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You know, I'm always asked, what's your philosophy, Matthew?
How do you train dogs?
And it's the same one for the last 28 years.
Love, praise, and affection.
I train from what I consider the dog's point of view.
I don't get angry at them.
I'm not mad at them.
I don't punish them.
I never use the rolled up newspaper.
I don't say, what did you do, bad dog?
People do that with their children.
They are like your kids, but they're really dogs.
So what do you do?
Well, you don't get angry at them.
You educate and teach.
I have a formula.
It's very simple.
I'm sure you can use it with your dogs.
It's called command, correction, praise.
You teach Grizzly, for example, you teach him sit.
He does it, good boy.
He wants to tie us to stay.
Stay, good boy.
And if they do it right, you praise them.
What happens if they don't do it right?
Well, then you correct them.
There's a big difference of correction versus punishment.
It's when you get angry at your dog.
Well, you can't get angry at them if you haven't taught them anything.
So you have to correct.
And it's either a no, but gently, nope, just like that.
Good boy.
Again, always back with the praise.
A couple of things you want to remember.
They're your kids.
They're babies.
What do you do with babies?
You hug them and love them, and of course you have a lot of patience.
Sometimes they drive you crazy, but then that's puppies and dogs.
But always remember, they want to please, they don't know how.
It's up to you.
You're the teacher.
They're the student.
You know, choosing the right dog is a real difficult thing.
It's like choosing your mate.
Where do you go?
What do you look for?
What do you like?
What kind of personality does he or she have?
It's a difficult choice.
And when you think about how long you're going to have your mate or how long you're going
to have your dog, we're talking a 10 to 15-year investment here.
Good friend of mine and co-author Mordecai Siegel said, this is the first time you can
choose your own relatives.
It's a heavy-duty thing to say.
What breed do you choose?
I mean, it's like saying, what do you like in life?
Well, if you like an outgoing, high-energy dog, you can surely look for the hunting or
sporting dogs.
If you want an easy-going dog, maybe you can look for the real, layback, calm, quiet dog.
What we really wanted was a good companion dog that would be like a couch potato.
You know, you want somebody who's kind of like you.
I mean, it's the dog equivalent of a person.
So if you're active, you want a dog that's active.
If you're passive, you want to stay at home with a dog that just sits on your lap.
I mean, a listener is the greatest thing in the world.
And if I'm angry, he lets me blow it off and he still loves me.
He likes me for my bad qualities as well as my good qualities.
You know, it's kind of unconditional.
So remember, your attitude is what you're going to wind up with.
So if you want a wonderful, outgoing, loving dog, understand their personality, be flexible.
And then remember, once you know the dog's personality, then we're going to adapt it
to dog training.
So that's why we call it custom dog training.
Now, this is Grizzly.
He's not a bear.
He's a Newfoundland.
And he is absolutely a wonderful, wonderful dog.
He is a piece of cake.
Now, what I call this particular personality is kind of like easy-going, layback, sweet.
All right?
Oh, my boy, you love Uncle Matty.
Now, this is just a great dog.
Now, you would think because he's so big, you couldn't have him in an apartment.
Biggest untruth in the world.
He's so easy-going, you can have him in an apartment.
You can have him in a house.
You can have him in a condo.
Any type of environment he would suit.
He's good with senior citizens.
He's good with children.
He's good with single people, married people.
It doesn't really matter.
He will adapt to anything because he's really so easy.
In terms of feeding him, you'd think he'd eat more than that little spring of spaniel
you saw.
In fact, the spring of spaniel eats twice as much as he does because the springer burns
off the calories, so even in the maintenance level.
But he's a big guy, so you have to like a big dog.
Now, this is the kind of dog that because he's calm and easy-going and he's laid back,
what you want to do is use a lot of encouragement, like, come on, Grizz.
Come on, Grizz.
Hurry up.
Even though they're that big, sometimes you can't walk too fast because they lag behind.
So you got to kind of trot.
Come on, Grizz.
Come on, Grizz, you old man.
Let's go, Grizz.
Come on, Grizz.
Hurry up.
Move.
There you go, you big meatball.
Move.
Come on, Grizz.
Come on.
So you got to really be an active guy to keep making this dog walk a lot in the sense of
enthusiasm.
Because he doesn't want, I mean, he's not going to run ahead of you.
He's going to kind of hang in there.
He's the perfect couch potato.
Sit.
Good boy.
Down.
And they do things very slow and very easy going.
And everything is like, hey, what's the rush?
No big deal.
So if you want to watch television, you want to sit in the park, you want to take a ride
in the car, you want to do anything with a big old lug like this, they're the best dogs.
Personality-wise, can't beat it.
Easy going, lay back, sweet and lovable.
Hi.
Here we have Brittany, an English Springer Spaniel, a classic high-energy, strong-willed,
drive-you-crazy, wonderful type of dog, all right?
This is not for the faint-hearted, trust me.
You got to be a real strong person, but love that energy, kind of like an outdoorsy type
of person.
So let me show you basically with obedience training how this dog basically looks and
works.
One, you're going to have to be strong, you're going to have to be verbal, no-nonsense type
of person.
He's being harsh now, but this is what I want you to do, this is what you need to do.
This is the kind of dog that when you work with distractions, that's going to be the
hardest thing.
I mean, he's fine in the backyard or in the apartment with nobody there, but as soon as
he sees other dogs, other people, he's going to want to do what he wants to do.
That's why you have to match the training with being firm.
Again, firm is not harsh.
All right, now watch me work Brittany.
Brittany, heel.
Yeah.
Mr. Britt.
Oh, Mr. Britt.
Hey.
Oh, boy.
Yeah.
Now, oh, yeah.
Brittany, heel.
All right.
And this is one of the greatest dogs in the world to work because they're having so much
fun, they're so high energy.
So the real secret is taking this high energy and channeling it to obedience.
But again, it looks nice and it's wonderful, but you got to be, how do I say, don't let
them get away with this.
Give them an inch, they'll take a mile.
We have here RCA, a rat terrier, who's basically shy, sensitive, and I'm going to basically
demonstrate the healing first, and I want you to notice his body language and how he
walks and what his, how his spirit is and how he does, and then I'll show you how you
change that by a training technique.
RCA, heel.
Good boy.
RCA, heel.
Good boy.
Now you notice basically he's, he's kind of distracted a little.
He's very tight.
In other words, he doesn't seem happy.
He's just walking.
Now this is the type of dog I would never, never, never be firm with.
I would never jerk hard.
I would never use a loud voice that would scare and frighten him.
This is the kind of dog you want to be very effusive and loving and playful.
So let me show you the difference now when I start using my voice.
RCA.
