WEBVTT 00:00:11.849 --> 00:00:13.810 Hi everybody, welcome to the Canine Connection 00:00:13.810 --> 00:00:17.230 podcast. Today, Lori and I are going to talk 00:00:17.230 --> 00:00:24.530 about acclimation and warmup. I find that a lot 00:00:24.530 --> 00:00:26.370 of my students will be training their dogs at 00:00:26.370 --> 00:00:28.350 home and in training buildings, and then I'm 00:00:28.350 --> 00:00:30.890 like, you really need to get out and about so 00:00:30.890 --> 00:00:32.649 your dog learns to work around distractions, 00:00:32.969 --> 00:00:38.329 and they go somewhere. And they take their dog 00:00:38.329 --> 00:00:40.729 out of the car and they start training the dog. 00:00:40.909 --> 00:00:44.109 And then they're like, it was a disaster. And 00:00:44.109 --> 00:00:46.369 I said, well, did you give your dog time to acclimate 00:00:46.369 --> 00:00:50.450 to the environment? They're like, what? So the 00:00:50.450 --> 00:00:54.850 dogs. Well, first of all, humans are very unaware. 00:00:55.070 --> 00:00:58.530 So when we go somewhere new, like when you pull 00:00:58.530 --> 00:01:01.990 into a parking lot and get out of the car, we 00:01:01.990 --> 00:01:06.209 do a ton of things habitually. Right. Like we. 00:01:06.700 --> 00:01:11.920 Look around. We listen. Right. If something like 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:15.299 if I pull in the McDonald's parking lot, I smell 00:01:15.299 --> 00:01:20.500 the hamburgers. Right. I'm looking around and 00:01:20.500 --> 00:01:23.239 noting what people are there, what cars are there. 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:25.980 Is it busy? Is it loud? Is it quiet? Like my 00:01:25.980 --> 00:01:29.659 brain takes in all that data and processes it 00:01:29.659 --> 00:01:35.290 and acts accordingly. Right. Well. Our dogs need 00:01:35.290 --> 00:01:38.049 to do the same thing. Now we get there and we 00:01:38.049 --> 00:01:40.489 know why we're there. I'm in the Lowe's parking 00:01:40.489 --> 00:01:42.769 lot. Now I've been in a Lowe's parking lot many 00:01:42.769 --> 00:01:45.209 times before. I understand that it's relatively 00:01:45.209 --> 00:01:49.510 safe as long as I keep an eye out for cars and 00:01:49.510 --> 00:01:52.890 I know why I'm there and I know what I want to 00:01:52.890 --> 00:01:56.069 do there, et cetera. My dog gets out of the car. 00:01:56.349 --> 00:01:59.590 That's all it knows. I'm out of the car. I'm 00:01:59.590 --> 00:02:02.530 in a new location. That's it. It's in a complete. 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:08.939 an utter vacuum, right? It could be on a walk. 00:02:09.180 --> 00:02:12.280 It could be just there to hang out. It doesn't 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:15.340 know what it's doing or why, right? All it knows 00:02:15.340 --> 00:02:17.939 is I put a leash on it. I took it out of the 00:02:17.939 --> 00:02:20.939 car. Now, how the heck is my dog supposed to 00:02:20.939 --> 00:02:24.479 know that I expect it now to pay attention to 00:02:24.479 --> 00:02:28.539 me and start doing whatever competition task 00:02:28.539 --> 00:02:30.919 I'm doing, right? And if you do more than one 00:02:30.919 --> 00:02:33.879 sport, How in the world does your dog even know 00:02:33.879 --> 00:02:40.840 what sport it's doing? Right. So we have to give 00:02:40.840 --> 00:02:44.840 the dog an opportunity. So we have to, first 00:02:44.840 --> 00:02:47.500 of all, have some sort of a routine or a cue 00:02:47.500 --> 00:02:52.300 that says to the dog, we're not here just to 00:02:52.300 --> 00:02:57.039 hang out, right? We're here to do some obedience, 00:02:57.460 --> 00:03:01.789 rally, nose work, whatever. And I have to establish 00:03:01.789 --> 00:03:05.310 a routine for that. So if I'm going to do obedience, 00:03:05.550 --> 00:03:07.530 I'm going to take my dog. I'm going to potty 00:03:07.530 --> 00:03:10.569 my dog and I'm going to do something that's going 00:03:10.569 --> 00:03:13.849 to let my dog know that's on the table. Right. 00:03:13.930 --> 00:03:18.990 And then I have to give my dog time to take in 00:03:18.990 --> 00:03:23.330 the environment for as long as this dog needs 00:03:23.330 --> 00:03:29.849 until the dog is. is like, okay, I am now comfortable. 00:03:29.990 --> 00:03:33.449 I understand. I've taken it all in. I've processed 00:03:33.449 --> 00:03:39.990 it all. I can now tune that out and tune in to 00:03:39.990 --> 00:03:44.750 you and what you're asking me to do, whatever 00:03:44.750 --> 00:03:51.719 that task is. Yeah, and I think what we need 00:03:51.719 --> 00:03:54.879 to just make a note of with that piece is like 00:03:54.879 --> 00:03:56.580 when you talked about like we get out of the 00:03:56.580 --> 00:03:59.240 parking lot, we know we're at Lowe's, we know 00:03:59.240 --> 00:04:01.740 what we're doing, we know blah, blah, blah, we've 00:04:01.740 --> 00:04:07.699 been there before. And even though you could 00:04:07.699 --> 00:04:10.319 even have brought your dog to that parking lot 00:04:10.319 --> 00:04:14.750 before at Lowe's, but it's not the same. Every 00:04:14.750 --> 00:04:16.769 time you take them somewhere, even if it's the 00:04:16.769 --> 00:04:18.949 same place, even in your own training building, 00:04:19.129 --> 00:04:22.970 it's not the same each time. There's going to 00:04:22.970 --> 00:04:27.850 be whatever environmental factors. have changed 00:04:27.850 --> 00:04:31.529 in that given time and place when you've gone 00:04:31.529 --> 00:04:35.730 there. Different people, different noises, different 00:04:35.730 --> 00:04:38.589 sounds, different smells, because the dogs don't 00:04:38.589 --> 00:04:41.470 really generalize that well. So depending on 00:04:41.470 --> 00:04:46.689 the dog's level, sometimes, you know, a month 00:04:46.689 --> 00:04:49.350 ago when you took your dog to Lowe's and it was 00:04:49.350 --> 00:04:54.269 just a really quiet, quiet Tuesday morning where 00:04:54.269 --> 00:04:57.959 not much was going on. And your dog got out of 00:04:57.959 --> 00:05:01.000 the car. Your acclimation was didn't take that 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:03.680 long. Your dog was able to engage with you pretty 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:06.540 quickly. But then you go two weeks later on a 00:05:06.540 --> 00:05:11.139 Saturday afternoon and it's crazy busy. Kids 00:05:11.139 --> 00:05:15.339 are piling out of cars. A balloon floats in the 00:05:15.339 --> 00:05:19.079 air. A car backfired like it could just be a 00:05:19.079 --> 00:05:24.000 totally different scenario. And your dog may 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:27.980 take. triple time to acclimate because of that. 00:05:28.060 --> 00:05:31.000 Like that's just a worthy thing to note. Also, 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:33.720 when your dogs get out of the car, like, like 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:36.220 Petra said, like we get out of the car, we know 00:05:36.220 --> 00:05:38.160 where we're there. We know, you know, we kind 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:41.420 of just look around quick, but the dogs do like 00:05:41.420 --> 00:05:44.480 animals get out of the animals when they go to 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:49.050 any new place. Their first instinct is they kind 00:05:49.050 --> 00:05:52.769 of kick into that instinctive survival mode where 00:05:52.769 --> 00:05:56.110 their first thing really is, are they safe? Right. 