WEBVTT 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:35.740 Welcome to Pawprint Academy, your blueprint to 00:00:35.740 --> 00:00:38.659 raising better dogs. My name is Ryan, and I'll 00:00:38.659 --> 00:00:41.539 be your host for this journey. I've got my trusty 00:00:41.539 --> 00:00:44.200 co -host here, Brianna. Hello. And together, 00:00:44.200 --> 00:00:46.039 we're bringing you real -world training insights 00:00:46.039 --> 00:00:48.799 built on leadership, structure, and proven methods. 00:00:49.439 --> 00:00:52.039 We record this podcast with live clients on the 00:00:52.039 --> 00:00:55.320 line in one take with live, unscripted questions 00:00:55.320 --> 00:00:58.079 and answers. At the end of the day, this podcast 00:00:58.079 --> 00:01:00.119 is a lot more than just teaching your dog to 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:04.480 sit or stay. creating calmness, and becoming 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:07.439 the kind of leader your dog truly needs. We do 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:09.879 that with our three pillar method of trust, obey, 00:01:10.099 --> 00:01:13.340 and perform. Together, we'll show you how these 00:01:13.340 --> 00:01:16.859 three pillars shape every step of training. Thanks 00:01:16.859 --> 00:01:37.349 for being here. Let's get started. Hey, everybody. 00:01:37.829 --> 00:01:45.829 Episode 15, Place and Space Command. I had a 00:01:45.829 --> 00:01:49.069 whole thing lined up to say to that, and then 00:01:49.069 --> 00:01:52.129 I forgot it all. So I was laughing right before 00:01:52.129 --> 00:01:57.409 we started here, and I just totally forgot all 00:01:57.409 --> 00:02:00.049 of the buttons on the soundboard and how to do 00:02:00.049 --> 00:02:02.290 all this stuff. You just take one and a half 00:02:02.290 --> 00:02:05.250 weeks off, and then everything falls apart. Okay, 00:02:05.430 --> 00:02:11.129 so. Episode 15, place and space, teaching calmness 00:02:11.129 --> 00:02:15.909 in the home. Everything that we do is basically 00:02:15.909 --> 00:02:19.330 related to dogs and pets in the home. That's 00:02:19.330 --> 00:02:22.449 what we talk about. And tonight we're going to 00:02:22.449 --> 00:02:26.550 talk about our core idea, which is that place 00:02:26.550 --> 00:02:31.509 as a command teaches dogs how to stay calm and 00:02:31.509 --> 00:02:34.110 neutral around everyday household activities. 00:02:36.280 --> 00:02:39.860 It gives the dog a clear picture of having a 00:02:39.860 --> 00:02:45.319 job. And it reduces the chaos and the random 00:02:45.319 --> 00:02:48.719 things that are going on in the home. And builds 00:02:48.719 --> 00:02:52.460 impulse control, at least when practiced consistently. 00:02:53.259 --> 00:02:59.419 So as we jump into this, welcome back from the... 00:02:59.949 --> 00:03:02.689 A little extended break from our last episode. 00:03:02.770 --> 00:03:05.530 We had Christmas and then New Year's and then 00:03:05.530 --> 00:03:10.650 the one week or so that we take off each year. 00:03:10.770 --> 00:03:15.210 And we just work with our own dogs and go on 00:03:15.210 --> 00:03:19.870 adventures and try to survive the random North 00:03:19.870 --> 00:03:25.740 Carolina. Weather snaps, right? One minute it's 00:03:25.740 --> 00:03:28.000 31 degrees. The next minute it's 70 degrees outside. 00:03:28.219 --> 00:03:30.719 I know. It's so crazy. And you don't know whether 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:34.400 to wear a parka or sunblock. And it's killing 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:38.080 me right now. Just put both on. Just put both 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:39.840 on early in the morning. You're ready to go. 00:03:41.259 --> 00:03:47.560 So as we get into our topic tonight, this is 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:52.060 Brianna's favorite topic. Yeah. She loves some 00:03:52.060 --> 00:03:54.840 place. Yeah. Place and threshold banners are 00:03:54.840 --> 00:03:59.240 my two go -tos. To the point where she brought 00:03:59.240 --> 00:04:04.219 a place bed for her dog on vacation. Yeah, I 00:04:04.219 --> 00:04:08.000 bring them everywhere. Everywhere. Even if it's 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:09.860 not like a place bed, it's like a towel or a 00:04:09.860 --> 00:04:13.080 rug or like a mat or something for sure. Right. 00:04:13.860 --> 00:04:17.720 And we're going to talk about why that's important, 00:04:17.959 --> 00:04:22.050 right? So why? Having those definitive boundaries 00:04:22.050 --> 00:04:27.110 on a place bed or space is really important to 00:04:27.110 --> 00:04:31.029 the dog. We'll get into that in just a couple 00:04:31.029 --> 00:04:34.589 minutes. Major point number one is why it matters. 00:04:35.009 --> 00:04:40.509 So why does it matter? So it provides something 00:04:40.509 --> 00:04:45.149 predictable for the dog and a structure that 00:04:45.149 --> 00:04:48.810 they can understand. It gives them a space to 00:04:48.810 --> 00:04:53.009 relax and to know that that's where they go to 00:04:53.009 --> 00:04:56.769 do that. So it just provides the dog with its 00:04:56.769 --> 00:05:06.550 own little space. Right. And when... I'm trying 00:05:06.550 --> 00:05:11.629 to think of how I can phrase this. So when we 00:05:11.629 --> 00:05:14.910 deal with dogs and owners that are like, well, 00:05:14.970 --> 00:05:19.779 when does my dog... just get to you know roam 00:05:19.779 --> 00:05:24.139 around the house and get to just be a dog the 00:05:24.139 --> 00:05:31.759 double -edged sword to that comment is that when 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:36.420 a dog is just being a dog inevitably they're 00:05:36.420 --> 00:05:44.019 going to make dog decisions and if you I guess 00:05:44.019 --> 00:05:46.939 fairly, you can only expect your dog to do what 00:05:46.939 --> 00:05:50.819 you have taught it. Yeah. And so if you haven't 00:05:50.819 --> 00:05:58.060 taught it what to do in the home and you only 00:05:58.060 --> 00:06:03.160 constantly correct them for, no, don't chew on 00:06:03.160 --> 00:06:05.939 that. No, don't pick up this. No, don't take 00:06:05.939 --> 00:06:08.240 that remote over there. No, don't grab those 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:11.060 eyeglasses. Those are mine. No, don't chew up 00:06:11.060 --> 00:06:16.699 this shoe. You put your dog and you and your 00:06:16.699 --> 00:06:19.399 relationship at odds. And now it's you against 00:06:19.399 --> 00:06:23.060 your dog because the dog's like, it kind of sucks 00:06:23.060 --> 00:06:27.800 here. I don't really get to do anything. I just 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:30.000 get told, no, don't do that. No, don't do that. 00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:36.000 No, don't do this. So it's not, because we're 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:38.459 going to talk a lot about this structure tonight. 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:41.560 And someone listening is going to be like, oh. 00:06:42.110 --> 00:06:44.209 They're those people that just don't let their 00:06:44.209 --> 00:06:48.449 dog do anything. And that's not what we're trying 00:06:48.449 --> 00:06:53.889 to get across. But if you haven't, you don't 00:06:53.889 --> 00:06:56.949 fix reactivity, a dog reacting to another dog, 00:06:57.230 --> 00:07:02.829 without giving the dog a job to do. Telling them 00:07:02.829 --> 00:07:07.470 what you want them to do. You can't create or 00:07:07.470 --> 00:07:10.470 change behaviors without teaching a dog what 00:07:10.470 --> 00:07:15.629 you want them for. actually to do instead. So 00:07:15.629 --> 00:07:23.310 when we, we let the dog just be a dog. Well, 00:07:23.389 --> 00:07:26.069 the dog has different motivations than you do. 00:07:26.170 --> 00:07:29.029 They have different things that they find value 00:07:29.029 --> 00:07:31.850 in than you do. So they're not, obviously they're 00:07:31.850 --> 00:07:35.170 not going to make the same decisions that you 00:07:35.170 --> 00:07:40.829 would make. And that by itself can create stress. 00:07:41.850 --> 00:07:45.290 especially with a newer dog that, or with an 00:07:45.290 --> 00:07:48.029 owner that isn't used to having a dog around. 00:07:48.189 --> 00:07:50.269 And now they do have one and they're like, well, 00:07:50.290 --> 00:07:54.730 uh, the dog I had 10 years ago, they just like, 00:07:54.810 --> 00:07:57.490 they were just chilling. Yeah. They were fine. 00:07:58.439 --> 00:08:01.759 Well, the dog, the memories that that owner has 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:04.600 of that dog is mostly like towards the end of 00:08:04.600 --> 00:08:07.779 its life. It's not all they don't. Usually people 00:08:07.779 --> 00:08:10.540 don't remember back to, oh, I remember that first 00:08:10.540 --> 00:08:13.319 year that I had this dog and things were crazy. 00:08:13.420 --> 00:08:16.000 No, they remember after they've been through 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:18.639 all of those like crazy things. And now the dog 00:08:18.639 --> 00:08:21.480 just chills. Well, at that point, that dog has 00:08:21.480 --> 00:08:24.100 inevitably learned what is expected and what's 00:08:24.100 --> 00:08:28.519 not. So our conversation is more geared towards 00:08:28.519 --> 00:08:32.620 the owners as they're learning their dog and 00:08:32.620 --> 00:08:35.139 their dog is learning what's expected and what's 00:08:35.139 --> 00:08:40.259 not. This is where having a place for the dog 00:08:40.259 --> 00:08:44.379 to go that is definitive and has borders and 00:08:44.379 --> 00:08:51.860 the dog can succeed at being in is so important. 