Hi everybody, welcome to the Canine Connection
podcast. Today, Lori and I are going to talk
about acclimation and warmup. I find that a lot
of my students will be training their dogs at
home and in training buildings, and then I'm
like, you really need to get out and about so
your dog learns to work around distractions,
and they go somewhere. And they take their dog
out of the car and they start training the dog.
And then they're like, it was a disaster. And
I said, well, did you give your dog time to acclimate
to the environment? They're like, what? So the
dogs. Well, first of all, humans are very unaware.
So when we go somewhere new, like when you pull
into a parking lot and get out of the car, we
do a ton of things habitually. Right. Like we.
Look around. We listen. Right. If something like
if I pull in the McDonald's parking lot, I smell
the hamburgers. Right. I'm looking around and
noting what people are there, what cars are there.
Is it busy? Is it loud? Is it quiet? Like my
brain takes in all that data and processes it
and acts accordingly. Right. Well. Our dogs need
to do the same thing. Now we get there and we
know why we're there. I'm in the Lowe's parking
lot. Now I've been in a Lowe's parking lot many
times before. I understand that it's relatively
safe as long as I keep an eye out for cars and
I know why I'm there and I know what I want to
do there, et cetera. My dog gets out of the car.
That's all it knows. I'm out of the car. I'm
in a new location. That's it. It's in a complete.
an utter vacuum, right? It could be on a walk.
It could be just there to hang out. It doesn't
know what it's doing or why, right? All it knows
is I put a leash on it. I took it out of the
car. Now, how the heck is my dog supposed to
know that I expect it now to pay attention to
me and start doing whatever competition task
I'm doing, right? And if you do more than one
sport, How in the world does your dog even know
what sport it's doing? Right. So we have to give
the dog an opportunity. So we have to, first
of all, have some sort of a routine or a cue
that says to the dog, we're not here just to
hang out, right? We're here to do some obedience,
rally, nose work, whatever. And I have to establish
a routine for that. So if I'm going to do obedience,
I'm going to take my dog. I'm going to potty
my dog and I'm going to do something that's going
to let my dog know that's on the table. Right.
And then I have to give my dog time to take in
the environment for as long as this dog needs
until the dog is. is like, okay, I am now comfortable.
I understand. I've taken it all in. I've processed
it all. I can now tune that out and tune in to
you and what you're asking me to do, whatever
that task is. Yeah, and I think what we need
to just make a note of with that piece is like
when you talked about like we get out of the
parking lot, we know we're at Lowe's, we know
what we're doing, we know blah, blah, blah, we've
been there before. And even though you could
even have brought your dog to that parking lot
before at Lowe's, but it's not the same. Every
time you take them somewhere, even if it's the
same place, even in your own training building,
it's not the same each time. There's going to
be whatever environmental factors. have changed
in that given time and place when you've gone
there. Different people, different noises, different
sounds, different smells, because the dogs don't
really generalize that well. So depending on
the dog's level, sometimes, you know, a month
ago when you took your dog to Lowe's and it was
just a really quiet, quiet Tuesday morning where
not much was going on. And your dog got out of
the car. Your acclimation was didn't take that
long. Your dog was able to engage with you pretty
quickly. But then you go two weeks later on a
Saturday afternoon and it's crazy busy. Kids
are piling out of cars. A balloon floats in the
air. A car backfired like it could just be a
totally different scenario. And your dog may
take. triple time to acclimate because of that.
Like that's just a worthy thing to note. Also,
when your dogs get out of the car, like, like
Petra said, like we get out of the car, we know
where we're there. We know, you know, we kind
of just look around quick, but the dogs do like
animals get out of the animals when they go to
any new place. Their first instinct is they kind
of kick into that instinctive survival mode where
their first thing really is, are they safe? Right.
I think that's a big thing to note. Like they
get out of the car and they are they need to
check. They need to smell. They need to look
to make sure that they're not going to get eaten
and die or whatever it is. I think that's definitely
worthy of noting. Yeah, that's super important.
And it also depends on the dog, right? Like maybe
the dog is just mentally tired. Maybe the dog's
not feeling great. Maybe the dog's been training
a lot, or maybe you've been going to a lot of
different places and the dog's brain's like a
little like, oh gosh, I can't quite. And then
sometimes who the heck even knows, right? Like
I remember my friend and my training partner
and I. We met at a PetSmart one day. We'd gone
to this PetSmart many times before, and our plan
was to go into the PetSmart. And I got my first
dog out of the car, and I was just going to do
a couple things in the parking lot because I
needed more space. Dog couldn't even work, couldn't
even warm the dog up, right? I'm like, what is
happening? All right, maybe my dog's just having
an off day. He gets his dog out, same thing.
