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00:00 STOP Puppy Biting Fast
06:53 Reading Your Puppy’s Body Language
09:21 STOP Puppy Biting
13:27 Proofing Your Puppy’s Biting
17:43 Handling Exercises
18:06 Teaching Your Puppy To Play & Settle
24:07 Simple Tip For Rewarding Your Puppy
26:21 The Training Choices That Will Help Your Puppy To Listen!
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#stoppuppybiting #puppybiting
If you’re a puppy owner, Today’s video may really interest you
because today we have a private lesson That you get to, uh,
to sit in on today, uh, With a student named Amy and her
lab puppy named Penny. And, uh, She’s here today because she’s told
us that she has a wild and crazy, Fun loving puppy that she’s struggling
to get a little bit of control with. So we’re gonna dissect a little bit
about why and what we can do to help her. Now, The thing that’s great about private
lessons is that it can go off in all kinds Of weird and wonderful directions.
So let’s see what happens. She’s being a typical puppy,
she’s just mouthing at my hands. And it’s really important that we talk
about that because so many people will Say like, Oh, well he’s
just mouthing my hands. She’s not really hurting me. And what
we wanna do with the puppies is we wanna Be like really black and white, because
if I let her mouth at my hands, which, Which I just did, cuz I literally
just met her a second ago, Oh yeah. But if we let those things go, Then sometimes those things
can turn into her saying, Oh, Well I mouth your hand there
and you moved it away. So okay, Maybe I can control you with my mouth. It’s kind of how they start
to like communicate, right? So we can definitely address that. The other thing I wanna go over is maybe
some settle techniques with her. Okay. So we can get her to have a bit calmer
brain. The fact that Yeah,
You’re wild, wild. Um, The fact that you’ve already noticed, um, Her intelligence and how she can
figure things out, I think is awesome. Now we just need to get the brain into
a spot where she can actually intake Information, Right. Because she’s not
so high-minded that she’s just reacting. And this is super normal. When
puppies are young, they have really, Really awful emotional control.
Yeah. They like, whatever they feel, They just react to right away
instead of being able to be like, That thing’s fun. But I know I should kind of sit
here and like check it out first.
She listens to my husband. Okay. She does like better than
you. Oh yeah. Yeah. Do you, What do you think the biggest difference
is between you guys is in terms of Interactions with her? Can you, can
you tell why or are you not sure why? He’s, um, like he’s firm in his tone.
Yes. Right. And he’s very consistent. Yes. Where I’ll kind of,
even though I try. Yeah. And then almost when I do try to be firm, It’s more exaggerated and she
can read through it. I feel. Uhhuh
yep. That’s how I feel. Yep. Nope, You’re on the money. There’s,
it’s actually really normal. Um, And it’s not always like
male female that happens. But typically guys talk in a lower voice.
They’re a little bit more no nonsense. They’re not as, um, we’re sometimes
a little bit more passive, A little bit more patient. We
more forgiving that type of thing. And when you have a wild and crazy
puppy, sometimes they’re like, Huh, Maybe I can kind of push your buttons a
little bit more where I don’t know if I Should do it with them. Honestly, though, Sometimes we see it the
other way around. We’re like, The husband’s a huge pushover and the
woman’s like really? So it just, no, It’s not. It’s, it really is. Comes down to like kind of temperament
and how do you interact with the dog. So, Uh, couple things I wanna talk about.
First. I just wanna come here hun. I wanna just take a look at her
collar. So her collar is good. I would suggest that we make it a
tiny bit tighter though. Okay. Um, And what you’ll have to do is check
it all the time because she’s probably Growing like a weed right now. The significance of the collar being a
little bit tighter is that if we have to Take a hold of it to discipline
in some way or we have to like, Lift up on the leash, if the
collar is a little bit more snugly, She’s gonna feel like we have
a bit more control. Okay. If it’s loose and it can spin around her
neck or she feels like she can get out Of it, a lot of puppies will try.
Yeah. And then they struggle more. So we wanna keep it well fit.
