Dog Reactivity Training purely positive vs balanced Training- Dog Aggression training 

🤯 SO what do you guys think?! Let me know below!!! 🛑👇🏻👇🏻

I admire you so much man. You inspire me to be a better dog owner everyday. Thank you for posting these videos. ✊🏼

I love the owner’s recount of a previous trainer “She warned me about you, then fed the dog 3 sticks of cheese whilst watching him have a meltdown” 🤣🤣

I got tears in my eyes when the owner got him to listen to her that first time. Having reactive dogs, I can just imagine how she feels!

Look at how PROUD this dog is!!!! He's like yep I'm doin it and thank god someone took the reigns!!

You have changed this owner- handler forever. She now has understanding of her new leader role, the collar tools, confidence, timing of correction, and good posture, so she now can have a relationship with her dog. God bless you for what you’re doing. You’re a super teacher.

She should have gone to the guy Zak George to get more treats, and advertisement.... aaaaaaaaaaand no help. Damn.... what a HUGE difference between balanced and positive training, and I started watching Zak first. Thank god I found your channel, or I would have had no clue how to handle a dog (trying to teach myself before I get a dog!). Some days I am binging on your channel.

What I can't believe the other trainer told this lady to walk her dog at MIDNIGHT 🙄🙄 doesn't that just mean the trainer couldn't train this dog? This owner could've done midnight walks even without going to the trainer. Crazy really. So glad Tom was able to help her. Only after owning a reactive dog myself I realise how much debate there is over dog training and how pure positive reinforcement training will never work for dogs like that. I really really wish people are more educated in this aspect. And they should STOP spreading rumours that choke/prong collars are used as torture devices what the hell! I'm using a choke collar and this lady asked me if I choke my dog using it like what?! My leash is always slack because of the training I've done with my dog and I can assure her and I bet that her normal collar has more pressure on her dog's neck than my choke collar cos her dog pulls 🤦🏻‍♀️

"Everybody gets bullied at the dog park" 17:34 hahaha so true!

This girl is amazing and how all dog owners should be. When you brought a dog into your home you also brought the responsibility of giving them a great life. I admire that for years she has been learning how to provide a better life for her dog. So many people would go to one trainer then give up when the dog's behavior is not fixed. It just makes me so happy that she cares so much for her family member she will go to multiple professions in order to better her relationship with her dog. Parents take their sick child to multiple doctors until they receive the correct answer and this is what she has done. Makes me so happy.

I am gonna go out and get this equipment now. I too was anti-prong collar, and pro treat treat treat...until I found you.. my dude needs it tho. He is just way too excitable and I need him to listen. So I’m gonna get this equipment soon. LOVE watching your videos! So glad I found you. I wish we could have an update from Henry!!

It is indeed the coolest dog train channel!! 👌🏻

The moral to your story..... it's training people to understand their dogs. That's the hard part, the dogs are easy...... thankyou Tom

The suggestion of a midnight walk by the other trainer blew my mind! WHAT!!!? That is so unrealistic.

It’s amazing how engaged he is with his owner now! Such a big change from the first episode

She became a great dog handler. I'm impressed by how willing she was and quickly she learned.

What a difference tools and proper training can make! Woo Henry! Wish you were closer to Oklahoma😩😬😬

i spent a grand on a dog trainer. my dog is now 2. extremely smart in the home and listens. very viscious on a leash to people and dogs. i found a new trainer and he gave me the hermes-sprenger collar and my dog is walking at my heels.( i had a fake version) i swear i almost cried. i hated this dog!!!! and loved her at the same time. it was so frustrating. i lost my Son and needed this dog more than anyone knew. im so estatic to walk her now. its only been 3 days so work in process. but these videos Tom are so encouraging. Thank you so much!!!

Tom, your intuition woth dogs is incredible. You have a real gift, not just knowing how the dogs feel and what they're thinking but knowing how to explain things to the owner in a helpful way. You are an incredibly versatile and adaptable teacher!

I will re-watch all of these again and again and take notes. I get so many of these dogs as clients! Thanks Tom!!!

