WEBVTT 00:00:12.500 --> 00:00:15.779 Hi everybody, welcome to the Canine Connection 00:00:15.779 --> 00:00:22.179 podcast. I'm in an Airbnb in Connecticut stuck 00:00:22.179 --> 00:00:31.030 because there's a blizzard. So I was up here 00:00:31.030 --> 00:00:39.350 doing a two -day seminar at Lori's place. And 00:00:39.350 --> 00:00:42.789 they started calling for a blizzard. And I'm 00:00:42.789 --> 00:00:45.070 like, yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll see. We'll see. 00:00:45.549 --> 00:00:49.850 And here we are. Patra's stuck. So we decided, 00:00:50.070 --> 00:00:53.950 let's do the podcast since we're both stuck inside. 00:00:54.549 --> 00:01:00.039 And then I had just said to her, like, I don't 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:03.820 do a lot of live seminars, people. So FYI, don't 00:01:03.820 --> 00:01:08.540 start emailing me. I did it because Lori's place 00:01:08.540 --> 00:01:13.560 is not that far from my house. And anyway, but 00:01:13.560 --> 00:01:17.040 I was just telling her that, you know, it was 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:19.980 a lot of people that are new to the sport, like 00:01:19.980 --> 00:01:23.459 a lot of novice aid people, not all, but holy 00:01:23.459 --> 00:01:27.579 Hannah, what a motivated group, like everything. 00:01:28.439 --> 00:01:31.200 like we talked about and then they would come 00:01:31.200 --> 00:01:33.180 up to work and they're immediately implementing 00:01:33.180 --> 00:01:39.379 it like they tried so hard which always like 00:01:39.379 --> 00:01:42.959 is so exciting to me just to see that that they're 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:45.340 you know willing to try different things new 00:01:45.340 --> 00:01:49.879 things and just putting in an enormous amount 00:01:49.879 --> 00:01:55.040 of effort um so kudos to everybody there and 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:59.420 to people that hung in like Sunday, we started 00:01:59.420 --> 00:02:02.780 early seven instead of nine, which I'm sure everybody 00:02:02.780 --> 00:02:05.260 was like, oh, my God. But we were trying to get 00:02:05.260 --> 00:02:08.020 in as much as we could before people had to leave 00:02:08.020 --> 00:02:12.539 for the storm. Right. Yeah. Yeah. The group was 00:02:12.539 --> 00:02:16.919 fantastic. Everybody was like. Super motivated 00:02:16.919 --> 00:02:21.599 and really, really, really like. I don't know. 00:02:21.659 --> 00:02:24.439 They're just so open. They were just so open 00:02:24.439 --> 00:02:28.280 to trying new things. What was really nice is 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:30.919 they all came to the table with things that they 00:02:30.919 --> 00:02:35.060 knew, like they recognized they needed help with. 00:02:35.199 --> 00:02:37.240 You know what I mean? Like a lot of times you 00:02:37.240 --> 00:02:40.479 ask a lot of people who don't really. Who just 00:02:40.479 --> 00:02:43.180 are starting out and, you know, you know, what 00:02:43.180 --> 00:02:45.000 do you want to work on? And they just kind of 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:48.199 don't know. And I was I loved a lot of them. 00:02:48.280 --> 00:02:50.719 Majority of them were my students or people I've 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:54.539 seen before. But they were really they all came 00:02:54.539 --> 00:02:57.979 with a purpose of learning as much as they could 00:02:57.979 --> 00:03:00.960 from Petra. And then when they had opportunity 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:05.479 to kind of isolate things that they had, they 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:07.379 were having issues with, they like brought it 00:03:07.379 --> 00:03:10.460 right to the table. which was really great, you 00:03:10.460 --> 00:03:12.419 know? So I feel like it was super productive. 00:03:12.580 --> 00:03:15.180 It was such a productive weekend. So fun. Yeah. 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:17.840 I think the key is people need to come with an 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:20.560 open mind and then they need to be willing to 00:03:20.560 --> 00:03:22.919 try it. And then they need to be willing to kind 00:03:22.919 --> 00:03:27.919 of like understand that implementing something 00:03:27.919 --> 00:03:30.539 is going to take for it to really work is going 00:03:30.539 --> 00:03:32.800 to take time and consistency, right? Like you're 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:35.280 not going to master it. Like a lot of times I 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:37.629 find. People come with a problem and they want 00:03:37.629 --> 00:03:40.250 a quick and easy answer, like a miracle fix. 00:03:40.490 --> 00:03:44.009 Right. And once we've been training for a while, 00:03:44.069 --> 00:03:46.169 we know that doesn't really exist, you know. 00:03:46.689 --> 00:03:50.689 So I think that everybody here came like I could 00:03:50.689 --> 00:03:52.889 tell they understood that this is going to be 00:03:52.889 --> 00:03:55.490 a process, that this is going to take time and 00:03:55.490 --> 00:03:58.409 effort. But they need to start now and they need 00:03:58.409 --> 00:04:01.770 to do it. And I felt like every time they got 00:04:01.770 --> 00:04:06.240 up. Instead of rushing into the work area, they 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:08.699 did what they were supposed to do, which is make 00:04:08.699 --> 00:04:10.780 sure their dog is focused, make sure their dog 00:04:10.780 --> 00:04:14.199 is ready, make sure they stay connected and so 00:04:14.199 --> 00:04:19.720 on. And that was really impressive. Right. And 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:22.459 that makes me excited because then I know these 00:04:22.459 --> 00:04:25.579 they're going to do well in the long run because 00:04:25.579 --> 00:04:29.019 they understand the process, you know, and that's 00:04:29.019 --> 00:04:31.660 what's hard in most sports is like, I think people. 00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:35.300 You know, everybody wants their dog to do the 00:04:35.300 --> 00:04:40.339 cool and sexy thing. But, you know, things like 00:04:40.339 --> 00:04:46.180 engagement don't happen overnight. Right. Right. 00:04:46.300 --> 00:04:48.819 And that's, you know, I mean, that's the most 00:04:48.819 --> 00:04:50.879 important thing. You know, that's what you need 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:56.259 to get to sexy and cool and fast. Yeah. Yeah. 00:04:56.300 --> 00:04:59.680 So something that came up there and that we've 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:02.620 talked about. like that we've said we need to 00:05:02.620 --> 00:05:06.600 talk about moving forward is life skill. I think 00:05:06.600 --> 00:05:11.279 life skills and there's, and also understanding 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:16.839 who your dog is, right? Like what's their personality 00:05:16.839 --> 00:05:19.819 like? What do they like? All these things that 00:05:19.819 --> 00:05:24.519 really stem from home life, pet dog life, right? 