WEBVTT 00:00:33.230 --> 00:00:35.969 Welcome to Pawprint Academy, your blueprint to 00:00:35.969 --> 00:00:38.890 raising better dogs. My name is Ryan, and I'll 00:00:38.890 --> 00:00:41.770 be your host for this journey. I've got my trusty 00:00:41.770 --> 00:00:44.429 co -host here, Brianna. Hello. And together, 00:00:44.429 --> 00:00:46.270 we're bringing you real -world training insights 00:00:46.270 --> 00:00:49.030 built on leadership, structure, and proven methods. 00:00:49.710 --> 00:00:52.270 We record this podcast with live clients on the 00:00:52.270 --> 00:00:55.549 line in one take with live, unscripted questions 00:00:55.549 --> 00:00:58.310 and answers. At the end of the day, this podcast 00:00:58.310 --> 00:01:00.350 is a lot more than just teaching your dog to 00:01:00.350 --> 00:01:04.709 sit or stay. creating calmness, and becoming 00:01:04.709 --> 00:01:07.670 the kind of leader your dog truly needs. We do 00:01:07.670 --> 00:01:10.109 that with our three pillar method of trust, obey, 00:01:10.329 --> 00:01:13.569 and perform. Together, we'll show you how these 00:01:13.569 --> 00:01:17.090 three pillars shape every step of training. Thanks 00:01:17.090 --> 00:01:37.730 for being here. Let's get started. Hey, hey, 00:01:37.730 --> 00:01:42.790 it's episode 27, Crate Anxiety, Fixing Whining, 00:01:43.010 --> 00:01:48.010 and Panic in the Kennel. Welcome. Hello, hello. 00:01:48.870 --> 00:01:51.650 All right, we're going to jump right into it. 00:01:51.670 --> 00:01:55.010 We are going to probably cruise through this, 00:01:55.049 --> 00:02:01.909 but we'll see. The concept tonight is a big focus 00:02:01.909 --> 00:02:08.460 on preemptive actions, proactivity. Because this 00:02:08.460 --> 00:02:14.280 is a problem. Great anxiety. Huge problem. Lots 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:19.580 of people deal with it. Very few things that 00:02:19.580 --> 00:02:23.419 you can do at the end of the day. A lot of things 00:02:23.419 --> 00:02:26.240 that you can do up front. A lot of small things 00:02:26.240 --> 00:02:29.060 that you can build towards to try to fix the 00:02:29.060 --> 00:02:32.400 problem. But the biggest thing is going to be 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:35.620 time. Yeah, for sure. And no one wants to hear 00:02:35.620 --> 00:02:39.919 that. Yeah. And so to a certain degree, this 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:44.199 whole episode could be summed up by saying, don't 00:02:44.199 --> 00:02:46.419 do a certain amount of points that we'll talk 00:02:46.419 --> 00:02:51.180 about to create it. And then if you have it, 00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:55.759 you just have to reverse it. Yeah. By building 00:02:55.759 --> 00:03:00.039 in a lot of time and a lot of patience into the 00:03:00.039 --> 00:03:05.259 dog learning that it's okay. And that's it. All 00:03:05.259 --> 00:03:08.180 right. Thank you for your attention. Have a great 00:03:08.180 --> 00:03:12.020 night. That's all of it. Yeah, that is it. So 00:03:12.020 --> 00:03:19.240 let's break it down. In general, crate anxiety 00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:25.780 is not solved by just making the kennel more 00:03:25.780 --> 00:03:29.560 comfortable. It's not solved by just giving them 00:03:29.560 --> 00:03:33.780 a bone. It's not solved by drugging your dog. 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:40.379 It's solved by building clarity, structure, and 00:03:40.379 --> 00:03:45.139 calmness as well as independence so that the 00:03:45.139 --> 00:03:47.539 dog learns that the crate is a place to settle, 00:03:47.659 --> 00:03:53.780 not a place to fight. And I say this a lot in 00:03:53.780 --> 00:03:57.819 lessons, you have to let the dog stand on their 00:03:57.819 --> 00:04:01.259 own four paws. Yeah. That's definitely a big 00:04:01.259 --> 00:04:03.379 one. And I think it's a huge misconception that 00:04:03.379 --> 00:04:07.939 a lot of dog owners have is their dog just, they're 00:04:07.939 --> 00:04:10.120 always like, oh, I hate, my dog hates the kennel. 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:12.319 My dog hates the kennel. My dog hates the kennel. 00:04:12.360 --> 00:04:14.620 Right. And so they don't do it. Right. Or they 00:04:14.620 --> 00:04:16.259 don't put them in there. Right. Because he hates 00:04:16.259 --> 00:04:18.360 it, so I hate it for him. But in reality, it's 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:21.160 not that the dog hates the kennel. The dog hates 00:04:21.160 --> 00:04:23.220 that they have no other option than to relax 00:04:23.220 --> 00:04:26.540 because they don't know how to relax. Right. 00:04:30.080 --> 00:04:32.819 Everyone has certain things that they would rather 00:04:32.819 --> 00:04:40.300 do. But that doesn't mean that they're scared 00:04:40.300 --> 00:04:45.240 or anxious. So anxious, we use the word anxious 00:04:45.240 --> 00:04:48.939 a lot. But true anxiety at the clinical level 00:04:48.939 --> 00:04:54.699 is something far and away from the dog's a little. 00:04:55.629 --> 00:04:58.850 I guess, upset that they have to be in the kennel 00:04:58.850 --> 00:05:03.649 instead of the couch. Yeah, for sure. And when 00:05:03.649 --> 00:05:07.850 we go and we talk to an owner, we teach someone 00:05:07.850 --> 00:05:13.110 how to build neutrality in a crate so that your 00:05:13.110 --> 00:05:16.230 dog will go into the crate. Inevitably, we ask 00:05:16.230 --> 00:05:20.449 or are asked the question of, well, when are 00:05:20.449 --> 00:05:24.610 they going to love the crate? Maybe never. Yeah, 00:05:24.610 --> 00:05:29.420 maybe. Because love is a strong word. They learn 00:05:29.420 --> 00:05:31.920 to love the couch because you love the couch. 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:34.819 They learn to love the bed because you love the 00:05:34.819 --> 00:05:36.759 bed. They pattern that and then they're like, 00:05:36.819 --> 00:05:38.600 yeah, it is pretty nice up here. It's higher 00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:41.339 up off the floor. It's pretty soft. I enjoy it. 00:05:41.379 --> 00:05:47.519 I like it. They don't, if, let's turn this around. 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:50.720 If they were to see you spend all of your time 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:53.459 in a crate, they'd probably learn to love it. 00:05:53.639 --> 00:05:57.860 Right. Because you're their best friend. You're 00:05:57.860 --> 00:06:00.040 their leader. You're their all those things. 