Teach Your Puppy To Calm Down With This 7 Minute Exercise 

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Finally a video with an untrained dog I learn better seeing the actual process.

My border collie puppy taught me that I am not as patient a person as I had originally thought. You are so calm and soothing I am trying my best to emulate that!

I LOVE this trainer! I love seeing the puppy's transformation step by step in pretty much real time!!! I've learned so much from this short video! Thanks!!

I tried the 1st method today and I repeated it 3 times; I really found my soon-to-be 4 month puppy calming down! Thanks!

We taught our dog to lay on a mat as well and did so very early on (maybe 4-5 months old or so?). Something else we started doing about a month or 2 ago (dog is now 1.25 yrs old) is reinforcing natural settles by just waiting for moments where she lays down (can be anywhere, floor, couch, w/e) we just walk up, place a treat in front of them and walk away. No clicker, no marker outside of an occasional calm "good girl", just place it in front of them. Been working wonders at encouraging our energetic havanese to choose to calm down when she's tired as opposed to getting tired and subsequently getting fussy like a toddler that needs a nap.

I used this technique to train the "Get on Your Bed" command. It worked awesome!! The only trouble I had was petting my pup after she was on the bed, she bites & nips. We have to do the hold on the collar & treat exercise & the Settle Position A LOT, like constantly. I really love all the Trainers McCann has in the videos, it gives different personalities, ages of trainers & different settings. I truly appreciate the work, time, the creativity, and money that goes into providing these helpful videos as well.

Her little face when Carol suggests she might go off and self-reward with the food. “I would never, Carol. How dare you.” 😂😂

In 3 days I taught my 8 week old Shepard/pitbull mix to overcome his separation anxiety and enjoy resting in his crate. Now I need to manage his energy during the day. This video looks incredibly helpful. Thanks!

I keep doing this with my pup when we’re in the room and I’m doing it with her crate. It really gets her mind off whatever anxiety she has and makes her focus like ohh I’m supposed to relax now.

I have a black lab collie puppy and let me tell you by the end of this video he actually laid down on his own and took a nap. THANK YOU!! before everyone just said make sure he has lots of activities. When he runs our 5 acres at least 3 to 4 times a day and is still jumping all over the place inside. Thank you for actually helping!!

Love how you work Carol. Just great to watch

Another calm puppy resting in it's bed in Serbia. Thank you so much, I'm bingewatching your channel. So much valuable information, it helps me SO much. Thank You

I love this. Thanks a million. Just tried it for the first time with my 11 month old giant schnoodle who was running rampant this morning. Took a few minutes and now he won't come out his crate even for his favourite toy. I love that it's his choice and no luring is involved. Brilliant !! This will help hopefully when he goes to the horses with me, also, once he is vaccinated. Thanks dor showing it on an untrained puppy. Best way to learn and see what is a normal progression.

I love this video so much, thanks for using a pup that is in that "I've lost my mind!" state of energy!

I am literally sitting here in TEXAS (not 2 10/4) with my 11 week old BC named JACKPOT!!! I live on a busy street, and my next step is to look for your videos on traffic training. Thank you for your work!

Thank you! it's been 2days and my dog has improved a lot !

I was skeptical that this would work but it did! My pup is self calming now in his bed. Thank you!

We have recently got a collie, previously we had a very relaxed lab. He litrally never relaxed (other than in sun), tried a few methods, none worked until this! Thank you so much!

Thank you! I really need this for my miniature american shepherd puppy ❤️🐾

This is such a helpful video for a first-time puppy owner like me. The step-by-step instructions and real-time demos are so useful!

I have a new 9 week old Aussie pup, and this is very helpful. I've been working a lot with her, and she's doing great.

Wow! This is interesting, thank you for posting this video. It is indeed one of the biggest struggles on how to make your little puppy calm down.

This is such a good video! Very informative and simple trick! Thank you McCann Dog Training! ♡

Ms. Lawrence is a wonderful teacher. Thanks!

