Here are links to the tutorials that will greatly benefit you and your dog if your dog gets over-excited, over-aroused, or hyper when you train using food.
Capturing calmness around food- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wesm2OpE_2c&t=1s
Calmness around food with a PUPPY- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywr58SkTsYM
Take treats gently – 3 GAMES- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXDWbtx44b8
Teaching LURING to a dog who is aroused by food- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwQfW54Yh8s
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Awesome! This is my puppy 😅 he goes from 0 to 100 so fast! Anytime we try to train he starts spinning and barking and while it’s adorable… it’s incredibly hard to get him to focus! I will try these 🙂
Also what are some low value treats? Unfortunately ANY type of food is exciting for a Vallhund…
That can only be decided by your dog.
What are the foods that he will eat unless there’s something more exciting happening?
As an example my girl will learn new behaviours with kibble but if I have kibble on me when out and about its unlikely she would want to focus on me.
@Danielle Roberson Low value may be something the pup desires less, but still desires: so my dogs love cheese so for low value I may use a frozen pea, which they like but not love and I make sure they get their veggies and not too many smell chesse farts.. I try tiny things as they can fill fast when we train. When they have a good training lesson I use a jackpot or handful at the end so they know eventually after quite some time that they need to listen and keep doing until it is time for the grand finale of treats and I always place it down so they stay in one relative spot while eating it up without grabbing anyone elses food, I have 2 dogs currently. It does take lots of time especially with puppies but think small and lots of success is the goal. After quite some time then combine some tricks, so maybe sit for treat, then sit and lay down for the treat. It helps to get them to focus in different directions with their body. Emily has wonderful videos on how to get your dog to hold and wait, try some of them, and love the puppy they do grow up too too fast. Emily has good lessons, and I rewatch her videos they help me with the dogs and people-lol. I have decades of training dogs but since I am training my service dog and wanted more positive and detailed training I found with Emily and some others like her that this positive approach gives far better and more reliable results. It is great the pup is food oriented so you can transfer that skill to use in training and also try toys. Again check out Emily’s other videos. Prayers to you and your pup with lots of blessings.
@Danielle Roberson It depends on the dog, but often times the low value treat is the food he eats for his meal.
@Ana Larson thanks for adding all the tips!
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Awe thanks!
Yet another great training video. The explanations make so much sense. I like how you break things down so they are easy to understand. Many times I have suggested this channel to people for them to learn dog training. Thank you, and also for the links. <3
Thanks!
This is what I need! My girl, Valentine, has always been food driven but she’s on steroids just now. Oh my!! She is pretty good but I’ve learned a lot from this video to help her dial it down. Thanks 🐕🐕💕💕
Thank you for this video, Emily! I adopted an older Border Collie while here in Kuwait and have been trying to work on her food arousal issues. She was living on the streets for a while before she was rescued, so obviously food is a major reinforcer for her. She is mellow the majority of the time but becomes hypervigilant even if there was food present previously in/near the room and she smells it. I hand-feed her frequently throughout the day so she knows where her meals come from and roughly when she’ll be fed, but it doesn’t seem to be helping as much as I thought it would. I’m hesitant to try using a calm settle technique as I fear this could make her more worked up about random food delivery. She can be taking a nap and will get so worked up after a reward or two that she starts crying. Do you have any tips that may be able to help? Brilliant videos, as always!
You could try finding some extremely low value food. Like small pieces of carrot, cooked broccoli. As well as working after her meals.
Great advice, very much needed, thanks!
My Tervuren is becoming more excited about treats, so this is very helpful!
He starts to paw at my arm and bark/whine if he doesn’t get the treat right away, but if I use a lower value treat he usually can’t keep his focus in training sessions.
Oddly enough he is much more attentive outside than inside.
This is a video I needed 2 years ago when I first got my pup. He was sooooo excited for food, my arm would be covered in scratches. Hope it helps other people out.
Hi, love your videos. I didn’t see in the video that you linked in, the exact protocol for this. Is this something one does all day, throughout the day? And, is it in addition to teaching the dog to relaxed whilst on leash? How would you do this to teach a dog to relax in the presence of her favorite fetch toy?
I love your advice about slow treats delivery. I didn’t realize that fast movement is natural to us(people). I’ll keep it in mind.