00:06:00.139 --> 00:06:02.879 You're the provider. You bring the food. Yeah. 00:06:02.980 --> 00:06:05.420 You pay the electricity bills. You keep the internet 00:06:05.420 --> 00:06:09.399 on. So they can watch Spongebob during the day 00:06:09.399 --> 00:06:14.740 or whatever it is that they do. And if you were 00:06:14.740 --> 00:06:20.759 to pattern a different set of furniture, they 00:06:20.759 --> 00:06:23.310 would like that too. Right, and it's also not 00:06:23.310 --> 00:06:25.170 strictly about the furniture, right? It's being 00:06:25.170 --> 00:06:28.930 away from you most of the time. Right, and where 00:06:28.930 --> 00:06:32.290 you spend your time, right? Where you value spending 00:06:32.290 --> 00:06:36.310 your time. They want to value that as well. So 00:06:36.310 --> 00:06:40.790 obviously we're not going to make everything 00:06:40.790 --> 00:06:44.769 of the same value because you don't spend that 00:06:44.769 --> 00:06:48.709 time there. So that's not the point. That's not 00:06:48.709 --> 00:06:50.490 what we're trying to do. All we're trying to 00:06:50.490 --> 00:06:54.699 do is make it. neutral we just want to make it 00:06:54.699 --> 00:06:57.379 not a bad place we just want to make it not a 00:06:57.379 --> 00:07:02.500 a place of fear or you know being scared and 00:07:02.500 --> 00:07:10.959 having an anxiety attack yeah so if we teach 00:07:10.959 --> 00:07:16.500 a dog that they can actually relax themselves 00:07:16.500 --> 00:07:21.660 we give them the tools to deal with this And 00:07:21.660 --> 00:07:24.800 if we do that early on in their life by showing 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:27.860 them that it's a neutral place, by showing them 00:07:27.860 --> 00:07:33.680 that they didn't die. Right. Not dying is a strong, 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:38.220 you know, concept. But nothing hurt them. Yeah. 00:07:38.300 --> 00:07:41.000 They didn't get hurt. They didn't get injured. 00:07:41.220 --> 00:07:46.259 Nothing bad happened. Oh, cool. That wasn't so 00:07:46.259 --> 00:07:49.029 bad. Yeah. And then they move on. We have to 00:07:49.029 --> 00:07:51.089 pattern that. We got to use that over and over 00:07:51.089 --> 00:07:53.290 and over and over. Right. It also builds confidence 00:07:53.290 --> 00:07:55.269 in your dog to show them that they can do hard 00:07:55.269 --> 00:07:58.050 things, right? Humans are always made to do hard 00:07:58.050 --> 00:08:00.410 things and make progress and grow and all these 00:08:00.410 --> 00:08:04.490 things. But we sometimes lack that expectation 00:08:04.490 --> 00:08:12.029 in our dogs. Yeah. So most crate issues are not 00:08:12.029 --> 00:08:14.620 about the crate. They're more about the dog's 00:08:14.620 --> 00:08:17.300 inability to self -regulate, like Brianna said. 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:21.339 And so when they're separated from their handler, 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:25.759 from their owner, they immediately respond in 00:08:25.759 --> 00:08:28.339 a way that they've responded before. That's classical 00:08:28.339 --> 00:08:32.220 conditioning in action. It's not something that 00:08:32.220 --> 00:08:34.980 the dog always has control over, but that doesn't 00:08:34.980 --> 00:08:39.600 mean it's bad for the dog either. We just have 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:44.789 to work through it. Yeah. Whining, barking, and 00:08:44.789 --> 00:08:49.590 panic behaviors often are reinforced over time 00:08:49.590 --> 00:08:54.350 because the dog learns that the noise that they 00:08:54.350 --> 00:09:03.029 make creates or gains your attention. Pretty 00:09:03.029 --> 00:09:05.590 much across the board, everyone that we've ever 00:09:05.590 --> 00:09:10.370 talked to that doesn't crate their dog for a 00:09:10.370 --> 00:09:13.500 definitive reason like, Well, I've tried it and 00:09:13.500 --> 00:09:18.620 they hate it. Yeah. It immediately, you can tell 00:09:18.620 --> 00:09:21.679 by the owner's body language, the owner also 00:09:21.679 --> 00:09:24.220 hates it because of what they went through while 00:09:24.220 --> 00:09:26.720 trying to teach them how to go into their crate. 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:29.460 Yeah. Because the dog made it painful enough 00:09:29.460 --> 00:09:33.000 and horrible enough that that owner was like, 00:09:33.100 --> 00:09:37.639 no more. Yep. Let's come on out of there. Right. 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:40.580 And that's exactly the moment that the dog is 00:09:40.580 --> 00:09:43.870 like, ah. I won. I have a tally mark. Right. 00:09:43.990 --> 00:09:47.009 And whether the dog's truly competing or not, 00:09:47.210 --> 00:09:51.350 it is the same concept that the dog just figured 00:09:51.350 --> 00:09:54.789 out that it worked. And they're like, got it. 00:09:54.889 --> 00:09:58.190 Well, that does it. Right. It's the same thing 00:09:58.190 --> 00:10:00.690 if you scream for help and someone comes running. 00:10:00.789 --> 00:10:02.929 It's a real quick, you're like, ah, cool. Well, 00:10:02.950 --> 00:10:10.899 that worked. The learning occurs. whether we 00:10:10.899 --> 00:10:15.019 like it or not, sometimes accidentally. Right. 00:10:15.100 --> 00:10:21.639 So we have to really, really be careful when 00:10:21.639 --> 00:10:24.740 we're first starting. Yeah. If you have a puppy 00:10:24.740 --> 00:10:28.399 and you're learning and you're setting it up 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:30.600 and getting it crate trained and learning how 00:10:30.600 --> 00:10:38.240 to do this, you have to fight through those small 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:42.179 squabbles up front. Because they're only going 00:10:42.179 --> 00:10:45.519 to get worse. Right. And if you give in one time, 00:10:45.620 --> 00:10:49.000 it's going to get worse the very next time. They'll 00:10:49.000 --> 00:10:51.639 either get louder or they're going to do it faster 00:10:51.639 --> 00:10:59.440 at the time or both. Yeah. So dogs that lack 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:03.679 structure outside the crate are typically going 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:08.100 to struggle also more inside the crate. Because 00:11:08.100 --> 00:11:13.240 there's no foundation. There's no standard of 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:16.639 calm behavior for them to fall back on that they 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:22.080 realize works. And so you end up with more of 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:26.120 it and more anxiety. We have to give the dogs 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:31.279 the opportunity to learn that they can calm themselves 00:11:31.279 --> 00:11:34.480 down. And that's honestly, that's where the crate 00:11:34.480 --> 00:11:38.240 comes into play. Because it's like time in the 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:41.980 crate teaches them to be neutral to time in the 00:11:41.980 --> 00:11:46.779 crate. Yeah. Which is like, okay, the chicken 00:11:46.779 --> 00:11:48.820 and the egg. Well, how do I get them to be calm 00:11:48.820 --> 00:11:51.779 in the crate? This is the part of the podcast 00:11:51.779 --> 00:11:54.659 where I was like, this is super fast. You just 00:11:54.659 --> 00:11:59.419 do it. Yeah. Now, you can have these random one 00:11:59.419 --> 00:12:02.779 -off issues where a dog's like. No, no, I am 00:12:02.779 --> 00:12:05.039 getting out of here. And they will do everything 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:08.720 they can to break out of there. Typically, and 00:12:08.720 --> 00:12:11.960 I'm going to cover it right now rather than in 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:16.299 the second section here, but typically when, 00:12:17.059 --> 00:12:20.919 if you have a highly anxious dog and you're listening 00:12:20.919 --> 00:12:22.659 to this