How to train your dog a chin rest. Thanks to Dixie the Basset and Terri Elkins youtube user: tamingthewildside for supplying footage! This video goes over how to teach a chin rest. This behavior is essential for training shy, reactive or over excited dogs. This foundation behavior is the key to many other training techniques. This clip will actually be in my upcoming DVDS for training reactive dogs and hunting dogs. So stay tuned!
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Emily, I love your videos <3 I will try this with Skadi cause she gets distracted a lot. And we also need to work on calmness around food. Thanks for all 🙂
Wonderful video and explanation, as usual. Thanks a lot for the wealth of information you share with the world.
Thank you so much for all your videos, they have been such a help to me. I find that I have so much more success when I follow your tips. One thing I cannot find info on how to teach my dog to stay in position WHILE I give him the treat. He thinks that the treat or the click -IS- the release, which makes it really hard to reinforce staying in position during distractions. Any tips from anyone on how I can successfully correct this behavior?
I wish the world could learn these techniques. Your wonderful. Your dogs have so much trust in you.
Yes genetics plays a role in dog behavior. 🙂 Lacey is actually distracted everywhere- in the city too. I think some of it is fear, def the hunting plays a role in the forest. My border collie puppy would scream when she saw small dogs run, and freak out and want to chase everything that moves… With training now she offers calm behaviors like looking at me. So if a rabbit runs off out of a bush, she just calmly looks up- the key is calm foundations!
Hi Emily! 🙂 This shouldn’t take me too long to teach to my Aussie. Can I ask what cue do you use for it?
This is really helpful. I’ve found if I take my Lab/Dalmation cross, Jessie’s, chin gently in my hand when I’m putting on her harness, as she always resists, it instantly calms her. I’ve taught her to ‘watch’ and look in my eyes but hadn’t thought to teach the chin rest as a general calming technique. I think it’ll work well for her as she gets very distracted outdoors still. Thanks for these clips – they are the best help I have found and I feel good working with Jessie in such a positive way.
Thank you so much! I did watch that video and he does have a release cue that he knows and follows. When we first started practicing he almost always did it perfect, but I slipped up a few times on treat delivery/clicker timing and now he just seems to think that the treat is ALSO a release and fixing it became a nightmare 🙂
I will try your tip today!
I love your videos! Thank you for sharing all your advice and tips on training! 🙂
Working on it. We’ve got the contact, but the calming is difficult. Patience. Thank you so much for all your great videos.
Thank you Emily for all your gentle ways with dogs, you are such an inspiration, you are one of my heroes, i have learnt so much from you and i’m sure you that’s true for a lot of people with dogs : )
Thanks really great tutorial, here is my dog after just one training session on this http://youtu.be/QDXB9BwBLIQ I am looking forward to the head movements and gaining more distance. I love the idea of teaching calmness for this and with the muzzle tutorial as well, really great videos as always, thank you so much.
I am finding it really hard to get the eye flicks, the yawns and the general relaxation. My UK Splash has done so much clicker training that even without the clicker, she kind of fakes calmness, rather than actually being calm. How long did it take Lacey to go from seeing it as a behaviour that earns her treats to how your Splash is obviously so calm and relaxed. As you can tell also in the nail clipping video. I have done put on flee treatment, have her paw bandaged. But it is only after watching your nail clipping video that I realised she is not truly relaxed when I do all these things, it is all head down, stay still while I count to ten. It is now my goal to get the true calmness your Splash shows in the nail clipping video.
I love that you are so gentle when training your dogs. You not only make it easier for dogs to understand, but make it easier for us as well. I have watched many of your videos and I feel I already have a better understanding of how to teach things to a dog the gentle, right way. It’s going to take me some time to unlearn saying “no” and correcting my own behaviour before expecting the same from my dog, but your videos are great help, so, thank you and keep them coming! 🙂
Excellent for preparing show dogs to have their bite examined!
Teaching this along with the basics of sit, stay, down, settle, and paw tricks, this was the most calming of them all, my pup loves my hands so under her chin was great. In fact we work on all the body parts of her head in case I have to fix or clean something she will be calm and happy about it and makes for the vet trip to be easier. In fact I think this is her favortie one because she does it so well. Keep sharing, love these training tips. I am curious how to calm a dog in the middle of a disaster and they won’t listen and you have no place to remove them to, tips anyone? We train a lot and the only thing I have come up with is to restrain her by the harness as low as I can go until she responds to somethinng, this is not often but happens a few times a month.
Hahaha – My dog heard you say “yes” on the video and came running in from the next room to get a reward. Great video, explaining training a very useful behaviour Thanks!
Awe 🙂
My dog and cat are both clicker trained so it’s funny watching training videos and hearing clickers because I usually have two very expectant faces looking at me.
“…excitable easily distracted dogs like this dog”
*gestures towards dog which appears to be stuffed*
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Brilliant tutorial as always from an amazing trainer 👍
This is so great. We just got a very shy dog and she ran off this morning. I got her back, but I’ll be working with her immediately.
Ty so much for app you do … Your very different from other trainers mainly due
To your voice and calming attitude you have which is huge when trying to teach a dog to relax. This is only my second video of yours which was in a line up / my feed/ search for “how to teach a. Dog to find something’ so I guess it was meant to be because the first video on how to calmly put a muzzle on a dog … Something I’ve really been thinking about… The muzzling not calmly being able to do it because I never thought it was possible. In that video you spoke on how your dog was attacked by another dog as a puppy and was extremely reactive towards other dogs since then which is my huge problem Beyond huge for lack of better words with my best friend AKA dude who are adopted exactly 2 years ago from a local animal shelter and I was told he loved other dogs shortly after bringing him home the neighbor’s dog jumped the fence and attacked us now weighing 120 lbs I can hardly take him out during the day to properly exercise him or anything when there’s other dogs around because he is so large he is able to take me wherever he wants to so I’m desperately looking for help in any and always possible