00:08:54.779 --> 00:08:59.720 That space is a fenced in little area, which 00:08:59.720 --> 00:09:01.659 we can apply to the backyard, the front yard, 00:09:01.860 --> 00:09:05.179 any yard, right? A definitive like fenced in 00:09:05.179 --> 00:09:08.000 area keeps the dog from making bad decisions 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:14.279 like running away. Well, a place bed also gives 00:09:14.279 --> 00:09:17.000 the dog something that they're allowed to do 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:20.059 and that they can understand and process. Hey. 00:09:20.779 --> 00:09:25.200 They throw a party and bring me treats and bring 00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:28.519 me ice cubes and all of these other things when 00:09:28.519 --> 00:09:32.120 I lay on this little area right here. This is 00:09:32.120 --> 00:09:36.200 a nice area. Yeah. I don't get yelled at. I don't 00:09:36.200 --> 00:09:39.340 get told no. I don't get chased around. I don't 00:09:39.340 --> 00:09:45.279 anything. This is great. And that can build confidence 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:51.240 in the. Just the general like dog framework, 00:09:51.519 --> 00:09:53.700 right? You can increase their confidence because 00:09:53.700 --> 00:09:57.460 they have something that they now know this is 00:09:57.460 --> 00:10:01.539 acceptable. Right. Yep. And then that is a tool 00:10:01.539 --> 00:10:04.240 that you can apply in all these different ways. 00:10:05.039 --> 00:10:09.440 So we'll, I'm going to get off of my soapbox 00:10:09.440 --> 00:10:11.679 here because that was like my intro to this. 00:10:11.919 --> 00:10:14.659 When I, we first opened this episode and I was 00:10:14.659 --> 00:10:16.419 like, I had something lined up to say. We were 00:10:16.419 --> 00:10:18.789 going to talk about that. I couldn't. Couldn't 00:10:18.789 --> 00:10:26.529 get it out. So place teaches the, like a fixed 00:10:26.529 --> 00:10:30.450 location that then gives the dog this kind of 00:10:30.450 --> 00:10:34.129 like neutrality in the home where, Hey, this 00:10:34.129 --> 00:10:38.950 is, this is just a chill zone. I, nothing bad 00:10:38.950 --> 00:10:43.710 happens to me when I'm here. It's safe. My parents 00:10:43.710 --> 00:10:47.710 just like, let me relax. Sometimes they like, 00:10:47.879 --> 00:10:50.940 Bring me fun and yummy things. Or maybe I get 00:10:50.940 --> 00:10:53.700 to chew on a bone or play with a toy in this 00:10:53.700 --> 00:10:57.659 space. This is a cool spot. That's what we want 00:10:57.659 --> 00:11:00.139 to cultivate with a dog. We don't just want it 00:11:00.139 --> 00:11:04.779 to be, no, you go over there. No, we don't. That's 00:11:04.779 --> 00:11:07.379 not how we want to interact with our dog at all. 00:11:08.580 --> 00:11:12.679 But it gives us that. thumbs up to the dog that's 00:11:12.679 --> 00:11:15.779 like yeah this is what i want you to do so now 00:11:15.779 --> 00:11:19.700 you can very fairly and very clearly be like 00:11:19.700 --> 00:11:22.820 no don't chew on that shoe go over here and be 00:11:22.820 --> 00:11:26.500 on this in this space no don't go in that laundry 00:11:26.500 --> 00:11:29.840 room and go through all the laundry go to this 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:32.539 space right it prevents the rehearsals of those 00:11:32.539 --> 00:11:35.360 like behaviors that you just don't want in a 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:37.440 dog whether they're like chewing on things in 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:41.120 your house grabbing things like you said um just 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:44.840 kind of causing chaos in the home that's how 00:11:44.840 --> 00:11:48.019 you prevent those behaviors from just repeatedly 00:11:48.019 --> 00:11:50.960 happening and just having to shut the dog down 00:11:50.960 --> 00:11:54.940 right instead of doing that give them something 00:11:54.940 --> 00:11:58.039 to do right and then the the next thing is when 00:11:58.039 --> 00:12:02.590 you have guests over yeah right that is A place 00:12:02.590 --> 00:12:07.710 command is integral to our guest protocol or 00:12:07.710 --> 00:12:10.629 what we would explain to owners is this is the 00:12:10.629 --> 00:12:15.629 process of doorbell goes off and we want to teach 00:12:15.629 --> 00:12:20.309 that doorbell interaction as a precursor to going 00:12:20.309 --> 00:12:24.909 to my place. So that that's the cue, right? And 00:12:24.909 --> 00:12:26.850 now it's like, oh, I go to my place and then 00:12:26.850 --> 00:12:30.360 I can see who it is. and see who it is is not 00:12:30.360 --> 00:12:33.679 let me go crowd the door and and jump on someone 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:37.659 it's let me maybe i put this place bed in a way 00:12:37.659 --> 00:12:41.539 that they can see straight line to the door yeah 00:12:41.539 --> 00:12:43.179 so that then when someone comes in they're like 00:12:43.179 --> 00:12:46.080 ah i'm one of the first ones to get to see who 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:49.200 this is but i can only see that from my place 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:54.200 yeah just as an example um so the the end state 00:12:54.200 --> 00:12:59.350 here is that place allows a reduction in the 00:12:59.350 --> 00:13:05.529 anxiety that can pop up in a dog from not really 00:13:05.529 --> 00:13:09.429 understanding why everything that they do, especially 00:13:09.429 --> 00:13:13.169 with young puppies, everything that they do is 00:13:13.169 --> 00:13:17.470 like a no -go. We deal with this with Dexter 00:13:17.470 --> 00:13:22.129 all the time. Dexter loves to create chaos. He 00:13:22.129 --> 00:13:24.309 loves to bite stuff. He loves to hold things 00:13:24.309 --> 00:13:27.750 in his mouth. Not so much like chew on them because 00:13:27.750 --> 00:13:29.990 we don't give them the opportunity, but he loves 00:13:29.990 --> 00:13:33.429 to pick things up and carry them around. And 00:13:33.429 --> 00:13:38.730 inevitably, if you allow him to just roam around 00:13:38.730 --> 00:13:40.889 the house, he's going to find something to pick 00:13:40.889 --> 00:13:45.049 it up because he invents a job. He needs something 00:13:45.049 --> 00:13:48.830 to do. Well, giving him a place command is a 00:13:48.830 --> 00:13:51.570 job. And it puts him in a position where he's 00:13:51.570 --> 00:13:54.009 like, I'm doing the right thing. I'm doing it. 00:13:54.250 --> 00:13:56.289 I'm doing the thing that they told me to do. 00:13:56.389 --> 00:14:00.149 Yeah. Instead of him deciding what to do, which 00:14:00.149 --> 00:14:02.929 is for sure going to be not what I want him to 00:14:02.929 --> 00:14:04.809 do. Yeah. He ping pongs around and he's like, 00:14:04.889 --> 00:14:06.009 I'm going to pick this up. I'm going to pick 00:14:06.009 --> 00:14:08.789 this up. I'm going to pick this up. Right. Looking 00:14:08.789 --> 00:14:14.169 for work. Yeah. Right. All right. So the next 00:14:14.169 --> 00:14:16.710 thing that it does is it strengthens or gives 00:14:16.710 --> 00:14:18.970 you the ability to start strengthening their 00:14:18.970 --> 00:14:23.210 impulse control because once they're on a place, 00:14:24.269 --> 00:14:27.090 Now you're dealing with the impulse control of 00:14:27.090 --> 00:14:30.490 whether they're going to stay there or not. And 00:14:30.490 --> 00:14:37.009 so now that gives you this, it puts you in position 00:14:37.009 --> 00:14:45.509 to then to work with your dog, right? And it 00:14:45.509 --> 00:14:47.850 puts you in a position where when they step off 00:14:47.850 --> 00:14:50.230 of their place, now this is a training event, 00:14:50.350 --> 00:14:54.019 right? And now it's no. I asked you to stay on 00:14:54.019 --> 00:14:56.759 your place. Oh, okay. And you see them like fidget 00:14:56.759 --> 00:15:01.419 or yawn, stress yawn or whatever, whatever it 00:15:01.419 --> 00:15:04.120 is. And maybe all you did was just step towards 00:15:04.120 --> 00:15:06.460 them and they're like, ah, spatial pressure. 00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:09.580 And they step back onto their place bed. Now 00:15:09.580 --> 00:15:13.120 their brain is processing, ah, I have to stay 00:15:13.120 --> 00:15:14.940 here. I got to stay here. I got to stay here. 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:19.210 I got to stay here. That is super valuable. Because 00:15:19.210 --> 00:15:22.289 now you're able to actually work on that impulse 00:15:22.289 --> 00:15:26.990 control in a way that is simple. If you try to 00:15:26.990 --> 00:15:29.769 break down impulse control, but you're out at 00:15:29.769 --> 00:15:33.210 a park and dealing with squirrels and wildlife 00:15:33.210 --> 00:15:37.350 and you as an owner, let alone a trainer who. 00:15:37.769 --> 00:15:40.549 may be educated and looking for some of these 00:15:40.549 --> 00:15:42.850 things. If you're trying to sort through all 00:15:42.850 --> 00:15:46.269 of the variables and the nuances and the body 00:15:46.269 --> 00:15:52.389 language and the distractions to reliably and 00:15:52.389 --> 00:15:55.110 clearly communicate to your dog how you want 00:15:55.110 --> 00:15:58.340 them to control themselves. Yeah. or control 00:15:58.340 --> 00:16:00.980 their thoughts in that environment, good luck. 00:16:01.179 --> 00:16:03.480 Right, because the dog just doesn't ignore it. 00:16:03.539 --> 00:16:06.340 They have something else to do that's more important 00:16:06.340 --> 00:16:09.820 to them and more motivating to them than the 00:16:09.820 --> 00:16:12.700 outside. So that's just not going to be a successful 00:16:12.700 --> 00:16:16.139 strategy is to work on impulse control in the 00:16:16.139 --> 00:16:19.100 moment and in the heat of the moment of the impulse. 