podcast, you're like, oh yeah, that all 00:12:22.659 --> 00:12:26.120 fits my dog. I'm going to encourage you to get 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:30.259 a high quality crate right off the bat. Don't 00:12:30.259 --> 00:12:33.820 skimp. on a couple of bucks and then end up spending 00:12:33.820 --> 00:12:36.960 just as much if not more by taking them to the 00:12:36.960 --> 00:12:39.519 vet because they hurt themselves trying to break 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:41.399 out of that little wire crate that you got on 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:46.059 facebook marketplace yeah i am a huge fan and 00:12:46.059 --> 00:12:50.279 saving money that is not the concept here the 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:55.399 issue is that i inevitably get the phone calls 00:12:55.399 --> 00:13:00.639 when something goes really badly And a dog breaks 00:13:00.639 --> 00:13:03.899 out of a crate, chews through or breaks the little 00:13:03.899 --> 00:13:06.799 wires, squeezes out of them, punctures themselves 00:13:06.799 --> 00:13:09.360 several times, bleeds all over and gets out. 00:13:10.340 --> 00:13:12.659 And now the owner is horrified when they come 00:13:12.659 --> 00:13:15.100 home. There's blood on the floor. Their dog is 00:13:15.100 --> 00:13:19.600 mostly fine, but super not interested in going 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:21.759 back in the crate. The crate is destroyed. They're 00:13:21.759 --> 00:13:24.580 taken to the vet. They're super spun up and, 00:13:24.659 --> 00:13:28.000 you know, oh my gosh, what am I going to do? 00:13:29.289 --> 00:13:31.590 And now they're like, now I need professional 00:13:31.590 --> 00:13:35.789 help. Now, some of that stuff could have been 00:13:35.789 --> 00:13:38.889 avoided. And I know not everyone is in a financial 00:13:38.889 --> 00:13:40.850 position to throw a whole bunch of money at an 00:13:40.850 --> 00:13:44.269 ice crate. There are some really, some pretty, 00:13:44.549 --> 00:13:49.929 it's, don't quote me on this, on the, well, that's 00:13:49.929 --> 00:13:52.190 not as high quality as this one. Yeah, for sure. 00:13:52.389 --> 00:13:57.210 Money solves these issues in a, you get what 00:13:57.210 --> 00:14:00.570 you pay for. type of environment however i'll 00:14:00.570 --> 00:14:03.970 just tell you uh without giving a recommendation 00:14:03.970 --> 00:14:08.309 to one or another what we use i am a huge fan 00:14:08.309 --> 00:14:11.509 of roughland kennels i don't have any affiliation 00:14:11.509 --> 00:14:14.590 with them they pay me no money i just like them 00:14:14.590 --> 00:14:17.210 i like them because they're one piece molded 00:14:17.210 --> 00:14:22.289 plastic and they're pretty easy to to uh transport 00:14:22.289 --> 00:14:26.440 around they fit in the back of like an suv They, 00:14:26.440 --> 00:14:29.000 there are little custom fans that can bolt to 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:32.440 the outside of them. They're pretty easy to clean 00:14:32.440 --> 00:14:36.559 and they do great when you have a whole bunch 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:38.899 of them and you're tossing them around. Yeah. 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:41.539 Right. Because you can toss that sucker across 00:14:41.539 --> 00:14:44.600 the room, you know, like after you've cleaned 00:14:44.600 --> 00:14:46.139 them all and you're, you're bringing them inside 00:14:46.139 --> 00:14:48.100 and you're just throwing them inside into the 00:14:48.100 --> 00:14:50.080 garage and they're tumbling around and they're 00:14:50.080 --> 00:14:52.500 great. Yeah. I couldn't probably do that with 00:14:52.500 --> 00:14:55.659 a big metal crate. However, I've used impact 00:14:55.659 --> 00:14:58.600 crates. They're very, very high end. Love them. 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:00.679 I have been very impressed with their product. 00:15:00.799 --> 00:15:07.320 I have a Rock Creek crate that is a metal, a 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:11.120 collapsible metal kennel. All of those I've used, 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:16.539 I like, I have found through recommending them 00:15:16.539 --> 00:15:22.429 to different clients that they, They've had a 00:15:22.429 --> 00:15:25.850 much better time with those because of the way 00:15:25.850 --> 00:15:28.570 that they're made. They don't have any purchase 00:15:28.570 --> 00:15:31.309 points on the inside where the dog can kind of 00:15:31.309 --> 00:15:35.529 get a good grip on something. And that's how 00:15:35.529 --> 00:15:39.129 they initially start gnawing away or grabbing 00:15:39.129 --> 00:15:41.450 or, you know, creating leverage where they can 00:15:41.450 --> 00:15:44.950 eventually try to bust on out of there. Almost 00:15:44.950 --> 00:15:48.330 across the board. I'm just calling it out as 00:15:48.330 --> 00:15:52.029 I see it. I won't like not mentioning. any brands 00:15:52.029 --> 00:15:57.350 of wire crates but in general every bad hero 00:15:57.350 --> 00:16:03.929 or horrific crate incident that i have ever had 00:16:03.929 --> 00:16:09.009 experience with was always a wire kennel or wire 00:16:09.009 --> 00:16:10.629 crate right i mean i don't think we can name 00:16:10.629 --> 00:16:12.629 any brands of wire crates anyways they're just 00:16:12.629 --> 00:16:15.570 wire kennels yeah right it's like whatever the 00:16:15.570 --> 00:16:18.779 the Company is that sells it is usually the the 00:16:18.779 --> 00:16:21.539 big box store. Yeah, it's like their brand. Yeah 00:16:21.539 --> 00:16:27.799 anyway, those that's that's my just professional 00:16:27.799 --> 00:16:32.539 opinion on crates and Crate anxiety if you have 00:16:32.539 --> 00:16:35.740 a crate anxious dog the number one thing that 00:16:35.740 --> 00:16:38.980 you can do right off the bat is save up the money 00:16:38.980 --> 00:16:44.000 and buy something that's that's That's safer 00:16:44.600 --> 00:16:48.779 for your dog so that at least you can check one 00:16:48.779 --> 00:16:51.639 thing off of the peace of mind list and feel 00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:54.759 better about the situation you're in right because 00:16:54.759 --> 00:16:56.759 yeah it'll lessen your anxiety in the long run 00:16:56.759 --> 00:17:00.360 right yeah nothing is gonna make you quit trying 00:17:00.360 --> 00:17:02.500 to work through this more than coming back and 00:17:02.500 --> 00:17:07.980 having an injured dog all right inconsistent 00:17:07.980 --> 00:17:12.420 release timing this is super important because 00:17:12.420 --> 00:17:17.359 it creates more whining over time. Inconsistent 00:17:17.359 --> 00:17:20.920 release just means, well, sometimes you release 00:17:20.920 --> 00:17:24.819 them right when they whine. And sometimes you 00:17:24.819 --> 00:17:27.480 release them after they were quiet for five seconds. 