WEBVTT 00:00:33.100 --> 00:00:35.859 Welcome to Pawprint Academy, your blueprint to 00:00:35.859 --> 00:00:38.780 raising better dogs. My name is Ryan, and I'll 00:00:38.780 --> 00:00:41.659 be your host for this journey. I've got my trusty 00:00:41.659 --> 00:00:44.320 co -host here, Brianna. Hello. And together, 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:46.159 we're bringing you real -world training insights 00:00:46.159 --> 00:00:48.920 built on leadership, structure, and proven methods. 00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:52.159 We record this podcast with live clients on the 00:00:52.159 --> 00:00:55.439 line in one take with live, unscripted questions 00:00:55.439 --> 00:00:58.200 and answers. At the end of the day, this podcast 00:00:58.200 --> 00:01:00.240 is a lot more than just teaching your dog to 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:04.780 sit or stay. creating calmness and becoming the 00:01:04.780 --> 00:01:07.719 kind of leader your dog truly needs. We do that 00:01:07.719 --> 00:01:10.340 with our three pillar method of trust, obey and 00:01:10.340 --> 00:01:13.760 perform. Together, we'll show you how these three 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:16.959 pillars shape every step of training. Thanks 00:01:16.959 --> 00:01:38.069 for being here. Let's get started. Episode 10, 00:01:38.230 --> 00:01:42.290 puppy biting and jumping. Teaching boundaries 00:01:42.290 --> 00:01:46.370 early. So today, that is what we're talking about. 00:01:47.129 --> 00:01:50.269 We have, if you haven't noticed, because I didn't 00:01:50.269 --> 00:01:53.629 really announce it, we're kind of on a foundational 00:01:53.629 --> 00:02:01.010 puppy block of group call subjects. There's about 00:02:01.010 --> 00:02:06.120 four, five, six, seven of them. It started with 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:08.639 like puppy socialization. And then we talked 00:02:08.639 --> 00:02:12.460 about potty training and crate training and now 00:02:12.460 --> 00:02:17.780 puppy biting. And I'm trying to remember what 00:02:17.780 --> 00:02:22.479 the next one was. Jumping. No, no. Puppy biting 00:02:22.479 --> 00:02:26.379 and jumping. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right now I'm 00:02:26.379 --> 00:02:28.620 on the spot. No, I can't remember. It's building 00:02:28.620 --> 00:02:31.580 confidence next. That's right. Yep. Confidence 00:02:31.580 --> 00:02:37.759 building in the puppies. All right. So as we 00:02:37.759 --> 00:02:43.840 break this down, it is welcome. Welcome to the 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:47.219 show. Before I get off track here, let me just 00:02:47.219 --> 00:02:50.780 rein myself back in. Welcome to the show. Ten 00:02:50.780 --> 00:02:54.180 episodes in. Who would have thought we would 00:02:54.180 --> 00:02:56.759 have made it this far? We're still going strong. 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:02.219 As we break down the concepts of puppy biting 00:03:02.219 --> 00:03:07.939 and jumping, this is not. always 100 % just about 00:03:07.939 --> 00:03:12.500 puppies. So the puppy biting is kind of its own 00:03:12.500 --> 00:03:19.039 like a behavior that you definitely see in young 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:26.060 dogs and puppies. But it can also be the same 00:03:26.060 --> 00:03:30.159 type of mannerisms can exhibit themselves when 00:03:30.159 --> 00:03:35.780 like We call it like mouthing, right? Or when 00:03:35.780 --> 00:03:40.060 a dog has a hard mouth. Sometimes we'll say, 00:03:40.180 --> 00:03:43.199 yeah, he's just got a really hard mouth. Well, 00:03:43.340 --> 00:03:50.039 we can use some of the same techniques in order 00:03:50.039 --> 00:03:51.979 to deal with that. And so that's what we're going 00:03:51.979 --> 00:03:55.159 to talk about. Or if you have a puppy and maybe 00:03:55.159 --> 00:03:59.300 he just bites you and leaves marks and things 00:03:59.300 --> 00:04:02.319 because he doesn't realize that. he's hurting 00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:06.740 you. Right. Yeah. That's right off the bat. That's 00:04:06.740 --> 00:04:08.699 usually the biggest thing is that the puppies 00:04:08.699 --> 00:04:10.280 just don't know that that's, that's not good. 00:04:10.379 --> 00:04:13.439 Right. Yeah. They think it's fun. Right. Like 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:17.019 what do you do with a kid who, who bites when 00:04:17.019 --> 00:04:21.139 he's little? Right. But that's the thing is like 00:04:21.139 --> 00:04:23.860 babies don't bite, but what do they do? I don't 00:04:23.860 --> 00:04:25.819 know. Scratch. What do they do? They scratch 00:04:25.819 --> 00:04:27.819 kind of, but yeah, they like throw their hands 00:04:27.819 --> 00:04:30.459 around. They just like slap basically. It's like, 00:04:30.459 --> 00:04:32.959 you know. Right, hitting. Right. Yeah, yeah, 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:34.740 yeah. That's a better example. They just like 00:04:34.740 --> 00:04:37.160 swing their arms around and they just don't know. 00:04:37.220 --> 00:04:39.480 It's like babies all the time are like slapping 00:04:39.480 --> 00:04:41.060 things and hitting things and it hurts. Right, 00:04:41.060 --> 00:04:43.139 and little kids getting sent home from daycare 00:04:43.139 --> 00:04:45.540 because they're just hitting everybody up in 00:04:45.540 --> 00:04:47.920 here. Right, or even, I mean, before they even 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:50.060 get to daycare, they're still slapping like babies. 00:04:51.050 --> 00:04:53.350 like come out of the womb like slapping with 00:04:53.350 --> 00:04:55.430 their hands they're just like trying to figure 00:04:55.430 --> 00:04:58.269 it out yeah that is what they do they're trying 00:04:58.269 --> 00:05:00.610 to grab it at first but they can't like use their 00:05:00.610 --> 00:05:04.529 fingers right so they're just way like yeah there's 00:05:04.529 --> 00:05:09.470 watch out um all right once again it's been a 00:05:09.470 --> 00:05:13.170 long week already it's only wednesday i'm holding 00:05:13.170 --> 00:05:18.009 on um let me get back on track so puppy biting 00:05:18.009 --> 00:05:21.990 and puppy jumping Both come from the same root 00:05:21.990 --> 00:05:27.069 problem, just a lack of impulse control and a 00:05:27.069 --> 00:05:29.910 lack of clear boundaries. So when we have a puppy, 00:05:30.050 --> 00:05:32.449 and you can apply this if you don't have a puppy 00:05:32.449 --> 00:05:36.230 at home and you have an adolescent dog or even 00:05:36.230 --> 00:05:39.689 an older dog, there is probably some impulse 00:05:39.689 --> 00:05:43.850 control things that we can always do better, 00:05:43.990 --> 00:05:50.639 even if you have a great behaved dog. there's 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:53.019 always some impulse control things that we can 00:05:53.019 --> 00:05:57.620 tweak and try to do better. So maybe some of 00:05:57.620 --> 00:06:03.639 these tips will help. So puppies use their mouths 00:06:03.639 --> 00:06:07.259 and their bodies to explore and test the world. 