00:16:19.559 --> 00:16:22.059 Where you work on the impulse control and where 00:16:22.059 --> 00:16:24.500 you build it is in that controlled environment 00:16:24.500 --> 00:16:29.220 where... Hey, they want to come off of that place, 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:31.600 but they're able to think through it. And that's 00:16:31.600 --> 00:16:33.840 where we build that pattern recognition and we 00:16:33.840 --> 00:16:40.539 build those successful repetitions. Okay. I'm 00:16:40.539 --> 00:16:43.659 referring to my notes real quick. I hit all of 00:16:43.659 --> 00:16:47.919 my other points here. So when owners get really 00:16:47.919 --> 00:16:51.259 wrapped around the axle of obedience commands 00:16:51.259 --> 00:16:55.009 and. And well, I just want my dog to come or 00:16:55.009 --> 00:16:58.570 I want my dog to down and I just want them to 00:16:58.570 --> 00:17:03.409 stay down. There is a lot of value in the place 00:17:03.409 --> 00:17:07.589 command. But when we're super focused on just 00:17:07.589 --> 00:17:15.069 commands like no, come stay down. What what do 00:17:15.069 --> 00:17:19.450 you use to kind of explain the value of that 00:17:19.450 --> 00:17:22.230 place command to. an owner that's kind of really, 00:17:22.269 --> 00:17:29.829 I guess, zeroed in on, on obedience more than 00:17:29.829 --> 00:17:35.109 what I would consider emotional regulation. Right. 00:17:35.150 --> 00:17:37.170 So that's what I always kind of like lean towards 00:17:37.170 --> 00:17:40.049 the conversation of is like, and we had this 00:17:40.049 --> 00:17:43.190 conversation this morning. It's like a lot of 00:17:43.190 --> 00:17:46.690 dog training is teaching a dog how to do nothing 00:17:46.690 --> 00:17:50.819 because That's not a part of training that anybody 00:17:50.819 --> 00:17:54.380 does with their dog. And if you do, cool. I'd 00:17:54.380 --> 00:17:56.940 love to hear about it. But I have never met just 00:17:56.940 --> 00:18:01.059 a regular pet dog owner who teaches their dog 00:18:01.059 --> 00:18:03.000 how to do nothing. You know, they're always kind 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:05.500 of trying to teach them how to do something. 00:18:06.180 --> 00:18:11.200 And so a dog inevitably just learns how to go, 00:18:11.299 --> 00:18:15.339 go, go, go, go. And then at one, you know, one 00:18:15.339 --> 00:18:18.849 years old or however old, the dog is just so 00:18:18.849 --> 00:18:20.789 hyped up people are like i don't know what to 00:18:20.789 --> 00:18:24.809 do with all this energy but we've spent the dog's 00:18:24.809 --> 00:18:28.170 whole life teaching them to go go go and do something 00:18:28.170 --> 00:18:31.309 do something do something yeah so the value in 00:18:31.309 --> 00:18:33.970 teaching a dog how to do absolutely nothing other 00:18:33.970 --> 00:18:38.309 than just kind of be on this place and go relax 00:18:38.309 --> 00:18:44.730 while i do something is a crazy amount of of 00:18:44.730 --> 00:18:49.440 training that is invaluable to most people so 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:52.759 give me another or give our listeners another 00:18:52.759 --> 00:18:56.940 example of like how you use place like out with 00:18:56.940 --> 00:18:59.619 those other distractions yeah so how does it 00:18:59.619 --> 00:19:02.059 translate right so it's building in like the 00:19:02.059 --> 00:19:05.640 ob to a degree place can be an obedience command 00:19:05.640 --> 00:19:09.099 right if you teach a dog place that's something 00:19:09.099 --> 00:19:12.539 that they know how to do And you can translate 00:19:12.539 --> 00:19:15.779 that into environments that make the dog nervous 00:19:15.779 --> 00:19:19.680 or, you know, just a different level of distracted 00:19:19.680 --> 00:19:22.000 really. It doesn't even have to be fearful or 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:24.200 nervous or anything like that. But I do use that 00:19:24.200 --> 00:19:27.059 a lot for dogs. Like I set up in parking lots 00:19:27.059 --> 00:19:31.240 with a place bed. And I do a place bed because 00:19:31.240 --> 00:19:35.680 there's a difference of taking a dog out to a 00:19:35.680 --> 00:19:40.009 different textured. um environment like concrete 00:19:40.009 --> 00:19:43.789 or grass or dirt or whatever and asking them 00:19:43.789 --> 00:19:47.670 to sit or down most dogs are going to feel unnatural 00:19:47.670 --> 00:19:50.490 the first time or two doing that if not more 00:19:50.490 --> 00:19:53.049 times than that but if you take a place bed the 00:19:53.049 --> 00:19:55.950 dog is familiar with that and asking them to 00:19:55.950 --> 00:19:57.910 go to that place you can then ask for sit and 00:19:57.910 --> 00:20:01.150 down while on that place bed and build in more 00:20:01.150 --> 00:20:04.190 obedience while working through those distractions 00:20:04.190 --> 00:20:09.559 so it's just a familiar thing that you can give 00:20:09.559 --> 00:20:12.640 your dog right I mean a lot of people bring like 00:20:12.640 --> 00:20:15.720 blankets and dog beds and stuff like that with 00:20:15.720 --> 00:20:20.180 them um to different places because it's their 00:20:20.180 --> 00:20:23.200 dog's like comfort item I mean essentially like 00:20:23.200 --> 00:20:25.279 that's how I use a place but it's a dog's comfort 00:20:25.279 --> 00:20:28.680 item right I take it everywhere and it can be 00:20:28.680 --> 00:20:30.819 a soft one most of the time we just use the elevated 00:20:30.819 --> 00:20:34.829 but it's a dog's comfort item it's their space 00:20:34.829 --> 00:20:37.650 to relax it's like a kennel space to a degree 00:20:37.650 --> 00:20:40.970 but they get to be in the space with you and 00:20:40.970 --> 00:20:43.789 kind of hanging out so they're learning that 00:20:43.789 --> 00:20:47.309 they have the choice of hanging out with you 00:20:47.309 --> 00:20:51.269 in their own designated area and not be confined 00:20:51.269 --> 00:20:54.730 to the kennel right it's just laying on a place 00:20:54.730 --> 00:20:56.809 bed in whatever comfortable position they want 00:20:56.809 --> 00:20:59.829 and i think a lot of people always think that 00:21:00.190 --> 00:21:01.990 Even if you're on a place bed, the dog can't 00:21:01.990 --> 00:21:04.789 be doing anything. But we are all the time rotating 00:21:04.789 --> 00:21:07.269 like bones and chew toys and things like that 00:21:07.269 --> 00:21:09.470 for the dogs on the place because it gives them 00:21:09.470 --> 00:21:11.910 something to do. And inevitably they're like, 00:21:11.990 --> 00:21:13.470 okay, I'm kind of tired now. I'm going to take 00:21:13.470 --> 00:21:18.549 a nap. Yeah. Love it. Okay. So how do we teach 00:21:18.549 --> 00:21:24.690 it? So teaching the command clearly. Let's break 00:21:24.690 --> 00:21:30.769 this down. So when we. First start teaching place. 00:21:32.170 --> 00:21:43.069 I like to try to shape their behavior in this 00:21:43.069 --> 00:21:46.190 situation. And so what that means is I'll start 00:21:46.190 --> 00:21:51.890 with, I guess to back this up for a second. So 00:21:51.890 --> 00:21:56.579 there are elevated place beds. which is my preference 00:21:56.579 --> 00:22:01.599 to use when I first teach this. And a place bed 00:22:01.599 --> 00:22:03.680 can be anything, right? A place bed can just 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:06.440 be, like you were saying, just a mat, a towel, 00:22:06.799 --> 00:22:09.559 a little square, a little carpet square, or whatever. 00:22:10.960 --> 00:22:15.619 The value of an elevated place bed is that it 00:22:15.619 --> 00:22:24.680 builds a very definitive, vertical, change of 00:22:24.680 --> 00:22:28.339 level right change of elevation when the dog 00:22:28.339 --> 00:22:31.920 steps off of it and i think that's really really 00:22:31.920 --> 00:22:34.579 helpful when you're first trying to teach a dog 00:22:34.579 --> 00:22:37.359 yeah for sure to to be on a place because not 00:22:37.359 --> 00:22:40.160 only does the dog have to break the perimeter 00:22:40.160 --> 00:22:43.960 but they also have to change levels yeah and 00:22:43.960 --> 00:22:47.619 when a dog has to step down and off of something 00:22:47.619 --> 00:22:53.900 in order to to break that it's very clear that 00:22:53.900 --> 00:22:58.599 the dog is now off of their place. When you do 00:22:58.599 --> 00:23:04.640 it on just a mat or like a fuzzy padded whatever, 00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:07.460 right? All the pet stores sell all sorts of different 00:23:07.460 --> 00:23:11.180 versions here. But let's say the dog, I'm going 00:23:11.180 --> 00:23:14.220 to try to describe it, but the dog's front paws 00:23:14.220 --> 00:23:18.859 are like well off of the place bed, but you know. 00:23:19.160 --> 00:23:23.059 three quarters of their body is all on the place 00:23:23.059 --> 00:23:27.319 bed. Well, are they on or are they off? Yeah. 00:23:27.720 --> 00:23:30.099 And this is always something that you usually 00:23:30.099 --> 00:23:32.039 gets asked in the middle of the lesson is like, 00:23:32.099 --> 00:23:36.099 well, when do I correct them? Well, that's, that's 00:23:36.099 --> 00:23:38.880 up to you, but whatever your level is has to 00:23:38.880 --> 00:23:41.980 be exact and it has to be consistent. Otherwise 