00:05:56.189 --> 00:05:58.790 I think that's a big thing to note. Like they 00:05:58.790 --> 00:06:01.750 get out of the car and they are they need to 00:06:01.750 --> 00:06:03.829 check. They need to smell. They need to look 00:06:03.829 --> 00:06:06.430 to make sure that they're not going to get eaten 00:06:06.430 --> 00:06:10.610 and die or whatever it is. I think that's definitely 00:06:10.610 --> 00:06:14.930 worthy of noting. Yeah, that's super important. 00:06:15.930 --> 00:06:19.970 And it also depends on the dog, right? Like maybe 00:06:19.970 --> 00:06:23.790 the dog is just mentally tired. Maybe the dog's 00:06:23.790 --> 00:06:26.089 not feeling great. Maybe the dog's been training 00:06:26.089 --> 00:06:28.449 a lot, or maybe you've been going to a lot of 00:06:28.449 --> 00:06:30.790 different places and the dog's brain's like a 00:06:30.790 --> 00:06:33.790 little like, oh gosh, I can't quite. And then 00:06:33.790 --> 00:06:36.629 sometimes who the heck even knows, right? Like 00:06:36.629 --> 00:06:38.629 I remember my friend and my training partner 00:06:38.629 --> 00:06:43.589 and I. We met at a PetSmart one day. We'd gone 00:06:43.589 --> 00:06:46.529 to this PetSmart many times before, and our plan 00:06:46.529 --> 00:06:51.009 was to go into the PetSmart. And I got my first 00:06:51.009 --> 00:06:54.750 dog out of the car, and I was just going to do 00:06:54.750 --> 00:06:56.769 a couple things in the parking lot because I 00:06:56.769 --> 00:06:59.730 needed more space. Dog couldn't even work, couldn't 00:06:59.730 --> 00:07:02.290 even warm the dog up, right? I'm like, what is 00:07:02.290 --> 00:07:04.310 happening? All right, maybe my dog's just having 00:07:04.310 --> 00:07:07.889 an off day. He gets his dog out, same thing. 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:11.759 I get my other dog, same thing. Needless to say, 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:15.300 we never made it inside the PetSmart, right? 00:07:15.399 --> 00:07:19.800 We were stuck in that parking lot and we basically 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:24.019 like dialed down our expectations and we're like, 00:07:24.060 --> 00:07:26.000 all right, I just gotta get like a little bit 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:31.199 of work out of my dog and that's it. So I don't 00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:36.199 know why that day, I have no idea. I didn't know 00:07:36.199 --> 00:07:39.629 then. I didn't even really make myself too crazy 00:07:39.629 --> 00:07:44.910 about it. I just said, all right, you know what? 00:07:45.029 --> 00:07:48.069 Who knows why? We're just going to deal with 00:07:48.069 --> 00:07:52.029 it and did the best we could. And we left, right? 00:07:52.189 --> 00:07:55.170 And like, I don't know what happened. Now, one 00:07:55.170 --> 00:07:59.649 thing I will say in hindsight and something I've 00:07:59.649 --> 00:08:03.189 been really seeing and working on with a lot 00:08:03.189 --> 00:08:08.819 of my students is that. We tend to not give our 00:08:08.819 --> 00:08:13.860 dogs enough time to acclimate enough for the 00:08:13.860 --> 00:08:18.620 dog. Right. Like we. So my routine is I take 00:08:18.620 --> 00:08:21.680 my dog out of the car. I potty them. Then I put 00:08:21.680 --> 00:08:26.319 my dog in a with me, which means my dog's basically 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:29.759 allowed to walk next to me because I have to 00:08:29.759 --> 00:08:33.039 do something that I can do at a trial. At a trial, 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:35.929 my dog's not going to be. dangling at the end 00:08:35.929 --> 00:08:38.070 of a six foot leash because that's not safe. 00:08:38.409 --> 00:08:42.129 So my dog's going to be next to me, right? It 00:08:42.129 --> 00:08:44.549 doesn't have to look at me. We're not healing. 00:08:45.649 --> 00:08:49.570 It can look around, but it can't dart off, right? 00:08:49.710 --> 00:08:52.850 Like zesty, bolt over there because it thinks 00:08:52.850 --> 00:08:54.929 it sees a piece of food on the ground. No, it's 00:08:54.929 --> 00:08:58.220 a leaf, but whatever. um you have to stay with 00:08:58.220 --> 00:09:02.179 me and then we just walk around some people um 00:09:02.179 --> 00:09:05.960 stand some dogs that works fine a lot of dogs 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:10.460 standing is too static yeah um so i find that 00:09:10.460 --> 00:09:13.779 motion is better and i walk around and around 00:09:13.779 --> 00:09:15.960 and around and give my dog enough time to look 00:09:15.960 --> 00:09:18.679 the problem is in the past is i've determined 00:09:18.679 --> 00:09:22.879 i've said oh my dog looks ready now or i think 00:09:22.879 --> 00:09:26.600 that's enough time And then we'll ask our dogs 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:30.200 to work. And if it's not enough time, then we're 00:09:30.200 --> 00:09:32.700 asking our dogs to work and the work is not going 00:09:32.700 --> 00:09:35.500 to be optimal. And we may spend a fair amount 00:09:35.500 --> 00:09:37.879 of time saying the dog, hey, pay attention or 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:40.960 leave that or kind of struggling to get full 00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:46.440 engagement. Yeah. And part of that is just, you 00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:49.759 know, impatience. Part of that is because, you 00:09:49.759 --> 00:09:52.850 know, we. got things to do people to see and 00:09:52.850 --> 00:09:57.490 places to go um and part of that is just like 00:09:57.490 --> 00:10:02.169 it's really kind of uncomfortable and boring 00:10:02.169 --> 00:10:07.210 and on some weird level kind of annoying to walk 00:10:07.210 --> 00:10:10.210 around and around and around and around and the 00:10:10.210 --> 00:10:13.350 dog not check in there's this human part of us 00:10:13.350 --> 00:10:17.990 that's like dude yeah let's go yeah Yeah, that's 00:10:17.990 --> 00:10:21.909 a big, that's a big one for sure. But I, I think 00:10:21.909 --> 00:10:24.789 what happens is people go in with an expectation. 