So it’s just snug enough. You can feel the difference now. Yeah.
I was going to say I probably need another
collar because I feel like this one. Loosens on its own. Yes. A buckle
would be great. And also too, I would probably go with something
wider. Wider. Yeah. I can, I can definitely help you with that
before you leave today. For sure. To make sure you have a well-fit
caller. So we’ve just changed, um, Penny’s collar,
just gonna stay a little bit more snug. And Amy, you already have an
awesome leash, so that’s great. Perfect size for her and
everything. Um, so well fit caller, We’ve talked about why
that’s important. Um, So a couple things that
I wanna try first is I, Before we sort of do anything that’s
going to prompt the nipping and biting, Which is kind of already happening
mm-hmm.
hurt me necessarily right now. Right now she’s doing it because she’s
pumped
she’s doing it to be, you know, Control me or control you or whether
she’s doing it, she’s overexcited. We wanna just let her know that there’s
other ways that she can show her Excitement instead of putting
her mouth on us. Yeah. Especially with you with kids. Exactly.
Really needs to understand that. So the very first thing
that I wanna go over is, um, A technique called the collar
and body hold. And it’s, um, A technique that we’ll do with
the dogs to help settle them. It’s not necessarily always the
best option to correct nipping And biting per se, which we will go
over Okay. Uh, in a moment. Of course. But it’s a really good way
to kind of just like, whoa. Get the dog from like
up here to down here. Yeah. So basically what you’re gonna
do in a moment is we’re gonna slip, um, Our hand in her collar and we’re gonna
hold her really tight against our body. Okay. Um, when we do that, What will sometimes happen is the dogs
will like be cool with it for a couple Seconds mm-hmm.
then all of a sudden they’re like, Mm, I’m over this. I wanna go do something.
And then they’re gonna struggle. Okay. And when they struggle,
we’re not gonna let go.
We just kind of hold them really tight
and we wait for them to kind of take a Moment to go, Okay, I guess
I’m not going anywhere. Okay. And as soon as we feel
that we’re gonna say yes, And then either you can reward
or I can reward her. Okay. And then when she’s calm and
settled, we can let her go. Okay. Um, And basically it’s just like
an acceptance exercise. It’s a, If I need to hold you and I need you to
be calm, I need you to do it quickly. And when you first start, Sometimes it takes a little while
for a while for them to settle. And then the more you practice it,
the faster and faster it happens. When she puts two and two together, Now what we’re gonna do is I’m
actually gonna remove the bone. Okay. Because she’s also, and not
that the bone’s a bad thing, Bones are great thing cause it
kind of gives her something to do. But right now I, I kind of want her to have the opportunity
to be naughty so that we can work Through it. Yep. Um, this is
a good option because she, She wants to put things
in her mouth. She’s a lab. They love putting things in her mouth. So this is a good thing to use so that
she has something to do. But it’s, It’s almost like a bandaid. So, and
which is good. Bandaids aren’t bad. Yeah. Cuz. Like when she’s nipping, I like, I. Yeah. Transferred. Over so that. She nps that. Okay. And that’s
good and bad. So if you, It’s good in the way that it
gives her something like, I see. Instead of biting me, she’s gone for the
bone. That’s what I do. Hey, hey, hey, That’s better. Um, that’s a good thing. But what we wanna be careful of is every
time she comes to put something on our, Our, she puts her teeth on her hands.
Right. Um, and then we say, Oh, Don’t do that. Here’s a bone. Some
puppies will think it’s a reward. And we’re still encouraging.
Exactly. Because she says, Ooh, Every time I go over and I do this
mom gives me both. This is awesome.
So although we wanna, so basically
we wanna use it as prevention. So I would rather her have the bone
before she tries to bite. Okay. So that I’m stopping her from
doing it in the first place. Right. But if she’s putting her mouth on me,
rather than exchanging her for something, We’re going to, we’re gonna show you how
to correct the behavior instead. Okay. Okay. So it’s not the end of the world, It’s just it will take longer to
fix it if we do it that way. Yeah. But the bone for prevention.
