WEBVTT 00:00:34.600 --> 00:00:37.859 Welcome to Pawprint Academy, your blueprint to 00:00:37.859 --> 00:00:41.939 raising better dogs. I am Ryan, your host, alongside 00:00:41.939 --> 00:00:46.840 my co -host, Brianna. Hi. And together we're 00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:49.100 going to bring you real -world training insights 00:00:49.100 --> 00:00:52.159 built on leadership, structure, and proven methods. 00:00:52.780 --> 00:00:57.899 This shows a lot more than just teaching your 00:00:57.899 --> 00:01:02.159 dog to sit or stay, and it's about building trust, 00:01:02.340 --> 00:01:05.069 creating calm. and becoming the kind of leader 00:01:05.069 --> 00:01:07.489 that your dog truly needs. So thanks for being 00:01:07.489 --> 00:01:10.950 here with us on this journey, and let's get started. 00:01:13.189 --> 00:01:19.030 So today is episode three, and it is the power 00:01:19.030 --> 00:01:22.909 of consistency and why routines matter more than 00:01:22.909 --> 00:01:27.349 just pure talent. When we talk about that, our 00:01:27.349 --> 00:01:32.129 core idea behind this concept is that Dogs do 00:01:32.129 --> 00:01:34.909 not need perfect training sessions. They need 00:01:34.909 --> 00:01:39.250 consistent leadership. So reliability in those 00:01:39.250 --> 00:01:44.629 routines builds trust a lot more and creates 00:01:44.629 --> 00:01:47.569 those long -term results more than just like 00:01:47.569 --> 00:01:50.909 the talent or like your special techniques. Regardless 00:01:50.909 --> 00:01:54.069 of the way that you're going to go about your 00:01:54.069 --> 00:01:58.150 dog training, the consistency that you add in 00:01:58.150 --> 00:02:01.920 makes all the difference. right yep absolutely 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:05.799 and so today in uh episode three of paw print 00:02:05.799 --> 00:02:10.460 academy we're gonna talk through uh what type 00:02:10.460 --> 00:02:12.639 of consistency we're talking about right like 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:16.439 what what does it mean when i guess it's easy 00:02:16.439 --> 00:02:18.819 it's a simple word consistency yeah just be consistent 00:02:18.819 --> 00:02:22.860 but how is that applied to all the individual 00:02:22.860 --> 00:02:25.939 tasks that go into training a dog because that 00:02:25.939 --> 00:02:30.530 is where we get uh confused sidetracked and we 00:02:30.530 --> 00:02:33.050 create confusion for the dog right and at the 00:02:33.050 --> 00:02:36.689 end of the day clarity when we're training a 00:02:36.689 --> 00:02:41.330 dog is the name of the game without clarity and 00:02:41.330 --> 00:02:44.509 without the dog understanding what it is that 00:02:44.509 --> 00:02:47.370 we're even trying to get them to do man you if 00:02:47.370 --> 00:02:49.289 you don't have clarity you don't have any hope 00:02:49.289 --> 00:02:51.719 right because that dog's just gonna look at you 00:02:51.719 --> 00:02:53.340 they don't speak english we've said it before 00:02:53.340 --> 00:02:55.460 we'll say it again i say it all the times and 00:02:55.460 --> 00:02:57.360 everybody laughs and like shakes their head oh 00:02:57.360 --> 00:02:59.939 right yeah dogs don't speak english right they 00:02:59.939 --> 00:03:04.139 really don't yeah so you keep telling it to do 00:03:04.139 --> 00:03:07.539 things that you never taught it and and then 00:03:07.539 --> 00:03:10.699 we're like man this dog is is a problem it just 00:03:10.699 --> 00:03:13.060 doesn't want to listen Yeah. It doesn't know 00:03:13.060 --> 00:03:15.800 what magic technique. Right. Yeah. If I just 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:20.120 pop the leash or if I do a circle or if I use 00:03:20.120 --> 00:03:22.159 the right collar or the right harness or the 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:26.539 right tool or the or or I use the right clicker, 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:28.680 then it's all just going to kind of fall into 00:03:28.680 --> 00:03:32.819 place. But really, if you want to if you want 00:03:32.819 --> 00:03:36.659 to single out one specific topic that you just 00:03:36.659 --> 00:03:40.770 got a nail, it's just consistency. Yeah. All 00:03:40.770 --> 00:03:42.490 right, so we're going to break that down. So 00:03:42.490 --> 00:03:47.770 as you may have seen in previous episodes, by 00:03:47.770 --> 00:03:49.949 the time you guys actually download this, we're 00:03:49.949 --> 00:03:53.949 about three episodes ahead of where the podcasts 00:03:53.949 --> 00:04:00.129 are being released. But in previous podcasts, 00:04:00.229 --> 00:04:04.090 we usually come up with a main core idea. This 00:04:04.090 --> 00:04:08.080 week is consistency. Then we break it down into 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:11.800 three major points with a couple of additional 00:04:11.800 --> 00:04:23.019 little sub points and things thrown in. That 00:04:23.019 --> 00:04:27.860 builds our discussion. We have our live clients 00:04:27.860 --> 00:04:31.000 from our training company, Top Dog Training, 00:04:31.180 --> 00:04:35.079 that are... dialed in and they're alive on the 00:04:35.079 --> 00:04:39.439 call as we actually record this and then uh we'll 00:04:39.439 --> 00:04:42.180 break for about 15 20 minutes at the end and 00:04:42.180 --> 00:04:44.560 do live q a based on what we're talking about 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:50.149 uh so it this is like every podcast i'm sure 00:04:50.149 --> 00:04:52.110 you've ever listened to it's a work in progress 00:04:52.110 --> 00:04:55.689 uh but what sets ours apart and it makes ours 00:04:55.689 --> 00:04:58.170 a little bit different is that it is recorded 00:04:58.170 --> 00:05:02.370 live in one take uh from beginning to end with 00:05:02.370 --> 00:05:05.550 uh our clients and then we just we throw it out 00:05:05.550 --> 00:05:09.970 there because uh i don't think that uh there's 00:05:09.970 --> 00:05:11.689 anything that really needs to get edited out 00:05:11.689 --> 00:05:13.629 it's a very family friendly type of atmosphere 00:05:13.629 --> 00:05:17.220 and the goal is to get the information out to 00:05:17.220 --> 00:05:21.540 increase the education of anyone who wants to, 00:05:21.540 --> 00:05:23.300 you know, embark on the journey of training their 00:05:23.300 --> 00:05:27.779 dogs. So as we get into that major point, number 00:05:27.779 --> 00:05:31.800 one, dogs learn through repetition, not exceptions. 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:35.759 Right. And so that doesn't mean dogs learn through 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:40.300 repetition, no exceptions. It means exceptions 00:05:40.300 --> 00:05:46.540 to the, that consistency. are gravely hampering 00:05:46.540 --> 00:05:55.060 your dog training. Example. You say you're training 00:05:55.060 --> 00:05:57.740 your dog to sit and you're doing all the things 00:05:57.740 --> 00:06:00.639 right. You're like sit and they sit and sit and 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:02.519 they sit. And you're just like, man, this is 00:06:02.519 --> 00:06:04.600 going so well. This is going so well. And then 00:06:04.600 --> 00:06:07.000 you say sit and then they go down all the way 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:09.089 to the ground. And you're like. Man, they're 00:06:09.089 --> 00:06:12.910 just so obedient. It's crazy. And you reward 00:06:12.910 --> 00:06:15.230 and then you just like move on with your day 00:06:15.230 --> 00:06:17.370 and you're like say and sit. And then once in 00:06:17.370 --> 00:06:19.569 a while, they're going all the way down to the 00:06:19.569 --> 00:06:24.129 ground. You're shooting yourself in the foot. 00:06:25.430 --> 00:06:29.870 Why? Why? I'm glad you asked. Thank you for asking. 00:06:30.029 --> 00:06:32.149 So you're shooting yourself in the foot because 00:06:32.149 --> 00:06:36.329 you're reinforcing something with consistency. 00:06:37.560 --> 00:06:42.100 That is not accurate. Right. And so if you're 00:06:42.100 --> 00:06:45.720 trying to teach the dog to sit, but sometimes 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:49.540 they do a different activity other than sit and 00:06:49.540 --> 00:06:53.730 you reward that just because, man, they. They're 00:06:53.730 --> 00:06:56.550 doing so good. They're listening, like in your 00:06:56.550 --> 00:06:58.529 mind, like they're listening to you. They're 00:06:58.529 --> 00:07:00.670 responding to you. They have good eye contact. 00:07:00.970 --> 00:07:04.350 They are not barking. They're doing all the things 00:07:04.350 --> 00:07:06.350 right. It's just that they went down a little 00:07:06.350 --> 00:07:08.430 too low in the sit and they ended up on the ground. 