I get my other dog, same thing. Needless to say,
we never made it inside the PetSmart, right?
We were stuck in that parking lot and we basically
like dialed down our expectations and we're like,
all right, I just gotta get like a little bit
of work out of my dog and that's it. So I don't
know why that day, I have no idea. I didn't know
then. I didn't even really make myself too crazy
about it. I just said, all right, you know what?
Who knows why? We're just going to deal with
it and did the best we could. And we left, right?
And like, I don't know what happened. Now, one
thing I will say in hindsight and something I've
been really seeing and working on with a lot
of my students is that. We tend to not give our
dogs enough time to acclimate enough for the
dog. Right. Like we. So my routine is I take
my dog out of the car. I potty them. Then I put
my dog in a with me, which means my dog's basically
allowed to walk next to me because I have to
do something that I can do at a trial. At a trial,
my dog's not going to be. dangling at the end
of a six foot leash because that's not safe.
So my dog's going to be next to me, right? It
doesn't have to look at me. We're not healing.
It can look around, but it can't dart off, right?
Like zesty, bolt over there because it thinks
it sees a piece of food on the ground. No, it's
a leaf, but whatever. um you have to stay with
me and then we just walk around some people um
stand some dogs that works fine a lot of dogs
standing is too static yeah um so i find that
motion is better and i walk around and around
and around and give my dog enough time to look
the problem is in the past is i've determined
i've said oh my dog looks ready now or i think
that's enough time And then we'll ask our dogs
to work. And if it's not enough time, then we're
asking our dogs to work and the work is not going
to be optimal. And we may spend a fair amount
of time saying the dog, hey, pay attention or
leave that or kind of struggling to get full
engagement. Yeah. And part of that is just, you
know, impatience. Part of that is because, you
know, we. got things to do people to see and
places to go um and part of that is just like
it's really kind of uncomfortable and boring
and on some weird level kind of annoying to walk
around and around and around and around and the
dog not check in there's this human part of us
that's like dude yeah let's go yeah Yeah, that's
a big, that's a big one for sure. But I, I think
what happens is people go in with an expectation.
And that's like, I think pretty common. that
we put an expectation on how it's going to go
and how it's going to look. And there's just
times where, like you said, when you guys went
to the PetSmart, like it just totally did not
go as planned, like you thought. And that's when
we, because we have these expectations and the
picture in our head, then that's when we start
to get that frustration and stuff. And like I
said, like, it could be like your dog, like I
could have a... my seasoned dog and go to wherever
and um what for whatever freaking reason like
it could just be that the dog is having a really
hard time acclimating to that environment and
being engaged. In fact, a good example would
be last year when I went out to the NOC, we rented
a place to go train a couple of days before.
And when we walked in, it was a building with
really low ceilings that we were going to go
train in inside. It was dark. Um, it was actually
not very clean and ever couldn't work in there.
Like for whatever reason, she was just like having
such a hard time with it. I tried and tried.
I could feel myself like starting to fucking
panic. I'm like, oh my God, like we're like,
we're going to be in the NOC in a day or two
and my dog won't work. Um, but I was like, no,
no, no, it's okay. Like it is what it is. It's
got to be something going on with this particular
environment. And sure enough, like I got in the
car. I just put her away because I was like,
I'm not going to dig a hole. I packed up my stuff.
We left. I'm driving back and I'm trying to just
be in my head like, it's all right. It's all
right. It's all right. And then that night I
just went out to a parking lot and was like,
I'm just going to test a couple of things to
make sure that we're not fucked. And she was
totally fine. She was totally fine. So that's
a really good example because she couldn't work.
She couldn't, she couldn't engage. She couldn't,
it was really hard for her. And like, we have
to understand too, like there are animals, right?
Like I say this all the time. They process the
world differently. I mean. i will go back always
to my yard like what's sesty doing right now
on the patio with me he's staring out my gate
right he's watching intently he's listening his
ears are going back forth left right center right
and he's sniffing like he's not just sitting
there gazing into the sky like or whatever humans
do like i don't even know sometimes i just stare
into like the woods or i stare at my flowers
i'm like oh aren't they pretty i don't think
he's doing that right um that's how they process
the world they act they um orient to motion they
orient to sound like they're filtering everything
in and out right in in a way that's meaningful
to them as animals not not what's meaningful
to us. Like, oh, we want you to do this task.