Look at my puppy.
Oh, look at my puppy.
Oh, look at my little boy.
Oh, my little boy.
Come on, honey.
Oh, little RCA.
Here we go.
Oh, look.
Oh, that's my boy.
RCA, heel.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Here we go.
Hurry up.
Oh, Mr. Puppy.
Mr. Puppy.
Oh, boy.
Yeah.
Oh, that is mad.
Oh, my God.
Now, there's the difference, by the way.
Now, there's the difference, by the way, of taking a dog that, I know, oh, mighty loves.
Here's the difference of taking a dog that was shy and insecure and just using a high
tone of voice and a lot of love and affection turns that personality around.
So even though you have shy and sensitive, doesn't mean he's not bright and not smart
and you can't actually change his personality.
All I did was say, all right, what does this guy need?
Love, praise, and affection.
You know, we talked about different personalities of dogs.
What is another kind of personality we should talk about?
That's the aggressive personality.
Now, we're not talking aggressive in the sense of outgoing, playful.
We're talking about aggressive in the sense of hurting people, hurting of the dogs.
A growling dog, a biting dog.
You hear about it in the press all day long.
Dog attacks, bite attacks, bad breeds.
Is there such a thing as a bad breed?
No, there's bad breeding.
There's no such thing as pit bulls are terrible.
Cockatiels are terrible.
Shepherds are terrible.
Cockatiels are terrible.
You can indict a breed.
What you have to look at is what makes a dog aggressive.
What are the signs?
Well, if your dog growls at you when you're near his food or his toys, that should be
a warning sign.
If you go reach for him or you've been hitting him, and that's what we call pain illicit
aggression.
When you go hit him, he starts to growl and bite you.
That's a problem.
If he's fearful of you, you go to reach for him, he runs away and you go in his corner
and you go to grab him.
That's aggression.
If you go up to a fence and he's barking and growling, that's aggression.
Those are the signs that your dog may not be aggressive towards you, but be aggressive
to the rest of the world.
Remember, people are confused.
They really almost create some of this problem.
Like, everybody wants a protective dog.
They want their dog to protect their house and property from strangers.
Well, there's 250 million strangers in the United States.
If somebody comes into your house and your dog is barking and growling and you tell this
dog, OK, it's OK, it's just your pal, it's just your pal, you're telling the dog it's
OK to bark and growl.
You're not really teaching him not to, you're encouraging him.
The other time, if you're putting him away because you want him to be aggressive to everybody
to protect your house, you're creating the problem.
And what happens if a dog bites somebody?
You have a lawsuit.
You don't want to have to get rid of the dog.
You want to get rid of the problem.
Now, there are certain things you look at when you see aggressive dogs.
Their facial expressions.
When you see a lip curled snarling, you surely know that dog's going to probably bite you.
Snapping at you, lunging at you, a deep-throated growl.
There's different levels of barking, though.
And what we're going to do is I'm going to show you some aggressive dogs, all right,
and show you basically what they look like, describe each personality, then kind of show
you some techniques of training them.
Because remember, the bottom line is we don't want to get rid of the dog, we want to get
rid of the problem.
So let me introduce you to some of the dogs we have here.
Honey is a very sweet animal, but she's shy.
We call her fear-aggressive.
This is a combination of unsocialization, meaning she has not been around people a lot,
and also we call her genetic.
In her breeding, when she was very young, she was growling and snarling and running
away from people.
Now, a lot of people look at a dog like this because she looks so sweet.
And that's where seeing is not necessarily believing.
She looks wonderful and she looks happy.
She looks a little shy.
When I go near her, you can see a whole different personality change.
And what I'm going to try to do is after you see the personality change, show you some
reconditioning solutions.
Let me just show you what happens when I go near her.
Come here, honey.
She looks nice.
You can see she's backing away a little.
You can see her tail.
You can see she's going back to the end of the run.
Come on, honey.
Come here, sweetie.
And her name is Honey, believe it or not.
Come on, honey.
Come on, girl.
You can hear her growl a little.
Come on, sweetheart.
Hi, honey.
Now, if I was a silly guy and wanted to go like this.
Hey, honey.
Hi, girl.
Or I yelled at her.
What did you do, honey?
Bad dog.
I'm only making the problem worse.
So what I would need to do is literally go in there and be the opposite.
Be loving and affectionate and give her confidence.
So I'm going to go in there.
Now, if I don't come out, you know it doesn't work.
Hi, honey.
Hi, sweetheart.
Hi, honey.
That's okay.
No, no, no.
That's okay.
That's a girl.
Hi, sweetie.
Now, most importantly, what you want to do is put on a leash.
Always.
Just like this so you have control.
Hi, sweetheart.
Hi, honey.
And again, the most important thing you want to do now is be loving.
You want to touch her.
Good girl.
It's not her fault that she's scared and frightened.
But imagine somebody taking a dog like this and it goes to the bathroom in the house and
they yell at it and roll up a newspaper.
What are you going to have?
It may solve the house breaking problem, but you'll have a fear aggressive dog.
Soothing.
Touching.
Hi, sweetheart.
Oh, you're such a girl.
You're such a girl.
You love Uncle Matty?
Yeah.
Again, this is the kind of dog you're very loving, very affectionate.
It wouldn't do well with small children, obviously.
It doesn't have the tolerance.
But it could do with a family without children, somebody who wants, who's an easygoing person,
not around, traffic a lot, not a lot of strangers coming into their house.
Good girl.
This is a German Shepherd, and he's territorial.
German Shepherds are bred naturally to be protective dogs.
Hey, buddy.
Come here.
He's not aggressive as far as I'm concerned, but he's very protective.
This is what I call a very dominant dog.
In other words, if you're not strong with him, he'll be strong with you.
So you have to be what they call a top dog, the leader of the pack.
OK, wonderful dog, nice dog.
Again, if you're a soft person, easygoing, want to baby him, he's not the right dog for
you.
You need to be a strong owner.
He's a good dog.
He really is.
Now we go to the third quote client.
He's a Sharpay, and he's a real combination of aggressive personalities.
What we call him is genetic aggressive.
This dog at 12 weeks of age was growling and snarling at people.
He's bitten a couple of people, and you'll see his personality.
He's very laid back, and yet he's very aggressive, and he's very dominant.
This is a very difficult dog, and it takes a lot of TLC.
I'm not a believer in food training.
I only use love, praise, and affection.
The only way to get to Max was to really use a lot of food.
So we'll give you an idea of what it's like to train a dog like this.
I think that's Max.
Now, if I would try, if I would try to hit him or yell at him or use any kind of negative
force, which I'm going to show you, which is the wrong thing to do, watch his reaction.