00:07:09.189 --> 00:07:11.350 But that's still not consistent. That's still 00:07:11.350 --> 00:07:17.769 not what we're trying to train for. And so that 00:07:17.769 --> 00:07:22.629 is an opportunity for you to simply. withhold 00:07:22.629 --> 00:07:26.930 the reward and just be like no sit and a lot 00:07:26.930 --> 00:07:29.230 of times they'll pop right back up into that 00:07:29.230 --> 00:07:31.129 sit and then you can go on about your day and 00:07:31.129 --> 00:07:33.810 you reward them and you go right on big party 00:07:33.810 --> 00:07:37.910 lots of praise but that is the consistency that 00:07:37.910 --> 00:07:40.589 we're talking about yeah you have to nail the 00:07:40.589 --> 00:07:44.970 consistency and the smartest dogs are the absolute 00:07:44.970 --> 00:07:53.879 hardest to train because they prey on us on on 00:07:53.879 --> 00:07:56.699 the consistency game right they are always watching 00:07:56.699 --> 00:07:59.279 they're always looking they're always deducing 00:07:59.279 --> 00:08:01.180 in their head like oh what is he asking for what 00:08:01.180 --> 00:08:05.040 is she asking for and when we aren't consistent 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:08.699 with something very simple like that we send 00:08:08.699 --> 00:08:11.620 them the wrong message right i always go back 00:08:11.620 --> 00:08:14.000 to like not even about a training session right 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:18.920 it's like consistency in everyday life like when 00:08:19.879 --> 00:08:22.379 I deal with a dog the first thing I teach is 00:08:22.379 --> 00:08:25.040 threshold manners it's like that's so important 00:08:25.040 --> 00:08:27.839 like daily things throughout your life where 00:08:27.839 --> 00:08:29.819 you're being consistent and feeding the dog at 00:08:29.819 --> 00:08:31.540 the same time take him for a walk around the 00:08:31.540 --> 00:08:34.539 same time or at least in the same order those 00:08:34.539 --> 00:08:36.159 are where you're going to see the biggest like 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:40.200 behavioral changes in your dog right definitely 00:08:40.200 --> 00:08:43.620 so inconsistency is going to slow down the learning 00:08:43.620 --> 00:08:45.419 and it's going to create hesitation in the dogs 00:08:45.419 --> 00:08:48.019 because they're not going to fully understand 00:08:48.019 --> 00:08:52.120 what it is that you're asking so repetition is 00:08:52.120 --> 00:08:55.759 obviously going to strengthen a habit and the 00:08:55.759 --> 00:08:58.580 whole goal of dog training in general right is 00:08:58.580 --> 00:09:02.460 to eventually get to where your dog is doing 00:09:02.460 --> 00:09:05.919 those movements and those those actions automatically 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:10.799 that's like the the end state that we want to 00:09:10.799 --> 00:09:14.860 get to with our dogs Right. And repetition. I 00:09:14.860 --> 00:09:16.779 mean, people will ask us sometimes, oh, it's 00:09:16.779 --> 00:09:18.779 like, how many times do I have them sit in a 00:09:18.779 --> 00:09:22.720 training session? I'm like, like 40. Right. Because 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:25.139 you can do it so fast. Right. Yeah. I don't have 00:09:25.139 --> 00:09:27.279 a number. I just keep on going. Right. You just 00:09:27.279 --> 00:09:29.100 keep going until the dog understands it. And 00:09:29.100 --> 00:09:30.840 a lot of times, like there are a lot of things 00:09:30.840 --> 00:09:33.659 like recall that dogs do not understand right 00:09:33.659 --> 00:09:35.399 away. And you just have to keep doing it and 00:09:35.399 --> 00:09:37.360 doing it and doing it and doing it. And you're 00:09:37.360 --> 00:09:39.409 like, man. I don't know how they don't get it 00:09:39.409 --> 00:09:41.769 yet, but it doesn't matter that you don't understand 00:09:41.769 --> 00:09:44.269 that they don't get it. It's your job to teach 00:09:44.269 --> 00:09:48.690 them that. Right. And where I could see this 00:09:48.690 --> 00:09:51.029 going off the rails here was like, well, they 00:09:51.029 --> 00:09:54.169 said just do it like a hundred times. So we're 00:09:54.169 --> 00:09:57.570 not saying do it until the dog is exhausted in 00:09:57.570 --> 00:09:59.990 one single training session. What we're talking 00:09:59.990 --> 00:10:02.830 about is, is the repetition that is required 00:10:02.830 --> 00:10:08.720 to truly like. create understanding in the dog 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:11.460 right uh that is not the same and it's gonna 00:10:11.460 --> 00:10:14.419 be different for every dog like i said the um 00:10:14.419 --> 00:10:21.440 um there's a very famous um dog training company 00:10:21.440 --> 00:10:24.940 that recommends uh they do all positive training 00:10:24.940 --> 00:10:29.200 they recommend one minute sessions right like 00:10:29.200 --> 00:10:36.259 i for sure don't follow that um but because because 00:10:36.259 --> 00:10:39.399 i got i got a uh i got too many things to do 00:10:39.399 --> 00:10:42.139 uh to do just a single minute of training and 00:10:42.139 --> 00:10:44.340 then put the dog away for five minutes and then 00:10:44.340 --> 00:10:49.299 do a single minute of training um or we're we're 00:10:49.299 --> 00:10:51.419 gonna go down a rabbit hole with this but the 00:10:51.419 --> 00:10:57.779 concept is repetition at the dog's pace where 00:10:57.779 --> 00:11:00.500 the dog is is obviously showing comprehension 00:11:01.980 --> 00:11:04.960 and you're not exhausting the dog. Someone could 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:06.779 ask, well, how do I know that I'm exhausting 00:11:06.779 --> 00:11:08.720 the dog? Well, because the dog's not participating 00:11:08.720 --> 00:11:10.460 anymore. Right, if they check out. Right, if 00:11:10.460 --> 00:11:11.860 they check out, you've already missed it. Get 00:11:11.860 --> 00:11:14.639 one more in and call it a day. Right, and next 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:19.360 time, cut it a little bit earlier. Because ideally, 00:11:19.379 --> 00:11:24.600 you're ending at a high, not at a low. You want 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:28.000 to end every session at a high while the dog's 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:30.600 excited, while the dog wants to perform one more. 00:11:30.779 --> 00:11:33.570 Yep. That way, when you get them out the next 00:11:33.570 --> 00:11:36.590 time for the next session, they're going to be 00:11:36.590 --> 00:11:42.889 excited. All right. Aside from that, the last 00:11:42.889 --> 00:11:45.870 point that I had written down was allowing a 00:11:45.870 --> 00:11:49.590 behavior can sometimes teach the dog that rules 00:11:49.590 --> 00:11:56.909 are negotiable rather than strict. And this comes 00:11:56.909 --> 00:12:01.179 into play. I've got some questions here. are 00:12:01.179 --> 00:12:04.480 going to kind of play into this, but this is 00:12:04.480 --> 00:12:07.820 where life happens is totally a real excuse. 00:12:08.080 --> 00:12:11.480 And I, I, I feel for you. I get it. I understand 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:14.100 it happens to us too, even as dog trainers, but 00:12:14.100 --> 00:12:18.240 you come home from a super long day at work and 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:24.159 your dog, like, you know, jumps up and then, 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:27.840 and then they get down and you're like, all right, 00:12:27.879 --> 00:12:31.370 that's, that's fine. Like, good job. And you 00:12:31.370 --> 00:12:33.690 walk into the living room and you're just super 00:12:33.690 --> 00:12:36.149 tired and you tell them, hey, go to your place. 00:12:36.889 --> 00:12:38.909 And they kind of walk over to it, but they're 00:12:38.909 --> 00:12:42.029 real excited and they come up and nudge you. 00:12:42.070 --> 00:12:44.230 And then you just pet them and you're like, yeah, 00:12:44.250 --> 00:12:48.429 yeah, I had a rough day too. Well, there was 00:12:48.429 --> 00:12:51.870 an opportunity for you to correct your dog and 00:12:51.870 --> 00:12:55.429 say, no, no, you didn't go to your place. Let 00:12:55.429 --> 00:13:00.350 me reinforce this. But instead. Because we are 00:13:00.350 --> 00:13:04.570 tired, weak, or otherwise, it's the silver knob. 00:13:05.490 --> 00:13:08.169 You're welcome. Brianna's over here messing with 00:13:08.169 --> 00:13:10.230 her mic, about to rip this thing off the boom. 00:13:11.870 --> 00:13:13.970 We're going to have technical difficulties on 00:13:13.970 --> 00:13:20.950 our live call. So when you're super tired, you're 00:13:20.950 --> 00:13:24.149 not in the mood to deal with this, and your dog 00:13:24.149 --> 00:13:28.309 almost does what you say. is the prime opportunities 00:13:28.309 --> 00:13:33.230 for you to explain to the dog non -verbally that 00:13:33.230 --> 00:13:37.009 your commands are negotiable. And that's the 00:13:37.009 --> 00:13:40.330 most frustrating thing because I'm right there 00:13:40.330 --> 00:13:43.450 with you. I have done it. I still do it sometimes. 