00:23:41.980 --> 00:23:46.180 the dog's like, I am on my place. What do you 00:23:46.180 --> 00:23:49.039 mean? Right. And then we always end up seeing 00:23:49.039 --> 00:23:51.740 like the army crawl, right? Where the dog's just 00:23:51.740 --> 00:23:58.599 like, right. Yeah. I am just gonna kind of inch 00:23:58.599 --> 00:24:02.059 off of here, but I'm still in my place. Yeah. 00:24:02.599 --> 00:24:06.759 I'm still in my place though. Don't worry. So 00:24:06.759 --> 00:24:11.640 the way that you avoid that is it's except with 00:24:11.640 --> 00:24:16.220 maybe a certain Frenchie that I know. Who will 00:24:16.220 --> 00:24:18.900 just like hang themselves off of the edge of 00:24:18.900 --> 00:24:22.420 the bed. I know it's not even comfortable. So 00:24:22.420 --> 00:24:27.240 it's ridiculous. So but the elevation allows 00:24:27.240 --> 00:24:29.599 the dog to be very, very clear when they step 00:24:29.599 --> 00:24:32.539 off of that or they they come off that. Now they're 00:24:32.539 --> 00:24:35.299 touching the ground. You can correct them. You'd 00:24:35.299 --> 00:24:38.859 be like, no, that's wrong. and when we correct 00:24:38.859 --> 00:24:40.779 that we can just step towards them we take that 00:24:40.779 --> 00:24:43.940 space away that spatial pressure and in most 00:24:43.940 --> 00:24:47.980 of the times the dog will just back up yeah so 00:24:47.980 --> 00:24:52.759 i like to take that bed and i like to move it 00:24:52.759 --> 00:24:56.619 into a position where i can likely get the dog 00:24:56.619 --> 00:25:00.039 to cross that threshold or to to walk across 00:25:00.039 --> 00:25:05.569 it yeah if you have a dog that just refuses to 00:25:05.569 --> 00:25:09.230 like walk on it then we have a different issue 00:25:09.230 --> 00:25:12.990 right and we can start by just getting them near 00:25:12.990 --> 00:25:17.069 it and we can mark and then reward you guys can 00:25:17.069 --> 00:25:20.569 use um clickers we can use our verbal commands 00:25:20.569 --> 00:25:24.529 we can use any type of marking um process that 00:25:24.529 --> 00:25:28.690 you've already built into the dog so dog gets 00:25:28.690 --> 00:25:33.759 near the bed cool i mark it reward Mark and reward 00:25:33.759 --> 00:25:37.519 over and over and over. Then I'm able to get 00:25:37.519 --> 00:25:39.519 them a little closer and a little closer. Eventually, 00:25:39.519 --> 00:25:44.960 we get front paws onto the bed. We continue to 00:25:44.960 --> 00:25:48.420 mark that. Then we get the full, all four paws 00:25:48.420 --> 00:25:54.400 onto the bed. That's an important level that 00:25:54.400 --> 00:25:57.859 we've got to get to. Because once we get to four 00:25:57.859 --> 00:26:03.420 paws on the bed, now... We can start to name 00:26:03.420 --> 00:26:07.160 that as our behavior, right? Once that's reliable, 00:26:07.420 --> 00:26:13.420 that is the actual command place for pause on 00:26:13.420 --> 00:26:20.680 this space right here. Where I'm trying to stay 00:26:20.680 --> 00:26:23.500 on track in a way that is not rabbit hole -ish. 00:26:24.359 --> 00:26:29.180 So when I name it, I want to start naming the 00:26:29.180 --> 00:26:32.099 command. as they're doing it so right as that 00:26:32.099 --> 00:26:35.400 fourth paw comes off of the ground and touches 00:26:35.400 --> 00:26:39.900 the bed i'm naming it place and then hitting 00:26:39.900 --> 00:26:43.000 them with my reward marker whatever that is in 00:26:43.000 --> 00:26:45.980 this case ours is free and then i let them jump 00:26:45.980 --> 00:26:49.140 right back off of that because i don't want to 00:26:49.140 --> 00:26:51.460 build too much duration right at the beginning 00:26:51.460 --> 00:26:54.119 or try to require a bunch of duration with either 00:26:54.119 --> 00:26:57.319 a nervous dog or a dog that's just starting working 00:26:57.319 --> 00:27:00.740 on a brand new command so I release them. I give 00:27:00.740 --> 00:27:04.779 them that release marker that is a reward -based 00:27:04.779 --> 00:27:08.039 marker. I'm like, hey, great job. You're done. 00:27:08.200 --> 00:27:11.000 Go ahead and jump off of there. And then I set 00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:14.599 it up so that they can do it again. When the 00:27:14.599 --> 00:27:17.200 placement of the bed is a little important, at 00:27:17.200 --> 00:27:19.960 first, if I can just get them to walk across 00:27:19.960 --> 00:27:23.799 it, that's awesome. And right as they walk across 00:27:23.799 --> 00:27:29.539 it, I reward them. Yeah. I think also with like 00:27:29.539 --> 00:27:32.420 a little bit more fearful dogs, if you flip elevated 00:27:32.420 --> 00:27:35.039 beds upside down so that they're laying on the 00:27:35.039 --> 00:27:39.039 ground, a lot of times the dogs are more apt 00:27:39.039 --> 00:27:42.619 to walk over it or put their feet on it. Yeah, 00:27:42.640 --> 00:27:46.859 that's a great first step before you flip it 00:27:46.859 --> 00:27:52.559 back over. Okay, so once we've got a dog that 00:27:52.559 --> 00:27:56.700 will put all four paws on the bed. This is an 00:27:56.700 --> 00:27:59.859 important definition that I want to talk about. 00:27:59.960 --> 00:28:07.019 So the reason why we require four paws on the 00:28:07.019 --> 00:28:12.480 place bed and not a down or a sit is because 00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:18.759 those are even more demanding positions. If you 00:28:18.759 --> 00:28:24.319 put a dog in a sit and then the dog lays down, 00:28:25.519 --> 00:28:28.619 Do you correct them? Right. Or do you not? This 00:28:28.619 --> 00:28:31.859 brings up a whole nother conversation. So without 00:28:31.859 --> 00:28:33.319 going down the rabbit hole, cause we're going 00:28:33.319 --> 00:28:35.220 to talk about sitting down and some other things 00:28:35.220 --> 00:28:39.660 on another episode without going too far off 00:28:39.660 --> 00:28:44.980 the path here. I just want my place command to 00:28:44.980 --> 00:28:50.099 mean four paws in this space. You can lay down, 00:28:50.240 --> 00:28:53.299 you can sit, you can stand, you can spin around. 00:28:53.960 --> 00:28:57.200 All of those things are fine. I just want four 00:28:57.200 --> 00:29:00.359 paws on here. What that does is it builds some 00:29:00.359 --> 00:29:04.799 freedom in the fact that you don't have to constantly 00:29:04.799 --> 00:29:10.259 correct for something even more exact. If you 00:29:10.259 --> 00:29:15.019 put a dog on a place bed and then you tell them 00:29:15.019 --> 00:29:19.259 down, well now if they get up and they sit up 00:29:19.259 --> 00:29:22.569 or they like... fidget like turn around or they're 00:29:22.569 --> 00:29:28.230 doing whatever you are not building clarity in 00:29:28.230 --> 00:29:30.150 your dog if you're not correcting them or you're 00:29:30.150 --> 00:29:35.190 not telling them no i said down so to alleviate 00:29:35.190 --> 00:29:40.230 that whole issue we just want four paws on that 00:29:40.230 --> 00:29:44.529 place bed yep that makes it as simple and as 00:29:44.529 --> 00:29:48.309 easy and clear to the dog as possible You just 00:29:48.309 --> 00:29:50.289 got to be right there in that little perimeter. 00:29:50.430 --> 00:29:56.210 That's all I want. Okay. Let me look at this 00:29:56.210 --> 00:29:59.789 because I went off of my points, but I think 00:29:59.789 --> 00:30:02.990 I nailed the explanation there. Do you have anything 00:30:02.990 --> 00:30:08.130 to add on the explanation of just the hierarchy 00:30:08.130 --> 00:30:18.059 there process? We talked about duration. building 00:30:18.059 --> 00:30:20.980 short clean reps that one's really really important 00:30:20.980 --> 00:30:27.960 so we the next step once i am able to get the 00:30:27.960 --> 00:30:30.880 dog to go on to their place hop off come get 00:30:30.880 --> 00:30:33.660 the treat i do that a whole bunch of times then 00:30:33.660 --> 00:30:38.140 i can start building some duration really short 00:30:38.140 --> 00:30:41.480 right the three d's of dog training or of that 00:30:41.480 --> 00:30:46.049 come into play later the more advanced right 00:30:46.049 --> 00:30:50.009 is our distance duration and distraction those 00:30:50.009 --> 00:30:53.730 three things always work against us and we're 00:30:53.730 --> 00:30:58.230 always using them to try to proof our commands 00:30:58.230 --> 00:31:05.029 so once the dog will reliably go onto their place 00:31:05.029 --> 00:31:08.650 bed and hop off now we start building duration 00:31:08.650 --> 00:31:15.940 and with duration i want to start Real simple. 00:31:16.079 --> 00:31:21.079 Two seconds. Three seconds. Four seconds. That 00:31:21.079 --> 00:31:25.160 allows you to just hold the dog in place just 00:31:25.160 --> 00:31:28.299 for a little bit. And then you release them with 00:31:28.299 --> 00:31:32.359 that free command or whatever your positive release 00:31:32.359 --> 00:31:38.180 is. I hope that that makes sense. But speed and... 00:31:38.519 --> 00:31:41.900 Quick releases with short, clean reps is really, 00:31:42.119 --> 00:31:44.220 really, really important. And the number one 00:31:44.220 --> 00:31:48.839 thing that I see dog owners do wrong when they're 00:31:48.839 --> 00:31:51.720 training is that they get so excited that their 00:31:51.720 --> 00:31:53.740 dog's listening and they're breaking through. 