Yup I was warned ohhh it’s shock collar! Give more treats, be more exciting.. Huh?!! He’s 150lbs now and he doesn’t care about the liver!! I’ve seen great strides with my one year old newf with ecollar! I will admit I like your way better than what I’ve been taught. They told me say come, no come tap the collar.but it doesn’t always work Today I had him off leash said come, held it down(on a 5) he immediately turned and came, as soon as he turned I released. At least I think I recall that’s your method 🤔

Thanks Tom for this 4 part series. Helpful training tips and ideas to learn from. So glad for Henry and his owners.

Tom, I cannot express how much your videos have helped us. My dog is a large, fearful shepherd mix that we rescued with no knowledge of his reactivity. After three years of endless struggling, nightmarish walks, and being brought to tears questioning whether or not I should even own a dog, I found your videos. Omaha is now a confident, calm boy who can walk past other reactive pups with not so much as an growl. You saved our relationship, and I can’t express enough how much it means to me to not see my dog so terrified all the time. We can both enjoy our walks now, and he’s starting to make new friends. Thank you so much for spreading your knowledge.

People say a dog listens to that because he's afraid. HAH! If he was afraid, he sure as hell wouldn't be so calm around something that usually makes him afraid. He'd be worse, not better. Lovely job. I've been soaking it up and learning so much!! Did you know the guy from the channel Fenrir Canine Training says he idolizes you? Thought you might like that. He seems to be quite the respectable trainer, as well. I'm training my own dog for Agility competitions, but I would like to get his Good Citizen certification first. Thanks in part to you, it's going swimmingly, and I know how to build the engagement I'm going to need to keep him listening to me in a competition situation. Thank you!!

I am so happy to see this success story. Seeing the same improvement with my dog at UCA with Zach’s help. Thank you so much,

I love the commitment that this owner has to help her dog. She's there with an open mind regardless of what Positive Trainers have told her, and she's willing to do the work. I wish all dog parents were this invested! Great series of videos, Tom - thanks for sharing!

I’ve been watching your videos for probably the last month and I have to say that you are a rockstar I wish you lived closer to me because I would definitely use you keep up the good work and thank you for the videos

You shock collar guy. LOL, I have a deaf dog in my rescue that loves the e-collar

Fantastic conclusion, Tom! Amazing transformation with this Pup and you gave her the confidence to repair the relationship and to be able to lead him and work with him when she gets home. Sad that it took SIX trainers before she found you! Great Job~!!!

The reason positive training taken off. It's lazy and it's profitable like the biggest sell out on the internet I mean dog trainer.

Most of my friends and family freaked when they saw me using the e collar but i have no regrets and neither does my dog its made it so much easier and clearer for him to understand and follow through with off leash walks and other basic obedience thank you for your videos they've helped me and koda immensely.

Your videos have helped me SO MUCH with our reactive, fearful dog. I had a local trainer come and she was so disgusted with me for using the prong collar. She offered me $50 if I handed it over to her at that moment because it was "cruelty" to my dog. After she left, I felt like a terrible person. Then I found your videos and you helped me in so many ways. Thank you, Tom.

This is awesome! I have been doing this by instinct and feeling it out with dogs I've walked... seeing this makes me want to get out and help someone too.

I also love to see someone with a true gift use it!!

E Collars are so misunderstood. My Service dog would have die from chasing and Pica without a using an E Collar. Used correctly they are great. I would never say all you do Tom is use E Collars. As you know its all about balance and using which ever tool is required for the individual dog. Great job Tom, thank you : )

With his heel the dog looked so proud of himself too! Love it!

Hey tom, love this four-part series! You totally rock it! Your patience and your education is amazing. I've learned so much and I'm wondering in future if you can have the videos labeled one of four, two of four, three or four and four of four. They don't necessarily always pop up sequentially. I've had to look the final video of the four. Hope you keep them these up they're freaking amazing!omg I can't believe you did all this work in 1 hour! You're definitely creating magic there with the owners and of course you have magic with the dogs that is so obvious! 😍😍👏👏

God I need tom to help with my corgi. Hes so hyper and reactive. Insecure. Hes been rehomed and wasnt walked the first year of his life. He just turned 3 and weve made great progress but I realize watching this series I have to work on the relationship and positive reinforcement without treats. Weve done training and obedience classes, but it's not fixing his behaviour. Hes only listened for treats.. I have to make him feel secure. March break (next week) I'm off all week and lm going to work my ass off using these methods to give him the security and confidence on a leash.

