WEBVTT 00:00:34.219 --> 00:00:36.960 Welcome to Pawprint Academy, your blueprint to 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:39.880 raising better dogs. My name is Ryan, and I'll 00:00:39.880 --> 00:00:42.759 be your host for this journey. I've got my trusty 00:00:42.759 --> 00:00:45.420 co -host here, Brianna. Hello. And together, 00:00:45.420 --> 00:00:47.259 we're bringing you real -world training insights 00:00:47.259 --> 00:00:50.000 built on leadership, structure, and proven methods. 00:00:50.700 --> 00:00:53.259 We record this podcast with live clients on the 00:00:53.259 --> 00:00:56.539 line in one take with live, unscripted questions 00:00:56.539 --> 00:00:59.299 and answers. At the end of the day, this podcast 00:00:59.299 --> 00:01:01.340 is a lot more than just teaching your dog to 00:01:01.340 --> 00:01:05.680 sit or stay. creating calmness, and becoming 00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:08.640 the kind of leader your dog truly needs. We do 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:11.099 that with our three pillar method of trust, obey, 00:01:11.299 --> 00:01:14.560 and perform. Together, we'll show you how these 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:18.079 three pillars shape every step of training. Thanks 00:01:18.079 --> 00:01:38.590 for being here. Let's get started. All right, 00:01:38.670 --> 00:01:42.870 episode 11, building confidence in puppies, setting 00:01:42.870 --> 00:01:48.709 the stage for success. Today, we are finishing 00:01:48.709 --> 00:01:55.609 up our puppy, I guess, series, right, series. 00:01:56.489 --> 00:02:01.109 So this will be the last episode that is strictly 00:02:01.109 --> 00:02:06.170 about puppies. Just because it's about puppies 00:02:06.170 --> 00:02:08.310 doesn't mean that a lot of these techniques don't 00:02:08.310 --> 00:02:12.229 work on older dogs, too. We just frame it in 00:02:12.229 --> 00:02:16.430 the concept of we started a lot of these podcasts 00:02:16.430 --> 00:02:20.110 with building from the ground up and a lot of 00:02:20.110 --> 00:02:24.530 people reach out. probably a little bit too soon 00:02:24.530 --> 00:02:28.210 to try to get their puppy trained because they 00:02:28.210 --> 00:02:30.169 got it like three days ago and they're like, 00:02:30.250 --> 00:02:31.969 it's destroying my house and peeing everywhere 00:02:31.969 --> 00:02:35.389 and what do I do with this? So we are trying 00:02:35.389 --> 00:02:43.770 to stop the madness. But set up a good foundation 00:02:43.770 --> 00:02:48.789 for your dog to grow older. But that doesn't 00:02:48.789 --> 00:02:53.110 mean that one dog and like the way a puppy learns 00:02:53.110 --> 00:02:56.610 is so different than an older dog that it just 00:02:56.610 --> 00:02:59.849 can't even be, you know, switch back and forth. 00:02:59.990 --> 00:03:01.909 Right. Especially when it comes to like confidence 00:03:01.909 --> 00:03:04.990 building. Right. Because this is kind of a universal 00:03:04.990 --> 00:03:08.289 concept. So tonight we're going to be talking 00:03:08.289 --> 00:03:11.930 about confidence and how to build it in your 00:03:11.930 --> 00:03:18.169 dogs. way that this goes we already talked about 00:03:18.169 --> 00:03:22.229 the the live clients on the line but sometimes 00:03:22.229 --> 00:03:26.889 they will type in a message or a question or 00:03:26.889 --> 00:03:29.770 something during the during the recording process 00:03:29.770 --> 00:03:32.030 and so I'll read that aloud and then we'll answer 00:03:32.030 --> 00:03:34.830 it and then at the end we'll open it up for live 00:03:34.830 --> 00:03:40.629 Q &A and then we'll give you guys two projects 00:03:40.629 --> 00:03:44.669 two listener projects which are just hey This 00:03:44.669 --> 00:03:47.909 week, I want you to work on this, whatever that 00:03:47.909 --> 00:03:51.550 is. I don't want to spoil it. Start at the end. 00:03:52.550 --> 00:03:56.930 All right, so the core idea for today is that 00:03:56.930 --> 00:04:00.370 confident puppies, or dogs just in general, they 00:04:00.370 --> 00:04:05.930 grow into stable, balanced adult dogs. Confidence 00:04:05.930 --> 00:04:09.669 does not happen by chance. A dog doesn't just 00:04:09.669 --> 00:04:15.250 grow up into confidence. If we don't help nurture 00:04:15.250 --> 00:04:20.550 that. And in fact, it's built through structured 00:04:20.550 --> 00:04:24.810 exposure and through leadership and through fair 00:04:24.810 --> 00:04:30.990 challenges. Confidence is not something that 00:04:30.990 --> 00:04:36.610 is built without exposure to something that may 00:04:36.610 --> 00:04:41.269 be scary or difficult or hard to overcome. Obstacles 00:04:41.269 --> 00:04:45.089 is part of life. And by overcoming those obstacles, 00:04:45.250 --> 00:04:51.930 that's how your dog learns confidence. So a lot 00:04:51.930 --> 00:04:56.410 of people are like, well, my dog has never experienced 00:04:56.410 --> 00:05:01.209 anything scary. So why are they not confident? 00:05:01.449 --> 00:05:04.949 And I'm like, well, maybe that's why. Because 00:05:04.949 --> 00:05:07.370 they haven't really experienced anything scary 00:05:07.370 --> 00:05:12.730 and then overcame it. All right. So let's jump 00:05:12.730 --> 00:05:19.949 into it. So number one, exposure builds that 00:05:19.949 --> 00:05:24.009 resilience. And resilience is something in dogs 00:05:24.009 --> 00:05:29.050 that you can tell a resilient dog. I mean, dogs 00:05:29.050 --> 00:05:32.790 are resilient to a great degree, right? There's 00:05:32.790 --> 00:05:36.430 tons and tons and tons of stories. And pretty 00:05:36.430 --> 00:05:40.009 much everybody has run across a... a time where 00:05:40.009 --> 00:05:43.410 you experienced a rescue dog that came out of 00:05:43.410 --> 00:05:48.129 a very, very, you know, crazy place and a crazy 00:05:48.129 --> 00:05:54.470 life before. And they've overcame it, and you 00:05:54.470 --> 00:05:57.329 wouldn't necessarily even know looking at them. 00:05:57.600 --> 00:06:00.240 Yeah, there's definitely a way to like even resilience. 00:06:00.259 --> 00:06:02.339 I think when a dog when you think of it in a 00:06:02.339 --> 00:06:04.639 dog really comes back down to like trusting people 00:06:04.639 --> 00:06:08.399 and having that trust broken and then rebuilding 00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:13.379 trust with humans again. Right. Yeah. So the 00:06:13.379 --> 00:06:16.839 right kind of exposure, though, is what helps 00:06:16.839 --> 00:06:22.639 puppies face the world calmly. There are. Let 00:06:22.639 --> 00:06:26.740 me not jump ahead as I always end up. Somehow 00:06:26.740 --> 00:06:29.579 answering the questions that I lay out before 00:06:29.579 --> 00:06:31.920 we actually get to the questions. So I'm going 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:36.879 to try not to. We'll see how we do. Let's talk 00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:40.579 about this. So controlled introductions. We want 00:06:40.579 --> 00:06:43.259 to use controlled introductions to new sounds, 00:06:43.399 --> 00:06:48.139 surfaces, environments, heights, like all of 00:06:48.139 --> 00:06:52.100 these different things. There is a concept in 00:06:52.100 --> 00:06:55.949 the science that says that. There are only two 00:06:55.949 --> 00:07:06.670 things that puppies are born with fear to, right? 00:07:06.750 --> 00:07:10.689 And that is loud noises and falls from a height. 00:07:10.889 --> 00:07:18.410 Yep. However, some people would argue that their 00:07:18.410 --> 00:07:22.029 puppy is immediately scared of other things. 00:07:24.970 --> 00:07:28.389 is probably something that led them to becoming 00:07:28.389 --> 00:07:30.949 fearful of that. And that was a learned behavior 00:07:30.949 --> 00:07:38.750 rather than a born with behavior. So when, as 00:07:38.750 --> 00:07:43.149 a dog trainer, right? What are like, you want 00:07:43.149 --> 00:07:46.730 to talk through how, how that looks for us? Like, 00:07:46.790 --> 00:07:51.730 what are we controlling when we're in introducing 00:07:51.730 --> 00:07:54.889 these things? what are we controlling or what 00:07:54.889 --> 00:07:56.829 are we kind of well so like how does that go 00:07:56.829 --> 00:07:59.310 right the controlled introductions what does 00:07:59.310 --> 00:08:01.290 that look like right for well with for other 00:08:01.290 --> 00:08:03.129 dogs or like just anything in general right i 00:08:03.129 --> 00:08:05.250 guess well so let's start with just what's on 00:08:05.250 --> 00:08:07.750 here right of sounds surfaces and environments 00:08:07.750 --> 00:08:10.269 right so when it comes to sounds it's really 00:08:10.269 --> 00:08:12.529 all encompassing yeah we're really big on like 00:08:12.529 --> 00:08:15.649 for sounds we do like the alexa exposure right 00:08:15.649 --> 00:08:18.879 you just play random sounds at a low volume kind 00:08:18.879 --> 00:08:20.420 of work your way through that. There's lots of 00:08:20.420 --> 00:08:22.560 videos that we use and things like that to play 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:25.759 those sounds. But we'll start at low volumes, 00:08:25.879 --> 00:08:27.980 kind of work your way up, start at like meal 00:08:27.980 --> 00:08:30.300 times, things like that. That's a great way to 00:08:30.300 --> 00:08:35.779 do it is when your dog is a puppy at breakfast, 00:08:35.899 --> 00:08:39.279 lunch, dinner, whatever meal times you guys have. 00:08:40.649 --> 00:08:43.769 Play those noises on your TV, on your speakers, 00:08:43.929 --> 00:08:46.330 on your Alexas, on your Google Home, on your 00:08:46.330 --> 00:08:48.990 whatever all those other crazy devices are. Play 00:08:48.990 --> 00:08:51.909 them at low volumes throughout their meal time. 00:08:52.070 --> 00:08:53.649 And then as soon as they're done eating, stop 00:08:53.649 --> 00:08:57.830 the sounds. And then the next day, increase the 00:08:57.830 --> 00:09:01.009 volume by a couple notches. And just keep going 00:09:01.009 --> 00:09:04.639 up and keep adding noises. But all of those things 00:09:04.639 --> 00:09:06.759 are going to be really good. Surfaces, I mean, 00:09:06.759 --> 00:09:08.559 just walk your puppy across surfaces, right? 