Watch German Shepherd Owner Realize Why Her Dog Is Protecting Her 

Bingo!! Thank you for doing what you do🙏 my life was changed by someone like you. 🐾 💕

I love the "dogs are the easy part, the owners need ...." 😀

BEST comment I ever heard......hire a coach, not a trainer......SO TRUE. Tom can change a dog in seconds, but that doesn't ultimately help dog and owner when they return home. Tom trains the owners, PERFECT.

I've owned dogs for 30+ years, puppies to seniors, multiple breeds. Currently have two GSDs. Couple of things I've learned over my life. You are your dog's leader and protector. GSDs are extremely intelligent dogs. If a GSD doesn't sense that you are in charge, it's going to take over and eventually start running you. Another point, your energy transfers itself down the leash to your dog. If you are walking your dog, you have a loose leash, and then someone or another dog is walking towards you, and you tighten up on the leash, that sends a signal to your dog, where it can interpret it as "trouble." This is why investing in training with someone like Tom, or watching his videos is soooo important. So that you understand your dog's body language and know how your own language sends cues to your dog.

Dogs and pets are not a commodity. Reform your brain to realize this truth. They need structure. You need to lead and they need to follow. Dominance is not about negativity,. It is not about abuse or beating a dog into submission. Dominance is establishing leadership by passive exercises. This can be established when feeding them by simply taking the bowl away and returning it when the dog is calm. Training can also establish the leadership role. Simple, calm communication that doesn’t require stress or fear. This is why I avidly watch Davis and other trainers. They can help teach her what proper training is all about ❤

100% always: it’s the parent, not the child and it’s the owner, not the dog! Life is better with people training!

That is so awesome "dogs are the easy part we train the owners!" Great work Tom!

Love that lady and her GSD, she knew to reach out. Now look at them. Well done.

The way Tom compares what happens in a dog’s mind to human experiences was life changing for me and my ability to gain trust, communicate and advocate for my GSD. 🙌🏼 😊

Tom has changed my dog's life just through his videos. My boy is 3 and I've been watching these videos his whole life and he's the best dog I could've ever asked for. Thank you for everything you do ❤

My GSD is just like Tux. 100%. You give peace to our worlds!!!!!!!!

I love love LOVE watching Tom’s videos. He is changing lives! We get compliments all the time on how well behaved our 5 month old GSD is. We’re like a walking advertisement for Tom Davis and the No Bad Dogs army. I love telling people about it. Thank you so much, Tom!!

Tom, I'm sure you realize this, but I got so moved watching, knowing Tux has a chance for a totally different life.

“Don’t hire a dog trainer, hire a coach” so profound. Dogs have literally evolved to let humans lead, if the human can’t do so properly, they need to be trained how to be a leader!,,

I learned so much from Tom watching the videos, my dream is to take the 3 day class. I have worked hard with my dog, but we need to still get his reactivity under control. Hoping one day my dream will come true !

Winni has been amazing since our 3-day class in March. We are both calm and confident and loving being out and about! Thanks Tom!

The world is a better place with you in it, thanks for all your help! My male Akita was 8/9 diagnosed with a genetic blindness and we had lost his two older sisters in rapid succession. We decided to adopt a new sister and l found a six month old female Akita. I really sold myself auditioning for the privilege and got conned. After a 6 hour drive the moment we pulled in I knew it shit! The most reactive mother anyway at six months Edie was feral had never been in a house didn’t know what people were it was I nightmare but I wasn’t going to leave her. Instead of assaulting the so and so I paid her. You saved us she still has moments of flight but I rewatch your videos about ferals and it inspires me thank you.❤❤🇨🇦

I was in an early version, when it wasn't a formal three-day thing I think. IT WORKED! You let me know that not all dogs like to meet all other dogs that much, and it's not aggression, it's personal preference of the dog. You also showed me she is calm when the other dog is calm. This has been really helpful to keep her from "intervening" with other dogs in ways I really don't want for a beautiful strong pitbull. Thank YOU!

