WEBVTT 00:00:11.439 --> 00:00:13.400 everybody. Welcome to the Canine Connection podcast. 00:00:14.419 --> 00:00:20.760 Today, Lori and I are going to talk about, well, 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:24.000 what should we even call it? I guess just adapting, 00:00:24.140 --> 00:00:28.300 like adapting. Being flexible during training 00:00:28.300 --> 00:00:31.719 sessions with multiple people involved. Right. 00:00:31.739 --> 00:00:36.280 Or even one person, right? First of all, again, 00:00:36.439 --> 00:00:39.079 I go back to the same old saying, it's not world 00:00:39.079 --> 00:00:45.259 peace. It's very hard to find people to train 00:00:45.259 --> 00:00:49.820 with. And sometimes even people will use family 00:00:49.820 --> 00:00:54.020 members or just random people they can coerce 00:00:54.020 --> 00:01:00.950 into helping us out. or we go to show -and -go's, 00:01:00.950 --> 00:01:03.950 which are run by volunteers. Now, let's clarify 00:01:03.950 --> 00:01:07.489 what volunteers are. They're human beings, just 00:01:07.489 --> 00:01:11.189 like us. They actually have lives. They have 00:01:11.189 --> 00:01:13.090 things they would like to do with their time. 00:01:13.349 --> 00:01:17.069 They probably work. They probably have obligations 00:01:17.069 --> 00:01:20.409 and things they need to take care of. They decided 00:01:20.409 --> 00:01:23.530 that they were going to take this chunk of time 00:01:23.530 --> 00:01:27.730 out of their lives. and volunteer it so that 00:01:27.730 --> 00:01:33.250 we can benefit from it. So I think that's really 00:01:33.250 --> 00:01:35.549 important for people to remember that even if 00:01:35.549 --> 00:01:38.310 you're doing a show and go and you paid $10 for 00:01:38.310 --> 00:01:41.370 your entry or whatever the case, that person 00:01:41.370 --> 00:01:46.530 is not making any money. That person is not real. 00:01:46.629 --> 00:01:50.170 Oh, they get a free run. Okay, people, it's worth 00:01:50.170 --> 00:01:52.629 10 bucks. What can buy 10 bucks nowadays? Can't 00:01:52.629 --> 00:01:55.370 even buy you like lunch anymore, right? Like, 00:01:55.430 --> 00:01:59.150 so they're volunteering their time. So what we 00:01:59.150 --> 00:02:02.870 have to learn is A, to appreciate that these 00:02:02.870 --> 00:02:06.310 people are doing this task, whatever it is. And 00:02:06.310 --> 00:02:11.069 B, understand that they may not do it exactly 00:02:11.069 --> 00:02:16.169 to our expectations. Oh, my goodness. And that's 00:02:16.169 --> 00:02:19.270 perfectly fine. They're doing the best they can. 00:02:19.389 --> 00:02:25.250 We need to take advantage of that. So I had girls 00:02:25.250 --> 00:02:29.250 that worked for me when I had the kennel. They 00:02:29.250 --> 00:02:33.569 would be the judge and they're just making stuff 00:02:33.569 --> 00:02:35.229 up because they don't know what they're supposed 00:02:35.229 --> 00:02:39.000 to say. Right. this and and they're young so 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:41.900 they're like trying to be funny they actually 00:02:41.900 --> 00:02:46.099 were pretty funny and it didn't matter i was 00:02:46.099 --> 00:02:51.800 so happy that i had a human that was going to 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:55.669 stand there and give my dog partial ring picture 00:02:55.669 --> 00:02:58.750 that is going to say words to get my dog used 00:02:58.750 --> 00:03:02.090 to hearing words that was going to move around 00:03:02.090 --> 00:03:04.629 and provide a distraction. Maybe their timing 00:03:04.629 --> 00:03:07.310 wasn't perfect. Maybe the angle wasn't exactly 00:03:07.310 --> 00:03:11.000 what I would have wanted, but it was okay. I 00:03:11.000 --> 00:03:13.539 was still getting benefit from it. And maybe 00:03:13.539 --> 00:03:16.599 sometimes I wasn't getting, maybe I had to adjust 00:03:16.599 --> 00:03:18.580 my plan a little bit. Maybe it was like, well, 00:03:18.740 --> 00:03:21.319 I wanted to work on pressure, but this is kind 00:03:21.319 --> 00:03:23.020 of not headed in the right direction. You know 00:03:23.020 --> 00:03:25.560 what? Let me just let this person serve as a 00:03:25.560 --> 00:03:27.680 distraction. Let me use them for distraction 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:31.659 work. There is always benefit there. It is up 00:03:31.659 --> 00:03:38.849 to us to be mentally flexible, right? And say, 00:03:38.930 --> 00:03:43.530 how can I leverage this situation so that maybe 00:03:43.530 --> 00:03:46.849 even if I don't get what I originally wanted 00:03:46.849 --> 00:03:49.889 out of it, but I will get something out of it. 00:03:52.310 --> 00:03:55.189 It's that flexibility piece that's like key. 00:03:55.310 --> 00:03:57.590 You have to be able to be flexible because if 00:03:57.590 --> 00:04:03.689 you're not, then A, you are going to. either 00:04:03.689 --> 00:04:06.870 get frustrated, upset, angry, which is not going 00:04:06.870 --> 00:04:10.030 to be beneficial to your training session whatsoever. 