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This is a great video for fearful dogs. I could really see this helping dramatically! Thanks for posting
Wonderful! I do the same thing with horses, as well as dogs.
I love the teaching skills that I have learned and have changed 100 percent on working with my dog.
Thank you.
It can work, but I am obsessed with lowering arousal and having the dog as calm as possible (if they are shy, reactive, or aggressive). I worry that you could condition the dog to be excited and aroused by the presence of the stimuli as it predicts chase. That is also the problem with using food during conditioning when your dog is over aroused about food- calmness around food first, then conditioning. Also I saw something not so nice happen- a trainer taught her dog to… cont..
I do like your idea, and do use it with Splash 🙂 for any situation- prey, freaky stuff, anything. BUT she knows all the rules to tug, has stimulus control on being released to the environment, and I have spent hard work on her calm foundation.
IMO He tends to leave to much wiggle room for his viewers, especially less experienced in training. But Emily and Zak are my all time favorite trainers and I’ve learned so much from both 😛
We live next to a large forest. Sometimes there are hunters 🙁 That’s why my dogs wear neon vests and I keep them very close to me. The gunshot was distant, but still a little loud, so we ended the session and started again later. You can see a big difference in Gremlin, because of the lack of gunshot and better treats.
Yes, this technique can be used for lunging and barking and aggressive displays- once trained, you can move away using the conditioned giving into leash pressure. But first you are going to set up training scenarios- where you condition the default behavior of giving into pressure- you can use the lure to begin it (if you are having trouble). Thats what I meant. I will make a followup video on this one. I didnt want it ot get too long. But you train the behavior, then use it- cont…
And Zak usually uses his own already-trained dogs to explain a technique, but not really show the viewers how it’s done.
Love this video, Emily, and what a great dog. At first I thought the dog’s name was ‘Grandma’ as in ‘Grandma, what big ears you have’. Lovely dog though!
This is wonderful! Thanks for your video! 🙂 I think this will help me with the mini poodle that I walk for my dog walking services as the dog tends to pull on the leash when he saw cats and dogs. Calling him excitedly, patting my legs, using treats and saying “let’s go” does not work as he is too excited. Carrying him is difficult as he struggles a lot and I almost dropped him. I am going to try this with the dog. Hopefully, I can get him to walk away with me when he sees other cats and dogs.
Thank you, thank you for these videos!! We have a fearful/reactive dog, and we have really been struggling with leash training. I just subscribed and I can’t wait to sit and go through your videos!
Great videos! Started working on clicker training with my 6 month old Husky pup and he is picking it up well. I am wondering if you could clarify something for me…do you teach the “let’s go” behavior first before teaching giving into leash pressure? Help, I don’t want to screw the order up….thank you 🙂
Would love to see a video on how to get a dog not to only tolerate the presence of people but to get them to allow new people to greet them once they’ve mastered allowing the presence of new people. 🙂
Hiya! I’ve watched your videos on leash pulling, but I’m sort of having the opposite problem. She’d just stop out of nowhere (I see no distraction or anything she wouldn’t want to encounter when it occurs) and hold against the leash or lie down even. And I’m mostly going to fields for dog walking so I wouldn’t know why she wouldn’t want to go there and it’s absolutely no problem off leash.
While with pulling, going forward would be the reward you would withhold by stopping and backtracking, what would be best for stopping dogs? It sometimes gets really frustrating to get anywhere without pulling her which is probably not a good idea to do.
These are all great tips! My shy girl walks really well without distractions, but whenever she’s scared by something (like joggers) she freezes. I can never tug the leash while she’s scared, because she’ll lay down and lock up. The only thing that helps is kneeling and/or using baby talk, which is demeaning for me, so I hope this will help!
My puppy didn’t want to walk on the road. With this video I learned to change my way to do it and we have walked 2 days in a row for about a quarter mile. Thanks you for your video.
Thank you so much for this video! I have a 9 month rescue and she’s very skittish on the sidewalk, stopping every few feet. Most tips I’ve gotten have simply said to “be confident”, which is not super helpful. But your video gave specifics, which made ALL the difference! I elevated the treats from kibble to ham and worked on rewarding coming to leash pressure. It was also helpful for you to show when things “didn’t work,” and what to do about it. She is way more confident and responds much better to my commands and leads. Thanks so much!
Awesome tips – we’ve got a 6 pound chihuahua rescue who is TERRIFIED of leash tension & any type of movement by her harness at all. Will definitely have to give these tips a try!
This is just what I needed!!! I have been struggling with this for so long with normal walking. She often goes up to walls and walks close to them.
My Husky is a certified Expert Trick Dog, and when at the dog park she is great with other dogs around, and listens, comes when called, sits and stays down, no matter the other dogs are doing around her.
She is just reactive on the leash. I’m going to try this technique. She was a stray for a while before adoption.
One time she snapped the leash buckle and ran over to the dog she was reacting too, but didn’t do anything but say hello. So I’m not sure if she is scared reactive or wants to play reactive.