Brilliant. Okay. Okay. Okay love.. So I’m just gonna show you really quickly
what the collar and body hold looks Like. I’m not gonna do it very
long because I want her, I, I want you to work through this with her, But I just wanna show you the technique. So I’m gonna slip my hand through her
collar like this. Mm-hmm.
is when my hand is like this, I can stop her from turning
her head to, to bite me. Um, I’m right-handed. So personally
I like having my right hand here. If you’re lefty, I’m, you can go
it the other way around. Okay. My other hand’s on her body. Sometimes what I’ll do is I’ll grab a
little bit of their fur as well. Doesn’t, She’s got all this extra fur
that she’s gonna grow into. It doesn’t hurt them at
all when you do that. Um, And I’m just basically gonna hold now
I’m just not gonna do it too much cuz I Don’t wanna I want you to go through
all the struggles here. Okay. So I want you just to take a hold of
her like that for a second and I’m just Gonna kind of talk you through, I’m
gonna pull this out of your pocket. Oh, Thank you. Red hold. I think your back hand should be a
little bit more around her belly, right? Like that? Yep. Perfect. Good. Okay. She’s settled. Yes. Good. So one of the reasons why I want you to
do it is you can feel her tension in her Body. Right. Good. You
really can. Good. Just hold. Oh. We almost had it there for a second. Yes. Good. Very nice. Good. Okay. Now
if she starts to feel settled, um,
I want you to, you’re holding her
collar and her neck a little bit tight, Which is totally fine if she goes
to, she goes to, um, fight you back. But if you feel her settled, We wanna go from holding sort of in a
sterner way to a relaxed way. Yeah. Okay. But if she starts to say you’re
relaxed, I’m gonna go for it. You’re gonna whoop, you’re gonna squeeze
her in tight again. Yes. There. Good. That was nice. Good girl. Wow. Yes, yes. Good girl. Good. Okay. And
then let’s let her get out. Okay. Good girl. So when we do it,
there’s also, with puppies, There’s a point where you can push things
past where the success happens. Okay. So sometimes what happens when people
are like, Oh, this is going really well, They wanna do it longer and longer
and longer. And then the puppies, Patience are out, puppies
have such small patience. So when we’re doing things like that,
we wanna do it in short spurts Okay. So that we can get a little bit of success
and then sort of give the puppy a bit Of a break. Now what’s happened when
we’ve given her a bit of a break, Look at what she’s gone to
do out to nipping. Yeah. So what we could do with this though Okay. Is we can give her a break but
give her something else to do. So when we release her out of it, we
might go right into some training mode. We might ask her to sit, we
might ask her to down. Okay. We’re gonna do a little bit of
um, uh, addressing that way. Um, The other thing that we can do,
uh, with the collar and body hold, Which is really great for
settling techniques mm-hmm.
the actual nipping and biting. So if she’s nipping and biting at me,
she’s just really doing it a lot. Yeah. What we can do is we can, uh, Use some type of verbal reprimand that
tells her that we don’t like what she’s Doing. Uh, for my pups I usually will
say, ah, cut it out or knock it off, Or something like that. Something that’s not normal to what
I would normally say. And then, um, There’s two things you could do. You could take a hold of the collar
and you can do a bit of a, uh, Shake on the collar and
hold mm-hmm.
Or you can take the leash and you
can lift up with two hands. Um, What you do sometimes is dependent on the
weight of the dog. She’s not very big, But she’s already pretty powerful.
Yes. So the collar might not be something
that’s, um, gonna be super effective. It could also be as well.
Yeah. When we hold the leash, I’m just gonna grab the leash here.
You hold her for a second there. When we hold the leash, We’re gonna hold it like we’re
holding onto a baseball bat. Okay. So our thumbs up and this
is gonna be super dorky, But thumbs up like
thumbs to the boss. Okay. And why this is important is when we have
our hands this way we have a lot more Leverage and control. Okay.
