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I'm late to this party, but wondering how long after they eat this in their crate should you let them out to potty? I want to put my 12 week old puppy in the crate with the kong/food, but won't be home for 3 hours. Is this a sure way to come home to a potty accident in the crate?
My German shepherd 10 week old puppy does not care when I say ouch. I get louder and does not flinch. He finds it more exciting if anything. As I write this my hands, fingers and wrists are covered with fresh cuts. Training is going great but the biting is out of control. I can only pet him when he’s waking up or falling asleep. And my family can barely ever pet him since he gets even more intense with them! I need help 😓
I have a six month old puppy who was born deaf. Do you have any tips other than repetition? I use thumbs up hand gesture for good dog. Should I teach her the hand gesture for ouch also, or is there a better way?
Works for us & we’ve seen great results… but our 14 wk old puppy has been biting the bag legs of our 7 yr old lab so much that they are scabbed & bleeding. (Our lab is a very awkward mix & has a hard time turning around fast enough to stop the puppy). Any ideas??
I have a 6 month micro bully and need help leash training she is the most stubborn puppy have ever seen any tips on leash training tired treats and positive enforcement she just flops down and refuses to move want take treats just sits there walks great following off leash got me really frustrated and don't know what to do and would love to take her out on walks any ideas would be appreciated
The best, free enrichment method I've found for enrichment feeding is scattering the food in the grass! Natural snuffle mat ftw! Make the radius larger and larger the more skilled your pup gets.
I've had three dogs but never a puppy. Getting my first one next week and realized months ago that I have no idea how to train it. Thanks to your videos, I'm feeling comfortable and confident! Can't wait to get the lil terminator home and begin our training!
Dude, your dangle earrings bother the hell out of me. I’m trying to take you seriously but, cannot. I’m sure you know your stuff.. but, dude.. Stop it.
Thanks so much for this great advice the basic method of getting my foster puppy for Canine Companions to lie down was not working the under the leg method worked great. This puppy will be a better service dog because of this.
Depends on what the dog does with it. If they snuggle it and pack it around, that's probably fine. If they dissect them, then you have to monitor and think critically about how you want to use them.
Thank you so much. My mom is my first client right now for dog training and I’m training her super super super super stubborn German Shepherd puppy and once I can teach her to lay down she’s signing me up for training classes so I can start my own business Thank you so much this is helping so well.
This video just came up in my list….8 years later! Just in case you still see comments on here, I have a question…..is it really safe to leave a dog alone with food? I have never done that because I’m afraid they might choke and no one would be here to save them.
Supervision is always the best course of action. This activity may be good to help them learn alone or confinement time while you're still home in case something happens.
Wow thank you. I adopted a senior pit about a month ago. He already knew sit, but I haven’t been able to make any progress so far. Starting giving up. Then I found this video. We tried the very first trick and it worked! He’s already following the treat with his nose in between the few and he slides down! It’s not much, but it’s more progress than we’ve made in a month! Thanks so much!
Thanks for the video! I'm convinced I need a Kong...but I'm also confused - do I feed the dog the kong as it's entire meal? Twice a day? Or they eat the kong, and then they eat out of their bowl to finish their serving.
Ideally, puppies will eat three times daily until adolescence; adoelscent and adult dogs will usually eat twice daily. For puppies, we recommend feeding exclusively either by hand or via a Work-to-Eat project. Adolescent and adult dogs can use a bowl, although if you're going to use some Work-to-Eat project like a Kong or something else, I'd recommend they get the whole meal through it. Take a look here for some more info: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Xoud91onutY.html
So informative! This is very helpful dealing with my new dog's reactivity to my cats. It's going to take awhile I'm sure, but at least I now have some tools of training to work with. Thank you!
Very useful information! TY Last week we rescued a dog (GSH Pointer) who was severely abused, neglected, and tied to a post with only 2 foot tether. He couldnt even lay down which caused his front legs to be deformed,. He is a very sweet dog and we are so in love with him already. There is one HUGE issue we are having with him, He totally loses it when he sees one of our cats. Being a GSH Pointer, he was probably used as a hunting dog. We havnt been able to let him out o the crate and explore the house in fear he will kill one of the cats. Any suggestions? We put all the cats in a bedroom to deflate his anxiety. We're just lost where to go from here.
I'm shocked this video does not have more views. This is a fantastic and crucial video for newbies. I'm in love! Been testing this with my puppy and he's getting it so quickly!
I’ve tried the between the paws one. I’ve mentioned “lay” when he was lying down in his crate a hundred times, but the bathroom one is perfect and the first time where I feel like he started to get it. Of course, he forgot it like 5 minutes later, but he started at least 😂
My puppy is now 8 months old. Intensity is now reduced and i am working on the frequency of mouthing. Am i on track or a bit late? I want to completely remove the mouthing habits
8 months old is very late to do the work. However, if you're satisfied with the intensity (pressure) then the frequency can be taught at any age. That's mainly a manners and obediene issue by that point.
your videos are so easy to watch, i greatly appreciate them! videos from other trainers are good too, but it's really hard to retain the information with the long and extended presentations.. so this is honestly great for people like me who may have issues with such things!
Wow, easily the most informative 30 minutes of my week, thank you. You are the first person who has put into words/context what is going on for my GSD in a way I understand and I now have something I can use . She is reactive to some people and dogs but also has high arousal around cats, rabbits, deer etc. (high prey drive?). I got her at 16 months so I'm on catchup. I do believe she has frustration reactivity as she wants to play but when not allowed she switches to aggression quite quickly. Again, thank you.
I'm just going to go ahead and binge watch all of your videos. Apparently, I am also doing leash training wrong since my baby polar bear walks me more than I walk her. And I mean she literally grabs her leash and leads me where she wants to go, which of course I thought was adorable when she was just a snowball. Not so adorable when little polar bear has the strength of an actual bear.
So glad someone in my reddit community sent me this. I have tried everything I could think of including reaching out to reddit for help. I thought I was just going to have to commit to long sleeves and pants permanently to hide the scars. My baby polar bear is only 13 weeks old, but she is huge and can fit my entire arm in her mouth. She has the bite force of a fully grown game pitbull and she clamps down and locks on. At one point she clamped so hard, I thought she was going to break my arm. Now I see why she does this and it is not her fault. I unintentionally made it her favorite game. Now I begin the process of unteaching the bad behavior I taught her. Fingers crossed that unteaching it is as easy and teaching it was.
@@SimpawticoDogTraining I adopted 2 Black heelers from same litter bc the mama passed away when the pups we're 3 weeks old. The dominant one gets it pretty fast, the other was really self conscious. I tried separating while training but she is still struggling. Do u have any suggestions on how to train when u have two or more pups the same age, and one is more alpha type the other is more beta type.