00:06:10.089 --> 00:06:13.829 You either teach the rules now or things are 00:06:13.829 --> 00:06:18.329 going to get worse. So dogs, a lot of times I 00:06:18.329 --> 00:06:21.870 hear owners talk about how hopefully they grow 00:06:21.870 --> 00:06:24.569 out of this. Maybe they'll just grow out of it. 00:06:24.769 --> 00:06:29.110 But we often find that puppies more grow into 00:06:29.110 --> 00:06:32.149 things than they grow out of things. Yeah, for 00:06:32.149 --> 00:06:37.300 sure. And eventually. The behaviors or those 00:06:37.300 --> 00:06:41.639 habits, right, they grow into bigger and harder 00:06:41.639 --> 00:06:45.620 and riskier behaviors later. And so it's like 00:06:45.620 --> 00:06:49.839 demand behavior. A simple demand paw or little 00:06:49.839 --> 00:06:53.379 demand barking, whining, whimpering, things like 00:06:53.379 --> 00:06:56.740 that, when you're not giving them a treat or 00:06:56.740 --> 00:06:59.500 you're not giving them attention, it relatively 00:06:59.500 --> 00:07:07.170 means nothing to us initially. But then it can 00:07:07.170 --> 00:07:11.250 become a bigger issue. And so that's what we're 00:07:11.250 --> 00:07:16.350 trying to head off. So to clarify, so clarifying, 00:07:16.389 --> 00:07:20.430 let me rephrase, clarifying what behavior earns 00:07:20.430 --> 00:07:25.170 attention and what behavior ends the fun you're 00:07:25.170 --> 00:07:30.089 having can do wonders to explain to your dog, 00:07:30.269 --> 00:07:35.060 who doesn't speak English, what. is expected 00:07:35.060 --> 00:07:41.579 yeah and and what's not acceptable um and that's 00:07:41.579 --> 00:07:44.379 eventually going to teach your puppy how to channel 00:07:44.379 --> 00:07:47.040 all of that energy into something productive 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:50.480 rather than something destructive and that's 00:07:50.480 --> 00:07:55.579 really really important so um major point number 00:07:55.579 --> 00:08:01.910 one why do puppies bite and jump You want to 00:08:01.910 --> 00:08:05.029 jump on that one? Yeah. A couple different reasons. 00:08:05.610 --> 00:08:07.829 Depends on where the puppy's at and its stages, 00:08:07.930 --> 00:08:12.589 right? So one, it could be teething. Yeah. If 00:08:12.589 --> 00:08:15.509 they're teething, they're going to chew on things, 00:08:15.670 --> 00:08:21.170 right? Or like gnaw on things. Two is they think 00:08:21.170 --> 00:08:25.310 it's fun. It's turned into like a game most of 00:08:25.310 --> 00:08:27.550 the time, right? That's how they play. Right. 00:08:27.569 --> 00:08:31.139 Because when a puppy bites you. Yeah. Usually 00:08:31.139 --> 00:08:34.539 it's not comfortable. Right. It might start with 00:08:34.539 --> 00:08:37.919 like, oh, it's so cute. Yeah. And but then it 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:41.620 gets like uncomfortable. And and that's usually 00:08:41.620 --> 00:08:45.600 when you move the fastest. Yeah. So like when 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:50.500 your hands, which look like tasty treats to a 00:08:50.500 --> 00:08:54.980 puppy, they bite at your skin or something. And 00:08:54.980 --> 00:08:58.519 when they actually hurt you. One of the number 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:02.679 one things that we do is we reel back real fast. 00:09:03.259 --> 00:09:10.019 And that immediately speaks to their genetic 00:09:10.019 --> 00:09:14.539 code of prey drive. And they're like, whoa, look 00:09:14.539 --> 00:09:17.059 at that. That thing moved so fast. That's so 00:09:17.059 --> 00:09:21.740 fun. And then their drive for that steps up even 00:09:21.740 --> 00:09:27.720 higher. That is where we start to see this concept 00:09:27.720 --> 00:09:32.600 that I talk about a lot, which is self -gratifying 00:09:32.600 --> 00:09:35.980 behavior. At the point where the dog doesn't 00:09:35.980 --> 00:09:39.120 need you to reinforce the behavior and they get 00:09:39.120 --> 00:09:42.279 what they want out of the behavior by doing it, 00:09:42.360 --> 00:09:47.240 that one is hard to break because they don't 00:09:47.240 --> 00:09:53.740 need you to reinforce it anymore. Or, so we were 00:09:53.740 --> 00:09:56.919 talking about biting like hands, feet, stuff 00:09:56.919 --> 00:10:00.200 like that. But this could also be puppy biting 00:10:00.200 --> 00:10:03.379 and then chewing, right? Puppies grabbing shoes 00:10:03.379 --> 00:10:07.860 and then running off with them. All of this stuff, 00:10:08.200 --> 00:10:11.000 all of these behaviors, they really relate to 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:14.220 the same thing, which is the puppy is finding 00:10:14.220 --> 00:10:19.809 something that is attractive to them. They're 00:10:19.809 --> 00:10:23.690 interacting with it with their mouth for a number 00:10:23.690 --> 00:10:27.210 of different reasons, but probably because it's 00:10:27.210 --> 00:10:31.250 fun and it's engaging and it's exciting. And 00:10:31.250 --> 00:10:33.330 then we make it even more exciting because that's 00:10:33.330 --> 00:10:38.590 when we get loud. We get sometimes hysterical. 00:10:39.090 --> 00:10:42.769 Sometimes we move a lot faster with a lot more 00:10:42.769 --> 00:10:47.049 energy. And sometimes we stop watching TV or 00:10:47.049 --> 00:10:49.950 watching our computer or talking or whatever, 00:10:50.070 --> 00:10:52.990 and suddenly we dial in all of our energy right 00:10:52.990 --> 00:10:56.470 on the puppy. All of those things, it's like 00:10:56.470 --> 00:10:59.830 a perfect storm to reinforce that behavior that 00:10:59.830 --> 00:11:03.250 we don't even want in the first place. So just 00:11:03.250 --> 00:11:08.950 like talking about this and nailing down what's 00:11:08.950 --> 00:11:12.090 happening, you can put... your own brain to, 00:11:12.090 --> 00:11:14.850 you know, to work here and be like, cool, in 00:11:14.850 --> 00:11:18.509 order to undo this or avoid this, I've got to 00:11:18.509 --> 00:11:22.909 do the opposite. Yep. All right. Another reason 00:11:22.909 --> 00:11:31.710 why puppies bite and jump. So the, the jumping, 00:11:31.750 --> 00:11:35.090 a lot of times that just comes from the puppy 00:11:35.090 --> 00:11:37.950 wanting to be closer to you. Yeah. Right. It. 00:11:38.299 --> 00:11:40.820 It's not usually that the puppy's like trying 00:11:40.820 --> 00:11:43.259 to dominate the situation and like, I'm going 00:11:43.259 --> 00:11:46.100 to body slam you. Now, there are some breeds 00:11:46.100 --> 00:11:49.519 that do like to play that way. They love to body 00:11:49.519 --> 00:11:52.779 slam and like slam into you and be rough and 00:11:52.779 --> 00:11:58.919 stuff. But just general puppies jumping up, most 00:11:58.919 --> 00:12:02.389 of