00:09:08.659 --> 00:09:10.799 That's how they test like working dogs. They 00:09:10.799 --> 00:09:13.039 just like run them across all these random surfaces 00:09:13.039 --> 00:09:18.360 and see how like unbothered the dog is. But just 00:09:18.360 --> 00:09:20.120 walk them across different surfaces. One big 00:09:20.120 --> 00:09:22.100 thing that we really, really notice in dogs that 00:09:22.100 --> 00:09:26.399 we get are hardwood floors. Because even if you 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:27.659 have a hardwood floor, most of the time you have 00:09:27.659 --> 00:09:30.259 carpet over it. So we get a dog in that like 00:09:30.259 --> 00:09:34.190 cannot. walk across the hardwood floor to save 00:09:34.190 --> 00:09:36.850 their lives and they're like i gotta make it 00:09:36.850 --> 00:09:39.389 to that carpet over there suddenly they've been 00:09:39.389 --> 00:09:41.950 given a pair of skates right or like noodle legs 00:09:41.950 --> 00:09:44.570 or something that's crazy but different surfaces 00:09:44.570 --> 00:09:49.789 those things matter um and then what was the 00:09:49.789 --> 00:09:52.389 other one just environments right so that's just 00:09:52.389 --> 00:09:54.850 taking yeah taking them to different places take 00:09:54.850 --> 00:09:57.990 them to parks take them to parking lots take 00:09:57.990 --> 00:10:01.590 them to Hardware stores, but don't take them 00:10:01.590 --> 00:10:04.110 to the busiest places you can imagine. Right. 00:10:04.210 --> 00:10:07.850 That. Yes. Yes. Sorry. I have to jump in here. 00:10:07.929 --> 00:10:12.029 So environments. Right. Because you you have 00:10:12.029 --> 00:10:16.450 to dial this back to be like, imagine you were 00:10:16.450 --> 00:10:20.870 were eight weeks old. Right. Like you you don't 00:10:20.870 --> 00:10:22.610 have the experience that you have right now. 00:10:22.649 --> 00:10:29.000 So like a single car alarm going off or. A siren 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:33.919 or this or that could potentially set you off 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:37.379 to where you're like, oh my gosh, what is that? 00:10:38.100 --> 00:10:42.620 And then if that's coupled with the same timing 00:10:42.620 --> 00:10:45.860 as meeting another stranger or seeing something 00:10:45.860 --> 00:10:50.139 crazy go by or another dog barking at them. And 00:10:50.139 --> 00:10:56.299 these are the situations that we see unfold in 00:10:56.299 --> 00:10:59.480 front of us out in public. every day yeah and 00:10:59.480 --> 00:11:05.360 and those owners don't probably this isn't me 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:08.000 you know taking a dump on these owners it's just 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:11.279 that they they probably don't even know what's 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:16.039 happening here but like their puppy that is you 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:19.500 know doing the like noodle legs like plopping 00:11:19.500 --> 00:11:21.620 around all over the place and they look so cute 00:11:21.620 --> 00:11:24.419 but their tail is tucked between their legs and 00:11:24.419 --> 00:11:29.220 they don't look crazy scared But like their ears 00:11:29.220 --> 00:11:32.539 have not left their skull for the last like five 00:11:32.539 --> 00:11:35.539 minutes. Yeah. Right. Like those those are dogs 00:11:35.539 --> 00:11:39.779 that are developing in that moment. They're developing 00:11:39.779 --> 00:11:43.740 these fears. Yeah. And and you're influencing 00:11:43.740 --> 00:11:47.399 that. So we can't just take the puppy to Ulta 00:11:47.399 --> 00:11:51.240 right off the bat. Right. There's too much going 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:56.480 on. We got to start places, go to a public place, 00:11:56.519 --> 00:11:59.340 but go to a public place like right when it opens, 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:03.379 when there's very few people there. Go to a park, 00:12:03.399 --> 00:12:07.100 but like over out on the side where there's no 00:12:07.100 --> 00:12:09.620 one walking around and they can see everything 00:12:09.620 --> 00:12:13.070 at a distance. because it's safe right and those 00:12:13.070 --> 00:12:15.490 things are important but also it's like the things 00:12:15.490 --> 00:12:17.889 that you need to get to before you even go to 00:12:17.889 --> 00:12:20.809 those places is more important like every day 00:12:20.809 --> 00:12:24.429 in your household things that dogs end up getting 00:12:24.429 --> 00:12:27.809 scared of like pots and pans banging around and 00:12:27.809 --> 00:12:30.809 you opening up an umbrella because it's raining 00:12:30.809 --> 00:12:35.049 outside or the garage door going up and down 00:12:36.019 --> 00:12:38.240 I could name like a million things. And I think 00:12:38.240 --> 00:12:40.399 people all the time are like, well, we need like 00:12:40.399 --> 00:12:43.159 a list. And there are like plenty of lists and 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:46.460 we should probably like make one. But there are 00:12:46.460 --> 00:12:50.500 lists that like we even use with tons of different. 00:12:51.289 --> 00:12:52.830 You know, things that you should be exposing 00:12:52.830 --> 00:12:56.009 your dog to. Christmas trees, you know, inflatables 00:12:56.009 --> 00:12:58.769 in the yard and like yard decorations in general 00:12:58.769 --> 00:13:01.269 is a big one that we see dogs with all the time, 00:13:01.289 --> 00:13:03.629 especially this time of year. Right. Dogs are 00:13:03.629 --> 00:13:05.929 all over and they're like, ah, what is that? 00:13:06.450 --> 00:13:09.830 Right. We've got that like happy -go -lucky abominable 00:13:09.830 --> 00:13:13.470 snowman. Right. Inflatable at the end of the 00:13:13.470 --> 00:13:17.700 street that the dogs, all of the dogs hate. But 00:13:17.700 --> 00:13:19.919 it's like things like that. And even the more 00:13:19.919 --> 00:13:22.120 important things like play the noises of dogs 00:13:22.120 --> 00:13:25.000 barking, but like do it low enough to where your 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:27.600 dog's not reacting. And you might think that's 00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:29.980 pointless or useless because they're not reacting, 00:13:30.059 --> 00:13:33.039 but they hear it. But if it's at a low enough 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:34.779 volume, they're not worried about it because 00:13:34.779 --> 00:13:36.440 they're like, oh, the dog's too far away, whatever. 00:13:36.799 --> 00:13:39.539 But it's still desensitizing them to some degree 00:13:39.539 --> 00:13:43.039 to the level of dogs barking to where it can 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:44.820 build that confidence to be like, yeah, whatever. 00:13:44.899 --> 00:13:49.580 There's a dog barking. Because exposure is what 00:13:49.580 --> 00:13:51.899 builds that confidence. And if you're not doing 00:13:51.899 --> 00:13:56.419 it daily and picking something to work on, then 00:13:56.419 --> 00:13:59.399 your dog is missing out on it. Yeah, totally 00:13:59.399 --> 00:14:05.659 agree. So we want to pair exposure with also 00:14:05.659 --> 00:14:09.500 calm leadership. And calm leadership, we talk 00:14:09.500 --> 00:14:12.779 about the leadership a lot of times on this podcast. 00:14:14.040 --> 00:14:17.779 The calm leadership just means I want you kind 00:14:17.779 --> 00:14:20.240 of in front of the dog showing the dog, look, 00:14:20.340 --> 00:14:26.299 see how my body language is. I'm not worried. 