WEBVTT 00:00:33.100 --> 00:00:35.859 Welcome to Pawprint Academy, your blueprint to 00:00:35.859 --> 00:00:38.780 raising better dogs. My name is Ryan, and I'll 00:00:38.780 --> 00:00:41.659 be your host for this journey. I've got my trusty 00:00:41.659 --> 00:00:44.299 co -host here, Brianna. Hello. And together, 00:00:44.299 --> 00:00:46.159 we're bringing you real -world training insights 00:00:46.159 --> 00:00:48.899 built on leadership, structure, and proven methods. 00:00:49.600 --> 00:00:52.159 We record this podcast with live clients on the 00:00:52.159 --> 00:00:55.439 line in one take with live, unscripted questions 00:00:55.439 --> 00:00:58.219 and answers. At the end of the day, this podcast 00:00:58.219 --> 00:01:00.240 is a lot more than just teaching your dog to 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:04.579 sit or stay. creating calmness, and becoming 00:01:04.579 --> 00:01:07.540 the kind of leader your dog truly needs. We do 00:01:07.540 --> 00:01:09.980 that with our three pillar method of trust, obey, 00:01:10.200 --> 00:01:13.459 and perform. Together, we'll show you how these 00:01:13.459 --> 00:01:16.959 three pillars shape every step of training. Thanks 00:01:16.959 --> 00:01:36.859 for being here. Let's get started. Hey there. 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:41.439 Good evening. Episode 18 coming at you. It is 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:45.700 Heel Work. And we're talking about static versus 00:01:45.700 --> 00:01:49.760 dynamic and why both matter tonight. So, welcome. 00:01:50.260 --> 00:01:55.819 Hello, hello. Hello. So, we are going to open 00:01:55.819 --> 00:01:59.219 tonight's podcast by reminding everybody. Thank 00:01:59.219 --> 00:02:02.760 you for joining us, of course. And for our clients 00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:06.540 that are dialed in and listening. Um, just as 00:02:06.540 --> 00:02:10.520 a reminder, we, the folks that are on the zoom 00:02:10.520 --> 00:02:15.360 call, you can submit chat questions, uh, at any 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:17.400 time. I've got the little chat window open. So 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:20.099 as you throw those questions up, we'll answer 00:02:20.099 --> 00:02:23.060 them as we go. Um, everyone else who's just dialed 00:02:23.060 --> 00:02:26.180 in like on the phone and such, uh, we'll provide 00:02:26.180 --> 00:02:29.699 an opportunity to ask questions at the end and, 00:02:29.759 --> 00:02:33.039 or, well, before we finish and then we'll take 00:02:33.039 --> 00:02:37.139 it from there. Um, Let's see what else. Oh, so 00:02:37.139 --> 00:02:40.780 things have been crazy busy. A couple of announcements. 00:02:41.719 --> 00:02:46.419 Our in -home integration slash board and train 00:02:46.419 --> 00:02:51.240 programs are like super, super backed up. So 00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:53.979 I think we're booking into like May right now. 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:59.199 But if you're listening to this and you know, 00:02:59.240 --> 00:03:02.000 you're like, hey, I need to know more about this 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:05.699 or I need help with my dog. We've got a whole 00:03:05.699 --> 00:03:09.900 bunch of other options that we can do, and I'd 00:03:09.900 --> 00:03:13.919 love to hear from you. So tonight we are talking 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:20.020 about heel and why it's important. Yeah. Why 00:03:20.020 --> 00:03:22.919 is it important? Because your dog needs to know 00:03:22.919 --> 00:03:25.060 where to be. Right. Gives them a job. Right. 00:03:25.340 --> 00:03:33.030 Gives it a job. That is a constant process. in 00:03:33.030 --> 00:03:36.629 teaching owners what to do with their dog right 00:03:36.629 --> 00:03:42.729 um your dog usually when we're dealing with behavioral 00:03:42.729 --> 00:03:46.870 dogs we have a misunderstanding of what or the 00:03:46.870 --> 00:03:49.669 dog has a misunderstanding of one what's expected 00:03:49.669 --> 00:03:53.750 and two what their job is and so that's where 00:03:53.750 --> 00:03:59.430 heal gives them an opportunity because in the 00:03:59.430 --> 00:04:03.939 number one I would say the number one thing that 00:04:03.939 --> 00:04:09.060 people reach out to me about is leash reactivity 00:04:09.060 --> 00:04:13.259 or leash walking issues. Because a lot of people 00:04:13.259 --> 00:04:18.160 can put up with dogs being crazy around the house 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:24.899 or maybe they don't even know how calm their 00:04:24.899 --> 00:04:28.250 house could be without that craziness. But where 00:04:28.250 --> 00:04:30.910 they see it and where it really becomes a pain 00:04:30.910 --> 00:04:33.189 point is when they're out in public and they 00:04:33.189 --> 00:04:34.629 want to like go somewhere and they want to take 00:04:34.629 --> 00:04:38.170 their dog somewhere or when they're out on a 00:04:38.170 --> 00:04:41.569 walk. Yeah. And then dog sees another dog and 00:04:41.569 --> 00:04:45.550 dog doesn't like dog and dog suddenly gets very 00:04:45.550 --> 00:04:51.329 upset and showing. Usually it boils over into 00:04:51.329 --> 00:04:54.470 kind of aggressive tendencies that at least look 00:04:54.470 --> 00:05:00.029 aggressive to. people that don't know any better 00:05:00.029 --> 00:05:05.370 yeah and so we have talked a lot about how to 00:05:05.370 --> 00:05:07.050 recognize some of those things in previous podcasts 00:05:07.050 --> 00:05:10.050 as well as what it could be maybe it's not aggression 00:05:10.050 --> 00:05:13.529 maybe it's um you know some some other type of 00:05:13.529 --> 00:05:18.310 uh behavior but if you have an aggressive dog 00:05:18.310 --> 00:05:20.629 or you have a dog that you are wondering hey 00:05:20.629 --> 00:05:23.009 is this is this true aggression like what what 00:05:23.009 --> 00:05:26.769 what am i in here for um We do free evaluations 00:05:26.769 --> 00:05:31.870 and we can do those evaluations online too. It's 00:05:31.870 --> 00:05:34.670 always better to be in person for sure. But if 00:05:34.670 --> 00:05:37.129 you live super far away, happy to talk to you 00:05:37.129 --> 00:05:41.329 and help you out where we can. All right. So 00:05:41.329 --> 00:05:45.949 here we go. Core idea for tonight. Heel work 00:05:45.949 --> 00:05:52.670 is the foundation of a focused walk, right? Focused 00:05:52.670 --> 00:05:56.790 walking engagement. actually allows you to start 00:05:56.790 --> 00:05:59.889 to build some precision into a relatively simple 00:05:59.889 --> 00:06:05.550 concept walk with me yep but when we turn that 00:06:05.550 --> 00:06:11.129 into a job for the dog to do you see a lot of 00:06:11.129 --> 00:06:12.730 other things fall by the wayside because you're 00:06:12.730 --> 00:06:17.310 occupying their um their plate right their their 00:06:17.310 --> 00:06:21.670 brain and when the dog has something to do there's 00:06:21.670 --> 00:06:27.000 no faster way to Get the dog to check out of 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:30.579 what you don't want them to do than to give them 00:06:30.579 --> 00:06:34.500 what you do want them to do. And I think that's 00:06:34.500 --> 00:06:37.699 super lost on people. But we say it all the time 00:06:37.699 --> 00:06:41.360 is you will always be more successful telling 00:06:41.360 --> 00:06:45.680 your dog what to do rather than what not to do. 00:06:45.860 --> 00:06:49.939 And on the walk is no different. So giving the 00:06:49.939 --> 00:06:53.889 dog a position to be in. Teaching them what that 00:06:53.889 --> 00:06:56.810 position is and then expecting them to hold that 00:06:56.810 --> 00:07:00.829 position through different distractions at different 00:07:00.829 --> 00:07:03.370 distances. That's all part of proofing that we've 00:07:03.370 --> 00:07:07.189 talked about over and over and over. But that's 00:07:07.189 --> 00:07:11.930 the whole concept here. We give the dog a job 00:07:11.930 --> 00:07:19.769 even in the walk. Initially, a static heel builds 00:07:19.769 --> 00:07:25.180 clarity in the position. While a dynamic or moving 00:07:25.180 --> 00:07:30.879 heel builds fluidity and responsiveness and teamwork 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:35.660 and pack drive. Yeah, because you're walking 00:07:35.660 --> 00:07:39.759 with your dog. Right. And Brianna loves to talk 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:43.000 about pack drive. Yeah. It's one of my favorite 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:48.399 drives. So, and we initially, we start teaching. 00:07:49.709 --> 00:07:52.569 people and and when we get a dog into our program 00:07:52.569 --> 00:07:55.110 one of the first things that we teach them when 00:07:55.110 --> 00:07:58.490 we go for a walk is not hey heel right here next 00:07:58.490 --> 00:08:01.850 to me it's just hey let's go hey come with me 00:08:01.850 --> 00:08:07.089 we're going together because if you don't teach 00:08:07.089 --> 00:08:12.350 your dog about that pack drive um a lot of times 00:08:12.350 --> 00:08:14.370 they don't know how to do it because they didn't 00:08:14.370 --> 00:08:18.430 grow up in a pack of dogs And so what they initially 00:08:18.430 --> 00:08:22.290 learn in the litter of dogs is oftentimes forgotten 00:08:22.290 --> 00:08:27.769 or at least, you know, gets rusty. And we've 00:08:27.769 --> 00:08:30.430 got to build that pack drive again because you 00:08:30.430 --> 00:08:35.549 have to be in the same pack as your dog. Right. 