Love ur video..my puppy does this...his got so much energy..so much I could learn...thank u

You guys are so awesome!!!! I've learned so much!!!

This is perfect for our guide dog puppies in training since they have to learn, "Place" command. This was so well done. Broken down beautifully. Guide dogs need to know this command hands down. Thanks! 👍👍

This is great! I have a 9 year old Border Collie that has separation anxiety. I will utilize this tool to help calm her down in my home office. This is great! Thank you!

Loving this. Santa brought a little female border collie for my boys. Smart smart dogs and I'm glad we have these videos.

Thank you for your hard work this help A LOT

My dog just turned 9 weeks and he’s a good boy he just can be hyper sometimes and nips. I’m trying to do better in his schedule. This video is really insightful

Lovely awesome training here! 😊 Thank you for such a great demo!!

Excellent! Thank you❤

You’re guys are amazing!

Y’all are cool. Thanks for all the hard work producing these

This is the best calming instruction I’ve seen so far! Worked really well with my 10 weeks old Hovawart.

Great video, thank you for this.

Best trainer ever! These tips actually work on my Mini Aussie.

Thx you so much!!!! Love you guys

what a great training exercise! :D thank you for sharing.

Love this, and thanks. We’re going thru this right now with a 12 week Boston. He’s so wired. ☦️👩🏻‍🦳🇺🇸‼️

This video is a game changer!! My puppy finally doesn’t freak out when guest or anyone new comes over. Wish I had found this sooner!

Great advice again guys ! This is one of those essential "life skills" I teach every client. I add a cue - "easy" and proof it like any other training exercise. Having the ability to ask for relaxation on cue is a game changer for most owners. Some dogs need lots of massage and other relaxation techniques before they can access true relaxation - just like teaching anything new, it takes patience and practice to get good at it.

Thanks for your video 🙏

Thank you, I love seeing video with other hyper Border Collie puppies because thats what we have. We haven't had a puppy in 6 years, and its a bit overwhelming. But your video have really helped!!

Man it worked I cant believe this thank you verymuch♥♥

Thank you for that valuable lesson! I'm going to teach my dog to be calm! Have a great day!

I wish i saw this video when i first got my puppy over a year ago😭😭my dog was just having a crazy hyper episode and i did this and hes sooooo calm in his crate now, thank you :)

We need more videos! 😆 I love this border collie puppy progress. Keep it up.

Extremely helpful vid

Thank you for this video! I'm guessing you also use a crate? So do you have to teach lying on a bed and going/staying in a crate separately or can they be linked somehow?

Hi! First, let me say I love your channel, Subscribed, hit the bell, etc. So I have a Real Challenge. Sooo... my puppy had feeding/stomach issues from 8 weeks. He was a wriggling ball of baby fluff on top, skin and bones on bottom. If I offered treats For Anything, they caused Intense stomach upset/vomiting. Regardless of the Kind of treats used. He Flat Out Refused All Kibble. Refused to eat more than once a day from the word Go. The Only 2 times in the past 2 years that he actually kinda wanted it, was because another dog was there. And after 30 seconds of novelty, he'd walk away from the treat and let the other dog eat it. The next time I tried immediately afterward, he blew it off all together. The vet said to forget about treats... and concentrate on just finding a food he could digest, AND would eat. Even if it was only once a day. I'd Love to see you do this with a puppy Without Any Food rewards. No One Seems To Do Training Without Food Ever being in the picture. When I used play he ignored the toy (never been a fan, could care less), and praise, with Exuberant "Jackpot Treats" type praise just wound him up (like Intense play and tickling a child Right before bed time). The Second I jackpot treated with affection he completely lost it and would run off. We just Couldn't get him to eat OR Play And affection/praise? Yeah, that didn't work either. His body rejected Every food we tried and he stayed Painfully Skinny. He woul eat Just Enough to stay alive. He also vomited Every Day. Our Vet diagnosed him with GI Reflux (GERD). So, here's My question. If food and play don't Work for your dog, ALL you have left is praise. And I have yet to see how to "Jackpot" with praise Without re-energizing and winding the puppy up works. Even here, on this channel it's like... oh, your dog Flat Out Refuses treats? Well give him treats then change his reward system. 😳 (did I mention treats and play weren't working?). It sets him up to fail, and get Very confused. All the RU-vid trainers and professionals are like... treats, treats, treats... clicker treat, clicker treat... play, play, play. Ugh! Uh, yeah. Umm... my dog Doesn't DO Any of that. It's Frustrating, and our training has slowed to a crawl. He's 2 years old now, and WAY Behind other 2 year old dogs in training and maturity. Other "professional trainers" are baffled. Any suggestions? Because after 2 Years of this I am Beyond frustrated.