00:13:43.710 --> 00:13:46.450 We are not perfect. We all make the mistake. 00:13:46.809 --> 00:13:53.490 But the more mistakes that you do, the longer 00:13:53.490 --> 00:13:55.710 it takes to train your dog. Right. They add up 00:13:55.710 --> 00:13:59.690 for sure. So one mistake or one time of doing 00:13:59.690 --> 00:14:02.409 that, it's not going to ruin your dog. It absolutely 00:14:02.409 --> 00:14:04.929 doesn't. But your dog becomes a product of what 00:14:04.929 --> 00:14:08.009 you consistently do and consistently hold them 00:14:08.009 --> 00:14:09.929 accountable to do. Right. And it goes back to 00:14:09.929 --> 00:14:11.529 them being opportunists, right? They look for 00:14:11.529 --> 00:14:16.889 any kind of loophole. And whether it's just because 00:14:16.889 --> 00:14:21.789 you're tired at the end of the day or whether... 00:14:22.609 --> 00:14:24.889 Somebody in the house is the weak link and that 00:14:24.889 --> 00:14:27.370 is like, yeah, whatever. I don't really care. 00:14:27.409 --> 00:14:28.990 I don't want to participate in all this stuff 00:14:28.990 --> 00:14:30.750 or whatever. It's just too hard. I don't have 00:14:30.750 --> 00:14:34.710 time for it. You will see a difference in that 00:14:34.710 --> 00:14:37.090 dog, in that household, in that behavior. Oh, 00:14:37.090 --> 00:14:42.049 yeah, for sure. The first question, what is an 00:14:42.049 --> 00:14:45.690 example of a client that you've seen who sabotaged 00:14:45.690 --> 00:14:51.019 progress by being inconsistent? Not naming any 00:14:51.019 --> 00:14:52.639 names. Right. I don't know that I would call 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:55.960 it sabotage anyway. Sometimes people, most of 00:14:55.960 --> 00:14:58.080 the time. We sabotage ourselves. Right. Most 00:14:58.080 --> 00:15:01.259 of the time, they don't even realize that they're 00:15:01.259 --> 00:15:03.539 doing it until we're involved. And then we're 00:15:03.539 --> 00:15:05.820 like, well, that's because you're doing that. 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:11.679 And they're like, oh, okay. So for me, I immediately 00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:15.860 go to. clients coming home and being excited 00:15:15.860 --> 00:15:19.000 to see their dog and loving them and letting 00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:21.700 them like wrestle and do things like that. And 00:15:21.700 --> 00:15:23.440 then guests coming over and them not wanting 00:15:23.440 --> 00:15:28.500 to do that with the dog. With that, a lot of 00:15:28.500 --> 00:15:30.200 times it's like, well, I'm excited to see my 00:15:30.200 --> 00:15:31.779 dog. I want them to be excited to see me. But 00:15:31.779 --> 00:15:34.279 that dog isn't going to differentiate you from 00:15:34.279 --> 00:15:36.179 that other guest walking in the door. They think 00:15:36.179 --> 00:15:38.419 somebody comes through that door and I get to 00:15:38.419 --> 00:15:42.840 wrestle with them. And so. I think people think 00:15:42.840 --> 00:15:46.039 that the dogs will will be OK treating guests 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:48.700 as such, but treating them differently. And it's 00:15:48.700 --> 00:15:52.639 just not the case. Right. So my example is I 00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:56.419 used to teach this big group class out at a park 00:15:56.419 --> 00:16:03.090 and it was. Done only with clients that had already 00:16:03.090 --> 00:16:05.409 like been through their dog had already been 00:16:05.409 --> 00:16:07.129 through training. They had already been through 00:16:07.129 --> 00:16:09.289 training. They all knew the right things to do. 00:16:09.350 --> 00:16:13.580 But as soon as you. increased the amount of variables 00:16:13.580 --> 00:16:16.659 that they were like trying to deal with i .e 00:16:16.659 --> 00:16:19.440 uh there were other dogs there was other people 00:16:19.440 --> 00:16:21.779 you're talking to them you're having a conversation 00:16:21.779 --> 00:16:25.379 with them while they're walking their dogs on 00:16:25.379 --> 00:16:29.320 a trying to put them in a strict heel or um you 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:31.019 know other dogs are approaching them and they're 00:16:31.019 --> 00:16:34.419 trying to like keep their dogs engagement suddenly 00:16:34.419 --> 00:16:36.980 as soon as the all of those variables increase 00:16:36.980 --> 00:16:39.379 all of the consistency just went out the window 00:16:39.379 --> 00:16:44.159 and then they were like good sit heel stay down 00:16:44.159 --> 00:16:46.919 and it was like all of them all at the same time 00:16:46.919 --> 00:16:49.059 and it's like well my dog's not like lunging 00:16:49.059 --> 00:16:51.700 at that other dog but right but but you were 00:16:51.700 --> 00:16:54.799 also using five commands to try to get your dog 00:16:54.799 --> 00:16:59.600 to sit basically and i was like well that's not 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:04.990 the best and and it's okay like But you need 00:17:04.990 --> 00:17:08.089 to understand that the more you talk, the more 00:17:08.089 --> 00:17:09.990 your dog's just going to tune out what you're 00:17:09.990 --> 00:17:13.329 saying as noise because it's confusing. Yep. 00:17:13.470 --> 00:17:18.470 Yeah. How do you show owners the difference in 00:17:18.470 --> 00:17:21.609 their dog's behavior once they stick to the rules? 00:17:21.730 --> 00:17:24.009 I think that one's self -evident. Right. The 00:17:24.009 --> 00:17:26.250 dog shows them. The dog shows them. I don't need 00:17:26.250 --> 00:17:29.750 to show them anything. Typically, when we get 00:17:29.750 --> 00:17:33.819 someone on board and they're like, okay. I'm 00:17:33.819 --> 00:17:36.980 committed. I am going to be absolutely consistent 00:17:36.980 --> 00:17:40.440 about this. Whatever it is, whether it's like 00:17:40.440 --> 00:17:42.460 I'm going to make them sit at the back door before 00:17:42.460 --> 00:17:46.400 I open the door or I'm going to make them lay 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:48.779 down before I open the crate door. I will not 00:17:48.779 --> 00:17:50.400 feed them whipped cream even if they bark at 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:54.500 the fridge. There's so many. Whatever the consistency 00:17:54.500 --> 00:18:00.460 thing is, they usually get that. And the dog 00:18:00.460 --> 00:18:05.150 ends up showing them, hey. I am picking up what 00:18:05.150 --> 00:18:06.829 you're putting down. Right. And some dogs have 00:18:06.829 --> 00:18:08.670 more stamina than others. Keep that in mind too. 00:18:08.670 --> 00:18:11.309 Some dogs can be incredibly persistent. I mean, 00:18:11.349 --> 00:18:14.190 we do like decompression exercises with dogs 00:18:14.190 --> 00:18:17.049 and some dogs in like 20 minutes are like, I'm, 00:18:17.109 --> 00:18:18.670 I'm gonna lay down. There's nothing going on. 00:18:19.089 --> 00:18:22.769 Some dogs it's, it's two hours. Right. And if, 00:18:22.869 --> 00:18:25.150 if they don't think I have to move on with my 00:18:25.150 --> 00:18:28.150 day and do something different, I do, but I don't 00:18:28.150 --> 00:18:30.869 get to move on from that exercise because my 00:18:30.869 --> 00:18:34.680 job is to wait for them to. to settle down what's 00:18:34.680 --> 00:18:37.539 uh what's one daily routine that you just don't 00:18:37.539 --> 00:18:42.240 let slide no matter what threshold manners say 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:45.019 it louder for the people in the back threshold 00:18:45.019 --> 00:18:49.380 manners okay why because a dog rushing a dog 00:18:49.380 --> 00:18:52.480 rushing through the door is one it's just rude 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:55.720 okay and in what world do we just let our kids 00:18:55.720 --> 00:18:58.380 run out the front door ahead of us especially 00:18:58.380 --> 00:19:01.019 if you live like on a like street we're obviously 00:19:01.019 --> 00:19:03.700 like in like a cul -de -sac so it's different 00:19:03.700 --> 00:19:09.039 but it is just one of those things where if that 00:19:09.039 --> 00:19:12.000 dog rushes out that door without you that dog 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:16.660 is not going with you that dog is ahead of you 00:19:16.660 --> 00:19:19.400 that dog is not paying any attention to you that 00:19:19.400 --> 00:19:22.759 dog is in its own universe in its own world and 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:26.390 you are not in pack drive And that's the thing 00:19:26.390 --> 00:19:28.589 is when you take your dog outside, you need to 00:19:28.589 --> 00:19:30.210 be in pack drive with your dog. Or guess what? 00:19:30.250 --> 00:19:32.650 Your dog doesn't care and it will run away. Right. 00:19:33.710 --> 00:19:36.329 Because it's going to be in something else. Right. 