00:05:24.600 --> 00:05:31.480 Like who these dogs are in life. is who they 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:38.600 are in training. So if my dog in life is pushy 00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:42.480 and demanding and obnoxious and always trying 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:45.060 to push the boundaries and a little independent, 00:05:45.360 --> 00:05:48.620 that's okay. That's who this dog is. That's also 00:05:48.620 --> 00:05:51.600 who this dog is going to be in training. And 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:56.279 I need to address those things in life and address 00:05:56.279 --> 00:06:01.529 them consistently in order for them for me to 00:06:01.529 --> 00:06:04.350 be able to train this dog right like if my life 00:06:04.350 --> 00:06:10.149 skills are not in place so one example is I have 00:06:10.149 --> 00:06:13.329 a leave it cue on my dogs because their labs 00:06:13.329 --> 00:06:15.610 they'll eat anything and everything if I drop 00:06:15.610 --> 00:06:18.490 a glass in my kitchen they come running in and 00:06:18.490 --> 00:06:21.449 they'll their first thing will be like can I 00:06:21.449 --> 00:06:24.709 eat this or if I drop pills or anything like 00:06:24.709 --> 00:06:28.060 that so I teach them a really strong leave it 00:06:28.060 --> 00:06:31.939 so if i dropped food right now and i yelled leave 00:06:31.939 --> 00:06:35.399 it none of my dogs would touch it right which 00:06:35.399 --> 00:06:39.420 means that if i'm training my dog and i a cookie 00:06:39.420 --> 00:06:42.939 drops or there's some enticing smell on the ground 00:06:42.939 --> 00:06:45.339 if i say leave it my dog will immediately leave 00:06:45.339 --> 00:06:47.819 it and now i can train my dog right but if i 00:06:47.819 --> 00:06:51.329 don't have a strong leave it in life then My 00:06:51.329 --> 00:06:53.850 dog's going to smell something and that's super 00:06:53.850 --> 00:06:56.529 reinforcing for dogs. My dog's going to blow 00:06:56.529 --> 00:07:03.069 me off. Yeah. And the same goes for, you know, 00:07:03.069 --> 00:07:05.689 all, all the things that are, all the things 00:07:05.689 --> 00:07:08.689 like I consider life skills that are like detrimentally 00:07:08.689 --> 00:07:10.910 important are things that are safety issues. 00:07:11.529 --> 00:07:14.329 You know, like that, like the recall, that's 00:07:14.329 --> 00:07:18.089 like the big one too, is, you know, you know, 00:07:18.089 --> 00:07:21.870 when I say come. you need to fucking come like 00:07:21.870 --> 00:07:24.470 no matter what. And that gets addressed. Like 00:07:24.470 --> 00:07:26.889 that stuff needs to get addressed in your pet 00:07:26.889 --> 00:07:30.589 life. You know what I mean? Like, so things that 00:07:30.589 --> 00:07:33.449 recalls or leave it, it's like people who don't 00:07:33.449 --> 00:07:37.449 have those things solidly down in their training 00:07:37.449 --> 00:07:40.189 with their dogs, like when they come, you know, 00:07:40.189 --> 00:07:44.250 to do lessons or training competition, obedience 00:07:44.250 --> 00:07:47.399 stuff, that stuff needs to get. ironed out in 00:07:47.399 --> 00:07:50.199 your pet life right like so if you have if you 00:07:50.199 --> 00:07:53.379 see holes like that in competition obedience 00:07:53.379 --> 00:07:56.300 stuff like you have to go you have to go examine 00:07:56.300 --> 00:07:59.000 what's going on in your pet life because that's 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:01.100 where it needs to get ironed out like that's 00:08:01.100 --> 00:08:04.379 where it needs to be solidly trained right because 00:08:04.379 --> 00:08:07.379 you don't want to be you know if you don't have 00:08:07.379 --> 00:08:11.160 like a with me like with me you know that's the 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:13.740 other thing like when when we move you need to 00:08:13.740 --> 00:08:16.959 move with me when i tell you to right that doesn't 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:19.959 you don't want to start correcting and getting 00:08:19.959 --> 00:08:23.279 after your dog in like your competition obedience 00:08:23.279 --> 00:08:25.579 stuff because you don't want to poison that stuff 00:08:25.579 --> 00:08:29.040 you need to get all that ironed out and trained 00:08:29.040 --> 00:08:32.480 in your pet life first and foremost because you 00:08:32.480 --> 00:08:34.820 need it in because it does it bleeds into your 00:08:34.820 --> 00:08:37.019 competition stuff but on the other hand like 00:08:37.019 --> 00:08:40.440 I we hike our dogs all the time and we travel 00:08:40.440 --> 00:08:42.840 all the time we're getting dogs out of parking 00:08:42.840 --> 00:08:45.659 lots we're at hotels we're near roads we're blah 00:08:45.659 --> 00:08:48.100 blah blah god forbid you break down on the road 00:08:48.100 --> 00:08:50.299 right and you gotta freaking get your dogs out 00:08:50.299 --> 00:08:52.879 of the car or whatever like you need those skills 00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:56.419 for sure it's like an insurance policy my dog's 00:08:56.419 --> 00:09:01.110 safety is like a priority Yeah. So I think, so 00:09:01.110 --> 00:09:03.210 our definition, we should say our definition 00:09:03.210 --> 00:09:06.269 of a with me is it's basically like an off leash 00:09:06.269 --> 00:09:13.450 day with me. Right. So I, you should, I say for 00:09:13.450 --> 00:09:17.230 life skills, people should be able to, I'll ask 00:09:17.230 --> 00:09:20.129 students, like if your dog is off leash, can 00:09:20.129 --> 00:09:24.049 you get your dog from the car into the building? 