Like the dog has to kind of get, you know, filter
through all that. And we have to give them that
opportunity. What I find is if we wait long enough,
even if that's painfully long, I mean, you know,
something that really hit home to me was in a
podcast that Denise Fenzi had done. And she said
something about like, standing somewhere and
waiting like 20 minutes for her dog to acclimate.
And I was like, wow, like that's a long time.
And I thought about it and I'm like, no one waits
20 minutes. Maybe that's a problem. Now, maybe
most every dog is not going to take 20 minutes,
but if it takes your dog that long, are you waiting
that long? Probably not. Right. And what I'm
finding is when my students wait long enough
and when I wait long enough, because I wait longer
now for Zesty, Zaina dials right in because she
just could care less about the environment. Right.
But that's who she is. That's uncharacteristic.
She's the only one of my dogs that's ever been
like that. Right. She just she's just a different
egg. Most dogs need more time. And when we give
them that extra time, so much conflict goes away.
Yeah. Right. Like, like my one training partner
yesterday, we met at Lowe's. Right. And. We're
walking around. And again, I feel it like it's
innate in me because I am someone that's always
on the go, always got things to do, always like
on to the next thing, on to the next thing. So
he's walking around and walking around. And I
feel that thing where I'm like, oh, come on.
And I'm like, and now I know it. And I go, oh,
interesting. Like, see, this is where and then
I see it on his face. Right. When he wants, I
can see the moment I, he wants to go like, all
right, to his dog, like, let's go already. Right.
And I looked at him, I go, don't do it. And he
starts laughing because he could, he knew what
I, that I knew. Right. And I'm like, just keep
walking. Cause it is so uncomfortable. Right.
And that, but this was what was great because
the reason I'm making him do this is because.
there's so much conflict of him nagging, having
to nag the dog, leave it up here. And then the
dog looks up and then leave it up here. And I
was like, yeah. And I'm like, oh my God, dog.
you're well this dog's well trained like come
on right so he waited we waited and finally the
dog starts checking in and then we're like yes
and then we give him another chance because just
because you checked in doesn't mean you're fully
ready yep so then we walked around more guess
what dog wasn't fully ready right and I could
see him getting twitchy like I looked at him
don't do it Just wait. Right. So now we have
to wait again. Oh my God. I thought the dog was
finally ready. Right. Anyway, long story short,
dog's finally really ready. And guess what? We
start working the dog. Dog doesn't look away.
There's no conflict. Dog's giving him enormous
effort. Dog did like unbelievable work. you know,
literally we're doing command discrimination.
So the dog's sitting there, he's walking away.
This person with a cart comes by cause we're
in an aisle, like literally like, I don't know,
six inches pushing the cart next to the dog.
Dog's perfectly fine. Right. Because we waited
long enough and the dog had fully let go of the
environment and a dog's brain had fully shifted
into like, OK, I can now give you 100 percent
of my attention and effort. Yeah. Yeah. Which
is I think a big I think that's a really good
example, because I think people. probably a lot
of people who will be listening to this will
want to kind of know or ask the question of like,
well, when, how do I know when it's time? Like
how, what, you know, what does that look like?
Right. And I think that's, A, you need to, you
need to know your dog. You need to be able to
read your dog. Right. You need to, you need to
really be able to read when your dog is able
to give you full engagement. Right. And that
means like what you just said, like the dog might
check in with you and it might look like you've
got it, but you do need to wait because you want
to make sure that they can give you that duration
of engagement, not just a check -in and then
they need to go check the environment again.
This was a big thing I had to do with Stormy
this past weekend because she, a lot of people
know this, that She was very, very environmentally
sensitive, particular to men and really like
public places with just people walking around.
Doorways were really weird for her. People coming
in and out of doorways for some reason, like
whatever it was that like really freaked her
out. I actually took her this past weekend to
show at a place she had never, ever been. So
I knew going in that she was definitely going
to need lots of time for acclimation and that
I was going to have to just eventually just be
able to read whether or not she was actually
going to be able to show. Like I was really ready
to just scratch her entry if I knew she wouldn't
be able to handle it. So I, you know, I only
showed her on Sunday out of the two days. So
I brought, you know, we were there Saturday.