Well Im not sure ALL people, but most people move pretty fast, unless they have a fearful dog and they have learned to move slowly because every time they move fast their dog gets scared.
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This is what I need!! Thank you!! It’s impossible/very difficult to teach my dog anything new lately because he loves food SOOOOO much. And my treat bag is a huge distraction for any behavior I try to capture.
I would love to see a video explaining briefly all the behaviors we should capture with puppies. My puppy was sooooo good when i first brought him home, and I tried to capture as much as I could, but I missed a lot of good “capture” opportunities. He’s my first dog and I’m still learning new things as I go.
Also…any advice for intact male behavior? Can I tell him to “leave it” every time he tries to hump my leg (lol) ?
sometimes humping can be because of being excited about something else or anxiety but regardless you should quickly interrupt and redirect to another behavior.
This is exactly the information I need. I have a food-obsessed golden retriever from China who literally jumps out of his skin with excitement at mealtime. I do feed him frozen from a slow feeder bowl. He will sit and wait until I say “Okay” for his food, but meal prep time is frustrating (for me) as he has an obnoxious, screeching demand bark and will use it repeatedly and obsessively until he gets the food. As I’m walking him into the room where he’s fed, he is on 2 feet jumping and spinning scratching walls, etc. He can’t contain his excitement. Would this work for something like that? I got him in June 2019. He was super shut down for the first month but has done really well since.
I suggest getting a bunch of bowls and prepping the food when someone walks him. Then whenever he is calm and relaxing in the house get the bowl out and put it in front of him. I wouldnt give a release cue because that can build anticipation. You could say something in a very calm relaxing voice I suppose but not “Ok!” Another thing you can do is while hes eating low value food, walk back and forth and drop a high value treat next to the bowl. This can help slow down the eating as teh dog will hopefully stop eating to look at you for the treat. And then hopefully not eat as frantically
Hi Emily, I love all your videos, I think you have the most precise, understandable and detailed training tips on YouTube! (And I watch a lot of YouTube dog training channels!) I would especially like to thank you for this video and the others linked to it as I realised that so much of my dog’s issue with learning is because she is over-aroused by the food. She is very bright and loves training but it can often take her so much longer than it should because she’s not even thinking straight (even if it’s her own boring kibble). I will try these tips out and let you know how we get on 🙂
I tried capturing the calmness with my dog, but the thing is that if I so much as hold a treat my dog will go bouncy and excited. So I cannot capture the calmness while he’s awake. I had to reward him when he fell asleep.
Guess what happened?!
He started recognizing this pattern of rewards. So he lay down, put his head down on the floor, he started SNORING and then he lifted his head to get my attention so that he could get his reward. This taught my dog to fake snore and fake sleep!! He is too funny!! 😂😂
Capturing Calmness has been impossible for me and my dog because she won’t eat low value treats and she becomes very alert when I walk towards her. She always pops up of I come close. She’s always whining for food. Any tips if we can’t even get step one accomplished?
Lol that’s exactly like my dog and she starts drooling😂 she knows to sit for a treat but doesn’t understand the word no matter how much we try to teach her and try to ween treats off. She will NOT sit if she doesn’t see food
Awesome video as always !! I love how you have almost every video that a pup owner needs !!
My rescue puppy (14 weeks old) is very excited by food – constantly scavenging around kitchen for scraps etc. even after he has eaten. One thing I was wondering though – we were advised to do training sessions with him at mealtimes, so basically gets his daily food allowance hand fed to him via basic obedience training or when training out on walks. But he is in quite an aroused state for these training session as a result – he doesn’t vocalise but he will do things like cycle through different behaviours trying to guess which one I want him to do 😂 and he runs / dives into his crate as thats where we feed him / train him. Everything is done very quickly and excitedly because he wants the food so badly!
After watching all your videos around calmness, I’m wondering if this is something we should maybe stop doing? He loves food so much, I would imagine he would be just as excited about his kibble even if it wasn’t mealtime though. Thanks in advance!
This is EXACTLY what is happening with my dog! I’ve been trying to reward him for calm times but giving the treat makes he all hyped up!!! So tricky! Lots of GREAT tips here! Thank you! SLow treat delivery will be my new skill to use!