I like this video but disagree in the fact that a strong foundation for obedience is food!!!! I always start out with food. This doesn’t mean all behavior can be thought with food alone! You can absolutely clicker train a dog to calm down. I will still use ecollar or prong. It’s just a tool just like food. Also know your dog!!! I’ve had my dog for less than 6 months and when I got him at 8 months he didn’t even know how to walk on his leash. Now he off leash heels and I have never used a prong or e collar. I am going to use e collar in the future but I always pay my dog. He is training to be a service dog and he still has issues to be fixed but his temperament is everything!!!

This is one of my favorite videos! Is there a follow up at all?

Absolutely loved this episode, how at ease you made the lady feel and let her know she could achieve her goal. You looked really proud of her and honestly happy for her not just another day at the office. You're one in a million Tom. A huge thank you.

You said in the intro that you were proud... you should be! You're amazing! I so enjoy watching you work.

"everybody gets bullied at the dog park." haha yes, thank you!

Part 4 - Henry.

The production and quality of the videos keep getting better every time! Gratz on 80k Tom!

The best RU-vid channel 👍🐾

I have a service dog in training at the moment and while clicker training, shaping, and positive training has worked for the majority of our skills, we still struggle with reactivity when other dogs aggress at us. Obviously, it’s reasonable for my guy to react when dogs bark and lunge at us but it’s something that cannot happen when he’s working. I can’t always bail but being able to get him past the dog and break the spell with a quick pop works much better and eventually, hopefully we can work through it. Thanks Tom!

I am currently taking care of my bfs dog right now and he is an 80lb pit. Very aggressive to other dogs like the Rottweiler in your other video. I really love these videos, you're so detailed and it is really helping me to train him to be better when we are outside. Taking him out is such a CHORE because of his attitude lol. He's such a teddy bear in the home so I want him to be able to enjoy going outside without being anxious and stressed. Thanks for making these videos!

I get a bad rep for being a balanced trainer for behavioral therapy and reactive training. I don't use electric shock or prong collars. Everyone just assumes that anyone who is balanced is abusive but that is far from the truth. It is realistic. What dog owner at home (non trainer) is going to be only positive reinforcement and always have treats on them at all times? no one. Balanced training is the most realistic training method for the average dog owner and it also works. I rather show results than have someone pay me weekly for 2 years to hardly make progress.

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I just bought a Dr.Trainer Dog Training Collar for my German shepherd. This Training Collar has auto retractable and will not cause irritation to my dog's neck. Also I can record my voice to the system, I can use my voice recording to train my dog, say goodbye to the traditional beep sound for good. So far it seems really effective. All I do is pressing the voice recording button to correct my dogs behavior. We hardly have to use the shock setting.

I use an e-collar when I am in an environment where it may be dangerous for my puppy or others. He is a 4 month old gsd and sitz, plots, wait (stay), look at mama (lol) and delivers Mrs Reids(94 year old) newspaper. He is socialized with people and other animals, loves the cats. I use 95 percent positive and 5 percent e-color. He lays down at starbucks at my feet. I have MS and get severe flairs so I needed to get him behaved early. Don't get me wrong, he still does puppy things, like putting all of his toys in the toilet when I go outside briefly without him

Imagine the level of communication between her and the dog if she had worked with Tom 5 years ago! It's just ridiculous not to use the correct tools and give the owner a solution with his dog! Stupid FF people!

What an awesome result! And how nice to have an owner who is so keen to help her dog and put in the work. This was such a great series. Thanks!

U r my new obsession!!!! I love these videos!!! Im very new to you and so thankful!!! I've been sharing in hope all can help there dogs to be HAPPY🧡 I've got a beautiful pit that doesn't like new people...and to have the support of your videos to help me....im so thankful!!

I have always understood dogs the same way and to hear you say you don't know what it is called. I have your answer. You are a dog barker. Just like me.

8:48... Might lay down in a minute (sure enough he does)... 8:59... "How did you know he'd do that?".. 11:50... other dog is always going to play a role... (in how your dog behaves)... "Now I say get out of there because it's not fair"... 12:30... Meet through the fence, predict... 19:30... Safety clip from prong collar to flat collar as a backup.