I took her out. We did tons of acclimation and
literally like I took her out three or four times
in between, like throughout the day. And I never
got full, full engagement from her. Like she
still needed to like look into the environment.
So going in Sunday morning, I still wasn't a
hundred percent sure I was going to show her.
But when I went in Sunday morning, I, again,
I got there super fucking early. Like first one
there, got her in the building. did my acclimation,
full engagement, no problem. She was happy. She
was offering. She was getting vocal, which is
what she tends to do because she's getting really
excited. Her arousal was up. She wanted to work.
And I was like, OK, she's good. But then as more
and more people started to filter into the building,
you know, the day starting to get busy, people
are coming in. I knew that was going to. be a
shift change for her. And I wanted to make sure
she could still, so I had to acclimate her again,
right? My class started at 855. So I'm pulling
her out again, knowing purposely people are coming
in and out of the door, the bathroom door swinging
open. I knew that was going to be hard for her,
brought her out. Um, and I, you know, she definitely
did some looking, it took a little bit longer
to acclimate her, but then she totally dialed
in again. She gave me the same thing eventually
as she did first thing in the morning when the
building was pretty empty. Um, and that's when
I knew, you know, she was definitely engaged.
She was ready to work. She was ready to handle
the environment and give me a hundred percent
engagement and focus. So that was a big thing
for her. Yeah. And I think people don't. Well,
so we should go. You made a really good point.
Like, what does it look like? Right. Because
what I see happen a lot is, you know, handlers
walking the dog around or standing, whatever
dog looks at them for a split second and they
go, yes. And then they give them a cookie and
then they're like, OK, let's go. Right. But like
if first of all, I want my dog to look at me
for more than a second, you know. for several
seconds, like with intensity, and then I might
go, good dog, or yes, maybe I'll reinforce them.
Then do they check immediately back in again
and look at me with intensity? Or do they immediately
go back to looking at the environment? Guess
what? If they do that, they're not ready, right?
Do they walk around and do I start say, oh, I
think you're ready. And I start warming my dog
up and my dog keeps disengaging and looking around.
Guess what? I'm aborting because my dog is not
ready. Right. If I find that I'm saying to my
dog, hey, look, look over here, look over here,
look over here. Guess what? I'm nagging. My dog
is not ready. Right. My dog is not giving me.
full engagement. So it may look like my dog and
my dog might think it's ready. My dog might try
and then I might go, all right, let's go. And
then dog can go, ah, yeah, I can't yet. Right.
And we have to respect that because if we don't
respect that, first of all, it's infringing on
the relationship. But second of all, You're not
getting 100 % out of your dog. And then you're
going to be frustrated and you're going to be
nagging the dog and neither of you are going
to be having fun. It's not worth it. Yeah. And
that like that this weekend was stormy. Like
that was a big thing. Like I had to put that
in my head. I paid my entry fee. You know, I
I'm there with her hoping she's entered in novice.
I'm hoping to this was her last leg. So, of course,
I'm like, I want to just get her title and all
that's on the plate. Right. But I in my head,
I had I prepared myself mentally like. If she
can't. acclimate if she can't handle the environment
and work and give me what I need for her to be
successful and and most importantly comfortable
working in that environment I was absolutely
ready to just bag it and that would have been
fine right and that's the hard part because that's
where that agenda comes in like And I hear that
like that. I think people always say that like
they're like, oh, what a waste of an entry fee.
Like, but it's really like you got to be willing
to whether you're going to train in a parking
lot and a new training place or even at a trial,
like at any given moment, like I'm reading my
dog, my dog's well -being mentally and physically
come first and foremost before my own. agenda
and goals right that's got to be really put out
there because and it's the longevity too of my
dog's career like I want her to have good experiences
everywhere I train especially at a trial venue
you know that's that's just really important
to me and the reality is you're not going to
get the performance you want Exactly. So if your
dog is not fully acclimated, if your dog isn't
able to let go of the environment and focus 100
percent on you, then guess what? You're not going
to be happy with the performance anyway. Right.
It's never going to be what you want. Like you
can't force you can't push through that. You
can't force that. Like it just it never works.
It's you're going to get a dog that has even
if your dog is well trained and obedient. Right.