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:30.179 Now, you telling your dog, see, you don't have 00:14:30.179 --> 00:14:33.600 anything to be worried about is useless. That 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:37.460 is not a soothing thing to talk to the dog and 00:14:37.460 --> 00:14:42.259 tell the dog all of the words. Now, you can. 00:14:43.039 --> 00:14:49.740 fall back on a few calm marker words that you've 00:14:49.740 --> 00:14:52.940 already taught the dog mean that either they're 00:14:52.940 --> 00:14:54.700 going to get a treat or they're they've done 00:14:54.700 --> 00:14:57.759 the right thing or they're in a good position 00:14:57.759 --> 00:15:01.820 whatever those things are fine but talking to 00:15:01.820 --> 00:15:04.399 your dog hey buddy don't worry about that fire 00:15:04.399 --> 00:15:08.429 engine that's okay don't that it's I know. It's 00:15:08.429 --> 00:15:11.870 going away. You're okay for me. Right. You're 00:15:11.870 --> 00:15:13.690 okay. Right. That's another one. You're okay. 00:15:13.850 --> 00:15:20.389 You're okay. Yeah. If you didn't teach your dog 00:15:20.389 --> 00:15:26.090 you're okay when you were inside the home and 00:15:26.090 --> 00:15:28.470 they weren't worried about anything, then it's 00:15:28.470 --> 00:15:31.909 for sure not doing you any good once you're out. 00:15:32.490 --> 00:15:34.809 right you're definitely just confirming like 00:15:34.809 --> 00:15:36.850 their emotions and how they're feeling which 00:15:36.850 --> 00:15:40.710 is stress and negativity and worry and all of 00:15:40.710 --> 00:15:42.809 those things and if you're like yeah you're okay 00:15:42.809 --> 00:15:45.230 you're okay and you're like petting them you're 00:15:45.230 --> 00:15:47.750 definitely just confirming their fear of whatever 00:15:47.750 --> 00:15:50.450 that is yeah right because you're acting different 00:15:50.450 --> 00:15:53.809 yeah and so the dog's gonna look to you for like 00:15:53.809 --> 00:15:58.669 okay well well this is strange this is suspicious 00:15:58.669 --> 00:16:02.940 and Anything that is suspicious to a dog, they're 00:16:02.940 --> 00:16:05.679 going to give it their attention. Yep. Things 00:16:05.679 --> 00:16:09.200 that are not suspicious to you are going to, 00:16:09.240 --> 00:16:13.159 in general, stop being suspicious to the dog. 00:16:13.299 --> 00:16:16.539 Yeah. Now, it's not automatic. It's not like, 00:16:16.639 --> 00:16:18.179 oh, well, you didn't pay attention to that dog, 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:19.639 so the dog doesn't pay attention to that dog. 00:16:19.860 --> 00:16:24.419 Well, they might still be curious. But if you 00:16:24.419 --> 00:16:26.820 pay attention to it, they're for sure going to 00:16:26.820 --> 00:16:29.299 pay attention to it. Yeah. That's what we're 00:16:29.299 --> 00:16:34.100 talking about. All right. And then the last one 00:16:34.100 --> 00:16:36.460 with this one, right? So we actually want to 00:16:36.460 --> 00:16:42.539 avoid flooding a puppy. There's a concept called 00:16:42.539 --> 00:16:46.820 flooding that gets a lot of mixed reviews in 00:16:46.820 --> 00:16:51.159 the dog training space. I believe that it can 00:16:51.159 --> 00:16:59.539 be a useful technique as a last resort. Or certainly... 00:16:59.980 --> 00:17:04.500 very far down on the, I guess, on the hierarchy. 00:17:05.720 --> 00:17:11.400 So flooding is when we put the dog in a position 00:17:11.400 --> 00:17:16.140 that they are uncomfortable so that they experience 00:17:16.140 --> 00:17:19.819 this uncomfort, whatever it is, the discomfort. 00:17:21.640 --> 00:17:23.960 But we make sure that they're safe. We make sure 00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:26.140 their needs are met. We make sure that they're, 00:17:26.140 --> 00:17:28.160 you know, they're understanding that we're there 00:17:28.160 --> 00:17:33.509 with them. But we still expose them to whatever 00:17:33.509 --> 00:17:36.069 it is that they're scared of. And we expose them 00:17:36.069 --> 00:17:37.829 and we expose them and we expose them and we 00:17:37.829 --> 00:17:42.049 expose them. Until such time as the brain's finally 00:17:42.049 --> 00:17:45.710 like, I'm kind of exhausted of being scared here. 00:17:46.150 --> 00:17:50.349 And then a different set of hormones start getting 00:17:50.349 --> 00:17:53.869 released. And the dog starts to calm down and 00:17:53.869 --> 00:17:59.220 relax. Now, there's a few issues with that. That's 00:17:59.220 --> 00:18:06.119 why we really prioritize that last. If you, there 00:18:06.119 --> 00:18:09.160 is one train of thought on this that's like, 00:18:09.220 --> 00:18:11.380 let's say that you're deathly afraid of spiders. 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:16.299 And the concept of flooding is like putting you 00:18:16.299 --> 00:18:20.400 in a room full of spiders. And being like, you're 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:25.319 okay, you're okay, you're okay. You can imagine. 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:28.319 that you're probably not going to believe that 00:18:28.319 --> 00:18:33.720 for a good while. Now, if all of those spiders 00:18:33.720 --> 00:18:38.660 don't hurt you and they don't get too close to 00:18:38.660 --> 00:18:42.960 you, there's probably a good likelihood that 00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:47.279 you will eventually calm down. If you don't pass 00:18:47.279 --> 00:18:51.140 out first. Right. You might be that calm. Bran, 00:18:51.299 --> 00:18:54.420 I would probably not. Yeah, I would pass out 00:18:54.420 --> 00:18:57.039 first. She would pass out first. She doesn't 00:18:57.039 --> 00:19:03.000 like spiders. So the issue, though, is that you 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:06.279 can push flooding too far too fast real quick. 00:19:06.940 --> 00:19:10.539 And because if one of those spiders initially 00:19:10.539 --> 00:19:14.680 were to. Jump on Brianna. Right. Or like crawl 00:19:14.680 --> 00:19:17.440 in your mouth. Or crawl. Right. Right. Because 00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:21.700 you didn't control the variables properly. Yeah. 00:19:21.920 --> 00:19:26.359 You can imagine that you're going to you might 00:19:26.359 --> 00:19:28.500 escalate. Right. Yeah. I'm not going to go well. 00:19:28.579 --> 00:19:31.019 It's probably not going to go the way that you 00:19:31.019 --> 00:19:34.279 want it to, which is why even when we're flooding, 00:19:34.420 --> 00:19:36.299 even if we're using flooding, because that's 00:19:36.299 --> 00:19:39.980 our only option. And there are some dogs. I can 00:19:39.980 --> 00:19:42.220 argue about this. There are some dogs that flooding. 00:19:43.799 --> 00:19:48.440 Works really well. There are some dogs that flooding 00:19:48.440 --> 00:19:52.019 doesn't work very well. And for that is where 00:19:52.019 --> 00:19:55.960 you need to really seek out a behaviorist or 00:19:55.960 --> 00:19:57.680 somebody who really knows what they're doing 00:19:57.680 --> 00:20:01.480 to decide and kind of read into which dog do 00:20:01.480 --> 00:20:05.380 I have here? Because I'm not advocating. I'm 00:20:05.380 --> 00:20:06.779 not standing here and advocating. You just go 00:20:06.779 --> 00:20:08.660 flood your dog with whatever they're not good 00:20:08.660 --> 00:20:13.500 at. Because that can go. very poorly and it can 00:20:13.500 --> 00:20:16.500 increase your aggression, increase your reactivity, 00:20:16.579 --> 00:20:19.880 increase your fear and all of those things. Yeah. 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:22.819 Cause I definitely think like in my experience, 00:20:22.900 --> 00:20:25.460 I think it's a little bit more useful in my opinion, 00:20:25.480 --> 00:20:28.160 like in the cases I've seen or witnessed for 00:20:28.160 --> 00:20:32.799 aggression rather than fear. Yeah. Right. And, 00:20:33.019 --> 00:20:36.799 and it comes down to, there are some fears that 00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:40.400 where I've seen it used really, really well. 00:20:40.779 --> 00:20:48.539 is fears that are coupled to a um something that 00:20:48.539 --> 00:20:52.220 is also pleasurable right so uh case in point 00:20:52.220 --> 00:20:56.640 a dog with um fear of like human contact right 00:20:56.640 --> 00:21:00.259 or contact to like the lower legs or something 00:21:00.259 --> 00:21:04.400 like that and a dog that's just they have seized 00:21:04.400 --> 00:21:08.650 up so much that They just cannot think through 00:21:08.650 --> 00:21:12.410 anything, cannot. And you've exhausted all of 00:21:12.410 --> 00:21:17.170 these other options. And then there's this option 00:21:17.170 --> 00:21:19.630 of flooding where you can show the dog that, 00:21:19.730 --> 00:21:24.789 oh, he didn't hurt me. Oh, actually, that feels 00:21:24.789 --> 00:21:27.630 pretty good. Oh, oh, wow, this is actually pretty 00:21:27.630 --> 00:21:32.990 nice. And that's how a lot of times you can positively 00:21:32.990 --> 00:21:39.470 influence that. There we go. That's down the 00:21:39.470 --> 00:21:42.710 rabbit hole on flooding. So in puppies though, 00:21:42.849 --> 00:21:48.069 puppies are too young to just flood them. There 00:21:48.069 --> 00:21:50.410 are so many other options. There are so many 00:21:50.410 --> 00:21:53.650 other highly science backed options to do. Instead, 00:21:53.829 --> 00:21:56.529 we just don't recommend flooding for puppies. 00:21:56.730 --> 00:22:01.109 Yeah. All right. End each session with success. 00:22:01.190 --> 00:22:04.849 No matter what you do, always end. With success. 00:22:05.210 --> 00:22:07.230 Don't end with like. Oh man. They didn't listen. 00:22:07.470 --> 00:22:10.170 All right. Oh well. Just go back in your crate. 00:22:10.430 --> 00:22:13.009 Yep. Right. Even if you got to take a break. 