"You want a coach, not a trainer" - best advice ever! Obviously the trainer can get the results, that doesn't necessarily translate to the handler knowing how to get those results! I especially loved how you mirrored the how-to along with your explaination by demonstrating with an empty leash and collar. ❤ Haven't tuned-in to your channel in a while - always liked it, but you've really evolved. Kudos!

It just makes my heart happy to watch you navigate the owner to become better. Clap clap clap

Tom is so amazing I have been following him for over 3 years. I love how transparent Tom is and he doesnt portray that he has all the answers and gives the dogs credit for their work. Tom is a dog trainer on another level! I was disappointed I didn’t have the money to go see him when he was in Australia. Tom next time please come to South Australia please 🙏 🐶 ❤

I watched a story yesterday, from here in the states, where a K9 police dog started having issues with his handler and at his home. So much the police department was going to have him euthanized. Well the public outcry was so overwhelming that the chief of police changed his mind and is now asking for help from rescues etc, to help this dog. I mentioned you. Because a fully trained, young, police dog doesn't just alter course like he did like that for no reason. So if you can search it up and maybe offer some assistance, I think they'd be very grateful....

Your training videos have transformed my whole mindset with training my latest rescue. I can't thank you enough for making this available to me. There are some really good dog trainers on RU-vid but, in my mind, Tom is the best. There are trainers who train dogs really well but their communication with people is somewhat lacking; they are judgemental and/or opinionated. There are trainers who communicate with people well; but I don't think they seem to even really like dogs that much! Tom clearly loves dogs and has the patience of a saint - he is a very rare breed.

I agree 100% with what Tom is saying. Although I respect Garrett with his DIY K9 and his methods, I'm not a fan of Board and Train because, although Board and Train is good for fixing a dog's issue, if the owner doesn't understand their responsibility for their dogs behaviour, then the dog will end up reverting back to how they were before the training and the owner has just wasted all that money. It's so much better to have hands-on training with a behavioural dog trainer/coach than it is to do board and train.

Tom you are so awesome. I have learned so much from you. It just goes to show that a person doesn’t need to take their 14 month old puppy out to a gravel pit and shooting it for just being a dog, is totally ridiculous! You have turned so many dogs/people’s lives around. Dogs that others had given up on. Thank you, thank you for what you do and for sharing your talent in handling dogs with us.

Tom continue with the great content specifically with reactivity and working breeds such as GSD and malinois

Thank you so much for all your content! It has been really helpful with my dogs.💛

👏 Dog Coach is exactly what I'm going to say from now on. Thanks. The dog owner is key in understanding what their dog needs, how the household needs to behave.

You are the best People Trainer ever

Best comment in the video was about hiring a dog coach. I think people aren't familiar with it in that way, but that's exactly what I am. My ability, like Tom's, to get a dog to do things or not do things isn't the point. It's about getting that same response when the owner is handling the dog.

I always foster Great Danes, Every decade I’ll adopt one of the females. I started with a paranoid, but well trained rescue. We got on great😂 All the rest have had her same personality- took 2 before I realized my hyper situational awareness was contagious. As a young female, that worked for me. ❤

Awesome, always so good to see the lives of these people and their dogs improved! Thanks - I’ve learned tons from you that I have used with my dogs and I know how life changes going this is

Love love love your videos! I love when you say that the dogs are the easy part and the owner need the work lol I am a dog owner that I am slowly learning about my fur baby. Love all your videos your such a great help and inspiration.

❤ Training Us is the number one thing I Love about You !!! The trainer I hired made me stay in my home while he went out and worked with Max he never worked with me!!😢

As a trainer, I was unsure about this video when I saw the title. But - I 100% agree that pet parents need a coach. At most, I'll demonstrate what to do, but then it's up to them to follow through.

Thank you for the videos. Its really helped my and my boy Gimli. I watched your videos before i got him and continue to do so. Our lives are good. Thank you.

Thanks again Tom for everything! Cali & I benefited so much from your 3 day program :)

Forever grateful!! Self training and it’s wonderful!

Always amazing the education you bring.