00:31:53.940 --> 00:31:56.000 And they're like, yeah, this is awesome. And 00:31:56.000 --> 00:32:00.869 we go into testing too quickly. Right. And you're 00:32:00.869 --> 00:32:02.990 like, oh, I wonder if I can walk around this 00:32:02.990 --> 00:32:06.269 counter and get them to stay. Oh, wow. They did. 00:32:06.529 --> 00:32:09.369 This is so great. I wonder if I can go and disappear 00:32:09.369 --> 00:32:11.990 down the hallway. Oh, they did. I'm going to 00:32:11.990 --> 00:32:13.930 walk outside immediately. And it's like, no, 00:32:13.950 --> 00:32:17.369 stop, stop, stop, stop. Because at the point 00:32:17.369 --> 00:32:20.730 where you push it too far and they fail, you've 00:32:20.730 --> 00:32:23.849 actually taken three or four steps back and you 00:32:23.849 --> 00:32:27.309 don't realize that you have and you need to build 00:32:27.309 --> 00:32:32.910 those perfect. clear repetitions with enough 00:32:32.910 --> 00:32:36.269 frequency and enough repetition to drive that 00:32:36.269 --> 00:32:39.650 pattern home in the dog's brain before you make 00:32:39.650 --> 00:32:45.690 it more difficult. And so if I can advise anyone 00:32:45.690 --> 00:32:52.390 listening on the most important thing is just 00:32:52.390 --> 00:32:57.230 go slow. Go slow when those baby steps and really 00:32:57.230 --> 00:33:00.230 make sure that you've got it. I'm not talking, 00:33:00.329 --> 00:33:03.490 oh, well, he's done it like 10 times. I am talking 00:33:03.490 --> 00:33:07.470 way more than 10. And your dog is going to for 00:33:07.470 --> 00:33:11.390 sure decide on how many is appropriate. But way, 00:33:11.549 --> 00:33:17.730 way more. When we do a dog, we bring a dog in 00:33:17.730 --> 00:33:21.509 for a program, we're doing hundreds of repetition 00:33:21.509 --> 00:33:27.549 to build then the next step in. 10 is not enough. 00:33:29.210 --> 00:33:32.630 But it is excruciatingly painful to be like, 00:33:32.730 --> 00:33:36.410 well, I just did this for the 20th time. Right. 00:33:36.490 --> 00:33:38.349 I know. But that is that's what dog training 00:33:38.349 --> 00:33:40.589 is. Yeah. That's how we build that reliability. 00:33:41.029 --> 00:33:43.490 Yeah. You can't get around it over and over. 00:33:43.609 --> 00:33:47.069 Yeah. All right. What's your preferred first 00:33:47.069 --> 00:33:51.150 session for for introducing place? What does 00:33:51.150 --> 00:33:54.130 that look like to you? I mean, I think you kind 00:33:54.130 --> 00:33:55.970 of described it right. I set the bed up against 00:33:55.970 --> 00:33:59.109 a wall typically so I can just walk the dog over. 00:33:59.829 --> 00:34:01.849 Most dogs, especially if they already have a 00:34:01.849 --> 00:34:04.309 place bed, most dogs do, but they just don't 00:34:04.309 --> 00:34:07.910 have a command built in for it. Pretty easily. 00:34:07.930 --> 00:34:09.690 A wall is really good because you can stand on 00:34:09.690 --> 00:34:11.449 the other side and then walk them through between 00:34:11.449 --> 00:34:14.289 you and the wall. Right. And a lot of times dogs 00:34:14.289 --> 00:34:16.650 don't even like realize. And if you stop and 00:34:16.650 --> 00:34:19.269 take a pause right there. then you can just give 00:34:19.269 --> 00:34:21.010 them the release and they don't even understand 00:34:21.010 --> 00:34:24.829 what's happening at first. So yeah, that's pretty 00:34:24.829 --> 00:34:28.190 much, yeah. My favorite is just walking them 00:34:28.190 --> 00:34:30.849 over it. But like I said, if the dog already 00:34:30.849 --> 00:34:34.590 has a bed, then it typically, you know, clicks 00:34:34.590 --> 00:34:37.030 pretty quickly for a dog to be like, oh, okay, 00:34:37.090 --> 00:34:41.090 I'll just go lay on my comfy bed over here. What 00:34:41.090 --> 00:34:43.909 do you think is like some of the mistakes that 00:34:43.909 --> 00:34:46.179 make place training kind of fall apart? Early 00:34:46.179 --> 00:34:50.119 on. Not giving a break command and just letting 00:34:50.119 --> 00:34:52.780 your dog get off without saying anything. Okay. 00:34:52.820 --> 00:34:57.119 Yeah. So, so either pushing it too, too far, 00:34:57.139 --> 00:34:59.199 too fast. And that's my other one. Yeah. Right. 00:34:59.239 --> 00:35:01.440 And, and so I kind of like talked about that, 00:35:01.480 --> 00:35:04.260 but also the other one is more innocent. It's 00:35:04.260 --> 00:35:08.800 like, well, I, they were, let's say that you've 00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:12.480 got some duration, right? And your dog does go 00:35:12.480 --> 00:35:17.489 to place reliably. Well, now you're watching 00:35:17.489 --> 00:35:20.389 TV and you're distracted and then your dog breaks 00:35:20.389 --> 00:35:25.110 place. And maybe three or four or five minutes 00:35:25.110 --> 00:35:28.269 in and they break place and you don't notice. 00:35:29.690 --> 00:35:32.690 And then you just move on to another activity 00:35:32.690 --> 00:35:37.650 and you're like, oh, right. I forgot. And now 00:35:37.650 --> 00:35:40.809 your dog goes with you. Right. And you just move 00:35:40.809 --> 00:35:43.489 on because you're like, oh, well, I forgot. I 00:35:43.489 --> 00:35:47.030 wasn't clear. I didn't realize I didn't. And 00:35:47.030 --> 00:35:49.389 you blame. You're like, oh, well, it's not fair 00:35:49.389 --> 00:35:54.969 for me to correct them. I would disagree because 00:35:54.969 --> 00:35:57.250 and because you don't have to be mean about it. 00:35:57.469 --> 00:35:59.590 Yeah. But you for sure at the moment that you 00:35:59.590 --> 00:36:01.929 do realize you got to be like, oh, you tricked 00:36:01.929 --> 00:36:05.510 me. Like, cool. I'm not going to. I'm not going 00:36:05.510 --> 00:36:08.429 to punish my dog. Right. Like, but I'm for sure 00:36:08.429 --> 00:36:09.730 going to walk them back over there and be like, 00:36:09.789 --> 00:36:13.719 no, no. I told you to go onto your place and, 00:36:13.800 --> 00:36:17.460 and you tricked me and, and I didn't notice, 00:36:17.500 --> 00:36:19.420 but we're going to go back there and we're going 00:36:19.420 --> 00:36:23.599 to finish that out the right way. That's really 00:36:23.599 --> 00:36:27.760 important. Yeah. Because you'll make a lot of, 00:36:27.800 --> 00:36:30.980 uh, training dollars on this, on this subject, 00:36:31.039 --> 00:36:34.320 right? When it's just because you, you mess it 00:36:34.320 --> 00:36:38.719 up and you didn't catch it exactly on point doesn't 00:36:38.719 --> 00:36:41.619 mean that you can't. just guide them back there 00:36:41.619 --> 00:36:45.739 through leadership and being like, no, no, this 00:36:45.739 --> 00:36:49.639 is where I want you to be. Right, and it takes 00:36:49.639 --> 00:36:52.059 a few extra seconds or minutes, right? But those 00:36:52.059 --> 00:36:55.500 are the things that matter and add up in the 00:36:55.500 --> 00:36:58.300 long run of your dog learning the difference 00:36:58.300 --> 00:37:03.960 of whether you meant it or not. Yep, yep. The 00:37:03.960 --> 00:37:08.539 last subject that I think... Well, I want to 00:37:08.539 --> 00:37:12.420 bring up and then we'll, we'll move on to using 00:37:12.420 --> 00:37:14.480 it in real life. And we'll talk about a little 00:37:14.480 --> 00:37:19.940 more of those things is that your dog place is 00:37:19.940 --> 00:37:22.960 a great opportunity for your dog to test your 00:37:22.960 --> 00:37:29.400 desire and your, like the words that are coming 00:37:29.400 --> 00:37:31.360 to my head are like mental fortitude, right? 00:37:31.440 --> 00:37:37.579 Like what is your. True stomach for how involved 00:37:37.579 --> 00:37:42.440 you're going to get. Yeah. And I think that dogs 00:37:42.440 --> 00:37:46.760 have way more patience than we do. And place 00:37:46.760 --> 00:37:50.159 is a great command for a dog to kind of like, 00:37:50.260 --> 00:37:54.179 it's a play on words, right? Sniff you out for 00:37:54.179 --> 00:37:57.980 how serious you're really going to be. Yeah. 00:37:59.199 --> 00:38:02.840 And they're really good at it. Because they'll 00:38:02.840 --> 00:38:05.840 be cute about it. They'll be silly about it. 00:38:06.139 --> 00:38:10.639 We have a Frenchie that I was joking about earlier. 00:38:10.860 --> 00:38:13.820 We have a Frenchie that will just kind of slither 00:38:13.820 --> 00:38:18.699 off of this elevated place bed. And she's only 00:38:18.699 --> 00:38:25.400 like 14 inches long. She's like almost upside 00:38:25.400 --> 00:38:28.059 down. Right. She's almost upside down and her 00:38:28.059 --> 00:38:31.000 back legs are like sticking up into the air because 00:38:31.000 --> 00:38:32.980 she just doesn't have the length to like really 00:38:32.980 --> 00:38:36.139 slither off of this thing. But it will be like, 00:38:36.159 --> 00:38:39.300 you know, you're you're watching it and you're 00:38:39.300 --> 00:38:41.860 like, oh, my gosh, you are the most ridiculous. 00:38:41.960 --> 00:38:43.840 That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. 00:38:43.900 --> 00:38:46.639 But you have to like stop yourself. It doesn't 00:38:46.639 --> 00:38:48.659 matter if it's ridiculous. Go correct it. Right. 00:38:48.820 --> 00:38:51.539 You got to be like, no, no. Get back on your 00:38:51.539 --> 00:38:57.800 place. If you don't, then as cute and as funny 00:38:57.800 --> 00:39:02.559 as it is, they still outbluffed you, right? They're 00:39:02.559 --> 00:39:05.659 like, you're not actually going to do anything 00:39:05.659 --> 00:39:10.980 about this. And when they find that. They're 00:39:10.980 --> 00:39:12.679 for sure going to be opportunistic about it. 00:39:12.699 --> 00:39:15.539 That doesn't mean they're manipulating the situation. 00:39:15.719 --> 00:39:18.380 They're just being opportunistic, which animals 00:39:18.380 --> 00:39:21.579 are. Animals are opportunistic. That means the 00:39:21.579 --> 00:39:26.039 door being open is usually not a, I'm going to 00:39:26.039 --> 00:39:29.659 go outside. The dog is not making a decision. 