Looks like a great lesson. Maybe I should've known this when my BC was a puppy. Maybe I would avoid her broken herding behaviour then. My dog is crazy about other pet's and human's cooperation. Im working on this problem but its hard to keep her interest 100% of time when there's another couple (human and pet) close to her. But how could I know. I hope I'll make less mistakes with the next BC when I decide to get one more.

I’m crying, this is so cute.

I’m picking up my new puppy in under a month and this was really helpful! Even though, from pictures and videos - as well as being theirs personally - the puppy I’m getting seems to be much more relaxed in comparison to his siblings😁 but this is REALLY helpful as it’s training from scratch and not from a puppy who already gets the gist 😄

My 10 week old puppy has the zoomies hard!! It’s impossible to calm her down and is easy to get frustrated with her…I will try this method today but using her crate to build up her safe zone trust with it. Thankyou for the clear instructions.

I burst out laughing at 0.40 in - lol that hyperactivity brought back memories!

That is one excited puppy!!

Excellent

Im gonna do this to my 3 year old and see if it works! 🤩 We adopted him almost a year ago

Pawesome advice, a great way to show teh process of training dogs! love it!

Wow, a video that actually shows a untrained dog and actually shows you what you can do, mad respect for all of y'all!

Thank you! Gonna try this with my 6 month old. I adopted her at 4 months and she's just so hyper lol

Ty so much

love this trainer! she's great and we want to listen to her when she talk ... get her to do more for us! =)

I have an assistance dog that comes to school with me so she has to settle for multiple hours a day (she gets a run round outside aswell at least one a day sometimes twice just to relax a bit) but because of covid we’ve not been at school so she’s not been having to settle as much so we’re going to do some things like this with her to work on her settle and start acting as if it was a school day so I lay out my clothes she gets then for me in the morning then she gets her gear on and I put her in the car for a little bit then get her out and go back in the house and get her to settle at the table so she’s ready for when we go back to school

This is good! Could you do a follow-up one to train a puppy not to chew on their bed? I had a dog that I could literally not give a dog bed without her shredding it if I wasn't watching. She had plenty of chew toys, and yet destroyed a really nice bed I gave her. I want to be able to trust my next dog not to tear up its bed if there is a training method for that.

Thanks!! My dad said he is going to give my puppy away if she won’t be calm. This just saved here thabks somuch ❤️❤️

Thanks!

Thank you so much! Keep the border collie videos coming!

Thanks for the tips I have a 4 month old English/American Bulldog mix named Bo he is a great dog but does go a little crazy once in awhile i will be trying these tips today for sure

How many treats are too many? Will definitely give this a go.

This is great! What do you do if your puppy starts barking for treats while on the mat?

I gotta say guys. I am impressed. Started this training with our bullmastiff puppy, and the results were pretty damn good. And pretty quick. Most things take her longer to learn and I chalked it up to being a stubborn Bullmastiff but she took to this excercise right away. Thanks for a great video

Just got my puppy a new bed and he is chewing it instead of lying on it. I think this approach would also help him realise what it is for. Thank you so much!

what are the treats you are using? thank you so much, your videos are so informative.