00:10:25.990 --> 00:10:30.529 And that's like, I think pretty common. that 00:10:30.529 --> 00:10:32.950 we put an expectation on how it's going to go 00:10:32.950 --> 00:10:35.470 and how it's going to look. And there's just 00:10:35.470 --> 00:10:38.289 times where, like you said, when you guys went 00:10:38.289 --> 00:10:40.769 to the PetSmart, like it just totally did not 00:10:40.769 --> 00:10:44.669 go as planned, like you thought. And that's when 00:10:44.669 --> 00:10:48.070 we, because we have these expectations and the 00:10:48.070 --> 00:10:50.610 picture in our head, then that's when we start 00:10:50.610 --> 00:10:53.049 to get that frustration and stuff. And like I 00:10:53.049 --> 00:10:56.929 said, like, it could be like your dog, like I 00:10:56.929 --> 00:11:00.720 could have a... my seasoned dog and go to wherever 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:07.639 and um what for whatever freaking reason like 00:11:07.639 --> 00:11:10.720 it could just be that the dog is having a really 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:14.639 hard time acclimating to that environment and 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:18.320 being engaged. In fact, a good example would 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:24.159 be last year when I went out to the NOC, we rented 00:11:24.159 --> 00:11:27.279 a place to go train a couple of days before. 00:11:27.620 --> 00:11:33.840 And when we walked in, it was a building with 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:36.799 really low ceilings that we were going to go 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:41.950 train in inside. It was dark. Um, it was actually 00:11:41.950 --> 00:11:47.250 not very clean and ever couldn't work in there. 00:11:47.370 --> 00:11:51.570 Like for whatever reason, she was just like having 00:11:51.570 --> 00:11:55.029 such a hard time with it. I tried and tried. 00:11:55.149 --> 00:11:57.309 I could feel myself like starting to fucking 00:11:57.309 --> 00:12:01.409 panic. I'm like, oh my God, like we're like, 00:12:01.470 --> 00:12:04.429 we're going to be in the NOC in a day or two 00:12:04.429 --> 00:12:07.750 and my dog won't work. Um, but I was like, no, 00:12:07.850 --> 00:12:11.580 no, no, it's okay. Like it is what it is. It's 00:12:11.580 --> 00:12:13.399 got to be something going on with this particular 00:12:13.399 --> 00:12:17.159 environment. And sure enough, like I got in the 00:12:17.159 --> 00:12:18.899 car. I just put her away because I was like, 00:12:18.919 --> 00:12:22.419 I'm not going to dig a hole. I packed up my stuff. 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:25.360 We left. I'm driving back and I'm trying to just 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:27.120 be in my head like, it's all right. It's all 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:29.279 right. It's all right. And then that night I 00:12:29.279 --> 00:12:31.460 just went out to a parking lot and was like, 00:12:31.500 --> 00:12:33.879 I'm just going to test a couple of things to 00:12:33.879 --> 00:12:37.179 make sure that we're not fucked. And she was 00:12:37.179 --> 00:12:40.940 totally fine. She was totally fine. So that's 00:12:40.940 --> 00:12:43.840 a really good example because she couldn't work. 00:12:43.919 --> 00:12:46.039 She couldn't, she couldn't engage. She couldn't, 00:12:46.039 --> 00:12:50.679 it was really hard for her. And like, we have 00:12:50.679 --> 00:12:53.379 to understand too, like there are animals, right? 00:12:53.480 --> 00:12:56.220 Like I say this all the time. They process the 00:12:56.220 --> 00:13:00.960 world differently. I mean. i will go back always 00:13:00.960 --> 00:13:04.460 to my yard like what's sesty doing right now 00:13:04.460 --> 00:13:08.799 on the patio with me he's staring out my gate 00:13:08.799 --> 00:13:14.379 right he's watching intently he's listening his 00:13:14.379 --> 00:13:17.539 ears are going back forth left right center right 00:13:17.539 --> 00:13:21.200 and he's sniffing like he's not just sitting 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:25.820 there gazing into the sky like or whatever humans 00:13:25.820 --> 00:13:28.299 do like i don't even know sometimes i just stare 00:13:28.299 --> 00:13:31.159 into like the woods or i stare at my flowers 00:13:31.159 --> 00:13:34.000 i'm like oh aren't they pretty i don't think 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:38.639 he's doing that right um that's how they process 00:13:38.639 --> 00:13:43.179 the world they act they um orient to motion they 00:13:43.179 --> 00:13:45.399 orient to sound like they're filtering everything 00:13:45.399 --> 00:13:47.700 in and out right in in a way that's meaningful 00:13:47.700 --> 00:13:53.039 to them as animals not not what's meaningful 00:13:53.039 --> 00:13:55.960 to us. Like, oh, we want you to do this task. 00:13:56.019 --> 00:13:59.879 Like the dog has to kind of get, you know, filter 00:13:59.879 --> 00:14:03.500 through all that. And we have to give them that 00:14:03.500 --> 00:14:07.500 opportunity. What I find is if we wait long enough, 00:14:07.580 --> 00:14:11.080 even if that's painfully long, I mean, you know, 00:14:11.100 --> 00:14:14.980 something that really hit home to me was in a 00:14:14.980 --> 00:14:19.200 podcast that Denise Fenzi had done. And she said 00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:22.200 something about like, standing somewhere and 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:26.940 waiting like 20 minutes for her dog to acclimate. 00:14:27.179 --> 00:14:32.259 And I was like, wow, like that's a long time. 00:14:32.279 --> 00:14:34.820 And I thought about it and I'm like, no one waits 00:14:34.820 --> 00:14:38.080 20 minutes. Maybe that's a problem. Now, maybe 00:14:38.080 --> 00:14:41.340 most every dog is not going to take 20 minutes, 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:44.659 but if it takes your dog that long, are you waiting 00:14:44.659 --> 00:14:51.669 that long? Probably not. Right. And what I'm 00:14:51.669 --> 00:14:55.490 finding is when my students wait long enough 00:14:55.490 --> 00:14:58.970 and when I wait long enough, because I wait longer 00:14:58.970 --> 00:15:02.950 now for Zesty, Zaina dials right in because she 00:15:02.950 --> 00:15:05.330 just could care less about the environment. Right. 