00:19:36.549 --> 00:19:38.230 Yeah. It's going to be in prey drive. So it's 00:19:38.230 --> 00:19:39.869 going to be chasing something. Yeah. It's going 00:19:39.869 --> 00:19:42.150 to be in play drive. It's going to be chasing 00:19:42.150 --> 00:19:45.829 something. Right. It's like, let's go do something 00:19:45.829 --> 00:19:48.190 else. Yeah. That's like the first thing we work 00:19:48.190 --> 00:19:51.509 on a dog with when they come in is just, you 00:19:51.509 --> 00:19:53.500 just have to sit at the door. And then when I 00:19:53.500 --> 00:19:55.019 open it, you have to not go through it until 00:19:55.019 --> 00:19:57.839 I'm ready to go through it with you. Yeah. And 00:19:57.839 --> 00:20:00.880 it's so easy. Right. My thing, I mean, similar 00:20:00.880 --> 00:20:03.359 to threshold manners, but when I get a dog out 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:06.500 of a crate or a kennel. Right. Yeah. If I don't 00:20:06.500 --> 00:20:08.559 tell them, if I don't give them a break. Yeah. 00:20:08.660 --> 00:20:11.859 Then they're not coming out. Right. Yeah. They 00:20:11.859 --> 00:20:14.819 can be sitting, standing, you know, laying down. 00:20:14.900 --> 00:20:16.640 It doesn't matter, but they're not coming out 00:20:16.640 --> 00:20:20.799 until I say break. Right. And so that's also. 00:20:21.690 --> 00:20:25.269 At the crate door is one of the first ways that 00:20:25.269 --> 00:20:28.990 we teach like the no marker without having to 00:20:28.990 --> 00:20:31.150 give any like corrections or anything like that 00:20:31.150 --> 00:20:33.210 because you're just taking space away and saying, 00:20:33.309 --> 00:20:35.769 nope, you can't come out. You have to sit down. 00:20:36.049 --> 00:20:38.990 Right. Very, very clear in the dog's mind what 00:20:38.990 --> 00:20:42.450 no means when it is literally limiting their 00:20:42.450 --> 00:20:45.140 freedom. Yeah. And then. You see within minutes, 00:20:45.160 --> 00:20:46.680 the dog's like, oh, okay, I got to sit down. 00:20:46.680 --> 00:20:48.940 You don't have to slam anything in a dog's face 00:20:48.940 --> 00:20:51.640 either. You can literally just hold the crate 00:20:51.640 --> 00:20:55.259 door right where it is, and that dog is not going 00:20:55.259 --> 00:20:58.759 to dig its way through there. Right. Anywhere 00:20:58.759 --> 00:21:01.119 from like the Dutch Shepherd that's 80 pounds, 00:21:01.200 --> 00:21:03.339 he has to lay down before he comes out. 100%. 00:21:03.339 --> 00:21:06.500 And the 15 -pound little Frenchie also, you're 00:21:06.500 --> 00:21:07.740 going to lay down before you get to come out. 00:21:07.740 --> 00:21:11.000 She wishes she was 15 pounds. Well, she's 18. 00:21:11.539 --> 00:21:18.940 Don't hate on her. All right. These are both 00:21:18.940 --> 00:21:23.700 our dogs, by the way. These are both our personal 00:21:23.700 --> 00:21:25.619 dogs. We only make fun of our dogs. Right, exactly. 00:21:26.579 --> 00:21:31.079 So point number two, structure creates predictability 00:21:31.079 --> 00:21:36.119 and calmness. So this is like really, really 00:21:36.119 --> 00:21:40.900 important. So when your dog is showing signs 00:21:40.900 --> 00:21:44.960 of anxiety. The number one thing that I talk 00:21:44.960 --> 00:21:47.880 to people on the phone when they ask for evals 00:21:47.880 --> 00:21:49.440 and they ask us to like come into their house 00:21:49.440 --> 00:21:51.019 and figure out what's going on with their dog. 00:21:51.039 --> 00:21:52.960 And they're like, I think they're anxious. And 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:57.680 I'm like, okay, tell me about how your day goes 00:21:57.680 --> 00:21:59.480 and tell me about how you feed them. Tell me 00:21:59.480 --> 00:22:01.960 about where do they sleep and how do they sleep 00:22:01.960 --> 00:22:03.660 and tell me about this and tell me about that. 00:22:05.140 --> 00:22:12.519 Almost always the. the dog has way more freedom 00:22:12.519 --> 00:22:18.759 than they need and when that happens you get 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:22.700 anxiety because the dog lacks structure that 00:22:22.700 --> 00:22:28.359 it just genetically craves dogs were meant to 00:22:28.359 --> 00:22:35.069 be in packs and like whole generations previous, 00:22:35.410 --> 00:22:41.029 right? Dogs were bred and, you know, they came 00:22:41.029 --> 00:22:44.529 from this world where they survived in packs. 00:22:44.849 --> 00:22:50.309 They don't need solo absolute freedom and to 00:22:50.309 --> 00:22:54.490 make decisions. Not all dogs are capable of making 00:22:54.490 --> 00:22:58.789 decisions. Not all dogs want to be the dog to 00:22:58.789 --> 00:23:01.150 make the decisions. Thus, they don't challenge 00:23:01.150 --> 00:23:05.759 the alpha male, in the pack that is making the 00:23:05.759 --> 00:23:09.519 decisions that's how a pack like a pack dynamic 00:23:09.519 --> 00:23:14.140 stays structured in the wild is that not every 00:23:14.140 --> 00:23:17.880 dog actually wants to challenge the alpha not 00:23:17.880 --> 00:23:20.740 just from a like a physical dominance perspective 00:23:20.740 --> 00:23:23.589 but A lot of dogs just don't want to have to 00:23:23.589 --> 00:23:25.630 make those decisions. Right. Gabe's like, I'm 00:23:25.630 --> 00:23:27.789 not doing. Right. He doesn't want to make any 00:23:27.789 --> 00:23:29.730 decisions. He's just like, what are we doing? 00:23:29.809 --> 00:23:31.549 We're doing this. Yeah. Somebody tell me where 00:23:31.549 --> 00:23:39.269 we're going. Absolutely. So dogs feel like security 00:23:39.269 --> 00:23:43.109 when they know what's coming next. And they can't 00:23:43.109 --> 00:23:46.569 know what's coming next if you aren't consistent. 00:23:47.150 --> 00:23:50.130 about your schedule or your process it doesn't 00:23:50.130 --> 00:23:53.609 have to be consistent to a t with with scheduling 00:23:53.609 --> 00:23:57.250 right so like i'm a huge proponent of not feeding 00:23:57.250 --> 00:24:00.589 my dog at the same time every day and that comes 00:24:00.589 --> 00:24:03.150 from the concept that if you feed your dog at 00:24:03.150 --> 00:24:07.789 seven o 'clock every day at 702 your dog is going 00:24:07.789 --> 00:24:10.430 to depending on how dominant they are they're 00:24:10.430 --> 00:24:12.869 going to be finding you yeah they're going to 00:24:12.869 --> 00:24:14.910 be like where are you where are you and why have 00:24:14.910 --> 00:24:20.069 i not eaten yet So I feed our dogs at different 00:24:20.069 --> 00:24:23.230 times throughout the evening. That's not the 00:24:23.230 --> 00:24:25.349 consistency that I'm talking about. The consistency 00:24:25.349 --> 00:24:28.869 I'm talking about is if I ask them to do something, 00:24:28.990 --> 00:24:32.829 I am going to hold them accountable and enforce 00:24:32.829 --> 00:24:37.250 that they do it. And that is how they predict, 00:24:37.710 --> 00:24:42.529 okay, he said sit. Okay, he said place. I need 00:24:42.529 --> 00:24:46.200 to go lay down on my place. that's how they that's 00:24:46.200 --> 00:24:52.680 how it's done yep um all right the first question 00:24:52.680 --> 00:24:55.859 on this point how do you help families build 00:24:55.859 --> 00:24:59.920 a realistic daily routine without going crazy 00:24:59.920 --> 00:25:02.240 overboard with it right definitely you gotta 00:25:02.240 --> 00:25:04.339 start small and pick like two or three things 00:25:04.339 --> 00:25:09.180 right so mine would be start having your dog 00:25:09.180 --> 00:25:11.920 like sit at the door it's like Teach a threshold 00:25:11.920 --> 00:25:15.180 manner. That builds consistency. You'll see after 00:25:15.180 --> 00:25:18.299 you practice that and make it a routine and require 00:25:18.299 --> 00:25:20.720 it every time that when you get to a door, your 00:25:20.720 --> 00:25:22.339 dog's going to be like, oh, I should sit down. 00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:25.660 I'm at a door. And those are the dogs that people 00:25:25.660 --> 00:25:28.039 look at in public and they're like, oh my gosh, 00:25:28.079 --> 00:25:31.500 that dog sat at a door. And it's just so different. 00:25:32.140 --> 00:25:35.000 And then I would go back to like feeding also. 00:25:35.680 --> 00:25:38.940 Does it have to be the exact same time? No. Will 00:25:38.940 --> 00:25:41.940 it maybe help you build consistency to kind of 00:25:41.940 --> 00:25:45.119 start at the same time? Yeah, maybe, but it's 00:25:45.119 --> 00:25:47.920 not a requirement by any means. I mean, we usually 00:25:47.920 --> 00:25:51.599 pick like a time range between like 5 .30 and 00:25:51.599 --> 00:25:54.359 7 and we'll feed our dogs somewhere between there. 