00:09:24.230 --> 00:09:28.250 A hundred percent guaranteed safely. And if they 00:09:28.250 --> 00:09:31.519 say no, then that's a problem because your dog 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:34.740 is going to be no matter what sport you do, your 00:09:34.740 --> 00:09:37.960 dog's going to be off leash and your dog can't 00:09:37.960 --> 00:09:41.539 leave you. Right. So if my dog leaves, if a dog 00:09:41.539 --> 00:09:45.259 leaves somebody in training, then that's a hole 00:09:45.259 --> 00:09:47.980 in their pet skill. Like my dog should never 00:09:47.980 --> 00:09:52.559 leave me unless I say go. Like if I'm off leash 00:09:52.559 --> 00:09:56.039 hiking and I say go run, they run. But if I call 00:09:56.039 --> 00:09:59.980 them, they come back. And if I say with me, my 00:09:59.980 --> 00:10:02.720 dogs, all three of my dogs will walk next to 00:10:02.720 --> 00:10:06.259 me in the woods so I can walk past somebody or 00:10:06.259 --> 00:10:10.360 whatever until I say, OK, and then they can run. 00:10:10.500 --> 00:10:12.799 And it's the same thing in training. And why 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:15.440 does that matter? Because if your dog could be 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:17.240 the friendliest dog on the planet, but if your 00:10:17.240 --> 00:10:19.779 dog runs out of the ring and runs up to one, 00:10:19.820 --> 00:10:22.480 depending on which dog I have, runs up to Zesty's 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:24.769 face, guess what? We're going to have a problem 00:10:24.769 --> 00:10:27.789 because he is not going to take kindly to that. 00:10:27.870 --> 00:10:30.210 And he's going to be in the right because your 00:10:30.210 --> 00:10:32.409 dog should not be running up to my dog's face. 00:10:32.669 --> 00:10:36.730 Right. So that's a big problem that needs to 00:10:36.730 --> 00:10:40.470 be addressed in pet dog training. The recall, 00:10:40.629 --> 00:10:43.720 like you said. If something were to happen and 00:10:43.720 --> 00:10:46.259 you call your dog, your dog should come immediately. 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:49.159 So I see people training their dog, toss a cookie 00:10:49.159 --> 00:10:51.679 or toss a toy, and then the dog's running around 00:10:51.679 --> 00:10:54.019 with it and they're like, come here, here, come, 00:10:54.220 --> 00:10:56.639 come. And the dog's not coming. It's a problem. 00:10:57.500 --> 00:11:00.679 Yeah, it's a huge problem. And if your dog learns 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:08.240 that your cues are optional, like if your dog's 00:11:08.240 --> 00:11:11.850 like, yeah, maybe I'll come, maybe I won't. why 00:11:11.850 --> 00:11:15.950 would your dog follow your competition cues, 00:11:16.110 --> 00:11:19.490 right? Like if I run agility and my dog's like 00:11:19.490 --> 00:11:21.769 we and decides to go run around or visit people, 00:11:21.929 --> 00:11:25.850 that's a with me issue. Yeah. That's a pet dog 00:11:25.850 --> 00:11:29.289 issue. That means your dog does not understand 00:11:29.289 --> 00:11:32.250 that it can't just leave and do what it wants. 00:11:32.610 --> 00:11:35.669 So people try to address it then as a competition 00:11:35.669 --> 00:11:38.690 thing. Oh, my dog's this, that, or the other 00:11:38.690 --> 00:11:43.649 thing. No, no, no. It's a pet dog issue. Right. 00:11:43.710 --> 00:11:48.070 Your dog does not know that it can't run off. 00:11:48.570 --> 00:11:51.909 Yeah. You didn't teach it that. Right. And, you 00:11:51.909 --> 00:11:54.049 know, these things are tough. When I get puppies, 00:11:54.389 --> 00:11:57.710 like these things are implemented immediately, 00:11:58.110 --> 00:12:00.870 you know, because the puppies are with me on 00:12:00.870 --> 00:12:02.950 hikes. Like immediately they're going everywhere 00:12:02.950 --> 00:12:05.070 with me. They're going to dog shows. We're hiking. 00:12:05.210 --> 00:12:06.769 We're going here. We're going there. We're going 00:12:06.769 --> 00:12:08.590 to training facilities. Like, so they're with 00:12:08.590 --> 00:12:11.710 me. So they need that stuff. put in immediately 00:12:11.710 --> 00:12:17.649 and like when we teach this stuff you know I'm 00:12:17.649 --> 00:12:20.629 always assessing it all the time with my dogs 00:12:20.629 --> 00:12:22.850 like we always talk about we're always watching 00:12:22.850 --> 00:12:24.990 our dogs like in the house we're watching them 00:12:24.990 --> 00:12:26.830 we evaluate them we watch how they're moving 00:12:26.830 --> 00:12:29.370 we watch how they're acting same thing when I'm 00:12:29.370 --> 00:12:32.090 out and about and I am assessing pet life skills 00:12:32.090 --> 00:12:34.590 because you know like if I go to load my dogs 00:12:34.590 --> 00:12:38.070 up in the car we have a detached garage so our 00:12:38.070 --> 00:12:40.940 our park like our driveways out by the road, 00:12:41.019 --> 00:12:43.779 right? So when I go to load my dogs up, they're 00:12:43.779 --> 00:12:48.440 on a with me and I open the car doors and I'm 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:51.759 telling them to come, let's load up. And, you 00:12:51.759 --> 00:12:54.259 know, the road is right there, right? So I have 00:12:54.259 --> 00:12:56.799 to be really careful. And I will, like, if I 00:12:56.799 --> 00:12:59.980 say, come with me, load up and someone's over 00:12:59.980 --> 00:13:03.059 by the garbage can sniffing, like I will not 00:13:03.059 --> 00:13:05.399 hesitate and address it right then and there 00:13:05.399 --> 00:13:09.090 because they're like, that's the, you know. It's 00:13:09.090 --> 00:13:11.269 going to be maintenance too, right? Like stuff 00:13:11.269 --> 00:13:15.690 gets weak. So I'm on it all the time. And there, 00:13:15.809 --> 00:13:18.230 you know, there's a consequence, obviously. I 00:13:18.230 --> 00:13:21.289 don't beat my dog, but you know, that's to me 00:13:21.289 --> 00:13:24.990 a non -negotiable skill for sure. Yeah, because 00:13:24.990 --> 00:13:27.710 life skills are, like you said, safety issues. 00:13:27.889 --> 00:13:30.990 I mean, you know, no one, everyone thinks, oh, 00:13:31.029 --> 00:13:34.370 that's not going to happen to me. But last year, 00:13:34.409 --> 00:13:37.450 the year before I had a really bad accident. 00:13:38.110 --> 00:13:43.129 And my dogs had to get out of the car. I couldn't 00:13:43.129 --> 00:13:46.190 even reach their leashes. Like I didn't even, 00:13:46.350 --> 00:13:50.970 you know, I had to come out of the truck and 00:13:50.970 --> 00:13:55.090 sit there while I tried to get, you know, leashes 00:13:55.090 --> 00:13:58.909 for them. And then they had to calmly walk with 00:13:58.909 --> 00:14:03.620 me into this like car repair place. They were 00:14:03.620 --> 00:14:05.639 kind enough to put me in the room. So they had 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:10.279 to like be in a room and be well -behaved. You 00:14:10.279 --> 00:14:12.639 know, then I had like, I was like, at one point 00:14:12.639 --> 00:14:15.360 I was like carrying stuff. So they were on leashes, 00:14:15.399 --> 00:14:16.960 but I didn't even have the leashes in my hand. 00:14:17.019 --> 00:14:21.159 They were on a with me. Yeah. No. And those are 00:14:21.159 --> 00:14:25.419 the times when you're like, this really matters. 