00:22:13.230 --> 00:22:16.369 For a little bit. And then come back to it. And 00:22:16.369 --> 00:22:20.109 then. Nail that behavior. Nail that whatever 00:22:20.109 --> 00:22:23.029 it was. Right. And then. Oh great job. Even if 00:22:23.029 --> 00:22:26.789 it's a very low. Easy. Low hanging fruit. Something 00:22:26.789 --> 00:22:29.589 easily attainable. Always end with success. Yep. 00:22:29.809 --> 00:22:37.809 All right. What. early exposures do you think 00:22:37.809 --> 00:22:42.829 make the biggest impact on confidence um i'm 00:22:42.829 --> 00:22:44.890 probably gonna go with like handling techniques 00:22:44.890 --> 00:22:47.490 i think that's one people really really miss 00:22:47.490 --> 00:22:49.650 out on and don't think of and it has nothing 00:22:49.650 --> 00:22:51.990 to do with anybody else but you and your dog 00:22:51.990 --> 00:22:56.509 really and so handling techniques so that involves 00:22:57.279 --> 00:23:00.720 touching paws, touching ears, lifting their lips, 00:23:00.940 --> 00:23:03.220 looking at their teeth, grabbing their tail, 00:23:03.480 --> 00:23:07.700 touching their underbellies, all of the things 00:23:07.700 --> 00:23:13.799 that a vet or a groomer would do. But you should 00:23:13.799 --> 00:23:15.940 be doing that with your dog because regardless 00:23:15.940 --> 00:23:18.359 of whether you're going to do the grooming or 00:23:18.359 --> 00:23:23.099 not, if you get your dog comfortable with situations 00:23:23.099 --> 00:23:26.839 of being handled to that degree, then they're 00:23:26.839 --> 00:23:30.160 going to be, one, a lot more confident in general 00:23:30.160 --> 00:23:33.319 because you've just exposed them to a lot of 00:23:33.319 --> 00:23:37.319 just like touch therapy, essentially. And two, 00:23:37.500 --> 00:23:40.799 if they do go to a groomer or a vet, they're 00:23:40.799 --> 00:23:44.539 going to be a lot more comfortable with either 00:23:44.539 --> 00:23:47.920 you doing it with the vet because there are some 00:23:47.920 --> 00:23:50.440 vets that are very open to working with you handling 00:23:50.440 --> 00:23:55.839 your dog in certain situations. the vet themselves 00:23:55.839 --> 00:23:59.119 or the groomer themselves handling them um so 00:23:59.119 --> 00:24:03.660 yeah definitely handling uh for me for sure and 00:24:03.660 --> 00:24:07.819 second question how do you recognize when a puppy's 00:24:07.819 --> 00:24:12.140 overwhelmed what do you look for um pretty much 00:24:12.140 --> 00:24:14.460 not taking food and puppies because puppies will 00:24:14.460 --> 00:24:16.500 kind of take food through any situation so if 00:24:16.500 --> 00:24:17.880 they're not taking food they're definitely going 00:24:17.880 --> 00:24:23.380 to be overwhelmed um shaking ears tail for sure 00:24:23.380 --> 00:24:26.980 tail is a big one in little puppies yawning yawning 00:24:26.980 --> 00:24:31.039 yep that's a big one yeah shaking obviously but 00:24:31.039 --> 00:24:34.099 shaking doesn't always it doesn't always get 00:24:34.099 --> 00:24:37.440 it give it to me for a dog to like end a session 00:24:37.440 --> 00:24:40.539 or show that it's like too much right to be honest 00:24:40.539 --> 00:24:44.099 it's just stressed yeah that one um that one 00:24:44.099 --> 00:24:47.700 isn't always 100 for me but definitely yeah tail 00:24:47.700 --> 00:24:53.460 for sure and not taking food All right. So let's 00:24:53.460 --> 00:24:56.279 go to the next one. Confidence starts when puppies 00:24:56.279 --> 00:25:01.119 know that someone is guiding them. So where we 00:25:01.119 --> 00:25:05.500 go with this is when you are at the front of 00:25:05.500 --> 00:25:08.500 the friction of whatever it is that you're going 00:25:08.500 --> 00:25:12.460 through and you're going through it with them, 00:25:12.579 --> 00:25:16.619 they're going to be significantly calmer because 00:25:16.619 --> 00:25:19.670 they're going to be watching you. Because everything 00:25:19.670 --> 00:25:21.630 is new to them. They're like, I have no idea 00:25:21.630 --> 00:25:24.470 what the heck is going on. But they have you 00:25:24.470 --> 00:25:28.230 to look to. When you are a soup sandwich yourself 00:25:28.230 --> 00:25:33.230 and you're just walking around aimlessly and 00:25:33.230 --> 00:25:40.450 you're in some puppy or dog friendly store and 00:25:40.450 --> 00:25:42.829 it's like, I'm going over here, I'm going over 00:25:42.829 --> 00:25:44.470 there, I'm going over here, I'm going over there. 00:25:45.369 --> 00:25:50.210 The dog doesn't know. What is going on? And something 00:25:50.210 --> 00:25:53.869 as simple as, oh, well, I'm just going back the 00:25:53.869 --> 00:25:57.029 same way to go look at this other price on this 00:25:57.029 --> 00:26:00.049 other item. The dog doesn't know any of that. 00:26:00.250 --> 00:26:03.750 When you look like you're lost, they think they're 00:26:03.750 --> 00:26:06.769 lost. Just as an example. I know it's not all 00:26:06.769 --> 00:26:11.289 about being lost, but the concept is the same. 00:26:11.589 --> 00:26:16.529 What your body language says, the puppy is reading. 00:26:18.160 --> 00:26:21.720 don't forget that yep so when you act confidently 00:26:21.720 --> 00:26:23.759 when you walk up to someone confidently when 00:26:23.759 --> 00:26:27.380 you walk out confidently all of those things 00:26:27.380 --> 00:26:30.680 are things a puppy is going to pick up on and 00:26:30.680 --> 00:26:36.880 it everything that you do the dog wants to look 00:26:36.880 --> 00:26:40.579 to you for guidance yeah where dogs stop looking 00:26:40.579 --> 00:26:44.720 to you for guidance is when you don't lead When 00:26:44.720 --> 00:26:47.440 you don't lead them and you let the dog make 00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:51.019 the choice, like, hey, do you want this toy or 00:26:51.019 --> 00:26:55.359 do you want this toy? Do you want this food or 00:26:55.359 --> 00:26:57.680 do you want this food? And you might just be 00:26:57.680 --> 00:27:00.140 wanting to learn about the puppy, so you're giving 00:27:00.140 --> 00:27:02.460 them all these choices. But you're giving them 00:27:02.460 --> 00:27:06.380 choices, then they're making them, and that's 00:27:06.380 --> 00:27:09.119 elevating their decision -making process to go, 00:27:09.279 --> 00:27:15.740 right, I have to choose. And that can backfire 00:27:15.740 --> 00:27:19.480 because a lot of dogs, they were never genetically 00:27:19.480 --> 00:27:23.819 predisposed to making decisions. And we put them 00:27:23.819 --> 00:27:26.640 in that position. They were going to be great 00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:30.019 pack dogs. But we put them in the position to 00:27:30.019 --> 00:27:33.319 be the leader. And they weren't supposed to be 00:27:33.319 --> 00:27:35.420 the leader. They didn't want to be the leader. 00:27:35.579 --> 00:27:38.119 And you force them into that position to be the 00:27:38.119 --> 00:27:42.450 leader because you don't. And then. We get an 00:27:42.450 --> 00:27:46.529 anxious, nervous wreck of a dog. And we're like, 00:27:46.630 --> 00:27:50.849 oh, what happened? But you let them choose everything. 00:27:50.930 --> 00:27:52.589 You let them choose where to sleep. You let them 00:27:52.589 --> 00:27:54.450 choose where to sit. You let them choose where 00:27:54.450 --> 00:27:56.589 to go during the day. You let them choose what 00:27:56.589 --> 00:27:58.569 to eat. You let them choose when to get their 00:27:58.569 --> 00:28:01.630 toys out. You let them choose from 20 different 00:28:01.630 --> 00:28:04.630 toys in a toy box. You let them choose when to 00:28:04.630 --> 00:28:06.930 go out the doggy door. You let them choose when 00:28:06.930 --> 00:28:10.599 to chase the squirrels. Those things are things 00:28:10.599 --> 00:28:14.400 that we look at as that's freedom and that's 00:28:14.400 --> 00:28:17.799 very valuable to me. Humans, and especially Americans, 00:28:18.119 --> 00:28:23.539 look at freedom as this very high worth thing. 00:28:24.740 --> 00:28:27.519 Dogs don't necessarily always look at freedom 00:28:27.519 --> 00:28:31.400 in the same way. Yeah, freedom is valuable. For 00:28:31.400 --> 00:28:34.140 sure, freedom is valuable. But a lot of dogs 00:28:34.140 --> 00:28:35.920 are totally fine just being led. They're like, 00:28:36.079 --> 00:28:38.609 oh, cool, we're not going outside yet? Oh. That's 00:28:38.609 --> 00:28:41.029 fine. Right. Well, we're also like in this age 00:28:41.029 --> 00:28:43.349 of like gentle parenting, right? Where it's like 00:28:43.349 --> 00:28:46.490 our parents were like, sit down, shut up because 00:28:46.490 --> 00:28:50.829 I said so. And now it's like, hey, could you 00:28:50.829 --> 00:28:55.869 maybe please be a little quieter because I'm 00:28:55.869 --> 00:28:57.789 trying to do something important. It's like, 00:28:57.809 --> 00:29:03.789 no, no, just sit down, be quiet. So I'm not even 00:29:03.789 --> 00:29:06.920 going to go down that road. So puppies look for 00:29:06.920 --> 00:29:09.660 structure to feel safe. And when we provide that 00:29:09.660 --> 00:29:14.039 structure, when we provide that baseline foundation, 00:29:14.299 --> 00:29:18.259 and we communicate to the dog very clearly that 00:29:18.259 --> 00:29:20.059 they're either doing it or they're not doing 00:29:20.059 --> 00:29:24.440 it, puppies see that as very fair. And it pacifies 00:29:24.440 --> 00:29:27.900 their anxiety because they don't have to choose. 