00:25:54.599 --> 00:25:57.339 But at least building a routine where they have 00:25:57.339 --> 00:25:59.539 to go to their place, they have to sit, and then 00:25:59.539 --> 00:26:02.579 you have to deliver the food and give them a... 00:26:03.069 --> 00:26:05.369 release command before they get to eat dinner 00:26:05.369 --> 00:26:07.430 instead of just dumping it in the bowl while 00:26:07.430 --> 00:26:09.329 they're not even around and waiting for them 00:26:09.329 --> 00:26:14.170 to meander over and and eat it at their free 00:26:14.170 --> 00:26:16.670 will yeah and i i think that those are great 00:26:16.670 --> 00:26:20.730 ones to start with because without changing anything 00:26:20.730 --> 00:26:23.930 in your entire life you still have to let that 00:26:23.930 --> 00:26:27.750 dog out and you still have to feed it yep right 00:26:27.750 --> 00:26:31.029 those two are pretty much non -negotiable uh 00:26:31.029 --> 00:26:35.220 across the the the dog, like pet dog, home dog 00:26:35.220 --> 00:26:41.220 training space. And so by capitalizing on those 00:26:41.220 --> 00:26:44.019 things that you're already, you already have 00:26:44.019 --> 00:26:46.000 to do those things. You have to let the dog out. 00:26:46.079 --> 00:26:50.240 You already have to feed the dog. So just take 00:26:50.240 --> 00:26:53.420 those opportunities to start building in that 00:26:53.420 --> 00:26:56.500 structure. Yeah. Maybe even as simple as like, 00:26:56.519 --> 00:26:59.799 like you said, like, okay, so just because you 00:26:59.799 --> 00:27:01.299 put the food down doesn't mean your dog gets 00:27:01.299 --> 00:27:04.220 to eat. Maybe you give them a release word in 00:27:04.220 --> 00:27:07.539 order to eat. Maybe you then start to require 00:27:07.539 --> 00:27:10.019 a sit before it. Maybe you require a sit and 00:27:10.019 --> 00:27:13.619 then a down. Maybe you require a cool trick of 00:27:13.619 --> 00:27:16.880 some sort like a spin or an orbit or whatever. 00:27:17.240 --> 00:27:19.539 But when it comes back to the consistency, it's 00:27:19.539 --> 00:27:22.319 the dog then has to do it and do it the right 00:27:22.319 --> 00:27:28.160 way in order for that to work. the dog sit and 00:27:28.160 --> 00:27:30.460 you're wanting them to wait until you give them 00:27:30.460 --> 00:27:32.940 a release word because you don't want them to 00:27:32.940 --> 00:27:35.980 release themselves at every moment, that dog 00:27:35.980 --> 00:27:38.660 goes to break without you telling it, then it's 00:27:38.660 --> 00:27:40.940 nope. You have to be ready to block that dog, 00:27:41.059 --> 00:27:44.259 put them back into the position and require it 00:27:44.259 --> 00:27:47.819 again and wait. I mean, it might take three or 00:27:47.819 --> 00:27:50.400 four or five, six, seven, eight times. Right. 00:27:50.460 --> 00:27:54.440 So you have to like prepare yourself that the 00:27:54.440 --> 00:27:57.140 first time that you do this, And probably the 00:27:57.140 --> 00:27:59.220 second and third time, it's going to take a little 00:27:59.220 --> 00:28:02.220 bit. And that's okay. You can work through it. 00:28:02.279 --> 00:28:04.599 Right. You have to come and do it with patience 00:28:04.599 --> 00:28:07.420 and time. Right. Patience. Patience is the hardest 00:28:07.420 --> 00:28:10.119 thing because it's like, nope, don't do that. 00:28:10.440 --> 00:28:12.440 I don't have time for this. Hurry up. Eat your 00:28:12.440 --> 00:28:14.359 food. I got to go. Right. You're like a broken 00:28:14.359 --> 00:28:17.019 record. And it is not fun in the beginning, but 00:28:17.019 --> 00:28:19.160 you will see that the dog learns faster and is 00:28:19.160 --> 00:28:20.740 like, well, I should go ahead and do it the first 00:28:20.740 --> 00:28:23.579 time because last time she just kept making me 00:28:23.579 --> 00:28:26.059 do it. And it took so long that I didn't even 00:28:26.059 --> 00:28:29.539 remember that I wanted those snacks. Yeah. So 00:28:29.539 --> 00:28:33.339 can you share a story where structure alone reduced 00:28:33.339 --> 00:28:36.890 a dog's anxiety? I'm sending you that question 00:28:36.890 --> 00:28:40.269 specifically because some people listening may 00:28:40.269 --> 00:28:44.750 have heard about Brianna's rescue dog, Mr. Gabe. 00:28:46.109 --> 00:28:51.470 And it's just Gabe, I know. Yeah, it is just 00:28:51.470 --> 00:28:53.309 Gabe. I call him Mr. Gabe. Did that come with 00:28:53.309 --> 00:28:56.509 the first name, Mr.? It's just polite. It's polite 00:28:56.509 --> 00:29:03.099 to address people. So he was... So anxiety ridden 00:29:03.099 --> 00:29:07.259 that he could not walk through like a doorway. 00:29:07.359 --> 00:29:09.099 He couldn't walk through a doorway because he 00:29:09.099 --> 00:29:12.200 could see the trim going from the ground up and 00:29:12.200 --> 00:29:15.380 over him. And he wanted no part in that. Right. 00:29:15.440 --> 00:29:19.039 And you have to literally either like drag, herd, 00:29:19.240 --> 00:29:23.539 push or or just somehow distract him just in 00:29:23.539 --> 00:29:29.880 order to go from room to room. And he. is able 00:29:29.880 --> 00:29:33.359 now to run and play with the other dogs in the 00:29:33.359 --> 00:29:36.200 backyard right uh he runs on a treadmill yeah 00:29:36.200 --> 00:29:39.019 he put a ball in his mouth for the first time 00:29:39.019 --> 00:29:41.619 i've ever seen never been taught how to play 00:29:41.619 --> 00:29:45.740 like a dog he just doesn't know but he is learning 00:29:45.740 --> 00:29:48.619 right and he is figuring these things out he's 00:29:48.619 --> 00:29:51.940 able to go out in public now he goes to breweries 00:29:51.940 --> 00:29:53.880 and he goes to coffee shops and he goes to things 00:29:53.880 --> 00:29:56.259 and sometimes he still gets spooked and gets 00:29:56.259 --> 00:30:00.740 scared and things uh but he he's able to do those 00:30:00.740 --> 00:30:06.180 things um what one of the most major changes 00:30:06.180 --> 00:30:10.180 that i saw and i'm basically just taking your 00:30:10.180 --> 00:30:14.759 entire point here um but it was at the point 00:30:14.759 --> 00:30:17.720 where we introduced him to a kennel or a crate 00:30:17.720 --> 00:30:22.700 i felt like that was a defining moment where 00:30:22.700 --> 00:30:27.009 he was like oh heck no i am not getting in that 00:30:27.009 --> 00:30:31.289 crazy i would i would never i would rather die 00:30:31.289 --> 00:30:36.410 right then get in that box and through patience 00:30:36.410 --> 00:30:41.789 and food luring and getting him close to it with 00:30:41.789 --> 00:30:45.049 the salmon with the freeze -dried salmon and 00:30:45.049 --> 00:30:47.569 uh and getting him close to it building food 00:30:47.569 --> 00:30:49.509 drive in him because he didn't have food drive 00:30:49.509 --> 00:30:51.690 right right he would he would just leave his 00:30:51.690 --> 00:30:55.500 food all day yeah But building food drive in 00:30:55.500 --> 00:30:59.259 him and then building that response in him and 00:30:59.259 --> 00:31:04.319 that trust in him and then basically just creating 00:31:04.319 --> 00:31:07.599 a safer and safer and safer environment until 00:31:07.599 --> 00:31:10.500 eventually he was like, no, no, please put me 00:31:10.500 --> 00:31:12.599 in the crate. Like there's something scary out 00:31:12.599 --> 00:31:15.900 here, but I know in there it's safe and it's 00:31:15.900 --> 00:31:19.539 good. So let me go in there. And at that point, 00:31:19.539 --> 00:31:23.819 that dog completely changed around. He's the 00:31:23.819 --> 00:31:25.819 epitome though of like, if you don't go into 00:31:25.819 --> 00:31:28.799 it with patience, you will lose your mind because 00:31:28.799 --> 00:31:32.380 he's one that's like, he's just. Right. Because 00:31:32.380 --> 00:31:35.099 he's not thinking through anything. He's reacting. 00:31:35.359 --> 00:31:39.559 He is just, he is straight reacting out of fear, 00:31:39.660 --> 00:31:43.839 out of anxiety, out of the pure animalistic like 00:31:43.839 --> 00:31:46.359 thought processes that he has. Yeah. But he's 00:31:46.359 --> 00:31:50.549 not like. participating right in this exchange 00:31:50.549 --> 00:31:55.470 yeah he's just like constantly yeah and i think 00:31:55.470 --> 00:31:57.950 like going back to the consistency like we went 00:31:57.950 --> 00:32:00.630 with an e -collar on him because it gives consistent 00:32:00.630 --> 00:32:05.230 corrections it's the same every time and he knows 00:32:05.230 --> 00:32:08.289 what to predict when you go nope and he's like 00:32:08.289 --> 00:32:11.450 oh okay all right i'm listening what was it again 00:32:11.450 --> 00:32:14.089 because the music was too loud the first time 00:32:14.089 --> 00:32:17.859 but he hears that no now and he's like what Sorry. 00:32:17.940 --> 00:32:25.119 Okay. Right. So major point number three, consistency 00:32:25.119 --> 00:32:29.680 builds trust between dog and owner. So trust 00:32:29.680 --> 00:32:33.319 comes from fairness and predictability, not just 00:32:33.319 --> 00:32:35.339 from like being the best trainer in the room. 00:32:35.420 --> 00:32:37.640 It doesn't matter what cool tricks you have. 00:32:37.700 --> 00:32:40.599 It doesn't matter what cool concepts you have. 00:32:41.099 --> 00:32:45.359 What matters is that you build that consistency 00:32:45.359 --> 00:32:50.359 and. With the consistency, your dog develops 00:32:50.359 --> 00:32:56.420 trust in you. So dogs respect leaders, right? 