Awesome 👏

I had a German Shepherd many years ago and I competed in the obedience ring with the Brown Dog Show circuit where he earned multiple championship awards. At a dog show, 2 akitas were running loose outside the arena and attacked both he and I. We were both injured. It changed him. While I could continue to show him in the ring, working him off leash with dogs also off leash around him for long stays and recalls, in little every day life, he would try to kill any dog that came near him. He wasn’t like that before the attack. So my point is, that while this shepherd looks great and controlled in the ring, life outside that ring is likely an entirely different picture. Yes, I learned what I was doing to Que my dog to think every dog outside the ring was bad (and he thought so too), I learned to work with it but was never able to have him around other dogs in the outdoors while continuing to compete with him indoors with no issues.

Quality!❤

Amazing message. We need to think about this, reflect. Thsnk u.

Great job, Tom. Bless you

I want to see one of your seminars so badly! I love the 3 day group training and hope to make it to one of these!!

This is 100% I sent my dogs to board and train, but I was the problem. Great video!

Thank you.😊

I went to a trainer once and the what she did to my puppy was unconscionable and we walked out and got our money back. It was the worst experience for both us and my puppy. These videos are such a great tool though, thank you Tom. Much better, much kinder, no abuse.

Love the way these positive only trainers bad mouth you. Yet to see one that can change dogs and people's lives with this level of fear aggression just using treats. Your a great trainer Tom

My GSD puppy is 10 weeks old. He doesn’t seem too playful with me or happy when I come back home from work. He stays in his crate with water and AC while I work but I always come home on my lunch from 12 to 12:45 and walk him, feed him, and try to get him to play with me. I work from 7:45 to 4:30 and I always feed and walk him early in the morning before I have to go to work to try and tire him out a little and stretch his legs. He eats 3 times a day and I always keep him some cold water since he drinks quite a bit. Idk he just doesn’t seem to be too playful with me or happy to see me. He listens to commands when he wants too but also tends to just ignore me sometimes. He does fairly good with potty training. I struggle in finding the right way to correct him when he does wrong since he’s so young. I’m his only caregiver and I’m the only one he trains, feeds, and tries to play with him. He doesn’t really cuddle or like petting too much idk why he’s just not a fan of it ig I kinda wish he was a little more affectionate or liked it more. Idk what to do I’m looking for any help to get my little man happy, playful and positive. All I want is for him to have the best life I can give him. (While he stays in the crate while I work, I do come home for 45 min to take care of him and walk him, he’ll only have to stay in there until he is fully house broken)

Dogs are amazing 🤩 ❤ ❤

So awesome. We have a foster that is reactive and need help. You ever come to Los Angeles?

So inspiring ❤

It's such an amazing thing to see ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Yep, watch videos where the owner is being coached, where you understand and can relate to the trainer, it’s life changing if you have a reactive dog and want to put the work in. Tom is the best at it, hands down 😊

Tom can’t agree more with your assessment! I help train service dogs. Our fosters are our foundation. I take the time to teach the foster family how to handle their puppy so we can get a good base to train for service. A successful service dog is in my view, 10% to dog’s natural abilities, 90% the handler’s guidance. Solid foundation makes for well balanced working dog.

This is something I would love to go and see (live in Texas so taking my little man would be tough). Mabey one day I will make the trip cause I think would be worth it.

Coming to Seattle!?!? Love it! See you soon.

Wish you where in Florida ❤

Any ideas, names or contacts for a 3 day transformation program in Port Elizabeth South Africa? Would be so appreciated. Thank you

I have to many rescues !!! My daughters that I have rescued too many dogs and now we are all under one roof I’m gonna need to follow you and figure out if there’s some kind of class we could do we have six dogs and my mom lives next-door with one dog so seven total. Seven dogs I’m trying to walk separately and my daughters involved, but we’re having trouble lol what do you suggest?

My boxer was a great dog, but I could never get her to not be aggressive on leash. Fortunately we only had a short period of time where we didn’t have a big yard.

