization is good but I think humans definitely over exaggerate when they just want their dogs to be friendly with everybody and a lot of times that's not the case. I would say one out of three dogs that trial in our day care don't do well because they're not stable enough to take that many dogs at once. Let's see let's see let's take a couple more questions. What's the best way to socialize your dog instead of going to dog park. Okay I will end with that the best way to socialize your dog is to to get around other balanced dogs that are matching or mirroring your dog's behavior. Meaning if I have a older dog that is arthritic and can't really walk. I'm not going to throw her in or him into a pack of puppies. I'm going to put her in with a bunch of other calm cool collective dogs etc. So to socialize your dog it doesn't necessarily mean they have to play and that's the other thing we as humans don't realize is dogs don't necessarily have to play in an Iraq to be social. They just have to be around each other so you can go on a walk with three or four of your neighbors your buddies your relatives your friends and family and your dogs are socializing by being next to each other. We automatically assume when dogs meet we go play you guys have to play get to know each other that they don't care about that if they're around each other as an animal in the animal kingdom they're socializing. If I have another dog over there that's socializing they're together I'm like us we said that I got was at the hotel last night or the bar last night at the airport and I'm on my phone doing work I'm not socializing with anybody because but dogs do they smell each other they look at each other they body they talk to each other with their body. So they're socializing so socialization for us humans automatically assumes yappy hour or going to a dog park and it's not always the case. So yeah so anyway I appreciate you guys we're going to do this more often. 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