00:14:26.100 --> 00:14:29.399 Yeah. And it's really important. Like if I had 00:14:29.399 --> 00:14:32.409 dogs that needed to be. held and they were like 00:14:32.409 --> 00:14:34.830 crazy on the leash and they didn't all this stuff 00:14:34.830 --> 00:14:37.889 it would have been an absolute or dogs that would 00:14:37.889 --> 00:14:40.549 have run off and wouldn't come back like it would 00:14:40.549 --> 00:14:44.889 have been terrible and you know going in the 00:14:44.889 --> 00:14:48.250 hotel and this that and the other thing so that's 00:14:48.250 --> 00:14:51.509 all really really important and but I think what 00:14:51.509 --> 00:14:53.730 happens is people have their dogs on leashes 00:14:54.590 --> 00:14:57.210 And they don't have these skills and they're 00:14:57.210 --> 00:14:59.610 like, it's okay because, you know, I can manage 00:14:59.610 --> 00:15:01.789 them in my everyday life. And then they go into 00:15:01.789 --> 00:15:06.429 competition, training in whatever sport, and 00:15:06.429 --> 00:15:09.190 then they're having all these problems and they're 00:15:09.190 --> 00:15:13.330 handling these problems as if they were competition 00:15:13.330 --> 00:15:17.470 problems and they don't get resolved because 00:15:17.470 --> 00:15:20.149 they're not competition. They're really, they're 00:15:20.149 --> 00:15:22.929 not just pet dog problems. They're also relationship 00:15:22.929 --> 00:15:26.309 problems, right? It's like a kid. If I let my 00:15:26.309 --> 00:15:29.870 kid be an absolute hooligan, he then no rules 00:15:29.870 --> 00:15:32.370 in the house. You really think they're going 00:15:32.370 --> 00:15:35.889 to listen in a restaurant? You're right. No, 00:15:36.129 --> 00:15:39.889 they're not. They're going to act the same. They're 00:15:39.889 --> 00:15:41.950 not. And you're going to say, cut that out. And 00:15:41.950 --> 00:15:43.309 they're not going to listen because you're going 00:15:43.309 --> 00:15:46.049 to be like, why would I? There's never any consequences. 00:15:46.169 --> 00:15:49.909 So why would I listen? Yeah. And that's a thing 00:15:49.909 --> 00:15:54.789 like I see. I see a lot with people, you know, 00:15:54.789 --> 00:15:58.110 who come to me and the biggest one is like when 00:15:58.110 --> 00:16:00.190 I go to, all right, let's, I'll say like, all 00:16:00.190 --> 00:16:01.769 right, we need to talk. So put your dog on a 00:16:01.769 --> 00:16:05.169 down stay. And that like is usually like totally, 00:16:05.350 --> 00:16:09.090 it is. I can tell in five seconds, like you need 00:16:09.090 --> 00:16:11.529 major life skill work because they're standing 00:16:11.529 --> 00:16:13.990 there. They can't even fucking listen to me because 00:16:13.990 --> 00:16:16.309 they're managing the dog. The dog goes down, 00:16:16.389 --> 00:16:19.120 looks at them, gets up. They go to put the dog 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:21.700 back down and they're saying the command repeatedly. 00:16:21.779 --> 00:16:24.100 The dog gets up. They have to go put it down. 00:16:24.220 --> 00:16:26.799 And I'm like, your dog doesn't have a down stay. 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:30.100 No, he does. He does. I'm like, no, he doesn't. 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:33.179 And that like that's an important thing. Like 00:16:33.179 --> 00:16:37.399 your dog is literally. like doesn't believe you 00:16:37.399 --> 00:16:39.360 like that's what i really say they really don't 00:16:39.360 --> 00:16:41.980 believe you like you can stay there and get mad 00:16:41.980 --> 00:16:46.519 at them and start like down no down they're like 00:16:46.519 --> 00:16:49.460 yeah whatever it doesn't matter like i'm gonna 00:16:49.460 --> 00:16:51.580 win they know they're gonna win the game eventually 00:16:51.580 --> 00:16:53.759 she's gonna relent which is probably what happens 00:16:53.759 --> 00:16:55.580 a lot of times they just give up and the dog 00:16:55.580 --> 00:16:58.519 can do whatever they want but that they're like 00:16:58.519 --> 00:17:02.139 that is that's going to bleed into your competition 00:17:02.139 --> 00:17:05.779 stuff for sure like that stuff needs to be addressed 00:17:05.779 --> 00:17:09.980 right um and that's that stuff's not going to 00:17:09.980 --> 00:17:12.220 get like i tell them that's got to get done in 00:17:12.220 --> 00:17:14.640 your pet life like don't be doing it in the you 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:17.099 know in your obedience life because that's you 00:17:17.099 --> 00:17:18.279 know you don't want to do that you don't want 00:17:18.279 --> 00:17:21.119 to poison stuff get it done and fixed in your 00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:27.180 pet life and for a lot of dogs it's also it's 00:17:27.180 --> 00:17:30.380 impulse control it's like a sustained down stay 00:17:30.380 --> 00:17:33.359 right and that so for example i'll take um so 00:17:33.359 --> 00:17:36.460 i have all different dogs so zaina she's really 00:17:36.460 --> 00:17:38.880 independent wants to do what she wants to do 00:17:38.880 --> 00:17:41.440 doesn't really want to listen to anybody quite 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:44.400 frankly because she doesn't need to um she has 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:49.720 poor impulse control very high drive very opinionated 00:17:49.720 --> 00:17:58.019 whatever so i tend to be um lenient ish um in 00:17:58.019 --> 00:18:01.519 my home life sometimes just because I got have 00:18:01.519 --> 00:18:04.039 so much going on but I realized with her I could 00:18:04.039 --> 00:18:07.099 not be right because part of what she needed 00:18:07.099 --> 00:18:10.180 to learn was impulse control part of what she 00:18:10.180 --> 00:18:14.319 needed to learn was to respect me and take what 00:18:14.319 --> 00:18:18.920 I said as that it's meaningful because I was 00:18:18.920 --> 00:18:21.720 having problems also in her competition right 00:18:21.720 --> 00:18:25.390 because she's like What you tell me is optional. 00:18:25.869 --> 00:18:30.450 So in life, I had to, you know, sit at the door 00:18:30.450 --> 00:18:32.490 and wait. You can't go through the door till 00:18:32.490 --> 00:18:34.049 I say, when you go through the door, you have 00:18:34.049 --> 00:18:36.930 to sit. Now you have to go do a with me to the 00:18:36.930 --> 00:18:40.390 car, sit in the car. If I don't do that with 00:18:40.390 --> 00:18:44.910 her, everything slips. It goes off the cliff, 00:18:45.009 --> 00:18:48.089 literally in the blink of an eye. And then 300%, 00:18:48.089 --> 00:18:51.109 it goes off the cliff and my competition training. 