00:04:11.550 --> 00:04:14.310 And unless you absolutely, like, you're right, 00:04:14.430 --> 00:04:17.730 have the perfect training partner, which you 00:04:17.730 --> 00:04:20.889 won't, they're going to mess things up. They're 00:04:20.889 --> 00:04:23.089 going to not get it right. They're not going 00:04:23.089 --> 00:04:26.149 to understand something clearly anywhere, anytime, 00:04:26.589 --> 00:04:30.240 right? And that's the piece where like we talked 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:34.480 about is you need to be able to flip that mindset 00:04:34.480 --> 00:04:38.600 and be like, it's fine. This is actually good 00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:41.800 for me because you know what? Things happen in 00:04:41.800 --> 00:04:44.959 the ring anyway that we talk about this all the 00:04:44.959 --> 00:04:48.000 time that come unexpectedly and we need to think 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:52.279 on the fly really quickly, which actually like 00:04:52.279 --> 00:04:54.319 that was one of my big thing. I trained with 00:04:54.319 --> 00:04:58.019 somebody for a long time who was. was a novice 00:04:58.019 --> 00:05:00.759 handler at the time, and they didn't know all 00:05:00.759 --> 00:05:03.060 the things in open and utility. They didn't know 00:05:03.060 --> 00:05:05.120 the judge verbiage. They didn't know where to 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:08.980 stand. And it actually, or they would just mess 00:05:08.980 --> 00:05:11.240 up the healing pattern. It would be totally not 00:05:11.240 --> 00:05:15.259 typical. And it really actually was great. I 00:05:15.259 --> 00:05:17.680 loved it because it made me have to really stay 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:20.100 focused and in the present at the time. It was 00:05:20.100 --> 00:05:23.329 actually really beneficial. You need to be able 00:05:23.329 --> 00:05:26.610 to flip your mindset and A, either divert, plan, 00:05:26.810 --> 00:05:30.689 and adjust like you talked about. Or, you know, 00:05:30.730 --> 00:05:35.670 use it as a strategy, 100 % for your mental game. 00:05:35.790 --> 00:05:37.670 And there's, I mean, there's so much, it's so 00:05:37.670 --> 00:05:39.970 funny what you said that it immediately made 00:05:39.970 --> 00:05:42.629 me think of like a couple people that I trained 00:05:42.629 --> 00:05:46.589 with in the past couple years that were total 00:05:46.589 --> 00:05:49.410 novice, you know, beginner beginners. And I call 00:05:49.410 --> 00:05:54.160 it a ceiling pattern. Forward. slow, fast, halt, 00:05:54.500 --> 00:05:57.860 left turn. And I'm like, huh? Right. And I'm 00:05:57.860 --> 00:06:02.699 like, oh, this is, and I'm like, this is really 00:06:02.699 --> 00:06:06.279 good because it's making me think it's making 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:09.220 me pay attention. It's making my dog think and 00:06:09.220 --> 00:06:12.279 pay attention. So you have two ways to go in 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:16.019 that moment. You can go like, and then you can 00:06:16.019 --> 00:06:19.439 say to the person, look. that's not how it goes. 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:25.060 You can act like Zaina and say, excuse me, you're 00:06:25.060 --> 00:06:29.819 doing it all wrong. Or you could say, oh, this 00:06:29.819 --> 00:06:35.300 is really good. This is like helping me in several 00:06:35.300 --> 00:06:39.399 ways. It's helping me. It's helping my dog, right? 00:06:39.519 --> 00:06:42.199 Or they'll stand in the wrong spot or they'll 00:06:42.199 --> 00:06:46.899 do something odd. Great. Right. I want things 00:06:46.899 --> 00:06:51.259 to be like unusual. I remember years ago I used 00:06:51.259 --> 00:06:53.180 to train with people. They like everything had 00:06:53.180 --> 00:06:56.160 to be precise. And I would just like throw the 00:06:56.160 --> 00:06:58.540 jumps out there, like directed jumping. I never 00:06:58.540 --> 00:07:01.319 measured the space between the jumps ever. Right. 00:07:01.420 --> 00:07:04.500 So sometimes they were really far apart. Sometimes 00:07:04.500 --> 00:07:06.699 they were really close together. Oh, whatever. 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:09.339 Wherever they ended up, they ended up. And I 00:07:09.339 --> 00:07:12.930 was like. you don't even know how to set up a 00:07:12.930 --> 00:07:16.269 utility ring. I'm like, oh, apparently I don't, 00:07:16.269 --> 00:07:18.889 I guess, right? Well, meanwhile, fast forward, 00:07:19.209 --> 00:07:23.110 I'm at this trial and it was like this odd shaped 00:07:23.110 --> 00:07:26.170 ring. It wasn't like, here we go. It wasn't perfect. 00:07:26.230 --> 00:07:28.529 It wasn't regulation. And the judge set it up 00:07:28.529 --> 00:07:31.069 in a way that the jumps were very wide apart. 00:07:31.870 --> 00:07:34.750 And a lot of dogs messed up the directed jumping. 00:07:34.850 --> 00:07:38.990 Well, fast forward to the NOC last year, that 00:07:38.990 --> 00:07:41.910 one ring that wasn't set up correctly. Remember 00:07:41.910 --> 00:07:44.589 that? And all the dogs had a lot of trouble in 00:07:44.589 --> 00:07:46.670 it because it wasn't, it was definitely. Right. 00:07:46.670 --> 00:07:49.189 Yeah. It was like over to the side a little bit 00:07:49.189 --> 00:07:51.290 and the stanchion wasn't perfectly centered. 00:07:51.370 --> 00:07:54.709 Yeah. And dogs were like, I think they were missing 00:07:54.709 --> 00:07:58.490 the jump too, right? Like. They were. Yeah. It 00:07:58.490 --> 00:08:04.240 was a mess. And. My dogs don't because they're 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:07.079 not used to seeing the exact. It's a proofing. 00:08:07.079 --> 00:08:09.500 It's a form of proofing. It's a form of strengthening 00:08:09.500 --> 00:08:13.560 your dog's understanding of the exercise. Exactly. 