That would be pretty stupid to do.
So what I want to do is be a love object to him.
So I'm going to use food.
Hey, Max.
Hi, you boy.
Hi, you sweetheart.
Good boy.
Here, sweetie pie.
Hi, honey.
Oh, I'm sorry, Max.
You lost it.
Here, buddy.
Now, obviously, he feels much better with food, and that's a way, it's a source of survival.
As far as he's concerned, I'm now his daddy, so I have to take care of him.
So I'm going to even go in the run now and see how he does with that.
Now, this is a dog that came in.
This is a dog that came in, and it took us three weeks just to accomplish this one goal,
is to get him to come up.
Stay.
Good boy, Max.
Good boy.
Maddie's proud.
Good boy.
Maddie's proud, Max.
Again, I'm always a perfection.
Sit.
Oh, Max.
Maddie's proud.
Again, I've used food to make him be obedient.
Come on, Max.
Sit.
Oh, Maxie, I'm proud.
Good boy.
Now, eventually, I should be able to lift my hands up.
Sit.
Good boy.
Oh, Maddie's proud, Maxie.
Now, again, it took me three weeks just to be able to get him to even trust me a little.
I'm going to close the door.
Now, you can think, well, boy, I solved this problem.
This was easy.
It's all over.
Come on and join me.
Let me show you what happens when I try to go grab him again without the food.
Hey, Max.
Hi.
All right.
Okay.
Good boy.
So, obviously, just because you work with this problem, you don't cure it right away.
You control it.
So, you have to be careful with a dog like this.
This is a situation where it's very limited.
This dog has never growled or tried to bite the owner, ever.
But it has growled and tried to bite everybody else.
So, this dog can be saved with a lot of training, a lot of patience, and a lot of owner cooperation.
Oh, by the way, I just want to make sure you know one thing.
Remember, Max's tail was wagging back and forth.
Sometimes it's happiness and sometimes it's aggression.
So, don't be confused when you say, gee, his tail was wagging.
He must be okay.
And I want to recap very briefly.
There are a lot of dogs out there.
I think 54 million dogs as we speak in the United States of America.
Fifty million are wonderful.
Three to four million have some problems.
Ninety-five percent of those dogs can be saved either by education on your part,
lack of punishment on your part, understanding why your dog is aggressive,
understanding the signs of aggressive behavior.
If you have a shy dog, don't yell at him.
He'll become more shy and eventually aggressive.
If he's growling over his food at a young age, don't ignore it and say,
oh, well, I would growl if somebody took my food as well.
If your kids are pulling on the dog and he's growling,
stop your children from pulling on the dog.
Remember, some dogs have bad pain tolerance.
If you want your dog to be protective, don't confuse that with aggressiveness.
If he's growling at a stranger, that's one thing.
If he's growling at your next door neighbor, don't encourage that.
So, remember, if you don't prevent it now, you're going to pay for it later.
But they're all wonderful dogs.
Some people have problems, some dogs have problems.
What I'm going to show you, which is very important,
is how to actually give your dog a personality test
to see if your dog is aggressive or not.
As you see behind me, we have a little poodle, his name is Truman.
And this couple came over here, and I have never met the dog,
so I'm going to do what they call a personality evaluation.
That's right, your dog does have a personality, and so do the owners.
We'll find out why they want training, I will give it a series of tests,
and then we'll find out basically what the dog's temperament is
and what I call ROL, rate of learning.
So why don't you just follow me.
Hi, Amy, I'm Matthew.
You're Paul?
Hi, Paul, how are you?
And this is Truman.
Oh.
Did you name him after President Truman?
Sort of.
Sort of?
Hi, buddy.
Come on over here.
Come on, Truman.
Oh, look how happy he is.
Hello.
How you doing, buddy?
Hi, Truman.
Hello.
So tell me some of the problems you have with him.
Just barking when we leave is kind of an anxiety.
He's really quiet when we're around,
but then when we leave, he'll just whine and yelp,
and if he's compliant, he'll try and dig out
and kind of make his paws red if it's a prey, for example.
Uh-huh.
So we call that separation anxiety.
Now, you got him from poodle rescue?
Mm-hmm.
Oh, wonderful.
So you saved him.
Yes, we did.
You have to feel good about that.
That's wonderful.
And how long have you had him now?
Three weeks.
So you're a new mommy and daddy?
Yeah.
So here's new owners in their hearts,
doing a good thing, rescuing the puppy.
They come home, they leave the dog.
Do you confine him?
Uh, we've tried.
The crate is the only thing we can do
because he can jump over anything.
All right, so he jumps over everything.
They put him in a crate, he jumps over the dog.
No?
Good boy.
He jumps over a puppy gate,
and the problem is they can't go to work, right?
Right.
All right.
Let's give him a series of tests.
That's what my job is,
to find out what Truman's personality is.
All right, so let me explain the test now.
I do about five or six different tests.
One, I make a sound like a dog.
It's like a whining voice test.
And what I want Truman to do is kind of look at me,
get excited, be happy, all right?
See if he's alert.
If he looks at me, he's jumping at me,
he's coming over to me,
then I know he's an alert responsive.
If he doesn't pay attention to me, maybe he's aloof,
all right?
Let's see what he does when I do that.
Now, I've never met him, right?
Right.
All right.
So it's the challenge of meeting the champ.
Right?
Now, I'm going to get away about six feet,
which is what you do.
I'll kneel down,
because I want to get low body language.
Oh, Truman, you're my boy.
Come here, honey.
Oh, come here, Truman.
He came over to me,
which was a wonderful thing,
but he didn't jump on me.
And you can see,
what I consider right away a little shy.
So I'm going to be, knowing that right away,
I'm going to be on the gentle side with him.
If he came over to me and jumped all over me,
then I would say he's a real outgoing guy.
Would you say he's a little shy?
Yeah.
All right.
Now, this is what they call a hand shy test.
You actually take your hand,
and you go through the motions of hitting your dog.
You obviously don't hit your dog,
you don't want to scare him.
If he's an older dog, like two or three years old,
and you think he's going to bite you,
then you definitely don't want to do this test.
But if he's a young enough dog,
that you think it's okay,
you take your hand,
you go like this.
Truman.
Can you sense it?
Now, no, good boy.
Good boy.
Obviously he doesn't like that, right?
Now, that's what I meant by having a bigger dog.
If you had a bigger dog,
and a German Shepherd,
and you did that,
and he went to bite you,
you'd have some real problems.
So you never know what's going to happen.
Now, let's make sure the viewers know
I've never hit this dog, right?
Right.
All right.
Have you ever hit the dog?
All right.
So somebody did this.
All right.
That's why he has this problem.