00:08:35.610 --> 00:08:37.230 And if they're not in a pack drive, they're in 00:08:37.230 --> 00:08:39.230 a different drive. And the other drives are not 00:08:39.230 --> 00:08:41.370 drives that you're looking for on a walk because 00:08:41.370 --> 00:08:44.210 it's play drive and it's prey drive. Right. Neither 00:08:44.210 --> 00:08:46.490 of those are ones that you kind of want on a 00:08:46.490 --> 00:08:47.870 walk. Not going to get the results that you're 00:08:47.870 --> 00:08:53.149 looking for in those. Right. And so good case 00:08:53.149 --> 00:08:57.429 in point. Right. This goes back to that initial 00:08:57.429 --> 00:09:04.210 concept that we. I keep saying that I keep saying. 00:09:04.389 --> 00:09:07.429 And that is you're always going to be more successful 00:09:07.429 --> 00:09:12.029 telling your dog what to do. So if you're allowing 00:09:12.029 --> 00:09:14.649 them to pick what kind of drive they're in and 00:09:14.649 --> 00:09:17.070 what kind of mood they're in and where they want 00:09:17.070 --> 00:09:20.509 to go and how they want to react, well, you haven't 00:09:20.509 --> 00:09:28.049 told them what to do. And so how is it fair that 00:09:28.049 --> 00:09:31.190 you're then telling them, Ah, why are you doing 00:09:31.190 --> 00:09:36.409 that? No. Right? Easy to tell your dog no. Not 00:09:36.409 --> 00:09:40.570 so easy to be congruent about it. Right. And 00:09:40.570 --> 00:09:42.889 we always encourage owners that if you're going 00:09:42.889 --> 00:09:47.289 to tell your dog no, you've got to be congruent. 00:09:47.370 --> 00:09:50.850 You have to not only follow that with action, 00:09:50.990 --> 00:09:53.730 but you've got to tell them what you want them 00:09:53.730 --> 00:09:55.230 to do because you can't just run around being 00:09:55.230 --> 00:09:57.549 like, don't do that and don't do this and don't 00:09:57.549 --> 00:10:00.019 do that. Because your dog is going to look at 00:10:00.019 --> 00:10:04.340 you like, well, you're not any fun. Yeah. And 00:10:04.340 --> 00:10:07.279 immediately they're going to want to check out. 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:12.679 Why? Why would if you have a friend who whenever 00:10:12.679 --> 00:10:15.639 they come over to your house, they just tell 00:10:15.639 --> 00:10:20.340 you everything that you do wrong. Are you going 00:10:20.340 --> 00:10:22.379 to invite him over again? Yeah, probably not. 00:10:22.500 --> 00:10:26.559 Probably not. Right. But but if if your friends 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:30.250 like, hey. you really shouldn't do that. Here's 00:10:30.250 --> 00:10:33.509 the reason why. And, and it'd be way cooler if, 00:10:33.529 --> 00:10:36.190 if you could do this and like, this would really 00:10:36.190 --> 00:10:38.590 better your life. You might be like, wow, that's 00:10:38.590 --> 00:10:41.649 a great friend. Yeah. Totally different experience. 00:10:41.889 --> 00:10:46.929 Yep. All right. Back on track. Right. Back on 00:10:46.929 --> 00:10:50.990 track. Um, I told you it's been a really busy 00:10:50.990 --> 00:10:55.470 week. Yeah. A lot of life has happened. Um, okay. 00:10:57.320 --> 00:11:00.899 let me look let me look so when both a static 00:11:00.899 --> 00:11:04.440 heel and a dynamic heel are trained correctly 00:11:04.440 --> 00:11:08.600 the dog starts to learn how to follow the handler 00:11:08.600 --> 00:11:14.139 and have confidence in what the handler is asking 00:11:14.139 --> 00:11:17.139 them to do which is really the the end state 00:11:17.139 --> 00:11:20.279 of all obedience We want to build confidence 00:11:20.279 --> 00:11:23.519 in the dog. And we use obedience not for control. 00:11:23.700 --> 00:11:27.019 We use obedience to establish confidence. Yeah. 00:11:27.139 --> 00:11:29.559 When your dog understands what you're asking 00:11:29.559 --> 00:11:31.840 and they understand how to meet your expectations, 00:11:32.279 --> 00:11:35.100 their confidence goes up. And when their confidence 00:11:35.100 --> 00:11:37.919 goes up, their anxiety goes down, their aggression 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:41.059 goes down, their reactivity goes down. Yep, absolutely. 00:11:41.379 --> 00:11:46.980 So confidence has to also be met though with 00:11:46.980 --> 00:11:50.490 consistency. Their confidence builds as long 00:11:50.490 --> 00:11:53.769 as you are consistent and congruent in the way 00:11:53.769 --> 00:12:00.409 that you're asking them to do those things. So 00:12:00.409 --> 00:12:03.889 at the point where you're haphazard about how 00:12:03.889 --> 00:12:09.210 you do it or about when you do it, it's going 00:12:09.210 --> 00:12:12.009 to add confusion. Yeah, because if your dog is 00:12:12.009 --> 00:12:14.580 allowed to like... pull at the end of the leash 00:12:14.580 --> 00:12:19.620 on one walk, but not the next one, then you're 00:12:19.620 --> 00:12:22.080 not really given a clear message. Right. And 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:26.799 so we have to dial that in. So we're going to 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:29.740 talk about how we do that. And the first part 00:12:29.740 --> 00:12:34.919 is we're going to teach the static heel. So this 00:12:34.919 --> 00:12:38.679 is how we build that blueprint. So a static heel 00:12:38.679 --> 00:12:45.769 establishes an exact position. for the dog to 00:12:45.769 --> 00:12:56.070 maintain in relation to you. And when, just to 00:12:56.070 --> 00:12:59.610 get this out of the way, a lot of times that 00:12:59.610 --> 00:13:03.809 static heel will be in a sit and will be on one 00:13:03.809 --> 00:13:07.549 of your sides. And owners inevitably ask right 00:13:07.549 --> 00:13:09.470 off the bat, they're like, well, but isn't this 00:13:09.470 --> 00:13:16.549 sit? And it is. It is sit. However, you can have 00:13:16.549 --> 00:13:23.950 the dog sit anywhere. Yeah. The heel is a position 00:13:23.950 --> 00:13:29.409 of the dog in relation to you. Similar to how 00:13:29.409 --> 00:13:35.210 front would be the dog in a position in relation 00:13:35.210 --> 00:13:38.889 to you, in front of you. Right. You wouldn't 00:13:38.889 --> 00:13:42.840 tell the dog front. And then have them, you know, 00:13:42.840 --> 00:13:45.360 six feet away from you over on the right. That 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:48.580 wouldn't make sense to you. And so you wouldn't 00:13:48.580 --> 00:13:53.580 teach your dog that word. The word, like, let's 00:13:53.580 --> 00:13:56.659 cover this too. The word is unimportant. You 00:13:56.659 --> 00:14:01.860 can use, who is it? Tom Davis. Tom Davis uses 00:14:01.860 --> 00:14:05.720 left and right for his heel positions. Yeah. 00:14:05.899 --> 00:14:08.620 Right? I think that's a really cool idea. And 00:14:08.620 --> 00:14:12.840 it works for his dog. So he'll have his left 00:14:12.840 --> 00:14:18.419 is a word that he is tied to the meaning. He 00:14:18.419 --> 00:14:21.600 wants his dog to sit on his left side. And right 00:14:21.600 --> 00:14:24.019 is he wants his dog to sit on his right side. 00:14:25.159 --> 00:14:29.759 Right. Yeah. Great idea. Traditionally. So let's 00:14:29.759 --> 00:14:34.379 kind of segue this into traditionally the heel 00:14:34.379 --> 00:14:40.230 is. Heel is the word that we use in that dog 00:14:40.230 --> 00:14:43.909 training concept. And heel is traditionally done 00:14:43.909 --> 00:14:48.450 on the left side. Now, just because it's traditional 00:14:48.450 --> 00:14:50.149 does not mean that that's what you have to do. 00:14:50.350 --> 00:14:55.210 Right. Left for a few reasons. Two of them that 00:14:55.210 --> 00:14:58.029 I know and I'm sure I would love for someone 00:14:58.029 --> 00:15:02.789 to educate me even further on why that's the 00:15:02.789 --> 00:15:06.809 traditional. But I know two reasons. One, most 00:15:06.809 --> 00:15:09.590 folks are right -handed, and that allows you 00:15:09.590 --> 00:15:15.129 to heal your dog on your weak side, so that your 00:15:15.129 --> 00:15:18.850 strong side is able to do other things. Open 00:15:18.850 --> 00:15:23.929 doors, shake hands, use your phone, whatever 00:15:23.929 --> 00:15:30.909 it is. That aside, in competition, a dog is healed 00:15:30.909 --> 00:15:35.620 on the left side. in traditional types of competition. 00:15:36.519 --> 00:15:39.480 Mine is because when you're walking on the side 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:42.179 of the road, you're supposed to be facing like 00:15:42.179 --> 00:15:45.399 oncoming traffic when you're walking. And so 00:15:45.399 --> 00:15:49.139 putting the dog on your left keeps the dog on 00:15:49.139 --> 00:15:53.779 the side away from traffic. I didn't even hear 00:15:53.779 --> 00:15:55.740 that one before. Oh, really? I like that one 00:15:55.740 --> 00:15:57.690 though. Well, there you go. Right. You're welcome. 