00:29:29.099 --> 00:29:34.980 So clear marker words and boundaries. are the 00:29:34.980 --> 00:29:37.279 next thing that really comes into play to reduce 00:29:37.279 --> 00:29:38.960 that anxiety because that's our communication. 00:29:40.119 --> 00:29:43.519 We say communication all the time here, but how 00:29:43.519 --> 00:29:46.200 do you communicate with your dog? If you use 00:29:46.200 --> 00:29:50.140 40 plus words to try to communicate a concept 00:29:50.140 --> 00:29:53.019 to your dog, it's over. They're not listening. 00:29:53.099 --> 00:29:56.200 They don't understand. You've got like three 00:29:56.200 --> 00:30:03.319 words. It's yes, no, and free. We can use those. 00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:06.160 Really really successful. I need one that says 00:30:06.160 --> 00:30:10.279 keep doing it. I need one that says you're done. 00:30:10.519 --> 00:30:14.119 I need one that says wrong one. Choose a different 00:30:14.119 --> 00:30:20.839 one. By doing that you could have a conversation 00:30:20.839 --> 00:30:26.880 with a human who did not speak any English. But 00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:30.700 you could get a point across with those three 00:30:31.230 --> 00:30:33.789 Marker words, you could pointy talky your way 00:30:33.789 --> 00:30:36.970 through all sorts of things. You really could. 00:30:37.069 --> 00:30:40.609 Right. It's like if if they understood. Like. 00:30:41.670 --> 00:30:44.730 Yeah, yeah. Keep doing it. Keep going. Keep going. 00:30:44.849 --> 00:30:47.450 That's the right thing. Or right. You got it. 00:30:47.490 --> 00:30:50.789 You're all done. Or no. Wrong one. Try again. 00:30:52.349 --> 00:30:56.410 All right. Last one. Calm, consistent handling 00:30:56.410 --> 00:31:01.210 builds trust. So the. Calmness is important. 00:31:01.710 --> 00:31:06.450 With puppies, they love to ramp things up. And 00:31:06.450 --> 00:31:09.849 when we ramp things up with them, we can actually 00:31:09.849 --> 00:31:12.809 become a little scary in the process because 00:31:12.809 --> 00:31:16.150 they just don't understand how we're communicating. 00:31:16.470 --> 00:31:19.549 They don't know verbal cues yet. They don't know 00:31:19.549 --> 00:31:22.029 a lot of these things. And we get wilder and 00:31:22.029 --> 00:31:25.170 crazier. A big thing that comes up is when dogs 00:31:25.170 --> 00:31:29.000 pee and poop on the carpet or in the house. number 00:31:29.000 --> 00:31:32.019 one thing we see is yelling. Yeah. It's like, 00:31:32.079 --> 00:31:35.359 no, what are you doing? Right. They might have 00:31:35.359 --> 00:31:38.099 got the no, and they certainly picked up on it 00:31:38.099 --> 00:31:40.940 with the tone of voice. But all the other words 00:31:40.940 --> 00:31:45.099 that you just used, confusing and anxiety ridden. 00:31:45.279 --> 00:31:49.700 Yeah. Yeah. All right. So how do we explain to 00:31:49.700 --> 00:31:55.940 owners that structure builds confidence without 00:31:55.940 --> 00:31:58.869 making them feel like, that structure that we're 00:31:58.869 --> 00:32:01.569 talking just limits them, right? Limits them, 00:32:01.630 --> 00:32:05.190 limits their dog. A lot of people feel like when 00:32:05.190 --> 00:32:07.670 we talk all of this stuff about structure, they're 00:32:07.670 --> 00:32:09.630 like, well, I just can't have any fun with my 00:32:09.630 --> 00:32:13.650 dog. Right. Well, it comes down to when you have 00:32:13.650 --> 00:32:17.589 a structure and a schedule with your kids and 00:32:17.589 --> 00:32:22.150 your family, your kids still have freedom time 00:32:22.150 --> 00:32:25.089 throughout the day, you know, when there's downtime. 00:32:26.380 --> 00:32:30.339 or play time but you still have a schedule to 00:32:30.339 --> 00:32:32.660 abide by right so when play time is over and 00:32:32.660 --> 00:32:34.559 you have to move on to dinner time play time 00:32:34.559 --> 00:32:36.279 is over and you have to move on to dinner time 00:32:36.279 --> 00:32:38.640 i think that's what it comes down to is like 00:32:38.640 --> 00:32:43.180 yeah you can have freedom and fun but it still 00:32:43.180 --> 00:32:47.500 has to have somewhat of a schedule in order for 00:32:47.500 --> 00:32:49.599 the dog to feel confident in what's going on 00:32:49.599 --> 00:32:57.390 yeah What would you say is like a simple routine 00:32:57.390 --> 00:33:03.230 that an owner could use to, I guess, reassure 00:33:03.230 --> 00:33:07.150 a nervous puppy without being like, you're okay. 00:33:07.769 --> 00:33:12.589 Like without the notorious ones. Like a daily 00:33:12.589 --> 00:33:15.890 routine? Well, I guess like in the moment, right? 00:33:15.970 --> 00:33:18.890 When a dog gets nervous and you can tell that 00:33:18.890 --> 00:33:20.640 they're getting nervous. What would you recommend 00:33:20.640 --> 00:33:23.400 that they do instead of trying to like reassure 00:33:23.400 --> 00:33:25.720 the dog and be like, yeah, yeah, it's okay. It's 00:33:25.720 --> 00:33:29.059 okay. It's okay. I mean, I really pretend like 00:33:29.059 --> 00:33:31.099 nothing's happening, right? It depends on, it 00:33:31.099 --> 00:33:33.259 depends on what's, what's going on to be honest 00:33:33.259 --> 00:33:35.599 with you. So let's say that the dog, you can 00:33:35.599 --> 00:33:38.240 tell the dog got really overstimulated, right? 00:33:38.460 --> 00:33:41.599 I, I'd say number one, I want to increase the 00:33:41.599 --> 00:33:44.579 distance from whatever it is that's overstimulating 00:33:44.579 --> 00:33:46.880 them, right? Cause distance is the number one 00:33:46.880 --> 00:33:49.480 thing that we can build in that. Immediately 00:33:49.480 --> 00:33:53.519 makes something less scary. Yeah. So distance 00:33:53.519 --> 00:33:59.920 is number one. And with distance. We also. And 00:33:59.920 --> 00:34:06.440 I lost my train of thought. Distance first. Yeah. 00:34:06.480 --> 00:34:08.559 Right. All right. Let's just go back to the question. 00:34:08.559 --> 00:34:10.679 We can engage in play with the dog. There you 00:34:10.679 --> 00:34:13.579 go. You can engage in a training session with 00:34:13.579 --> 00:34:15.320 the dog. Get him into some sits. Some downs. 00:34:15.420 --> 00:34:18.400 Some like. Basically taking their attention away 00:34:18.400 --> 00:34:20.440 from it. They're at the attention. That's where 00:34:20.440 --> 00:34:23.079 I was going. Yeah. Right. So with distance, when 00:34:23.079 --> 00:34:25.059 we're increasing the distance, we're drawing 00:34:25.059 --> 00:34:27.960 their attention away from whatever it is that 00:34:27.960 --> 00:34:31.519 is going on. Right. And so that's the thing we 00:34:31.519 --> 00:34:33.559 need to practice in the home is we need to practice 00:34:33.559 --> 00:34:36.880 engagement. engagement's the number one thing 00:34:36.880 --> 00:34:39.199 I encourage all owners to do with their dogs. 00:34:39.320 --> 00:34:42.460 Right off the bat, you need engagement from your 00:34:42.460 --> 00:34:44.559 puppy because when they're engaged to you, they 00:34:44.559 --> 00:34:47.639 can't be reacting to something else. And so instead 00:34:47.639 --> 00:34:50.320 of being like, oh, you're okay, you're okay, 00:34:50.360 --> 00:34:53.500 you're just redirecting their attention, you're 00:34:53.500 --> 00:34:57.860 engaging them, and then you're leading them away. 00:34:58.400 --> 00:35:02.599 And by doing that, you're not violating the... 00:35:03.190 --> 00:35:07.170 rules of um falling into like the mailman theory 00:35:07.170 --> 00:35:10.210 where we are seeing something scary and running 00:35:10.210 --> 00:35:14.869 away from it yeah instead right we're stopping 00:35:14.869 --> 00:35:17.429 i'm getting the dog's attention i'm getting the 00:35:17.429 --> 00:35:20.469 dog to dial into me engaged me then i'm increasing 00:35:20.469 --> 00:35:26.050 the distance that's my strategy yeah um all right 00:35:26.050 --> 00:35:32.289 and let's knock out number three so small challenges 00:35:33.420 --> 00:35:38.719 Build big wins. So our confidence in puppies 00:35:38.719 --> 00:35:45.400 grows when they succeed at manageable tasks. 00:35:45.739 --> 00:35:51.739 And so we've got to give them tasks that they 00:35:51.739 --> 00:35:58.980 can succeed at, but that aren't just, you know, 00:35:58.980 --> 00:36:02.539 dirt easy. We don't want it to be cool. Once 00:36:02.539 --> 00:36:05.860 the dog knows to sit. Great. That sit no longer 00:36:05.860 --> 00:36:07.500 builds their confidence. Yeah. We're going to 00:36:07.500 --> 00:36:10.500 change it. Like I want them to jump up on something 00:36:10.500 --> 00:36:12.539 and sit up here. I want them to sit on something 00:36:12.539 --> 00:36:15.260 that they got a balance on. I want them to, you 00:36:15.260 --> 00:36:17.699 know, spin around my legs and then sit. I want 00:36:17.699 --> 00:36:23.760 you. I, I, I'm immediately, um, changing the 00:36:23.760 --> 00:36:31.500 game up. Yep. So, um, obedience. is a great tool 00:36:31.500 --> 00:36:35.920 um maybe i could have like restructured this 00:36:35.920 --> 00:36:40.719 whole lesson on how obedience increases a dog's 00:36:40.719 --> 00:36:43.900 confidence right because it really does and that's 00:36:43.900 --> 00:36:46.320 how we use obedience to build that confidence 00:36:46.320 --> 00:36:49.860 we need a foundation of obedience because we 00:36:49.860 --> 00:36:52.699 need to be able to give a dog hey i want you 00:36:52.699 --> 00:36:56.480 to do this not that yeah instead of just no no 00:36:56.480 --> 00:36:58.929 no no no don't do this i want to be like No, 00:36:58.949 --> 00:37:02.150 don't do that. Do this. And if I don't have any 00:37:02.150 --> 00:37:05.510 obedience, what do I have to tell them to do 00:37:05.510 --> 00:37:09.170 instead? Right. So that's why obedience is the 00:37:09.170 --> 00:37:12.030 cornerstone or the foundation of this building 00:37:12.030 --> 00:37:14.489 confidence. But that's not really what we're 00:37:14.489 --> 00:37:15.949 talking about. We're talking about the actual 00:37:15.949 --> 00:37:25.219 act of how we affect this. Yeah. All right. So 00:37:25.219 --> 00:37:26.699 we're going to use confidence building drills 00:37:26.699 --> 00:37:29.159 like climbing low platforms and walking on new 00:37:29.159 --> 00:37:32.199 textures. That's a big one. I love the treadmill. 