I am in Oklahoma also... would be at your seminar if you had one here...

This guys literally deserves the best of best!

Wow wow wow !!! Great job to all. It's not rocket science though is it. EVERY person that gets a dog should have to do 4 ? MANDITORY sessions with Tom 😉. People's heart's are usually in the right place but my God please understand what you're getting into especially if you get a puppy.

I’m here because I have had a Dutch shepherd for over a year but within the last two weeks I was GIVEN a 10 month old Belgian malinois AND a 6 month old Dutch shepherd mix, and guess what... neither have been given any training or direction.. pray for me 😂😂 the malinois was NEVER socialized and has extreme reactivity, resource guarding, distrust etc.. the 6month Dutch mix has been socialized thank god, but no other training besides sit. I have so much work to do. 😂

That was amazing!! What that pervious trainer did was unprofessional, I don’t blame the woman for walking away from her. Tom gave that woman her dog back…and gave the dog a better life. Win/win. Respect

Hey Tom, what kind of collar are you using here? I was checking your amazon equipment list but I don't see it. Between this series and the one you posted a couple of days ago, me and my dog are enjoying the walks way more.

oh man multi-tasking is trying to explain dog behavior to the audience/handler, regulating two dogs on a leash, and calling his fellow trainer over and instructing him for assistance. he somehow did it tho xD

Thank you SO much for this series. Half a year ago I adopted a dog from Romania, she's perfect in every way but for the leash reactivity towards other dogs. I've been trying so many methods from different trainers and yours is the only one that works. It makes much more sense too. So thank you!

Europe Dobermann fan here... I really appreciate your insights in dogs and their psychology, their differences, their individuality. I have two Dobers at the moment, one is a female 1,5 years, the other one I have for only three weeks (is one years), a male. I am completely in synch with your approach. I've had Dobers for 30 years, but of course one is never to stale to learn (I hope), so I watch all of your videos with intent, and I have learned new things from you. Never stop doing what you are obviously so good at! It is much apreciated!

Omg...its like she was talking about a trainer I know. Her dogs make cute silly tricks, but would run on her, or fail to do tricks when she wants to do a demonstration (cuz they are distracted with sometihng else) and when she gets dificult cases she always deflects as soon as the dog proves to be difficult to work with treats. I have NO respect for her, and she gets anoyed that I use wht word NO with my dog. Dude, my dog freeze when I tell them NO and stop running and yours run off of you! STFU haaha

Can a dog learn how to socialize properly? I work with a rescue who will run straight up to any dog with relaxed body language and then IMMEDIATELY freeze up nose to nose. It’s like he wants to go play so badly, but once he gets there he doesn’t know what to do and caused other dogs to attack and it’s caused him to attack due to redirection

1. Would love some bumper stickers in the merch store. 2. You don't actually train dogs, you train people. The dog is just along for the ride LOL

I occasionally watch some strictly positive like that Zach guy. He seems like his a nice guy and all but he still seems to struggle at times with his new pup after a year still ! Shouldn’t a trainer gave a train dog themselves? Love your channel, learning so much everyday!!🤗

Great outcome. 1 question why did you end up usins a pinch collar when the slip collar worked so well at first

Before i knew much about dogs, i studied psychology. When i went looking for a trainer, i refused to work with anyone that said "it all has to be positive, all of the time." That mentality can only be maintained alongaide a healthy disregard for reality.

Hi Tom, love your vids. I’m from the UK. Can you give a link to the collar you used? Can’t find anything similar over here.😎

I am learning SO much from you and have a question. We have a tiny, reactive dog (toy fox terrier) with a collapsing trachea so she HAS to use a harness, but can't feel any feedback from me with her current harness. Is there one you recommend for her? Thank you!

There are bad and good trainers on both sides of the argument. If you dont like singling out people that use a different style then dont. You even say it in your videos, every dog is different, every owner's comfort and capability is different. what works for one may not work on another for a variety of different reasons. what maters is the dog and owner's well being. And I personally think this whole pointing fingers and blame is getting in the way of that. Corrections done inappropraitely can tramatize a dog, poorly exictuted possitive reinforcement can create an unmanageable dog. but done correctly and humainly both can foster an amazing relationship between canine and owner. Education, and understanding is key, and the fastest way to loose both is to say your idea is better then everyone else that does something different.