00:15:57.809 --> 00:16:00.309 Just, just stay out of the way of the cars. Well, 00:16:00.389 --> 00:16:03.070 right. But either way, like it would make a car 00:16:03.070 --> 00:16:06.110 nervous if the dog were on the other side. Right. 00:16:06.110 --> 00:16:07.769 Cause you never know. Right. You never know. 00:16:07.830 --> 00:16:09.990 Yeah. And be like a kid walking on that side. 00:16:10.049 --> 00:16:11.769 Right. Like you put them on the opposite side. 00:16:11.909 --> 00:16:14.990 Yeah. I like that. Yeah. Um, so if you've got 00:16:14.990 --> 00:16:17.850 some other ideas or other reasons that you've 00:16:17.850 --> 00:16:20.210 heard, throw them, uh, throw them in the chat, 00:16:20.289 --> 00:16:24.289 throw them on a comment on our, uh, on the podcast 00:16:24.289 --> 00:16:31.730 site. Um, Let's go to the next one. So by teaching 00:16:31.730 --> 00:16:34.250 your dog that position that's in relation to 00:16:34.250 --> 00:16:38.690 you and is an exact precise position, we can 00:16:38.690 --> 00:16:44.610 establish that that exact position, that's what 00:16:44.610 --> 00:16:47.830 the dog should maintain before movement begins. 00:16:48.730 --> 00:16:52.230 So now you've got a starting point, right? I 00:16:52.230 --> 00:16:55.529 bring the dog back towards me. I give them heel. 00:16:56.220 --> 00:17:00.000 They loop around and sit on my left side. Then 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:02.980 that leads into the next step, which is dynamic 00:17:02.980 --> 00:17:06.859 heel. We'll get to that in just a minute. Okay, 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:13.299 fine. Let's talk about the rest of static heel. 00:17:13.440 --> 00:17:19.380 So when I wrote this little blurb here, but it 00:17:19.380 --> 00:17:22.980 more applies to the dynamic heel. So I'm going 00:17:22.980 --> 00:17:25.859 to try to put a pin in this. come back to it 00:17:25.859 --> 00:17:32.079 in a minute uh when we talk about teaching the 00:17:32.079 --> 00:17:35.539 static heel let's let's kind of go through that 00:17:35.539 --> 00:17:41.339 so first off the food or the language that you're 00:17:41.339 --> 00:17:45.420 going to use when we first teach a heel is almost 00:17:45.420 --> 00:17:49.359 always food luring yeah it's just the easiest 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:53.900 to to start that process because you want to 00:17:53.900 --> 00:17:56.220 get your dog to not just hold a position but 00:17:56.220 --> 00:18:00.480 also be in an exact position near you and to 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:03.900 do that this is where that language of food luring 00:18:03.900 --> 00:18:07.559 really comes into play i'm gonna sneeze you want 00:18:07.559 --> 00:18:11.240 to take over on this for a second um so when 00:18:11.240 --> 00:18:14.119 we're talking about food luring it's one of the 00:18:14.119 --> 00:18:16.519 easiest ways to start because most dogs are going 00:18:16.519 --> 00:18:21.019 to actively follow you And when we talk about 00:18:21.019 --> 00:18:23.259 food luring, we kind of lure the dog back. We 00:18:23.259 --> 00:18:26.660 flip them around to come up to our left -hand 00:18:26.660 --> 00:18:29.799 side. And then we will reward them right as they 00:18:29.799 --> 00:18:33.339 come into that position. A lot of times in like 00:18:33.339 --> 00:18:35.779 the competition heel and things like that, I 00:18:35.779 --> 00:18:37.859 know they go with like the magnet feeding to 00:18:37.859 --> 00:18:40.099 kind of like get them into that position and 00:18:40.099 --> 00:18:44.220 keep them there. That is a really popular one 00:18:44.220 --> 00:18:50.690 as well. But most pet dogs, depending on their 00:18:50.690 --> 00:18:52.470 food drive you're not going to see a lot of the 00:18:52.470 --> 00:18:57.470 time really draw into that like the magnet feeding 00:18:57.470 --> 00:19:00.309 right you want to explain magnet feeding yeah 00:19:00.309 --> 00:19:05.009 so it's keeping it's keeping the dog consistently 00:19:05.009 --> 00:19:11.430 at and in your hand basically so you're you're 00:19:11.430 --> 00:19:13.950 at a point where you can constantly kind of like 00:19:13.950 --> 00:19:17.589 keep the dog on that food lure um to where they're 00:19:17.589 --> 00:19:20.859 just like attached to it basically. Um, some 00:19:20.859 --> 00:19:23.900 pet dogs will do it, um, every now and then like 00:19:23.900 --> 00:19:27.200 I'll, and typically when they start doing the, 00:19:27.240 --> 00:19:29.940 the magnet feeding, that's when you see the dog 00:19:29.940 --> 00:19:32.339 kind of like start the little like prance, like 00:19:32.339 --> 00:19:35.920 kind of like a horse, um, because their head 00:19:35.920 --> 00:19:39.119 goes up really, really high. And so they naturally 00:19:39.119 --> 00:19:42.099 kind of start doing that. Um, we had a pet dog 00:19:42.099 --> 00:19:44.519 do it in a lesson the other day and we were like, 00:19:44.559 --> 00:19:48.579 what in the world? Um, cause it was just like 00:19:48.579 --> 00:19:52.779 a crazy, like pretty prance. Yeah. Um, but it 00:19:52.779 --> 00:19:55.539 is something that is hard to accomplish for a 00:19:55.539 --> 00:19:57.819 lot of pet dogs unless they have a really, really 00:19:57.819 --> 00:20:01.119 high food drive or you're using like crazy high 00:20:01.119 --> 00:20:03.279 value, like raw or something like that. Yeah. 00:20:03.880 --> 00:20:06.799 Um, yeah, definitely. So magnet feeding really 00:20:06.799 --> 00:20:08.539 helps out with that. And so I'm going to break 00:20:08.539 --> 00:20:14.460 down the initial process real fast. The. So the 00:20:14.460 --> 00:20:16.500 process, I'm going to food lure them. I'm going 00:20:16.500 --> 00:20:18.200 to go left. I'm going to go right. I'm going 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:19.980 to make sure I've got forward and backward first 00:20:19.980 --> 00:20:22.220 with food luring. That's just where I'm holding 00:20:22.220 --> 00:20:24.240 the food in my hand. I want them to place kind 00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:26.480 of their muzzle right into my hand. And then 00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:28.960 I want them to be like magnetically like stuck 00:20:28.960 --> 00:20:31.779 to it. And so that's where that magnet feeding 00:20:31.779 --> 00:20:35.539 thing comes from. And so left to right, forward 00:20:35.539 --> 00:20:38.119 and backward. Those are prerequisite skills in 00:20:38.119 --> 00:20:41.359 order to build in position into your food luring. 00:20:42.200 --> 00:20:46.329 Then. I bring the dog in a forward drive towards 00:20:46.329 --> 00:20:51.190 me. And because I'm using that left side as tradition, 00:20:51.410 --> 00:20:55.470 I'm going to step back with my left foot. So 00:20:55.470 --> 00:20:59.930 that opens my hips towards the dog. I step back 00:20:59.930 --> 00:21:02.829 with that left foot and I bring them forward 00:21:02.829 --> 00:21:08.109 all the way past me. And as they drive past me, 00:21:08.230 --> 00:21:13.359 I'm going to flip my hand around. Not so fast 00:21:13.359 --> 00:21:16.759 that I break contact with the dog, but just enough 00:21:16.759 --> 00:21:22.259 to change their direction. To give them to a 00:21:22.259 --> 00:21:26.720 little U -turn. And right as I do that U -turn, 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:30.579 I'm going to step back forward with my left foot. 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:35.799 My right foot never moves. And by doing that, 00:21:35.900 --> 00:21:40.579 it helps me load the dog. With a forward drive, 00:21:40.660 --> 00:21:45.339 which is their easiest way to do it. Yeah. Right 00:21:45.339 --> 00:21:48.240 into that position. And as I step forward and 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:52.319 my feet come together, I bring the dog right 00:21:52.319 --> 00:21:56.920 to my left knee and then bring my hand up. And 00:21:56.920 --> 00:22:01.079 as I bring it up, their head comes up and their 00:22:01.079 --> 00:22:05.700 butt sinks down. And ta -da, they're in a heel. 00:22:06.039 --> 00:22:10.380 Yep. Maybe. maybe right you made it sound a lot 00:22:10.380 --> 00:22:13.220 i know i know it sounds it sounds super awkward 00:22:13.220 --> 00:22:15.119 to get them into that position the first time 00:22:15.119 --> 00:22:18.440 every owner that does it is like oh this is weird 00:22:18.440 --> 00:22:21.299 and it is weird to start off with but i promise 00:22:21.299 --> 00:22:24.660 you it it transitions really quickly and you 00:22:24.660 --> 00:22:28.680 can you can move past it if if you if your dog 00:22:28.680 --> 00:22:33.460 is like oh okay this is fine yeah And so we use 00:22:33.460 --> 00:22:35.700 leash pressure as a second language and we'll 00:22:35.700 --> 00:22:38.019 start to teach the dog to respond to that leash 00:22:38.019 --> 00:22:40.000 pressure so we don't have to just food lure them. 00:22:40.079 --> 00:22:42.819 But I'm going to do the same footwork. So