00:08:14.319 --> 00:08:17.199 Exactly. And a little bit of like patterning, 00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:19.560 like patterning everything to be absolutely exactly 00:08:19.560 --> 00:08:22.040 the same. And then the second that it's not because 00:08:22.040 --> 00:08:25.399 one day it is not going to be perfect. Your dogs 00:08:25.399 --> 00:08:27.360 will like fall apart. The wheels will come off 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:30.180 because of that. Or you will, you know, like 00:08:30.180 --> 00:08:32.600 that thing happens and you don't know how to 00:08:32.600 --> 00:08:35.740 handle it because, oh, my God, it's not the way 00:08:35.740 --> 00:08:40.159 it's supposed to be. Yeah. And I mean, so it's 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:42.120 like that with any scenario. I remember when 00:08:42.120 --> 00:08:45.000 I was getting Tyler ready to go to England and 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:47.600 I knew it was going to be mass chaos there. So 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:52.000 one of my things I had set for myself was like, 00:08:52.019 --> 00:08:54.759 you know, a couple of times a week I had to take 00:08:54.759 --> 00:08:58.460 him to a new spot and preferably it was busy. 00:08:58.500 --> 00:09:02.539 So one day I took him to a new spot and I was 00:09:02.539 --> 00:09:07.299 like, darn it. It was like really empty. And 00:09:07.299 --> 00:09:10.620 I was like, oh, now I have to find another spot. 00:09:10.779 --> 00:09:12.639 And I'm like, I don't even know if I have time. 00:09:12.679 --> 00:09:14.840 Like, you know what? I'll just do it here. And 00:09:14.840 --> 00:09:17.720 it was great because it was really quiet. And 00:09:17.720 --> 00:09:20.299 then in the middle of doing something, a door 00:09:20.299 --> 00:09:24.080 opened and he totally like was lost attention. 00:09:24.700 --> 00:09:28.399 So it was beneficial. It was not what I had planned. 00:09:28.500 --> 00:09:31.659 It was not what I had wanted initially. But I 00:09:31.659 --> 00:09:34.200 was like, I'll just do it anyway. And surprise, 00:09:34.759 --> 00:09:38.610 it turned out to be. a great training opportunity, 00:09:38.889 --> 00:09:44.129 right? So it's that you just have to say, all 00:09:44.129 --> 00:09:48.090 right, it didn't work out the way I wanted, but 00:09:48.090 --> 00:09:51.710 I, how can I still get benefit off of this? You 00:09:51.710 --> 00:09:54.769 know, like I've gone to like a match and I would 00:09:54.769 --> 00:09:57.690 really like the judge to stay close on fronts, 00:09:57.730 --> 00:10:01.730 for example. And I'll say, you know, I'll try 00:10:01.730 --> 00:10:05.480 to give the best instructions possible. Judge 00:10:05.480 --> 00:10:08.019 person either didn't understand it, whatever, 00:10:08.200 --> 00:10:11.000 wasn't didn't get it, just wasn't staying close. 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:14.440 So at that moment, I had two choices, get frustrated 00:10:14.440 --> 00:10:16.539 and annoyed because that's what I had wanted 00:10:16.539 --> 00:10:19.539 to work on. And now it wasn't working out or 00:10:19.539 --> 00:10:23.120 pivot. So I pivoted. I was like, OK, what else 00:10:23.120 --> 00:10:26.700 can I if I can't work on that? Right. I'm going 00:10:26.700 --> 00:10:31.399 to just focus on something else. Yeah. Yeah. 00:10:32.509 --> 00:10:35.710 Yeah. And I think, you know, going back to the 00:10:35.710 --> 00:10:40.629 whole volunteer thing, it's just I don't know, 00:10:40.690 --> 00:10:44.289 like I see it a lot. Like I hold matches here 00:10:44.289 --> 00:10:49.710 a lot and not I mean, it's pretty rare that old. 00:10:50.299 --> 00:10:53.120 or any of the volunteers that are happening to 00:10:53.120 --> 00:10:55.639 like spend the day stewarding or judging know 00:10:55.639 --> 00:10:58.840 everything. And, you know, there's times where 00:10:58.840 --> 00:11:01.639 I can, you know, I can pick up on when people 00:11:01.639 --> 00:11:05.600 are like, they're hesitant to go in the ring, 00:11:05.639 --> 00:11:07.620 knowing that that person doesn't know how to, 00:11:07.620 --> 00:11:09.720 you know, call all the things correctly. And 00:11:09.720 --> 00:11:12.500 it's just, I definitely give a gentle reminder 00:11:12.500 --> 00:11:16.139 to them, you know, A, you should be happy there's 00:11:16.139 --> 00:11:19.320 someone in the ring at all. And B, Be flexible 00:11:19.320 --> 00:11:21.879 about it, because at the end of the day, like 00:11:21.879 --> 00:11:25.820 if you can't learn to be flexible in dog training 00:11:25.820 --> 00:11:29.139 because fucking shit happens when we're training 00:11:29.139 --> 00:11:33.379 dogs like. Yeah, that's like a skill set right 00:11:33.379 --> 00:11:35.460 there. You just need to be flexible training 00:11:35.460 --> 00:11:39.419 dogs. That's how I feel. Yeah. And you need to 00:11:39.419 --> 00:11:42.399 think like. You know, sometimes people feel like, 00:11:42.419 --> 00:11:45.840 OK, in this scenario, I need to get like the 00:11:45.840 --> 00:11:48.840 full ring picture, like exactly like it will 00:11:48.840 --> 00:11:51.059 be in a trial. And you're not going to get that. 00:11:51.120 --> 00:11:53.480 You need like I don't look at it like that. I 00:11:53.480 --> 00:11:57.720 look at it like the things I need to prepare 00:11:57.720 --> 00:12:01.419 my dog are like in categories. Right. So there's 00:12:01.419 --> 00:12:05.899 like distraction work. Yeah, I can do that out 00:12:05.899 --> 00:12:09.440 in the environment. Right. So I can. go different 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:12.919 places, stores, parks, et cetera, and just get 00:12:12.919 --> 00:12:16.399 general distraction work there. Pressure work, 00:12:16.519 --> 00:12:20.200 some of it I can use the environment, but sometimes 00:12:20.200 --> 00:12:24.019 I need a person to do specific things. So when 00:12:24.019 --> 00:12:28.059 I have access to a person, then that's what I'm 00:12:28.059 --> 00:12:32.019 going to target whenever I have that opportunity, 00:12:32.419 --> 00:12:37.850 right? When I have a match, then I need to use 00:12:37.850 --> 00:12:41.289 that to work on things that I cannot work on 00:12:41.289 --> 00:12:45.870 in the environment or if I only have one person. 