00:18:51.450 --> 00:18:57.410 Yep. And it. It's part of it is if I am not holding 00:18:57.410 --> 00:19:00.750 her accountable, then she just then she says, 00:19:00.829 --> 00:19:03.930 well, now you don't mean it then. And therefore, 00:19:03.930 --> 00:19:06.710 I don't need to listen. And so that's a relationship 00:19:06.710 --> 00:19:09.890 thing. In order for her to respect what I say, 00:19:10.089 --> 00:19:14.869 I must be 100 percent consistent. Now, Zeal, 00:19:15.069 --> 00:19:18.289 I can let him do whatever the fuck he wants in 00:19:18.289 --> 00:19:22.680 life and he will still listen to me. Cause that's 00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:26.140 who he is. Cause he's like, now, obviously his 00:19:26.140 --> 00:19:28.440 safety life skills have to still be in place, 00:19:28.500 --> 00:19:30.859 but I can be pretty lenient. Let him run through 00:19:30.859 --> 00:19:34.900 the door and whatever. Because he is that all 00:19:34.900 --> 00:19:37.380 I have to say is zeal. And he's like, Oh my God. 00:19:37.400 --> 00:19:39.319 Oh my God. I'm sorry. What did I do? Help me. 00:19:39.640 --> 00:19:44.119 I have a very different relationship with him 00:19:44.119 --> 00:19:47.400 because he's a very different dog. Yes. He still 00:19:47.400 --> 00:19:50.059 has a strong with me. Yes. He still has downstairs. 00:19:50.910 --> 00:19:54.650 calm and whatnot. But in general, I can be a 00:19:54.650 --> 00:19:57.710 little lenient with that because his relationship 00:19:57.710 --> 00:20:00.029 with me is different because he's a different 00:20:00.029 --> 00:20:04.910 dog. Right. Exactly. He's more complicated in 00:20:04.910 --> 00:20:11.750 that he does care. He does respect me. But so 00:20:11.750 --> 00:20:14.910 I kind of let something slide. But then all of 00:20:14.910 --> 00:20:17.430 a sudden I realized, oh, wait, you know, he's 00:20:17.430 --> 00:20:21.130 a little deceptive because sometimes. In certain 00:20:21.130 --> 00:20:27.329 things that matter to him, like food, he will 00:20:27.329 --> 00:20:30.470 blow me off in training, which shows that there's 00:20:30.470 --> 00:20:33.470 a hole in my life skills. So I went back and 00:20:33.470 --> 00:20:35.990 revisited my life skills and was like, oh, I 00:20:35.990 --> 00:20:39.910 see there's some spots where he gives me a little 00:20:39.910 --> 00:20:44.250 pushback. I better iron this out. So I realized 00:20:44.250 --> 00:20:48.700 that he does need. He does really do much better 00:20:48.700 --> 00:20:52.980 with structure like Zaina does and with a lot 00:20:52.980 --> 00:20:55.619 of impulse control work because that's a weakness 00:20:55.619 --> 00:21:00.400 of his, you know? And then I realized on Friday 00:21:00.400 --> 00:21:07.400 when we were trying to demo with me to somebody 00:21:07.400 --> 00:21:11.059 because we were training together and you were 00:21:11.059 --> 00:21:14.279 tempting him with food and the freaking dog left 00:21:14.279 --> 00:21:19.450 me every time. and I was like well guess what 00:21:19.450 --> 00:21:23.710 we need to do so again lifelong maintenance right 00:21:23.710 --> 00:21:26.230 we I need to revisit that that's what I'll be 00:21:26.230 --> 00:21:29.130 working on this week and with food because that's 00:21:29.130 --> 00:21:32.210 his Achilles heel right yeah who knows maybe 00:21:32.210 --> 00:21:34.450 he would have left me if you just called him 00:21:34.450 --> 00:21:37.869 right like because these things need constant 00:21:37.869 --> 00:21:42.670 maintenance especially with come you know especially 00:21:42.670 --> 00:21:45.980 with certain dogs yeah Yeah. Well, that's why 00:21:45.980 --> 00:21:47.900 it's important. Like we say, like you really 00:21:47.900 --> 00:21:50.740 need to know your dog, learn your dog, learn 00:21:50.740 --> 00:21:53.200 them in your house, you know, because that's 00:21:53.200 --> 00:21:55.720 where you're going to see who they are. They're 00:21:55.720 --> 00:21:59.119 pushy. You know, there are dogs. They will freaking 00:21:59.119 --> 00:22:02.180 fight you tooth and nail. They will push the 00:22:02.180 --> 00:22:05.000 limits every single time. Like that's just who 00:22:05.000 --> 00:22:09.059 they are. You know, we had one this weekend, 00:22:09.160 --> 00:22:11.720 like probably a lot of people wouldn't have known 00:22:11.720 --> 00:22:15.329 it just because of the way the dog looked. that 00:22:15.329 --> 00:22:18.490 dog ended up being a super pushy dog and I think 00:22:18.490 --> 00:22:22.150 the the handler was like surprised a little bit 00:22:22.150 --> 00:22:24.710 and I think it was really helpful that we kind 00:22:24.710 --> 00:22:27.569 of opened that up for her so she could see that 00:22:27.569 --> 00:22:30.630 but that needs things like that like that's where 00:22:30.630 --> 00:22:33.309 you you really need to you really need to read 00:22:33.309 --> 00:22:36.410 your dog and know who they are in in life that's 00:22:36.410 --> 00:22:39.049 why like we're always I'm always watching them 00:22:39.660 --> 00:22:42.359 Like I'm always assessing them, seeing who they 00:22:42.359 --> 00:22:44.940 are, what they do. I watch them with the dogs. 00:22:45.079 --> 00:22:48.240 They, they, they do a lot when they speak a lot 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:50.599 volumes of who they are, just interacting with 00:22:50.599 --> 00:22:52.539 the other dogs, how they interact with each other. 00:22:53.460 --> 00:22:58.019 Yeah. I mean like zest. Yeah. That's a huge point. 00:22:58.079 --> 00:23:00.200 Like how are they with each other? How are they 00:23:00.200 --> 00:23:02.619 with other dogs? How are they in the house? Like, 00:23:02.660 --> 00:23:08.250 I think people really struggle. Back to this 00:23:08.250 --> 00:23:10.490 person that you mentioned, I think there was 00:23:10.490 --> 00:23:13.930 more than one where like they're thinking certain 00:23:13.930 --> 00:23:17.130 issues, again, are competition issues. And I 00:23:17.130 --> 00:23:20.849 pretty quickly discerned like, no, these are 00:23:20.849 --> 00:23:24.130 like pet dog issues and relationship issues. 00:23:24.809 --> 00:23:28.609 And I think it's hard because it gets confusing, 00:23:28.829 --> 00:23:31.849 right? Like, why did the dog do this? And then 00:23:31.849 --> 00:23:33.690 people start thinking, well, maybe it's this, 00:23:33.750 --> 00:23:37.529 maybe it's that, maybe. a lot of times pet dog 00:23:37.529 --> 00:23:40.829 issue is something they don't even think of as 00:23:40.829 --> 00:23:44.650 a potential option, right? Or they're like, oh, 00:23:44.730 --> 00:23:47.009 this dog is doing this because it's this, that, 00:23:47.069 --> 00:23:49.930 or the other thing. And it's like, so yeah, it 00:23:49.930 --> 00:23:56.670 goes back to observing really objectively who 00:23:56.670 --> 00:23:59.569 they are in life and what are they doing in life 00:23:59.569 --> 00:24:03.150 and how are they acting, right? Like I told them. 00:24:03.759 --> 00:24:06.559 When Zaina was like seven or eight weeks old, 00:24:06.680 --> 00:24:10.319 like I have an acre fenced in. I bring her home. 00:24:10.460 --> 00:24:13.700 I put her on the ground and she's gone. She's 00:24:13.700 --> 00:24:17.759 like, oh, my God, look at this yard. I love it. 00:24:18.839 --> 00:24:22.619 Seven weeks old. I'm like, she could have cared. 