How To Get Your Dog To Listen Outside Off Leash (Step By Step Guide) 

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My bullmastiff/American staffy mix (recently turned 2🎉) had a distance recall of about 90% which is nowhere close to what’s needed for a dog to be off leash imo. I started playing what I call “random recall”, the basic premise is that no matter where he is when there’s a recall cue, he follows it. At first I did it indoors, I wait for him to be distracted or in another room, then bam! Recall. On a side note: my expectations for a proper recall is he has to end up where I can grab his collar every time at a minimum, or for more advanced training he ends in a heel or front sit with his chin touching my stomach (we’re still working on the last two). Once I have hold of his collar, I treat and release. He loves this game! Outdoors: I bought a 30 foot, syntek long line that I wear cross body (I found out the worst way that if it’s pulled out of your hand it feels like your hand has been de-gloved, especially if it’s a cold day/night), I give him some of that length and play the game again, as he’s progressed he’s earnt the right to have more line. This simple game literally saved his life. We were waiting outside a pharmacy that is on a street that was extremely busy that day for my script to be filled when he started bouncing around on the grass (he’s obsessed with grass!). The next second his leash pulled out of my hand and he ran straight into the traffic, I screamed his recall cue (Hades, come!) and he pivoted on the spot, and raced back to me at full speed. If he’d reacted in any other way he’d have been killed immediately as his head was just under the wheel well of an off-road caravan (trailer). I’m just so blessed that he reacted the way he did because of all the recall drills we’d been doing for the couple of months before this. Once he made it back to me I collapsed to the ground, grabbed him tight, and made his leash into a cross body one. I stayed there and ugly cried for a long while. I now wear his leash cross body all the time when we’re out near traffic because I couldn’t live through him dying, especially if it was my fault. He’s not just a pet, he’s my assistance/service dog in training, and soulmate dog ❤ Luckily every trainer I know had told me that 90% recall isn’t nearly good enough which prompted me to focus on it so much that it was the main training we did/do. After watching some of your podcasts on RU-vid, I recently realised that he’s emotionally dysregulated, that is now our current number one priority. I’m sorry this is so long but 🤷🏻‍♀️ Thank you so much for being such an awesome role model and dog training inspiration, not only did you help save my boy’s life, you literally saved mine as well ❤🫶🏼

WOW! what a marathon, jam packed full of info. I saw myself in a few of the Don't Do This examples. Thank you, lots to spiff up ❤️🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪

My foster Pyr has come and gone. Wow. I started going through the Recaller games, although cheated a bit. Started out with crate games since she needed to go in her crate. WOW. What a team we were. She learned so quickly. We did hot zone which took maybe 10 minutes broken up over a day or two so she learned she was to be in her HZ when I was in the kitchen. We worked on others as well, and she was just so brilliant. These games are just so amazing! Thank you again and again, Susan and your team Recallers!

Wonderful as always! Thank you! Funny side note, my dog perks up at the end of the videos whenever Susan clicks the clicker 🤣

My break word is “ok” Once I was training my dog and I had the “together” command which means he needs to be close to me while we’re walking, then I told him “ok” But I didn’t realise he was “preying” on a car, he basically dragged me from the backyard to the front yard, and would’ve dragged me down the street if it wasn’t for my husband lol (Yes I can hold him on leash but my dumb ass wasn’t holding the leash properly so it tightened around my fingers and almost broke them)

Thanks so much for this video, there is so much information in here that I'll have to rewatch a few times. I'm going to go back to the podcasts you mention and re-train Down and Stand. My dog (coonhound) seems to do almost everything in slow motion, like a cartoon lazy hound dog. I'd love a video on a quick sit at distance! Appreciate you and your team so much, Susan, making this help available to us

I love this and I want so badly to work on these things with my doggo. Last week at an agility fun match outside, he took off after a grasshopper (and ate it) mid-run, and I was not more valuable than that grasshopper. :( I have a strange challenge though that makes working up to location changes more difficult. I have an American Hairless Terrier, who is totally naked. As a result, he doesn't like to sit or down on things like grass, gravel, dirt, etc. It's physically uncomfortable and sometimes painful depending on the surface. As a result, he has a killer standing "wait" and his startline stay and table are both standing, but this does make it hard to find postion changes to do with him for this distance/distraction training that he needs so badly. Inside, we do sit and down as for position changes, but once we leave the house for harder distractions, I don't want to force him to do it. I think it will send the wrong message of "do this thing that hurts when I tell you to."

I was wondering if you had any methods for teaching your dog not to jump on the doors and scratch at them? It’s definitely related to not liking the separation.

If your continuation marker is "good" and they were in a down, you'd be reinforcing the down if they stayed there, I guess if you used your terminal marker, it would be fine if they got up to come receive their reward. If they get up when they're supposed to stay in a down, how do you purpose clarifying to them that's the incorrect choice? Do they have a leash on for you to place back in position?

Yes, it is time to retrain the simple. Thinking on how I got here, to build from there.