Now, that was the hand.
All right?
Let's see what happens if you rolled up a newspaper.
Now you see what happens.
Okay.
I'm sorry.
Uncle Matty knows.
Now.
Okay.
I understand.
I'll never do it again.
I promise.
Now, what he's kind of telling you,
and telling you...
No.
He's trying to tell you...
No?
Good boy.
That's okay, Truman.
What he's really trying to tell you is,
you know what?
I don't like being hit.
I don't like being yelled at.
So he's barking at a protest.
He's backing away because it frightens him.
But he also is coming up to nip me
because he doesn't like it.
And that's why dogs bite people.
That's why dogs bite children.
Because you use your hands negatively.
So what I would do to recondition him
is I would take my hand,
start from the back,
because I don't want to start from the front,
it would scare him,
and talk to him.
Good boy.
Rub his back.
Rub his head.
Slowly go like this with my hands.
Oh, Truman, you're my boy.
And always use my voice.
As well as my hand.
Good boy.
So I'm constantly doing this.
Then what I would do
is maybe get him a treat.
Alright, and I would bring it like this
and I'd go,
Hi, Truman.
Hi, boy.
And give him that.
And go like that.
A little farther away.
Go like that.
Good boy.
Oh, Matty's proud, Truman.
Now, I would go like this.
Watch.
Hi, Trumsy.
Oh, my boy.
Look, Uncle Matty's proud.
Look.
Oh, I'm so proud.
Matty's proud.
Such a boy.
I know.
Again, more love, more affection.
Then I should be able to go like this.
Watch.
Good boy.
Oh, I'm so proud.
See, I go like that.
Oh, I'm so proud.
Even when I go far away.
Oh, Matty's proud.
Oh, Truman, you got an A.
I'm so proud.
Now, there's another test
that I'd like to do with him.
I call it a pain tolerance test.
And a pain tolerance test
is when you want to find out,
let's assume you have children
and you have a new baby
and you have a dog in the house
and you really want to make sure
you kind of want to childproof the dog.
All right?
It's very important.
So what do you do?
Well, you touch certain parts
of the dog's body
and therefore you know
if the dog is sensitive or not.
Some dogs are more sensitive
than others.
So that's what we want to do
is check some parts of the body.
I'll do the back.
I'll do the face.
I'll do his paws
and stuff like that.
So the first thing I do
is I put some pressure here
right here.
Pull.
Okay?
And he has real good tolerance
so far.
All right?
He's not growling at me.
If he was growling at me
obviously he wouldn't like it.
If he's in pain
he wouldn't like it.
That doesn't bother him
whatsoever.
That's a good sign.
That's a real good sign.
This way at least
you know if your kid
grabs him like that
he's not going to go
just like that.
All right?
Then what you do
sit.
You grab one of his paws.
All right?
And you put a little pressure
between there.
Gently.
Good boy.
Yeah.
Just gently.
Good boy.
And he's pretty good
with that.
So he's doing really fine.
Good boy.
And sometimes again
this is all depending
on the age of the dog.
You don't want to take
a three year old dog
that has growled at people
and start grabbing his mouth.
But sometimes you put
a little pressure
on the lip here
just like that.
Not a lot.
Just to see how he deals
with the mouth
and stuff like that.
And he has really good
pain tolerance.
So he's doing really well.
I'm going to work him
a little.
See how responsive he is.
So just come along
and let little Truman work.
Come on.
Little Truman.
Come on buddy.
Oh my little boy.
Come on Truman.
Oh my little boy.
Sit.
Oh thanks.
Okay Truman come.
Ah here he comes.
Look at him.
That's my boy.
Come on.
Oh my boy.
Sit.
All right.
Now I want to show you
something.
I'm working with Truman
a little.
He's never met me.
But I'm creating
what they call a bond.
And one of the nicest
ways of bonding
with the dog
is training.
The more you talk to him
the more you touch him
he loves it.
So I'm going to show you now
I'm going to do that
first test I did
that whining test.
And let's see if that bond
made a difference
of him coming to me.
Oh Mr. Truman.
Come on buddy.
Come here.
Oh yeah.
Okay.
A little better.
Came to be quicker.
Again it takes a while.
You can't do dog training
in five minutes.
And I hope you viewers
know that.
This is not quick dog
training.
This is understanding
patient dog training
understanding his point
point of view
his personality.
That's the secret by the way
is we gave him
personality tests
we know he's a little shy
we don't want to be
too harsh with him
we don't want to yell at him
we don't want to raise
our voice to him
it's more sensitive
type training.
Good boy.
Oh man he's proud Truman.
You know I'm always asked
what do I think
the most important part
of owning a dog is
and people say
his training isn't it
and I say no.
It's bonding.
And they go what's bonding?
Bonding is the heart
of owning a dog.
I mean why did you get
the dog in the first place?
To love him?
To snuggle with him?
What else do you want?
Well I want him trained
and I want him obedient.
But that comes second.
If you don't have
a happy dog
a well adjusted dog
an outgoing dog
a friendly dog
that likes everybody
including every member
of the family
then what do you have?
You'd have a well trained dog
with no personality.
That's the last thing you want.
Think about yourself
and your own family.
What do you do with children
when they're first born?
You hold them
you take care of them
you nurture them
that's what you need
to do with the little guy
coming into the house
or if it's an older dog
or a younger dog
it doesn't really matter.
Once you have the bond
which means the love
and affection
and the dedication
to each other
then the training follows.
If you don't do that first
then you have a well trained dog
with no personality
no affection.
Why would you have that?
That's not what you really want.
So just remember
first things first
love, praise and affection
build the relationship
everybody should be involved
in the love and affection
of that dog.
And now back to Woof
a guide to dog training.