00:15:05.710 --> 00:15:09.610 But that's who she is. That's uncharacteristic. 00:15:09.629 --> 00:15:11.730 She's the only one of my dogs that's ever been 00:15:11.730 --> 00:15:16.269 like that. Right. She just she's just a different 00:15:16.269 --> 00:15:20.139 egg. Most dogs need more time. And when we give 00:15:20.139 --> 00:15:25.519 them that extra time, so much conflict goes away. 00:15:25.559 --> 00:15:31.039 Yeah. Right. Like, like my one training partner 00:15:31.039 --> 00:15:34.840 yesterday, we met at Lowe's. Right. And. We're 00:15:34.840 --> 00:15:37.639 walking around. And again, I feel it like it's 00:15:37.639 --> 00:15:40.340 innate in me because I am someone that's always 00:15:40.340 --> 00:15:43.200 on the go, always got things to do, always like 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:45.539 on to the next thing, on to the next thing. So 00:15:45.539 --> 00:15:48.279 he's walking around and walking around. And I 00:15:48.279 --> 00:15:51.379 feel that thing where I'm like, oh, come on. 00:15:51.379 --> 00:15:54.320 And I'm like, and now I know it. And I go, oh, 00:15:54.440 --> 00:15:56.840 interesting. Like, see, this is where and then 00:15:56.840 --> 00:16:00.820 I see it on his face. Right. When he wants, I 00:16:00.820 --> 00:16:04.480 can see the moment I, he wants to go like, all 00:16:04.480 --> 00:16:07.019 right, to his dog, like, let's go already. Right. 00:16:07.080 --> 00:16:09.600 And I looked at him, I go, don't do it. And he 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:12.519 starts laughing because he could, he knew what 00:16:12.519 --> 00:16:16.960 I, that I knew. Right. And I'm like, just keep 00:16:16.960 --> 00:16:20.840 walking. Cause it is so uncomfortable. Right. 00:16:21.860 --> 00:16:25.379 And that, but this was what was great because 00:16:25.379 --> 00:16:28.139 the reason I'm making him do this is because. 00:16:29.099 --> 00:16:32.340 there's so much conflict of him nagging, having 00:16:32.340 --> 00:16:34.940 to nag the dog, leave it up here. And then the 00:16:34.940 --> 00:16:36.980 dog looks up and then leave it up here. And I 00:16:36.980 --> 00:16:39.799 was like, yeah. And I'm like, oh my God, dog. 00:16:40.409 --> 00:16:43.710 you're well this dog's well trained like come 00:16:43.710 --> 00:16:48.690 on right so he waited we waited and finally the 00:16:48.690 --> 00:16:51.490 dog starts checking in and then we're like yes 00:16:51.490 --> 00:16:54.149 and then we give him another chance because just 00:16:54.149 --> 00:16:56.269 because you checked in doesn't mean you're fully 00:16:56.269 --> 00:16:59.509 ready yep so then we walked around more guess 00:16:59.509 --> 00:17:02.049 what dog wasn't fully ready right and I could 00:17:02.049 --> 00:17:04.230 see him getting twitchy like I looked at him 00:17:04.230 --> 00:17:07.950 don't do it Just wait. Right. So now we have 00:17:07.950 --> 00:17:11.069 to wait again. Oh my God. I thought the dog was 00:17:11.069 --> 00:17:15.150 finally ready. Right. Anyway, long story short, 00:17:15.369 --> 00:17:19.230 dog's finally really ready. And guess what? We 00:17:19.230 --> 00:17:22.230 start working the dog. Dog doesn't look away. 00:17:22.750 --> 00:17:26.230 There's no conflict. Dog's giving him enormous 00:17:26.230 --> 00:17:31.910 effort. Dog did like unbelievable work. you know, 00:17:31.910 --> 00:17:34.009 literally we're doing command discrimination. 00:17:34.390 --> 00:17:36.990 So the dog's sitting there, he's walking away. 00:17:37.069 --> 00:17:39.789 This person with a cart comes by cause we're 00:17:39.789 --> 00:17:43.369 in an aisle, like literally like, I don't know, 00:17:43.369 --> 00:17:46.130 six inches pushing the cart next to the dog. 00:17:46.130 --> 00:17:52.160 Dog's perfectly fine. Right. Because we waited 00:17:52.160 --> 00:17:56.319 long enough and the dog had fully let go of the 00:17:56.319 --> 00:17:59.799 environment and a dog's brain had fully shifted 00:17:59.799 --> 00:18:06.559 into like, OK, I can now give you 100 percent 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:11.079 of my attention and effort. Yeah. Yeah. Which 00:18:11.079 --> 00:18:14.619 is I think a big I think that's a really good 00:18:14.619 --> 00:18:20.200 example, because I think people. probably a lot 00:18:20.200 --> 00:18:21.799 of people who will be listening to this will 00:18:21.799 --> 00:18:24.380 want to kind of know or ask the question of like, 00:18:24.480 --> 00:18:28.019 well, when, how do I know when it's time? Like 00:18:28.019 --> 00:18:30.799 how, what, you know, what does that look like? 00:18:30.839 --> 00:18:34.279 Right. And I think that's, A, you need to, you 00:18:34.279 --> 00:18:36.319 need to know your dog. You need to be able to 00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:40.779 read your dog. Right. You need to, you need to 00:18:40.779 --> 00:18:44.059 really be able to read when your dog is able 00:18:44.059 --> 00:18:49.220 to give you full engagement. Right. And that 00:18:49.220 --> 00:18:52.160 means like what you just said, like the dog might 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:54.599 check in with you and it might look like you've 00:18:54.599 --> 00:18:58.220 got it, but you do need to wait because you want 00:18:58.220 --> 00:19:00.319 to make sure that they can give you that duration 00:19:00.319 --> 00:19:03.259 of engagement, not just a check -in and then 00:19:03.259 --> 00:19:05.099 they need to go check the environment again. 00:19:06.319 --> 00:19:08.779 This was a big thing I had to do with Stormy 00:19:08.779 --> 00:19:12.440 this past weekend because she, a lot of people 00:19:12.440 --> 00:19:17.309 know this, that She was very, very environmentally 00:19:17.309 --> 00:19:25.230 sensitive, particular to men and really like 00:19:25.230 --> 00:19:28.990 public places with just people walking around. 00:19:29.950 --> 00:19:32.809 Doorways were really weird for her. People coming 00:19:32.809 --> 00:19:35.410 in and out of doorways for some reason, like 00:19:35.410 --> 00:19:38.029 whatever it was that like really freaked her 00:19:38.029 --> 00:19:42.119 out. I actually took her this past weekend to 00:19:42.119 --> 00:19:47.480 show at a place she had never, ever been. So 00:19:47.480 --> 00:19:50.420 I knew going in that she was definitely going 00:19:50.420 --> 00:19:54.039 to need lots of time for acclimation and that 00:19:54.039 --> 00:19:57.559 I was going to have to just eventually just be 00:19:57.559 --> 00:20:00.039 able to read whether or not she was actually 00:20:00.039 --> 00:20:02.440 going to be able to show. Like I was really ready 00:20:02.440 --> 00:20:05.380 to just scratch her entry if I knew she wouldn't 00:20:05.380 --> 00:20:09.269 be able to handle it. So I, you know, I only 00:20:09.269 --> 00:20:13.349 showed her on Sunday out of the two days. So 00:20:13.349 --> 00:20:15.109 I brought, you know, we were there Saturday. 