the time when we see that, it's because. They 00:12:02.389 --> 00:12:05.629 just want to get closer and they want to be touched, 00:12:05.789 --> 00:12:11.889 handled, or get some sort of affection or even 00:12:11.889 --> 00:12:14.750 just some engagement. And what's the number one 00:12:14.750 --> 00:12:18.490 thing that we typically do? You can picture this. 00:12:18.629 --> 00:12:21.610 You walk in the doorway somewhere or even as 00:12:21.610 --> 00:12:25.169 a guest and they've got a brand new little puppy 00:12:25.169 --> 00:12:28.250 who's exploring the world. They're just the cutest 00:12:28.250 --> 00:12:31.649 little thing. And they don't weigh very much. 00:12:31.669 --> 00:12:35.889 So it's not like, you know, it's not off putting 00:12:35.889 --> 00:12:39.990 when they try to jump up or crawl up you. And 00:12:39.990 --> 00:12:43.070 it's really, really cute. So one of the first 00:12:43.070 --> 00:12:46.789 things that I see people do is reach down and 00:12:46.789 --> 00:12:50.299 reach for the puppy and interact with them. And 00:12:50.299 --> 00:12:52.559 even if you're not reaching for them because 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:55.279 you are an excellent guest and you're like, oh, 00:12:55.320 --> 00:12:56.840 no, I don't want to reinforce that behavior. 00:12:57.100 --> 00:13:00.279 You're still kind of bending over at the waist 00:13:00.279 --> 00:13:02.820 in order to look at this puppy that's down here 00:13:02.820 --> 00:13:05.299 that's so cute. And you're giving them a whole 00:13:05.299 --> 00:13:08.940 bunch of attention and engagement. Yeah. And 00:13:08.940 --> 00:13:12.200 so it immediately shows the puppy that this is 00:13:12.200 --> 00:13:16.159 acceptable behavior. Yeah. And a lot of times 00:13:16.159 --> 00:13:21.289 it is. For most owners initially, but then the 00:13:21.289 --> 00:13:24.690 puppy starts growing and then they get more demanding 00:13:24.690 --> 00:13:28.090 and then they get stronger and they start weighing 00:13:28.090 --> 00:13:31.169 more and suddenly now it's inconvenient. Yep. 00:13:31.190 --> 00:13:33.549 But now we've got to play catch up because, well, 00:13:33.570 --> 00:13:38.909 we, we created that habit. If a puppy runs up 00:13:38.909 --> 00:13:43.129 and jumps up on you and you never through its 00:13:43.129 --> 00:13:45.769 entire life, you never even acknowledge that 00:13:45.769 --> 00:13:51.110 it jumped up on you. You won't see it continue 00:13:51.110 --> 00:13:54.789 to jump up on you. Yeah. Because dogs only continue 00:13:54.789 --> 00:13:59.009 to do what is either reinforced by you or become 00:13:59.009 --> 00:14:02.850 self -gratifying. That's the only thing that 00:14:02.850 --> 00:14:04.690 they do because otherwise there's no attention, 00:14:05.070 --> 00:14:07.929 no love, no affection, no treats, no food, and 00:14:07.929 --> 00:14:11.009 no shelter provided by that activity. It serves 00:14:11.009 --> 00:14:13.470 no purpose and so they don't do it. Right. There's 00:14:13.470 --> 00:14:20.539 no reward. Right. All right. Last little supporting 00:14:20.539 --> 00:14:25.419 point I had written down, and I just touched 00:14:25.419 --> 00:14:27.940 on this, but puppies repeat whatever earns a 00:14:27.940 --> 00:14:32.820 payoff. So you've got to control your attention, 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:37.320 your eye contact, your hands, and as well as 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:40.299 the noises and sounds that we make, right? People, 00:14:40.320 --> 00:14:42.720 and this is where we see this a lot with kids. 00:14:43.559 --> 00:14:47.240 Kids squealing and screaming and all of these 00:14:47.240 --> 00:14:50.600 things when a puppy jumps up on them sounds so 00:14:50.600 --> 00:14:57.620 fun to a puppy. They're not tracking that this 00:14:57.620 --> 00:15:01.059 kid is screaming his head off because he's hurt 00:15:01.059 --> 00:15:05.460 or scared or whatever. Puppies just don't know. 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:09.620 So the kid who's screaming his head off because 00:15:09.620 --> 00:15:13.809 his puppy jumped up on him. that seems fun and 00:15:13.809 --> 00:15:17.230 so they're going to keep doing it and or do it 00:15:17.230 --> 00:15:19.490 more right they all count all of those things 00:15:19.490 --> 00:15:23.169 they count as rewards yeah um so what do we what 00:15:23.169 --> 00:15:26.690 what is the best what would you say the best 00:15:26.690 --> 00:15:29.590 advice is i mean obviously we've covered all 00:15:29.590 --> 00:15:33.409 of the ma like the reasons why this happens um 00:15:33.409 --> 00:15:38.129 what what would you advise a client right off 00:15:38.129 --> 00:15:42.250 the bat somebody's like My dog jumps on me when 00:15:42.250 --> 00:15:46.190 I come home. What should I do? One, don't pay 00:15:46.190 --> 00:15:49.450 any attention to it. Yep. So check out. This 00:15:49.450 --> 00:15:53.230 is maintenance, right? We have to create some 00:15:53.230 --> 00:15:57.789 maintenance for the behavior right off the bat. 00:15:57.889 --> 00:16:01.049 And the maintenance is how are we going to deal 00:16:01.049 --> 00:16:05.210 with it immediately differently than we have 00:16:05.210 --> 00:16:09.190 before? Then we can start to correct the behavior. 00:16:09.450 --> 00:16:14.789 So go ahead. Yeah. Ignoring the dog. Not giving 00:16:14.789 --> 00:16:17.389 them any attention when you get home. That's 00:16:17.389 --> 00:16:23.129 going to be the easiest, most, or least aversive 00:16:23.129 --> 00:16:26.909 method, obviously. After multiple repetitions 00:16:26.909 --> 00:16:28.549 of that, the dog is going to kind of give up 00:16:28.549 --> 00:16:30.490 and realize that they're not getting any attention 00:16:30.490 --> 00:16:37.129 from it. Let's see. If it's guests coming over 00:16:37.129 --> 00:16:40.149 and not just you coming in the door, you can 00:16:40.149 --> 00:16:43.190 put a leash on them, step on the leash. It will 00:16:43.190 --> 00:16:46.129 give them an automatic correction when they go 00:16:46.129 --> 00:16:48.330 to jump up because they won't even be able to 00:16:48.330 --> 00:16:57.649 jump up. Let's see. What else? So my advice right 00:16:57.649 --> 00:17:04.380 off the bat is to remind. people that puppies 00:17:04.380 --> 00:17:07.839 jumping and biting are totally normal behaviors 00:17:07.839 --> 00:17:11.539 so that like right off the bat you are not the 00:17:11.539 --> 00:17:15.140 only one who's ever dealt with this and and it's 00:17:15.140 --> 00:17:19.099 totally normal your dog's not a bad dog for doing 00:17:19.099 --> 00:17:24.420 it we just probably accidentally taught them 00:17:24.420 --> 00:17:27.460 that it was either okay to do or really fun to 00:17:27.460 --> 00:17:30.660 do and then it became self -gratifying so now 00:17:31.289 --> 00:17:33.710 that you push them off of you or try to ignore 00:17:33.710 --> 00:17:36.569 them or all of these things. It's just