You know Chloe and I
are the best of friends
this is Chloe's house
and we're going to meet
Chloe's parents soon
and before we start
I want to give you some
will you stop
will you leave me alone
I'm trying to work here
before we start training
everybody needs to know
what I call the basics
what's important
before you even start training
one it's an attitude
it should be fun
loving
easy going
again you're both
going to school
you're really going to learn
teaching her
and she's got to learn
as well
so it's got to be
a real happy experience
so praise is obviously
a very important
ingredient for training
also you know
when you think about age
there's a lot of myths
about age
where you can start
training as young
as seven weeks
or even as old
as 12 years
so that old myth
the old dog can't learn
new tricks
is not really true
and before you train her
make sure you don't feed her
at least a couple hours before
so she's very outgoing
and not so tired
lethargic
and of course she's tired
if you are consistent
with your tone of voice
for example
giving commands like
sit
stay
down
easy going
when you praise
the other hand
good girl
oh Maddie's proud
Maddie's proud
and I really talk
in a high falsetto tone
why it's pleasing
they love it
she enjoys it
and there's no confusion
with being firm
on the other hand
if I want to correct her
I'll go
no
good girl
and then I always
praise afterwards
but you don't want to
be angry at her
they'll go
well I'm not saying
no properly
they go
no
if no worked
I'd be in the no business
so it's not the no
it's the leash correction
which I'll get to
in a minute
and the word
at the same time
but you don't want to
be angry at her
it's very important
also body language
you notice I'm sitting next
to her
kneeling down with her
kind of getting close to her
it's a way of bonding
with her
loving her
and praising her
it's a wonderful thing
plus I have control
if I stand up
it may be intimidating to her
but the closer
the better
now what tools
do you need to train
before you get into training
one I call it
the corrective collar
it's also known as
a choke collar
and in fact
if you put it on wrong
it will choke the dog
now there are two rings
what you do is
you drop the chain
beneath that
into one ring
this is the dog's head
my fist
and you notice
it forms a P
P for perfect
so if I jerk
and it releases
jerk release
that's the right way
P for perfect
on the other hand
if it's a nine
you jerk
it chokes the dog
so remember
P for perfect
nine is the wrong way
if you don't have
the right tool
and you choke her
you're not training her
you're hurting her
now to use the proper leash
it's really important
to have the proper leash
I use leather
it's softer on the hands
it's more flexible
where chain could break
and it could hurt your hands
so what we're going to do
is now going to have
a wonderful lesson
with Chloe
and her family
how you doing?
good thanks
hey Chloe
look who's here
it's mom
hey Chloe
how's she been?
good girl
oh she's been okay
still you know
pulling
come on over here
let's give you some
instruction alright
okay I need it
what's been happening
has she been pulling
you a lot?
yeah on the leash
have you been working
with her every day?
yeah
every day?
I'm trying
probably not as much
I'll give you a C
for effort
alright
we've got a mom
who loves the dog
but is not really
a firm person
dog is driving her crazy
Chloe is a real
rambunctious maniac
and what I'm going to
do here is
kind of go over
with you
how to hold the
leash properly
how to give
what I call
the corrective jerk
so you can correct her
and then I'm going
to have you do it
alright
first thing you want
to do
is hold the leash properly
so you have a leash
with a loop in there
you put your thumb in it
you take your left hand
extend the leash
extend it
all the way
to the length
of your body
and make another loop
just like this
alright?
no
good girl
now
let me try it
one more time
thumb in the loop
bring your left hand down
make another loop
just like this
no
good girl
now what we do
is when she does
something wrong
instead of yelling
at her
and saying bad dog
and things like that
you give her
what we call
the corrective jerk
you're in front of you
just like this
alright?
what you do
is you jerk to the right
and you release
so it's a jerk release
jerk release
if you do it properly
Susan
and if you do it properly
with your dog
the dog's front feet
are not going to move
now I want you to watch
your front feet Susan
when I jerk and release
they don't move
jerk and release
they don't move
if you pull her
on the other hand
alright?
so most people
when they do
when they're walking the dog
they pull the dog
it tightens the collar
so you surely
don't want to do that
so remember
it's a jerk release
jerk release
now
if you have the leash
too short Susan
you're going to choke her
okay?
if you have it too long
you can't correct her at all
so
the most important part
is when you extend
your left hand
you grab it in the middle
hand in front
just like this
now when you teach
you to heel
most likely the dog
is going to go ahead of you
that's when you give
the corrective jerk
and say heel
but you always
you never jerk up
you never jerk back
and you don't pull
back like this
it's to the right
it's kind of awkward
because most people
have never done this before
they always walk a dog
like this
or they wrap the leash
around and do this
alright?
so what you do now
once you know the technique
it's now time
to teach you to heel
so what do you do?
you say her name
Chloe
to get her attention
and then you say heel
and you step off
with your left foot
the left foot Susan
is because it's
closest to her eyes
as you say it
you praise her
because bottom line
a dog is born to death
unless it has something to do
healing
and of course it looks
for the praise
so I'm going to work with her
and then I'm going to have you do it
so Chloe
heel
good girl
Chloe
heel
come on girl
come on buddy
hi honey
hi ya girl
Chloe heel
oh good girl
Chloe heel
good girl
Chloe heel
and she'll turn with me Susan
Chloe heel
good girl
Chloe heel
now when I slow down
she should slow down
and she should sit
automatically
if not
sit
oh man
he's proud
now I gave her time to sit
she was sitting slowly
I'm going to do it
one more time
all right
Chloe heel
good girl
come on sweetie
come on honey
Chloe heel
get rid of the jerk
Chloe heel
come on sweetheart
sit
good
let me try it again
Chloe heel
come on girl
come on
Chloe heel
heel
good girl
slow down
okay now Susie
it's your turn
okay
on over here
give it a try
first of all
get the thumb
get close to her
okay
thumb in the loop
extend your left hand
all the way down
over your thumb again
hands together
perfect
let's see you jerk and release
not hard
now do it a little quicker
perfect
now I want you to do that
and as soon as you jerk out
say sit
sit
a little harder
so she sits
sit
now you're pulling her
you're not jerking her
okay
but she sat anyway
good girl
the difference was
you pulled up like this
instead of jerk and release
so let's try that again
turn her around
bring her around
to your left side
say Chloe heel
Chloe heel
put your hands together
remember
hands together
Chloe heel
that's right
don't look at her
turn around
say Chloe heel
that's a girl
wonderful
tell her she's a good girl
turn around
Chloe heel
there you go
turn around again
Chloe heel
that's it
tell her she's a good girl
that's better
Chloe heel
there you go
slow down
slowly
slower
stop
tell her to sit
sit
good girl
my God
I'm going to call you Jaws
now does it make you feel bad
when you jerk her sometimes?
a little
do you think you're hurting her?