00:20:15.410 --> 00:20:19.170 I took her out. We did tons of acclimation and 00:20:19.170 --> 00:20:21.490 literally like I took her out three or four times 00:20:21.490 --> 00:20:24.549 in between, like throughout the day. And I never 00:20:24.549 --> 00:20:27.710 got full, full engagement from her. Like she 00:20:27.710 --> 00:20:30.170 still needed to like look into the environment. 00:20:30.289 --> 00:20:33.690 So going in Sunday morning, I still wasn't a 00:20:33.690 --> 00:20:35.509 hundred percent sure I was going to show her. 00:20:36.349 --> 00:20:39.809 But when I went in Sunday morning, I, again, 00:20:39.869 --> 00:20:42.809 I got there super fucking early. Like first one 00:20:42.809 --> 00:20:46.819 there, got her in the building. did my acclimation, 00:20:46.880 --> 00:20:52.299 full engagement, no problem. She was happy. She 00:20:52.299 --> 00:20:55.859 was offering. She was getting vocal, which is 00:20:55.859 --> 00:20:57.900 what she tends to do because she's getting really 00:20:57.900 --> 00:21:02.920 excited. Her arousal was up. She wanted to work. 00:21:03.160 --> 00:21:06.819 And I was like, OK, she's good. But then as more 00:21:06.819 --> 00:21:09.240 and more people started to filter into the building, 00:21:09.500 --> 00:21:11.380 you know, the day starting to get busy, people 00:21:11.380 --> 00:21:14.460 are coming in. I knew that was going to. be a 00:21:14.460 --> 00:21:16.640 shift change for her. And I wanted to make sure 00:21:16.640 --> 00:21:18.900 she could still, so I had to acclimate her again, 00:21:19.119 --> 00:21:22.539 right? My class started at 855. So I'm pulling 00:21:22.539 --> 00:21:25.599 her out again, knowing purposely people are coming 00:21:25.599 --> 00:21:27.720 in and out of the door, the bathroom door swinging 00:21:27.720 --> 00:21:29.799 open. I knew that was going to be hard for her, 00:21:29.880 --> 00:21:34.569 brought her out. Um, and I, you know, she definitely 00:21:34.569 --> 00:21:37.029 did some looking, it took a little bit longer 00:21:37.029 --> 00:21:40.049 to acclimate her, but then she totally dialed 00:21:40.049 --> 00:21:43.609 in again. She gave me the same thing eventually 00:21:43.609 --> 00:21:45.349 as she did first thing in the morning when the 00:21:45.349 --> 00:21:48.250 building was pretty empty. Um, and that's when 00:21:48.250 --> 00:21:50.609 I knew, you know, she was definitely engaged. 00:21:50.849 --> 00:21:53.670 She was ready to work. She was ready to handle 00:21:53.670 --> 00:21:56.349 the environment and give me a hundred percent 00:21:56.349 --> 00:22:00.289 engagement and focus. So that was a big thing 00:22:00.289 --> 00:22:03.980 for her. Yeah. And I think people don't. Well, 00:22:04.099 --> 00:22:06.200 so we should go. You made a really good point. 00:22:06.299 --> 00:22:08.000 Like, what does it look like? Right. Because 00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:12.400 what I see happen a lot is, you know, handlers 00:22:12.400 --> 00:22:16.140 walking the dog around or standing, whatever 00:22:16.140 --> 00:22:18.920 dog looks at them for a split second and they 00:22:18.920 --> 00:22:21.720 go, yes. And then they give them a cookie and 00:22:21.720 --> 00:22:24.859 then they're like, OK, let's go. Right. But like 00:22:24.859 --> 00:22:28.420 if first of all, I want my dog to look at me 00:22:28.420 --> 00:22:31.920 for more than a second, you know. for several 00:22:31.920 --> 00:22:36.099 seconds, like with intensity, and then I might 00:22:36.099 --> 00:22:38.960 go, good dog, or yes, maybe I'll reinforce them. 00:22:39.160 --> 00:22:43.140 Then do they check immediately back in again 00:22:43.140 --> 00:22:46.859 and look at me with intensity? Or do they immediately 00:22:46.859 --> 00:22:50.240 go back to looking at the environment? Guess 00:22:50.240 --> 00:22:54.079 what? If they do that, they're not ready, right? 00:22:55.480 --> 00:22:59.220 Do they walk around and do I start say, oh, I 00:22:59.220 --> 00:23:02.059 think you're ready. And I start warming my dog 00:23:02.059 --> 00:23:05.259 up and my dog keeps disengaging and looking around. 00:23:05.299 --> 00:23:08.339 Guess what? I'm aborting because my dog is not 00:23:08.339 --> 00:23:12.400 ready. Right. If I find that I'm saying to my 00:23:12.400 --> 00:23:15.519 dog, hey, look, look over here, look over here, 00:23:15.579 --> 00:23:18.279 look over here. Guess what? I'm nagging. My dog 00:23:18.279 --> 00:23:21.799 is not ready. Right. My dog is not giving me. 00:23:22.940 --> 00:23:27.160 full engagement. So it may look like my dog and 00:23:27.160 --> 00:23:29.740 my dog might think it's ready. My dog might try 00:23:29.740 --> 00:23:32.259 and then I might go, all right, let's go. And 00:23:32.259 --> 00:23:36.359 then dog can go, ah, yeah, I can't yet. Right. 00:23:36.440 --> 00:23:39.180 And we have to respect that because if we don't 00:23:39.180 --> 00:23:42.579 respect that, first of all, it's infringing on 00:23:42.579 --> 00:23:45.640 the relationship. But second of all, You're not 00:23:45.640 --> 00:23:48.980 getting 100 % out of your dog. And then you're 00:23:48.980 --> 00:23:50.839 going to be frustrated and you're going to be 00:23:50.839 --> 00:23:53.200 nagging the dog and neither of you are going 00:23:53.200 --> 00:23:56.180 to be having fun. It's not worth it. Yeah. And 00:23:56.180 --> 00:23:58.339 that like that this weekend was stormy. Like 00:23:58.339 --> 00:24:00.680 that was a big thing. Like I had to put that 00:24:00.680 --> 00:24:03.940 in my head. I paid my entry fee. You know, I 00:24:03.940 --> 00:24:07.539 I'm there with her hoping she's entered in novice. 