"Hhe warned me about you and then fed him three sticks of cheese..." Lady sounds more delusional and dangerous than most shock collars

It's hard to understand your way of training if you grew up in a country where shock and prong collars are forbidden but dogs still behave well. All a dog needs is discipline, structure and spending a lot of time with the owner. If this is possible when the dog is still a puppy, there shouldn't be any problems. So it's hard to understand why people need harsher methods when they own the dog since it's a puppy and it's not a rescue who needs special care because it had such a miserable life.

Would love to know how she got on. Update vid on some of your dogs???

That was so helpful. I am so impressed. I can relate to the owner. I’ve done the “midnight walks”

Anybody have any suggestions like when my dog barks when I’m training him is it bc he is anxious or ? Also what would be a way to correct that ?

I wish you would come to Montreal!! I love how you explain their behaviours. My dog instead of backing off when a dog warns him by growling, he attacks. Is there a way to stop that behaviour?

layman's term on some of the dog reactions to one another is just great. thank you

This just shows me how grateful I am for taking my dog to a behaviorist because let me tell you training my dog in this manner would definitively not help because he is fearful and lots of people think shut down dogs are well trained .

Henry reminds me of my dog. They just don't know how to react in social situations. They are kinda scared, nervous, unsure and just doesn't trust the other dogs. Give them some time with some good interactions. He'll come around :)

I’ve got a stranger reactive dog who actually loves people, just not in the first 15 minutes or when people stand up. She’s come a long way with “see the person, get a treat” “person moves, get a treat”

I think this has been your best series yet! So great to see the dog and the owner learn and grow together with your help! You change people’s lives and dog’s lives everyday, thanks for all you do.

when my aussie does sheep herding he wears an e collar on 7 to get his attention to follow hand signals from the farmer. i have never used one on him any other time. His hair is thick so 7 he feels but i tried it on my arm and i never felt it.

That womens mind was so instensly focused on doing whatever is best for her dog. Thats a Z class owner.

Could a 2.25 herm be considered for a 100lbs dog? Wondering if you loose correctiveness with larger mm sizes Or is it too much pressure for a small point on such a heavy dog?

Wonderful video. The dog will need continued work but you set the baseline and this dog is not that bad.

I really like the way you figure out the best way to train each dog. I have wasted a year doing mostly positive traing on my leash reactive beagle. I have also tried other trainers where they tell me I have to be the alpha and the dog needs to be scared of me. I live in Korea, where if I use prong collars or e collars, I am uneducated and I'm abusing my dog. I just ordered my first HS prong collar and a vibrate e collar online. I hope this will help with my stubborn over reactive beagle.

I believe there are dogs that can be trained with purely positive dog training. But there are lots of dogs that don't respond well on purely positive training methods. My dog is like that, and after positive training become popular I tried it on him. Keep in mind that he was 8 year old, well behaved dog that knew lots of tricks...2 moths in only on purely positive training he become unbearable... And I agree with what you said in the video. Most of purely positive trainers are biggest reason why dogs are being left in the shelter and euthanized. I live in EU where shock and prong collars are illegal, choke collars are legal but most of the pet stores are not selling them anymore and you will be attacked on the street as a dog abuser...and yet nobody cares that dogs are being euthanized and that more and more people are having problems with their dogs.

great training videos. I'm learning a lot.

My dog chokes herself with prong and regular collars trying to get at other dogs

Those collars have have a shock option. It takes ignorance to abuse the collar

I can’t seem to keep my dog engaged and she never seems to even look at me when we are outside. How can I get her to be more engaged outside? I even try calling her back to me and walking back and forth to get her back in the heel position which does work, but just no real engagement.

see my dog acts the same way near other dogs were he does not care that they are there but if they get too close he will bite them and I've been using treats every time he sees a dog so he know that dogs mean food but it has not been working so this really helps

I'm following the teachings in your videos and i'm finally having a bond with my dog

Such a great video!!! 👍💪

What collar/leash is being used?