00:17:27.559 --> 00:17:29.640 And sometimes you release them after they were 00:17:29.640 --> 00:17:36.380 quiet for an hour. The issue with that is that 00:17:36.380 --> 00:17:39.579 it's unpredictable. And sometimes you can... 00:17:42.059 --> 00:17:47.640 incorrectly or accidentally teach the dog or 00:17:47.640 --> 00:17:51.339 at least reinforce to the dog that they're being 00:17:51.339 --> 00:17:54.420 released because they whined. Now you're not 00:17:54.420 --> 00:17:56.920 doing that on purpose but that could be the message 00:17:56.920 --> 00:18:02.920 that the dog gets. So in the second section or 00:18:02.920 --> 00:18:05.079 I'm sorry in the third section I'm going to talk 00:18:05.079 --> 00:18:08.369 about One of my favorite strategies for what 00:18:08.369 --> 00:18:14.609 I call capturing a release time. And that will 00:18:14.609 --> 00:18:18.430 be a strong solution to that. But to highlight 00:18:18.430 --> 00:18:21.930 the issue, if you're not consistent about the 00:18:21.930 --> 00:18:26.349 trigger for why the dog gets out, the dog will 00:18:26.349 --> 00:18:30.450 pick up on the differences and they will be opportunistic. 00:18:31.049 --> 00:18:33.890 Yeah, absolutely. As soon as the dog whines and 00:18:33.890 --> 00:18:37.210 it's like we a lot of times we we look at like 00:18:37.210 --> 00:18:39.650 we're not just waiting for the dog to be quiet 00:18:39.650 --> 00:18:42.450 and still be anxious in there, but be like panting 00:18:42.450 --> 00:18:46.730 and pacing around. You're really looking for 00:18:46.730 --> 00:18:50.289 calmness in the in the grand scheme of things. 00:18:50.430 --> 00:18:53.670 Yeah. So let's talk about some like comfort based 00:18:53.670 --> 00:18:56.509 solutions, because this is usually the solution 00:18:56.509 --> 00:19:00.410 that I see. People do because they either looked 00:19:00.410 --> 00:19:04.789 it up on Google or they chat GPT it and it was 00:19:04.789 --> 00:19:07.470 like, oh, cool. Make it more relaxing for them. 00:19:07.630 --> 00:19:12.910 So comfort based solutions are like adding blankets 00:19:12.910 --> 00:19:18.990 or toys or just reassuring the dog. This can 00:19:18.990 --> 00:19:23.450 work, but it doesn't work for a truly anxious 00:19:23.450 --> 00:19:28.079 dog. It can work for. Like a dog that's at a 00:19:28.079 --> 00:19:31.160 phase, you know, earlier where they're like, 00:19:31.180 --> 00:19:33.440 eh, I don't really like it in here. Yeah. And 00:19:33.440 --> 00:19:36.640 you're like, hey, it's okay. Like, oh, okay. 00:19:37.940 --> 00:19:40.259 But that's not what we're talking about. We're 00:19:40.259 --> 00:19:44.259 talking about actual crate anxiety. You're not 00:19:44.259 --> 00:19:45.880 going to calm them down no matter what you put 00:19:45.880 --> 00:19:48.079 in there. Right. As soon as the dog like whines 00:19:48.079 --> 00:19:49.759 or something, they're like on Amazon and they're 00:19:49.759 --> 00:19:51.579 like, I'm going to find some things. Right. Find 00:19:51.579 --> 00:19:53.920 some soft, cuddly things. Make it nicer for him 00:19:53.920 --> 00:19:58.190 because he's sad. Yeah. But. That's us putting 00:19:58.190 --> 00:20:01.970 our emotions on the dog. He's not sad. Right. 00:20:02.549 --> 00:20:07.369 It's more than that. Yeah. He has not learned 00:20:07.369 --> 00:20:11.269 to regulate his own emotions. So sure, there's 00:20:11.269 --> 00:20:13.589 probably some sadness in there, but then there's 00:20:13.589 --> 00:20:16.150 also like 20 other emotions that are flowing 00:20:16.150 --> 00:20:18.849 through. Right. And they just don't understand 00:20:18.849 --> 00:20:21.009 what they're supposed to be doing, but trying 00:20:21.009 --> 00:20:24.230 to give them comfort is not going to give them 00:20:24.230 --> 00:20:26.630 the answer. Right. Yeah, and all of this is done 00:20:26.630 --> 00:20:28.970 out of the goodness of your heart. You want the 00:20:28.970 --> 00:20:32.529 best for your dog, for sure. No version of this 00:20:32.529 --> 00:20:34.390 that I'm saying that anyone's messing this up 00:20:34.390 --> 00:20:37.910 on purpose. It's just that it's not a solution 00:20:37.910 --> 00:20:43.509 that usually works. So toys, constant reassurance, 00:20:43.769 --> 00:20:50.369 it doesn't give any clear expectations related 00:20:50.369 --> 00:20:54.309 to the behavior. It just is like. Here, here's 00:20:54.309 --> 00:20:56.009 another thing. Right, it usually gives them something 00:20:56.009 --> 00:20:58.730 to destroy in the long run. Right, something 00:20:58.730 --> 00:21:03.690 for them to be anxious with. Yeah. Right? And 00:21:03.690 --> 00:21:13.549 so think about it this way. If you never force 00:21:13.549 --> 00:21:18.970 someone to think through a problem, they'll never 00:21:18.970 --> 00:21:23.119 build. the muscle and the solution and the the 00:21:23.119 --> 00:21:26.960 skills to work through that problem well this 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:28.539 is the same thing as a dog they're not going 00:21:28.539 --> 00:21:31.119 to learn to calm themselves down by themselves 00:21:31.119 --> 00:21:33.660 right no one's going to teach them that yeah 00:21:33.660 --> 00:21:38.559 so you have to and the way you do that is through 00:21:38.559 --> 00:21:42.460 crate and place yeah as the top two there's other 00:21:42.460 --> 00:21:46.619 things leave it that's a great one but All three 00:21:46.619 --> 00:21:48.819 of those things build on each other. The crate 00:21:48.819 --> 00:21:51.759 is the easiest and most basic one because it's 00:21:51.759 --> 00:21:55.539 confinement. Place, you have to work on emotional 00:21:55.539 --> 00:21:59.180 regulation and decision -making at the same time, 00:21:59.220 --> 00:22:02.779 including you holding the dog accountable. Your 00:22:02.779 --> 00:22:05.240 accountability is automatically held in a crate 00:22:05.240 --> 00:22:08.319 because they're in a crate. Right. So yeah, don't 00:22:08.319 --> 00:22:10.140 put your dog on place and expect to just like 00:22:10.140 --> 00:22:11.839 check out from your dog to start off with unless 00:22:11.839 --> 00:22:13.599 you're doing a tethered place, which is also 00:22:13.599 --> 00:22:16.220 a good recommendation for very beginning, like 00:22:16.220 --> 00:22:19.759 early stages of just teaching calmness. And then 00:22:19.759 --> 00:22:21.640 that way the tether becomes the accountability 00:22:21.640 --> 00:22:26.500 piece. So letting a dog out while they're still 00:22:26.500 --> 00:22:29.119 whining is going to teach them that the panic 00:22:29.119 --> 00:22:35.400 works. If they get more panicked, it's... and 00:22:35.400 --> 00:22:39.319 then you come out of wherever you're at and you 00:22:39.319 --> 00:22:42.000 show up and you save the day by letting them 00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:45.480 out this is one of the fastest ways to build 00:22:45.480 --> 00:22:49.079 long -term crate problems absolutely one of the 00:22:49.079 --> 00:22:52.160 fastest ways yeah ignoring the problem without 00:22:52.160 --> 00:22:56.519 a plan can also fail though because if the dog 00:22:56.519 --> 00:22:59.599 is not learning what to do instead of whining 00:22:59.599 --> 00:23:03.220 you're going to be very unsuccessful because 00:23:03.220 --> 00:23:07.430 you can say No, don't bark. No, don't whine. 00:23:07.490 --> 00:23:10.289 No, don't. But what do you want them to do instead? 