Hello Tom

I am looking for some info on a correct size for a herm sprenger ultra plus trading collar with center plate chain assembly and a quick release for my dog. He is a 11 month old lab with a 15 inch neck and weights 54 lbs. hopefully someone can lead me in the right direction

Hello from Pennsylvania

and there's always this, some humans just shouldn't have a dog! I 100% agree hire a coach to help you then work with your dog. Don't wait so long to get help, know your breed and get a good fit for you~ 🐾 I love Tom's work!!! he's so honest!!

LOVE ❤YOU No BAD dogs

I need help! Watch your videos all the time and have made progress with my shepherd. But he is still reacting towards other dogs (only w/me) that walk by. Like he has to let them know, hey, this is my mom don’t even look at her! How do I fix this?

I love that this guy gets the most fundamental thing through to people. It's NOT the dog, it's simply a matter of people-training. Most genuine dog lovers know this and, indeed open their hearts and minds to what the 'language' of their dog is. It's not hard, once you know a few things and feel the joy of knowing that you are truly communicating with your dog, you soon learn more. The difference this makes is astonishing. Especially for people who genuinely love their dogs but just couldn't find success if their dog has an issue, something really problematic that they are at their wit's end about and unable to change. These people have their sanity restored, along with with their dog's confidence simply by doing some human-training. The rewards are ALWAYS worth it 🐕😘👏😘🐾😘🩵💚💓♥️💙🧡🤍💞💛💕💗🩷💜🤎❤️🤍🙏🐾😘👏🐕👏🐕👏✌🏽

I guess we’re just good dog partners. We’ve have many different breeds over the years. Some more trained than others, but none have been a problem like these because they’ve all been treated like members of our family.

Hello from Philadelphia, how do I get in your three day program?

Wow it looks cold there and still piles of ❄️🌨️ snow 🥶🥶🥶 I train dogs. Everyone has his techniques and niche who is good

My 11 month GS is awesome w ppl on a leash, outdoors, in stores, loves up and demands love from strangers, (he is totally in love with the girls at PetSmart..lol..seriously..) but barks like crazy in the kennel if someone steps inside, not even aggressively, just excited, (also at the vacuum..excruciatingly loud, piercing barks) or out the window to protect home..how to train a dog with no leash on? I’ve tried to condition him, but he just licks and bites at the vacuum..is this still just being a puppy? I’ve trained since 8 weeks, basic scents, etc, we stalled out around 8-9 months when his food tastes changed..guess I need to get back to it somehow, change my food rewards..

Do you guys do anything like this for puppies? We live in rural Vermont so as much as we’re trying to sociallize our puppy by bringing him around people, there’s not a lot of opportunity to socialize him with other dogs. I’m worried he’ll grow up to be dog reactive.

What do you do with a dog that doesn't care for food as a reward? It is hard to "redirect" my american staffy cross Boxer (he is strong) when he wants to lunge at other dogs :/

Shepherds and Malinois, the dogs who will find a job if someone doesn’t give it to them, according to the AKC breeder, I have the pleasure of meeting. No bad dogs, definitely! The biggest shift for me was realizing that they can read our eyes because we have whites, even though they don’t communicate that way but they will also read our posture and even our chemical signatures. So we need to learn to read their posture, ear position, even just the muscle tension. My husband had a lab before we met. She was 4. She was food motivated and very easy going, not rambunctious at all. The only time she would get even the slightest bit aggressive is when I was weirded out when someone approached. Hackles up, snarling, low growls, all of it but she was still under my command. That was the only time she was motivated to protect. We joked it was because I was the one who fed her and you do not mess with the food distribution system for a lab😂.

Dog training is far more about training the owner than training the dog. If you have an owner that is willing to follow the program, in class and at home, the dog will be much calm, happier and actually enjoy life instead of constantly being in an anxious state and so will the household. To many owners will try maybe a couple of times and give up and say this isn't working without ever embracing the training, saying its the dogs fault and go back to what they were doing before. They fail to understand that they are the ones failing the dog because if what they were doing was working the dog would be fine and they wouldn't need dog training .

Pretty sure it would also work without the prawn collar, right? Maybe not in a view minutes, though.