00:37:32.500 --> 00:37:34.760 I love the treadmill. It's got a different texture 00:37:34.760 --> 00:37:38.019 on the belt that goes right. It's something different 00:37:38.019 --> 00:37:41.559 that the dog hasn't felt before. It's we elevated 00:37:41.559 --> 00:37:43.780 up. So that's kind of like running up a hill 00:37:43.780 --> 00:37:48.480 a little bit. It's. Like it beeps and it goes 00:37:48.480 --> 00:37:50.960 and they're running, but they're not going anywhere. 00:37:51.139 --> 00:37:53.780 It's a totally different concept for a dog. Yeah. 00:37:53.880 --> 00:37:57.019 And it's a great opportunity to build that dog's 00:37:57.019 --> 00:38:02.039 confidence. I love teaching climb and off as 00:38:02.039 --> 00:38:05.199 the obedience commands and then getting them 00:38:05.199 --> 00:38:08.960 to jump on things because I have yet to meet 00:38:08.960 --> 00:38:11.199 a dog that didn't like to jump on stuff when 00:38:11.199 --> 00:38:14.480 they could. Yeah. When they could. Right. And 00:38:14.480 --> 00:38:18.219 so you got to start slow. But even our most fearful 00:38:18.219 --> 00:38:21.260 jumpers that did not know where their back legs 00:38:21.260 --> 00:38:24.480 were and did not know that they had legs. Yeah. 00:38:25.340 --> 00:38:27.619 By the time they left our programs, they were 00:38:27.619 --> 00:38:31.039 jumping up in the back of cars and stuff because 00:38:31.039 --> 00:38:36.579 that in and of itself can build a ton of confidence. 00:38:36.940 --> 00:38:42.579 Yeah. That's literally, here's an obstacle, overcome 00:38:42.579 --> 00:38:46.079 it. That is like the epitome of what we're talking 00:38:46.079 --> 00:38:51.039 about. Yeah. Obstacle. I jumped over it. Right. 00:38:51.300 --> 00:38:53.960 And we'll challenge kids like daily, right, to 00:38:53.960 --> 00:38:57.079 do hard things. But we are afraid to challenge 00:38:57.079 --> 00:38:59.639 our dogs to do something that we feel like is 00:38:59.639 --> 00:39:04.719 too hard for them. Yeah. So food puzzles. Right. 00:39:04.719 --> 00:39:07.000 That's an engagement activity. Typically we classify 00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:09.880 it as engagement activity, but it still stimulates 00:39:09.880 --> 00:39:12.559 the mind and makes them have to overcome an obstacle. 00:39:12.820 --> 00:39:15.760 I can't figure out how to get this food out of 00:39:15.760 --> 00:39:19.500 this thing. Yeah. But, oh, hey, I did figure 00:39:19.500 --> 00:39:22.460 it out. Now I got the food. Oh, this is great. 00:39:23.239 --> 00:39:29.650 Confidence. I'm trying to think of. other really 00:39:29.650 --> 00:39:34.389 easy, low hanging, uh, things, um, incorporating 00:39:34.389 --> 00:39:39.309 those obedience commands with sound. Yeah. Right. 00:39:39.389 --> 00:39:42.289 So you teach the dog, those basic obedience things, 00:39:42.369 --> 00:39:46.670 sit down, stay, come. And then you start working 00:39:46.670 --> 00:39:50.469 them with dogs, barking in the background, babies, 00:39:50.469 --> 00:39:56.449 crying, glass breaking, um, car honking. Yeah, 00:39:56.449 --> 00:39:58.889 doorbells. Doorbells, right. Like all of these 00:39:58.889 --> 00:40:03.210 things are kind of like pretty standard sounds 00:40:03.210 --> 00:40:06.110 that usually set dogs off. And you just start 00:40:06.110 --> 00:40:08.869 working through them. Yeah. Like it's normal. 00:40:09.469 --> 00:40:15.969 Yep. All right. Then we reward the effort, but 00:40:15.969 --> 00:40:20.050 we don't require perfection. Right, yeah. Right? 00:40:20.110 --> 00:40:23.489 But we reward the effort. We encourage, and then 00:40:23.489 --> 00:40:27.550 we keep. pushing the dog while they show resilience. 00:40:28.289 --> 00:40:31.929 So that means if the dog's getting real close, 00:40:31.989 --> 00:40:35.730 but they're just overwhelmed. Okay, cool. I'm 00:40:35.730 --> 00:40:38.349 going to help you. That's where you take over 00:40:38.349 --> 00:40:41.070 as the leader and you're like, cool, come with 00:40:41.070 --> 00:40:45.789 me. Let's do this together. But that is different 00:40:45.789 --> 00:40:48.590 than a dog like, nope, I will not participate. 00:40:49.050 --> 00:40:53.619 Yeah. Two different things. So when you can cipher 00:40:53.619 --> 00:40:56.139 through there or kind of sift through there, 00:40:56.260 --> 00:41:00.539 that's how I would deal with it. When you have 00:41:00.539 --> 00:41:04.559 a dog that's like trying hard, almost cool, I 00:41:04.559 --> 00:41:06.599 give you a little leniency. The dogs are like, 00:41:06.699 --> 00:41:08.719 nope, I will not participate. All right, cool. 00:41:09.280 --> 00:41:12.349 Then. There's no treat. There's no reward. I'm 00:41:12.349 --> 00:41:14.250 not going to continue that, but I'm going to 00:41:14.250 --> 00:41:16.909 then dial down the distraction. Right. Just slightly. 00:41:16.909 --> 00:41:18.929 Yeah, just make it easier. Make it just a little 00:41:18.929 --> 00:41:21.289 easier, and I'm going to reengage the dog. Yep. 00:41:22.769 --> 00:41:26.190 All right. So then we gradually increase the 00:41:26.190 --> 00:41:28.690 challenge as the puppy improves. This goes for 00:41:28.690 --> 00:41:32.630 every dog. This is the entire dog's life for 00:41:32.630 --> 00:41:40.219 sure. Every dog, like there was. There's a couple 00:41:40.219 --> 00:41:43.460 of food puzzles that we've used for my Dutch 00:41:43.460 --> 00:41:48.199 Shepherd. And he will cruise through some of 00:41:48.199 --> 00:41:53.639 those now. And just like he made it. Like he 00:41:53.639 --> 00:41:58.900 created that puzzle. He knows it. So that puzzle 00:41:58.900 --> 00:42:03.940 no longer has the same value of me setting it 00:42:03.940 --> 00:42:06.420 in front of him. I've got to up the challenge. 00:42:07.039 --> 00:42:11.239 So I've got to change something. And that can 00:42:11.239 --> 00:42:14.179 be all sorts of different things, right? We can, 00:42:14.280 --> 00:42:19.639 we can, I like doing, I like doing crazy stuff. 00:42:19.760 --> 00:42:23.460 And so where, cool, I'll take that same puzzle. 00:42:23.579 --> 00:42:26.139 Now let's do it out on the porch. Let's do that 00:42:26.139 --> 00:42:30.059 puzzle out in the cul -de -sac. Let's do that 00:42:30.059 --> 00:42:34.170 puzzle out at a brewery. Let's do. like where 00:42:34.170 --> 00:42:36.730 the dog has to pay attention to all of these 00:42:36.730 --> 00:42:41.969 other things, right? I don't think that that's 00:42:41.969 --> 00:42:45.489 too much. I think that that is in line with what 00:42:45.489 --> 00:42:48.909 most dogs need to do, which is just see a different 00:42:48.909 --> 00:42:54.369 picture of the same thing. It might look like 00:42:54.369 --> 00:42:56.929 the same thing to us, but it's a different picture 00:42:56.929 --> 00:42:59.889 in the dog's mind. All right, so what's your 00:42:59.889 --> 00:43:04.150 favorite drill to build puppy confidence? Mine's 00:43:04.150 --> 00:43:07.090 jumping. Yeah, jumping is a really, really good 00:43:07.090 --> 00:43:09.429 one. I like jumping up at the back of cars, things 00:43:09.429 --> 00:43:12.869 like that. I like doing different things on, 00:43:12.889 --> 00:43:14.789 like, different surfaces. That's a really good 00:43:14.789 --> 00:43:17.329 one. Like, walking across things and over things 00:43:17.329 --> 00:43:20.409 and under things. That's a really good one for 00:43:20.409 --> 00:43:25.869 me. Also, like, a classic sitting outside of 00:43:25.869 --> 00:43:29.489 somewhere. But, like, not going in. Because that's, 00:43:29.489 --> 00:43:31.329 like, the strongest dogs that you see, I think. 