I don't think so
you're not hurting her
remember the neck is
the second strongest muscle
in the dog's body
the jaw is the first
the thing you could do
is keep doing this
all the time
that annoys her
but it doesn't really hurt her
now what you have to learn
how to do
is let this feed this leash
you know how sometimes
it gets taut
it's tight
you have to learn
to let slack out
when she's walking
yes
let's see you try that
okay she's too far out
okay
hands together
should I make it shorter?
yeah there you go
Chloe heel
hands together
keep it next to you
good girl
Chloe heel
tell her she's a good girl
good girl
Chloe heel
don't look at her
you should not even
have to pay attention to her
Chloe heel
that's wonderful
slow down
slower
stop
just tell her to sit first
sit
firmer
good girl
now the formula
for training
Susan
is
command
heel
if she does it
good girl right?
command sit
if she does it
good girl
if she doesn't do it
that's when you give
the corrective jerk
so if she wasn't healing
heel
then as soon as she does it
what do you do?
you praise her
so the formula is
command
if she does it right
you don't have to correct her
if she doesn't do it
you give her a correction
and then you praise her
is she better
than she was last week?
oh yes
alright
now I think the problem
that you've been having
is that you haven't
been affectionate enough
with her
and it's very awkward
the first time
it's getting used to
deletion and things like that
alright
so show me the corrective
jerk once
don't do it hard
just do it gently
and release it
and you notice
her head came to you
or she didn't release it
just do it quick
do quick
jerk release
that's better
you see her head stay there
now I want you to do it
not as hard
just do it quick
that's right
just pull her
and see what happens
alright
so you see the difference?
mhm
so the problem is you
the dog is fine
oh
we'll send you to dog school
that I know
well it's not that bad
well I'm with the kids
alright now what we're going to do
we have a 5 pound Maltese
which has this little thing
and we're going to teach
her down over there
and then we're going to
teach Chloe down
and the difference is
that you have a 5 pound dog
and a 90 pound dog
and there really is a difference
so I'm going to show
everybody
how to take a dog
who's 5 pounds
and teach it down
and how to take Chloe
who's about 90 pounds
to teach it down
so come on
well here we are
here's our little temp
5 pound
little devil
hi Annie
now most people think
why would you teach
a little dog like this down
he's so little
but obviously
you can't carry him
all the time
and again if you do that
you're going to spoil the dog
who couldn't spoil
this little girl anyway
but every dog needs
to be trained
whether it's 50 pounds
100 pounds
or 5 pounds
but the difference is
there are different types
of training
where a small dog
like this
you wouldn't want
to use force
you wouldn't want
to push her down
you wouldn't want
to use a technique
like that
what you do
we call it
the paw technique
and we take
our little front paws
I put my finger
come here Annie
and you go down
good girl
I'll show you that again
pick her up
put her in the sit position
you take your right hand
you basically put your
forefinger
in between her paws
come on sweetheart
hold them out
down
and you say
the command down
just like that
it's not down
it sounds like
you're yelling it
so you elongate
the down
so it's down
again this is what
we're doing
we're showing the dog
what we're doing
we're placing the dog
in the down position
it's one of the
hardest commands
in dog training
is to teach the dog
to down
most people
get very frustrated
they go down
down and they force
the dog down
so let me show you
one more time
dog is always
the left hand
forefinger
in between the toes
and again in between
the paws here
so that you don't
put pressure there
you pick them up
and you go down
good girl
now if you repeat this
maybe 20 times a day
for the next week or two
she'll start to go down
and it's a very simple
easy technique
again this is good
for small dogs
even shy dogs
it's not going to be
good for a big dog
because you're not
going to be able
to lift this front paws up
down
up
down
up
oh my girl
I'm so proud
all right
let's get you the big guy down
come on sweetie
now Susan
you remember when I was
working on Tiffany
sit
good boy Chloe
now with Tiffany
I was using
what they called
the paw technique
because she was so little
I would just take her
front paws and pull it out
now a guy like this
I'd have to be
the strongest man
in the world, right
so there's a couple
of different methods
of teaching the down
but one I like
is called the pressure technique
and Susan's not
a big person
so it's really going to
be a battle
so what you don't want
to do is battle
so what I like to do
is call the pressure technique
I take my left hand
because the leash
is in the right hand
remember how I showed you
to hold the dog
you put your left hand
by her shoulder blades
just like this
there's a little
indentation there
okay
and what you're going to do
is you're going to
press down
and push her down
and sit down
at the same time
so it looks like this
down
good
good girl
Maddie's proud
oh Maddie's proud
come on Chloe
show me again
sit
left hand
by her shoulder blades
alright
put a little pressure
and as you put the pressure
you force her down
you say down
it's an elongated down
it's like down
it's that down
so it's
down
good girl
so every time I praise her
it's a lot of affection
good girl
hug
good girl
high tone
good girl
let me hear you say
good girl
I sound higher
than you
you do
maybe that's a problem
I have a high voice
now left hand again
on her shoulder blades
at least she's short
so you have control
remember she gets up
you have no control
this way
so you want to keep her
in place
left hand
and as you do that
you can even
actually lower your body
with her
so watch
down
good girl
oh I'm so proud
come on
oh come on
you move
oh come on
you little girl
come on Chloe
Chloe heel
that's a girl
see how the heel works
sit
good girl
all right
one more time
I'm going to do it
okay
ready
down
good girl
come on
let's give her a big aw
she's such a girl
Chloe
she's such a Chloe
you're such a Chloe
give me a honey punch
Chloe heel
come on sweetheart
Chloe heel
sit
now
if you do it
eventually you don't need
the pressure
it's just
down
mm-hmm
good girl
want to try it one time
quick
come over here
now hold the leash
in the left hand
like I showed you
same way
remember
I'm sorry the right hand
yes
same way
thumb in the loop
push it all out
that's great
okay
make it even shorter now
really short
even shorter
so you really want control
that's right
left hand by
shoulder blades
okay
now you're going to put
a little squeeze in
and you're going to say
down
good
down
good girl
remember
down is a simple command
takes a lot of knowledge
and patience
but this technique works
perfectly for this dog
Tiffany was a small dog
that technique worked perfectly
so remember
big dog
small dog
choose the right technique
you ready
okay
let me see you make a heel
and walk out of there
Bowie
heel
wonderful
good girl
great
good girl
hi
we're at the home
of Dr. Myers and Toby
this is Dr. Myers
and this is Toby
just kidding
again
let me clarify that
of course this is Toby
a Dalmatian
a female a year old
and this is Dr. Myers
the dog owner
and what we're doing today
and probably dealing with
one of the most serious
problems
that dog owners have
is dogs run away
and they don't come
when you call them
so we want to show you today
what's the proper way
to teach your dog
to come to you
and there's a right
and wrong way
a couple of rules
first of all
you never want to say
your dog's name
with the word no
if you say
Toby no
Toby what did you do
Toby bad dog
and then of course
say Toby come
why should the dog
come to you
he's not going to trust you
he's a new bad dog
you're defending
the whole purpose
Toby won't come to you
so what we're going
to try to do today
is teach Toby
to come
show you
demonstrate how
it should look
and then of course
work with Dr. Myers
and that will really
find out