00:32:56.500 --> 00:33:00.359 And a leader is someone who stays in the front 00:33:00.359 --> 00:33:04.660 of the pack and helps everyone else move toward 00:33:04.660 --> 00:33:08.140 the common goal. Not just somebody who gets behind 00:33:08.140 --> 00:33:13.579 them and pushes them forward. Sometimes... things 00:33:13.579 --> 00:33:18.400 people dogs will require a push forward but that's 00:33:18.400 --> 00:33:23.940 not usually where a leader stands um anyway dogs 00:33:23.940 --> 00:33:27.200 respect leaders who respond the same way every 00:33:27.200 --> 00:33:30.720 time this is what brianna is talking about with 00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:36.160 an e -collar at a an extremely low setting you 00:33:36.160 --> 00:33:40.720 can develop a communication with the dog that 00:33:40.720 --> 00:33:46.480 is always exactly the same. That consistency 00:33:46.480 --> 00:33:53.299 builds fairness. That fairness is highly ethical. 00:33:53.859 --> 00:34:02.420 The concept of, I would much rather use a very 00:34:02.420 --> 00:34:07.539 low e -stem or a vibrate function on an e -collar 00:34:07.539 --> 00:34:13.480 than having to perfectly meter the tightness 00:34:13.480 --> 00:34:15.780 on the leash right so one of the things with 00:34:15.780 --> 00:34:19.079 gabe is because he darts and gets spooked and 00:34:19.079 --> 00:34:23.559 will go into flight every chance he gets he would 00:34:23.559 --> 00:34:26.320 a lot of times muddy the communication because 00:34:26.320 --> 00:34:28.539 he's giving himself corrections because he's 00:34:28.539 --> 00:34:30.860 just darting back and forth at the end of the 00:34:30.860 --> 00:34:33.280 leash and i'm not even asking for anything at 00:34:33.280 --> 00:34:36.139 that point right And so when you're dealing with 00:34:36.139 --> 00:34:40.079 a scared dog like that, a lot of times there's 00:34:40.079 --> 00:34:43.900 a lot of trainers out there that will just use 00:34:43.900 --> 00:34:46.780 some sort of aversive to just kind of stomp out 00:34:46.780 --> 00:34:49.139 that behavior and be like, no, don't do that. 00:34:49.199 --> 00:34:53.519 Do this. But the problem is that he's initiating 00:34:53.519 --> 00:34:57.679 a lot of that so skittishly and so unpredictably 00:34:57.679 --> 00:35:00.820 that you're not really getting through with a 00:35:00.820 --> 00:35:05.079 consistent, clear message. And so by in that 00:35:05.079 --> 00:35:08.539 case, putting him on like a big thick flat collar 00:35:08.539 --> 00:35:12.639 that is dulls down all of those, all of that 00:35:12.639 --> 00:35:16.420 crazy information and keeps him from getting 00:35:16.420 --> 00:35:20.940 his own corrections and then clearly delivering 00:35:20.940 --> 00:35:26.199 corrections yourself, which is the, which when 00:35:26.199 --> 00:35:28.579 we're saying corrections, we're saying at the 00:35:28.579 --> 00:35:33.139 point where he is doing a behavior, We're delivering 00:35:33.139 --> 00:35:36.440 communication to him that says, hey, look at 00:35:36.440 --> 00:35:39.179 me. Hey, hey, that's not so scary. Look at me. 00:35:39.239 --> 00:35:42.460 Give me your focus rather than whatever it is 00:35:42.460 --> 00:35:49.619 that he's worried about. That is clear and that's 00:35:49.619 --> 00:35:56.699 clear and concise communication. Yeah. Inconsistent 00:35:56.699 --> 00:36:00.690 praise. And we just kind of talked about this 00:36:00.690 --> 00:36:03.630 as a real life example, but an inconsistent correction 00:36:03.630 --> 00:36:08.010 will for sure set your dog back. Yeah. Inconsistent 00:36:08.010 --> 00:36:10.869 corrections where sometimes like, oh, well, my 00:36:10.869 --> 00:36:13.889 trainer told me to just pop the leash. Okay. 00:36:14.590 --> 00:36:18.389 Well, how much did you pop the leash? Well, I 00:36:18.389 --> 00:36:20.349 popped the leash, but at the same time, the dog 00:36:20.349 --> 00:36:23.349 like took off that way and did this and did that. 00:36:23.349 --> 00:36:24.789 Like we were just talking about, right? With 00:36:24.789 --> 00:36:29.610 the dog is constantly. changing that up for you 00:36:29.610 --> 00:36:33.829 and you can't deliver consistency oh we need 00:36:33.829 --> 00:36:36.989 to we need to look at that strategy right because 00:36:36.989 --> 00:36:39.849 yeah you're gonna you're gonna end up if you're 00:36:39.849 --> 00:36:44.210 inconsistent with corrections and rewards that's 00:36:44.210 --> 00:36:46.170 when you're gonna lose trust from the dog like 00:36:46.170 --> 00:36:51.539 entirely yeah absolutely so um I sound like a 00:36:51.539 --> 00:36:53.480 broken record here. Consistency. Consistency 00:36:53.480 --> 00:36:55.659 is the name of the game. But it really is. All 00:36:55.659 --> 00:36:58.119 of the things that we do and everything that 00:36:58.119 --> 00:37:03.599 we recommend, it aligns with and supports the 00:37:03.599 --> 00:37:08.000 concept that is, is this a way you can be consistent 00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:10.880 in your communication with your dog? If the answer 00:37:10.880 --> 00:37:12.760 is no, it's probably not something we recommend. 00:37:14.179 --> 00:37:20.570 That's the end of it. All right. So fair, consistent 00:37:20.570 --> 00:37:25.710 responses give the dog confidence in its choices 00:37:25.710 --> 00:37:31.809 by us consistently rewarding the dog. The other 00:37:31.809 --> 00:37:33.329 side of it, right? We just talked about the fair 00:37:33.329 --> 00:37:36.250 corrections, but the other side of it, by rewarding 00:37:36.250 --> 00:37:39.230 the dog consistently, by nailing it, when they 00:37:39.230 --> 00:37:44.179 do what you ask, nail it, throw a party. mark 00:37:44.179 --> 00:37:47.400 it we talked last week about marker words and 00:37:47.400 --> 00:37:50.780 we like we talked for almost an hour on marker 00:37:50.780 --> 00:37:55.539 words go back if you if if you can't remember 00:37:55.539 --> 00:37:57.579 and you don't understand like what the difference 00:37:57.579 --> 00:38:02.000 is go back and listen to it because that marker 00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:04.860 words give you the opportunity to mark the exact 00:38:04.860 --> 00:38:08.639 moment that the dog's doing what you're saying 00:38:08.639 --> 00:38:14.099 for them to do and that is what you want to reward. 00:38:14.699 --> 00:38:18.159 By doing it and doing it consistently, man, you 00:38:18.159 --> 00:38:19.880 are going to make so much progress so quickly. 00:38:20.079 --> 00:38:22.199 Right. And that's why we always use the phrase 00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:26.639 like, yes, predicts a reward. Right. No, predicts 00:38:26.639 --> 00:38:31.280 a correction. Correct. Because you can then see 00:38:31.280 --> 00:38:34.139 a dog responding to those words before you even 00:38:34.139 --> 00:38:36.260 have to get to anything the next. That's how 00:38:36.260 --> 00:38:37.539 you phase out corrections. Right, because it 00:38:37.539 --> 00:38:46.139 predicts it. And so, yeah, 100%. I think I cut 00:38:46.139 --> 00:38:47.920 you off a little bit on that one. I got too excited. 00:38:47.980 --> 00:38:50.139 I was like, yes, exactly. That's it. That's it. 00:38:50.280 --> 00:38:54.480 It predicts what is coming. And the dog will 00:38:54.480 --> 00:39:01.059 inevitably learn that they will inevitably learn 00:39:01.059 --> 00:39:10.199 that. What am I trying to say? That they will 00:39:10.199 --> 00:39:14.960 get to. the end faster if they do it if they 00:39:14.960 --> 00:39:17.719 like do the behavior faster so instead of them 00:39:17.719 --> 00:39:21.500 waiting for you to get the reward out you'll 00:39:21.500 --> 00:39:24.800 start seeing in their body language that like 00:39:24.800 --> 00:39:27.500 they're already expecting it right because they're 00:39:27.500 --> 00:39:31.559 like oh i know he said the marker word and so 00:39:31.559 --> 00:39:33.739 they're like that predicts the reward i know 00:39:33.739 --> 00:39:36.260 it's coming and they see you see it in their 00:39:36.260 --> 00:39:38.219 body language that's how you know that you have 00:39:38.519 --> 00:39:41.099 properly like charged that marker right and if 00:39:41.099 --> 00:39:43.980 you're not going to at least be that consistent 00:39:43.980 --> 00:39:47.780 your your your dog's not going to trust you it's 00:39:47.780 --> 00:39:49.840 just right humans right if like we because we 00:39:49.840 --> 00:39:51.920 talked about not lying to the dog right if we 00:39:51.920 --> 00:39:55.340 can't as humans rely on someone we're not going 00:39:55.340 --> 00:39:58.340 to trust them right so why should your dog rely 00:39:58.340 --> 00:40:01.360 on you if you're not reliable right if you tell 00:40:01.360 --> 00:40:04.059 me there's there's pizza in the kitchen and like 00:40:04.889 --> 00:40:06.630 Usually there's pizza in the kitchen when you 00:40:06.630 --> 00:40:09.730 say that, but sometimes there's not. I'm for 00:40:09.730 --> 00:40:13.489 sure going to doubt you. Yeah. Right? It's just 00:40:13.489 --> 00:40:15.730 simple. But we do it all the time with the marker 00:40:15.730 --> 00:40:18.489 words. We're like, yes means I'm going to give 00:40:18.489 --> 00:40:21.190 you a reward. And then you're like, yes, yes, 00:40:21.289 --> 00:40:23.989 yes, yes. And then one time you're like, yes. 00:40:24.070 --> 00:40:26.230 And then something distracts you and you don't 00:40:26.230 --> 00:40:29.469 give them a reward. You just broke the pattern. 