kind of 00:17:36.569 --> 00:17:38.529 what they do and they don't know a different 00:17:38.529 --> 00:17:43.670 way. So then I go into, all right, number one, 00:17:43.750 --> 00:17:48.990 ignore as much as you can. At some point, you're 00:17:48.990 --> 00:17:51.109 not going to be able to ignore. So that's where 00:17:51.109 --> 00:17:56.490 I am going to step into the dog space. So dog 00:17:56.490 --> 00:18:01.329 approaches me. And they are, they're about, this 00:18:01.329 --> 00:18:04.329 only works proactively. It doesn't really work 00:18:04.329 --> 00:18:08.009 like when the dog actually jumps up on you. But 00:18:08.009 --> 00:18:10.809 proactively, as you see the dogs kind of loading 00:18:10.809 --> 00:18:15.130 and about to jump up, you can step towards them 00:18:15.130 --> 00:18:18.869 and into their space and make the whole situation 00:18:18.869 --> 00:18:21.589 significantly more uncomfortable for them to 00:18:21.589 --> 00:18:26.829 jump up on you. The next one that I recommend 00:18:26.829 --> 00:18:31.450 is a leash. So let them drag a line. Let them 00:18:31.450 --> 00:18:34.829 drag a line. And then I put my foot on the leash 00:18:34.829 --> 00:18:40.569 with enough slack for the dog to not feel leash 00:18:40.569 --> 00:18:46.609 pressure. And then I slide my foot on the ground 00:18:46.609 --> 00:18:51.390 around the dog and wherever I'm going. I just 00:18:51.390 --> 00:18:55.690 slide my foot so that. the dog can remain on 00:18:55.690 --> 00:19:00.349 that loose leash unless the dog jumps. And at 00:19:00.349 --> 00:19:04.230 the point where the dog jumps, they receive leash 00:19:04.230 --> 00:19:08.309 pressure on their own accord. And it's instantaneous 00:19:08.309 --> 00:19:13.910 right as they jump. And also the leash pressure 00:19:13.910 --> 00:19:17.630 is in the direction of the floor, kind of correcting 00:19:17.630 --> 00:19:21.769 them and telling them non -verbally in what direction 00:19:21.769 --> 00:19:25.000 you want them to go. which is back down to the 00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:30.180 floor. Most times when I start working on correcting 00:19:30.180 --> 00:19:34.119 that, it doesn't take very many times for the 00:19:34.119 --> 00:19:39.220 dog to feel that pressure for them to then put 00:19:39.220 --> 00:19:42.299 all four paws on the floor. And at that point, 00:19:42.380 --> 00:19:46.660 that's where you reach down and give them attention. 00:19:46.940 --> 00:19:51.119 So we can start to reinforce and build some. 00:19:51.900 --> 00:19:55.779 excitement for just standing there or just sitting 00:19:55.779 --> 00:20:01.359 there yeah and then that's how you install a 00:20:01.359 --> 00:20:08.500 new habit yep okay number two major point number 00:20:08.500 --> 00:20:12.799 two teaching bite inhibition and a four paws 00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:17.700 on the floor man i keep doing this i kind of 00:20:17.700 --> 00:20:19.539 allude to the next thing before we get there 00:20:19.980 --> 00:20:24.839 It's got good flow, but I keep jumping ahead 00:20:24.839 --> 00:20:32.700 too far. So we can use toys for chewing. We can 00:20:32.700 --> 00:20:35.920 introduce, right? So we talked about the four 00:20:35.920 --> 00:20:37.640 paws on the floor thing already. So we'll cut 00:20:37.640 --> 00:20:42.539 to the chase and let's do puppy biting. So puppy 00:20:42.539 --> 00:20:48.259 starts, runs up to you and starts nibbling. What's 00:20:48.259 --> 00:20:52.319 your go -to? Start nibbling on your fingers. 00:20:53.619 --> 00:20:56.880 If it's a puppy, I usually try to redirect to 00:20:56.880 --> 00:20:59.619 a toy. Give them something they're supposed to 00:20:59.619 --> 00:21:02.700 chew. So right off the bat, the least aversive 00:21:02.700 --> 00:21:06.000 and the least intrusive thing that we can do 00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:10.400 is just redirect their energy and then give them 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:13.339 something they can chew on, give them something 00:21:13.339 --> 00:21:17.119 they can bite, and then praise them. Praise them 00:21:17.119 --> 00:21:22.019 for it. You can do the exact same thing with 00:21:22.019 --> 00:21:24.660 stuff that the dog's not supposed to have. So 00:21:24.660 --> 00:21:27.839 this doesn't just apply to puppy biting, but 00:21:27.839 --> 00:21:32.740 it also can apply to, hey, don't take this. You 00:21:32.740 --> 00:21:35.839 can't have that. Here, you can have this instead. 00:21:38.220 --> 00:21:41.440 Use your marker words. Use your marker words 00:21:41.440 --> 00:21:45.920 to show the dog that, yeah, you can have this. 00:21:45.940 --> 00:21:53.640 This is good. Great job. And then make sure that 00:21:53.640 --> 00:21:57.660 whatever interaction that you're having, anything 00:21:57.660 --> 00:22:01.119 that's pleasurable in that interaction completely 00:22:01.119 --> 00:22:05.500 ceases at the point where they're doing the wrong 00:22:05.500 --> 00:22:11.539 thing. Because that's usually the opposite of 00:22:11.539 --> 00:22:14.220 how we train the dog to interact with us in the 00:22:14.220 --> 00:22:19.519 first place that is now getting us bit. So we 00:22:19.519 --> 00:22:22.779 want to totally check out at the point where 00:22:22.779 --> 00:22:25.920 we're like, oh, such a cute puppy. Oh my gosh, 00:22:25.940 --> 00:22:31.039 it's eating my hand. And at that point, I'm going 00:22:31.039 --> 00:22:34.240 to remove my hand. I'm going to stand up. I'm 00:22:34.240 --> 00:22:37.220 going to take away all of my attention and I'm 00:22:37.220 --> 00:22:42.440 going to ignore the dog. And there's, I guess 00:22:42.440 --> 00:22:45.460 there's probably levels to that, right? But end 00:22:45.460 --> 00:22:49.920 the interaction. You don't need drama, you don't 00:22:49.920 --> 00:22:52.640 need yelling, but you need to set a clear boundary 00:22:52.640 --> 00:22:58.680 that's like, nah, I'm not into that. A lot of 00:22:58.680 --> 00:23:05.599 times that was how we went off the path in the 00:23:05.599 --> 00:23:08.500 first place. And so that's the way that we get 00:23:08.500 --> 00:23:15.920 back on path. Mark the calm engagement times. 00:23:16.700 --> 00:23:22.220 A lot of times we forget to tell the dog that 00:23:22.220 --> 00:23:24.680 they're doing the right thing when they're doing 00:23:24.680 --> 00:23:31.240 the right thing. And so we only correct and increase 00:23:31.240 --> 00:23:34.240 our volume and get involved in what the dog's 00:23:34.240 --> 00:23:36.480 doing when they're doing the wrong thing. Yeah. 00:23:37.390 --> 00:23:39.430 And so then they go around and they're like, 00:23:39.529 --> 00:23:41.369 cool, don't do that, don't do that, don't do 00:23:41.369 --> 00:23:43.210 that. I can't do anything in this place. This 00:23:43.210 --> 00:23:48.069 place sucks. I can't do anything. So we've got 00:23:48.069 --> 00:23:51.670 to tell the dog that they're doing good when 00:23:51.670 --> 00:23:58.150 they're doing nothing, which is hard to teach 00:23:58.150 --> 00:24:02.650 people sometimes. Because the dog's just laying 00:24:02.650 --> 00:24:06.940 down. Well, you need a way that you can calmly 00:24:06.940 --> 00:24:10.140 tell the dog, hey, good job for just laying down. 00:24:10.559 --> 00:24:15.099 Great job. Just keep doing it. That's where our 00:24:15.099 --> 00:24:17.500 obedience training comes in. That's where our 00:24:17.500 --> 00:24:19.440 markers come in. That's where all of these things 00:24:19.440 --> 00:24:22.359 come in to where we can tell the dog and communicate 00:24:22.359 --> 00:24:26.160 with them clearly without increasing their excitement. 