00:12:46.190 --> 00:12:51.490 But I'm not going to get everything in that session. 00:12:51.610 --> 00:12:53.909 So I have to kind of say, okay, like I'm going 00:12:53.909 --> 00:12:58.230 to work on transitions or letting my dog see 00:12:58.230 --> 00:13:01.750 ring picture and reward in that or letting my 00:13:01.750 --> 00:13:05.090 dog see ring picture and then help them. How 00:13:05.090 --> 00:13:10.409 can I use the unique characteristics of this 00:13:10.409 --> 00:13:16.269 opportunity and work on a piece or two? Because 00:13:16.269 --> 00:13:18.590 there's always going to be something to work 00:13:18.590 --> 00:13:22.889 on, right? Right. And you have to kind of say, 00:13:23.009 --> 00:13:27.129 and you're not going to be able to get. Like 00:13:27.129 --> 00:13:30.090 all the characteristics, like because in a trial, 00:13:30.269 --> 00:13:32.429 you're going to have the distractions and the 00:13:32.429 --> 00:13:35.149 smells and the sounds and the dogs and the people 00:13:35.149 --> 00:13:37.090 and the judge and this and that. And you're not 00:13:37.090 --> 00:13:40.129 going to get all that. So you have to pull those 00:13:40.129 --> 00:13:44.889 pieces out and say like and then people go, well, 00:13:44.970 --> 00:13:48.889 how do you go to a store or like how do you work 00:13:48.889 --> 00:13:52.809 on ring entrances? Or, for example, like I I'm 00:13:52.809 --> 00:13:57.639 like, oh, tractor supply. And garden centers, 00:13:57.820 --> 00:14:00.840 they give me ring entrances. They have like little 00:14:00.840 --> 00:14:04.600 areas. There's aisles, there's gates, there's, 00:14:04.600 --> 00:14:08.159 I mean, it's out there. You just have to think 00:14:08.159 --> 00:14:12.980 outside the box. Right. Exactly. And like, look 00:14:12.980 --> 00:14:15.919 for that opportunity. You can find places like 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:20.519 in playgrounds and, you know, and then people 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:23.159 are like, well, how can you, you know, sure, 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:28.769 I can't do. Every exercise, like in a store or 00:14:28.769 --> 00:14:31.850 in front of a store, but I can do a lot of pieces. 00:14:31.990 --> 00:14:36.330 I can even chain things together. Like you have 00:14:36.330 --> 00:14:40.750 to be, again, like mentally flexible. Like how 00:14:40.750 --> 00:14:45.750 can I leverage this? Yeah. And even with people, 00:14:45.889 --> 00:14:48.990 you know, I'm like, well, people stand in line. 00:14:49.690 --> 00:14:53.049 Go, you know, work around those people. A lot 00:14:53.049 --> 00:14:55.809 of times you'll go to places and the employees 00:14:55.809 --> 00:14:59.529 will stand there and watch you. If you say, hey, 00:14:59.629 --> 00:15:01.929 can I just I'm just going to heal close to you 00:15:01.929 --> 00:15:04.909 or whatever the case. They're like, OK, they 00:15:04.909 --> 00:15:07.610 don't care most of the time, you know. Right. 00:15:08.769 --> 00:15:12.750 Right. Yeah. And so it can't just be always dependent 00:15:12.750 --> 00:15:15.990 on the perfect situation. You know, that's like. 00:15:19.080 --> 00:15:21.940 Right. You have to drive yourself nuts, you know, 00:15:21.940 --> 00:15:25.879 like. Yeah. And use kids if you have access to 00:15:25.879 --> 00:15:30.759 kids. Oh, my God. Like some of my students, like 00:15:30.759 --> 00:15:35.399 my one. I love her. Her granddaughter. I can't 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:38.580 even. She uses her all the time. She's doing 00:15:38.580 --> 00:15:43.950 cartwheels and little handstands and like. Because 00:15:43.950 --> 00:15:49.409 they're kids. They're free. They're not bound 00:15:49.409 --> 00:15:53.850 by whatever craziness adults are bound by. And 00:15:53.850 --> 00:15:58.409 then, well, no one's ever going to do a cartwheel 00:15:58.409 --> 00:16:00.870 in the ring. Well, no, probably not. Because 00:16:00.870 --> 00:16:03.870 most of us that are showing are like 90. But 00:16:03.870 --> 00:16:08.009 it doesn't matter that we're not doing cartwheels. 00:16:10.889 --> 00:16:13.870 It's the unpredictability of it, right? Like, 00:16:13.929 --> 00:16:18.289 it's perfect. I would love, I'm like, hey, anyone 00:16:18.289 --> 00:16:21.850 in my area, you got kids or grandkids? Hello? 00:16:22.750 --> 00:16:29.529 Please send them my way. Because they're great 00:16:29.529 --> 00:16:32.330 and you can teach them things. And again, even 00:16:32.330 --> 00:16:35.450 if they don't do it perfect, you know, they hold 00:16:35.450 --> 00:16:38.049 a little clipboard and who knows what words they're 00:16:38.049 --> 00:16:40.590 even saying. Does it really matter? And they 00:16:40.590 --> 00:16:42.590 actually get pretty creative themselves. They 00:16:42.590 --> 00:16:44.250 think it's kind of fun. They like, you know, 00:16:44.250 --> 00:16:49.580 a little role play. Well, the girls that were 00:16:49.580 --> 00:16:53.259 like in their 20s that worked for me, I loved 00:16:53.259 --> 00:16:56.539 it. They were so creative and goofy and silly. 