00:40:30.039 --> 00:40:32.559 right you were just not consistent and i guarantee 00:40:32.559 --> 00:40:35.900 you that dog that's like laying there with tail 00:40:35.900 --> 00:40:38.340 wagging like yeah yeah i'm gonna get paid i'm 00:40:38.340 --> 00:40:41.559 gonna get paid and then it's like ah what what 00:40:41.559 --> 00:40:44.420 happened right now one time right no one works 00:40:44.420 --> 00:40:48.360 for free around here um but your dog might not 00:40:48.360 --> 00:40:54.219 um might not change anything just once right 00:40:54.219 --> 00:40:57.760 or twice or three times or five times right right 00:40:57.760 --> 00:41:00.960 because as long as you're you're building that 00:41:00.960 --> 00:41:03.300 consistency up with the teeter -totter and it's 00:41:03.300 --> 00:41:06.599 like in favor of you do this more than you don't 00:41:06.599 --> 00:41:09.579 yeah you're gonna be okay but you are for sure 00:41:09.579 --> 00:41:14.219 going to elongate the amount of time you're going 00:41:14.219 --> 00:41:16.820 to have to work on this yeah for your dog to 00:41:16.820 --> 00:41:19.659 figure it out it's not that like oh you were 00:41:19.659 --> 00:41:22.980 inconsistent four times last month and so now 00:41:22.980 --> 00:41:25.539 your dog is untrained it doesn't work that way 00:41:25.539 --> 00:41:30.150 but the more you are consistent the faster they 00:41:30.150 --> 00:41:33.889 will learn. Yeah. All right. So we are going 00:41:33.889 --> 00:41:38.210 to go into listener projects. So every episode, 00:41:38.510 --> 00:41:41.670 we come up with two projects for our listeners. 00:41:42.710 --> 00:41:46.010 Obviously, we've got our real life clients on 00:41:46.010 --> 00:41:47.989 the line. We'll talk to them in just a second. 00:41:48.030 --> 00:41:50.710 But for anyone who's downloading this or listening 00:41:50.710 --> 00:41:54.190 to it after the fact, here's the two projects 00:41:54.190 --> 00:41:57.409 I have for today. So one is a leash walking consistency 00:41:57.409 --> 00:42:02.420 drill. Uh, step one, right? Pick, pick one leash 00:42:02.420 --> 00:42:07.340 rule, one leash rule for the walk, whatever it 00:42:07.340 --> 00:42:13.320 is. Um, such as a, like the, the dog is not going 00:42:13.320 --> 00:42:17.179 to walk in front of my leg. If they're on the 00:42:17.179 --> 00:42:19.480 right or on the left, it's like my left leg is 00:42:19.480 --> 00:42:22.840 going to be the, the line in the sand. They're 00:42:22.840 --> 00:42:26.360 not going to walk in front of that and, and then 00:42:26.360 --> 00:42:29.889 enforce it on every single walk. Even if you're 00:42:29.889 --> 00:42:33.670 only going outside briefly. Even if you don't 00:42:33.670 --> 00:42:36.989 leave your driveway. Right. But pick something 00:42:36.989 --> 00:42:39.389 and pick something that's manageable for where 00:42:39.389 --> 00:42:41.429 your dog's at. It doesn't make sense for a dog 00:42:41.429 --> 00:42:44.610 that's a crazy polar. You've got it in a harness. 00:42:44.730 --> 00:42:46.389 It doesn't listen at all. And then you're going 00:42:46.389 --> 00:42:47.949 to go outside. You're not going to let it go 00:42:47.949 --> 00:42:50.289 in front of your leg. That's unrealistic. Right. 00:42:50.429 --> 00:42:55.230 But it could just be like. I'm going to take 00:42:55.230 --> 00:42:57.690 my dog out. I've never done this before ever, 00:42:57.809 --> 00:43:02.269 but I'm going to just stop intermittently. And 00:43:02.269 --> 00:43:05.789 when the dog turns around and looks at me, I'm 00:43:05.789 --> 00:43:08.989 going to reward it. And you just do it the entire 00:43:08.989 --> 00:43:11.010 time. Right. That's my favorite one. I'll walk 00:43:11.010 --> 00:43:13.429 and I'll stop walking and the dog will inevitably 00:43:13.429 --> 00:43:16.550 get to the end of the leash eventually. And then 00:43:16.550 --> 00:43:18.829 I just wait for them to respond to the leash 00:43:18.829 --> 00:43:20.469 pressure and look back at me. And then I'm like, 00:43:20.550 --> 00:43:23.429 yeah. And then I have a reward ready for him. 00:43:23.489 --> 00:43:26.670 Yep. So depending on what you pick there, just 00:43:26.670 --> 00:43:29.630 if the dog breaks the rule, just reset it calmly. 00:43:29.769 --> 00:43:33.769 Just put it back like, nope, put it back where 00:43:33.769 --> 00:43:36.489 it's supposed to be and then continue going on. 00:43:37.090 --> 00:43:40.769 Don't make exceptions. Don't let the dog slide 00:43:40.769 --> 00:43:46.570 through the drill. Project number two. Project 00:43:46.570 --> 00:43:53.289 number two, feeding time routine. So pick a time. 00:43:53.739 --> 00:43:56.780 that you want to feed the dog, right? And each 00:43:56.780 --> 00:44:02.199 day for the week, feed them at that time. And 00:44:02.199 --> 00:44:06.659 at that time, set it up exactly the same way. 00:44:07.019 --> 00:44:10.619 So same mat, same bowl, same amount of food, 00:44:10.760 --> 00:44:13.980 same type of food, whatever it is. Set it up 00:44:13.980 --> 00:44:17.519 the exact same way and require a sit or a down 00:44:17.519 --> 00:44:22.920 before you lower the bowl. And then... As you 00:44:22.920 --> 00:44:27.019 lower it, I want you to use your marker word 00:44:27.019 --> 00:44:31.840 that means good job, keep doing it. Whatever 00:44:31.840 --> 00:44:34.440 it is you're using. We use yes as a continuation 00:44:34.440 --> 00:44:38.539 marker. We use free as a terminal marker. If 00:44:38.539 --> 00:44:40.260 you don't know what those mean, refer back to 00:44:40.260 --> 00:44:43.460 our episode two. We talked about marker words. 00:44:52.059 --> 00:44:55.820 to continue to do it all the way until you put 00:44:55.820 --> 00:45:00.780 the bowl down. Then release the dog with your 00:45:00.780 --> 00:45:05.980 release marker. For us, that's free. We use free, 00:45:06.099 --> 00:45:10.320 which is a treatable release marker. We use free 00:45:10.320 --> 00:45:14.159 because the food is the treat. The food is the 00:45:14.159 --> 00:45:17.389 reward. They get to then eat the reward. And 00:45:17.389 --> 00:45:19.670 I put the bowl just slightly in front of the 00:45:19.670 --> 00:45:22.130 dog to where they have to close the distance 00:45:22.130 --> 00:45:24.170 from wherever they are. They've got to close 00:45:24.170 --> 00:45:29.190 that distance in order to come to me. Keep the 00:45:29.190 --> 00:45:33.489 process identical, right? Every single time that 00:45:33.489 --> 00:45:36.440 you do it to build that predictability. All right. 00:45:36.460 --> 00:45:38.340 So those are the two listener projects for this 00:45:38.340 --> 00:45:42.579 week. At this time, we are going to open it up 00:45:42.579 --> 00:45:46.500 for questions from our live listeners. So at 00:45:46.500 --> 00:45:50.460 this time, anybody who is listening and or dialed 00:45:50.460 --> 00:45:53.739 in here, you can unmute and we'll work through 00:45:53.739 --> 00:45:56.420 whoever's got a question. I'll give you a minute 00:45:56.420 --> 00:46:04.099 to do that. Hey, Ryan. It's Heidi Clark. Hey, 00:46:04.099 --> 00:46:09.269 Heidi. Hey, I have a question. When Maverick 00:46:09.269 --> 00:46:13.869 has something that he shouldn't, like a remote 00:46:13.869 --> 00:46:18.889 control or something? Just something. Yeah, just 00:46:18.889 --> 00:46:22.809 something. Yes, just something. I got it. What 00:46:22.809 --> 00:46:27.090 is the best way to get him to release it? Because 00:46:27.090 --> 00:46:30.909 obviously once you go towards him, he then thinks 00:46:30.909 --> 00:46:35.849 it's a game. Gotcha. All right. You want to take 00:46:35.849 --> 00:46:39.090 this one? You know? All right. So there's, there's 00:46:39.090 --> 00:46:42.829 a couple of things that we have to do. So Maverick, 00:46:42.829 --> 00:46:47.150 right, is still sitting in his kind of like untrained 00:46:47.150 --> 00:46:50.070 little bubble here, right? Maverick's coming 00:46:50.070 --> 00:46:54.670 to our program here pretty soon. So we don't. 00:46:55.019 --> 00:46:59.920 We don't have a strong recall or a strong drop 00:46:59.920 --> 00:47:03.960 it or leave it yet that we can rely on. So what 00:47:03.960 --> 00:47:11.760 I would recommend with him is a trade as well 00:47:11.760 --> 00:47:16.800 as a redirect. And the way that that's