When we hold our hands this way, We don’t have the same type of
power and control. And the whole, Whole goal of disciplining puppies when
we are trying to stop biting or anything That we don’t want, is we want
the discipline to be effective, But we want it to be over
and done with fast. Right. So we don’t wanna have this big back
and forth song and dance where puppies Excited, we discipline puppy gets
more excited, we discipline it, It’s like this back and forth. And
then person and dog gets ramped up. The goal is to get it in there quickly.
So the dog says, Okay, I get it. And we don’t have to discipline
anymore person correcting it. Yes. Um, Because we really believe the least
correction is the best correction. Cuz we don’t wanna do a lot of heavy
handed stuff for the dogs. Right. But we need to affect change. Okay. So if we’re doing something that
causes the puppy to elevate, We need to change our tactic so that we
can diffuse things really quickly. Okay. That’s sort of the goal. So in a second what’s gonna happen is
I’m gonna actually get you to do a few Things that may cause her to nip bite
at you. Okay. We might do some handling, We might do a few things or if, you know,
there’s certain things that she does. Everything
won’t be hard. Uh, so then I want you to, As soon as you feel any type of
mouthing on your hands whatsoever Yeah. You’re gonna ah, some
type of verbal reprimand. And then I think what we’re gonna do
is we’re gonna try the collar technique
First. Okay. And so when we do that,
I’m just gonna show you really quickly, I’m not actually gonna do it, I
just wanna show you technique. Okay. My fingers are gonna go
underneath her collar. I like to put my fingers going underneath
up towards her ear that way. Yep. And I will grab a little bit
of that extra excess fur. Now see how my wrist is kind of pressed
against her cheek. Yep. That is too, Too. So she decide, see if she
wanted to turn and bite me. She can’t really mm-hmm.
and I would just hold. Okay. Now she’s being really good right now,
but what a lot of puppies will do. Good girl. Penny. I’m very impressed
with how well you’re with that. What some puppies will do when you do
that is they will throw the biggest temper Tantrum you’ve ever seen. And a lot
of people panic and then they let go. So hold on. Yeah. You just gotta
hold on. You’re not gonna yell, You’re not gonna scream, you’re not
gonna be mad. You’re just gonna, And I don’t say anything when I do
it. You don’t have to. No. Okay. You could say settle, You
could say that’s enough, But we don’t wanna get ramped up because
one of us has to say diffused and Typically it’s not the puppy.
Um, The second thing is that if
you feel like you’re not, Like you’re not really in control at, We may have to switch to go to the
leash by holding it up like that. Okay. But I’m just gonna kind of talk you
through it. Okay. Um, to see how it goes. Sometimes there’s a few things that
happen with the puppies when they are like Frustrated with what we’re
doing. Mm-hmm.
more momentarily or, um, I suspect with her she might do like the
floppy dog thing where they like roll All in their back or they, um, Start to bite the leash or they do like
alligator roll or sometimes they’ll, um, Make noise, like they’ll scream and
they’ll cry and things like that. And usually it’s just like escape
mechanisms. It’s for them to say like, I don’t like this.
So you’re just kind of, Kind of ride out the storm super
calmly. And as soon as she settles, We are going to praise her. The most
important thing with discipline is if we, We basically wanna say with the
puppies, I don’t like this. I love you,
But I don’t like this.
Mm-hmm.
need to say yes. That’s a good puppy. We’re gonna calm praise,
uh, praise calmly, uh, Because we need her to know wrong. But
this is right. This is what we love. Okay. Okay. So, um, I’m just gonna
come down closer. You don’t have to, I just wanna be able to see
what’s happening but easier. So I want you just to maybe take a hold
of her collar with one hand and then With the other hand you might try to, um, Do something that might cause her to
maybe typically nip and bite you. Look in Her mouth. Maybe grab her,
uh, paws, see what she does. Okay. Is she nipping and biting
there? So you’re gonna act. Give her a little shake. Good. And
hold. Good. And just hold for a second. So again, back to the tension. She’s
sort of good. Okay. That’s good. Loosen a bit, but don’t let go. Good
girl. And just praise her for a second. Good girl. Girl. And then I want you
to try petting her and it’s good. Good girl. Good. Okay. Your technique was pretty good, But her mouth was on your hand too long
before you did anything about it. Okay. So she needs information
really, really fast. Okay. Because if she’s sort of nipping and
biting and doing things for a few moments And then she gets disciplined,
she won’t put it together. Okay. So as soon as you feel her kind of be a
little bit mouthy. Ah, cut it out. Okay. Almost the faster you are with the
information that will trump how Firm you are with a puppy.