00:24:26.900 --> 00:24:29.599 Because here's the next thing that usually we 00:24:29.599 --> 00:24:34.059 get off on or we mess up on. is that we haven't 00:24:34.059 --> 00:24:39.839 really taught the dog all of this stuff. So when 00:24:39.839 --> 00:24:42.519 we go to interact with them and tell them, hey, 00:24:42.519 --> 00:24:45.579 good job, we gave them some interaction, some 00:24:45.579 --> 00:24:49.099 engagement, and they immediately spaz out. And 00:24:49.099 --> 00:24:52.119 they're like, oh my gosh, he's coming to pet 00:24:52.119 --> 00:24:58.880 me. But we didn't take the time to give these 00:24:58.880 --> 00:25:04.809 repetitions of, let me just... Say good one time 00:25:04.809 --> 00:25:09.630 and give you one pet, which can decondition the 00:25:09.630 --> 00:25:12.430 dog from thinking that every time you come over, 00:25:12.490 --> 00:25:15.109 you're going to wrestle with them. Yeah. And 00:25:15.109 --> 00:25:19.029 instead I'm giving contact, but just one pet 00:25:19.029 --> 00:25:24.009 because, Hey, good job. You sat good. One pet 00:25:24.009 --> 00:25:31.539 down. Oh, good. One pet. Those things. By repping 00:25:31.539 --> 00:25:36.200 those out and focusing on that obedience side, 00:25:36.319 --> 00:25:39.720 we can then use that to our advantage when we're 00:25:39.720 --> 00:25:43.539 dealing with these other things. Yeah. All right. 00:25:44.900 --> 00:25:49.079 You got more to add on that? I don't think so. 00:25:49.559 --> 00:25:52.920 All right. Last one I've got is that calm praise 00:25:52.920 --> 00:26:00.000 can build calm behavior. The excited praise. 00:26:00.039 --> 00:26:03.279 Which is what you just said. Yes. Right. I know. 00:26:03.279 --> 00:26:05.380 You moved on to it without going. It's like I'm 00:26:05.380 --> 00:26:09.880 just cruising through my notes from the back 00:26:09.880 --> 00:26:15.839 of my head, I guess. But the excited praise, 00:26:16.160 --> 00:26:20.180 it builds chaos, right? It just, it can amp the 00:26:20.180 --> 00:26:24.980 dog up. And so that's fine sometimes. Sometimes 00:26:24.980 --> 00:26:26.880 you might want to do that. You want to amp the 00:26:26.880 --> 00:26:30.039 dog up. It's like, cool, it's time for playtime. 00:26:30.200 --> 00:26:33.640 Then by all means, get that excited praise out 00:26:33.640 --> 00:26:37.519 and increase that energy level. But the rest 00:26:37.519 --> 00:26:42.099 of the time, we want to help the dog learn that 00:26:42.099 --> 00:26:48.539 calmness is okay. So calm praise. Calm praise 00:26:48.539 --> 00:26:55.279 can build that. Go -to drill for teaching bite 00:26:55.279 --> 00:27:01.140 inhibition. Do you have something to jump in 00:27:01.140 --> 00:27:03.900 on this one? Or do you want me to go down this 00:27:03.900 --> 00:27:07.539 road? You're welcome to go down the road. When 00:27:07.539 --> 00:27:10.240 I look at bite inhibition and teaching it, I 00:27:10.240 --> 00:27:13.900 just look at redirecting a lot to toys. It's 00:27:13.900 --> 00:27:16.000 like they bite you, cool, pick up the toy. Reward 00:27:16.000 --> 00:27:19.220 for picking up the toy. I was going to talk about 00:27:19.220 --> 00:27:22.339 it from a different perspective. Bite inhibition 00:27:22.339 --> 00:27:26.220 is a trait that usually gets picked up by puppies. 00:27:27.039 --> 00:27:32.700 When taught to them from their mothers, right? 00:27:32.839 --> 00:27:39.740 When a dog is relying on their mothers for feeding, 00:27:39.859 --> 00:27:45.200 right? For their mother's milk. When they bite 00:27:45.200 --> 00:27:49.599 too hard, they will oftentimes get a correction 00:27:49.599 --> 00:27:54.259 from their mom, either through. you know, a growl 00:27:54.259 --> 00:27:58.460 or through, um, a snap or even just through a 00:27:58.460 --> 00:28:01.740 Yelp. Right. And at that point, a lot of times 00:28:01.740 --> 00:28:05.400 a mother will, will push the dog off or away 00:28:05.400 --> 00:28:08.079 or Paul the dog away and be like, well, fine. 00:28:08.160 --> 00:28:13.640 No, no food for you. Yeah. That teaches a puppy 00:28:13.640 --> 00:28:18.299 very quickly that like, Ooh, uh, that was too 00:28:18.299 --> 00:28:22.420 much. I've got to be gentler. Well, when you 00:28:22.420 --> 00:28:27.299 take a dog away from their mom too early, those 00:28:27.299 --> 00:28:31.519 are the dogs that statistically have harder mouths. 00:28:32.140 --> 00:28:37.460 They have less bite inhibition because they didn't 00:28:37.460 --> 00:28:43.319 learn it from their moms. Yeah. So if we understand 00:28:43.319 --> 00:28:49.410 that, we can also teach. some of this bite inhibition. 00:28:49.470 --> 00:28:52.390 And there's a couple of things that they're not 00:28:52.390 --> 00:28:56.710 probably mainstream, but you can, you can find 00:28:56.710 --> 00:28:59.130 a couple of these tips out there, right? One 00:28:59.130 --> 00:29:06.369 of them is, is a, I guess a high pitched Yelp. 00:29:07.250 --> 00:29:10.710 So this doesn't work with all dogs, but there 00:29:10.710 --> 00:29:19.099 are a few that it's worked pretty well. So what 00:29:19.099 --> 00:29:25.519 I'm talking about is puppy bites you and as they're 00:29:25.519 --> 00:29:31.119 biting you, you give a very quick, trill, high 00:29:31.119 --> 00:29:37.660 -pitched yelp. Just like a little puppy as two 00:29:37.660 --> 00:29:40.220 puppies are interacting and one puppy bites or 00:29:40.220 --> 00:29:43.779 plays too hard and the other puppy yelps. That 00:29:43.779 --> 00:29:48.480 can be picked up. by a puppy who's willing to 00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:52.640 receive that yeah uh and it can explain to them 00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:55.240 in a way that they're kind of open to have been 00:29:55.240 --> 00:29:59.140 like oh that was too much because at the same 00:29:59.140 --> 00:30:01.279 time you're going to do all these things that 00:30:01.279 --> 00:30:04.200 we've already talked about stand up remove yourself 00:30:04.200 --> 00:30:08.799 take away the fun introduce something else yeah 00:30:08.799 --> 00:30:12.440 all of those things communicate pretty clearly 00:30:12.440 --> 00:30:16.529 to the dog that oh That was too much. That's 00:30:16.529 --> 00:30:20.829 where we draw the line. I can't do that. Another 