Love this! So clear to understand. Question what training treats are used? Just wondering. Thanks!

This is a perfect video it’s an untrained dog and it’s around the age of my pup

This is the best settle mat training I’ve ever seen, so helpful thanks for making this

would love to see a "day in the life" type vlog. so multi dog homes can see how to feed, and how to fill their day, play with them and when to not play, etc. we are from Burlington so you guys may be hearing from us for classes!! do you offer private or in home lessons?

I love all these videos and they’ve been so much help. Can anyone recommend me a video for my 8 week old puppies biting? I know it’s normal since he’s teething & I’ve tried redirecting with chew toys but he’ll lose interest in the toy and go for the hand that’s offering the toy. He’s also pretty rough with kids. He’ll growl and bite pretty hard. Thank you!

Cut up string cheese sticks works AMAZING In training my 4 month old Airedale

I just watched your video on the 3 kinds of barkers. My American Eskimo dog is 9 1/2 yrs old and seems to be all three of them. Will this method and the calming method still work for him? Trust me, we both have anxiety from his extreme barking and my yelling, and it scares the heck out of our cat. I like how you explain everything. If you have any videos training older dogs, please let me know. Thank you. Lynn

Can this be used for crates too? Also do you do agility too?? That’s so cool!!

Sweet! i got 3 of them border collies who are exactly like that!

Great video! What Brand and kind of treats are you using in this video?

We just adopted a special needs Border Collie mix puppy. When she was about three months, her previous owners accidentally ran over her, and broke her pelvis and shattered her femur. She’s currently almost 7-months-old, and she seems super smart! Do you have any suggestions for building strength in her legs and core? She seems to want to do all the tricks the other dog is able to do, but because of her bad leg, she doesn’t have the strength or confidence to do them, yet.

Wow that is my 3 month old lab/pit mix. He is absolutely crazy. Hopefully this helps

Trying this with a 1 year and 4 months Maltese dog! Might be a mix surprised with how much it’s growing have someone coming over trying to train her well Edit: thanks it calmed her down I hope it lasts long!!

Thanks for this just a question have you got any videos on how to keep a older puppy calm around cats and babies. Our pup is a rescue. But she’s big and very strong. And she’s around a year. We’ve got a cat. We’ve had our puppy now for about 7 weeks. She also jumps.

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LOVE this video, thank you! What treats are you using? We have a new border collie pup who doesn't really care about food so much.

Thanks for the video! I’m trying to get my 13 week Australian shepherd pup to settle down outside of his cage. The cage calms him right down, but I don’t want him to view the cage as a punishment for getting too wild. He needs to eventually learn to be calm in the house. I was told to get him really tired before training, but I can play all day with him and he won’t even want to lay down lol. Hopefully this will help him realize that life isn’t always hoopty!

Great video, thank you so much for that information! We have a 15 week old border collie puppy and she loves chasing and biting our heels or legs!Could you please do a video with your border collie puppy how to approach that?! Keep up the great work! Greetings from Austria

This technique has worked extremely well, for the most part, but I'm going wrong somewhere. My puppy gets too jazzed up about 'the game.' She's learned she's rewarded for being on her mat but there's very little settling or calming down.

My puppy would rather just bite and play with the bed, how can I stop him and get him to just sit and lay on it calmly?

I love how Carol modulates the pitch of her voice to convey happy rewarding sounds or sorry, no reward, Oh Dears.

Hi, great video. I tried this with my 13 weeks old puppy BUT she’s not food motivated. She plays with her treats instead. Can you make a video on how to teach a pup to calm down without food?

our bordrr collie lab mix turned soo crazy near the end of her first day with us. lol i hope this works cause now it’s pretty harmless but if u dont teach her boundaries she won’t unlearn it when shes much stronger and bigger. she is almost 8 weeks!