00:16:56.879 --> 00:17:01.120 It's like improv. I was like, this is so good 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:03.639 because like it was completely unpredictable 00:17:03.639 --> 00:17:10.210 what my dogs were being exposed to. And the stuff 00:17:10.210 --> 00:17:12.410 they were coming up with. And I remember like 00:17:12.410 --> 00:17:15.450 at the beginning, there was that part of me that 00:17:15.450 --> 00:17:18.029 came from that tradition where I'd be like, oh 00:17:18.029 --> 00:17:20.049 my God, they're doing it all wrong. And then 00:17:20.049 --> 00:17:24.589 I was like, wait, who cares? Yes. It's okay. 00:17:24.750 --> 00:17:29.670 It doesn't matter. Like they're getting really 00:17:29.670 --> 00:17:35.309 good. you know training out of this like they're 00:17:35.309 --> 00:17:37.369 getting good distraction they're getting variability 00:17:37.369 --> 00:17:41.289 they're getting pressure work you know it's just 00:17:41.289 --> 00:17:48.650 yeah be mentally flexible for sure and then we 00:17:48.650 --> 00:17:51.390 have to understand too that with a lot of people 00:17:51.390 --> 00:17:55.309 when we're explaining things to them especially 00:17:55.309 --> 00:17:59.150 if they're not even training dogs or if they're 00:17:59.150 --> 00:18:02.390 really new Like we're like blah, blah, blah, 00:18:02.390 --> 00:18:04.750 blah, blah, blah. And we may as well be speaking 00:18:04.750 --> 00:18:10.809 like French. Yeah. Like say what? Yeah. They 00:18:10.809 --> 00:18:14.490 don't know what any of it means. Like walk towards 00:18:14.490 --> 00:18:17.349 my dog. Well, you better be pretty gosh darn 00:18:17.349 --> 00:18:20.869 specific. In this direction, facing this way, 00:18:20.970 --> 00:18:23.410 when the dog is coming this way. There's a lot 00:18:23.410 --> 00:18:28.869 of moving parts. There is. There absolutely is. 00:18:29.500 --> 00:18:35.140 And yeah, I remember one time I was doing articles 00:18:35.140 --> 00:18:40.000 at the supermarket. And so people started watching. 00:18:40.079 --> 00:18:43.319 And then this guy's like, can I put one out? 00:18:43.839 --> 00:18:49.140 Oh, yeah. Some stranger. Did I? And he's like. 00:18:49.589 --> 00:18:52.349 okay. And then I'm like, all right, I guess. 00:18:52.730 --> 00:18:55.509 And I forget which dog goes, was there looking 00:18:55.509 --> 00:18:57.950 in there hunting and hunting. And I'm like, something's 00:18:57.950 --> 00:19:03.410 wrong because my dog is, it can't find the fucking 00:19:03.410 --> 00:19:06.529 article. Right. And he had put it like around, 00:19:06.950 --> 00:19:10.670 it wasn't even in the pile and it wasn't out 00:19:10.670 --> 00:19:13.789 of the pile. It was like around this like barrier. 00:19:16.069 --> 00:19:19.609 Oh my God. That was great. Because Violet was 00:19:19.609 --> 00:19:21.509 like, well, where is it? He's like, well, it's 00:19:21.509 --> 00:19:24.589 over there. I'm like, oh, my gosh. That is great. 00:19:24.670 --> 00:19:27.450 Serves you right, Patricia. But I didn't say 00:19:27.450 --> 00:19:32.130 put it in the pile. He probably wouldn't even 00:19:32.130 --> 00:19:35.490 know what the pile was. What's a pile? Pile of 00:19:35.490 --> 00:19:40.990 what? Pile of what? Like, he didn't know. I think 00:19:40.990 --> 00:19:44.470 I got sucked in because I did one time at Walmart. 00:19:45.349 --> 00:19:47.910 And this was so long ago because I had Tyler. 00:19:47.970 --> 00:19:50.329 I remember clear as day. I'm doing the articles 00:19:50.329 --> 00:19:53.690 and I would send it and then tell him, wait and 00:19:53.690 --> 00:19:55.650 go put the article in the pile. And then he found 00:19:55.650 --> 00:19:58.309 it. And then I sent it the next one. And the 00:19:58.309 --> 00:20:02.450 guy pushing the cards came over and he held his 00:20:02.450 --> 00:20:05.849 hand out. And it was Tyler. I was like, you can't 00:20:05.849 --> 00:20:08.970 even if it goes awry, he'll recover. Like Tyler 00:20:08.970 --> 00:20:12.259 was very resilient. So I'm like, oh, whatever. 00:20:12.460 --> 00:20:15.599 I hand him the article. And he put it in the 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:19.880 pile. He knew. He had watched. He knew. Tyler 00:20:19.880 --> 00:20:22.640 goes out, finds our coat. But meanwhile, the 00:20:22.640 --> 00:20:24.720 fact that he had, like, come up, stood there, 00:20:24.759 --> 00:20:27.619 taken the article, Tyler was like, oh, this is 00:20:27.619 --> 00:20:30.319 the real thing. I was like, oh, this is great. 00:20:30.539 --> 00:20:33.400 Like, this is perfect. So that went really well. 00:20:33.460 --> 00:20:36.920 So I think I was probably a little falsely optimistic. 00:20:38.279 --> 00:20:42.980 I'm thinking how the guys would do it. But like 00:20:42.980 --> 00:20:47.319 I've done stuff in front of like the quick check 00:20:47.319 --> 00:20:50.039 and the kids or the high school guys are hanging 00:20:50.039 --> 00:20:51.839 out smoking, whatever. And then they're like, 00:20:51.960 --> 00:20:54.539 wow, look at that. And then I'm like, oh, good. 00:20:54.660 --> 00:20:57.019 I'm like, can you just stand there? Can you just 00:20:57.019 --> 00:20:59.400 move over here? Can you just wave your arms? 00:20:59.680 --> 00:21:04.680 And they're like, sure. You know, so you just 00:21:04.680 --> 00:21:10.519 have to. Like I said. Think outside the box. 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:16.059 Be creative. Yeah. And be nice. Gosh, please 00:21:16.059 --> 00:21:20.859 be nice to people. Yes. Be nice and be patient. 