00:24:07.539 --> 00:24:10.559 I'm hoping to this was her last leg. So, of course, 00:24:10.599 --> 00:24:14.039 I'm like, I want to just get her title and all 00:24:14.039 --> 00:24:16.599 that's on the plate. Right. But I in my head, 00:24:16.599 --> 00:24:20.779 I had I prepared myself mentally like. If she 00:24:20.779 --> 00:24:24.750 can't. acclimate if she can't handle the environment 00:24:24.750 --> 00:24:28.529 and work and give me what I need for her to be 00:24:28.529 --> 00:24:32.630 successful and and most importantly comfortable 00:24:32.630 --> 00:24:36.329 working in that environment I was absolutely 00:24:36.329 --> 00:24:38.750 ready to just bag it and that would have been 00:24:38.750 --> 00:24:42.210 fine right and that's the hard part because that's 00:24:42.210 --> 00:24:46.099 where that agenda comes in like And I hear that 00:24:46.099 --> 00:24:48.140 like that. I think people always say that like 00:24:48.140 --> 00:24:50.680 they're like, oh, what a waste of an entry fee. 00:24:50.819 --> 00:24:54.500 Like, but it's really like you got to be willing 00:24:54.500 --> 00:24:56.680 to whether you're going to train in a parking 00:24:56.680 --> 00:24:59.940 lot and a new training place or even at a trial, 00:25:00.079 --> 00:25:03.440 like at any given moment, like I'm reading my 00:25:03.440 --> 00:25:07.700 dog, my dog's well -being mentally and physically 00:25:07.700 --> 00:25:13.400 come first and foremost before my own. agenda 00:25:13.400 --> 00:25:16.019 and goals right that's got to be really put out 00:25:16.019 --> 00:25:20.220 there because and it's the longevity too of my 00:25:20.220 --> 00:25:24.279 dog's career like I want her to have good experiences 00:25:24.279 --> 00:25:28.519 everywhere I train especially at a trial venue 00:25:28.519 --> 00:25:30.759 you know that's that's just really important 00:25:30.759 --> 00:25:35.240 to me and the reality is you're not going to 00:25:35.240 --> 00:25:40.299 get the performance you want Exactly. So if your 00:25:40.299 --> 00:25:43.799 dog is not fully acclimated, if your dog isn't 00:25:43.799 --> 00:25:46.140 able to let go of the environment and focus 100 00:25:46.140 --> 00:25:48.779 percent on you, then guess what? You're not going 00:25:48.779 --> 00:25:51.440 to be happy with the performance anyway. Right. 00:25:51.779 --> 00:25:54.079 It's never going to be what you want. Like you 00:25:54.079 --> 00:25:57.279 can't force you can't push through that. You 00:25:57.279 --> 00:26:01.839 can't force that. Like it just it never works. 00:26:01.900 --> 00:26:04.660 It's you're going to get a dog that has even 00:26:04.660 --> 00:26:08.210 if your dog is well trained and obedient. Right. 00:26:08.269 --> 00:26:12.109 And you say, let go of the environment. And dogs 00:26:12.109 --> 00:26:15.089 like or you say, don't look. And the dog says, 00:26:15.230 --> 00:26:17.950 fine, I'm not looking. That does not mean they 00:26:17.950 --> 00:26:21.829 have their attention isn't split. Right. They're 00:26:21.829 --> 00:26:25.170 either going to be still distracted, like Zaina 00:26:25.170 --> 00:26:27.829 has the ability to stare right into my eyeballs 00:26:27.829 --> 00:26:31.029 and be fully thinking about something that's 00:26:31.029 --> 00:26:34.960 going on in the environment. Right. Like. She 00:26:34.960 --> 00:26:39.640 did that the other day. She's so funny. Like 00:26:39.640 --> 00:26:41.920 right as I'm getting ready to go in the ring, 00:26:42.220 --> 00:26:45.819 chaos erupts in the rally ring. And when I say 00:26:45.819 --> 00:26:49.460 chaos, I'm talking about, look, I'm not throwing 00:26:49.460 --> 00:26:51.700 shade on anyone, but there should be a volume 00:26:51.700 --> 00:26:58.740 limit, right? Like, talk, talk. And she's like, 00:26:58.960 --> 00:27:03.140 what? She thinks that's so fascinating. She's 00:27:03.140 --> 00:27:05.269 like, what? what is happening over there? And 00:27:05.269 --> 00:27:08.490 I look at her and I go, don't do it. Cause literally 00:27:08.490 --> 00:27:11.710 they're calling my number, right? So she's staring 00:27:11.710 --> 00:27:15.589 into my eyeballs, but both ears are pinned to 00:27:15.589 --> 00:27:19.970 the back of her head. And I know that every like 00:27:19.970 --> 00:27:25.029 99 .9 % of her brain power at that moment is 00:27:25.029 --> 00:27:32.450 on the rally ring and not on me. So now. obviously 00:27:32.450 --> 00:27:34.349 I didn't have an option. I had to go in the ring, 00:27:34.410 --> 00:27:38.430 but my point is like, she can be in that moment. 00:27:38.529 --> 00:27:41.950 She's being obedient and doing what I'm, what 00:27:41.950 --> 00:27:44.930 she is quote unquote supposed to do, but I do 00:27:44.930 --> 00:27:48.950 not have her full attention. Right. Right. So 00:27:48.950 --> 00:27:55.289 that's not optimal, you know, and if you, and 00:27:55.289 --> 00:27:58.829 that's not what we want right in training or 00:27:58.829 --> 00:28:04.009 in the ring. So Ideally, that didn't happen right 00:28:04.009 --> 00:28:06.269 before we went in the ring. And I, you know, 00:28:06.269 --> 00:28:11.950 do whatever I need to do to get her off that 00:28:11.950 --> 00:28:16.289 thing in the environment and back on to the task 00:28:16.289 --> 00:28:20.190 at hand. Right. And that's what we often don't 00:28:20.190 --> 00:28:23.650 give our dogs the opportunity to do. And then 00:28:23.650 --> 00:28:27.609 it negatively impacts their work. And then we're 00:28:27.609 --> 00:28:30.880 frustrated and we're annoyed. And we're disappointed 00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:34.420 or we're like, I don't understand. We're confused. 00:28:34.539 --> 00:28:38.140 And really, the dog just didn't have enough time. 00:28:38.220 --> 00:28:40.759 And I think, you know, like you mentioned about 00:28:40.759 --> 00:28:43.220 reading the dog, all this has to be established 00:28:43.220 --> 00:28:46.660 in training, right? In training is where you 00:28:46.660 --> 00:28:51.440 need to learn to read your dog because they're 00:28:51.440 --> 00:28:54.279 all going to be different. You know, how much 00:28:54.279 --> 00:28:57.500 acclimation does this dog need? What does this 00:28:57.500 --> 00:29:01.220 dog look like? When it's not ready, what does 00:29:01.220 --> 00:29:04.339 this dog look like when it is ready? And you 00:29:04.339 --> 00:29:06.960 determine that by the work and maybe you'll make 00:29:06.960 --> 00:29:09.240 a mistake. Oh, I thought they were ready, but 00:29:09.240 --> 00:29:11.500 boy, that training session was kind of a disaster. 