Helping A Fearful Dog- You’d Never Think How! 

Wish I could have you help with my girl every noise outside she runs too door growls and is very aggressive ! She my baby pit from pup 2 years old ❤

Thanks for sharing these videos, I love watching them. Hoping to get my first dog soon.🥰

I found it helps if you bring food she loves and have strangers give the dog treats. That improves their attitude from fear to desire to bum a snack. Once you get to there, the fear is gone even if they don't get that snack. Of course you do have to first get her comfortable enough near people to even be interested in snacks in the first place. If a dog is too fearful, you can't start with snacks because the flight desire is stronger but once you get that toned down enough, then you can use snacks to help override the fear that is left. (interestingly fearful horses are very similar)

Dog daddy please help ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JlDtFxCl4pA.htmlsi=3wwqL_TFMKSqHmWj

Can you add subtitles, in rooms where there is eco?

Well said frank I agree 100 💯

Exposure therapy?

I have a 5ish yr old collie and he is so scared. I have him 2 yrs and he is so untrusting. He lived with a pack of 14 collies and his survival mode is always on. This gives me encouragement!

@@noranneduffy I'm glad that you're feeling encouraged! That's great!!! Treating fear goes against the natural inclination of 99% of dog owners. Do NOT comfort the dog when it's afraid. You're actually rewarding and encouraging the fearful behavior. Do NOT avoid the situations that cause the fear. Again, you're rewarding and encouraging the fearful behavior. The secret is what's shown in the Dog Daddy's video. Push the dog beyond its thresholds and force it to confront its fears while advocating for the dog and helping it to learn that it's going to be OK, and enforce your role as the leader. Leader does NOT equate to tons of affection. It equates to protection and giving clear direction, rules and boundaries. Think tough love. The result will be a much more calm and happy dog and a much more healthy relationship with its owner. You can do it!!

Congrats, this is the 1st reply by DD, or his handlers, in yt.

I rescued a dog from Battle buddies in Hinesville Georgia that had been there for almost 2 years he had been there since he was 6 weeks old and nobody would adopt him because he was so skittish.. I went there every day for 6 days in a row and spent all day with him trying to win him over with fresh cooked chicken meat that I had cooked for him the night before to take the next day to try to get him to want to come home with me cuz he was scared to death.. I'm not a dog trainer so I didn't know how to go about anything except trying to win him over with love and affection and chicken meat.. I've had him for now 15 months and he's starting to make progress after all this time.. I make homemade dog food with the best ingredients he gets the best life the best love he gets to sleep in my bed.. he has been a handful trying to get him to not be skittish and.. he is at the point where he can run around on the property now with no leash and he doesn't try to run away and he has just learned to sit.. That's how damaged he was I don't know how he got that damaged being at the shelter except for being neglected and not loved enough that will kill something lack of love... I love my doodles more than anything on the planet he's my boy. I know he loves me so much.. he's just got so a long way to go.. ❤

This is exactly what I needed to see. I also have a ppl shy dog that I got from the shelter 11months ago and still very skittish. She loves me and understands I show her how to calm down. Thank you DD

You're right. The truth is actually not only does that apply to autistic people, it applies to just about all people and animals (except sociopaths. Their brains aren't wired to feelings like most people. For most people, long term memory is tied to an emotion, smell, sound, sight, etc. ). According to psychologists, most people will do more to avoid pain, than they will to gain pleasure, and more to avoid definite pain than potential pain. So, to use your example, a sensory experience (the collar) is definite and now. It's here in the present. While the fear is of a potential experience.

This is the most brilliant explanation I've seen about this - ever! Thank you so much for sharing. It makes perfect sense when you say it like that!!

I think it also helps that the dog is shown what to do in that situation, a fearful dog finds comfort in following orders and following a good leader. Following orders also helps distract from fear and pretty soon it is confronting the fear and realizing nothing bad happened either.

Do you think a hair shirt would have helped you be more sociable? The collar is totally wrong.

​@atticusandwinifred3274 have you ever had a fearful or agressive dog? Have you ever had children? Would you disagree with immersion therapy for human phobias? Prong collars have a bad rep because idiots and assholes use them incorrectly. It is something that should only be used with professionals. I have personally seen this used on a human, by another human, for demonstration. It is painful and dangerous if you don't fir or use it properly. The same is true for almost every piece of equipment in our lives. The difference here is this dog will die if it is not helped. Not maybe... WILL. Who is more abusive? The trainer who uses clear messages, equipment and training... or the person who believes only positive training is acceptable so tells the owners to put the dogs down?

real dog trainer never use those. those are for incompetent trainers.

@@JWParkerPhDDDiv you mean, real dog trainers know when to use such tools, incompetent trainers "would never" as they're "barbaric tools" smfh.

@@HannahJones-kf1kt so are you telling me this person is incompetent ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5GMLZeASAm8.html

Bla bla bla...

there are too many gods, irritates me

Remember it is not the collar that is effective, but the trainer. The collar is just used to make the feedback of the trainer more noticable and more clear for the dog. Use the wrong feedback, and you'll just be giving wrong feedback extra loud.

of course. there are many ''prong collars, choke collars, martingale i was just asking Maestro about the one he had in his video.and please remember___ punishment comes from anger-discipline comes from love.... @@dasja9966

I've a 2 year old large mixed breed...had him since 8 weeks... He's terrified of Everything..... He's NEVER been abused; Our vet compares him to an autistic child...we work with him every day. Don't assume abuse just because an animal is not "normal".

I’ve known dogs with very ingrained neuroses who’ve never been abused.

@@justdande2891 Agreed, I also have a very reactive dog. I didn't do enough desensitization, but I hadn't realized how much more he'd need than my previous dogs. He's never been abused, just very reactive and nervous. With me learning and better guidance though he's doing much better than being too afraid/distracted to even leave the door.

With a prong collar?