Okay. So if you can be fast, You typically can be less harsh. Okay.
Which is kind of the goal. Right? Okay. Let’s, let’s try something else. Maybe take a hold of her
paw and see what she does. One hand’s gonna be in the collar
as you do so at there. Ah, good. That was slow though.
It a little bit slow, But it was way better than the time
before. Good. Yep. Just hold for a second. Good. Good girl. Good. Okay. Now release your, uh, Hold the collar but release sort of the
tension of the color. Good there. Okay.
I want you to try the
exact same thing again. Take a hold of her paw this time if you
can give her a little ah, Nah. Good. Okay. One thing I want you to change is I don’t
want you to pull your hand away from Her paw. Okay. Because that’s
almost like a reward for her paw. Hold the paw at the same time. Good. Ah. Good. Hold. Good. Hold a little longer. So what I’m doing is I’m reading her
body language right now. She’s like, Mm, I don’t really like what you’re
doing right now. There that’s better. See her eyes change a bit there.
Mm-hmm.
Now praise with your voice. Good girl. Girl honey. Good. Now I
want you to say yes. Yes. And then you can let go of her
paw. We’re gonna give her a treat. That was really good. Good.
You gonna grab this from me? I want you to be there you to be the
deliverer of the goods. Good. Good. So I don’t know if you could pick
that up or not. But what happened, And hopefully you could see, Did you
see she was a bit tense at first. Yeah, She was. And then all of a sudden she
kind of went, Oh, maybe I need to stop. That’s when we need to have great time.
And you were great. You were good. You praised right away. Because what
we’re trying to do is mold and shape her. Yeah. To kind of know how we
want her to respond to things, Which is why we have to be
so specific with our timing. We have to be fast with correction and
then we need to be just as fast to say This moment’s good. Yeah. In that moment
she was sort of saying, Mm, maybe I, Maybe I shouldn’t be so pushy. Yeah. And
I can be faster with my response. Yeah. See what she’s doing now.
Yeah. Get her again. Good. Good. Now loosen the tension
but don’t let go. Good. Now try and put your hands on her
mouth again. Good, Good girl. Good now? Yes. And reward her. Yes.
Good, good girl. Excellent.
Good girl. Good, good girl that time. Pardon? She
just, Yeah, that was really good. Good. Good girl. Okay, lift her up for a
second and let her lay down for a sec. We’ll get it lay you in a second.
That’s perfect. Good. Okay. I want you to go for her paw
again. Yes. And feed. Yes. Yes. That’s a girl. Girl. So do you see
how fast I had you Yes and feed? Because we wanna make sure we wanna get
all the good moments in because the more Money in the bank that we get for holding
onto her that was and her making a Good choice, she’s gonna go, Oh
this is what you want me to do. This is way more fun. Yeah. Because
I get treats when you do that. So do that again. Yes. Perfect. Good Amy. That’s
amazing. Good girl. Good. Okay, Let’s try a little
something harder this time. You’re gonna do the same thing but maybe
flip her ear back and take a little Look in her ear. You can kind
of brace her ahead if you want. A little bit there. Good girl. Okay. Don’t go girl quite yet.