does it really work or not
all right
here we go
come on Toby
come on sweetheart
sit
when you're teaching
come you want to be
at least three
to six feet away
and always with the
leash and collar
that's the secret
you don't want to try
leash and collar
you tell the dog to come
and it runs away
what do you do
you're never going to beat
the dog
you're never going to chase
him and catch him
so always the right tool
now the command
you want to say
is okay
Toby come
and the reason you say
okay first
because it's a positive
thing
as you say
okay Toby come
you give the dog
a little tug
and have him come to you
and then he will come
to you
and what I like to do
is have him come
to my left side
so it's okay
Toby come
good girl
again a lot of praise
a lot of affection
I'm going to show this
to you again
because this is something
you need to really practice
come on Toby
come on sweetheart
over here
that's my girl
sit
good girl
stay
okay
Toby come
oh my little girl
I'm so proud
sit
oh man he's so tall
you're such a girl
all right dog
it's your turn
thank you
let's go
go
let's go
you're on the firing line
Toby
good girl
Toby sit
good good girl
stay
Toby stay
a lot of affection now
okay Toby come
good girl
Toby come
good girl
Toby sit
good girl
all right
that was great
good doggy
I will give you a diploma
thank you
there you go
that's the secret
good doggy
now we've shown you
some training commands
healing which is
teaching your dog
to walk with you
on your left side
and not pulling down
where it lays down
and of course coming
the dog comes to you
what I'd like to
demonstrate to you now
is Tilly
a well-trained dog
what it looks like
when you're going to be
finished with training
your dog
so let's start with heel
now the definition of heel
is a dog walking with you
on your left side
when you walk
the dog walks
slowly
if you walk fast
the dog will walk fast
so what I'm going to do
is going to say her name
we always say her name first
Tilly
heel
good girl
Tilly
heel
good girl
that's very nice
Tilly
heel
good girl
and I'll stop
and hopefully she'll sit
thank you
now that's what healing is
walking with you
she can't totally
look at you all the time
because she has to see
where she's going
but as long as she's not
pulling you
as long as she's not
pulling you
as long as she's not
lagging behind
that's what heel is
now we want to teach her
down
you can actually do it
from two places
from her side
she's on your left
all you have to do
is say the down
and it's an elongated sound
as you remember
down
and she will lay down
it's very important
that it's down
not yelling at her
I'll do it one more time
come on Tilly
sit
down
good girl
now you can also do it
come on Till
sit
down
good girl
now you can also do it
come on Till
sit
you can also do it
if you're six feet away
down
good girl
now the last command
that we taught
was come
and a dog can either do it
when you're facing it
like we showed you
which I'll show you
in a minute
but as you notice
she's not facing me
right now
I'm behind her
and she's facing
the opposite direction
so I should be able
to then say
the command
Tilly come
oh good girl
good girl
stay
and if I do it
the other way
stay
okay
Tilly come
sit
good girl
stay
so either direction
she should come to you
what's a good point
for coming?
always use the name
in a friendly way
never use the name
in a negative way
you don't want to be angry at her
definitely not correct it
with her name
so you don't want to say
Tilly no
Tilly what did you do
Tilly bad dog
affection affection affection
the command down
don't ever say
get down
when the dog is jumping on you
that's a correction
for a problem
down is a command
and remember healing
always say the dog's name
stay
okay Tilly give hugs to daddy
oh give hugs to daddy
now this is a command
that I don't teach
this is just me loving my dog
oh I love you too
and now back to Woof
a guide to dog training
problems problems problems
dog problems or people problems
or both
we're going to show you
some of the most common
problems today
some of the reasons
why dogs actually have
the problems
and a lot of solutions
so remember when you think
about it
is it the owner who has
the problem
or is it the dog
or is it both
this is Simon
he's one of the culprits
and you'll meet
some other culprits too
you know this looks like
a wonderful quiet
Sunday morning breakfast
which in fact it is
I'm with Carla here
and we're having coffee
and muffins and everything
and this probably goes on
all over America
but really in fact
this doesn't go on
in America
you now have the maniac
come here
all right
don't worry
everything's okay
these are the babies
are these your babies
hi guys
oh yes
now normally what happens
oh yes
where are they going
hello
everyday
crazed
household
no
hi guys
all right
here they are
no
thank you
as you see
the normal Sunday morning
breakfast is now
attacking the camera man
come on
come on guys
I noticed that
is this some problem we have
such as begging
or stealing food
oh yes
this is a major problem
in this house
well how long has this
been going on
it seems like
they came into this house
and started
you had them as puppies
right
yes
no
good puppy
good
oh my puppy
let's try a little
technique here
hold on
no
whoa
thank you
no
thank you
good boys
now
this is called
a shake can
thank you very much
this is called
a shake can
so a lot of times
you'll be sitting
by yourself
breakfast and dinner
and what's gonna happen
the dogs are gonna jump
steal food
most people
don't have a leash
and a collar
so we take this
empty soda can
you fill it up
like 15 or 20 pennies
you tape up the
opening
and you go
no
and they will stop
you'll probably stop
eating as well
then as soon as
they stop
you praise them
another good technique
is I always love
this spray bottle
and this is basically
filled with water
so what you do
is you'll squirt them
and you're gonna get
your kitchen kind of wet
so as you can hear
in the background
they're now eating
the cameraman
no
good boys
people sometimes
blame the dogs
but I kind of think
it's a people problem
did you ever
you or your family
ever feed them
from the table
continually
always are you kidding
who is the culprit
well I think
the boys
when they were younger
used to feed the dogs
kind of clean
their plates off
let the dogs have it
and then my husband
is the worst
he's the worst
thank you
come on Simon
sit
thank you
now you see how
they're watching me
they think I'm gonna be
like your daddy
sit
I don't love
your beautiful eyes
you meatballs
now
I can even do this
this is how this
technique works
watch I can have
the food here
no
sit
thank you
no
you don't have
to shake it a lot
you don't have
to be that harsh
doesn't have to scare
them a lot
he loves
Uncle Matty
am I gonna
spoil you
no I'm not
gonna spoil you
now everybody's
gonna say
I'm so cruel
I teased them
I didn't tease them
I gave them
what they call
a reconditioning
solution
I wanted to show
them that
there's the food
no
good boy
I always praise
them afterwards
this is not punishment
this is education
and teaching
I'm stunned
now
let me see you
do this
over to you
call them
over to you
just call the dogs
over
Annabelle
now put the food
over there
just shake the can
and say no
no
a little harder
no
tell her to sit
sit
tell her she's
a good girl
good girl
that's a good girl
see how easy it is
I want you to
join Matthew
and Carla
we're going to
talk about
the real problem
which was house
breaking
which drove her crazy
you know
probably the biggest
problem our dog
owners face
I hear it all the time
all day long
is house breaking
and house breaking
obviously
is very simple
what you want
the dog to do
is go to the bathroom
outside
paper training
so just to clear
this up
is teaching the dog
to go inside
so we do not
want any
what we call
presents, gifts,
surprises in
owners homes
so what we're going
to do
we're here with Carla
and her baby
little mini doxy
so of course
when you have problems
you have big dogs
and small dogs
so we're going to
talk to Carla first
about the difficulties
that she had
house breaking
Annabelle and Simon
so tell me
how hard was it?