00:30:20.829 --> 00:30:30.990 option. You can, and this one throws, some people 00:30:30.990 --> 00:30:33.849 will get into this, some people not. You can 00:30:33.849 --> 00:30:37.930 just put a single finger down on the tongue of 00:30:37.930 --> 00:30:42.269 the dog. We're not grinding the dog's tongue 00:30:42.269 --> 00:30:47.039 down. We're not making it. super aversive. All 00:30:47.039 --> 00:30:50.480 you're doing is if your fingers are already in 00:30:50.480 --> 00:30:53.339 the dog's mouth, which first I would question 00:30:53.339 --> 00:30:57.480 why they're in the dog's mouth. But number two, 00:30:57.579 --> 00:31:00.700 if they're already there, you have the option 00:31:00.700 --> 00:31:04.960 to pull them out without just pulling your hands 00:31:04.960 --> 00:31:09.940 or your fingers through the teeth. Just with 00:31:09.940 --> 00:31:12.519 just your index finger or whatever fingers in 00:31:12.519 --> 00:31:15.400 their mouth, just push down lightly on their 00:31:15.400 --> 00:31:19.559 tongue and create some pressure. And most dogs 00:31:19.559 --> 00:31:22.680 will immediately just kind of like back up. The 00:31:22.680 --> 00:31:26.019 pressure will just back them up and they'll open 00:31:26.019 --> 00:31:30.960 their mouths in order to just get away. And that 00:31:30.960 --> 00:31:34.839 immediately creates some distance for you, even 00:31:34.839 --> 00:31:37.480 if it's just a few inches where they're not actively 00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:41.099 pursuing. And now they're. their body weight 00:31:41.099 --> 00:31:43.880 has shifted back. That should be enough for you 00:31:43.880 --> 00:31:46.880 to remove your hand and then move on with all 00:31:46.880 --> 00:31:48.180 of the other things that we've already talked 00:31:48.180 --> 00:31:53.180 about. Yeah. All right. So those are my go -tos 00:31:53.180 --> 00:31:58.599 for teaching bite inhibition on a dog who either 00:31:58.599 --> 00:32:01.619 didn't learn it or we have not been proactive 00:32:01.619 --> 00:32:05.779 in teaching it right off the bat. I highly recommend 00:32:05.779 --> 00:32:10.619 that you don't. What I'm not saying here for 00:32:10.619 --> 00:32:15.900 clarification is just act like a dog. You're 00:32:15.900 --> 00:32:19.500 not going to fool your puppy into them thinking 00:32:19.500 --> 00:32:23.619 that you're a dog. Act like a human. I'm not 00:32:23.619 --> 00:32:26.480 going to get into the, there's a whole different 00:32:26.480 --> 00:32:28.720 path here where it's like, oh, well, you can 00:32:28.720 --> 00:32:31.779 mimic the behavior of a puppy and do this and 00:32:31.779 --> 00:32:36.150 do that. No, no. Just be the leader. But some 00:32:36.150 --> 00:32:39.349 of these things, just like we can use vibration 00:32:39.349 --> 00:32:43.769 and things that we can use, things that we've 00:32:43.769 --> 00:32:45.869 detailed in the past where we're not looking 00:32:45.869 --> 00:32:48.029 to be aversive to the dogs, we're looking to 00:32:48.029 --> 00:32:51.009 break the pattern of whatever it is that they 00:32:51.009 --> 00:32:55.309 have decided is what they want. Breaking a pattern 00:32:55.309 --> 00:33:00.829 is always preferred to controlling what the dog 00:33:00.829 --> 00:33:10.619 does. All right. how the power of marker words, 00:33:10.759 --> 00:33:14.720 right? We did a whole podcast on this, but if 00:33:14.720 --> 00:33:18.960 you don't understand the marker words, give us 00:33:18.960 --> 00:33:22.960 the power of anticipation. And as we start to 00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:25.779 condition the different marker words, it gives 00:33:25.779 --> 00:33:29.920 us clear ways to communicate with the dogs, even 00:33:29.920 --> 00:33:33.460 puppies. They will not understand all of your 00:33:33.460 --> 00:33:37.059 noises and sounds. But if we start training them 00:33:37.059 --> 00:33:40.619 that this yes means that they're getting a treat 00:33:40.619 --> 00:33:44.680 and no means that they're getting whatever it 00:33:44.680 --> 00:33:49.880 was that was fun taken away, that gives you clear 00:33:49.880 --> 00:33:52.759 communication to start correcting behaviors. 00:33:54.160 --> 00:33:59.160 Use your marker words because it's less words. 00:33:59.519 --> 00:34:03.400 You cannot talk to your puppy. You cannot tell 00:34:03.400 --> 00:34:08.739 it, hey, Don't do that. That's bad. They didn't 00:34:08.739 --> 00:34:14.300 get any of that. We've got to simplify our communication 00:34:14.300 --> 00:34:17.539 and speak to the dogs with things that they do 00:34:17.539 --> 00:34:26.820 understand. Yep. All right. This one's a good 00:34:26.820 --> 00:34:32.300 one. How do you stop a puppy who jumps on everyone 00:34:32.300 --> 00:34:39.440 else? But not the owner. It's a riddle. It's 00:34:39.440 --> 00:34:43.179 a trick. Right. Yeah. Riddle me this. Right. 00:34:43.260 --> 00:34:46.739 You have more people over. Right. And you use 00:34:46.739 --> 00:34:49.119 on leash greetings. And then you. Correct. And 00:34:49.119 --> 00:34:51.639 you use on leash greetings. Just like what I 00:34:51.639 --> 00:34:55.679 just said. Owner stands next to the dog. Controls 00:34:55.679 --> 00:34:58.380 the dog with the leash. The same way that I just 00:34:58.380 --> 00:35:03.590 kind of detailed. But. You have to have other 00:35:03.590 --> 00:35:06.730 people over because I've seen this in a dog too 00:35:06.730 --> 00:35:12.070 where the owner is the only one that doesn't 00:35:12.070 --> 00:35:13.789 get jumped on. I was about to say, yeah. And 00:35:13.789 --> 00:35:17.090 so then they can't train the dog not to jump 00:35:17.090 --> 00:35:19.289 on people because it doesn't jump on the owner. 00:35:19.510 --> 00:35:24.849 Right. Yeah. So you have to sometimes put your 00:35:24.849 --> 00:35:27.010 dog in the positions where they're going to exhibit 00:35:27.010 --> 00:35:29.969 the behavior that you want to correct. Yeah. 00:35:31.090 --> 00:35:33.190 That's not the same as setting your dog up for 00:35:33.190 --> 00:35:37.170 failure so that they just fail, fail, fail. It 00:35:37.170 --> 00:35:42.590 means that we've got to pattern the dog. We've 00:35:42.590 --> 00:35:45.510 got to use patterns for the dog to understand. 00:35:45.750 --> 00:35:48.929 And if you cannot introduce the dog to some of 00:35:48.929 --> 00:35:53.329 those things that do trigger the issues, well, 00:35:53.389 --> 00:35:54.469 then you're never going to be able to fix them. 00:35:57.500 --> 00:35:59.239 Kind of a trick question, not a trick question. 00:35:59.380 --> 00:36:02.960 Right, yeah. It's not rocket science. All right. 