This is good but do you also do a live training with the dog when there are lots of squirrels, cats and rabbits running around. Because training them to not react to such activities is ok but when the situation actually arises, they become so prey driven that they just dont seem to care about listening 😢 do you have a live training for that where they get to see those animals and not react? Even the e collar doesn't seem to work at that time upon using the vibration mode.

I wish you could fix my dog. He is fine and feaks out at times. Crossing a heavy traffic street, no cars or trucks, and we start crossing, he bites my ankle!

I’ve had dogs for more than fifty years and only one I couldn’t work with. She was an abused beautiful Australian Shepherd an D was scared to death of men. My husband couldn’t even walk by a window without her completely freaking out. That beautiful girl went to an all female household and thrived.

Can I say I totally agree that it is humans who need to be trained way more than the dogs. However I will also say that it’s not only the person with the dog who needs training . So often someone for example in a park is trying to gain control of deal with a situation and someone else starts being rude and abusive which makes the original owner fearful and fearful of walking the dog in the future, Not because of the dog but other owners . I understand completely that if you are fearful it will rub off on the dog and make them reactive but it is not that easy when you’re scared. I have had a dog I was under training and still when I went out somebody would start a confrontation with with, either disagreeing with how I was with my dog or thinking I was saying something about there dog if I moved mine away in training , I have had cameras shoved in my face and been screamed at by strangers, I will admitI’m not a confident person but all the education in the world of reading your dog and learning how to deal with behaviour doesn’t help you be less fearful of other people when they have a go.I implore everyone to indeed do training with your dog so you know what your dog is trying to say but also if you see someone struggling with a dog or they have a dog on lead , please give the benefit of doubt and have compassion. Make it easier for people not harder… rant over

I’m crying because I’m in Greece and you will never be here to teach me your magic! Do you think I could use a slip collar to my young pit bull puppy(3 months)for teaching him not bite me and to pull on the Leash?

The owner has to be the leader that's the key. Everything else will fall into place once that is established.

I think everyone who wants to own a dog should undergo this kind of training before they are allowed to keep their dog at home. So many dog owners do not have any say in their dog's behaviour. 😢

My next-door neighbour has working farm dogs. I don't think he likes one because I heard him say after trying to work the dog. Go home so and so. These dogs work bulls and sheep in large paddocks so not on a leash

As said, most problems are with owners. Dogs with non correctable mental issues are extremely rare. Sadly they exists. Once got a GSD rescue dog. From his behaviour he had experienced bad things from his previous owner. Took some months for him to become a great family and working dog.

I'm at a point of discouragement with my puppy and I feel like the excuse, she is still a puppy, is getting overused. Do you have any videos of the dogs you have trained, 6 months later in their daily actions with their owners? That's what I would like to see.

Do you have training videos or online courses??

I would think, considering your ability with dogs that the toughest part of your job is the owners… some people simply should not have animals

I would never take dogs for training. It’s always working with the handler. Sometimes when they’d come in saying we’ve tried everything, and the dog is behaving like a demon from hell…I’d say, give him to me…look of horror lol…and the dog would be completely different. So what’s changed, the handler, who needs to change? Not the dog. He will follow what you do, if you communicate properly.

I know I’m the problem, I know how to train it’s just my cancer treatments have my hormones going crazy which has me going crazy and then my boy doesn’t trust I can handle things and he can just be a dog. Ugh.

Dogs react to their owner, if their owner is afraid they protect.

He's 100% right. Owners need to train the dog. The training is about trust and the relationship. If you don't want to train your own dog, you should consider not having one.

Humans make their dogs what they are...that woman wasn't even listening while you were trying to help. She's one of the people who will keep blaming the dog I bet.

I can control my pup. No collar, no leash. I've spent alot of times with her.

NOT TRUE!!! I have rescued many dogs and have always used my trainer with much success. I will continue to do so regardless of what a person trying to become a social media influencer is saying.

Her fear is transferring to her dog. Yes, dogs need training. Mine graduated from charm school but jussssst barely.

Some people shouldn't own a dog

Wait, aren’t you a dog trainer 🥴