00:43:32.300 --> 00:43:34.219 The dogs where it's like they have older owners 00:43:34.219 --> 00:43:37.719 who just take them to the same place every day 00:43:37.719 --> 00:43:39.579 and they just sit outside like it's a park and 00:43:39.579 --> 00:43:42.280 like there's nobody there almost. But they just 00:43:42.280 --> 00:43:44.280 sit on the bench and like watch people walk by 00:43:44.280 --> 00:43:46.719 and then they go home. And it's because that 00:43:46.719 --> 00:43:48.960 dog gets exposure to so many different things 00:43:48.960 --> 00:43:53.480 that it gets to see and smell and hear. But it's 00:43:53.480 --> 00:43:56.320 not interacting with them necessarily. It's just 00:43:56.320 --> 00:44:00.340 watching them all go by. So yeah, those are some 00:44:00.340 --> 00:44:05.219 of my favorites. And how do you keep the challenges 00:44:05.219 --> 00:44:09.199 fair without overwhelming the puppy? I think 00:44:09.199 --> 00:44:11.340 increasing in small increments and rewarding 00:44:11.340 --> 00:44:15.119 for any kind of progress. Because puppies aren't 00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:17.539 the same as dogs that have behavioral issues, 00:44:17.760 --> 00:44:19.300 right? It's like sometimes behavioral issues, 00:44:19.460 --> 00:44:21.880 you have to treat the dog accordingly depending 00:44:21.880 --> 00:44:26.099 on what their behavior is. But with puppies, 00:44:26.239 --> 00:44:27.659 it's like they're new and they're learning the 00:44:27.659 --> 00:44:30.539 world. Reward that dog for everything good that 00:44:30.539 --> 00:44:33.500 it's doing. It doesn't understand what it's doing 00:44:33.500 --> 00:44:36.159 when you first try it. So reward any kind of 00:44:36.159 --> 00:44:38.420 effort or progress and it's just going to keep 00:44:38.420 --> 00:44:47.539 trying. Yeah, definitely. I had written down 00:44:47.539 --> 00:44:51.900 that to share like a case where like structured 00:44:51.900 --> 00:44:55.440 challenges transformed a timid dog. And I think 00:44:55.440 --> 00:44:57.380 we've shared this like three or four times. But 00:44:57.380 --> 00:45:03.800 one. I always go back to Gabe because he's the 00:45:03.800 --> 00:45:08.380 hardest dog I've ever trained. This dog is just 00:45:08.380 --> 00:45:16.699 like a circus animal. But he's the dog that would 00:45:16.699 --> 00:45:21.599 just do something wazoo to a weird sound, right? 00:45:22.320 --> 00:45:26.960 Or just shake uncontrollably because there was 00:45:26.960 --> 00:45:34.500 a trash can within. 12 feet of him um and a lot 00:45:34.500 --> 00:45:37.659 of the structure that we built into him was just 00:45:37.659 --> 00:45:43.420 we're gonna do this same thing every day yeah 00:45:43.420 --> 00:45:48.039 until suddenly he was like oh that that actually 00:45:48.039 --> 00:45:52.900 doesn't bother me he's like what just on thursday 00:45:52.900 --> 00:45:55.260 like he's like oh i actually don't care about 00:45:55.260 --> 00:45:59.739 that yeah like you Okay, you will never do this 00:45:59.739 --> 00:46:03.780 before, but now it's just good. And that really 00:46:03.780 --> 00:46:06.519 came from consistency and just doing the same 00:46:06.519 --> 00:46:10.460 exact things over and over. Right. And it's not 00:46:10.460 --> 00:46:12.820 like he's on like an exact schedule, right? But 00:46:12.820 --> 00:46:16.239 he definitely thrives on his pattern of go in 00:46:16.239 --> 00:46:20.860 my kennel, go outside, run around, go on my place, 00:46:21.039 --> 00:46:24.800 go back in my kennel, go outside, run around. 00:46:24.920 --> 00:46:28.159 Yeah. Go back on my place. And like he loves 00:46:28.159 --> 00:46:31.579 that. Right. And he loves it. He knows it. And 00:46:31.579 --> 00:46:33.920 he loves the place or he goes because he's safe 00:46:33.920 --> 00:46:36.860 in all of those areas. Right. Right. This is 00:46:36.860 --> 00:46:39.719 a dog who had a very, very, very rough past, 00:46:39.800 --> 00:46:44.260 a very bad life before he was rescued. And he's 00:46:44.260 --> 00:46:48.820 about six years old now. Yeah. And he just. He 00:46:48.820 --> 00:46:52.179 just loves his sequence. He loves his pattern. 00:46:52.519 --> 00:46:56.300 And I know some people would be like, well, I 00:46:56.300 --> 00:46:59.219 want my dog to have more like freedom, but like, 00:46:59.219 --> 00:47:01.639 what does he need to do? Right. He doesn't want 00:47:01.639 --> 00:47:03.400 to do anything. Right. You take him outside. 00:47:03.539 --> 00:47:06.019 You just start shaking. Yeah. Right. But he loves 00:47:06.019 --> 00:47:08.519 to run in the yard and he does that. He runs 00:47:08.519 --> 00:47:11.460 around. He'll stay out there forever by himself. 00:47:11.579 --> 00:47:14.309 And then he's like. There's something scary I've 00:47:14.309 --> 00:47:17.090 decided. Can you let me back in? And he comes 00:47:17.090 --> 00:47:18.789 back in and he's like, I would like to go in 00:47:18.789 --> 00:47:20.949 my kennel. And it's like, cool, okay, go back 00:47:20.949 --> 00:47:22.610 in your kennel. And then he comes out and he 00:47:22.610 --> 00:47:24.230 goes on his place and then he goes back outside. 00:47:24.429 --> 00:47:27.230 And it's this whole pattern. But my man loves 00:47:27.230 --> 00:47:30.789 it. He's like, yeah. And this was before a dog 00:47:30.789 --> 00:47:36.110 that would just pee out of sheer fear of anyone 00:47:36.110 --> 00:47:39.630 coming in or anything going on. But by giving 00:47:39.630 --> 00:47:44.210 him those outlets. Right. It's you guys. Everybody 00:47:44.210 --> 00:47:48.590 has to understand that it's on the dog's pace. 00:47:49.550 --> 00:47:52.670 Right. Like you can't force a dog to like something. 00:47:52.710 --> 00:47:55.329 Right. They decide what they like. He doesn't 00:47:55.329 --> 00:47:58.150 like to play. And we are huge on like you should 00:47:58.150 --> 00:48:00.210 play with your dog. But like he just likes to 00:48:00.210 --> 00:48:03.090 scamper around. Right. He loves. And run fast. 00:48:03.210 --> 00:48:05.929 And so he loves. Right. He loves to run. He loves 00:48:05.929 --> 00:48:08.630 to run fast. And so what we do is I'll play with 00:48:08.630 --> 00:48:11.369 one of the other dogs. Right. Because I offer 00:48:11.369 --> 00:48:13.730 him these balls. It's not that I'm not doing 00:48:13.730 --> 00:48:15.789 this. Right. I offer him all of these things. 00:48:15.869 --> 00:48:18.929 The exact same way that we train every other 00:48:18.929 --> 00:48:22.409 dog. Yeah. He just doesn't want to engage those. 00:48:22.489 --> 00:48:25.889 He wants to be part of the pack. Yeah. He doesn't 00:48:25.889 --> 00:48:28.610 want to make decisions. Do I have to go get that? 00:48:28.650 --> 00:48:30.429 Do I have to bring it back? He doesn't want to 00:48:30.429 --> 00:48:32.190 do any of that. He just wants to be part of the 00:48:32.190 --> 00:48:37.179 pack. So he plays with. as a supporting role 00:48:37.179 --> 00:48:41.559 to the main character, which is Nala or Dexter. 00:48:41.659 --> 00:48:45.480 And they will run until they die. And they will 00:48:45.480 --> 00:48:48.099 run and catch balls and frisbees and all of these 00:48:48.099 --> 00:48:50.019 things. And you know what Gabe does? He just 00:48:50.019 --> 00:48:52.860 runs with them. Yep. Doesn't want to get them. 00:48:53.059 --> 00:48:54.800 Nope. Doesn't want to bring it back. Doesn't 00:48:54.800 --> 00:48:57.739 want anything. Just wants to run. Yeah. And then 00:48:57.739 --> 00:49:00.300 he comes back and he's just the happiest, happiest 00:49:00.300 --> 00:49:04.539 dog. And that's fine. Right. He's never picked 00:49:04.539 --> 00:49:06.800 up a ball in his life except for once. And it 00:49:06.800 --> 00:49:08.659 was like a month ago. And I was like, who are 00:49:08.659 --> 00:49:11.739 you? But he never touched another one. Yeah. 00:49:12.019 --> 00:49:13.679 He just picked it up for a second. And then he 00:49:13.679 --> 00:49:15.099 realized he didn't know what to do with it. So 00:49:15.099 --> 00:49:16.559 he's like, I'm going to put it back down. I don't 00:49:16.559 --> 00:49:18.239 actually want this. I don't actually want that. 00:49:18.260 --> 00:49:19.739 I just saw it, thought I wanted it, thought it 00:49:19.739 --> 00:49:22.559 was food. But he's the sweetest boy. He's the 00:49:22.559 --> 00:49:25.380 sweetest dog. He loves the pets, loves the affection. 00:49:25.659 --> 00:49:29.639 Yeah. And you know what? That is the dog that 00:49:29.639 --> 00:49:33.300 he loves being. Yeah, that's the dog he is. And 00:49:33.300 --> 00:49:37.460 so we pushed him on some of these limits. And 00:49:37.460 --> 00:49:40.179 then we found where it's like, he's like, no, 00:49:40.300 --> 00:49:44.860 no, I don't really like that. Yeah. Okay. What's 00:49:44.860 --> 00:49:47.619 the upside of me pushing him through that? Right. 00:49:48.159 --> 00:49:52.710 Cool. So then he grabs the ball, right? It just 00:49:52.710 --> 00:49:54.590 doesn't matter. Right. I've even tried to get 00:49:54.590 --> 00:49:57.010 him to like tug on something for a piece of salmon. 00:49:57.070 --> 00:49:58.630 And he's like, no, no, just give me the salmon. 00:49:59.130 --> 00:50:00.889 Right. But he'll run on a treadmill. He will. 00:50:00.989 --> 00:50:03.389 He will run on a treadmill because he loves to 00:50:03.389 --> 00:50:05.809 run. That's what he loves. He loves to run. So 00:50:05.809 --> 00:50:12.230 anyway, all of this is to say that there. You 00:50:12.230 --> 00:50:14.949 have to. I recently started saying this and it 00:50:14.949 --> 00:50:18.670 like just it brings more meaning to me every 00:50:18.670 --> 00:50:22.320 time. Yeah. And it's like. you have you have 00:50:22.320 --> 00:50:25.980 the dog you have you don't have the dog that 00:50:25.980 --> 00:50:30.380 other people have yeah so all the dogs on tv 00:50:30.380 --> 00:50:32.840 or wherever it is that we have these dogs that 00:50:32.840 --> 00:50:34.719 just like follow you around and they're not on 00:50:34.719 --> 00:50:37.119 a leash and they never look at another dog or 00:50:37.119 --> 00:50:41.239 a person or any of that and there are trainers 00:50:41.239 --> 00:50:43.980 out there that will tell you that well you can 00:50:43.980 --> 00:50:47.699 train every dog to be anything yeah i don't know 00:50:47.699 --> 00:50:50.309 that i fully believe that anymore Yeah. Because 00:50:50.309 --> 00:50:55.730 the dog chooses what the dog's going to be. Right. 