Fantastic, I love your work. I am following your Perfect Puppy course, which is great and so helpful. Could you please share the leads that you recommend?
Im training my Rottie puppy. Shes catching on. When she tries to pull, we stop. Then start walking really slow. I keep saying the word, "Easy". When we get home, I love on her, telling her what a good girl she was 🥰. Its working.
Another wonderful video, as always!!! Do you recommend starting a 16 week old Rottweiler on a flat collar when training or start with a slip lead right away? Which slip lead do you recommend and at what age? Thanks.
Do not use a slip lead on a rottweiller (or any dog). Rottweillers love to pull and they will pull a slip lead even if its choking them. Ive had rottweillers for 38 years. Take a big pile of treats in a bag with you (you can buy treat containers that hook on your belt). start by putting the treats in your closed hand and leading them by the nose with a command. Put the treat in your hand and walk them beside you. when they obey your commands to stay beside you, reward them. mix it up a bit by holding your hand to your eyes and saying "look" - reward them when they look at your eyes. when they come back to hell, reward them. I also carry a small squeaky rubber chicken in a pocket. When they get distracted by something I get their attention by pressing the rubber chicken gently. You can do this with any squeaky toy (dont give rottweillers squeaky toys - they destroy them in minutes, or sometimes secnds, so they are useless as toys, but they are great as training aids). I dont use leashes with my rottweilllers like other opeople do. I hook the lead onto my belt of back back and they walk by my side without needing the leash. If they get to the end of the leash for any reason, I tap the leash and they come back, loop under the leash and go back to the heall position (i use "here' as the heel command). Rottweillers are almost always food orientated, so dont stint on the treats for training (provided you are keeping them the right weight). All my rottweillers are trained like this and trained to hand signals (because yelling at a rottweiller is a bad thing to do - it scares people around you because they think the dog is out of control). They are traiened to "look" - with a whistle at distance - and when they look I use the hand signals at distance and low voice close up (NEVER yell at a rottweiller in public. Again, it wil freak people out around you if you do). My rottweillers can untangle themsves if they tangle their leads on anything or if they tangle their legs. A rottweiller is a joy to train if you do it right. If you do it wrong they are a nightmare because they can be very stubborn. Its all about using their highest motivator to practice with. ps I dont use collars at all. I use harnesses. I have a special molle harness that has patches that say "Im friendly please pet me". I can also attach stuff like water bottles to that. But I mostly use normal harnesses without molle. My boys all walk next to me, on a leash but hands free (because they dont need the leash, except when I see a potentiall agressive dog - although I usually just distract them past those)
Can you please post the full video ? My boxer baby is the same puller and crazy playful at everything and anything to a point where she is jumping at kids etc and it’s not ok :(
Boxers are super easy to train but you need consistent boundaries and kindness. Unfortunately they are seen as a clown breed and allowed to be naughty as that’s what they do. Mine did kennel club gold and institute awards,tracking,search agility, were my assistance dogs and walked the fells with my hubby. Getting any dog takes effort and finding the right language to train the dog is key mine all responded to hand signals but from day one they knew what I expected. Kindness in training is so important but so is boundaries and consistency if you do different things how Is the dog suppose to learn.
Yea its lovely advice for a dog who will take treats and affection outside. Those things only exist to my dog when she is inside. I have not beem aboe tp train ger out of her impulse control oitside at all and have no clue what to do to change it.
Same with my puppy. She is a sweet girl but reactive and doesn't care about anything once we are in an unknown space outside. I'm thinking of either gentle lead, slip lead or prong collar. He does have videos on dogs that are not food motivated or too distracting and he does use prong collar in the video
@@magical.me. I've tried those too. My dog is willing to strangle herself so I cant use them. What I did find a couple days ago though is she won't pull if I have the leash from her collar wrapped beneath her belly. I found she won't pull at all if she can feel the leash under her belly for some reason. It's weird but it worked and prevents injury haha.
@@willowoahh theyre also more of a medium size than a large dog. Newfoundlers are good because they are goofy and people generally dont find them threatening which means less stress out in public if youre not experienced with big dogs.
I can say my neighbours have a issue with babying there boxer. Everytime let it into the garden it bark non stop. They walk it they have no control when someone walk past. They stand still. It’s awful to see.
How do I contact you for training? I have a Reactive German Shepherd who is biting us and driving us nuts, barks at other dogs and people and very anxcious
My dog's 17months old and is afraid of EVERYTHING. She pulls me soo bad. I've tried the stop and turn around techniques, doesn't work I almost fell quite a few times. At 66, I can't afford to fall and get hurt. I kno it's all my fault. I didn't take her out enough while she was a puppy. She doesn't come either. I've tried treats but she'll just stand there and look at me. I can't afford formal training. They're all sooooo expensive.! $1,000's that I don't have to train my dog.
What I don’t get is why do suburban soft people get mean dogs they can’t handle and end up getting put down. It makes them all look bad because the owner is too weak.
Prong collars prong collars prong collars I can't say it enough none of my dogs pull anymore and I didn't have to do any of this they Yelp couple times then they got the hint