Okay. Now a caught it out. Ah. Now let go of the ear this time
just to give her, There we go. Good. Hold. Ah. Okay. She’s more settled but
good. You’re getting it, good. Yeah. If I’m looking at the ear, see
how this hand goes under her chin? Yep. Yes. Oops. Nope. Settle. Yes. Good. It’s good girl. If I put
my hand outta the chin, I find sometimes when I wanna do stuff
with the head that I can get a little bit More control. It just sort of cup the
chin. Yes. I could look at her eyes. Yes. Good girl. But that hand under the chin just kind
of settles the dog a little bit more. The next thing I wanna do with you though, Is work on like the
emotional control part. Okay. So we were doing things that were a
little bit more stationary and handling Stuff, Which is so important for like the vet
and for your everyday care with her.
But because she’s so energetic we also
need to be able to figure out how to get Her settled and calm when
she’s ramped up. Right. So what we’re gonna do is we’re gonna
do a little game, uh, play and settle. Okay. And I deliberately wanna do this
without something like a bone. Okay. So that you wanna play, play and
tug and all that stuff with items. For her to put it in
her mouth, that’s great. But I also want you to be able to play
with her and have her to understand, To be silly and have fun, but
to keep her mouth to herself. So this is gonna be a
little bit harder. That is. A big challenge for. Us and it is for everyone.
Yeah. Yeah it is for my, I have an 11 month old puppy. Yeah. I went through the exact same
thing when I got him at home. Especially with my daughter because
she’s always trying to hug her. Yeah. And yeah. And that’s hard because they
don’t know any different. Exactly. So what you’re gonna do in a moment is
you’re gonna get dumb and you’re gonna Kind of provoke her to play. So you
could, So this is why I gotta do it. We have to be consistent now
that we’ve started. Yeah. Okay. Loosen her leash a little bit there.
Good girl. Good choice love bug. Good. So that’s literally
all I have to do. Yeah. Just a quick little voice and take
a hold of the caller. Yes. Pen. Yes. That’s a good baby. Good girl.
So again, I’m holding very, I’m i’ll even holding lightly.
Exactly. But if I need to boom, I can tighten really quickly.
Okay. But if she’s being good, I don’t necessarily wanna keep
holding that way and that’s. Probably something that I can improve on. Cuz I was holding much tighter even when. She was listening and, and that is
such a good acknowledgement, Amy, Because what will happen is
if she in her brain is saying, But I’m being good now. Right. And we’re
still holding and they’re gonna say, Well maybe I should fight back then. Yeah. So it also is about reading what
the puppy needs in that moment. Do I need to be firmer here or do I need
to lay off and like let her have her Head right. So that I can then acknowledge
her. Her choice pen. That’s so good.
Okay. So back to the playing thing.
Okay. We’re gonna play with her. We’re gonna try and get her to kind
of jump around a little bit. Okay. And if she does anything inappropriate,
it could be with her mouth, It could be jumping on
you, it could be barking. Whatever it is that we don’t like, we’re
going to immediately tell her subtle. Now what happens is when we’re up and
about in the house mm-hmm.
because if I go to grab in like that, I’m like a yeah. Like
bite me. It’s so easy. And she wants to play.
Sometimes when I do it, she. Thinks is a game. Absolutely.
Yeah. So if we have, Right now we have this great leash
on her, um, but in the house, If you have a house line
or something like that, Then this will be really perfect.
So I’m gonna show you my, Okay. I call it the zip line technique.
Okay. This is not official terminology, This is just to help people to remember. So if I’m playing with her and I need to, I’m gonna slide my hand down the call
the leash to her collar. Okay. Okay. Now if I’m sliding my hand down to leash
and during that time I need to stop, Then I can lift up on the leash Okay. And get her into a settle or a sit or
something like that when we first play. Good girl. Pen. Pen. When we first play, I usually like to keep the leash in my
hands so that I can get it quickly and After a couple play sessions and the
puppy starts to understand the game. Yeah. Then I could uh, advance to maybe having
the leash on the ground. Cuz again, The goal is to have no
leash whatsoever. Right. So I’m basically gonna give
her permission to play. I’m gonna tell her playtime or some fun
word that you wanna use. Jump around, Get her excited. Get her
crazy. Get her crazy. Yes. Good girl. That’s it. Yay. And
then I’m gonna tell her settle. Not in a disciplinary way. Yes. Oh yes. Good girl. Good girl. So now we’re actually
being submissive. Yeah. So I don’t know if you can see that,
but she’s being a little bit submissive. She’s being a little bit wiggly.