And you say, let go of the environment. And dogs
like or you say, don't look. And the dog says,
fine, I'm not looking. That does not mean they
have their attention isn't split. Right. They're
either going to be still distracted, like Zaina
has the ability to stare right into my eyeballs
and be fully thinking about something that's
going on in the environment. Right. Like. She
did that the other day. She's so funny. Like
right as I'm getting ready to go in the ring,
chaos erupts in the rally ring. And when I say
chaos, I'm talking about, look, I'm not throwing
shade on anyone, but there should be a volume
limit, right? Like, talk, talk. And she's like,
what? She thinks that's so fascinating. She's
like, what? what is happening over there? And
I look at her and I go, don't do it. Cause literally
they're calling my number, right? So she's staring
into my eyeballs, but both ears are pinned to
the back of her head. And I know that every like
99 .9 % of her brain power at that moment is
on the rally ring and not on me. So now. obviously
I didn't have an option. I had to go in the ring,
but my point is like, she can be in that moment.
She's being obedient and doing what I'm, what
she is quote unquote supposed to do, but I do
not have her full attention. Right. Right. So
that's not optimal, you know, and if you, and
that's not what we want right in training or
in the ring. So Ideally, that didn't happen right
before we went in the ring. And I, you know,
do whatever I need to do to get her off that
thing in the environment and back on to the task
at hand. Right. And that's what we often don't
give our dogs the opportunity to do. And then
it negatively impacts their work. And then we're
frustrated and we're annoyed. And we're disappointed
or we're like, I don't understand. We're confused.
And really, the dog just didn't have enough time.
And I think, you know, like you mentioned about
reading the dog, all this has to be established
in training, right? In training is where you
need to learn to read your dog because they're
all going to be different. You know, how much
acclimation does this dog need? What does this
dog look like? When it's not ready, what does
this dog look like when it is ready? And you
determine that by the work and maybe you'll make
a mistake. Oh, I thought they were ready, but
boy, that training session was kind of a disaster.
Hmm, maybe I should have waited longer. All right,
next time, let me wait longer, right? Was it
better? There's a lot of experimentation that
has to go into that and they change. A green
dog, like Stormy, is typically going to require
way more acclimation. What you described is pretty
typical for all of my novice dogs, where I take
them out, acclimate, they're not ready, put them
away. Wait 15 minutes, take them out again, acclimate,
not ready. Wait a half hour, take them out again,
acclimate. That's very common, right? That's
not at all unusual. Take a more seasoned dog.
Maybe they acclimate quickly. Maybe, maybe in
general, they tend to acclimate more quickly,
but you can never assume because like you said,
certain environment, certain day, it could be
totally different. Right. And we have to understand
that they are living, breathing, feeling. beings.
Right. And just like us, like, it just makes
me crazy. Like people come in, they'll go, yeah,
I messed that up or yeah, I'm not on my game
or yeah, whatever excuse. Okay. That's great.
And that's valid. We're human. We vary. Well,
why is that not okay for the dogs? It's the same.
Like maybe they're tired. Maybe they're not feeling
good. Maybe who knows what. Maybe for whatever
reason, there's something in the environment
that we don't see, that we don't hear, that we
don't smell that is making them worried, nervous,
uncomfortable, super curious, super interesting.
Just because we don't see it, smell it, hear
it, understand it does not mean that that is
not having an impact on the animal. Yeah, 100%.
A hundred percent. And another thing to know
alongside that is, you know, there has to be,
there has to be along the way, the training put
in like the development of the engagement between
you and your dog. Right. So like in all reality,
you know, if, if you don't have engagement in
a sterile. environment or a super comfortable
environment with zero to minimal distractions
like your house you can't expect the dog to go
to a new place especially like a trial environment
and be able to work under those conditions with
any sort of engagement like that's got to be
said too because I think that's a big a big gap
that happens is you know which is a whole engagement
series we need to do we talked about doing but
that's that's something to be said like If you,
if you, you know, if you can't get engagement
in a really low key, minimal distraction place,
like how can you expect your dog to engage in
a, in a more distracting place, a harder venue?
Well, and if you do have good engagement at home,
like I may have great engagement at home when
I take my dog to a new place, especially a green
dog. Like I do not expect them to work there
like they do at home. My expectation is if I
can get a tiny little bit of engagement for like
a minute, I'm good and I'm out. Because that
has to be built up. Like what we're asking our
dogs to do is focus intently on a task for a
sustained amount of time. in a very distracting
environment and tune that all out. That is hard
for humans. It is incredibly hard for animals,
right? And it's a skill that they have to learn
and build and grow and develop over time. And
people go there and they expect the dog to work
just like at home. And that's completely unrealistic.