going 00:47:16.800 --> 00:47:20.440 to go down. So is there something that you can 00:47:20.440 --> 00:47:27.630 trade him that he finds valuable? Other than 00:47:27.630 --> 00:47:32.630 a treat or a... Right. So initially, right now, 00:47:32.670 --> 00:47:36.949 we can still use a treat and the treat doesn't 00:47:36.949 --> 00:47:40.010 necessarily, depending on how we do this, and 00:47:40.010 --> 00:47:43.250 I'll talk you through it, it doesn't, we don't 00:47:43.250 --> 00:47:46.010 just treat the dog for going and grabbing the 00:47:46.010 --> 00:47:51.469 remote, okay? What you can do is you can go and 00:47:51.469 --> 00:47:54.469 you can get the treats, you can get a toy, you 00:47:54.469 --> 00:47:58.139 can get something, right? And you can make that 00:47:58.139 --> 00:48:03.360 situation through movement, tone of voice, and 00:48:03.360 --> 00:48:05.500 the fact that you have access to that resource 00:48:05.500 --> 00:48:13.219 more exciting than the remote. Because it's likely 00:48:13.219 --> 00:48:17.719 that he's grabbing that remote as a precursor 00:48:17.719 --> 00:48:22.920 to engage with you in a way that he was looking 00:48:22.920 --> 00:48:27.079 for attention. Or he was looking for you to start 00:48:27.079 --> 00:48:31.400 a game. One of dog's favorite games right off 00:48:31.400 --> 00:48:34.380 the bat is Catch Me If You Can. Every dog seems 00:48:34.380 --> 00:48:37.239 to know how to play it. That's absolutely true. 00:48:37.679 --> 00:48:39.960 Right. Every dog knows how to play Catch Me If 00:48:39.960 --> 00:48:44.099 You Can and every dog loves it. Preloaded with 00:48:44.099 --> 00:48:46.019 that game. Right. They come right from the factory 00:48:46.019 --> 00:48:50.199 that way. So when that happens, the number one 00:48:50.199 --> 00:48:54.900 thing is you cannot play that game. You cannot 00:48:54.900 --> 00:48:59.659 play that game. And one of our clients was dealing 00:48:59.659 --> 00:49:03.679 with some very sensitive items like eyeglasses 00:49:03.679 --> 00:49:06.059 and things that were getting mangled in the process. 00:49:06.260 --> 00:49:12.079 And it could be excruciating to be in the position 00:49:12.079 --> 00:49:16.420 where you have to deal with this. And I understand. 00:49:17.039 --> 00:49:21.539 However, every time that you engage with this, 00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:26.179 exciting catch me if you can game you will reinforce 00:49:26.179 --> 00:49:31.619 his desire to either get that item or find something 00:49:31.619 --> 00:49:37.320 else that you also find valuable so he's looking 00:49:37.320 --> 00:49:40.440 for what you find valuable and obviously a remote 00:49:40.440 --> 00:49:42.360 control where there's only one of them in the 00:49:42.360 --> 00:49:47.820 house is a very valuable item and so him identifying 00:49:47.820 --> 00:49:53.860 that It speaks to his one opportunistic nature. 00:49:54.059 --> 00:49:57.820 So controlling that resource and obviously trying 00:49:57.820 --> 00:49:59.840 to size down the amount of times that he can 00:49:59.840 --> 00:50:02.639 take off with it is important. But once he does 00:50:02.639 --> 00:50:07.659 get it, I would get some food out and then I 00:50:07.659 --> 00:50:12.400 would engage him in that same type of game that 00:50:12.400 --> 00:50:16.940 is just like. Oh, well, you you basically want 00:50:16.940 --> 00:50:19.659 to explain to him nonverbally. Oh, you think 00:50:19.659 --> 00:50:21.579 I'm interested in that? I'm actually not. I'm 00:50:21.579 --> 00:50:24.139 way more interested in this thing over here. 00:50:24.159 --> 00:50:28.480 Yeah. And by doing that, what he's looking for 00:50:28.480 --> 00:50:33.119 initially was your was your engagement. So you're 00:50:33.119 --> 00:50:39.159 going to lower the value of that remote control. 00:50:39.690 --> 00:50:41.590 and you're going to increase the value of whatever 00:50:41.590 --> 00:50:44.409 it is that you have that toy that treat the food 00:50:44.409 --> 00:50:47.670 the uh stuffed toy the whatever it is that that 00:50:47.670 --> 00:50:53.070 he is going to then see and perceive as more 00:50:53.070 --> 00:50:56.750 valuable and then you do a trade but he only 00:50:56.750 --> 00:50:59.429 does this when you're not around or not looking 00:50:59.429 --> 00:51:05.530 so what does that mean so like he just grabs 00:51:05.530 --> 00:51:08.559 the remote when you're when you're not in the 00:51:08.559 --> 00:51:13.860 house when you're not around correct okay if 00:51:13.860 --> 00:51:17.019 we don't have everything put up when we're out 00:51:17.019 --> 00:51:20.579 of his sight yeah then he'll go find something 00:51:20.579 --> 00:51:24.519 to chew off so it's a chewing issue on the counter 00:51:24.519 --> 00:51:26.860 with us in the house and he'll just look at it 00:51:26.860 --> 00:51:30.170 and just walk on by Okay, so with that, I mean, 00:51:30.190 --> 00:51:33.710 it comes down to if the dog is young enough and 00:51:33.710 --> 00:51:36.050 we give them access to just free room, they're 00:51:36.050 --> 00:51:39.590 going to find something, right? So I know since 00:51:39.590 --> 00:51:43.389 he hasn't started his program, right, my general 00:51:43.389 --> 00:51:46.730 suggestion would be like put him on place and 00:51:46.730 --> 00:51:49.230 give them something to chew on because how old 00:51:49.230 --> 00:51:57.690 is Maverick again? He's... 14 months right so 00:51:57.690 --> 00:52:00.929 still like in that chewing phase and I'm sure 00:52:00.929 --> 00:52:03.110 there's some desire there to chew so typically 00:52:03.110 --> 00:52:05.550 I work with a dog and I will put them on place 00:52:05.550 --> 00:52:07.949 especially if I'm leaving the room work them 00:52:07.949 --> 00:52:10.610 through those situations and give them something 00:52:10.610 --> 00:52:14.090 that's acceptable to chew on if they go to get 00:52:14.090 --> 00:52:16.769 off their place bed with that item I put that 00:52:16.769 --> 00:52:19.050 chewable item back on their place bed so that 00:52:19.050 --> 00:52:21.210 they know that that's where it's acceptable to 00:52:21.210 --> 00:52:25.980 have it and kind of chew on it but In those instances, 00:52:26.139 --> 00:52:28.920 we've either, I mean, since he doesn't have the 00:52:28.920 --> 00:52:30.900 training capabilities currently, we've got to 00:52:30.900 --> 00:52:32.599 make sure that the items are up and out of their 00:52:32.599 --> 00:52:34.920 reach if they're just free roaming around. And 00:52:34.920 --> 00:52:37.880 I know that one's like a tough one because, I 00:52:37.880 --> 00:52:40.199 mean, we don't leave any of our dogs alone in 00:52:40.199 --> 00:52:43.309 rooms unless they're... on place and holding 00:52:43.309 --> 00:52:46.070 that place and if they don't hold place well 00:52:46.070 --> 00:52:48.190 because they're new to it or they're too young 00:52:48.190 --> 00:52:50.309 then they go in a kennel if we leave the room 00:52:50.309 --> 00:52:53.070 um just because there's so many different crazy 00:52:53.070 --> 00:52:56.530 things that can happen when dogs just roam around 00:52:56.530 --> 00:53:01.650 and find something that they like so once once 00:53:01.650 --> 00:53:07.590 he gets it then and you realize it Then you can 00:53:07.590 --> 00:53:10.230 do the strategy that I was talking about before 00:53:10.230 --> 00:53:14.150 he gets it. You should use the strategy Brianna's 00:53:14.150 --> 00:53:19.230 talking about. Yeah. Gotcha. Okay. Thank you. 00:53:19.349 --> 00:53:25.070 Yeah, no problem. Anybody else have a question? 00:53:36.239 --> 00:53:39.500 We need to I'm I'm seriously going to invest 00:53:39.500 --> 00:53:45.360 in the the the Jeopardy music waiting for questions. 00:53:45.579 --> 00:53:48.579 It's hard to like unmute. Right. I know it's 00:53:48.579 --> 00:53:50.920 where someone's like desperately clicking on 00:53:50.920 --> 00:53:52.599 their laptop right now trying to get unmuted. 00:53:55.880 --> 00:54:01.219 All right. Well, unless anybody speaks up, I'm 00:54:01.219 --> 00:54:04.820 going to close it out here for tonight. OK, so. 00:54:05.360 --> 00:54:09.340 Thank you for joining us for tonight. This was 00:54:09.340 --> 00:54:13.679 episode three of Pawprint Academy. And today 00:54:13.679 --> 00:54:18.119 we are talking about consistency. When we, anything 00:54:18.119 --> 00:54:21.679 that you do with your dogs, it really, really, 00:54:21.699 --> 00:54:24.300 really comes down to what you consistently do, 00:54:24.480 --> 00:54:28.159 how you show that baseline, like foundational 00:54:28.159 --> 00:54:33.840 leadership in the home. With that, I'm going 00:54:33.840 --> 00:54:38.619 to bid you guys goodnight. This is Ryan and my 00:54:38.619 --> 00:54:42.340 co -host Brianna. Goodnight. Thank you for tuning 00:54:42.340 --> 00:54:44.800 in and we'll see you a little further down the 00:54:44.800 --> 00:54:49.360 road. Thanks guys for tuning in. Goodnight. Thank 00:54:49.360 --> 00:54:50.099 you. Bye.