00:39:29.800 --> 00:39:31.440 I'm going to go outside and I'm going to run 00:39:31.440 --> 00:39:34.320 around and I probably see another dog and I might 00:39:34.320 --> 00:39:36.099 bark at that one. They're not thinking through 00:39:36.099 --> 00:39:37.820 the process. They're just like, the door's open. 00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:40.650 I'm going out. Yeah. oh there's food on the ground 00:39:40.650 --> 00:39:45.130 i'm gonna eat it right it's it's impulsive it's 00:39:45.130 --> 00:39:47.389 opportunistic as i say you know what helps with 00:39:47.389 --> 00:39:50.989 that impulse control right exactly so engagement 00:39:50.989 --> 00:39:55.170 in you and impulse control so the and the way 00:39:55.170 --> 00:39:58.269 that we train that is by being brilliant in the 00:39:58.269 --> 00:40:02.309 basics we have to correct those little things 00:40:02.309 --> 00:40:05.710 oh it's just one paw right oh it's oh they're 00:40:05.710 --> 00:40:09.940 just he's Actually, he's just trying to get comfortable. 00:40:10.579 --> 00:40:13.860 Right. And the dog kind of is like rolling kind 00:40:13.860 --> 00:40:18.219 of off of the place, but well, they're feeling 00:40:18.219 --> 00:40:21.219 you out. Yeah. Right. Are you going to correct 00:40:21.219 --> 00:40:24.260 that? Is it a big deal? Is it not a big deal? 00:40:24.739 --> 00:40:27.539 Well, those are your opportunities and what you 00:40:27.539 --> 00:40:31.559 do in those moments will define some of your 00:40:31.559 --> 00:40:35.679 other moments that you might not realize are 00:40:35.679 --> 00:40:41.219 related. Yeah. So inevitably when the dog is 00:40:41.219 --> 00:40:43.099 barking at something, you're like, hey, knock 00:40:43.099 --> 00:40:46.420 it off. Or dog is chasing something and you're 00:40:46.420 --> 00:40:50.559 like, hey, come, come back here. Or you are out 00:40:50.559 --> 00:40:53.360 somewhere and you're like, no, get back under 00:40:53.360 --> 00:40:57.340 this chair or on my side. He'll come do this, 00:40:57.380 --> 00:41:01.019 do that, whatever it is. Those things are related. 00:41:01.699 --> 00:41:04.760 If you're not holding your dog accountable in 00:41:04.760 --> 00:41:08.739 those calm, relaxed situations. You don't have 00:41:08.739 --> 00:41:12.960 a hope in the world at breaking through in those 00:41:12.960 --> 00:41:20.179 impulsive, crazy situations. Okay. The last thing 00:41:20.179 --> 00:41:22.380 that we're going to talk about tonight is using 00:41:22.380 --> 00:41:26.780 place in real life where integrating it into 00:41:26.780 --> 00:41:32.960 our daily routines allow a lot of power in, in 00:41:32.960 --> 00:41:36.690 our, not just our. training of a dog but also 00:41:36.690 --> 00:41:42.090 in building our relationship with the dog every 00:41:42.090 --> 00:41:47.969 bit of training dog training is not about control 00:41:47.969 --> 00:41:52.230 over the dog dog training is about building a 00:41:52.230 --> 00:41:55.230 relationship to where your dog wants to listen 00:41:55.230 --> 00:41:59.159 to you Because it's fun and it's engaging and 00:41:59.159 --> 00:42:03.000 it's in their best interest and they want to 00:42:03.000 --> 00:42:05.500 please you and they want to make you happy and 00:42:05.500 --> 00:42:08.960 it's just a great time, right? It's a positive 00:42:08.960 --> 00:42:13.099 experience. That is what dog training is all 00:42:13.099 --> 00:42:20.840 about. And so, let me not go down that rabbit 00:42:20.840 --> 00:42:24.980 hole. But in general, this comes up a lot when 00:42:24.980 --> 00:42:31.000 I'm, trying to explain the value of, of the training 00:42:31.000 --> 00:42:34.739 atmosphere and, and training in the home, because 00:42:34.739 --> 00:42:37.400 it's not just about when the dog trainer is there, 00:42:37.519 --> 00:42:42.739 right? Everyone here listening is, has to be 00:42:42.739 --> 00:42:47.219 the dog trainer has to be. And, and the dog trainer 00:42:47.219 --> 00:42:51.639 like concept, it's not just about that guy coming 00:42:51.639 --> 00:42:55.809 over and telling me what to do. The, The dog 00:42:55.809 --> 00:42:58.210 trainer aspect is you've got to be your dog's 00:42:58.210 --> 00:43:02.869 friend, but also your dog's leader. And you got 00:43:02.869 --> 00:43:06.269 to blend those two. And the more that you lead 00:43:06.269 --> 00:43:09.590 them and the more that you hold them accountable 00:43:09.590 --> 00:43:12.469 with that leadership, setting clear expectations 00:43:12.469 --> 00:43:15.750 and then holding them accountable for them, it 00:43:15.750 --> 00:43:17.730 builds your relationship to where your dog's 00:43:17.730 --> 00:43:21.699 like, yeah. Come back? Okay, cool. What are we 00:43:21.699 --> 00:43:24.840 doing next? Rather than, no, no, I'm not coming 00:43:24.840 --> 00:43:28.739 because there's a squirrel. There's a goose over 00:43:28.739 --> 00:43:31.360 there. I'm not coming back. That goose is awesome. 00:43:31.579 --> 00:43:35.400 I want to go check that out. You don't have a 00:43:35.400 --> 00:43:38.280 hope in the world of getting them to come back 00:43:38.280 --> 00:43:42.340 because you're boring or you're not a leader 00:43:42.340 --> 00:43:46.619 or you're not fun or you're not whatever. Dogs 00:43:46.619 --> 00:43:49.920 are always going to be that op. opportunistic 00:43:49.920 --> 00:43:56.440 animal. And it's like, if you don't, yeah, I'm 00:43:56.440 --> 00:44:00.659 super, super off on a rabbit hole now. But one 00:44:00.659 --> 00:44:02.840 of the ways I'll, I'll just finish with this. 00:44:02.900 --> 00:44:06.119 One of the ways, and I'm mostly talking to like 00:44:06.119 --> 00:44:08.559 my clients that are like listening right now, 00:44:08.639 --> 00:44:13.820 a new way that I've started explaining some of 00:44:13.820 --> 00:44:19.409 the like recall and obedience. pet owners is 00:44:19.409 --> 00:44:25.110 this. To get a dog to come back to you, to get 00:44:25.110 --> 00:44:27.730 a dog to sit, to get a dog to down, to get a 00:44:27.730 --> 00:44:32.210 dog to listen to you, you require whatever, if 00:44:32.210 --> 00:44:35.489 we put it into dollars and currency so that it 00:44:35.489 --> 00:44:39.389 makes sense, if you ask the dog for a $20 task, 00:44:39.949 --> 00:44:45.130 whatever that is, let's say it's come. It costs 00:44:45.130 --> 00:44:51.150 you $20 of something of this dog attention currency 00:44:51.150 --> 00:44:57.389 to break the dog's cycle of whatever it is that 00:44:57.389 --> 00:44:59.670 they're thinking of and turn towards you and 00:44:59.670 --> 00:45:04.670 come back to you. You have the ability to either 00:45:04.670 --> 00:45:11.190 provide a $20 reward. That entices the dog is 00:45:11.190 --> 00:45:13.809 like, oh, cool. I'm going to come and get that. 00:45:15.070 --> 00:45:21.789 Or you have to build $15 worth of relationship 00:45:21.789 --> 00:45:28.110 so that then you only need a $5 reward. That 00:45:28.110 --> 00:45:32.409 $5 reward might just be good boy. Oh, good job. 00:45:33.769 --> 00:45:37.579 But the reason why that now works. is because 00:45:37.579 --> 00:45:40.920 you built a relationship that fills the other 00:45:40.920 --> 00:45:46.820 $15 worth of void. And that relationship is, 00:45:46.940 --> 00:45:50.519 hey, I love doing stuff with my mom. I love doing 00:45:50.519 --> 00:45:54.239 stuff with my dad. I just can't wait to do the 00:45:54.239 --> 00:45:56.760 next thing, whatever it is, because it's so exciting 00:45:56.760 --> 00:46:02.039 and I love my life. That is $15 worth of your 00:46:02.039 --> 00:46:06.320 $20 ask, if that makes sense. Yeah. Hopefully 00:46:06.320 --> 00:46:09.510 it does. All right. All right. Now we're back 00:46:09.510 --> 00:46:12.849 on track. Back to place. All right. So things 00:46:12.849 --> 00:46:16.969 that you can use place for in real life. I'm 00:46:16.969 --> 00:46:21.190 getting a side eye. So you can use it during 00:46:21.190 --> 00:46:23.769 mealtimes to prevent begging or crowding. Always 00:46:23.769 --> 00:46:25.869 a big one with dogs like hovering around the 00:46:25.869 --> 00:46:28.550 table, right? Yeah. Sending them to place. It's 00:46:28.550 --> 00:46:31.989 going to be a great one. When guests arrive to 00:46:31.989 --> 00:46:35.869 prevent jumping and overexcitement, people. inevitably 00:46:35.869 --> 00:46:38.489 all the time we see clients and it's always dogs 00:46:38.489 --> 00:46:43.329 pummeling guests right yeah huge one of does 00:46:43.329 --> 00:46:45.789 your dog have a place but does he go to their 00:46:45.789 --> 00:46:49.130 place building in that guest protocol where it's 00:46:49.130 --> 00:46:52.110 doorbell rings dog goes to place yep and we can 00:46:52.110 --> 00:46:55.550 we can do that easily these days yeah doorbells 00:46:55.550 --> 00:46:58.449 you can pretty much ring them on your phone a 00:46:58.449 --> 00:47:02.539 lot of times yeah um And and even if not, you 00:47:02.539 --> 00:47:05.500 can create a distraction. You, you know, slip 00:47:05.500 --> 00:47:08.260 a hand outside, ring the doorbell and then act 00:47:08.260 --> 00:47:12.559 like you're going to get it. And the dog doesn't 00:47:12.559 --> 00:47:16.460 just go to place and come off place as soon as 00:47:16.460 --> 00:47:18.699 the guest comes in. Right. If your dog is level 00:47:18.699 --> 00:47:22.179 10 excited when a guest comes in, that dog has 00:47:22.179 --> 00:47:24.820 to stay on place until they are brought down 00:47:24.820 --> 00:47:27.420 to like a one or a two or whatever is an acceptable. 