00:21:20.920 --> 00:21:25.940 Like, and yeah, it's that whole. I think it's 00:21:25.940 --> 00:21:28.319 because, you know, we come in with a plan or 00:21:28.319 --> 00:21:35.700 we come in with an agenda. And then when it doesn't 00:21:35.700 --> 00:21:42.109 go that way. We get frustrated. Yeah. You know, 00:21:42.150 --> 00:21:46.250 I was going to say something else. Oh, like, 00:21:46.250 --> 00:21:50.690 and two, sometimes you might not even realize 00:21:50.690 --> 00:21:58.130 in the moment that if it, if it went a little 00:21:58.130 --> 00:22:01.549 bit, you know, differently than you had planned, 00:22:01.650 --> 00:22:07.160 it might actually have ended up being. more beneficial 00:22:07.160 --> 00:22:10.559 or like some people will say oh like um somebody 00:22:10.559 --> 00:22:13.500 asked me this weekend like well there won't actually 00:22:13.500 --> 00:22:16.700 be balloons in the ring right and i'm like no 00:22:16.700 --> 00:22:24.940 but if my dog can do command discrimination in 00:22:24.940 --> 00:22:27.759 the corner with stuff going on next in the ring 00:22:27.759 --> 00:22:31.259 next to it and balloons hanging over their head 00:22:31.259 --> 00:22:35.140 and hitting their tail and blah blah blah then 00:22:35.839 --> 00:22:39.180 And they can do it happily and confidently. Right. 00:22:39.539 --> 00:22:45.779 Then when things that could happen at a trial 00:22:45.779 --> 00:22:50.259 will happen, the dog will be okay with that. 00:22:50.539 --> 00:22:54.759 Right. So the whole when people say, well, that's 00:22:54.759 --> 00:22:56.420 not ever going to happen. Well, why would I do 00:22:56.420 --> 00:22:58.240 that? Well, there's never going to be two dogs 00:22:58.240 --> 00:23:00.099 in the ring. Well, that's not going to happen. 00:23:00.279 --> 00:23:05.759 No, it's not. Right. Challenges are challenges. 00:23:05.880 --> 00:23:08.799 And if you create challenges that your dog can 00:23:08.799 --> 00:23:14.359 win and overcome, then when your dog is in the 00:23:14.359 --> 00:23:16.759 ring, they're going to be really well prepared. 00:23:17.039 --> 00:23:20.380 Right. It's just the whole idea of making things 00:23:20.380 --> 00:23:23.619 hard for the dog. However you do it, creating 00:23:23.619 --> 00:23:27.799 little scenarios, challenges, so that it's going 00:23:27.799 --> 00:23:30.740 to be really harder than it probably will be. 00:23:31.599 --> 00:23:36.619 So that your dog can overcome them. Right. Yeah. 00:23:36.720 --> 00:23:40.619 And so so that's what it should be about. So 00:23:40.619 --> 00:23:43.759 if you get if you're fortunate enough to get 00:23:43.759 --> 00:23:47.759 a helper, remember that you're fortunate because 00:23:47.759 --> 00:23:52.640 for somebody that trains alone a lot. Yeah. You 00:23:52.640 --> 00:23:58.150 know. These situations are worth their weight 00:23:58.150 --> 00:24:02.109 in gold. And if I go somewhere and there's a 00:24:02.109 --> 00:24:05.730 training situation or a match or a run through 00:24:05.730 --> 00:24:10.009 or whatever the case, you know, or recently I 00:24:10.009 --> 00:24:12.910 had seen this post where somebody was like, they 00:24:12.910 --> 00:24:14.970 went to a match and they thought they were supposed 00:24:14.970 --> 00:24:17.250 to be using food, but they were told they couldn't 00:24:17.250 --> 00:24:20.700 use food. And that was ridiculous and this and 00:24:20.700 --> 00:24:23.779 that and whatever. You know what? Life was over. 00:24:24.420 --> 00:24:30.240 Yeah. So either leave if it's so horrible and 00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:35.259 you can't adapt, then leave. Or how about you 00:24:35.259 --> 00:24:37.920 don't bring food in the ring? And how about you 00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:40.220 leave it outside the ring? And then when you 00:24:40.220 --> 00:24:42.420 need to reward your dog, just go outside the 00:24:42.420 --> 00:24:46.230 ring and then go back in. Or how about you use 00:24:46.230 --> 00:24:48.990 a toy or how about you just praise your dog or 00:24:48.990 --> 00:24:50.490 how about you say, all right, I'm going to work 00:24:50.490 --> 00:24:53.470 on something different. Right. Like what else 00:24:53.470 --> 00:24:57.170 could I work on? That'll work in this situation. 00:24:58.410 --> 00:25:01.490 Exactly. Right. And then and say to yourself, 00:25:01.650 --> 00:25:07.069 OK, it wasn't what I had planned, but I still 00:25:07.069 --> 00:25:10.109 got something out of it. My dog still got something 00:25:10.109 --> 00:25:14.990 out of it. And. turn it into something positive 00:25:14.990 --> 00:25:21.049 and what are you accomplishing by putting that 00:25:21.049 --> 00:25:24.250 negativity out there like well this happened 00:25:24.250 --> 00:25:27.029 and it they should have let me use food and why 00:25:27.029 --> 00:25:29.490 didn't they and how come is it that way look 00:25:29.490 --> 00:25:32.789 it's it's their right to do whatever the hell 00:25:32.789 --> 00:25:36.230 they want if they have a building and they own 00:25:36.230 --> 00:25:39.029 it or they rent it and they're running an event 00:25:39.799 --> 00:25:42.799 they are allowed to set whatever rules they want. 00:25:43.180 --> 00:25:46.359 And you have the option to either follow those 00:25:46.359 --> 00:25:53.799 rules or don't go. And if you go, even if it 00:25:53.799 --> 00:25:56.640 wasn't what you planned or whatever, you need 00:25:56.640 --> 00:26:01.259 to still be nice and just say, oh, okay, I didn't 00:26:01.259 --> 00:26:06.240 realize, but all right, I'll pivot. I'll come 00:26:06.240 --> 00:26:10.119 up with a different plan. Yeah. Or you can just 00:26:10.119 --> 00:26:13.259 get the hell out and go home. Or you can leave 00:26:13.259 --> 00:26:17.759 and go home. Yeah. Because it's just, it's not 00:26:17.759 --> 00:26:21.440 good for the sport. It's not, you know, like 00:26:21.440 --> 00:26:26.240 I know in our area, we used to have back in the 00:26:26.240 --> 00:26:30.519 day, we had so many matches. I could do two matches 00:26:30.519 --> 00:26:33.220 a weekend, almost every week. And that's how 00:26:33.220 --> 00:26:36.440 many places we had that did matches or show and 00:26:36.440 --> 00:26:39.200 goes, whatever you want to call them. Um, now 00:26:39.200 --> 00:26:45.099 there are a handful, they literally book out 00:26:45.099 --> 00:26:48.200 like six months ahead. It's insanity because 00:26:48.200 --> 00:26:51.200 there's not enough. And we're, we're a fairly 00:26:51.200 --> 00:26:55.779 dense population in terms of in the obedience 00:26:55.779 --> 00:26:58.000 people throughout the country. Like the Northeast 00:26:58.000 --> 00:27:01.359 is pretty dense. Um, so there's a lot of people 00:27:01.359 --> 00:27:03.460 that want matches and show and goes, there aren't 00:27:03.460 --> 00:27:07.109 that many. training parties, even training or 00:27:07.109 --> 00:27:10.049 even just schools. There aren't that many like 00:27:10.049 --> 00:27:15.509 classes to go to. Right. So if you are in a situation 00:27:15.509 --> 00:27:23.910 where you have access to something like. Then 00:27:23.910 --> 00:27:26.509 you should be you need to be really grateful, 00:27:26.650 --> 00:27:30.910 and if you make it uncomfortable for the volunteers, 00:27:31.049 --> 00:27:34.700 then guess what? Less volunteers. Yeah. Even 00:27:34.700 --> 00:27:37.859 less show and goes, even less training opportunities. 00:27:38.599 --> 00:27:43.019 You know, like we were at your building this 00:27:43.019 --> 00:27:45.900 past weekend for three days, like volunteers 00:27:45.900 --> 00:27:52.339 are coming in and spending the whole day for 00:27:52.339 --> 00:27:55.240 and some of them for multiple days and some of 00:27:55.240 --> 00:28:01.759 them drove far. They did. And like they work 00:28:01.759 --> 00:28:04.900 their dogs a little bit. You know, like that 00:28:04.900 --> 00:28:09.480 is a tremendous sacrifice. Yeah. Like and we 00:28:09.480 --> 00:28:13.180 have to appreciate that. And at that point, I 00:28:13.180 --> 00:28:16.440 don't care what they are or aren't doing, what 00:28:16.440 --> 00:28:18.660 they're saying. I don't care if they're not loud 00:28:18.660 --> 00:28:21.059 enough, if they're too loud, if they say the 00:28:21.059 --> 00:28:23.259 words backwards, if they call the yelling pattern 00:28:23.259 --> 00:28:27.359 upside down. I'm I don't really care. I'm just 00:28:27.359 --> 00:28:30.579 like, holy cow, like what an opportunity to have. 00:28:31.259 --> 00:28:34.359 a bunch of people in the same building, tons 00:28:34.359 --> 00:28:39.160 of distractions, judge and steward in every ring. 00:28:39.880 --> 00:28:44.859 Like what an opportunity. Yeah. You know, it's 00:28:44.859 --> 00:28:47.500 like, yeah, it's like a gift because it's like 00:28:47.500 --> 00:28:49.859 you said, like it's really rare to be able to 00:28:49.859 --> 00:28:51.920 get situations like that. It's hard to even get 00:28:51.920 --> 00:28:55.619 very, very rare. And, you know, it's nice if 00:28:55.619 --> 00:28:58.660 everyone understands that, if everyone appreciates 00:28:58.660 --> 00:29:02.220 that, if everybody just says. Thank you to the 00:29:02.220 --> 00:29:05.799 volunteers if everyone's just nice to them. Yeah. 00:29:06.700 --> 00:29:11.119 Just lets them know they're appreciated. And 00:29:11.119 --> 00:29:13.819 just the whole place then just has a general 00:29:13.819 --> 00:29:17.640 vibe of like everybody's happy. Everybody's supporting 00:29:17.640 --> 00:29:20.799 one another. I mean, having a mimosa doesn't 00:29:20.799 --> 00:29:25.759 hurt. You know, we had mimosas the one morning. 00:29:27.450 --> 00:29:30.710 In general, just but I mean, it's just it's just 00:29:30.710 --> 00:29:35.289 common courtesy. Everybody like everybody's helped 00:29:35.289 --> 00:29:38.450 people. Right. And like when we help someone, 00:29:38.630 --> 00:29:41.269 we're not like I know when I help someone with 00:29:41.269 --> 00:29:45.490 whatever it is, I don't want anything back. You 00:29:45.490 --> 00:29:49.289 know, if they if they just say thank you, that's 00:29:49.289 --> 00:29:50.970 that's it. You don't even don't you don't even 00:29:50.970 --> 00:29:53.089 need to write me a card. Just say thank you. 00:29:53.170 --> 00:29:57.089 I'm good. Like I'm not doing it for that. But 00:29:57.089 --> 00:30:01.190 that thank you goes a long way. Right. If you 00:30:01.190 --> 00:30:05.289 act like you're entitled to it or if you act 00:30:05.289 --> 00:30:07.930 like you don't even appreciate it, well, then 00:30:07.930 --> 00:30:10.930 I might think twice about helping you next time. 00:30:11.130 --> 00:30:17.430 Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So it's just common courtesy 00:30:17.430 --> 00:30:21.529 and goes back to the whole be nice, be nice to 00:30:21.529 --> 00:30:29.079 everybody. And. you know, the way you interact 00:30:29.079 --> 00:30:32.259 with your dog too. Like if you're just in general 00:30:32.259 --> 00:30:34.980 mad and frustrated, then people aren't even going 00:30:34.980 --> 00:30:41.460 to want you in their ring. True. Very true. Yeah. 00:30:41.559 --> 00:30:44.619 So just be nice. We say this all the time. Why 00:30:44.619 --> 00:30:46.940 do we have to say this all the time? It's so 00:30:46.940 --> 00:30:51.980 pathetic. Because there's not a lot of niceness 