Thank you very much for this RU-vid. It was very educational. I’m wondering when you will do an update on THIS ? Would love to see how she’s doing. I did see a little video of her with the other mixed breed dog doing flyball, but wondered if there was anything else ? thank you very much for your RU-vids

Hi Susan! I really love your channel so far. I am owner training my 18 month old golden retriever named Freja as an autism spectrum disorder/Asperger’s Syndrome, assistance dog. Freja has had three training classes at Petco. I have been owner training her for a year. I do not have the finances to get Freja professionally trained, so I have to owner train her to keep up with the extensive training. What advice could you give to handlers who their service dogs? I want to train Freja the best way that I can. My Asperger’s syndrome makes it extremely difficult for me to properly train her. I am constantly triggered and have struggled with the communication while I am training her. I am hypersensitive to my environment with overstimulation and sensory issues. I am always looking for new ways to try to train Freja. I work in train with Freja every day. I am always looking for newer and better methods of training. It is a dream of mine to have a service dog to help me.

The Fenton example was just what I needed to see! My goal of getting my dog to come along when I go trail riding means he can’t chase horses.

Yes please on the snappy sit.

Susan thank you for this reminder of how important consistency in your train Is! My dog has turned 5 year of age and he is a smarty pants for sure. How would I teach him not to forge out of position when heeling? I did Rally work with him and a class in tricks which seems I also taught him unwanted behaviors as well. I need to a better leader and intentional trainer.

I just revisited this video series, which was very timely, because we are getting a new puppy in March. Now it will all be fresh in my mind! Thanks (as always), Susan!

Hi you mentioned 5 release cues, but you listed only break, search and get it. What are the other 2?

Where can I find the list of 50 distraction ideas? The link in your pinned comments does not work. I would really love to have this list. Love this series! Thank you, Susan for changing my life and the lives of my dogs.

Susan I have a question I’m guessing your dogs also get thirsty mid games/training Do you have to ask them if they’re thirsty and offer water or do they just go randomly? My dog shows no interest on me when he’s thirsty and will just go to his bowl randomly and I let him because I think he needs to know that if he’s thirsty or hurt no one’s going to force him to do anything But what’s your suggestion on this?

Maverick goes into a down at a distance BUT NOT his ELBOWs. Help!

This is wonderful thank you for all you do for us, lots of cookies.

I am trying to train my tiny rat terrier and it is near impossible this is been going on she will be 2 in January but she has aggressive parking I can't even take her for a walk and I'm visually impaired so it's really difficult if she starts lunging or sounds like she's screaming at whatever she sees enough to make people come out of their houses can you please send me the link for this problem

I would like a snappy sit!

WOULD LOVE THE SNAPPY SIT COMMAN TRAINING MENTIONED ABOUT

How do I teach my puppy to sit, down, and stand without treats? Please help

I have a new dog, she's 2 and a rescue and doesn't really try different behaviours when I have a treat. She sits/downs and then doesn't really try other things lol. She used to be a stray so maybe not used to trying different things. She just looks at the treat or she might even wonder off. Any advice?

I would like to learn how to teach a quick sit to my 7 month old puppy.

So when you cue down or sit, and the dog gets up, how to you get the dog back into thedown or sit ? Do you repeat the cue, or aid with hand signal? TH

So good, thank you for this!!

Dogs are primarily visual learners and we expect them to follow verbal cues so it's up to us to fill in the gaps. We have to get better at paying attention to what's going on visually. 😉 I love the ability we now have to video our training. 😃

I’d love to give my dog a job. She’s a Yorkie mix and learns so fast it’s hard to keep up. This helps!

Thank you for this video, definitely joining team distraction 😊

I would love a snappy sit

All of this sounds amazing however, how do you get a 4 month old hyper dog (who LOVES FOOD) to sit longer than a minute or two? He watches me and sits, but after a bit, he gets bored. . . I don’t want to repeat myself so I just stand there like an idiot. . .

How do you get a snappy sit

Snappy sit and down

My 3 year old female GSD was coming along nicely UNTIL we ran across a coyote sleeping in the meadow, she gave chase and ALL of her training went out the window. She did eventually come back to us but now she's on the hunt when we walk and is reactive towards dogs we come across. What can we do?

I have a Sheppard and she is so hard headed it is unreal, she darts out of her kennel but as I open the door she will sit and as soon as I open the door she darts out and starts jumping on me, I have tried everything I know that has worked on past dogs as I have had dogs my entire life. What can I do?????

Hey! I love this video so much it was full of great tips to train my dog! But at the start you were talking about training the dog to stay in the position it is told but what if they go up? Do I tell them to go do the position again or do I say something like no. Also my dog is only 1 years old and he is a very energetic Maltipoo. How do I make him focus on me even when there’s distractions? He will ignore treats if he saw a squirrel or bike.

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I so enjoy your videos.

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Would love to see how an efficient and bomb proof sit is taught❤

Please give instructions on sit

Did I change too much at once? Such a powerful question! ❤

Why go through all of the circus props to stop them from creeping forward. I know, I am a dog trainer of 14 years and I’m aware of the frustrating creep forward irritation. I found by using a mat used for place training (the dog already associates the stay in place routine with the mat), I could take dogs that would stay in place on that mat, give them the down from a distance signal and they that had never done that command before, (providing they already knew the down from a distance signal) were totally successful. Even from the very first time. Try it! It works.