00:24:22.740 --> 00:24:26.059 Did she check in with me? No, she's like, oh, 00:24:26.099 --> 00:24:29.339 my God, I'll be back in a couple hours. I'm going 00:24:29.339 --> 00:24:32.059 to go check this place out. And in that moment, 00:24:32.119 --> 00:24:36.680 I said to myself, like, OK, this is a very independent 00:24:36.680 --> 00:24:40.359 dog that's very confident, that is capable of 00:24:40.359 --> 00:24:43.759 entertaining herself. Therefore, when I train 00:24:43.759 --> 00:24:47.380 her, I am going to have to present things that 00:24:47.380 --> 00:24:51.259 are so highly reinforcing to her, like insanely 00:24:51.259 --> 00:24:55.740 highly reinforcing to overcome her ability to 00:24:55.740 --> 00:24:58.519 just entertain herself. And that is absolutely 00:24:58.519 --> 00:25:01.920 the case. Right. If you have a dog that like 00:25:01.920 --> 00:25:04.519 zeal, he goes two feet away from me and then 00:25:04.519 --> 00:25:07.220 immediately comes back to me. Well, that's a 00:25:07.220 --> 00:25:09.039 dog that's going to be worried. I'm going to 00:25:09.039 --> 00:25:11.140 have to put a lot of confidence in this dog. 00:25:11.619 --> 00:25:13.940 You know, I'm going to have to teach this dog 00:25:13.940 --> 00:25:16.579 to be able to work away from me like that's going 00:25:16.579 --> 00:25:19.420 to be hard for this dog. So that's all really 00:25:19.420 --> 00:25:24.220 important information to have because that holds 00:25:24.220 --> 00:25:26.519 you in their training. And then I had a student. 00:25:27.049 --> 00:25:29.490 I said, well, what is your dog find motivating? 00:25:29.730 --> 00:25:33.009 Eh, nothing really. Tell me about your dog at 00:25:33.009 --> 00:25:35.869 home. Well, what do you mean at home? Like just 00:25:35.869 --> 00:25:39.690 in life, like it was so kind of interesting. 00:25:39.789 --> 00:25:42.529 It was hard for this person to even understand 00:25:42.529 --> 00:25:45.910 what I was asking, right? Cause that's not what 00:25:45.910 --> 00:25:48.750 people think of. And I'm like, what does the 00:25:48.750 --> 00:25:52.710 dog like to do? Like, what does the dog find 00:25:52.710 --> 00:25:56.579 fun? right she's like oh the dog likes when I 00:25:56.579 --> 00:25:59.960 kick the ball oh good so your dog likes motion 00:25:59.960 --> 00:26:04.559 great so how about we take the food I put it 00:26:04.559 --> 00:26:07.500 in my hand and I did like a lot of prey drive 00:26:07.500 --> 00:26:11.740 chasing the food in my hand and the dog loved 00:26:11.740 --> 00:26:15.619 it went from being the dog's kind of like you 00:26:15.619 --> 00:26:20.190 know lower drive dog yeah From after two or three 00:26:20.190 --> 00:26:23.210 sessions of me doing the chasing thing, the dog 00:26:23.210 --> 00:26:26.130 kicked into prey drive and was a completely different 00:26:26.130 --> 00:26:32.509 dog. Yeah, that's crazy. When you just handed 00:26:32.509 --> 00:26:35.349 the dog food, it didn't even act like a lab. 00:26:35.829 --> 00:26:39.369 It was like, oh, thanks for the cookie. Right, 00:26:39.470 --> 00:26:42.930 right. Food like that. The dog was completely 00:26:42.930 --> 00:26:46.730 different. Right. So how did we know? Well, what 00:26:46.730 --> 00:26:51.930 is your dog like to do in life? Right. And that's 00:26:51.930 --> 00:26:55.190 real. So that's important information in terms 00:26:55.190 --> 00:27:00.170 of what does your dog find reinforcing? Right. 00:27:00.369 --> 00:27:03.609 Or can I use in my training? Like, how can I 00:27:03.609 --> 00:27:06.690 leverage that? Like, I just did a workshop on 00:27:06.690 --> 00:27:09.009 that low arousal dogs. What do they find exciting? 00:27:09.549 --> 00:27:12.190 I'm like, if your dog finds the tunnel exciting. 00:27:13.049 --> 00:27:15.930 Then send them through the tunnel, have them 00:27:15.930 --> 00:27:18.190 do a couple tricks, send them through the tunnel 00:27:18.190 --> 00:27:21.529 again. Dog starts to get more excited, have them 00:27:21.529 --> 00:27:24.970 do a couple of competition behaviors, send them 00:27:24.970 --> 00:27:29.150 through the tunnel. Leverage what your dog likes, 00:27:29.210 --> 00:27:33.750 but how, you know, in life, you need to analyze 00:27:33.750 --> 00:27:37.470 and get to know your dog. Yeah. Super important. 00:27:37.730 --> 00:27:43.240 Really important. Yeah. I mean, I. I like, that's 00:27:43.240 --> 00:27:46.559 all I do. I'm just always watching them, watching 00:27:46.559 --> 00:27:49.759 them, watching how they interact. But you're 00:27:49.759 --> 00:27:53.740 also watching them from an objective lens, like 00:27:53.740 --> 00:27:57.599 as an observer. Right. Sometimes people watch 00:27:57.599 --> 00:28:02.160 their dogs with this weird skewed lens and they're 00:28:02.160 --> 00:28:04.720 actually completely misinterpreting everything 00:28:04.720 --> 00:28:08.420 they're seeing. Right. Right. You know what I 00:28:08.420 --> 00:28:11.579 mean? They're like, oh, the dog's nervous. I'm 00:28:11.579 --> 00:28:17.859 like, nervous? Well, I know. I also think that, 00:28:17.880 --> 00:28:24.539 I mean, I hear a lot of like, well, the dog was 00:28:24.539 --> 00:28:27.539 in a shelter for the first two years of its life. 00:28:27.559 --> 00:28:34.579 Or the dog had, like, they kind of just. have 00:28:34.579 --> 00:28:37.480 like these ideas of who their dog are based on 00:28:37.480 --> 00:28:40.599 like maybe some experiences or things the dogs 00:28:40.599 --> 00:28:44.200 had in you know whatever and in their previous 00:28:44.200 --> 00:28:50.740 lives and i think then they use those that i 00:28:50.740 --> 00:28:52.480 don't know i don't want to say like as excuses 00:28:52.480 --> 00:28:57.200 but they let things go or they they yeah they 00:28:57.200 --> 00:29:00.640 get like a skewed perception of who their dog 00:29:00.640 --> 00:29:05.279 really is they're treating the dog as if it was 00:29:05.279 --> 00:29:10.240 still that dog that they got on day one but dogs 00:29:10.240 --> 00:29:14.000 change like dogs are so resilient and so flexible 00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:17.299 like just like my dogs like i've been in this 00:29:17.299 --> 00:29:21.160 airbnb what i was here like friday night like 00:29:21.160 --> 00:29:25.019 literally come in eat go to bed get up go to 00:29:25.019 --> 00:29:27.279 the building, come back, eat, go to bed, get 00:29:27.279 --> 00:29:28.960 up at the crack of dawn, go to the building. 00:29:29.339 --> 00:29:31.859 Yesterday I'm driving down, pulling up the driveway. 00:29:32.200 --> 00:29:34.960 Zaina's yell. She's like, Oh, we're almost home. 00:29:36.900 --> 00:29:39.859 Right. She knows it's not our home home. But 00:29:39.859 --> 00:29:42.480 then this morning they're guarding the house. 00:29:43.119 --> 00:29:45.680 They're like, okay, this is our home now. Right. 