well Simon wasn't
nearly as hard as
Annabelle
for some reason
the females
just seemed
in my experience
they seemed to be
harder to train
they tend to do
like these little
spy peas
you take them out
you walk them
you do everything
and they walk in
to the room
family room with you
because you want to
enjoy a little
quality time
with your animals
and they walk
right over in front
of you
and pee
and after they've
already done
everything outside
I don't know
where they get it all
Carla how long did it
take you to
housebreak Annabelle?
nine months
before I could
really trust her
did she ruin
your carpeting?
well she made it
interesting
I wouldn't say
she exactly ruined it
I think I do
this is probably
a classic case
mommy loves the dogs
the family loves
the dogs
but most people
don't know
really how to
housebreak a dog
so what I'm going to do
there's two ways
of looking at
housebreaking
you can look at
starting a
housebreaking program
with a new puppy
or a dog you just
acquired
and then you can go
into what they call
housebreaking mistakes
where your dog
is housebroken
but he's having
the occasional accident
some people in
occasional accidents
let's talk about
a philosophy of
housebreaking
basically it's like
a puzzle
there's five pieces
to this puzzle
first thing is
scheduling
when I mean
scheduling
when do you walk
the dog
when do you feed
the dog
and that's very
important
you need to
look at a puppy
every three or
four hours
getting him out
that was the
first time
you get up
in the morning
you take him out
you come back
you feed him
oh yeah
of course
alright so that's
a big mistake
if you give your dog
water all day
he's gonna drink
and urinate all day
so that's why
she had to be
every hour
where now
if you just schedule
the water
every four or five
hours you won't
have that problem
second thing is
did you ever
give him different
types of food
well obviously
I know you did
you fed him
oh of course
they had a
whole kitchen
to nibble from
so what's the rule
now third thing
which is very important
is what we call
getting rid of the odor
and you have to use
what they call
an odor neutralizer
you get in any
pet store
where actually
get rid of the
smell so if the dog
has the accident
the fourth thing
which I want to
show you is
how do you
confine a dog
cause Carla
obviously you
give the dogs
the run of the house
weren't you
well actually
I have them
confined in a
kitchen for the
most part
but only because
there's two types
of crates
if you have a
small dog like
Sophie
all right
you'd use a
crate like this
all right
and this is
a small enough
crate
now some people
don't like crates
they think it's
prison
I don't think
it's prison
I think it's a
condo
so if you put
a little
carpet in the
lamp
a VCR
a TV
a radio
it's a wonderful
place
why a crate
where she can
stay in there
and at least
every four or five
hours she's fine
so every time
she gets out of there
you take her out
for a walk
this is her
denning instinct
this is where
she feels like
she'll sleep
and eat
and not want to
mess in the crate
now let's assume
you don't like
the crate
all right
you don't have
room
you live in a
place where you
can't
then we have
behind me
you have to
do some type of
confinement
you either use
a puppy gate
or you use
a crate
now
probably the single
most important
thing is
how do you
correct your dog
when you
catch him in
the act
well most people
if they don't
catch the dog
they see the
mess
they go
what did you
do
bad dog
shame
the dog
looks at them
and says
when you
catch the dog
in the act
you just say
no
like nope
it will stop
take it right
outside
and when it
finishes
praise it
if you yell
too much
the dog will
probably urinate
more and
get more
frightened
all right
so remember
correction
not punishment
if you do
all these
five pieces
of the puzzle
scheduling
diet
yes
sometimes
yes
sometimes
now there's only
three kind of
accidents you
can have
you can have
number one
which we
all know what
that is
you can have
number two
or you can have
number three
which is like
a combo of
number one
and number
two
so let's
be brave
about this
all right
if a dog
urinates in
the house
neutralize
the odor
you're giving him
too much water
all day long
or after
he's been
exercised
you brought him in
and you gave him
water
so if it's a water
problem
99% of the time
it's too much
water
it's very simple
you're like a
detective with this
on the other
hand if he's
defecating in the
house
you want to
say to
yourself
are you feeding
him snacks
at the wrong
time
he's going to
go to the bathroom
also if you feed
him snacks in
between
it's going to
cause him to
go to the bathroom
and if he's
going both
one and two
then you probably
don't have a
housebroken dog
so it's not an
accident
you better start
over again
so think of
housebreaking
it could take
just like that
three days
to a week
it's no big deal
it's really
a dog problem
but honestly
it's important
that I address
some of these
issues
let's first
talk about
teaching a dog
to ride in a
car
if you start
with a young
puppy
first thing you
want to do
is make it
a fun experience
for him
just the fact
of getting in
the car
it should be
come on buddy
let's go for
a ride
and if he
can't jump up
carry him in
there and
show him
the next
thing you do
is get him
in the car
turn the engine
on
let him
hear the
sound of
the noise
then start
driving around
the block
get used
to that
and eventually
you build it
up to the
point where
it's no
big deal
and then make
sure you
take him
a lot of
different
places
a lot of
different times
sit
always strap
your dog
on the seat belt
so that nothing
can happen when
you stop short
he's restrained
it's like a child
seat belt
two
they have these
wonderful crates
that you put
in the back
of your car
it contains him
he can't get hurt
you feel comfortable
don't ask him
to have his
head out the
window
don't roll down
the window
let him drive
and his head's
out there
he could jump out
if it's not a
good thing
you can cause
an accident
make sure
if you're going
on a trip
and it's hot out
don't take him
you don't want
to leave him
in the car
these are some
of the simple
rules that
common sense
there are rules
of driving
there are rules
of living
with your dog
in the car
so remember
think safety
think common sense
well you've
seen it all
you've seen
dog problems
with short coats
friendly, shy, aggressive
and you know what
what's important
the selection process
how do you pick
out the right dog
for you
well that's such
a personal choice
you have to
make that decision
and you know what
every dog has
a different personality
just like people
you've seen
some training commands
how to do it properly
like the down
and the heel
and you know what
have you noticed
that every dog owner
has the same problems
they just don't know
how to deal with it
but there's no magic
in dog training
and of course
we know they are
our family
as much as we want
to say well
they're only dogs
they're not really only dogs
put yourself
in the dog's mind
if you will
how would you want
to be treated
and if it's with
love, praise and affection
you've absolutely
found the secret
of living
with man's best friend