with 00:22:42.819 --> 00:22:44.240 the leash pressure, it's the same thing. I'm 00:22:44.240 --> 00:22:46.539 going to bring them towards me with that forward 00:22:46.539 --> 00:22:49.180 drive and the dog. I'm going to step back with 00:22:49.180 --> 00:22:51.720 my left foot. I'm going to bring them with pressure 00:22:51.720 --> 00:22:57.049 past me, just barely past me. And then. i'm going 00:22:57.049 --> 00:22:59.970 to step forward and the dog kind of naturally 00:22:59.970 --> 00:23:02.730 is going to do that 180 because they're going 00:23:02.730 --> 00:23:06.289 to follow your body language after you pattern 00:23:06.289 --> 00:23:10.970 this with food and now i just continue that pressure 00:23:10.970 --> 00:23:14.210 to guide them around that 180 i step forward 00:23:14.210 --> 00:23:17.490 with my left foot back to my right and then bring 00:23:17.490 --> 00:23:21.529 pressure up into that sit yep right there on 00:23:21.529 --> 00:23:24.579 my left side Yeah. And we're working with a static 00:23:24.579 --> 00:23:26.900 heel before we get to dynamic because it's much 00:23:26.900 --> 00:23:29.480 easier to teach your dog where that position 00:23:29.480 --> 00:23:32.700 is before you're moving. Right. Everybody wants 00:23:32.700 --> 00:23:37.019 to kind of variables. Right. Way too many. And 00:23:37.019 --> 00:23:39.140 so you're going to start by teaching the position 00:23:39.140 --> 00:23:43.039 and then it slowly builds right into one step, 00:23:43.059 --> 00:23:46.900 two step, three step. Yeah. So another thing 00:23:46.900 --> 00:23:51.099 that you can do in order to teach the heel. and 00:23:51.099 --> 00:23:52.759 I'm not going to talk a lot about it, but it's 00:23:52.759 --> 00:23:55.859 an option, is to teach your dog to stand on a 00:23:55.859 --> 00:24:04.339 spot. So I use like a horse water, little water 00:24:04.339 --> 00:24:08.420 bowl. You can get them at like Tractor Supply 00:24:08.420 --> 00:24:13.799 and Petco. Petco's got it in Surf City. They've 00:24:13.799 --> 00:24:16.420 got like a whole horse section. Or if you have 00:24:16.420 --> 00:24:19.279 a really big dog, really big dog bowl. Flip it 00:24:19.279 --> 00:24:22.269 upside down. And then teach your dog to stand 00:24:22.269 --> 00:24:24.289 on it, right? We can free shape that. We can 00:24:24.289 --> 00:24:27.170 lure that. We can reward that through a whole 00:24:27.170 --> 00:24:28.650 bunch of other things. I'm not going to go all 00:24:28.650 --> 00:24:31.490 the way into that. But basically, pattern and 00:24:31.490 --> 00:24:34.710 teach your dog to stand on that spot. Then you 00:24:34.710 --> 00:24:37.549 just walk up and take that position next to them. 00:24:38.069 --> 00:24:42.289 And you teach that over and over until the dog 00:24:42.289 --> 00:24:45.900 is used to that being. like normal yeah then 00:24:45.900 --> 00:24:49.799 you can build in turns right there and and a 00:24:49.799 --> 00:24:51.480 bunch of other things that's how you teach a 00:24:51.480 --> 00:24:54.559 like a real strict heel and you teach the dog 00:24:54.559 --> 00:24:57.180 to kind of like move sideways left and right 00:24:57.180 --> 00:25:01.559 with you yeah it can turn into something pretty 00:25:01.559 --> 00:25:06.140 cool um yeah robert cabral uses uh he taught 00:25:06.140 --> 00:25:08.720 his dog to just stand on a brick right just like 00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:12.119 a a brick on its side and so that's literally 00:25:12.119 --> 00:25:14.839 his word with just his front yeah legs and so 00:25:14.839 --> 00:25:18.660 he would just um with his uh old dog goofy yeah 00:25:18.660 --> 00:25:22.140 and be like goofy brick where's your brick and 00:25:22.140 --> 00:25:25.539 he'd be like right here and then he'd do the 00:25:25.539 --> 00:25:28.200 little like turns and all that so right once 00:25:28.200 --> 00:25:32.819 again the the word that you use is not important 00:25:32.819 --> 00:25:36.619 right and i've used um i think i saw this one 00:25:36.619 --> 00:25:40.400 with tom davis one time but he uses and i tried 00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:43.359 it once with one dog a piece of cardboard i think 00:25:43.359 --> 00:25:46.460 um or somebody does i've seen somebody use it 00:25:46.460 --> 00:25:50.480 and i tried it um i've also used like um like 00:25:50.480 --> 00:25:53.259 a rug or some like a little piece of carpeting 00:25:53.259 --> 00:25:55.259 on a hardwood floor yeah like a little carpet 00:25:55.259 --> 00:26:00.380 square yeah um i've also used It was something 00:26:00.380 --> 00:26:03.779 else that I've used. I don't remember now though. 00:26:04.660 --> 00:26:07.940 I don't know. They left me. No problem. So we're 00:26:07.940 --> 00:26:11.940 going to reward our alignment really heavily 00:26:11.940 --> 00:26:16.319 early on. So alignment is going to be whether 00:26:16.319 --> 00:26:18.460 the dog is like too far forward, too far back. 00:26:19.339 --> 00:26:24.059 We want to encourage the dog not to forge ahead 00:26:24.059 --> 00:26:28.799 of us. And so we start that with the static heel. 00:26:29.230 --> 00:26:31.829 And when the dog lines up with that left leg, 00:26:31.970 --> 00:26:34.990 we keep them in that line and we reward right 00:26:34.990 --> 00:26:38.450 there. So your placement for your reward is really 00:26:38.450 --> 00:26:41.950 important. If you reward the dog like from your 00:26:41.950 --> 00:26:45.569 right hand over to the left, you can do that. 00:26:45.630 --> 00:26:48.089 I typically do that. And a lot of trainers will 00:26:48.089 --> 00:26:50.170 kind of shy away from that. They don't like that. 00:26:50.569 --> 00:26:53.539 I don't know why I do it. It's not even really 00:26:53.539 --> 00:26:56.180 the best technique, but it works for me. But 00:26:56.180 --> 00:27:01.059 I have to really reach far. You can't be sloppy 00:27:01.059 --> 00:27:03.799 about your reach because otherwise you'll bring, 00:27:03.859 --> 00:27:07.940 you'll lure the dog like forward and across you. 00:27:08.079 --> 00:27:11.039 And so you really have to like overreach with 00:27:11.039 --> 00:27:13.079 that right hand. I don't know why it works for 00:27:13.079 --> 00:27:18.640 me. It does. But it works better in, and I'll 00:27:18.640 --> 00:27:20.660 transfer that over. That's really mostly just 00:27:20.660 --> 00:27:26.539 for that. static heel yeah as soon as i start 00:27:26.539 --> 00:27:31.279 a dynamic heel i'll transfer that food over for 00:27:31.279 --> 00:27:35.259 that magnet feeding of the left hand on the left 00:27:35.259 --> 00:27:37.779 side right i just keep it on my left side even 00:27:37.779 --> 00:27:39.900 when i'm doing static because i will just put 00:27:39.900 --> 00:27:42.720 my hand flat and i'll even just like run it all 00:27:42.720 --> 00:27:46.759 the way down my leg but i feed like right against 00:27:46.759 --> 00:27:49.519 my leg yeah so the and that's more traditional 00:27:50.029 --> 00:27:52.769 yeah and i that way the dog doesn't get too far 00:27:52.769 --> 00:27:55.470 ahead or too far behind and like that's where 00:27:55.470 --> 00:27:58.109 your you feed every time is like right against 00:27:58.109 --> 00:28:03.650 your leg yeah definitely the um if you're using 00:28:03.650 --> 00:28:05.809 leash pressure we want to make it light we want 00:28:05.809 --> 00:28:08.210 to make this fun it's a game right we just want 00:28:08.210 --> 00:28:11.390 to encourage the dog to like move into that position 00:28:11.390 --> 00:28:14.230 so we're not correcting the dog left right forward 00:28:14.230 --> 00:28:15.990 backward we're just using a little leash pressure 00:28:15.990 --> 00:28:19.349 but mostly use those food targets guide the dog 00:28:19.349 --> 00:28:24.349 without encouraging that foraging foraging excuse 00:28:24.349 --> 00:28:27.609 me forging we're not foraging for food we're 00:28:27.609 --> 00:28:30.549 forging without the dog forging ahead of you 00:28:30.549 --> 00:28:37.220 then we encourage you guys to build or all owners, 00:28:37.359 --> 00:28:41.359 to build a static heel position before the dynamic. 