00:36:03.820 --> 00:36:09.219 Last one, major point three. Consistency creates 00:36:09.219 --> 00:36:15.119 respect. So our mixed messages often confuse 00:36:15.119 --> 00:36:19.460 puppies and pretty much seal our fate, guarantee 00:36:19.460 --> 00:36:27.530 more biting and more jumping. Every family member 00:36:27.530 --> 00:36:32.789 has got to work together on this. Yeah. Because 00:36:32.789 --> 00:36:38.929 puppies of all the types of dogs, like their 00:36:38.929 --> 00:36:43.210 own breed, puppies are not going to understand 00:36:43.210 --> 00:36:48.230 why they can wrestle and be rough with and bite 00:36:48.230 --> 00:36:52.110 dad. We'll just go with these traditional values 00:36:52.110 --> 00:36:55.010 because I often see. The men in the household 00:36:55.010 --> 00:36:57.929 being the little rougher playing with the dogs. 00:36:58.110 --> 00:37:01.210 And then they run in the other room and they 00:37:01.210 --> 00:37:04.570 bite the kids and all heck breaks loose. And 00:37:04.570 --> 00:37:09.570 then there is this mismatch because the dog's 00:37:09.570 --> 00:37:13.869 like, well, what the heck? Right. I don't understand. 00:37:14.369 --> 00:37:17.210 I was just playing over here and then I was just 00:37:17.210 --> 00:37:22.440 playing over there. Right. But you have to. assume 00:37:22.440 --> 00:37:26.079 that however you play with the dog the dog is 00:37:26.079 --> 00:37:27.980 going to play with other people the same way 00:37:27.980 --> 00:37:33.159 yeah so and there i don't think that puppies 00:37:33.159 --> 00:37:41.199 have as um a lot of times i talk about how you 00:37:41.199 --> 00:37:45.179 can just play with a dog in one area and not 00:37:45.179 --> 00:37:47.159 play with them anywhere else and then they'll 00:37:47.159 --> 00:37:51.639 be more apt to play in that area and not in the 00:37:51.639 --> 00:37:54.579 other places um case in point like i play with 00:37:54.579 --> 00:37:57.460 my dogs outside and we don't play inside so when 00:37:57.460 --> 00:38:00.300 we come inside they just drop their toys off 00:38:00.300 --> 00:38:02.739 or there's no real value in the toy because we 00:38:02.739 --> 00:38:07.079 never play with them inside yeah however i i 00:38:07.079 --> 00:38:11.719 have not experienced a whole lot of puppies that 00:38:11.719 --> 00:38:15.000 truly can differentiate all of that stuff yet 00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:17.599 because they are still learning how to use their 00:38:17.949 --> 00:38:20.710 their limbs, right? Like puppies got a lot going 00:38:20.710 --> 00:38:22.829 on in their head. They're not paying attention 00:38:22.829 --> 00:38:26.869 to the more finer details of like, Oh cool. This 00:38:26.869 --> 00:38:29.570 is acceptable here, but I should understand that 00:38:29.570 --> 00:38:32.530 it's not acceptable there. That is a much more 00:38:32.530 --> 00:38:36.829 mature dog concept that you can eventually teach 00:38:36.829 --> 00:38:42.909 to puppies with very strict consistency, but 00:38:42.909 --> 00:38:45.199 I'm not going to recommend it. What I'm going 00:38:45.199 --> 00:38:48.519 to recommend is that you be consistent across 00:38:48.519 --> 00:38:51.900 the board through all the family members. Everybody's 00:38:51.900 --> 00:38:56.980 got to work together and enforce the same expectations. 00:38:57.380 --> 00:39:05.539 Yep. All right. Attention, affection and play. 00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:11.800 Those are the three major things that we can 00:39:11.800 --> 00:39:15.079 use to reward. are puppies on a daily basis. 00:39:16.699 --> 00:39:25.039 None of those, that's not even like food. Some 00:39:25.039 --> 00:39:26.880 dogs are going to have high food drives. Some 00:39:26.880 --> 00:39:31.019 dogs won't be as food motivated. But all puppies 00:39:31.019 --> 00:39:36.460 love affection and attention and play. All of 00:39:36.460 --> 00:39:43.500 those are options for rewarding your food. Calm 00:39:43.500 --> 00:39:48.559 behavior. And by teaching them that calmness 00:39:48.559 --> 00:39:57.360 is what precedes those things, they will offer 00:39:57.360 --> 00:39:59.820 that behavior, they will offer that calmness 00:39:59.820 --> 00:40:08.420 more often, which will give you a leg up. Jumping. 00:40:08.980 --> 00:40:17.300 So jumping disappears. The fastest when it never 00:40:17.300 --> 00:40:21.940 works. Right. Everything that you don't want 00:40:21.940 --> 00:40:25.679 disappears fastest when it doesn't work. Yeah. 00:40:25.719 --> 00:40:28.920 The one time they get that attention from jumping 00:40:28.920 --> 00:40:31.940 is the one time that they're like, oh, I'm just 00:40:31.940 --> 00:40:37.420 going to keep doing that then. Yep. And so we've 00:40:37.420 --> 00:40:43.539 got to make sure that we do not. I mean, it keeps 00:40:43.539 --> 00:40:46.440 just saying the same thing. Consistency, consistency, 00:40:46.519 --> 00:40:51.179 consistency. You just can't take a day off. Yeah, 00:40:51.239 --> 00:40:54.460 you can't. When you are raising a puppy, it's 00:40:54.460 --> 00:40:58.599 a full time job. You cannot take a day off. You 00:40:58.599 --> 00:41:01.800 can't take an hour off because when you do and 00:41:01.800 --> 00:41:05.139 they're like, they're constantly exploring the 00:41:05.139 --> 00:41:07.159 world. You can take an hour off if they're in 00:41:07.159 --> 00:41:09.840 their crate. Right. Right. Circle back to last 00:41:09.840 --> 00:41:13.780 week. Right. That's why the crate is so important. 00:41:13.860 --> 00:41:18.559 It's because you've got a life to live too. And 00:41:18.559 --> 00:41:22.679 there's no part of us that expects you to be 00:41:22.679 --> 00:41:25.000 dialed into your puppy 24 hours a day. That's 00:41:25.000 --> 00:41:29.340 not realistic. So you should crate train them. 00:41:31.059 --> 00:41:37.210 Yep. All right. Reward. Um, they're calm choices 00:41:37.210 --> 00:41:40.769 and then what that, and that's going to build 00:41:40.769 --> 00:41:44.210 their motivation to make those better choices. 00:41:45.690 --> 00:41:49.829 Calmness, reward, calmness. That can be a skill. 00:41:49.889 --> 00:41:51.730 That should be an obedience thing. And it's like, 00:41:51.789 --> 00:41:54.929 how do you, um, you're not going to have a command 00:41:54.929 --> 00:42:00.210 for it. Calm, be calm. Right. But when you see 00:42:00.210 --> 00:42:03.269 it, everyone knows what it looks like. Yeah. 00:42:03.800 --> 00:42:07.019 And when you see it, reward it. Tell them they 00:42:07.019 --> 00:42:09.800 did the right thing. Give them that one pet. 00:42:11.360 --> 00:42:13.760 Also work on that. Decondition that so that they 00:42:13.760 --> 00:42:15.619 don't freak out as soon as you come over there 00:42:15.619 --> 00:42:24.820 and give them any attention. What is an example? 00:42:30.219 --> 00:42:32.000 There's some people that are listening that are 00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:35.019 going to be like, well, You guys just harp on 00:42:35.019 --> 00:42:37.400 all of this structure and stuff, but I just want 00:42:37.400 --> 00:42:42.500 to enjoy my puppy while they're a puppy. I agree 00:42:42.500 --> 00:42:45.039 with you. They're only going to be puppies for 00:42:45.039 --> 00:42:48.780 a little while, but they're going to be dogs 00:42:48.780 --> 00:42:56.440 for a long time. And what you do now is going 00:42:56.440 --> 00:43:01.300 to teach them what is acceptable going forward. 