00:23:11.529 --> 00:23:16.509 This trips a lot of people up because you end 00:23:16.509 --> 00:23:19.970 up, I end up asking people and I get the craziest 00:23:19.970 --> 00:23:22.430 looks. Well, what do you want the dog to do instead 00:23:22.430 --> 00:23:25.710 of barking? And they'll be like, well, I want 00:23:25.710 --> 00:23:29.950 him to be quiet. Like, right. I got it. How are 00:23:29.950 --> 00:23:32.589 you doing that? How did you teach him to be quiet? 00:23:33.150 --> 00:23:35.529 Did you ever teach him to be quiet? Well, no, 00:23:35.630 --> 00:23:37.650 that's what I want him to do. Right. I got it. 00:23:37.750 --> 00:23:42.509 But did you teach him that? Right. So the concept 00:23:42.509 --> 00:23:47.250 is that you have to teach your dog what you want 00:23:47.250 --> 00:23:51.009 them to do. Yeah. So maybe you want them to lay 00:23:51.009 --> 00:23:54.910 down. And when you have them lay down, that does 00:23:54.910 --> 00:23:59.609 not include barking. So now you can say, no, 00:23:59.789 --> 00:24:04.500 don't bark. You know, in parentheses. No. Down. 00:24:05.500 --> 00:24:09.119 Because down was not taught with a bark. So down 00:24:09.119 --> 00:24:13.000 means lay down, be quiet. Yeah. Now you have 00:24:13.000 --> 00:24:15.240 something that you can tell the dog what you 00:24:15.240 --> 00:24:18.599 want them to do. That is the most ethical way 00:24:18.599 --> 00:24:21.279 to do dog training. And the most successful way 00:24:21.279 --> 00:24:23.140 to do dog training is tell the dog what you want 00:24:23.140 --> 00:24:28.559 to do. That's important. Yep. Absolutely. Okay. 00:24:30.759 --> 00:24:35.000 Let me look at my notes. How do you balance ignoring 00:24:35.000 --> 00:24:37.859 noise versus actively teaching a calm behavior? 00:24:37.980 --> 00:24:41.460 That's a good one. Okay. Right. Because it's 00:24:41.460 --> 00:24:44.400 it. I think I touched on this earlier, but it's 00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:46.500 not waiting for the dog to stop making noise 00:24:46.500 --> 00:24:50.740 and like rustling around. It's like I almost 00:24:50.740 --> 00:24:52.839 wait until the point where like the dog is like 00:24:52.839 --> 00:24:56.259 totally relaxed, like ready to like doze off 00:24:56.259 --> 00:25:01.089 relaxed before. I would say that the dog is actually 00:25:01.089 --> 00:25:05.970 calm because calm to different people may look 00:25:05.970 --> 00:25:08.289 like different things. But if a dog is panting 00:25:08.289 --> 00:25:11.750 and pacing and not settling down, then just because 00:25:11.750 --> 00:25:13.430 they're not whining or barking anymore doesn't 00:25:13.430 --> 00:25:17.450 mean that they're necessarily calm. Right. Okay. 00:25:17.529 --> 00:25:20.109 We're going to jump into the third part here. 00:25:20.809 --> 00:25:22.329 Here's where we're going to throw a whole bunch 00:25:22.329 --> 00:25:27.049 of solutions at you. And to preface this, it's 00:25:27.049 --> 00:25:29.750 super important to remember. That dog training 00:25:29.750 --> 00:25:32.650 is not one size fits all. Some of these things 00:25:32.650 --> 00:25:34.910 might work. Some of these things might not work. 00:25:35.710 --> 00:25:38.809 But that's the crazy part of dog training is 00:25:38.809 --> 00:25:42.170 you're training a live, living, breathing, feeling 00:25:42.170 --> 00:25:45.369 thing. Yeah. Everything's different. And the 00:25:45.369 --> 00:25:48.809 way you do it is different. And that's why one 00:25:48.809 --> 00:25:50.730 of the most frustrating things for owners is 00:25:50.730 --> 00:25:53.809 that they do something. I talk to them on the 00:25:53.809 --> 00:25:55.730 phone, tell them what to do. They do it. It doesn't 00:25:55.730 --> 00:25:58.089 work. I show up. I do it. It works. And they're 00:25:58.089 --> 00:26:03.309 like. What? Well, that comes from there's all 00:26:03.309 --> 00:26:06.630 these tiny little variables. Yeah. How you do 00:26:06.630 --> 00:26:10.609 it, how you say it, the intonation in your voice 00:26:10.609 --> 00:26:12.750 when you say it, the firmness in your voice when 00:26:12.750 --> 00:26:16.670 you say it, your energy, your timing, all of 00:26:16.670 --> 00:26:18.630 those things come into play. Yeah, dogs care 00:26:18.630 --> 00:26:20.849 about all those things. They do. They're very, 00:26:20.950 --> 00:26:24.609 very intuitive in those things. So don't get 00:26:24.609 --> 00:26:28.170 frustrated. Keep the emotion out of it and just 00:26:28.170 --> 00:26:31.309 work through it. Yeah. All right. So start by 00:26:31.309 --> 00:26:35.589 creating value for calm behavior. Number one, 00:26:35.589 --> 00:26:40.450 if you don't establish value for the calm behavior, 00:26:40.650 --> 00:26:44.009 the dog will only see value in the crazy behavior. 00:26:44.089 --> 00:26:47.150 That's what seems to get you up to come and let 00:26:47.150 --> 00:26:50.589 him out. The crazy behavior is what gets you 00:26:50.589 --> 00:26:55.940 to yell at him. No, stop it. Don't bark. His 00:26:55.940 --> 00:27:00.440 crazy behavior equals you doing something about 00:27:00.440 --> 00:27:03.420 it. Right. And I think it doesn't always necessarily 00:27:03.420 --> 00:27:05.720 like start only in the crate either. It's like 00:27:05.720 --> 00:27:07.440 if you're only expecting your dog to be calm 00:27:07.440 --> 00:27:08.960 when they're in the crate, but you're not also 00:27:08.960 --> 00:27:11.400 reinforcing that sometimes outside of the crate, 00:27:11.500 --> 00:27:15.940 then why would they go into it being calm only 00:27:15.940 --> 00:27:21.180 in that situation? That's fair. Yeah. So if. 00:27:23.619 --> 00:27:26.740 Let me get back on track. that's super accurate 00:27:26.740 --> 00:27:29.400 right we have to be consistent not just in the 00:27:29.400 --> 00:27:31.799 crate but also in all the other things that we 00:27:31.799 --> 00:27:35.920 do calmness is something that is learned through 00:27:35.920 --> 00:27:38.299 all of the different training that we do and 00:27:38.299 --> 00:27:44.240 a dog cannot settle in the home a dog that cannot 00:27:44.240 --> 00:27:47.339 settle in the home right they're not just gonna 00:27:47.339 --> 00:27:51.759 suddenly settle in confinement yeah when they're 00:27:51.759 --> 00:27:57.710 the most stressed So you have to know what you're 00:27:57.710 --> 00:28:02.289 expecting out of the dog. Yeah. So we have to 00:28:02.289 --> 00:28:06.170 start creating value in that calm behavior outside 00:28:06.170 --> 00:28:10.190 the crate. We have to establish value in the 00:28:10.190 --> 00:28:14.569 calm behavior in the backyard and calm behavior 00:28:14.569 --> 00:28:17.730 in the living room and the bedroom and the every 00:28:17.730 --> 00:28:24.619 room. Yep. Then it transfers. Because you've 00:28:24.619 --> 00:28:27.500 already taught the dog a pattern. All right, 00:28:27.519 --> 00:28:32.420 next. Use clear markers and timing. You need 00:28:32.420 --> 00:28:36.720 to mark for good behavior while they're in the 00:28:36.720 --> 00:28:38.400 crate. There's nothing saying you can't treat 00:28:38.400 --> 00:28:40.819 your dog while they're in the crate. Yeah, absolutely. 