Biggest Mistake if YOU want High Level Training 

❤ Don't do it if it's not fun for you 😂

Wow, thank you!

Keep up the content. Loving it

it is so sad that people will spend thousands on getting a purebred mal but then the shelters are full of them which you can get for free almost. Mals do not do well in shelters.

Hopefully someone got her.

If we were still living in Houston I would go get her.

​No dog does well in a shelter!!! Most of the working dogs in shelters haven't been bred by a real breeder, who takes into consideration all genetic traits and whatever is helpful to achieve a high quality breed in the future. Having dogs of the same or different breeds mate and selling the puppies 63 days + 4 - 5 weeks later to random people, that's not what a breeder does. That's what simple puppy production looks like. Dogs from such puppy mills have a really bad start already when mating is done. When I was breeding American Bulldogs here in Germany, I studied the pedigrees of all the AB's, who were at shows, and compared them also. You can't just get a champion stud and a champion female and have them mate. Puppy mills don't check pedigrees and not even health issues. This results mostly in quite unhealthy litters with genetic diseases. On top of health and pedigree knowledge, a breeder will also be well informed about genetics and the breed history. And when searching for the right stud for a certain female dog, a breeder will also take into consideration the personality traits of the dogs. For example, you wouldn't want to pair up two dogs, who both have a strong prey drive, or both with a weak drive, even if both dogs performed extremely good in shows or in dog sports. You would rather want to match a dog with extremely strong drive with a dog that is calm, because you will want to have a litter that is able to perform well in dog sport, but also be able to calm down as well. You wouldn't want to risk having a litter of overly nervous pups. Also puppies learn a lot from their moms. Therefore you would want to test your female dogs thoroughly, whether they may be good moms or not. If a mother dog turns out to be not a good mom, you wouldn't want to breed with her again, and you would have older female dogs, who had been good mothers in the past, take care of the current litter of the "bad" mom also, so the puppies would learn from these as well. A breeder also doesn't start breeding with a female dog before she is truly mature and has ended her puberty before mating. You would also not want to have a first time stud mating a female dog, who also has no experience with this. A breeder also prepares female dogs for their mating by having a vet do lab tests, give her certain supplements long before mating, etc. And during pregnancy, a breeder also has a vet check on the mother dog and her unborn puppies regularly, to be able to exclude as many problems as possible. If a female dog is quite small for the breed, you wouldn't want to choose an extremely huge stud, because this could cause problems during birth, if the puppies are too big to pass the birth canal. So while a breeder really considers many different things and compares all the possible options, the puppy mills don't care about any of these details. They just want many puppies with no or rather low costs, which also means that mother dogs won't get the vet care if needed before, during the birth or after birth. Also they usually don't keep the puppies safe and healthy and their birth room clean. They also don't care what the puppies learn while they are with them. And they want to sell the puppies as early as possible, which mostly is with about 4 to 5 weeks only, right after mom dog stops nursing the litter. So such puppies from puppy mills have a really bad start, which continues to be a whole bunch of bad experiences in life and the owners then of course have great problems to work them through. Health issues from unhygienic environment and weak immune system are just the beginning. Psychological problems need to be tackled as well. And of course personality problems due to not checking pedigree, genetics, the parents' personality traits, etc. If one chooses to have a true companion for up to about 15 years, this person had better not save money by not buying the puppy from a breeder. Puppies from puppy mills usually cost so much more than a breeder's puppy after the puppies have moved to their forever homes. Coping with a great number of difficulties, is hard work, and at some point some of the owners can't go on with this anymore, especially if their are children involved, or if it's the very first dog the owners have. In addition, I would like to say, that breeders usually take their own bred puppies back, if the owners want to give them up. This is usual in Europe, but I know breeders in Australia and the USA, who also include this in the contract when selling their puppies. ​@@monikakress3867

I bought her!

That reminds me the Lion Whisperer, he has a special relationship with all his big cats and hyenas on his preserve...not training them, but taking care of them, so some difference, but it all relationship at the root of it all.....

@@texaswildcat2000 I’ve used this tactic many times over the years without knowing what I was doing. Warwick was one of the first people to spell this out for me and help me do it deliberately. It works on pretty much everyone! Relationship first.

I would really love to take a class by him as well

Same. I was considering Ot Vitosha and honestly would rather save that money for my actual long-term goals which this type of training is geared more toward my relationships with my dogs and the relationships I’d like future owners to have with any dogs I place. I’ve seen a former Ot Vitosha get removed from his handler and shipped back to the breeder for not having the die hard drive they wanted. That’s just outrageous to me to have a dog for nearly a year and discard them. I can’t help but to question the ethics of that ‘trainer’ who’d get rid of their own dog. 😞

He did the STSK9 course (probably the expensive one, ~$2700 or so). His mentor is Nino Drowaerts.

@@ilyska1977 that’s expensive indeed, wow. But thanks for telling me. Might look into that :)

@@astridmaack4516 well there are cheaper ones, the puppy university one is like $200. I'm just saying he probably did the proper full course which you get a certificate at the end declaring you a certified dog trainer.

haha me too! I especially love the expression on ThanggG's face as she's 'drowning' lol

Is there anyone (like a young person) nearby who could help out? You might be able to find someone who would walk him/play as an after school job for an hour, for a few dollars. You'd have to test out anyone so they would be doing the right things with him, but him getting a nice hour of attention & exercise would help him. (And make sure the length of a walk is appropriate for his age- walking a young dog too far isn't good.)

@@deemdepot thank you for the suggestions. Sadly, there’s only 5 houses on my street and most of the people are elderly. We play with him as much as we can and we have 2 older big dogs that keep him busy on occasion. Our 10 year old male is starting to tolerate him. Caspar doesn’t take well to other beings. He never has. But our 8 year old female has adopted him as her pup 🐶. Caspar guards the house and yard from outsiders. We will be teaching Heinz to guard as well so he’s ready to take over when Caspar dies. Nikita is very in tune to our health and emotions. She will wake us if our breathing changes when we’re sleeping and she is right here with us when we’re feeling bad. She also never passes on a car ride. Heinz had his first vet visit and shots yesterday. Nikita had to go with him.

haha he lofs it

A different channel, but I think this video of Michael Ellis teaching this behavior might be exactly what you are looking for: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XL_P2oqQlsY.html

As young pups our training sessions were only about 60s. Quality over quantity and fun especially with puppies.

Great point. I have a border collie living in a city, and while this type of obedience training is crucial in helping her focus on me, but I also need to make adjustments due to the distractions in the environment.

So easy to do it yourself. A few weeks and you have that obedience

Thanks! 🥇 to comment wins belly rubs given to Magnus from you!