00:28:41.700 --> 00:28:44.660 We already talked about that a little bit, but 00:28:44.660 --> 00:28:48.660 just to reiterate, start still. It's going to 00:28:48.660 --> 00:28:51.279 help you a lot. You've got to build some consistency 00:28:51.279 --> 00:28:53.839 and some clarity in the position of that heel 00:28:53.839 --> 00:29:01.440 before you start moving. I feel like there's 00:29:01.440 --> 00:29:06.319 probably trainers out there. are way better than 00:29:06.319 --> 00:29:08.680 me that are like oh yeah you can just do it like 00:29:08.680 --> 00:29:14.500 this cool send me send like leave us a comment 00:29:14.500 --> 00:29:18.259 i'm always down to learn better and more efficient 00:29:18.259 --> 00:29:22.440 methods uh but from my perspective and from my 00:29:22.440 --> 00:29:25.019 experience that static heel is going to be much 00:29:25.019 --> 00:29:29.400 easier to teach right off the bat yeah all right 00:29:29.400 --> 00:29:36.240 first question why does heel position fall apart 00:29:36.240 --> 00:29:41.960 when handlers skip a static heel right you already 00:29:41.960 --> 00:29:44.539 answered this one no no i well when i talked 00:29:44.539 --> 00:29:46.680 about all the variables why does it fall apart 00:29:46.680 --> 00:29:50.059 because you can't pinpoint the exact mark when 00:29:50.059 --> 00:29:55.140 you're moving like when you're in when you're 00:29:55.140 --> 00:29:59.339 in movement i would also say that the dog doesn't 00:29:59.339 --> 00:30:03.660 know what to focus on yet right right and so 00:30:04.170 --> 00:30:08.869 This is a generalization concept. When the dog 00:30:08.869 --> 00:30:19.069 hears you say heel, let me try to rephrase this. 00:30:19.250 --> 00:30:25.210 So when the dog hears you say heel, it's focused 00:30:25.210 --> 00:30:30.109 on something. You might think that it is your 00:30:30.109 --> 00:30:32.869 words, but most likely, especially the first 00:30:32.869 --> 00:30:37.779 time, It's probably not. It could be something 00:30:37.779 --> 00:30:39.519 that's going on in the background. It could be 00:30:39.519 --> 00:30:42.660 something that they're looking at. It could be 00:30:42.660 --> 00:30:45.400 a noise, a smell, something that you're not even 00:30:45.400 --> 00:30:52.039 perceiving. So if I'm moving at the same time 00:30:52.039 --> 00:30:58.059 as I'm trying to teach a position that is specific 00:30:58.059 --> 00:31:07.470 to the proximity. like to you you are like trying 00:31:07.470 --> 00:31:10.710 to get up the creek without a paddle yeah right 00:31:10.710 --> 00:31:12.950 it's just it's just not going to work out there's 00:31:12.950 --> 00:31:15.750 too many distractions there's too many variables 00:31:15.750 --> 00:31:18.410 and you can't control for all of them yep so 00:31:18.410 --> 00:31:22.069 you've got to pattern this static yeah still 00:31:22.069 --> 00:31:32.480 and quiet without distraction that's why You 00:31:32.480 --> 00:31:34.920 look at me and you're just like, you already 00:31:34.920 --> 00:31:37.799 said that. You already answered that. But not 00:31:37.799 --> 00:31:40.940 that specifically. Right, not that specifically. 00:31:40.940 --> 00:31:44.619 You're right. Okay, dynamic heel. So now we turn 00:31:44.619 --> 00:31:47.740 this position into a motion -based activity. 00:31:48.339 --> 00:31:53.420 Yeah. And dynamic heel takes that precision of 00:31:53.420 --> 00:31:55.900 the static position and then it carries it into 00:31:55.900 --> 00:32:00.019 motion. And we can start using rhythm. and engagement 00:32:00.019 --> 00:32:04.759 and excitement and fun because dogs love to move 00:32:04.759 --> 00:32:09.059 and they love to follow and and and prance around 00:32:09.059 --> 00:32:13.160 and do things right so movement also dissipates 00:32:13.160 --> 00:32:16.519 stress in dogs so we want to use that movement 00:32:16.519 --> 00:32:20.160 to our advantage when appropriate so this is 00:32:20.160 --> 00:32:21.859 how we're going to do it we're going to start 00:32:21.859 --> 00:32:27.019 with just like one to two steps the way that 00:32:27.400 --> 00:32:31.579 I do it as I start. This is after I've patterned 00:32:31.579 --> 00:32:35.500 and proofed and made sure that the dog understands 00:32:35.500 --> 00:32:41.359 that heel position. Now they will go to heel 00:32:41.359 --> 00:32:44.119 and I say heel and I don't move and they will 00:32:44.119 --> 00:32:52.319 like get into that position. Now I go good heel. 00:32:53.220 --> 00:32:57.279 Good. Heal. And on that second one, so on the 00:32:57.279 --> 00:33:00.559 first one, I stand still. I give them a continuation 00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:04.980 marker. And on the second one, I give them heal 00:33:04.980 --> 00:33:09.119 as my hand comes down with a little food in it 00:33:09.119 --> 00:33:13.099 and I step forward with my left foot. And as 00:33:13.099 --> 00:33:17.339 I do that and I say heal, right, we're starting 00:33:17.339 --> 00:33:19.400 to build movement. This is like the one command 00:33:19.400 --> 00:33:22.680 that we can move and give. In some sort of fashion 00:33:22.680 --> 00:33:24.500 that like actually build some predictability 00:33:24.500 --> 00:33:29.779 in it. Yeah. But heal and kind of lure them forward 00:33:29.779 --> 00:33:35.799 as I'm patterning that word. And then I stop 00:33:35.799 --> 00:33:40.660 and I reward and heal left foot again, heal left 00:33:40.660 --> 00:33:44.119 foot again, heal left foot, right foot, left 00:33:44.119 --> 00:33:47.299 foot, right foot, heel. Right. And I'm just slowly 00:33:47.299 --> 00:33:50.119 building extra steps. Yeah, and this is like 00:33:50.119 --> 00:33:52.519 inside, back and forth, up and down like a hallway. 00:33:52.680 --> 00:33:56.059 Yeah, hallways are great because the dog can't 00:33:56.059 --> 00:33:58.980 go too far left, right? It just kind of focuses 00:33:58.980 --> 00:34:01.880 the dog like blinders on a horse. Yeah, super 00:34:01.880 --> 00:34:06.400 helpful. Inside, no distractions. We're just 00:34:06.400 --> 00:34:09.480 working on the movement and patterning the command. 00:34:11.219 --> 00:34:16.079 We continue that until we can get six or seven 00:34:16.079 --> 00:34:24.380 steps. then we can start building in like movements 00:34:24.380 --> 00:34:27.719 to heal on the move. So I'll have a dog in a 00:34:27.719 --> 00:34:31.559 down and then I'll give them heal and I'll walk 00:34:31.559 --> 00:34:34.940 two steps and then get them to pop up and walk 00:34:34.940 --> 00:34:40.420 with me. So I start changing positions and working 00:34:40.420 --> 00:34:44.420 with that heel. This is still before I'm going 00:34:44.420 --> 00:34:47.179 outside. This is still before I'm increasing 00:34:47.179 --> 00:34:52.019 distraction. All I'm doing is changing the stimulus. 00:34:52.860 --> 00:34:55.199 Okay, let's go over some other things that will 00:34:55.199 --> 00:35:01.519 help you. So as you build, right now we're talking 00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:04.719 about just the first five or six steps. Now as 00:35:04.719 --> 00:35:07.659 we get longer and longer and we can walk all 00:35:07.659 --> 00:35:11.019 the way across the room in a heel, now what we 00:35:11.019 --> 00:35:14.420 can start doing is we can actually reward on 00:35:14.420 --> 00:35:19.070 the way. with our continuation marker yeah and 00:35:19.070 --> 00:35:24.570 so we use yes as a continuation marker so what 00:35:24.570 --> 00:35:26.269 that would look like is i'm going to mark yes 00:35:26.269 --> 00:35:29.230 when the dog maintains that position not just 00:35:29.230 --> 00:35:31.110 through the first step but through a couple of 00:35:31.110 --> 00:35:33.949 steps maybe two or three steps and then i'm yes 00:35:33.949 --> 00:35:37.809 giving him a treat on the move still in that 00:35:37.809 --> 00:35:41.130 heel position two or three more steps yes giving 00:35:41.130 --> 00:35:48.030 him another treat okay I talked about the continuation 00:35:48.030 --> 00:35:54.090 marker. I want to change paces. I want to go 00:35:54.090 --> 00:35:56.210 a little faster. I want to go a little slower. 00:35:56.570 --> 00:36:00.769 I want to start making slight turns. Not left 00:36:00.769 --> 00:36:03.329 turns, right turns. But I want to start making 00:36:03.329 --> 00:36:09.010 curves. Curve right. Curve left. I want to stop. 00:36:09.889 --> 00:36:12.349 And I want to reinforce that position in all 00:36:12.349 --> 00:36:16.940 of those. Using the continuation marker. Marker. 00:36:16.940 --> 00:36:18.940 Now, by the time I get to the other side of the 00:36:18.940 --> 00:36:21.800 room, that's when I want to use a terminal marker. 00:36:21.940 --> 00:36:26.000 We use free, free and toss that treat to reset 00:36:26.000 --> 00:36:30.320 the dog back into heel. They get there. Yes. 00:36:31.340 --> 00:36:34.679 That's a continuation marker. And then we go 00:36:34.679 --> 00:36:37.579 back into our heel two or three steps. Yes. All 00:36:37.579 --> 00:36:40.340 right. Now let's talk. If you're not confused 00:36:40.340 --> 00:36:43.800 yet. Right. Right. Do you want to be a dog trainer? 00:36:45.039 --> 00:36:48.139 Or sorry, no, the meme is so you want to be a 00:36:48.139 --> 00:36:52.340 dog trainer. Right. So now let's talk about another 00:36:52.340 --> 00:36:55.239 concept here. Right. There's a lot of stuff that 00:36:55.239 --> 00:36:59.940 goes into it. But if you have the opportunity, 00:37:00.039 --> 00:37:03.119 here's two things that cut to the chase. One, 00:37:03.380 --> 00:37:07.679 whether or not you train your dog to be an exact 00:37:07.679 --> 00:37:11.980 heel. What I want you to remember is that your 00:37:11.980 --> 00:37:16.699 dog having a job is directly related to how good 00:37:16.699 --> 00:37:19.980 your dog is going to engage to you on your walk. 00:37:21.380 --> 00:37:23.420 That's what I want you to focus on if you're 00:37:23.420 --> 00:37:27.119 totally lost. And if you're only partially lost, 00:37:27.340 --> 00:37:31.659 just rewind this, listen to the recording, rewind 00:37:31.659 --> 00:37:34.440 it, and listen to it again. I think it'll make 00:37:34.440 --> 00:37:36.550 sense. And if it doesn't, reach out. Give me 00:37:36.550 --> 00:37:39.449 a phone call. Send me a text. We'll break it 00:37:39.449 --> 00:37:43.429 down for you more. Okay. Now, we want to reward 00:37:43.429 --> 00:37:50.469 intermittently. If you're at home and you're 00:37:50.469 --> 00:37:53.929 listening, just take a drink or take a deep breath. 