00:50:55.809 --> 00:50:58.750 It's like people. The dog chooses what they want 00:50:58.750 --> 00:51:05.809 to do. Right. To a certain degree. And I literally, 00:51:06.090 --> 00:51:08.670 I don't like that sentence that I just said. 00:51:08.869 --> 00:51:13.789 Right. The dog chooses what to do. Because I 00:51:13.789 --> 00:51:16.170 always advocate for you to be the leader and 00:51:16.170 --> 00:51:19.639 you to choose what the dog does. Where I draw 00:51:19.639 --> 00:51:23.239 the line with that is at no point am I ever talking, 00:51:23.280 --> 00:51:26.539 when I'm talking about leadership, I'm not talking 00:51:26.539 --> 00:51:30.659 about choosing what the dog should do, whether 00:51:30.659 --> 00:51:33.199 they like it or not. Right. That's not what we're 00:51:33.199 --> 00:51:35.559 talking about. We're just talking about if they're 00:51:35.559 --> 00:51:38.019 going to eat salmon that day or they're going 00:51:38.019 --> 00:51:41.139 to eat beef, right? Like, okay, cool. Make the 00:51:41.139 --> 00:51:45.110 decision and give them what you've decided. Right. 00:51:45.170 --> 00:51:46.949 I think we're also talking about like personality 00:51:46.949 --> 00:51:49.429 quirks. Yes. Right. When we get into personality 00:51:49.429 --> 00:51:53.070 and how the dog is really going to be. Yeah. 00:51:53.130 --> 00:51:57.010 You can't control that. Right. The dog controls 00:51:57.010 --> 00:52:03.050 that. Yeah. And there are dog averse dogs. There 00:52:03.050 --> 00:52:06.409 are dog selective dogs. And then there are dogs 00:52:06.409 --> 00:52:11.750 that love every dog. But you don't necessarily 00:52:11.750 --> 00:52:16.179 have. That dog that loves every dog. Yeah. Most 00:52:16.179 --> 00:52:20.280 dogs are dog selective. A few dogs love every 00:52:20.280 --> 00:52:24.539 dog. Most dogs are dog selective and some dogs 00:52:24.539 --> 00:52:29.340 are dog aggressive or just, we just, I just don't 00:52:29.340 --> 00:52:36.639 love dogs. You, you have the dog you have. You 00:52:36.639 --> 00:52:42.059 don't have the same dog that Joe down the street 00:52:42.059 --> 00:52:45.760 has. And so it's really important to remember 00:52:45.760 --> 00:52:49.800 that it's a living, breathing being. All right. 00:52:50.119 --> 00:52:54.260 So at this point, I am going to open it up for 00:52:54.260 --> 00:52:58.239 questions here. I'm going to play my Jeopardy 00:52:58.239 --> 00:53:04.579 music until we get sued. Now we're going to because 00:53:04.579 --> 00:53:09.099 you said it. No, no. It's technically an off 00:53:09.099 --> 00:53:14.900 -brand. of the Jeopardy theme anyway. Well, that 00:53:14.900 --> 00:53:16.360 doesn't even make any sense because it sounds 00:53:16.360 --> 00:53:19.940 just like it. Right, but it's not like the Jeopardy 00:53:19.940 --> 00:53:22.760 theme, so that's how I'm getting around it. If 00:53:22.760 --> 00:53:26.760 anybody who is dialed in live has any questions, 00:53:26.820 --> 00:53:31.260 now is the time to unmute and ask. I'll give 00:53:31.260 --> 00:53:45.619 you about 10 or 15 seconds here. All right, I'm 00:53:45.619 --> 00:53:48.579 getting no questions. It makes my life easy. 00:53:49.320 --> 00:53:55.059 All right, we're going to dive into our listener 00:53:55.059 --> 00:53:59.840 projects. Listener project number one, new surface 00:53:59.840 --> 00:54:03.159 drill. So I want you to introduce your puppy 00:54:03.159 --> 00:54:07.199 or your dog to three new surfaces this week, 00:54:07.260 --> 00:54:11.960 right? We can do gravel, wood, tile. Don't get 00:54:11.960 --> 00:54:15.900 crazy with it, with this slippery, like you put 00:54:15.900 --> 00:54:19.380 a sheet of glass down and do whatever. Yeah, 00:54:19.460 --> 00:54:23.780 don't do that. Let's just do gravel, wood, tile, 00:54:24.000 --> 00:54:27.880 maybe a treadmill belt, some slats of some sort, 00:54:27.980 --> 00:54:32.639 something that the dog is not used to. And we're 00:54:32.639 --> 00:54:36.000 going to encourage exploration. We're going to 00:54:36.000 --> 00:54:38.619 mark with yes. We're going to give them a treat. 00:54:38.840 --> 00:54:41.800 We're going to give them when. Anything calm 00:54:41.800 --> 00:54:46.760 happens. So as the dog relaxes and chills out, 00:54:46.860 --> 00:54:51.219 we reward it. Yes, give them a treat. We're going 00:54:51.219 --> 00:54:53.539 to reward those small steps towards curiosity 00:54:53.539 --> 00:54:58.880 and build that comfort with those interactions. 00:54:59.199 --> 00:55:02.599 All right, listener project number two, leadership 00:55:02.599 --> 00:55:06.639 walk. So take a short walk in a quiet area. Guide 00:55:06.639 --> 00:55:10.110 your puppy or your dog. Confidently pass mild 00:55:10.110 --> 00:55:14.710 distractions like, you know, parked cars, people 00:55:14.710 --> 00:55:19.869 at a distance. Try to avoid dogs specifically 00:55:19.869 --> 00:55:22.190 for this because we're looking for these calm 00:55:22.190 --> 00:55:30.369 type mild distractions. Kids playing soccer or 00:55:30.369 --> 00:55:32.610 baseball or something where they're all interacting, 00:55:32.750 --> 00:55:36.150 but they're not interacting with the dog and 00:55:36.150 --> 00:55:41.420 from a distance. Those are great. Down in Surf 00:55:41.420 --> 00:55:44.340 City, there's a skate park. That's a great one. 00:55:44.559 --> 00:55:47.260 You go to the park and you can literally walk 00:55:47.260 --> 00:55:50.480 around this playground. You can walk well around 00:55:50.480 --> 00:55:53.619 this playground and that all the kids are playing 00:55:53.619 --> 00:55:57.179 on and you can walk past the skate park. There's 00:55:57.179 --> 00:56:00.119 a sidewalk pretty, like a pretty good distance 00:56:00.119 --> 00:56:01.800 away from the skate park. So you can just kind 00:56:01.800 --> 00:56:05.280 of walk back and forth and all this, the skate. 00:56:05.630 --> 00:56:07.789 Park people are just doing their thing and they're 00:56:07.789 --> 00:56:09.849 not paying attention to the dog, but there's 00:56:09.849 --> 00:56:12.050 noises. There's distractions. All right. That's 00:56:12.050 --> 00:56:17.289 what we're talking about. Guide. I already talked 00:56:17.289 --> 00:56:21.230 about that. Mark calm behavior. Reward after 00:56:21.230 --> 00:56:25.030 passing the distractions and reward engagement. 00:56:25.650 --> 00:56:29.389 Always reward engagement with your dog. So when 00:56:29.389 --> 00:56:31.269 they look at you, give them that engagement. 00:56:31.710 --> 00:56:35.389 All right. That is all I got there. One thing 00:56:35.389 --> 00:56:39.869 I wanted to say is I had my notes. Thank you. 00:56:40.170 --> 00:56:45.570 We were voted first place and the top sale, top 00:56:45.570 --> 00:56:50.730 choice awards on the, that just closed this last 00:56:50.730 --> 00:56:55.250 month. So we got first place for the, for dog, 00:56:55.329 --> 00:57:00.309 for a dog obedience program. So that's the baseline 00:57:00.309 --> 00:57:05.480 dog trainer award. And honestly, I was super 00:57:05.480 --> 00:57:10.400 blown away because I mean, it's, it's super cool. 00:57:11.980 --> 00:57:14.900 I've, you know, we both have been putting in 00:57:14.900 --> 00:57:18.380 about 70 hour weeks for the last three or four 00:57:18.380 --> 00:57:22.039 weeks. And as, as things have just kind of like 00:57:22.039 --> 00:57:26.179 come to a head before the holidays and we've 00:57:26.179 --> 00:57:28.539 got lessons and we've got dogs and we got our 00:57:28.539 --> 00:57:31.559 dogs and we got kids and we got all of the normal 00:57:31.559 --> 00:57:36.429 life things plus other things. you know, job 00:57:36.429 --> 00:57:40.170 growth opportunities and things. So we are super, 00:57:40.250 --> 00:57:44.650 super blessed. I wanted to put out a personal 00:57:44.650 --> 00:57:48.429 thank you to everyone who voted for us. That 00:57:48.429 --> 00:57:52.690 really meant a lot. And it was really, really 00:57:52.690 --> 00:57:57.670 cool to see super shocking, but super I was stoked. 00:57:57.789 --> 00:58:05.760 I was super stoked. So thank you from personally 00:58:05.760 --> 00:58:08.840 for me yeah absolutely thank you guys um yeah 00:58:08.840 --> 00:58:13.059 it's uh it's been a great uh journey so far and 00:58:13.059 --> 00:58:17.380 it was actually unbelievable to uh to win first 00:58:17.380 --> 00:58:21.800 place so yeah thanks everybody so um with that 00:58:21.800 --> 00:58:26.320 we are gonna close it down here um i appreciate 00:58:26.320 --> 00:58:30.280 everybody for tuning in Thank you to our clients 00:58:30.280 --> 00:58:33.400 who are live on the line. Even if you didn't 00:58:33.400 --> 00:58:37.400 have any questions, that's totally fine. If you 00:58:37.400 --> 00:58:40.500 are listening to this afterwards, I would love 00:58:40.500 --> 00:58:44.059 it to hear from you. Send me an email. Send me 00:58:44.059 --> 00:58:48.960 a text. 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