00:29:46.240 --> 00:29:49.720 I said, I was walking around going, God, they're 00:29:49.720 --> 00:29:55.480 so resilient. Like they just. Like, you're not 00:29:55.480 --> 00:29:58.220 like, oh, I'm so sad. Like, no, they're like, 00:29:58.240 --> 00:30:02.859 oh, we're home. Okay. And so people will often 00:30:02.859 --> 00:30:05.579 go, like you said, like, oh, my dog used to be, 00:30:05.660 --> 00:30:08.900 or I thought this was really cute. So somebody 00:30:08.900 --> 00:30:11.019 at the seminar is like, oh, my dog has a drop 00:30:11.019 --> 00:30:13.180 on recall problem. Dog does a perfect drop. I 00:30:13.180 --> 00:30:15.740 go, why do you think this drop was perfect? Because 00:30:15.740 --> 00:30:17.599 you told me you had a drop problem. Well, because 00:30:17.599 --> 00:30:19.880 we've been working on it really hard. I go, well, 00:30:19.920 --> 00:30:22.259 you fixed it. It's not a. You don't have a problem 00:30:22.259 --> 00:30:30.420 anymore. It's fixed. It's over. Now you're good. 00:30:30.839 --> 00:30:35.160 What else can we work on? Like, I know. I know 00:30:35.160 --> 00:30:41.119 they get stuck on shit. Yeah. Or like you said, 00:30:41.200 --> 00:30:43.339 they're like, well, my dog. No. Well, guess what? 00:30:43.440 --> 00:30:45.740 Maybe your dog was like that, but you know what? 00:30:45.799 --> 00:30:50.119 Your dog ain't like that today. Right now. This 00:30:50.119 --> 00:30:53.160 is not. what we're dealing with, right? Exactly. 00:30:53.339 --> 00:30:57.819 Or my favorite, and I get this a lot, is when 00:30:57.819 --> 00:31:00.279 they're saying like, oh yeah, my dog is this, 00:31:00.279 --> 00:31:02.400 that, or the other thing. And I watch, I'm like, 00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:05.119 all right, maybe I'm missing something, right? 00:31:05.900 --> 00:31:09.819 So I'll comment on the video. Next video, they're 00:31:09.819 --> 00:31:11.619 saying the same thing. And I'm like, yeah, I'm 00:31:11.619 --> 00:31:14.940 not seeing it. Third video, I'm like, look, that's 00:31:14.940 --> 00:31:17.420 no. Your dog is not what you're saying it is. 00:31:17.480 --> 00:31:20.700 It's not nervous or worried or anxious or whatever. 00:31:21.200 --> 00:31:24.180 I'm like, no, I'm not seeing that at all. And 00:31:24.180 --> 00:31:26.519 here's why. Look, their ears are up. They're 00:31:26.519 --> 00:31:28.680 this, they're that, the other thing. I'm like, 00:31:28.779 --> 00:31:32.299 I don't know where you're getting this information 00:31:32.299 --> 00:31:35.900 from, but this is not your dog. You know, you're 00:31:35.900 --> 00:31:40.220 right. My last dog was like that. Dude, your 00:31:40.220 --> 00:31:43.569 last dog is not your current dog. Right. And 00:31:43.569 --> 00:31:47.269 that happens a lot. Yeah, definitely. A lot. 00:31:48.130 --> 00:31:53.430 So I'm like, you need to stop putting what you 00:31:53.430 --> 00:31:57.670 think onto the dog. Right. Read the actual dog 00:31:57.670 --> 00:32:01.430 in front of you in that moment in time. What 00:32:01.430 --> 00:32:03.730 are their ears doing? What are their eyes doing? 00:32:03.809 --> 00:32:05.569 What is their breathing doing? What is their 00:32:05.569 --> 00:32:08.130 tail doing? If their ears are up and their eyes 00:32:08.130 --> 00:32:09.890 are bright and their tail is wagging, they're 00:32:09.890 --> 00:32:14.900 not stressed out. Right. exactly or anxious or 00:32:14.900 --> 00:32:20.140 afraid or whatever right you know um so i think 00:32:20.140 --> 00:32:23.779 it's hard like i tell people be a detective just 00:32:23.779 --> 00:32:27.680 gather data like what i do to separate my separate 00:32:27.680 --> 00:32:32.779 myself emotionally is when when i'm like frustrated 00:32:32.779 --> 00:32:35.380 or i'm not sure i'm like i don't know i go all 00:32:35.380 --> 00:32:39.119 right you know what pretend this is your student's 00:32:39.119 --> 00:32:42.750 dog This is not my dog. This is my students. 00:32:42.970 --> 00:32:46.769 And just what would I say? Because when I look 00:32:46.769 --> 00:32:49.509 at other people's dogs, I am just looking at 00:32:49.509 --> 00:32:54.170 them objectively. Right. There's no emotion involved. 00:32:54.269 --> 00:32:57.170 There's no baggage from the past, from the future, 00:32:57.210 --> 00:33:00.809 nothing. I'm just in, I'm not judging anybody. 00:33:01.069 --> 00:33:05.269 I am literally looking at the dog and analyzing 00:33:05.269 --> 00:33:09.400 data. Yeah. That's hard for Pete. It's hard. 00:33:09.759 --> 00:33:12.180 It's hard to get rid of that emotional component. 00:33:12.980 --> 00:33:15.400 Like that's what I hear all the time. I, a big 00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:17.940 one is like, Oh, I feel, I just feel bad for 00:33:17.940 --> 00:33:21.140 him. I'm like, what? Your dog lives a freaking 00:33:21.140 --> 00:33:25.220 like better life than I do. Oh my God. Right. 00:33:25.440 --> 00:33:29.259 Like our dog. I'm like, I want to come back as 00:33:29.259 --> 00:33:33.460 one of my dogs. Yeah. Right. Because Holy Lana, 00:33:33.619 --> 00:33:36.980 do they have good lives? Right. really good lives 00:33:36.980 --> 00:33:41.059 really good lives for sure yeah I think that 00:33:41.059 --> 00:33:46.619 yeah so the key is you need to be somehow come 00:33:46.619 --> 00:33:50.279 up with a strategy to separate yourself emotionally 00:33:50.279 --> 00:33:55.619 yeah from the situation because that always will 00:33:55.619 --> 00:34:00.970 100 % of the time skew your skew your decision 00:34:00.970 --> 00:34:03.490 -making and never to the good, right? Like anytime 00:34:03.490 --> 00:34:06.170 I'm emotional, I never come up with the right 00:34:06.170 --> 00:34:10.670 answer ever, never 0 % of the time. Emotions 00:34:10.670 --> 00:34:16.389 absolutely are a hindrance, right? So separate, 00:34:16.409 --> 00:34:20.570 being able to separate your, go, okay, I'm emotional. 00:34:21.230 --> 00:34:25.170 So I should not be making any decisions until 00:34:25.170 --> 00:34:29.789 I can separate myself from that. and objectively 00:34:29.789 --> 00:34:34.349 look at what's happening. And then that's the 00:34:34.349 --> 00:34:37.329 only time you can really analyze and come up 00:34:37.329 --> 00:34:43.829 with valuable information. Yeah. And just thinking 00:34:43.829 --> 00:34:47.670 about like the emotions because I'm just thinking 00:34:47.670 --> 00:34:53.210 like, I think some people may all of a sudden 00:34:53.210 --> 00:34:56.889 be like, wow, my dog really doesn't listen to 00:34:56.889 --> 00:35:01.670 me. Like you can't then get angry and like you 00:35:01.670 --> 00:35:04.590 have to teach these skills, right? Like they're, 00:35:04.590 --> 00:35:07.590 you're, you know, that's up to you. You're the 00:35:07.590 --> 00:35:10.010 one that got the puppy. You're the one that got 00:35:10.010 --> 00:35:13.650 the dog. Like it's up to you to train your dog, 00:35:13.750 --> 00:35:16.170 not just for competition stuff, but also for 00:35:16.170 --> 00:35:18.869 life skills. So you can't then go like, wow, 00:35:19.050 --> 00:35:21.449 my dog really doesn't listen. My dog really doesn't 00:35:21.449 --> 00:35:23.730 recall. And then like hammer down on the dog. 00:35:23.769 --> 00:35:27.010 You know, you can't do that either. Make sure 00:35:27.010 --> 00:35:29.869 you stay on a moat. Like when I have to deal 00:35:29.869 --> 00:35:33.489 with some of my pet life skills, like if there's 00:35:33.489 --> 00:35:35.809 a weakness or a hole where I'm like, oh wow, 00:35:35.969 --> 00:35:38.349 I don't think I really taught that well enough. 