Dog training recall is something that so many people struggle with. When should you take you dog off the leash and is it ever safe to do so. How Can you reliably know that your dog is going to come back to you?
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[Music] Good dogs good dogs having perfect Recall like that is the dream of all dog Owners being able to have your dog have Off lead freedom and come back to you When you need them to is a beautiful Thing and in this video I'm going to Show you exactly the things that you Need to understand if you want to have Perfect recall just like this as well Make sure you stay for the fourth tip Because the fourth tip is where the Rubber really meets the road on whether You're going to be able to have perfect Recall yourself at home the first thing That you have to make sure that you're Practicing every single day from the First moment you bring your dog home is That coming to you is an awesome thing No exceptions ever anytime your dog Makes a good decision naturally to come To you don't be lazy and let them know That they've made a great choice Oh God boy oh God boy good boy this is The kind of reaction you want from your Dog all the time they can go off and Check out other things but when they do Make that good decision of coming to you It should be with enthusiasm it should Be with excitement because you equal Awesome things and the way that you make That happen is that everything good in Your dog's life comes through you good Dogs good boy good boy the second thing
That you must make sure that you never Do with your dogs when it comes to Recall is punishing them if it goes Wrong I see people make this mistake Time and time again they're recalling Their dog Solly come Sally come Sully Come Sully come Sully come and the dog Ignores them the dog doesn't listen to Them they get frustrated and they spend The next five ten minutes chasing their Crazy dogs and when they finally When they finally catch up with them Because they're frustrated they're then Letting it out on their dog shouting at Them sometimes going as far as smacking Them and hitting them it's so Counterproductive it ruins recall but it Also completely destroys all the hard Work you've been doing in the first Point of making time around you a Positive thing and the dog hasn't made The mistake you have so relax accept I Made a mistake there go back a step and Start building your recall up in the Right way now the next thing that we're Going to talk about might get a little Bit trainery but I promise you if you Can understand this concept this is the Root cause a failing recall or mastering Recall and the fancy terminology that We're going to assign to it is what we Would class as as competing motivators So when it comes to being around your Dogs you are to some extent motivation
To them Sully this gets Sully excited Did and on his excitement level there Maybe a two or a three because I'm Motivating to him because I focus on Point one but watch what happens when I Do this Sully Watch this Now look at the excitement level for Both of these dogs is going through the Roof do you know why that is is because This is more motivating to them than I Am because they are both working line Retrieval Labradors this gets them Really excited so in this situation this Is a competing motivator this is Motivation I'm motivation which one do You think is going to win me or the Dummy right now silicon I have just lost Now they're going off and playing I set Sully up to fail because I didn't have The scales of motivation in my favor in That situation so it's incredibly Important that you understand your dogs And you understand what motivates them For two reasons first of all Understanding that there's going to be Some things that are more motivating to Your dog than you are in the vast Majority of cases the second point on From that is can you use that to your Advantage in this situation here if you Now look at the intensity of these two Dogs they're not going to leave me alone
I can recall these off anything in the World right now because they know that This is here so when I go for a walk I Always take a dummy or a tennis ball With me because if the dog sees another Dog or some sheep or some birds all I Need to do is throw one of these up in The sky and I'm going to get this level Of intensity because it is this thing That they are motivated more than Anything in life work out what motivates Your dog and a use it to your advantage Or B move on to our final step which is Where you're really going to have Failure or success so if you want to Have perfect recall you have to Understand your dog's competing Motivators but more importantly you then Have to understand how you can have Realistic expectations of your dogs Because of these competing motivators so If you have a dog that is bred to flush Birds I'm talking spaniels pointers you Are going to be constantly competing With motivators for your dogs are more Important than you are you can have the Best sausages or cheese in the world but If your working line cocker spaniel is By some bushes out in the beautiful Countryside where pheasants may have Been there is not a sausage on God's Green earth is going to be more Motivating to your spaniel than going And flushing out that game so you either
Need to counter those scales and there Are Advanced Techniques that we can talk About in future videos of how to do that Or you understand your dog's competing Motivators and you have realistic Expectations that you're not going to Let them off lead in those circumstances Because you understand that that would Be setting them and you up to fail