I’m just gonna wait until she settles
since I’m looking for more slowness. Yes. There we go. Good girl. Oh. That she was trying to get you to let
go And she does this with me by doing. Tricks. Yes. Ha. Yeah. Like
avoidance behaviors. So. If I say no, then she triess the dup. Paw. Yeah. So you’re just gonna, um,
just diffuse her from that. Okay. She don’t have to discipline
her for that because she’s, She is trying to problem solve and be
right. Right. She’s just not doing it. Okay. In the way that we want. Yeah. So you just diffuse her when she does
that and then you’re looking for calmness. Okay. Now when it comes to play, I, You can play figure out how
she likes to play. Yeah. But I sort of do a lot of
like pushing the puppy away, Clapping my hands and
then moving away. Oh. Oh she’s wild. She’s crazy. Okay,
so we’re getting all fired up. Yeah. So then I’m gonna put my
hand in her collar settle. Yeah. So I don’t like this paw. I’m
gonna wait until she’s more settled. Yes, that’s better.
Good girl. Good. Settle. And then I can reward Now when I
held the collar that time, Yeah. I didn’t really ever hold
in the disciplinary way. It was more in a calm way. We need the puppies to understand
that if I take your collar, It doesn’t mean you’re in trouble. It just means you have to
be just a bit more aware. So it’s really important if when
we start to do the collar work, We’re not only taking the collar
collar when she’s in trouble. I’m also gonna do a ton of take the
collar feed. Take the collar feed. So that she basically says, I love when
you put my hand in your collar. Right. So she’s, It’s. More comforting. Exactly. Okay. Okay. So do you think you can try what I
just did? I’ll talk you through it. I can try. Good. I’m gonna
get your treats ready. Okay. So I want you just to see if you can
get her to play with you. Oh, perfect.
Yeah. Perfect. Perfect. Good. You’re
all ready. Okay. So bend down. Maybe push her away. Give her a little
tickle. Come here. Yeah, that’s it. Good. Around a little bit. Good.
Come here. I’m gonna be quiet. She’s now come here responding to
my praise. Come here. Come here. Settle. Settle. Good. Now see how
your hand is across your body. Right. If she just goes to nip up, I
probably should have taken this. Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah. So what will happen
is when your hands cross like that, If she goes to nip and bite, now
you’re sort of in like a weird angle. Cause know when I was down it felt
awkward. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So if you’re, again, it doesn’t matter
if it’s left or right hand honestly, But you just wanna be able to slip your
hand. Good. Settle. Settle. Good. Good. Yes. There. Good. I also really like that you waited till
she looked at you to yes. Good girl. Good girl. I’m gonna give you a really,
it’s such an e it’s just a silly tip, But it’s really helpful when you
feed her, especially in this moment. It would be great if you went
from your pocket to her nose, But bring the food to your face first.
Really? And then feed her. Okay. Because what it will do is, Especially with dogs who are super
food-motivated like her. Yeah. We don’t want her to think that your
pocket is like the be all, end all. We want her to think like food’s
from me. So I would guess. Good girl. Bring it up to your face. Okay. Okay.
Let’s try it from the beginning. Just shimmy back over this way
if you don’t mind. Um, Yeah. The thing to keep in mind is
that when you play with her, If you have tension in the
leash unnecessarily. Yeah. It could cause her to back
off a little bit. Okay. So if you can kind of keep some,
uh, loose in the leash. Yep. And then slap your legs or clap
your hands or push and tickler. Kind of kind of get her to, she’s like, Like what are you doing mom? Why are
we doing this? This is really weird. Normally I start this and
I do it the way I want. So we have to kind of figure out how
she likes to play and to get her kind of Out of her shell a little bit. Okay. I’m
gonna try and be more quiet this time. Cause I noticed when I, when I was
speaking that she was like, Hey,
Am I supposed to listen to you?