00:29:11.880 --> 00:29:14.640 Hmm, maybe I should have waited longer. All right, 00:29:14.660 --> 00:29:19.140 next time, let me wait longer, right? Was it 00:29:19.140 --> 00:29:22.799 better? There's a lot of experimentation that 00:29:22.799 --> 00:29:27.049 has to go into that and they change. A green 00:29:27.049 --> 00:29:32.410 dog, like Stormy, is typically going to require 00:29:32.410 --> 00:29:36.730 way more acclimation. What you described is pretty 00:29:36.730 --> 00:29:42.029 typical for all of my novice dogs, where I take 00:29:42.029 --> 00:29:44.829 them out, acclimate, they're not ready, put them 00:29:44.829 --> 00:29:47.849 away. Wait 15 minutes, take them out again, acclimate, 00:29:48.049 --> 00:29:50.390 not ready. Wait a half hour, take them out again, 00:29:50.630 --> 00:29:55.730 acclimate. That's very common, right? That's 00:29:55.730 --> 00:29:58.690 not at all unusual. Take a more seasoned dog. 00:29:58.769 --> 00:30:02.309 Maybe they acclimate quickly. Maybe, maybe in 00:30:02.309 --> 00:30:05.829 general, they tend to acclimate more quickly, 00:30:05.890 --> 00:30:09.529 but you can never assume because like you said, 00:30:09.730 --> 00:30:14.470 certain environment, certain day, it could be 00:30:14.470 --> 00:30:18.890 totally different. Right. And we have to understand 00:30:18.890 --> 00:30:24.440 that they are living, breathing, feeling. beings. 00:30:25.140 --> 00:30:29.539 Right. And just like us, like, it just makes 00:30:29.539 --> 00:30:32.180 me crazy. Like people come in, they'll go, yeah, 00:30:32.319 --> 00:30:35.859 I messed that up or yeah, I'm not on my game 00:30:35.859 --> 00:30:38.819 or yeah, whatever excuse. Okay. That's great. 00:30:38.900 --> 00:30:42.259 And that's valid. We're human. We vary. Well, 00:30:42.339 --> 00:30:47.400 why is that not okay for the dogs? It's the same. 00:30:47.599 --> 00:30:50.160 Like maybe they're tired. Maybe they're not feeling 00:30:50.160 --> 00:30:54.960 good. Maybe who knows what. Maybe for whatever 00:30:54.960 --> 00:30:57.039 reason, there's something in the environment 00:30:57.039 --> 00:30:59.640 that we don't see, that we don't hear, that we 00:30:59.640 --> 00:31:03.500 don't smell that is making them worried, nervous, 00:31:03.759 --> 00:31:07.599 uncomfortable, super curious, super interesting. 00:31:08.039 --> 00:31:11.900 Just because we don't see it, smell it, hear 00:31:11.900 --> 00:31:15.319 it, understand it does not mean that that is 00:31:15.319 --> 00:31:19.619 not having an impact on the animal. Yeah, 100%. 00:31:20.009 --> 00:31:23.009 A hundred percent. And another thing to know 00:31:23.009 --> 00:31:26.490 alongside that is, you know, there has to be, 00:31:26.549 --> 00:31:31.109 there has to be along the way, the training put 00:31:31.109 --> 00:31:35.470 in like the development of the engagement between 00:31:35.470 --> 00:31:39.089 you and your dog. Right. So like in all reality, 00:31:39.269 --> 00:31:43.170 you know, if, if you don't have engagement in 00:31:43.170 --> 00:31:46.579 a sterile. environment or a super comfortable 00:31:46.579 --> 00:31:49.720 environment with zero to minimal distractions 00:31:49.720 --> 00:31:53.740 like your house you can't expect the dog to go 00:31:53.740 --> 00:31:56.119 to a new place especially like a trial environment 00:31:56.119 --> 00:31:59.400 and be able to work under those conditions with 00:31:59.400 --> 00:32:01.799 any sort of engagement like that's got to be 00:32:01.799 --> 00:32:05.420 said too because I think that's a big a big gap 00:32:05.420 --> 00:32:09.119 that happens is you know which is a whole engagement 00:32:09.119 --> 00:32:11.960 series we need to do we talked about doing but 00:32:11.960 --> 00:32:15.259 that's that's something to be said like If you, 00:32:15.259 --> 00:32:17.599 if you, you know, if you can't get engagement 00:32:17.599 --> 00:32:23.240 in a really low key, minimal distraction place, 00:32:23.380 --> 00:32:28.099 like how can you expect your dog to engage in 00:32:28.099 --> 00:32:31.059 a, in a more distracting place, a harder venue? 00:32:31.559 --> 00:32:35.180 Well, and if you do have good engagement at home, 00:32:35.279 --> 00:32:38.640 like I may have great engagement at home when 00:32:38.640 --> 00:32:42.119 I take my dog to a new place, especially a green 00:32:42.119 --> 00:32:46.220 dog. Like I do not expect them to work there 00:32:46.220 --> 00:32:49.900 like they do at home. My expectation is if I 00:32:49.900 --> 00:32:53.440 can get a tiny little bit of engagement for like 00:32:53.440 --> 00:32:58.779 a minute, I'm good and I'm out. Because that 00:32:58.779 --> 00:33:02.119 has to be built up. Like what we're asking our 00:33:02.119 --> 00:33:08.859 dogs to do is focus intently on a task for a 00:33:08.859 --> 00:33:13.460 sustained amount of time. in a very distracting 00:33:13.460 --> 00:33:16.900 environment and tune that all out. That is hard 00:33:16.900 --> 00:33:20.180 for humans. It is incredibly hard for animals, 00:33:20.299 --> 00:33:26.380 right? And it's a skill that they have to learn 00:33:26.380 --> 00:33:31.119 and build and grow and develop over time. And 00:33:31.119 --> 00:33:34.259 people go there and they expect the dog to work 00:33:34.259 --> 00:33:37.380 just like at home. And that's completely unrealistic. 00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:42.279 Like that's not. at all I can't tell you how 00:33:42.279 --> 00:33:46.079 many times I go to places with green dogs and 00:33:46.079 --> 00:33:49.980 I it takes it might take me 20 minutes half an 00:33:49.980 --> 00:33:53.660 hour one way and the amount of work I might get 00:33:53.660 --> 00:33:56.380 might literally be a few minutes and I'm good 00:33:56.380 --> 00:34:00.640 with that right like and if it's too hard you 00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:04.079 need to move somewhere a little easier like we 00:34:04.079 --> 00:34:08.360 have to be realistic and fair and understand 00:34:09.670 --> 00:34:14.150 what we're asking them to do and respect that 00:34:14.150 --> 00:34:17.030 okay if you can't do it then that means it's 00:34:17.030 --> 00:34:20.030 too hard it doesn't matter what I think it matters 00:34:20.030 --> 00:34:22.769 what the dog thinks it matters what the dog's 00:34:22.769 --> 00:34:27.409 experiencing not what we think or what we're 00:34:27.409 --> 00:34:32.969 experiencing right right um and yeah it's something 00:34:32.969 --> 00:34:37.219 that you need to work on and practice all the 00:34:37.219 --> 00:34:41.179 time for months and years I do I'm working on 00:34:41.179 --> 00:34:43.780 it for years before I even think about doing 00:34:43.780 --> 00:34:46.340 it at you know expecting my dog to do it at a 00:34:46.340 --> 00:34:50.079 trial right and there is also benefit to going 00:34:50.079 --> 00:34:52.800 to trials like if you have another dog entered 00:34:52.800 --> 00:34:56.159 you should be working your on acclimation with 00:34:56.159 --> 00:34:58.639 your green dog there if not you should be going 00:34:58.639 --> 00:35:02.019 to trials if you're not entered and just work 00:35:02.019 --> 00:35:05.099 you know work on acclimating your dog there because 00:35:06.010 --> 00:35:10.329 It's a unique environment with lots of dogs, 00:35:10.429 --> 00:35:15.769 lots of people, sounds, stress in the air. Right. 