00:28:40.859 --> 00:28:46.819 When they get quiet and you mark it, they quiet 00:28:46.819 --> 00:28:50.200 down, you count to three, and then you go, yes. 00:28:50.460 --> 00:28:52.859 And you walk over there. And you give them a 00:28:52.859 --> 00:28:56.259 treat, right? Or whatever your continuation marker 00:28:56.259 --> 00:29:01.019 is that you want them to keep doing it. So that 00:29:01.019 --> 00:29:04.700 is a great opportunity to reward the behavior 00:29:04.700 --> 00:29:12.880 that you want. Then quiet can start to become 00:29:12.880 --> 00:29:20.779 a command. Then you can name it. Once you've 00:29:20.779 --> 00:29:24.450 taught it, By rewarding it, you've shown the 00:29:24.450 --> 00:29:27.329 dog that there's, oh, I'm doing something that 00:29:27.329 --> 00:29:32.650 is precipitating this reward. What am I doing? 00:29:32.710 --> 00:29:35.190 Oh, I'm being quiet. I'm being calm. Okay, let 00:29:35.190 --> 00:29:37.049 me try that again. Oh, wow, I got another treat. 00:29:37.509 --> 00:29:41.990 And you're creating an actual command there. 00:29:42.269 --> 00:29:45.170 Then you can name it and you can cue it. You 00:29:45.170 --> 00:29:50.099 can put it on cue. Conversely, you can also put 00:29:50.099 --> 00:29:52.740 the barking on cue and then it's even more clear. 00:29:52.900 --> 00:29:55.000 You can tell your dog to bark. You can tell your 00:29:55.000 --> 00:29:59.039 dog to be quiet. That's best case scenario. Yeah, 00:29:59.079 --> 00:30:01.240 we've been using relax for Dexter and it's like 00:30:01.240 --> 00:30:04.059 his indicator of like, not only am I asking for 00:30:04.059 --> 00:30:06.279 down, but I'm asking you to like relax onto your 00:30:06.279 --> 00:30:10.799 hip, like on cue so that I know that he's not 00:30:10.799 --> 00:30:15.480 just going to jump right back up. Yeah. Okay. 00:30:15.880 --> 00:30:22.569 Relax behavior. Where am I at? We only want to 00:30:22.569 --> 00:30:25.829 release the dog when the dog is calm. This is 00:30:25.829 --> 00:30:29.170 really important. People misunderstand what calmness 00:30:29.170 --> 00:30:33.210 really is in dogs. And we go, oh, they're quiet 00:30:33.210 --> 00:30:37.670 and they're laying down. They're calm. You need 00:30:37.670 --> 00:30:39.410 to look at some other pieces of their body language. 00:30:39.470 --> 00:30:42.490 If they're panting up a storm, they're not calm. 00:30:42.730 --> 00:30:45.950 If they're licking their lips and they're fidgeting. 00:30:46.380 --> 00:30:50.220 but they're laying down, they're not calm. When 00:30:50.220 --> 00:30:53.319 they're laying on their side with their hip kicked 00:30:53.319 --> 00:30:57.539 over and their paws outstretched and they're 00:30:57.539 --> 00:31:01.759 just like, you can just tell a difference, right? 00:31:01.880 --> 00:31:06.140 Yeah. You can like feel the energy in a dog when 00:31:06.140 --> 00:31:10.440 they're calm versus like. that like panting type 00:31:10.440 --> 00:31:12.720 behavior you can definitely like see it you can 00:31:12.720 --> 00:31:14.839 also see it in their eyes and like their forehead 00:31:14.839 --> 00:31:16.759 and their ears all of those things are going 00:31:16.759 --> 00:31:19.500 to give you signals of whether the dog is still 00:31:19.500 --> 00:31:21.940 kind of amped up or whether they're truly calm 00:31:21.940 --> 00:31:29.720 yep exactly all right then we can progress gradually 00:31:29.720 --> 00:31:32.500 through this we have to start with real short 00:31:32.500 --> 00:31:36.640 little successful successful repetitions Because 00:31:36.640 --> 00:31:40.700 that builds confidence in the dog. And if you 00:31:40.700 --> 00:31:46.200 go too long, you try to achieve endurance. And 00:31:46.200 --> 00:31:50.380 that's like, Bree says this all the time, the 00:31:50.380 --> 00:31:53.279 college versus kindergarten. You've got to start 00:31:53.279 --> 00:31:55.799 at kindergarten. You have to start with kindergarten 00:31:55.799 --> 00:31:58.880 tasks. If you were to task a kindergartner with 00:31:58.880 --> 00:32:01.440 college level math, it's going to go poorly. 00:32:02.589 --> 00:32:04.849 But you forget as soon as it's a dog, it's like, 00:32:04.890 --> 00:32:07.289 well, just lay in the crate. But that's not normal 00:32:07.289 --> 00:32:11.029 for a dog to just know exactly how to calm themselves 00:32:11.029 --> 00:32:15.369 down. So you have to start simple, start slow, 00:32:15.490 --> 00:32:21.910 start easy. Okay. The next thing that I wanted 00:32:21.910 --> 00:32:24.589 to talk through in what are we going to do about 00:32:24.589 --> 00:32:29.809 it? This is called capturing. And I could probably 00:32:29.809 --> 00:32:32.750 talk about. this and the concept for a long time 00:32:32.750 --> 00:32:36.690 i'm going to try to stay on track capturing is 00:32:36.690 --> 00:32:45.849 what we use when your dog barks because they 00:32:45.849 --> 00:32:49.869 hear because they hear you coming right they 00:32:49.869 --> 00:32:54.950 so let's say that your dog is in the crate and 00:32:54.950 --> 00:32:57.289 they have been in the crate for a very long time 00:32:57.289 --> 00:32:59.410 and you're in the other room and you're like 00:32:59.769 --> 00:33:02.750 Oh, wow, they're finally relaxed. So you go to 00:33:02.750 --> 00:33:05.630 get up and you go to open the door and they hear 00:33:05.630 --> 00:33:07.390 you in the other room because the dog's got great 00:33:07.390 --> 00:33:10.730 hearing and they start barking because they hear 00:33:10.730 --> 00:33:13.849 you coming and it ramps them up. Well, now what 00:33:13.849 --> 00:33:17.410 do you do? You have to go sit down again, right? 00:33:17.509 --> 00:33:19.210 And you have to let them calm down because if 00:33:19.210 --> 00:33:23.390 you walk out there right as they barked, it reinforces 00:33:23.390 --> 00:33:26.960 that the barking is what makes you appear. And 00:33:26.960 --> 00:33:29.680 you're like, oh gosh. And you do this three or 00:33:29.680 --> 00:33:31.220 four times. You're like, this is a never ending 00:33:31.220 --> 00:33:32.880 loop. They're never gonna come out. I have to 00:33:32.880 --> 00:33:34.900 let them out. I gotta let them out to go potty. 00:33:34.900 --> 00:33:36.880 I gotta let them, I gotta go. I gotta leave. 00:33:37.019 --> 00:33:40.440 I gotta do other things. I have life to do. All 00:33:40.440 --> 00:33:44.339 right, here's a solution. We start to pattern 00:33:44.339 --> 00:33:52.240 a new obvious cue that precipitates why you showed 00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:55.140 up. And so that's what this looks like. It's 00:33:55.140 --> 00:34:00.259 called capturing. we're going to, this is similar. 