00:37:54.110 --> 00:37:56.389 This one's going to blow your mind, but it's 00:37:56.389 --> 00:38:02.190 so, so useful. It's so important. Okay. Rewarding 00:38:02.190 --> 00:38:07.619 intermittently. There's a couple ways that we 00:38:07.619 --> 00:38:11.579 can do it. Everyone understands, oh yeah, I want 00:38:11.579 --> 00:38:13.500 to reward my dog intermittently and I want to 00:38:13.500 --> 00:38:17.739 build more and more time in between so that my 00:38:17.739 --> 00:38:21.260 dog will listen to me more and I'll have to give 00:38:21.260 --> 00:38:24.500 him less treats. Everybody wants that. Everyone's 00:38:24.500 --> 00:38:28.800 like, when do I wean off the treats? Okay, here's 00:38:28.800 --> 00:38:32.880 my take on it. You don't. You don't wean off 00:38:32.880 --> 00:38:37.869 the treats. What we do is we incorporate variable 00:38:37.869 --> 00:38:44.190 ratios. And a variable ratio. Right now we're 00:38:44.190 --> 00:38:49.369 in math class. Okay. There are four. There are 00:38:49.369 --> 00:38:53.369 four. Four quadrants. No. We're not going down 00:38:53.369 --> 00:38:58.750 that road. So there's four ways that we can intermittently 00:38:58.750 --> 00:39:03.349 reward our dogs. Yeah. We can do a fixed interval. 00:39:03.900 --> 00:39:07.039 We can do a variable interval. We can do a fixed 00:39:07.039 --> 00:39:13.300 ratio. And we can do a variable ratio. Bear with 00:39:13.300 --> 00:39:15.960 me on the science here. We're going to geek out 00:39:15.960 --> 00:39:18.860 for just a second. I got time. It's only 39 minutes. 00:39:21.099 --> 00:39:24.559 So with a fixed interval, what we're talking 00:39:24.559 --> 00:39:32.679 about is a reward every three steps. That's a 00:39:32.679 --> 00:39:35.230 fixed interval. Right. For a certain amount of 00:39:35.230 --> 00:39:39.849 time or certain like progress. A variable interval 00:39:39.849 --> 00:39:44.730 would be I reward them on one step here and then 00:39:44.730 --> 00:39:47.309 three steps and then five steps and then three 00:39:47.309 --> 00:39:52.909 steps and then one step. Yep. Okay. Fixed ratio 00:39:52.909 --> 00:40:01.340 would be every two repetitions. Of this whatever 00:40:01.340 --> 00:40:06.079 it is sit down heal in this case After two successful 00:40:06.079 --> 00:40:10.380 repetitions, I reward them After two more successful 00:40:10.380 --> 00:40:14.739 repetitions, I reward them. Well here The science 00:40:14.739 --> 00:40:19.219 is very very clear that the number one way The 00:40:19.219 --> 00:40:24.340 number one technique is variable ratio Variable 00:40:24.340 --> 00:40:29.949 ratio is the science behind why casinos are so 00:40:29.949 --> 00:40:36.929 addicting to humans. When you pull the slot machine 00:40:36.929 --> 00:40:43.769 lever, the variable ratio of the win to loss 00:40:43.769 --> 00:40:48.630 is so, so, so important and so dialed in that 00:40:48.630 --> 00:40:52.190 it literally becomes a drug to you. Because sometimes, 00:40:52.389 --> 00:40:56.280 basically, it's just like, We just don't know. 00:40:56.539 --> 00:40:59.099 I don't know. But I'm going to get rewarded at 00:40:59.099 --> 00:41:04.079 just enough to make me hungry to pull the lever 00:41:04.079 --> 00:41:07.679 again. That's crazy because I went to a casino 00:41:07.679 --> 00:41:09.900 one time and I pulled one lever and I didn't 00:41:09.900 --> 00:41:11.960 win anything. And I was like, yeah, that's it 00:41:11.960 --> 00:41:16.659 for me. Right. But I was like, I don't know why 00:41:16.659 --> 00:41:19.739 people like good job. Good job. Never go back. 00:41:19.840 --> 00:41:23.849 Yeah. Right. I was like, it took my dollar. The 00:41:23.849 --> 00:41:29.409 thing is that the dogs are the same way. So if 00:41:29.409 --> 00:41:39.010 I reward them on a variable ratio, it will build 00:41:39.010 --> 00:41:42.650 an incredible amount of drive in that dog to 00:41:42.650 --> 00:41:46.449 perform again. And this is the advanced concept 00:41:46.449 --> 00:41:50.380 that I've... rarely get into with owners but 00:41:50.380 --> 00:41:55.599 when you take when we train a dog to do something 00:41:55.599 --> 00:41:59.739 easy right we train a dog to sit super simple 00:41:59.739 --> 00:42:05.179 dog sits not hard for the dog to do mammals in 00:42:05.179 --> 00:42:07.760 general the science says that mammals in general 00:42:07.760 --> 00:42:14.500 need about a 15 to 20 percent failure rate for 00:42:14.500 --> 00:42:18.239 them to stay engaged With a drive to succeed 00:42:18.239 --> 00:42:22.639 or else this is, this is all mammals across the 00:42:22.639 --> 00:42:25.619 board. So what that means is if you reward your 00:42:25.619 --> 00:42:27.760 dog and we're not talking about in the early 00:42:27.760 --> 00:42:30.059 stages of training, but we're talking about advanced, 00:42:30.300 --> 00:42:34.440 right? Where this is what I do with Nala. When, 00:42:34.599 --> 00:42:41.440 if I reward her every single time that she does 00:42:41.440 --> 00:42:46.469 the right sit. she will start to tune that out 00:42:46.469 --> 00:42:48.949 and be like, this isn't even that important. 00:42:50.230 --> 00:42:55.670 But if I make the sit harder and harder for her 00:42:55.670 --> 00:42:59.789 to nail down, right, by increasing the speed 00:42:59.789 --> 00:43:05.050 at which I make her sit going from activity to 00:43:05.050 --> 00:43:09.469 activity. So that sometimes about 15 % of the 00:43:09.469 --> 00:43:12.489 time she fails because I've raised the threshold 00:43:12.489 --> 00:43:16.849 or I've raised the level of difficulty. Her drive 00:43:16.849 --> 00:43:21.250 increases and her obedience or her desire for 00:43:21.250 --> 00:43:25.190 that obedience goes up. It's crazy. All right. 00:43:25.190 --> 00:43:27.469 That's our science lesson for the day. All right. 00:43:27.489 --> 00:43:31.530 One, use variable ratios for your training. It's 00:43:31.530 --> 00:43:36.880 addictive. Number two. You eventually, when you 00:43:36.880 --> 00:43:40.039 get to the advanced stages, you want to raise 00:43:40.039 --> 00:43:44.420 the threshold for compliance or for success high 00:43:44.420 --> 00:43:48.320 enough that your dog fails somewhere in that 00:43:48.320 --> 00:43:53.599 15 % range. Not often, but maybe like one out 00:43:53.599 --> 00:43:58.980 of six. And if you can do that, you will increase 00:43:58.980 --> 00:44:01.780 their desire and their drive for those other 00:44:01.780 --> 00:44:05.190 five repetitions out of those six. All right. 00:44:05.690 --> 00:44:11.630 Back to our regular scheduled program. So we 00:44:11.630 --> 00:44:15.909 talked about the intervals and the ratios. How 00:44:15.909 --> 00:44:19.429 do we balance precision and enthusiasm? So I 00:44:19.429 --> 00:44:21.469 alluded to that with the ratios, right? We can 00:44:21.469 --> 00:44:25.090 increase. I got so excited I didn't even read 00:44:25.090 --> 00:44:27.110 the whole question. I'm sure someone's like, 00:44:27.230 --> 00:44:30.230 what in the heck is he saying? The question is, 00:44:30.309 --> 00:44:33.960 how do you balance precision? with enthusiasm 00:44:33.960 --> 00:44:39.000 during dynamic heel work all right to answer 00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:42.000 that question we balance the precision of the 00:44:42.000 --> 00:44:45.940 success of it and the enthusiasm of the dog being 00:44:45.940 --> 00:44:50.559 motivated to do it by one allowing the dog to 00:44:50.559 --> 00:44:55.079 succeed so we don't want to increase the difficulty 00:44:55.079 --> 00:44:58.199 so fast that the dog fails right off the bat 00:44:58.599 --> 00:45:01.039 That decreases confidence. We want them to succeed. 00:45:01.119 --> 00:45:03.380 And we want them to succeed at that 100 % level 00:45:03.380 --> 00:45:08.719 in the first phase of training. Later, more advanced, 00:45:08.980 --> 00:45:11.380 that's when we get into that 15 % failure ratio. 00:45:13.119 --> 00:45:19.260 Aside from that, don't be so exact that you require 00:45:19.260 --> 00:45:22.159 this exact precision that the dog can't even 00:45:22.159 --> 00:45:27.639 meet it at the beginning. We typically encourage... 00:45:27.869 --> 00:45:33.550 owners to use a range on the dog from like the 00:45:33.550 --> 00:45:39.469 base of the neck to the base of the tail and 00:45:39.469 --> 00:45:43.690 if the dog anywhere in that line is on your left 00:45:43.690 --> 00:45:47.469 side like your left leg that's good enough and 00:45:47.469 --> 00:45:51.409 we say that for two reasons one because most 00:45:51.409 --> 00:45:55.710 pet owners don't care if their dog does a competition 00:45:55.710 --> 00:46:01.469 heel And number two, this allows their dog to 00:46:01.469 --> 00:46:05.130 have a little bit of like breathing room. Yeah. 00:46:05.150 --> 00:46:08.469 So that they can be successful. Because we want 00:46:08.469 --> 00:46:12.409 to tilt the scales in favor of our dog succeeding. 