You wanna play? Look at that. Do you wanna play time? Come on, come on
buddy. Good, good girl. Come on. Good. Reach out and touch her a little bit.
Push her away. Playfully. Come on. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Good. Okay.
No. Slide your hand in. Tell her. Settle. Settle. Good. Nice. Nipping and biting is something that all
kinds of people struggle with and uh, It’s a huge component of
our puppy essentials, uh, Program. So if you’re
interested in checking that
out, both in person or online, Uh, the link for that is in
the description below. Um, But remember when you came in and then
she had that little submissive pee on the Floor? Yeah. So one thing that’s really
interesting about her is that she, She’s this, she’s such a
typical energetic puppy. Um, But she’s not like innately
dominant or anything like that. She just is a wild and crazy
puppy that needs direction. But these puppies are sometimes really
easy to fix because they’re smart because They wanna do the right thing, But they also can be dangerous because
they have so much energy if they’re not Sort of given the right
direction sometimes. Good girl, That was a better choice. Maybe, maybe
should give her a little reward for that. That’s a good, good. But your instincts,
when she said that, you sort of said, Hey, You need to sit here and you really even
know what you were doing there cuz you Were listening to me.
her to pull and be bratty like that. Right. And it’s not
addressed, it will continue. So it literally can be as simple as
interrupting the behavior. Right. You didn’t even really do
anything drastic there. You just tightened the leash and
made her sit. And she was like, Oh. So now what I would recommend though is
see how she’s sitting. She’s being good. Put a little bit of, uh,
looseness in her leash. Yes. Good. So now remember the emotional control
thing I said at the beginning here she’s Sitting without you making her sit.
If she wanted to, she could get up, But she’s making the
she’s not. That’s right. So now what I need to do is acknowledge
that. Okay. And then say yes,
If we hold tight, She’s not really having to do the work
and she feels like I’m disciplining here. Yeah. Or she doesn’t even get a
chance to make a decision. Mm-hmm.
pull tight to make her sit, Which is exactly what you needed to do,
was excellent. Mm-hmm.
the smartest little girl? Mm-hmm.
Yes. It’s great choices. Pulling her back into a sit
was perfect what you did. Yeah. And then the next step would be then to
loosen the leash and see what she does. Okay. Let make her make
her sit again. Penny. Just lift up on the leash a little
bit. Sit good. And then loosen. They’re now praise with your
voice. Good girl. Good, good girl. So we wanna show the dog and then we
wanna get to the moment where we can Acknowledge something good.
And if she sort of says, Huh, Sitting at a loose leash earns me rewards
and we can be quick to acknowledge That we start getting it more and more
and more. So what I was about to say is That it’s really interesting to see at
the beginning when she came in and she Was like super hyper mm-hmm.
two. She’s a bit more calm now. For sure. Um, and you had said,
is it because I’m here? Yeah. So I’ll tell you what happens.
It is, it is because I’m here, But it’s not because of me. It’s because now when
she’s making a poor choice, I and I can get you to
make the correct choice. So she’s getting different information
than she’s normally got to. So what’s gonna be important is
when you leave each other today, Continue you that you continue
it. Exactly. Because it is, It’s about consistency,
right? Without me here, You might not have reacted as fast,
you might not have been as firm, You might not have known when to reward
or what to reward. So it’s really the Information that she’s getting. But
puppies are super, um, situational. So she could be, you know, an angel here,
which she’s being really, really good. It doesn’t mean that you’re gonna
go home and she’s gonna be perfect. You have to replicate what we’ve
done here in your new places, right? So that she knows it’s all the same.
What a brilliant girl You saw the great
transformation that we have with Penny, Uh, Wild and crazy puppy at the beginning of
our lesson to we have a puppy that’s a Lot calmer, making some
really great choices. So the next thing that we need to
talk about is that of leadership, uh, Which we’re gonna do next.
And for you watching at home, You’re gonna check that out by clicking
the card right there. On that note, I’m Kayl happy training.