00:34:00.339 --> 00:34:03.240 I, the reason it's called capturing is, uh, it's 00:34:03.240 --> 00:34:05.759 actually a medical term for like capturing a 00:34:05.759 --> 00:34:08.280 heart rate with electrical activity, like in 00:34:08.280 --> 00:34:14.000 a, like a, an EKG or ECG or whatever. Um, synchronized 00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:16.960 cardio version. There you go. Hold on. Where's 00:34:16.960 --> 00:34:20.099 my science? Where's my science music? There it 00:34:20.099 --> 00:34:26.230 is. Synchronized cardio version. So the concept 00:34:26.230 --> 00:34:35.369 is that we want to start using an alarm or a 00:34:35.369 --> 00:34:38.210 timer. Something that's the same. Use the same 00:34:38.210 --> 00:34:42.230 one every time. And before you go into the other 00:34:42.230 --> 00:34:47.829 room, you set off the timer. And then you show 00:34:47.829 --> 00:34:51.730 up. Now, you can do this two ways. You can legitimately 00:34:51.730 --> 00:34:55.110 set a timer. You're like, cool. In 30 minutes, 00:34:55.190 --> 00:34:57.849 I'm going to go in there. Cool. Awesome. So set 00:34:57.849 --> 00:35:01.110 a timer for 30 minutes and then barking or not, 00:35:01.289 --> 00:35:05.989 the timer goes off and then you walk in. Yeah. 00:35:07.110 --> 00:35:11.449 So now the next time that you do this, you do 00:35:11.449 --> 00:35:14.269 the exact same thing. You set a timer. When the 00:35:14.269 --> 00:35:17.570 timer goes off, you go in. Now you need to make 00:35:17.570 --> 00:35:21.250 this very consistent and very close to the same 00:35:21.250 --> 00:35:24.940 amount of time. Between when the timer goes off 00:35:24.940 --> 00:35:27.400 and you show up. Yeah. So you make it consistent 00:35:27.400 --> 00:35:31.860 in the dog's mind too. Now where you go with 00:35:31.860 --> 00:35:34.500 this is you can start setting that timer longer 00:35:34.500 --> 00:35:41.500 and longer. And not reacting or adjusting anything 00:35:41.500 --> 00:35:45.219 that you do in the house now to get around the 00:35:45.219 --> 00:35:48.380 dog. Yeah. So that means by the time you're up 00:35:48.380 --> 00:35:52.480 to. Let's just say that you started at five minutes 00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:56.179 and then you added two more minutes to that and 00:35:56.179 --> 00:35:58.400 then two minutes to that and you doubled that. 00:35:58.679 --> 00:36:01.500 By the time you get to 20 or 30 minutes of them 00:36:01.500 --> 00:36:03.559 being in the crate, they're going to be looking 00:36:03.559 --> 00:36:08.099 for when is that timer going off. Now when the 00:36:08.099 --> 00:36:10.400 timer goes off, you have to show up every single 00:36:10.400 --> 00:36:14.119 time to let them out because the timer is now 00:36:14.119 --> 00:36:17.739 predicting when they're going to get out. Once 00:36:17.739 --> 00:36:22.000 you... work all the way up to an hour two hours 00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:25.099 three hours usually my goal is always three hours 00:36:25.099 --> 00:36:29.480 yeah by the time i can get them to stay in the 00:36:29.480 --> 00:36:32.400 crate and to work through three hours and then 00:36:32.400 --> 00:36:34.559 the timer goes off and i do that very slowly 00:36:34.559 --> 00:36:39.300 just a few minutes at a time now you fully captured 00:36:39.300 --> 00:36:44.760 their attention on the timer now what happens 00:36:44.760 --> 00:36:48.289 is you can just use that timer With a five second 00:36:48.289 --> 00:36:51.969 timer when you're ready to get up. Yep. So you're 00:36:51.969 --> 00:36:53.969 in the other room and you're like, all right, 00:36:54.030 --> 00:36:58.050 I'm going to go let him out. And you go five 00:36:58.050 --> 00:37:01.449 seconds. Boom. Let it go. Timer goes off. You 00:37:01.449 --> 00:37:05.489 show up because now the dog is not relating. 00:37:05.590 --> 00:37:11.949 They're barking to your appearance. Yeah. You 00:37:11.949 --> 00:37:16.929 fully captured. The concept that the timer initiates 00:37:16.929 --> 00:37:20.949 your appearance. Once the dog sees that their 00:37:20.949 --> 00:37:23.010 barking and their behavior and their everything 00:37:23.010 --> 00:37:27.090 has nothing to do with when you show up, that 00:37:27.090 --> 00:37:31.429 pattern can start to slowly die off. Yeah. And 00:37:31.429 --> 00:37:33.889 now here's the bad news. Right. Right. That's 00:37:33.889 --> 00:37:35.750 the good news of like how you can actually work 00:37:35.750 --> 00:37:38.269 through that. Yeah. Because there are some dogs 00:37:38.269 --> 00:37:41.250 that like they will just not quit. Yeah. They 00:37:41.250 --> 00:37:45.210 won't stop. Because they truly believe that their 00:37:45.210 --> 00:37:49.349 barking gets them what they want. Yeah. Now, 00:37:49.349 --> 00:37:54.349 the bad news is that there's no quick fix to 00:37:54.349 --> 00:37:58.710 that. And even we've had clients that are like, 00:37:58.789 --> 00:38:02.550 look, you take my money. Just figure it out. 00:38:02.630 --> 00:38:05.190 Yeah. Make it work. I don't want to deal with 00:38:05.190 --> 00:38:08.050 it. This is crazy. I can't deal with it. And 00:38:08.050 --> 00:38:10.349 you know what we do? We put the dog in a crate. 00:38:11.579 --> 00:38:14.039 And we sit outside of the crate and we put headphones 00:38:14.039 --> 00:38:18.019 in. Yeah. And we watch a movie. Yep. Because, 00:38:18.019 --> 00:38:20.480 yeah, it can be rough. Right. And now there are 00:38:20.480 --> 00:38:24.039 certain circumstances. We're never saying that 00:38:24.039 --> 00:38:26.420 we're going to ignore a dog in some sort of a 00:38:26.420 --> 00:38:28.340 medical emergency or something like that. That's 00:38:28.340 --> 00:38:29.719 not what we're talking about. We're just talking 00:38:29.719 --> 00:38:31.900 about a dog throwing a fit. Okay. Let's keep 00:38:31.900 --> 00:38:36.320 it in perspective. But there's no shortcut. You 00:38:36.320 --> 00:38:39.340 just have to work through it. Yeah. Because it's 00:38:39.340 --> 00:38:42.679 already been learned. and patterned over and 00:38:42.679 --> 00:38:44.900 over and over and over right yeah that's not 00:38:44.900 --> 00:38:47.579 the first step of yeah that's not the step one 00:38:47.579 --> 00:38:50.760 right it's patterning exactly as you said first 00:38:50.760 --> 00:38:55.179 and then you just you rip the band -aid off and 00:38:55.179 --> 00:38:58.159 it's like okay well now it's time to try it i 00:38:58.159 --> 00:39:02.980 work backwards yeah so that you make sure the 00:39:02.980 --> 00:39:05.260 dog is safe you make sure that the dog has gone 00:39:05.260 --> 00:39:07.559 out you make sure the dog is fed you make sure 00:39:07.559 --> 00:39:11.300 the dog has all of its needs true needs met. 00:39:11.960 --> 00:39:18.519 And then it's okay for them to be loud and obnoxious 00:39:18.519 --> 00:39:21.840 for a little while. There's no way around that. 00:39:23.019 --> 00:39:26.300 They have to just see that their actions aren't 00:39:26.300 --> 00:39:30.019 working and that it's inefficient. A dog does 00:39:30.019 --> 00:39:32.639 not do anything that they don't get some value 00:39:32.639 --> 00:39:38.480 out of. Not forever. They may do it once. They 00:39:38.480 --> 00:39:41.980 may do it twice. And then it might even get worse 00:39:41.980 --> 00:39:43.519 before it gets better. Yeah, that's the worst. 00:39:43.519 --> 00:39:46.579 Because that is called an extinction burst. When 00:39:46.579 --> 00:39:50.679 the dog's mind or brain is like, all right, I've 00:39:50.679 --> 00:39:52.260 tried and tried and tried. I just can't seem 00:39:52.260 --> 00:39:55.480 to get out of here. I just have to put in 100 00:39:55.480 --> 00:39:59.099 % of my effort. I just have to give it everything 00:39:59.099 --> 00:40:02.019 I have. Obviously, I haven't worked hard enough. 00:40:02.380 --> 00:40:07.179 And then the real floodgates come open. And you're 00:40:07.179 --> 00:40:10.340 like, oh my gosh, it's worse now. I've done something 00:40:10.340 --> 00:40:14.679 wrong. No, that is what happens right before 00:40:14.679 --> 00:40:18.840 you get that. You get that extinction burst. 00:40:18.900 --> 00:40:21.280 That's what happens right before actual extinction. 