00:46:12.710 --> 00:46:19.010 Yep. All right. What drills help the dog maintain 00:46:19.010 --> 00:46:22.869 heel position through turns and transitions? 00:46:24.269 --> 00:46:27.380 Figure eights. Doing left turns, right turns, 00:46:27.519 --> 00:46:30.320 like practicing your turns. Yep. Inside turns. 00:46:30.539 --> 00:46:33.780 Yeah. Inside and outside. Yep. So inside turns 00:46:33.780 --> 00:46:37.880 help the dog, I would say, more than the outside 00:46:37.880 --> 00:46:40.500 turns. Yeah. In a strict heel. Yeah. And an inside 00:46:40.500 --> 00:46:44.940 turn is where the dog is on the inside. You're 00:46:44.940 --> 00:46:47.440 turning and the dog. Towards the dog. Correct. 00:46:47.599 --> 00:46:50.579 Towards the dog, into the dog. So the dog's staying 00:46:50.579 --> 00:46:54.460 on the inside. That is great at limiting forging. 00:46:55.000 --> 00:46:57.179 And keeping that dog in that position. Yeah. 00:46:57.599 --> 00:47:00.099 Because when you do that, the dog actually has 00:47:00.099 --> 00:47:02.619 to slow down in order to stay in that position. 00:47:02.780 --> 00:47:05.360 So that's really helpful. Now, if you do an outside 00:47:05.360 --> 00:47:08.940 turn where the dog is on the outside of you, 00:47:09.039 --> 00:47:13.500 they have to accelerate as you just do that 180. 00:47:13.739 --> 00:47:17.300 Yeah. And so it can, they're both useful, but 00:47:17.300 --> 00:47:19.940 that inside turn is really, really helpful for 00:47:19.940 --> 00:47:22.780 that dynamic heel and incorporating those turns 00:47:22.780 --> 00:47:27.579 and transitions. How can handlers avoid relying 00:47:27.579 --> 00:47:32.500 too much on food and luring during their heel 00:47:32.500 --> 00:47:35.800 work? Just using your non -treatable markers 00:47:35.800 --> 00:47:39.679 more, especially once they develop the position 00:47:39.679 --> 00:47:42.199 and everything like that. Usually once the dog 00:47:42.199 --> 00:47:44.940 has it and I'm on a legitimate walk, I kind of 00:47:44.940 --> 00:47:47.519 phase food out pretty quickly because I don't 00:47:47.519 --> 00:47:51.039 have time to stop and reward when I'm on a legitimate 00:47:51.039 --> 00:47:54.989 walk. Right. So when you're working in the house, 00:47:55.150 --> 00:47:57.389 that's a great time to use those treats and those 00:47:57.389 --> 00:48:00.670 rewards. But when we go outside, food is a stimulant. 00:48:00.670 --> 00:48:03.250 Yeah. Right. So we want to kind of tune that 00:48:03.250 --> 00:48:06.130 out a little bit and start using. And that's 00:48:06.130 --> 00:48:07.650 why it's so important to teach your dog about 00:48:07.650 --> 00:48:09.909 leash pressure and what it means. So that way, 00:48:10.110 --> 00:48:13.230 when we're on that heel on that walk, we can 00:48:13.230 --> 00:48:15.550 use the leash pressure in order to do that instead 00:48:15.550 --> 00:48:21.030 of food. Yep. OK. Last point. Why? Why does this 00:48:21.030 --> 00:48:23.690 all matter? So we're going to kind of summarize 00:48:23.690 --> 00:48:27.170 this just in the essence of time. But the why 00:48:27.170 --> 00:48:31.309 this matters is because this is the job that 00:48:31.309 --> 00:48:37.150 your dog needs. Some dogs. Yeah. Some dogs. If 00:48:37.150 --> 00:48:41.170 your dog, let me recase this. So if your dog 00:48:41.170 --> 00:48:45.150 is not reactive on a walk, your dog listens to 00:48:45.150 --> 00:48:50.079 you anytime you say come. And anytime that you're, 00:48:50.079 --> 00:48:53.059 you know, like sit or off, you don't have any 00:48:53.059 --> 00:48:58.099 behavior issues and you don't care where the 00:48:58.099 --> 00:49:00.099 dog walks as long as they don't pull on the leash, 00:49:00.260 --> 00:49:05.079 then you might not need a heel. You might not 00:49:05.079 --> 00:49:07.119 even need to teach the heel. Like what's the 00:49:07.119 --> 00:49:10.800 point? Yeah. Right? If you're happy with the 00:49:10.800 --> 00:49:12.699 dog's behavior and you're happy with all of these 00:49:12.699 --> 00:49:15.679 things, then maybe that's not for you. It doesn't 00:49:15.679 --> 00:49:20.269 matter. However, it's super, super helpful for 00:49:20.269 --> 00:49:25.130 the dogs that have reactivity. Super, super helpful 00:49:25.130 --> 00:49:28.250 for the dogs that need a job or need something 00:49:28.250 --> 00:49:32.010 to do. So they're not just thinking about, I'm 00:49:32.010 --> 00:49:33.769 going to blow up at that dog. I'm going to blow 00:49:33.769 --> 00:49:35.250 up at that dog. Look at that dog over there. 00:49:35.670 --> 00:49:39.670 I see it. We got to give the dog something to 00:49:39.670 --> 00:49:44.809 do instead. A heel is great because typically 00:49:44.809 --> 00:49:47.309 what I see owners do is go. All right, come here, 00:49:47.429 --> 00:49:51.929 sit. And remember that movement dissipates stress. 00:49:53.409 --> 00:49:57.869 So if you can teach the dog a job to do that 00:49:57.869 --> 00:50:02.329 is on the move, you're going to have the least 00:50:02.329 --> 00:50:04.550 amount of stress. You're dissipating the most 00:50:04.550 --> 00:50:08.110 amount of stress. You're giving the dog something 00:50:08.110 --> 00:50:11.090 to do and something to concentrate on. And the 00:50:11.090 --> 00:50:14.050 last piece is that you're probably building distance 00:50:14.050 --> 00:50:16.440 because you're moving. You're probably moving 00:50:16.440 --> 00:50:18.179 away from that thing. So you're probably starting 00:50:18.179 --> 00:50:21.059 to incorporate some distance away from the reactive 00:50:21.059 --> 00:50:25.739 thing. The thing that they're reacting to. That 00:50:25.739 --> 00:50:30.579 is the gold standard to fixing reactivity in 00:50:30.579 --> 00:50:36.739 dogs. Those three things. So heel works really, 00:50:36.800 --> 00:50:39.719 really well for that. If you just put your dog 00:50:39.719 --> 00:50:43.760 into a sit or a down, that can be useful. But 00:50:43.760 --> 00:50:45.840 unfortunately, they're stuck in a static position 00:50:45.840 --> 00:50:48.619 at that point. The other dog that they're already 00:50:48.619 --> 00:50:51.960 not happy about being in proximity to still gets 00:50:51.960 --> 00:50:54.320 to run around and walk around and maybe even 00:50:54.320 --> 00:50:57.880 close distance towards them. And that's just 00:50:57.880 --> 00:51:01.559 a recipe for disaster. Yeah, absolutely. The 00:51:01.559 --> 00:51:03.719 dog's like, no, no, I don't want anything to 00:51:03.719 --> 00:51:12.239 do with that. All right. Let me look at my notes 00:51:12.239 --> 00:51:19.420 here. So mastering both a static heel and a dynamic 00:51:19.420 --> 00:51:23.239 heel allow you to do both things. A static heel 00:51:23.239 --> 00:51:25.099 can really come into play when you go out in 00:51:25.099 --> 00:51:28.900 public. When you're at a brewery or you're at 00:51:28.900 --> 00:51:30.960 a store or you're at some sort of pet friendly 00:51:30.960 --> 00:51:34.059 place. And you don't just want your dog to come 00:51:34.059 --> 00:51:37.039 to you, look at you and then check out. You want 00:51:37.039 --> 00:51:39.179 your dog to come over here and like sit by you. 00:51:40.179 --> 00:51:43.989 A heel or a static heel is a great, great. choice 00:51:43.989 --> 00:51:47.230 for that yep to get your dog in close and then 00:51:47.230 --> 00:51:50.769 a dynamic heel is a great opportunity to give 00:51:50.769 --> 00:51:54.210 your dog a job to do as you're moving maybe you're 00:51:54.210 --> 00:51:55.670 going to the bathroom maybe you're going to the 00:51:55.670 --> 00:51:59.170 up to the bar to order a drink and you want your 00:51:59.170 --> 00:52:02.949 dog to be right there with you heels where it's 00:52:02.949 --> 00:52:08.070 at yeah all right how do you explain to owners 00:52:08.070 --> 00:52:15.000 that heel I know we answer, honestly, this is 00:52:15.000 --> 00:52:17.000 what I love about this, is that we basically 00:52:17.000 --> 00:52:19.340 answer these questions as we're going. But to 00:52:19.340 --> 00:52:25.460 recap, why is heel so important more so than 00:52:25.460 --> 00:52:28.380 just leash walking? When an owner is like, but 00:52:28.380 --> 00:52:34.059 my dog walks on a loose leash, why might we still 00:52:34.059 --> 00:52:42.300 want to teach them heel? reference to you it's 00:52:42.300 --> 00:52:45.960 teaching the dog to be next to you on your side 00:52:45.960 --> 00:52:50.900 it's not all about the walking and i would also 00:52:50.900 --> 00:52:56.559 say that a a focused heel on in a specific position 00:52:56.559 --> 00:52:59.019 is something the dog has to constantly kind of 00:52:59.019 --> 00:53:01.880 like focus in on yeah it takes a lot more brain 00:53:01.880 --> 00:53:06.500 power a lot more effort on the dog side than 00:53:06.500 --> 00:53:11.170 just don't pull on the leash yeah So that can 00:53:11.170 --> 00:53:13.969 really come in handy for all the reasons that 00:53:13.969 --> 00:53:16.949 we talked about. What signs show that the dog's 00:53:16.949 --> 00:53:19.929 ready for more advanced heel patterns? I'd say 00:53:19.929 --> 00:53:22.110 at the point where they're demonstrating consistency 00:53:22.110 --> 00:53:26.489 and precision. Yeah. So at the point where your 00:53:26.489 --> 00:53:32.989 dog moves into position on your verbal only command. 