00:47:28.440 --> 00:47:31.239 level of excitement for the guest because if 00:47:31.239 --> 00:47:33.980 they come off at a 10 of their place they're 00:47:33.980 --> 00:47:36.320 just gonna be at a 10 or a 12 by the time they 00:47:36.320 --> 00:47:39.619 get to the guest yeah definitely um using it 00:47:39.619 --> 00:47:42.000 during kids play time or busy household moments 00:47:42.000 --> 00:47:44.760 to create calm structure that's a really big 00:47:44.760 --> 00:47:49.460 one like we have a lot of dogs that we see like 00:47:49.460 --> 00:47:51.400 with kids and things like that where they're 00:47:51.400 --> 00:47:54.400 not the most comfortable with kids or you know 00:47:54.400 --> 00:47:58.780 they just don't like kids or any of that um they 00:47:58.780 --> 00:48:02.420 just don't like you know guests coming over all 00:48:02.420 --> 00:48:07.519 of those things can be managed with a place bed 00:48:07.519 --> 00:48:11.780 giving that space to your dog and saying hey 00:48:11.780 --> 00:48:14.039 this is your space to go relax while all this 00:48:14.039 --> 00:48:16.440 chaos is going on you don't have to participate 00:48:16.440 --> 00:48:20.300 in it yeah and the dog Feeling like that is their 00:48:20.300 --> 00:48:22.480 option and their choice to be like, cool, I'm 00:48:22.480 --> 00:48:25.280 going to go over here and relax. Yeah. Gives 00:48:25.280 --> 00:48:28.659 them that security to not be stressed about the 00:48:28.659 --> 00:48:30.900 situation because dogs a lot of times don't want 00:48:30.900 --> 00:48:33.679 to be involved in the chaos. You see a dog ping 00:48:33.679 --> 00:48:36.960 ponging off of people in like a house party or 00:48:36.960 --> 00:48:40.099 whatever it is, a family get together because 00:48:40.099 --> 00:48:42.719 the dog is excited by all the energy going on. 00:48:42.800 --> 00:48:46.280 Yeah. Getting them a place bed to go to gets 00:48:46.280 --> 00:48:49.460 them out of that energy level. And brings them 00:48:49.460 --> 00:48:51.679 down to where they need to be. Right. And we 00:48:51.679 --> 00:48:55.099 can gradually increase the distractions. Yeah. 00:48:56.599 --> 00:49:02.820 As we build proficiency in that. Yeah. So then 00:49:02.820 --> 00:49:06.099 having people walk up and pet your dog while 00:49:06.099 --> 00:49:09.400 they're on place is actually a reality instead 00:49:09.400 --> 00:49:16.900 of just like a pipe dream. Yep. Release patterns. 00:49:17.559 --> 00:49:22.380 Let's talk about those. So when we build a release 00:49:22.380 --> 00:49:27.159 with a dog, it's really important of how we pattern 00:49:27.159 --> 00:49:29.199 that. And the reason is because of classical 00:49:29.199 --> 00:49:33.059 conditioning. So classical conditioning is the 00:49:33.059 --> 00:49:37.960 process of creating something the dog doesn't 00:49:37.960 --> 00:49:40.920 have control over but can predict something that's 00:49:40.920 --> 00:49:47.960 important to the dog. The Pavlov's dogs was an 00:49:47.960 --> 00:49:52.260 example of classical conditioning where he rang 00:49:52.260 --> 00:49:56.119 the bell and the dogs then got the food. And 00:49:56.119 --> 00:49:58.280 they rang the bell and then gave him the food. 00:49:58.920 --> 00:50:03.260 And after a whole bunch of times, the dogs did 00:50:03.260 --> 00:50:05.719 not have control over the fact that when they 00:50:05.719 --> 00:50:09.159 heard the bell, they began salivating because 00:50:09.159 --> 00:50:13.019 they predicted that the food was about to arrive. 00:50:14.090 --> 00:50:17.349 Now, we can use that same concept for the place 00:50:17.349 --> 00:50:21.150 bed release in that instead of releasing the 00:50:21.150 --> 00:50:24.889 dog from a distance across the room and randomly 00:50:24.889 --> 00:50:27.230 just being like, okay, you're free, go ahead 00:50:27.230 --> 00:50:31.030 and get up. Instead, we can do either a contact 00:50:31.030 --> 00:50:34.150 release or proximity release is what we would 00:50:34.150 --> 00:50:39.130 call it. What that means is where I walk to the 00:50:39.130 --> 00:50:44.650 dog and then either touch them, like on the head 00:50:44.650 --> 00:50:47.230 like give them a pet and say okay now you can 00:50:47.230 --> 00:50:50.190 get up or that would be a contact release where 00:50:50.190 --> 00:50:53.389 i actually physically touch them and then release 00:50:53.389 --> 00:50:57.389 them or proximity meaning i walk directly to 00:50:57.389 --> 00:50:59.550 them and then once i'm within that one arm's 00:50:59.550 --> 00:51:05.530 distance then i release them what that does is 00:51:05.530 --> 00:51:14.630 the you walking over there becomes the precursor 00:51:14.630 --> 00:51:18.809 to the release that's really important because 00:51:18.809 --> 00:51:24.309 otherwise the dog will predict or self -release 00:51:24.309 --> 00:51:29.170 more often Because they'll be like, I think he 00:51:29.170 --> 00:51:33.070 said free. I think I heard it. I heard it. And 00:51:33.070 --> 00:51:35.170 they come running off and they're like, yeah, 00:51:35.190 --> 00:51:37.869 I heard it, right? And you're like, no. And then 00:51:37.869 --> 00:51:40.389 you have to go back and put them on place. So 00:51:40.389 --> 00:51:43.769 we can avoid that by only releasing our dogs 00:51:43.769 --> 00:51:47.690 once after we have walked up towards them and 00:51:47.690 --> 00:51:50.210 either touch them if you're using a contact release 00:51:50.210 --> 00:51:53.349 or you've gotten very close to them as a proximity 00:51:53.349 --> 00:51:57.849 release. That way they will. Only predict that 00:51:57.849 --> 00:52:00.510 release is coming at the point where you've walked 00:52:00.510 --> 00:52:03.469 all the way up to them. Yeah. I think that's 00:52:03.469 --> 00:52:06.570 a much more successful strategy than releasing 00:52:06.570 --> 00:52:15.050 your dog across the room. All right. I am looking 00:52:15.050 --> 00:52:20.989 at this. What signs show that? What would you 00:52:20.989 --> 00:52:27.159 be looking for in the dog as proof? that we can 00:52:27.159 --> 00:52:30.599 start building longer durations what are you 00:52:30.599 --> 00:52:36.500 looking for i mean i'm looking for a quite significant 00:52:36.500 --> 00:52:41.099 string of like successful reps of them and usually 00:52:41.099 --> 00:52:45.500 i build it out right i i build in like some quick 00:52:45.500 --> 00:52:49.780 yes or continuation markers and then give them 00:52:49.780 --> 00:52:53.619 free so i will kind of increase it with that 00:52:54.960 --> 00:52:57.400 Along with adding just like one to two steps 00:52:57.400 --> 00:53:00.639 into my distance and making sure those are successful 00:53:00.639 --> 00:53:03.940 before I move on to like letting go of the leash 00:53:03.940 --> 00:53:07.380 or anything like that. So yeah, I kind of build 00:53:07.380 --> 00:53:10.920 in duration and distance at the same time, but 00:53:10.920 --> 00:53:14.440 only like one to two steps at a time. So typically 00:53:14.440 --> 00:53:17.559 I'll take one step back. mark with a yes step 00:53:17.559 --> 00:53:20.699 forward and as they're eating the treat still 00:53:20.699 --> 00:53:24.000 i will then take two steps and then i will mark 00:53:24.000 --> 00:53:28.340 and move forward and and reward so that way i'm 00:53:28.340 --> 00:53:30.380 getting some distance while the dog is pretty 00:53:30.380 --> 00:53:33.079 much distracted by eating the treat in the very 00:53:33.079 --> 00:53:36.260 very beginning so then i can build that distance 00:53:36.260 --> 00:53:38.659 and duration at the same time but i'm talking 00:53:38.659 --> 00:53:42.920 like Right. And like many steps. And if the dog 00:53:42.920 --> 00:53:45.920 breaks, when I take two steps back, I go back 00:53:45.920 --> 00:53:48.500 to taking one step back and I rep that out a 00:53:48.500 --> 00:53:53.000 couple of times. Yeah. So that's right. You alluded 00:53:53.000 --> 00:53:56.139 to my favorite way to build duration is actually 00:53:56.139 --> 00:54:01.679 to rely on distance first. And so what that distance 00:54:01.679 --> 00:54:04.860 you people hear distance. They're like, oh, yeah, 00:54:04.940 --> 00:54:06.500 like across the room. And I'm like, no, no, no. 00:54:06.780 --> 00:54:10.900 Like one to two steps. Yeah. Because the amount 00:54:10.900 --> 00:54:13.900 of time that it takes you to take that one or 00:54:13.900 --> 00:54:18.159 two steps back automatically starts to build 00:54:18.159 --> 00:54:21.559 those small little micro duration increases. 00:54:22.000 --> 00:54:28.019 Yeah. And movement always attracts dogs. So by 00:54:28.019 --> 00:54:31.780 you moving back and them holding that impulse 00:54:31.780 --> 00:54:35.719 control and not leaving their place bed. You 00:54:35.719 --> 00:54:38.780 can immediately move forward and I can start, 00:54:38.860 --> 00:54:41.360 I can basically do three things at once, right? 00:54:41.719 --> 00:54:46.940 My distance is building duration and it's also 00:54:46.940 --> 00:54:51.519 conditioning that proximity release. So by me 00:54:51.519 --> 00:54:55.960 backing up and never releasing them while I'm 00:54:55.960 --> 00:55:00.619 away from them, they start to see that, oh, regardless 00:55:00.619 --> 00:55:03.690 of how much he backs up, I have to wait until 00:55:03.690 --> 00:55:07.110 he walks back forward. So that's really helpful. 00:55:07.309 --> 00:55:11.230 Number two, the slower I walk, I can use the 00:55:11.230 --> 00:55:13.949 same amount of distance, but I can still increase 00:55:13.949 --> 00:55:18.849 the duration. And so I can use my win on the 00:55:18.849 --> 00:55:21.670 distance side or on the distance metric here 00:55:21.670 --> 00:55:24.929 to actually increase the duration at the same 00:55:24.929 --> 00:55:28.630 time. So yeah, that's the science behind it. 00:55:28.789 --> 00:55:33.679 Okay. Uh, I am going to, that's my last point 00:55:33.679 --> 00:55:36.539 that I've got for tonight on the place bed. I've 00:55:36.539 --> 00:55:39.619 got two listener projects, but before we jump 00:55:39.619 --> 00:55:44.460 into that, I'm going to, um, play my jeopardy 00:55:44.460 --> 00:55:48.159 music and, I'm going to open it up for questions. 