00:43:03.559 --> 00:43:05.980 I know that they're only going to be puppies 00:43:05.980 --> 00:43:08.719 for a while, but whatever they figure out works 00:43:08.719 --> 00:43:13.539 now, they're going to keep doing. So, I mean, 00:43:13.559 --> 00:43:16.579 make your own choice, but you got to understand 00:43:16.579 --> 00:43:19.199 they're going to grow into it, not out of it. 00:43:19.360 --> 00:43:29.800 Yeah, 100%. All right, so why is timing more 00:43:29.800 --> 00:43:36.280 important than intensity? Because I think if 00:43:36.280 --> 00:43:40.460 you focus on the intensity of correcting a dog 00:43:40.460 --> 00:43:45.079 for biting, they're going to be more prone to, 00:43:45.159 --> 00:43:48.760 one, either be fearful, or two, to think it's 00:43:48.760 --> 00:43:51.760 a game. Because they're not going to differentiate 00:43:51.760 --> 00:43:55.159 that you're mad versus, oh, well, your volume 00:43:55.159 --> 00:43:59.420 just increased. So you can begin to kind of antagonize 00:43:59.420 --> 00:44:04.199 the situation rather than... addressing it and 00:44:04.199 --> 00:44:09.480 fixing it but if you can knock it out as soon 00:44:09.480 --> 00:44:12.199 as the behavior starts and even if you're rewarding 00:44:12.199 --> 00:44:15.480 behavior I mean we always go back on like timing 00:44:15.480 --> 00:44:18.599 is super important when you're rewarding it's 00:44:18.599 --> 00:44:21.380 just as important when you're correcting because 00:44:21.380 --> 00:44:24.260 whatever you correct when you get that no out 00:44:24.260 --> 00:44:27.440 that's what you're correcting just like when 00:44:27.440 --> 00:44:31.099 you mark with yes that's what you're rewarding 00:44:31.099 --> 00:44:33.199 whatever the behavior is that you're marking 00:44:33.199 --> 00:44:40.199 at that time indeed i like it all right i'm gonna 00:44:40.199 --> 00:44:45.000 open it up for questions um if we've got any 00:44:45.000 --> 00:45:14.849 questions now is the time go for it No questions 00:45:14.849 --> 00:45:23.570 tonight. All right. No problem. No problemo. 00:45:23.809 --> 00:45:28.989 All right. So then let's go into listener projects. 00:45:30.050 --> 00:45:33.769 Every week I try to give you two projects that 00:45:33.769 --> 00:45:39.309 you can work on and try to instill into your 00:45:39.309 --> 00:45:43.769 dogs. These ones are specific. to puppies a little 00:45:43.769 --> 00:45:47.369 bit, but I think you can adapt them and kind 00:45:47.369 --> 00:45:51.670 of have the same idea. So chew toy redirection. 00:45:51.730 --> 00:45:54.610 So Bree talked about this a couple of times, 00:45:54.710 --> 00:45:59.510 but keep two to three approved chew toys nearby. 00:46:01.150 --> 00:46:05.349 You need to have some easy access to these. If 00:46:05.349 --> 00:46:09.230 the puppy bites your skin or something that they're 00:46:09.230 --> 00:46:11.449 not supposed to have, I want you to just calmly 00:46:11.449 --> 00:46:14.289 redirect to the toy. All we're going to do is 00:46:14.289 --> 00:46:15.630 we're going to use any of the techniques that 00:46:15.630 --> 00:46:18.150 we talked about to remove yourself from the situation, 00:46:18.369 --> 00:46:23.710 redirect to the toy, do it quietly. Just introduce 00:46:23.710 --> 00:46:27.550 that toy. And at the point where the dog puts 00:46:27.550 --> 00:46:32.010 it in his mouth or interacts with it, mark yes. 00:46:33.250 --> 00:46:35.809 Write the moment or whatever marker word you 00:46:35.809 --> 00:46:39.840 use. Mark yes the moment that they engage with 00:46:39.840 --> 00:46:44.099 the toy. Do this every single time. The repetition 00:46:44.099 --> 00:46:47.360 is what's going to create the habit. When we're 00:46:47.360 --> 00:46:50.179 trying to get a dog to stay in their place for 00:46:50.179 --> 00:46:54.239 a long period of time, we can introduce something 00:46:54.239 --> 00:46:57.019 that they really like, that they want to interact 00:46:57.019 --> 00:47:01.460 with, but only allow them to have it on their 00:47:01.460 --> 00:47:05.460 place bed. That's going to increase the likelihood. 00:47:06.409 --> 00:47:08.869 It's not infallible, but it's going to increase 00:47:08.869 --> 00:47:10.889 the likelihood that they're going to want to 00:47:10.889 --> 00:47:13.230 stay there because that's where they get to interact 00:47:13.230 --> 00:47:15.570 with this thing. When they come off, you're going 00:47:15.570 --> 00:47:18.289 to just take it away and put them right back 00:47:18.289 --> 00:47:21.789 in their place. So it's the same concept with 00:47:21.789 --> 00:47:24.510 the chew toy. All right, project number two, 00:47:24.590 --> 00:47:29.190 the end game rule. So during play, if the puppy 00:47:29.190 --> 00:47:35.250 bites or jumps on you, say no, and then we just 00:47:35.250 --> 00:47:38.780 stand up. Turn away and we calmly disengage. 00:47:39.019 --> 00:47:44.719 So the no predicts you are going to end the game. 00:47:47.219 --> 00:47:52.280 If the puppy offers calm and respectful behavior, 00:47:52.699 --> 00:47:55.199 all right, well then maybe you can re -engage. 00:47:55.719 --> 00:48:00.219 But you watch, just like you are willing to end 00:48:00.219 --> 00:48:03.619 the behavior, you should also be willing to initiate. 00:48:05.039 --> 00:48:12.639 the game again when the dog performs the behavior 00:48:12.639 --> 00:48:17.280 you do want. We don't want to always be negative 00:48:17.280 --> 00:48:23.679 with the dog. Sometimes we want to reinitialize 00:48:23.679 --> 00:48:27.119 or we want to engage them in a game, but we want 00:48:27.119 --> 00:48:31.019 to do it on our terms as they do what we ask 00:48:31.019 --> 00:48:36.079 them to do. All right. That is all I got here 00:48:36.079 --> 00:48:40.420 for episode 10 on puppy biting and the boundaries 00:48:40.420 --> 00:48:43.579 that we need to create in order to facilitate 00:48:43.579 --> 00:48:48.599 that. Thank you for tuning in. I appreciate it. 00:48:48.739 --> 00:48:52.719 Oh, Lord. I hit that button a little too fast 00:48:52.719 --> 00:48:58.360 here. Let's try this. Here we go. Thanks for 00:48:58.360 --> 00:49:03.489 tuning in. Thanks for joining us tonight. Right. 00:49:03.570 --> 00:49:08.250 That one threw me off. Um, dangers of doing the 00:49:08.250 --> 00:49:11.489 whole live show thing. Um, as you guys think 00:49:11.489 --> 00:49:14.550 up questions and things, uh, feel free to leave 00:49:14.550 --> 00:49:18.469 a comment on any of the podcasting things. Uh, 00:49:18.590 --> 00:49:21.349 most of them get funneled to me. Um, welcome 00:49:21.349 --> 00:49:24.989 to reach out through, uh, Ryan at top dog training, 00:49:25.070 --> 00:49:30.369 nc .com. And, uh, that's all I got for tonight. 00:49:31.000 --> 00:49:33.840 Thanks, guys, for listening in. Thanks, guys. 00:49:33.900 --> 00:49:34.239 Good night.