00:30:51.980 --> 00:30:56.049 out there. yeah there is a lot of nicest there 00:30:56.049 --> 00:30:58.630 is a lot of nicest there is a lot a lot of times 00:30:58.630 --> 00:31:01.329 it's just you know it's a small percentage and 00:31:01.329 --> 00:31:05.809 that tends to have a louder voice sometimes yeah 00:31:05.809 --> 00:31:09.289 but knowing that how humans are it's it does 00:31:09.289 --> 00:31:14.390 matter right it does matter when um like you 00:31:14.390 --> 00:31:17.609 know even a steward at a trial right like everyone 00:31:17.609 --> 00:31:20.230 can be nice but the one person that gives them 00:31:20.230 --> 00:31:22.569 garbage that's what they'll leave with and they'll 00:31:22.569 --> 00:31:26.539 remember Yeah, that's human nature, you know. 00:31:26.819 --> 00:31:30.119 So I always tell my students, you must thank 00:31:30.119 --> 00:31:34.559 the stewards. You have to like, you know, give 00:31:34.559 --> 00:31:37.240 them grace. Again, sometimes they make mistakes 00:31:37.240 --> 00:31:40.619 like, dude, they're getting stewards. Like sometimes 00:31:40.619 --> 00:31:43.480 it's like kids and Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts 00:31:43.480 --> 00:31:47.099 or whatever, like because they don't have anywhere 00:31:47.099 --> 00:31:50.559 to get stewards. Right. So you cannot stand there 00:31:50.559 --> 00:31:54.690 and complain that. Something wasn't set up right 00:31:54.690 --> 00:31:58.009 or that it took the person a long time to do 00:31:58.009 --> 00:32:03.750 something or whatever the case, because. They're 00:32:03.750 --> 00:32:10.329 volunteers. They're volunteers. And I think that's 00:32:10.329 --> 00:32:12.730 that's I'm sure that's true with every sport, 00:32:12.869 --> 00:32:16.150 really. Right. Like it's true with all sports. 00:32:16.349 --> 00:32:22.660 All sports need volunteers. to run their trials 00:32:22.660 --> 00:32:27.059 and to run any practice things they have. And 00:32:27.059 --> 00:32:33.099 people need to be nice and appreciative and respectful. 00:32:34.819 --> 00:32:39.140 Yes, because at the end of the day, things can't 00:32:39.140 --> 00:32:42.420 happen without volunteers. It's so true. Like 00:32:42.420 --> 00:32:46.140 everything I put on in this building, I would 00:32:46.140 --> 00:32:49.319 never be able to do it without help. No way. 00:32:50.670 --> 00:32:56.549 that's a fact so you need to be grateful and 00:32:56.549 --> 00:33:01.529 kind and appreciative and and even if it's just 00:33:01.529 --> 00:33:05.769 random people like that are you know the employees 00:33:05.769 --> 00:33:11.509 at a store and they offer to you know be a distraction 00:33:11.509 --> 00:33:14.589 for you or to give you a hand or put something 00:33:14.589 --> 00:33:18.430 out for you or whatever the case like you know 00:33:19.019 --> 00:33:21.779 Just be nice to them. Thank them. Let them know 00:33:21.779 --> 00:33:25.359 you appreciate it. Be respectful of, you know, 00:33:25.359 --> 00:33:33.559 the place you're working. So that you set a good 00:33:33.559 --> 00:33:37.119 example and so that they're okay with other people 00:33:37.119 --> 00:33:42.720 coming. And don't ruin it for the rest of us. 00:33:44.200 --> 00:33:48.579 Yeah, you fuckers. Don't ruin it. don't roll 00:33:48.579 --> 00:33:53.839 i know it's like i had a student she's like sends 00:33:53.839 --> 00:33:58.140 me this video she took the dog to a store and 00:33:58.140 --> 00:34:02.420 she's training it in a store like a hardware 00:34:02.420 --> 00:34:07.579 store and this golden retriever comes trotting 00:34:07.579 --> 00:34:10.699 around the corner trotting up the aisle owner 00:34:10.699 --> 00:34:17.519 nowhere to be seen no leash on the dog And I'm 00:34:17.519 --> 00:34:21.260 like, oh my God, what is even happening here? 00:34:21.639 --> 00:34:27.639 What is even happening here? Yeah. It's so ridiculous. 00:34:28.579 --> 00:34:33.480 But anyway, yeah. So whatever sport you do, wherever 00:34:33.480 --> 00:34:40.199 you go, be flexible, be kind, be creative, pivot 00:34:40.199 --> 00:34:44.739 if you need to pivot. Yep. Sorry. Oh, what was 00:34:44.739 --> 00:34:47.690 that? That was my phone ringing. Oh, I thought 00:34:47.690 --> 00:34:49.469 we were going to have like a little song. We're 00:34:49.469 --> 00:34:52.429 going to do a little dance. A little ditty. A 00:34:52.429 --> 00:34:54.309 little ditty. A little ditty for us. We're all 00:34:54.309 --> 00:34:57.090 going to la, la, la, la, la. Sorry, we're a little 00:34:57.090 --> 00:35:02.389 punch drunk. We train all weekend. I don't know. 00:35:02.409 --> 00:35:06.630 I am. I'm tired. I'm like, great today. And I 00:35:06.630 --> 00:35:08.929 was like, oh, God, I'm like mush. My brain is 00:35:08.929 --> 00:35:13.219 mush. Well, and that's because, yeah, like training 00:35:13.219 --> 00:35:15.960 for three days, it takes an enormous amount of 00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:20.480 concentration. Yeah. And it was real. Yeah, there's 00:35:20.480 --> 00:35:24.199 just it was busy and it's chaotic and it requires 00:35:24.199 --> 00:35:27.539 focus, just like our dogs. You know, our poor 00:35:27.539 --> 00:35:30.000 dogs are like, oh, God, we have to concentrate 00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:37.300 with all this chaos going on. But, yeah, so, 00:35:37.420 --> 00:35:39.960 you know. I guess that's it. That's our short 00:35:39.960 --> 00:35:42.059 little ditty for today because we're fried and 00:35:42.059 --> 00:35:52.239 that's all we can manage. All right. Okay. Bye, 00:35:52.239 --> 00:35:53.559 everybody. Bye.