00:55:48.719 --> 00:55:52.920 Anybody has a question? I'm going to unmute everybody 00:55:52.920 --> 00:55:56.280 here. What do we got? Happy new year, everybody. 00:55:57.400 --> 00:56:04.980 Yeah. Happy New Year. Hey, Heidi. Hey, I have 00:56:04.980 --> 00:56:08.219 a question. We have two place beds in the house. 00:56:08.480 --> 00:56:14.699 OK. Is it should we be calling both of them a 00:56:14.699 --> 00:56:16.960 place better? Do you think that's creating confusion 00:56:16.960 --> 00:56:21.099 for Maverick? So I think it would only be confusing 00:56:21.099 --> 00:56:25.380 if you're if you're using only the verbal and 00:56:25.380 --> 00:56:29.119 just being like, go to your place. I think that 00:56:29.119 --> 00:56:32.039 if you're using any type of body language that 00:56:32.039 --> 00:56:36.059 I've never had major issues with that. If I just 00:56:36.059 --> 00:56:39.780 most of the dogs that we run through any of our 00:56:39.780 --> 00:56:43.920 programs, we do use multiple place beds in like 00:56:43.920 --> 00:56:45.940 a living room setup. We'll have like four or 00:56:45.940 --> 00:56:49.579 five and I'll have them go place over here and 00:56:49.579 --> 00:56:52.659 I'll point to it and then place over there and 00:56:52.659 --> 00:56:55.480 I'll point to it place over here because the 00:56:55.480 --> 00:57:00.579 way that I want to use place. Hey, what I'm pointing 00:57:00.579 --> 00:57:04.000 to here, I want you to put your paws on it and 00:57:04.000 --> 00:57:08.800 stay there. Yeah. Gotcha. And so I will almost 00:57:08.800 --> 00:57:14.800 never just send a dog to place with verbal only. 00:57:15.260 --> 00:57:19.320 And the reason for that is because I use it interchangeably 00:57:19.320 --> 00:57:23.460 and I can use it with my dogs at the point where 00:57:23.460 --> 00:57:28.199 they fully understand it. I can. point to a couch 00:57:28.199 --> 00:57:32.340 cushion or on a chair or on a bench. And I can 00:57:32.340 --> 00:57:36.440 be like place and tap on like a picnic bench 00:57:36.440 --> 00:57:38.599 and they'll jump up on the picnic bench and then, 00:57:38.639 --> 00:57:40.840 you know, lay down or, or put their paws there 00:57:40.840 --> 00:57:44.820 and, and stand there. That is how I like to use 00:57:44.820 --> 00:57:48.260 place. So I don't think that you are, I don't 00:57:48.260 --> 00:57:51.619 think you need a whole nother command unless 00:57:51.619 --> 00:57:56.599 that. works for you and, and you want to have 00:57:56.599 --> 00:58:02.599 a different command. No, that makes sense. Cool. 00:58:04.000 --> 00:58:08.360 Thank you. Yeah, no problem. I hope that Maverick 00:58:08.360 --> 00:58:13.900 feels better with his, his poor, I saw a picture 00:58:13.900 --> 00:58:18.989 of him earlier. He looked so sad. But I know 00:58:18.989 --> 00:58:22.489 he'll pull through, right? He's got the cone, 00:58:22.630 --> 00:58:26.710 the cone of shame. But he'll pull through. He'll 00:58:26.710 --> 00:58:31.349 be good. I'm sure he will. All right. Does anybody 00:58:31.349 --> 00:58:41.050 else have a question tonight? All right. I'm 00:58:41.050 --> 00:58:44.289 going to jump in. Feel free to jump. jump in 00:58:44.289 --> 00:58:46.670 here if you're working on finding the the mute 00:58:46.670 --> 00:58:50.750 button i'm gonna jump into listener projects 00:58:50.750 --> 00:58:57.250 uh listener project number one so we we actually 00:58:57.250 --> 00:59:00.090 detailed this uh pretty well but introduction 00:59:00.090 --> 00:59:07.349 to place if you um when you're when you're using 00:59:07.349 --> 00:59:10.690 place and so i'll refer back to kind of our initial 00:59:10.690 --> 00:59:14.469 instructions The project here is actually going 00:59:14.469 --> 00:59:21.849 to be try to incorporate a toy or chew or an 00:59:21.849 --> 00:59:28.429 activity for a dog to only get to do on their 00:59:28.429 --> 00:59:32.019 place bed. And so what that looks like is you, 00:59:32.179 --> 00:59:35.059 uh, you place, uh, let's talk about like a little 00:59:35.059 --> 00:59:38.559 chew bone or something. So I'll take these, we 00:59:38.559 --> 00:59:41.900 use the Himalayan yak chews or the, the yak cheese 00:59:41.900 --> 00:59:45.400 chews a lot. Um, cause they're very, very simple, 00:59:45.480 --> 00:59:48.300 very highly digestible. Um, there's only like 00:59:48.300 --> 00:59:52.039 three ingredients in them. So they, I'll take 00:59:52.039 --> 00:59:54.000 one of those and I'll put it on the place bed 00:59:54.000 --> 01:00:01.670 and then dog goes onto the place. your dog grabs 01:00:01.670 --> 01:00:05.349 the toy or the treat or whatever and leaves the 01:00:05.349 --> 01:00:09.550 place bed, you just quietly walk over, take it 01:00:09.550 --> 01:00:11.929 away from them, and just put it right back on 01:00:11.929 --> 01:00:13.690 their place bed. You don't even have to say anything. 01:00:15.090 --> 01:00:18.150 About two or three times of that, the dog's like, 01:00:18.329 --> 01:00:20.489 well, I'm tired of you taking that thing away 01:00:20.489 --> 01:00:25.510 from me. But every time, they just keep dropping 01:00:25.510 --> 01:00:29.099 it right back here on the place. It doesn't take, 01:00:29.139 --> 01:00:31.639 I have, I have never seen it take very long for 01:00:31.639 --> 01:00:34.719 a dog to be like, okay, I'll just eat it here. 01:00:34.800 --> 01:00:38.039 Yeah. Right. It's like, well, they're not taking 01:00:38.039 --> 01:00:41.000 it away from me when I'm eating it on here. So 01:00:41.000 --> 01:00:45.079 I'll just eat it right here. Boom. That, that 01:00:45.079 --> 01:00:48.460 is the whole enchilada right there. Yeah. So 01:00:48.460 --> 01:00:52.659 super easy to incorporate. You can, you can introduce 01:00:52.659 --> 01:00:54.719 the place bed the way that we talked about earlier 01:00:54.719 --> 01:00:58.869 in the episode. And then you can use it in that 01:00:58.869 --> 01:01:02.630 way. Project number two, three minute calm session. 01:01:03.030 --> 01:01:06.769 Place your dog on the bed and stay nearby in 01:01:06.769 --> 01:01:09.929 the same room. And then just reward the dog periodically 01:01:09.929 --> 01:01:12.489 as they stay calm and relaxed. So using that 01:01:12.489 --> 01:01:14.230 distance, that duration that we were talking 01:01:14.230 --> 01:01:19.110 about, just walk away a little bit, hold it, 01:01:19.210 --> 01:01:23.030 and then walk back to the dog and drop a little 01:01:23.030 --> 01:01:25.699 treat right on their place bed. Yep. Let them 01:01:25.699 --> 01:01:28.139 eat it. And then just work through that. You 01:01:28.139 --> 01:01:31.119 can slowly build up that duration until you get 01:01:31.119 --> 01:01:34.940 to about that three minute mark. Three to five 01:01:34.940 --> 01:01:37.980 minutes is a good amount to start with before 01:01:37.980 --> 01:01:41.739 you start making things too complicated. So try 01:01:41.739 --> 01:01:44.199 to make it to that three minute mark. Release. 01:01:44.320 --> 01:01:48.619 We use free as a treat release. And then the 01:01:48.619 --> 01:01:51.719 dog flies back to us. grabs that treat from us 01:01:51.719 --> 01:01:54.199 and then is able to do whatever they want so 01:01:54.199 --> 01:01:57.980 uh we use so go ahead and release a dog with 01:01:57.980 --> 01:02:01.579 free and but make sure that we're only really 01:02:01.579 --> 01:02:03.900 releasing the dog when we're building duration 01:02:03.900 --> 01:02:06.840 we don't want to release the dog while they're 01:02:06.840 --> 01:02:09.840 doing the little tippy tappy like pause right 01:02:09.840 --> 01:02:12.239 while they're like vibrating because a guest 01:02:12.239 --> 01:02:15.380 is over that's a bad time to just release your 01:02:15.380 --> 01:02:18.179 dog because they're just gonna fly off of there 01:02:18.179 --> 01:02:21.880 yeah so Wait for the calm, wait for those, that 01:02:21.880 --> 01:02:26.340 relaxation and then release and watch how your 01:02:26.340 --> 01:02:29.139 dog's body language stays much, much more calm. 01:02:29.280 --> 01:02:33.500 Yep. All right. That is all I've got for episode 01:02:33.500 --> 01:02:38.460 15. Uh, thank you for joining us tonight. I'm 01:02:38.460 --> 01:02:41.420 going to sign off of here pretty quickly. Um, 01:02:41.519 --> 01:02:45.679 we got next week. I'm trying to remember what 01:02:45.679 --> 01:02:47.980 is coming up next week. I think it's sitting 01:02:47.980 --> 01:02:50.599 down. Yeah. So we're going through the rest of 01:02:50.599 --> 01:02:52.400 the obedience commands. We're going to talk about 01:02:52.400 --> 01:02:55.199 sitting down and incorporating those. They'll 01:02:55.199 --> 01:02:58.179 kind of incorporate back in here to place and 01:02:58.179 --> 01:03:01.719 stuff. But at the end of the day, my biggest, 01:03:01.800 --> 01:03:04.619 biggest thing is that you've got to build your 01:03:04.619 --> 01:03:06.739 relationship with your dog. If you don't build 01:03:06.739 --> 01:03:08.860 that relationship, you're not going to have that 01:03:08.860 --> 01:03:12.420 currency that you can exchange for your dog's 01:03:12.420 --> 01:03:16.150 behavior. Yeah. All right. All right. that's 01:03:16.150 --> 01:03:18.510 all i got thanks guys for tuning in thanks good 01:03:18.510 --> 01:03:19.809 night we'll see you next week