00:53:33.690 --> 00:53:36.949 Yep. That's when I do that. Yeah. Which means 00:53:36.949 --> 00:53:40.739 that I'm not. Just stepping back with my left 00:53:40.739 --> 00:53:43.880 foot, letting them load into that left side and 00:53:43.880 --> 00:53:47.139 stepping forward. I'm not coaching them and cuing 00:53:47.139 --> 00:53:53.519 them. I'm now just going heel command and they're 00:53:53.519 --> 00:53:59.480 doing it. Last one. How do static and dynamic 00:53:59.480 --> 00:54:03.980 heel training? How does static and dynamic heel 00:54:03.980 --> 00:54:10.099 training prevent long term? Sloppiness. Because 00:54:10.099 --> 00:54:11.719 if you're not telling your dog what to do on 00:54:11.719 --> 00:54:14.460 a walk or where to be on a walk, they're eventually 00:54:14.460 --> 00:54:16.300 going to just decide and it's always going to 00:54:16.300 --> 00:54:18.619 be the furthest point. That's it. On the end 00:54:18.619 --> 00:54:23.480 of the leash. And when a dog decides where to 00:54:23.480 --> 00:54:27.199 walk, how to walk, what speed to walk. Yeah. 00:54:27.739 --> 00:54:35.440 You are now on their walk. This. If you tuned 00:54:35.440 --> 00:54:39.099 out for all of the science in this lesson, no 00:54:39.099 --> 00:54:45.539 problem. But wake up right now because whether 00:54:45.539 --> 00:54:52.659 your dog is reactive or not, utilizing small 00:54:52.659 --> 00:55:05.019 snippets of, there's a better word for it, heel 00:55:05.019 --> 00:55:10.679 work on a walk is an awesome, awesome opportunity 00:55:10.679 --> 00:55:15.280 for you to be the leader on that walk. And you 00:55:15.280 --> 00:55:18.260 can go, Hey, we're in it. I do this with Dexter 00:55:18.260 --> 00:55:21.119 all the time. Cool. We're in a heel for about 00:55:21.119 --> 00:55:26.900 a minute. And now you're just with me. Now you're 00:55:26.900 --> 00:55:30.460 on a loose leash walk, but you can kind of move 00:55:30.460 --> 00:55:33.099 forward and backward and side to side. Just don't 00:55:33.099 --> 00:55:37.989 pull on the leash. And now we're on a heel. And 00:55:37.989 --> 00:55:40.449 now we're on a break. Go ahead and go sniff. 00:55:41.869 --> 00:55:46.449 Now we're on a heel. Now we're, just be with 00:55:46.449 --> 00:55:52.750 me. Now we're back on a loose leash walk. By 00:55:52.750 --> 00:55:56.289 rotating through those, it gives you an opportunity 00:55:56.289 --> 00:56:01.849 for you to constantly be guiding your dog and 00:56:01.849 --> 00:56:08.679 patterning. smart appropriate leadership on the 00:56:08.679 --> 00:56:13.920 walk yeah so that's my that's my soapbox for 00:56:13.920 --> 00:56:15.900 the day right because if you guys are just like 00:56:15.900 --> 00:56:17.900 walking out your front door and your dog's not 00:56:17.900 --> 00:56:19.480 paying any attention to you and you're not paying 00:56:19.480 --> 00:56:23.000 any attention to your dog then right if you treat 00:56:23.000 --> 00:56:27.559 the walk as a chore as a well we have to do this 00:56:27.559 --> 00:56:31.739 for your exercise yeah i promise you right yeah 00:56:31.739 --> 00:56:34.409 just don't go Because I promise you, you can 00:56:34.409 --> 00:56:37.349 exercise your dog in other ways. You don't have 00:56:37.349 --> 00:56:40.190 to go for a walk. And the amount of exercise 00:56:40.190 --> 00:56:43.670 your dog, not just physical exercise, but the 00:56:43.670 --> 00:56:45.469 amount of mental stimulation that your dog is 00:56:45.469 --> 00:56:51.329 getting on a walk that most owners go on where 00:56:51.329 --> 00:56:55.159 they don't come back sweating profusely. you're 00:56:55.159 --> 00:56:57.579 probably not really burning that many calories 00:56:57.579 --> 00:56:59.079 for that dog. And you're probably not really 00:56:59.079 --> 00:57:02.960 stimulating them as much as if you played, if 00:57:02.960 --> 00:57:05.599 you set up a little sniffari in the house or 00:57:05.599 --> 00:57:08.760 you played hide and seek or you played tug or 00:57:08.760 --> 00:57:11.579 you played fetch or you played a hundred other 00:57:11.579 --> 00:57:15.380 games. Yep. So that's what we got for you tonight. 00:57:15.480 --> 00:57:18.300 All right. At this point we are going to, before 00:57:18.300 --> 00:57:21.739 I go into listener projects, I'm going to turn 00:57:21.739 --> 00:57:26.269 on the. Sound feed here. And if you are listening 00:57:26.269 --> 00:57:31.670 in either in Zoom or on the phone call, now is 00:57:31.670 --> 00:57:35.369 your time to shine. Time to ask questions. I 00:57:35.369 --> 00:57:40.110 don't have any questions in the chat. No, don't 00:57:40.110 --> 00:57:42.329 have any questions in the chat. So I'm going 00:57:42.329 --> 00:57:44.750 to play the Jeopardy music for a second. Jump 00:57:44.750 --> 00:57:49.230 in if you've got a question. Ready, set, go. 00:58:05.679 --> 00:58:12.900 No questions tonight. That's because I put everyone 00:58:12.900 --> 00:58:16.860 to sleep with the science. Yeah. I'm sorry. I'm 00:58:16.860 --> 00:58:19.559 not sorry, though. I think those are really, 00:58:19.579 --> 00:58:22.559 really important that if you understand the why 00:58:22.559 --> 00:58:27.539 behind it. Yeah. You can be so much more precise 00:58:27.539 --> 00:58:29.760 in your training and your relationship with your 00:58:29.760 --> 00:58:36.639 dog. Absolutely. All right. So I will. hit listener 00:58:36.639 --> 00:58:40.739 projects here number one static alignment drill 00:58:40.739 --> 00:58:44.000 what we're going to do is we're going to practice 00:58:44.000 --> 00:58:46.960 loading the dog into that heel position we're 00:58:46.960 --> 00:58:48.940 going to do it 10 times so we're going to use 00:58:48.940 --> 00:58:52.300 our food or if your dog already knows light leash 00:58:52.300 --> 00:58:55.739 pressure you can use that we're going to step 00:58:55.739 --> 00:58:57.380 back with the left foot we're going to bring 00:58:57.380 --> 00:59:02.059 the dog into a forward drive 180 the dog on your 00:59:02.059 --> 00:59:05.030 left side step forward with your left foot Both 00:59:05.030 --> 00:59:07.849 feet back together. Your right foot never moves. 00:59:08.210 --> 00:59:12.329 And as the dog comes back onto that left side, 00:59:12.389 --> 00:59:17.010 mark the alignment with your left foot. And as 00:59:17.010 --> 00:59:19.929 their shoulder crosses that line with a yes, 00:59:20.090 --> 00:59:23.369 that's our continuation marker. And when the 00:59:23.369 --> 00:59:26.849 dog lines, right when the dog lines up correctly 00:59:26.849 --> 00:59:30.900 with that leg. Keep your sessions short and maintain 00:59:30.900 --> 00:59:35.500 precision, but also maintain enthusiasm. This 00:59:35.500 --> 00:59:39.320 is a game to your dog. Training is supposed to 00:59:39.320 --> 00:59:43.420 be fun. Make it fun. Make it engaging. And if 00:59:43.420 --> 00:59:45.719 your dog's checked out from it, then you're probably 00:59:45.719 --> 00:59:52.460 boring. Just calling it what it is. Up the excitement 00:59:52.460 --> 00:59:58.190 level. Get more exciting. Get more fun. And your 00:59:58.190 --> 01:00:01.409 dog will want to like do it with you. All right. 01:00:01.429 --> 01:00:05.250 Listener project number two, the big, we're going 01:00:05.250 --> 01:00:08.650 to do the dynamic heel, right? So once we've 01:00:08.650 --> 01:00:10.409 nailed down that static heel, we're going to 01:00:10.409 --> 01:00:14.050 take, we're going to work up to five steps, right? 01:00:14.489 --> 01:00:17.849 One step at a time. We're going to mark with 01:00:17.849 --> 01:00:21.690 our continuation marker as we get going, because 01:00:21.690 --> 01:00:24.030 we don't want to just mark with our terminal 01:00:24.030 --> 01:00:26.739 marker. If we mark with a terminal marker, your 01:00:26.739 --> 01:00:28.480 dog's going to check out because it's like, cool, 01:00:28.539 --> 01:00:31.460 I'm done. Remember that. Use your continuation 01:00:31.460 --> 01:00:35.800 marker and mark as you go with the goal of getting 01:00:35.800 --> 01:00:40.360 about five steps. Mark yes as your dog stays 01:00:40.360 --> 01:00:45.280 aligned while moving. Stop after that five steps 01:00:45.280 --> 01:00:48.119 and then give them your terminal marker for us 01:00:48.119 --> 01:00:52.650 free and toss that treat to... to make the dog 01:00:52.650 --> 01:00:56.409 move and break that heel, then you can reset 01:00:56.409 --> 01:01:01.849 your dog. All right. So that is all I've got. 01:01:02.449 --> 01:01:05.949 Last chance for questions. As we kind of start 01:01:05.949 --> 01:01:08.510 to close this down, just interrupt me and we'll 01:01:08.510 --> 01:01:12.250 answer them. Thanks for joining us tonight. I 01:01:12.250 --> 01:01:16.409 appreciate everybody tuning in. Let me turn that 01:01:16.409 --> 01:01:18.809 down before I blow everybody's eardrums out. 01:01:20.219 --> 01:01:22.579 So we are always trying to make this better, 01:01:22.659 --> 01:01:25.320 right? And so this is my message to everybody. 01:01:25.780 --> 01:01:28.719 Please send us a message. Share this with your 01:01:28.719 --> 01:01:31.000 friends and family. 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