00:35:15.869 --> 00:35:19.989 And your dog has to learn to be, it has to become 00:35:19.989 --> 00:35:25.510 comfortable with that. Right. Yeah. That's, that's 00:35:25.510 --> 00:35:28.050 important. And we do like we, that's when we 00:35:28.050 --> 00:35:30.369 get puppies, the puppies go everywhere with us 00:35:30.369 --> 00:35:33.449 because we just, we start. we start acclimating 00:35:33.449 --> 00:35:36.449 them to those kinds of environments really early 00:35:36.449 --> 00:35:39.309 and working on that and you know along with their 00:35:39.309 --> 00:35:42.929 engagement and um yeah they go everywhere with 00:35:42.929 --> 00:35:47.949 us for sure yeah so i think the key is a we need 00:35:47.949 --> 00:35:52.150 to we need to establish a routine we need to 00:35:52.570 --> 00:35:56.070 do that when you go to an all the time like because 00:35:56.070 --> 00:35:59.349 the routine is also it's information right it 00:35:59.349 --> 00:36:02.909 tells the dog this is what we're doing like when 00:36:02.909 --> 00:36:06.230 I um like the other day I went to the Home Depot 00:36:06.230 --> 00:36:09.690 parking lot which my dogs are used to going to 00:36:09.690 --> 00:36:11.849 places like that to do obedience well guess what 00:36:11.849 --> 00:36:17.150 I was doing nose work so how does my dog know 00:36:17.150 --> 00:36:21.570 right or if I go to a park to do nose work and 00:36:21.570 --> 00:36:25.809 my dogs run there off leash how the hell does 00:36:25.809 --> 00:36:28.570 my dog how do i how can i expect my dog to do 00:36:28.570 --> 00:36:32.269 nose work and not think it's like here to run 00:36:32.269 --> 00:36:35.769 around like a lunatic right so i have to have 00:36:35.769 --> 00:36:41.030 a very clear routine because that routine is 00:36:41.030 --> 00:36:44.769 information that routine says to my dog this 00:36:44.769 --> 00:36:48.650 is what we're doing so my dog can then go oh 00:36:48.650 --> 00:36:54.800 okay Got it. I understand. Right. It could be 00:36:54.800 --> 00:36:57.960 the leash you put on. It could be, you know, 00:36:57.960 --> 00:37:01.039 kind of like what you do coming out of the car, 00:37:01.219 --> 00:37:05.820 the sequence of events that you have to be super 00:37:05.820 --> 00:37:09.659 mindful of that because it's information. And 00:37:09.659 --> 00:37:13.159 our dogs rely heavily on that because absent 00:37:13.159 --> 00:37:16.119 that information, you're making a whole hell 00:37:16.119 --> 00:37:18.880 of a lot of assumptions. And the poor animal 00:37:18.880 --> 00:37:23.199 is like in the dark. It does not know, you know, 00:37:23.199 --> 00:37:27.400 and that's on us. That's very, very, very important. 00:37:28.940 --> 00:37:32.139 I remember the Tyler, I used to do field work 00:37:32.139 --> 00:37:35.639 with him. And I remember the first time because, 00:37:35.699 --> 00:37:37.500 you know, look, I didn't know what the hell I 00:37:37.500 --> 00:37:40.239 was doing. So I go to this outdoor obedience 00:37:40.239 --> 00:37:44.420 trial. I take him out of the car and he goes, 00:37:44.519 --> 00:37:52.940 field work. And I go, oh, shit, because I didn't 00:37:52.940 --> 00:37:57.239 know I didn't have a plan. I didn't didn't think 00:37:57.239 --> 00:38:01.079 I didn't know. So I was like panic mode. Oh, 00:38:01.179 --> 00:38:05.300 God. Now what do I do? Right. So took me a long 00:38:05.300 --> 00:38:09.059 time, you know, got his head on straight, whatever. 00:38:09.179 --> 00:38:13.599 But boy, was that a lesson? I was like, OK. Next 00:38:13.599 --> 00:38:16.679 time you enter an outdoor show, maybe you better 00:38:16.679 --> 00:38:19.719 have a plan and maybe better put some things 00:38:19.719 --> 00:38:23.420 in place. So your dog knows which thing we're 00:38:23.420 --> 00:38:30.619 actually doing. Right. Lesson learned. Poor dogs. 00:38:30.699 --> 00:38:34.539 These poor dogs. Poor dogs. But we we have to 00:38:34.539 --> 00:38:38.380 look at it from their viewpoint. Right. They 00:38:38.380 --> 00:38:42.869 are in a vacuum. Yeah. The only thing they have 00:38:42.869 --> 00:38:46.170 to go on is context and cues. And if the context 00:38:46.170 --> 00:38:49.989 says one thing and we don't give them any information 00:38:49.989 --> 00:38:52.570 saying, no, no, no, it's not that it's this other 00:38:52.570 --> 00:38:56.809 thing. Well, we can't really get, you know, upset 00:38:56.809 --> 00:39:00.170 with the dog when the dog's like, I don't know 00:39:00.170 --> 00:39:02.510 what we're doing. Right. Or I think we're doing 00:39:02.510 --> 00:39:04.730 this. And you're like, no, no, no, no. We're 00:39:04.730 --> 00:39:12.010 doing that. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So we didn't even 00:39:12.010 --> 00:39:14.590 get to warm up, which is perfectly fine because 00:39:14.590 --> 00:39:18.250 we can just do that completely separately. But 00:39:18.250 --> 00:39:20.730 I think the acclimation piece in and of itself 00:39:20.730 --> 00:39:25.650 is huge. And like I said, lately, especially 00:39:25.650 --> 00:39:32.630 and really having my students spend more time 00:39:32.630 --> 00:39:36.590 on it. And saying, no, no, no, no. Like, don't 00:39:36.590 --> 00:39:39.150 ask your dog to start working. Wait for your 00:39:39.150 --> 00:39:43.670 dog to tell you they're ready to start. That 00:39:43.670 --> 00:39:48.409 shift has had everyone waiting way longer than 00:39:48.409 --> 00:39:53.369 they usually do. But the results are pretty spectacular. 00:39:53.409 --> 00:39:57.010 And they're all seeing that. And then that makes 00:39:57.010 --> 00:40:02.570 them willing to wait. Yeah, that length of time, 00:40:02.650 --> 00:40:07.190 because they're like, oh, I get it. It's totally 00:40:07.190 --> 00:40:10.489 worth it. Like, yeah, no one enjoys standing 00:40:10.489 --> 00:40:17.789 around or walking in circles. Like the time. 00:40:19.170 --> 00:40:26.309 But it's worth it. And and yeah. How we get them 00:40:26.309 --> 00:40:28.929 to start that, that we'll talk about that at 00:40:28.929 --> 00:40:31.710 some point in like an engagement series, but 00:40:31.710 --> 00:40:37.289 definitely. Yeah. Give your dog enough time to 00:40:37.289 --> 00:40:41.690 get acclimated and give them a routine. So they 00:40:41.690 --> 00:40:44.030 know what the heck is happening. That's right. 00:40:44.849 --> 00:40:49.969 That's right. Okay. Good. That was good. All 00:40:49.969 --> 00:40:53.269 right. Thanks everybody. Happy training. Bye. 00:40:53.469 --> 00:40:53.809 Bye.