00:35:38.849 --> 00:35:42.210 I'm not going to get. angry about it you know 00:35:42.210 --> 00:35:45.030 I'm not going to get rough with my dog I'm going 00:35:45.030 --> 00:35:47.489 to take that emotional component out I'm very 00:35:47.489 --> 00:35:50.389 neutral when I do all that stuff even if I have 00:35:50.389 --> 00:35:53.469 to give a correction in pet life I stay I try 00:35:53.469 --> 00:35:55.849 to stay very neutral it's hard sometimes because 00:35:55.849 --> 00:35:57.809 we get pissed and annoyed and we're rushing or 00:35:57.809 --> 00:36:01.530 whatever but I try to stay very neutral in all 00:36:01.530 --> 00:36:04.860 that and then if you have to teach it then you 00:36:04.860 --> 00:36:07.019 need to teach it like you teach anything else 00:36:07.019 --> 00:36:10.300 with patience and and guidance until your dog 00:36:10.300 --> 00:36:13.880 understands it yeah because it's on us just like 00:36:13.880 --> 00:36:17.000 yeah that with me the other day where zesty's 00:36:17.000 --> 00:36:19.420 going to you because you have potato chips or 00:36:19.420 --> 00:36:23.820 whatever i'm like oh i said i need i need to 00:36:23.820 --> 00:36:27.940 work on that yeah because clearly i have let 00:36:27.940 --> 00:36:30.860 that slip, or maybe he just needs a refresher, 00:36:30.900 --> 00:36:34.980 but that's on me, right? It's a hole that I need 00:36:34.980 --> 00:36:38.639 to go and address. So I'm going to go back to 00:36:38.639 --> 00:36:41.980 the basic training for that and refresh it and 00:36:41.980 --> 00:36:45.519 get it back up to where it needs to be. So yeah, 00:36:45.599 --> 00:36:48.519 we need to take responsibility for the fact that 00:36:48.519 --> 00:36:51.519 there's either a hole in our training or the 00:36:51.519 --> 00:36:53.619 training just got weak and we need to refresh 00:36:53.619 --> 00:36:57.239 it. Like it's always everything the dog does 00:36:57.239 --> 00:37:01.519 is just a reflection of what it's been taught 00:37:01.519 --> 00:37:04.639 to do or not taught to do and what's been maintained 00:37:04.639 --> 00:37:07.719 or not maintained. Like, yeah, that's just the 00:37:07.719 --> 00:37:11.719 reality. Like it's a function of that. Yeah. 00:37:12.280 --> 00:37:16.539 Yeah. So, yeah. So I think home, home life. The 00:37:16.539 --> 00:37:19.619 observation part, super important. You get to 00:37:19.619 --> 00:37:21.460 know your dog. You should know what your dog 00:37:21.460 --> 00:37:23.760 likes and doesn't like, what excites your dog, 00:37:23.820 --> 00:37:26.599 what doesn't excite your dog. You know, who is 00:37:26.599 --> 00:37:29.059 your dog's personality? Because that's relevant 00:37:29.059 --> 00:37:33.739 in training. Life skills should be in place, 00:37:33.780 --> 00:37:36.980 A, first and foremost for their safety because 00:37:36.980 --> 00:37:39.820 that always trumps everything. And, you know, 00:37:39.860 --> 00:37:44.460 when they're competing or training. If, you know, 00:37:44.460 --> 00:37:48.760 if their life skill breaks and they something 00:37:48.760 --> 00:37:52.039 bad happens, you need to take that's on you. 00:37:52.159 --> 00:37:57.019 That is 100 percent your fault and nobody else's 00:37:57.019 --> 00:38:00.900 fault. And that should never happen because it's 00:38:00.900 --> 00:38:03.320 not just your dog. You're putting other dogs 00:38:03.320 --> 00:38:07.539 at risk. And that's, you know, really acceptable. 00:38:07.900 --> 00:38:13.460 Yeah. And if at some point. And in your training, 00:38:13.559 --> 00:38:17.599 if you're struggling with something, asking yourself 00:38:17.599 --> 00:38:21.679 if this is a life skill issue should be on the 00:38:21.679 --> 00:38:25.840 table, right? Like you should ask yourself, hmm, 00:38:26.019 --> 00:38:31.820 could the underlying cause be a weakness in either 00:38:31.820 --> 00:38:39.760 a life skill and or in like just a hole in our 00:38:39.760 --> 00:38:43.780 relationship, right? Like if I sit here and say 00:38:43.780 --> 00:38:48.440 to my dogs right now in the house, come or down 00:38:48.440 --> 00:38:52.639 or do something and they're not responsive. Why 00:38:52.639 --> 00:38:56.019 would they be responsive when I'm when I'm training 00:38:56.019 --> 00:39:00.139 and I say, come on a recall or down like. Right. 00:39:01.340 --> 00:39:06.039 A cue is a cue is a cue. Yeah. You know, so sometimes 00:39:06.039 --> 00:39:10.539 when people say like down, down, down in a competition. 00:39:11.610 --> 00:39:14.829 Or, you know, competition skill training scenario. 00:39:16.050 --> 00:39:18.789 Maybe that's a life skill relationship problem 00:39:18.789 --> 00:39:22.869 because your dog doesn't respect your cues. Not 00:39:22.869 --> 00:39:25.349 because the dog's a jerk, but because you don't. 00:39:25.750 --> 00:39:29.170 You're not consistent. Right. I usually will 00:39:29.170 --> 00:39:32.289 just say, so how many times do you have to say 00:39:32.289 --> 00:39:36.869 that until he actually does it? Because you're 00:39:36.869 --> 00:39:39.630 on the fourth one. And then the first is like, 00:39:39.750 --> 00:39:43.880 oh. The funny thing is the awareness, right? 00:39:44.039 --> 00:39:47.960 Like, I'll say to somebody, how many times did 00:39:47.960 --> 00:39:50.059 you just tell them to sit? And they look at me 00:39:50.059 --> 00:39:53.559 like, I don't know, two? And I'm like, try five. 00:39:54.079 --> 00:40:01.079 Right. Oh. Like, you're not even aware. And I'm 00:40:01.079 --> 00:40:04.619 like, you need to pay attention. Oh. That's my 00:40:04.619 --> 00:40:06.780 favorite because I count things all the time. 00:40:06.840 --> 00:40:10.559 Me too. I'm like, I'll count it in my head. Like 00:40:10.559 --> 00:40:15.780 one, two, three, four. And I'm like, so how many 00:40:15.780 --> 00:40:18.860 times? They're never right. They're never right. 00:40:18.860 --> 00:40:21.380 They always underestimate. I'm like, oh, my God. 00:40:21.539 --> 00:40:24.619 You need to work on your counting skills. That's 00:40:24.619 --> 00:40:29.019 right. Pay attention. Pay attention. All right. 00:40:29.619 --> 00:40:34.989 All right. Work on your life skills. God. All 00:40:34.989 --> 00:40:37.849 right. Someday I'll be back in New Jersey. Maybe. 00:40:40.409 --> 00:40:43.469 Hopefully. All right. Bye.