Like that's not. at all I can't tell you how
many times I go to places with green dogs and
I it takes it might take me 20 minutes half an
hour one way and the amount of work I might get
might literally be a few minutes and I'm good
with that right like and if it's too hard you
need to move somewhere a little easier like we
have to be realistic and fair and understand
what we're asking them to do and respect that
okay if you can't do it then that means it's
too hard it doesn't matter what I think it matters
what the dog thinks it matters what the dog's
experiencing not what we think or what we're
experiencing right right um and yeah it's something
that you need to work on and practice all the
time for months and years I do I'm working on
it for years before I even think about doing
it at you know expecting my dog to do it at a
trial right and there is also benefit to going
to trials like if you have another dog entered
you should be working your on acclimation with
your green dog there if not you should be going
to trials if you're not entered and just work
you know work on acclimating your dog there because
It's a unique environment with lots of dogs,
lots of people, sounds, stress in the air. Right.
And your dog has to learn to be, it has to become
comfortable with that. Right. Yeah. That's, that's
important. And we do like we, that's when we
get puppies, the puppies go everywhere with us
because we just, we start. we start acclimating
them to those kinds of environments really early
and working on that and you know along with their
engagement and um yeah they go everywhere with
us for sure yeah so i think the key is a we need
to we need to establish a routine we need to
do that when you go to an all the time like because
the routine is also it's information right it
tells the dog this is what we're doing like when
I um like the other day I went to the Home Depot
parking lot which my dogs are used to going to
places like that to do obedience well guess what
I was doing nose work so how does my dog know
right or if I go to a park to do nose work and
my dogs run there off leash how the hell does
my dog how do i how can i expect my dog to do
nose work and not think it's like here to run
around like a lunatic right so i have to have
a very clear routine because that routine is
information that routine says to my dog this
is what we're doing so my dog can then go oh
okay Got it. I understand. Right. It could be
the leash you put on. It could be, you know,
kind of like what you do coming out of the car,
the sequence of events that you have to be super
mindful of that because it's information. And
our dogs rely heavily on that because absent
that information, you're making a whole hell
of a lot of assumptions. And the poor animal
is like in the dark. It does not know, you know,
and that's on us. That's very, very, very important.
I remember the Tyler, I used to do field work
with him. And I remember the first time because,
you know, look, I didn't know what the hell I
was doing. So I go to this outdoor obedience
trial. I take him out of the car and he goes,
field work. And I go, oh, shit, because I didn't
know I didn't have a plan. I didn't didn't think
I didn't know. So I was like panic mode. Oh,
God. Now what do I do? Right. So took me a long
time, you know, got his head on straight, whatever.
But boy, was that a lesson? I was like, OK. Next
time you enter an outdoor show, maybe you better
have a plan and maybe better put some things
in place. So your dog knows which thing we're
actually doing. Right. Lesson learned. Poor dogs.
These poor dogs. Poor dogs. But we we have to
look at it from their viewpoint. Right. They
are in a vacuum. Yeah. The only thing they have
to go on is context and cues. And if the context
says one thing and we don't give them any information
saying, no, no, no, it's not that it's this other
thing. Well, we can't really get, you know, upset
with the dog when the dog's like, I don't know
what we're doing. Right. Or I think we're doing
this. And you're like, no, no, no, no. We're
doing that. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So we didn't even
get to warm up, which is perfectly fine because
we can just do that completely separately. But
I think the acclimation piece in and of itself
is huge. And like I said, lately, especially
and really having my students spend more time
on it. And saying, no, no, no, no. Like, don't
ask your dog to start working. Wait for your
dog to tell you they're ready to start. That
shift has had everyone waiting way longer than
they usually do. But the results are pretty spectacular.
And they're all seeing that. And then that makes
them willing to wait. Yeah, that length of time,
because they're like, oh, I get it. It's totally
worth it. Like, yeah, no one enjoys standing
around or walking in circles. Like the time.
But it's worth it. And and yeah. How we get them
to start that, that we'll talk about that at
some point in like an engagement series, but
definitely. Yeah. Give your dog enough time to
get acclimated and give them a routine. So they
know what the heck is happening. That's right.
That's right. Okay. Good. That was good. All
right. Thanks everybody. Happy training. Bye.
Bye.