00:40:21.380 --> 00:40:26.239 Yeah. And then you start making progress. Yep. 00:40:26.300 --> 00:40:28.320 And it's just important to just hold on to it. 00:40:28.360 --> 00:40:31.440 Hold on to it. Keep going. Yeah. Keep pushing. 00:40:31.579 --> 00:40:34.719 Yeah, basically. All right. I'm going to open 00:40:34.719 --> 00:40:38.699 it up for. Questions? If anybody has a question, 00:40:38.800 --> 00:40:58.599 now is your time. No questions. All right. No 00:40:58.599 --> 00:41:01.780 questions tonight. Listener projects. Number 00:41:01.780 --> 00:41:05.110 one, reset the crate association. So we've got 00:41:05.110 --> 00:41:07.269 to place the dog in a crate. We'll start with 00:41:07.269 --> 00:41:11.389 very short durations. Wait for even one or two 00:41:11.389 --> 00:41:17.070 seconds of calm. And then mark with yes. Release 00:41:17.070 --> 00:41:21.050 with free. That's what we do. But you can mark 00:41:21.050 --> 00:41:24.469 with your continuation marker. Give them a good 00:41:24.469 --> 00:41:26.570 job. Atta boy. You're doing the right thing. 00:41:26.710 --> 00:41:29.150 And then release them with your release word 00:41:29.150 --> 00:41:32.300 if they're able to come out. Repeat that multiple 00:41:32.300 --> 00:41:34.619 times a day. They should be going in the crate 00:41:34.619 --> 00:41:37.900 throughout the day. Here's one that we didn't 00:41:37.900 --> 00:41:39.920 talk about. I'll just mention it quickly. If 00:41:39.920 --> 00:41:41.760 you're only putting the dog in the crate when 00:41:41.760 --> 00:41:44.639 you leave, you're wrong. Yeah. Yeah. You're not 00:41:44.639 --> 00:41:46.739 doing it right. Right. Because obviously they're 00:41:46.739 --> 00:41:48.960 not going to establish a positive association 00:41:48.960 --> 00:41:50.619 of that. When they go in the crate, they know 00:41:50.619 --> 00:41:52.260 you're leaving them. Yeah. You'll never have 00:41:52.260 --> 00:41:54.559 success with that route. You really won't. You 00:41:54.559 --> 00:41:57.440 will never accomplish what you're trying to do 00:41:57.440 --> 00:42:00.119 that way. Because every time that you do that, 00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:03.099 the dog's like. Ah, got it. You're leaving. We 00:42:03.099 --> 00:42:06.360 don't want that. You have to be it. You have 00:42:06.360 --> 00:42:08.159 to put the dog in the crate when you're there 00:42:08.159 --> 00:42:13.300 too. Not forever. Just for a while. All right. 00:42:14.320 --> 00:42:18.300 Project number two. Eliminate accidental reinforcement. 00:42:19.059 --> 00:42:23.239 You have to crush this. Because if you don't, 00:42:23.239 --> 00:42:26.260 once again, there's no hope for you. Because 00:42:26.260 --> 00:42:29.380 you'll constantly accidentally reinforce the 00:42:29.380 --> 00:42:31.719 wrong thing. And every time you do that, especially 00:42:31.719 --> 00:42:35.039 once it's a learned pattern, every reinforcement 00:42:35.039 --> 00:42:38.659 counts for three. Every time that you're trying 00:42:38.659 --> 00:42:44.280 to devalue that, that counts for one. So now 00:42:44.280 --> 00:42:47.440 it's like the one step forward, three steps back 00:42:47.440 --> 00:42:52.480 issue. Yeah, that's the worst. So do not release 00:42:52.480 --> 00:42:54.840 the dog while whining, barking, or scratching. 00:42:55.980 --> 00:42:59.519 No matter what. Unless you're using that capturing, 00:42:59.619 --> 00:43:01.800 and that's the value of the capturing concept. 00:43:02.320 --> 00:43:05.019 Because you technically can get around that. 00:43:05.880 --> 00:43:10.039 But without some sort of other trigger, marker, 00:43:10.199 --> 00:43:13.559 or cue, you can't just walk up to a crate and 00:43:13.559 --> 00:43:15.679 let a dog out that's whining and barking. They 00:43:15.679 --> 00:43:18.820 will attribute that to their whining and barking. 00:43:20.400 --> 00:43:23.760 Wait for a clear moment of calm, even if it's 00:43:23.760 --> 00:43:28.619 brief. Reward that and release. Track your timing. 00:43:29.440 --> 00:43:34.239 Because this is where most owners fail. And shameless 00:43:34.239 --> 00:43:37.119 plug, this is where the Pawprint Academy app 00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:42.000 is going to come into play so heavily. Logging. 00:43:42.579 --> 00:43:48.039 In the app, you are able to do quick logs in 00:43:48.039 --> 00:43:51.900 10 seconds or less. Pull it open. Tap, tap, tap. 00:43:52.059 --> 00:43:55.320 You've got a quick log. You can go in. And with 00:43:55.320 --> 00:43:58.739 two taps, you can repeat your last log entry. 00:43:59.940 --> 00:44:04.639 But the point is that without logging or keeping 00:44:04.639 --> 00:44:08.679 track of your timing, you're not going to be 00:44:08.679 --> 00:44:11.659 exact. You're not going to know if you're getting 00:44:11.659 --> 00:44:14.980 better or worse. You can go into the full journal 00:44:14.980 --> 00:44:17.159 logs, if you're not just doing a little quick 00:44:17.159 --> 00:44:20.380 log, and you can put in details about timing. 00:44:22.699 --> 00:44:28.260 You can use, there are multiple different versions 00:44:28.260 --> 00:44:32.440 of the journal that are all quick access depending 00:44:32.440 --> 00:44:35.099 on what you're logging. If you're going in and 00:44:35.099 --> 00:44:36.800 doing training reps or you're going in and doing 00:44:36.800 --> 00:44:38.880 potty training or you're going in and doing crate 00:44:38.880 --> 00:44:42.019 and relaxation and it will guide you through 00:44:42.019 --> 00:44:43.900 all of that. And then you know what happens? 00:44:44.300 --> 00:44:48.340 You save that and every day, this is totally 00:44:48.340 --> 00:44:51.639 free. This isn't even a premium feature. Totally 00:44:51.639 --> 00:44:56.059 for free. Every single day, the AI model that's 00:44:56.059 --> 00:44:59.719 built into there analyzes all of your logs and 00:44:59.719 --> 00:45:04.059 gives you an exact play -by -play of where you 00:45:04.059 --> 00:45:08.119 are and where you need to go. That is not just 00:45:08.119 --> 00:45:12.900 random AI guidance that you go online, type in, 00:45:12.980 --> 00:45:16.980 how do I teach my dog to stay in a crate? But 00:45:16.980 --> 00:45:21.159 it actually reads your logs, reads your journal. 00:45:21.760 --> 00:45:26.780 and gives you real life accurate advice for your 00:45:26.780 --> 00:45:30.440 dog in your journey with what you're dealing 00:45:30.440 --> 00:45:33.159 with. That's going to be super, super important 00:45:33.159 --> 00:45:35.960 for people. And I hope that you get a chance 00:45:35.960 --> 00:45:39.559 to take advantage of that. But for now, we are 00:45:39.559 --> 00:45:43.599 going to call it a night. Thank you so much for 00:45:43.599 --> 00:45:47.579 tuning in. I am super excited to get the app 00:45:47.579 --> 00:45:51.010 out hopefully this next month. We will stay tuned 00:45:51.010 --> 00:45:55.909 for the exact release date. And if you are interested 00:45:55.909 --> 00:45:58.650 in testing that stuff at all, please reach out 00:45:58.650 --> 00:46:01.630 to me. You can reach me at ryan at topdogtrainingnc 00:46:01.630 --> 00:46:05.829 .com or jump on our website, send me a contact 00:46:05.829 --> 00:46:09.349 form right from the website at topdogtrainingnc 00:46:09.349 --> 00:46:12.949 .com. Thanks, guys. Have a great night. Good 00:46:12.949 --> 00:46:13.170 night.