“now they’re only terrible on leash 50% time remember your in the right direction” sooo needed that bc my dog is so great but the leash is the one place he struggles and these past couple years have been rough w it but i am so happy w his progress even if it’s small
@@Joshpods We are paying a price that is much higher than what most people think. We are paying because we keep watching these videos that give incremental and incomplete information that does not really allow us to train our dog and just make us keep coming week after week because we still have problems. Two much better channels are the one from Emily at Kikopup and the one by Nate Schoemer. I just which I had found those earlier.
Thank god you mentioned to keep the potty walk separate from the casual walk and training walk. I was actually mixing the two. Now I am confident and able to understand whys…. Thank you.
Thank you for being honest and showing it doesn’t happen overnight. It definitely is a process that can easily take up to or over a year. I wasn’t consistent with my pit (and regretfully used the prong collar for a year). Once I committed to teaching her how to leash walk, it was like night and day but it took A LOT of time and patience. I wished I had tired her out more often before her lessons! Totally recommend it. It’s been about over a year in training and she’s doing much much better.
Awesome video! My Molly is a 5 month old Old English Sheepdog at my farm and I started my channel back in July chronicling the transformation of our farm stay startup. Molly shows up as an 8 week old pup in episode 6 and we’ve been watching her train and grow since then. I’ve started leash training a while back and she’s doing very well... she still pulls a bit though, still working on that. Molly is not longer chasing the chickens, but she still wants to chase our ducks. I’ve been training Molly with a lot of what I’ve learned from your channel and will keep doing so.
I have been dog-sitting this past week for a 6mo Golden Retriever who struggles with loose-leash walking. I can't even count how many videos I have watched this week about teaching your dog to stop pulling on the leash, and this is by far the most helpful I have seen! I appreciate Zak's comments about different kinds of walks (socialization, training, exercise, etc.) and being more tolerant of pulling during some of those walks than during others. I also really appreciate the idea of working on loose-leash walking very slowly and close to home (including inside the home at first). That lines up exactly with what I am seeing from this Golden--she does all right when we are in the back yard or close to home, but the farther away we get, the more she wants to pull to go sniff and explore the new things out there. Thanks, Zak, for reminding me about the need for LOADS of patience, along with understanding about what we are actually asking our dogs to do.
This is the first training video that I actually sat through without loosing interest. I have a 10 week old puppy and she’s a puller. You gave me genuinely helpful information! I’ll be trying your tips out ASAP! Thank you 😀
When I first got my big guy this was a HORRID problem. Though I didn't teach him to stop pulling on a leash. When I set boundaries, guidelines and expectations and fixed our relationship, he just stopped on his own. LOOOOOOTS of love went into this, too. Also one of the things you never seem to mention is that dogs will tend to progress until around a year old, then will typically regress a little. This is a normal thing and many people find it discouraging to the point of quitting or feeling like a failure. This is normal behavior and should be expected. This is also why service dogs don't start full service work until around 18-24 months if they begin training at 8-9 weeks old as puppies. Slow is fast sometimes. Expect the regression when they hit their phase and keep on working through it.
I would say exercising or playing with your dog prior to leash training is the ultimate key without it is futile. It frustrating at first to tire your dog out just to train the dog on the leash but it's essential
Man, thank you for that. We currently have a 6 month old foster dog here. Things are going smoothely, but sometimes, she just wants to go home and pulls like crazy. I watch a lot of your content but hadn't watched this one, but I did things very similar to that. I was just frustrated that it didn't seem to help. But now I know that I'm on the right track and that my understanding of training is overall pretty accurate. I'm motivated again!
great encouragement mate!! Progress not perfection. Love the way you break it all down and most of all, demonstrate. Nothing better than that and I appreciate your effort, passion and consistency.
Zak, you make everything seem so easy and possible! I lost my four-legged friend early this year and watching your videos kinda makes me wanna get another one soon. I'll be sure to train my dogs to come your way! Amazing work you're doing here!!
I just love the realistic training approach Zak has. A lot of people will say that a slip collar will magically work because your dog doesn't want to choke themselves, but I see no difference in behavior when I use one, and my dog may hurt herself if she is being reactive to a barking dog or something. I don't feel comfortable physically pulling her away from a distraction with a slip collar on, so we end up not going anywhere when she is distracted. I tried a harness (and I honestly felt guilty for using a harness because of all the training advice out there that says it will encourage pulling) and I actually found that my dog was MORE responsive to direction with the harness, probably because I was able to pull her to change direction more easily without feeling like I was hurting her. Zak's channel is the first one I've found that truly prioritizes our love and respect for our pets. I want to communicate with her and keep her safe above all else.
Thank you so much ! Your training videos help ! My puppy is just barely about to turn four months old and because of you and Pupford thirty day training - she has learned so many things already . Leash walking is still a bit difficult because she wants to eat everything from grass to leaves as we are walking and sometimes she starts biting at my heels - but from now on i am going to be extra patient and have a bag of good treats on me and see how much better she gets . She is very smart and already knows a bunch of tricks thanks to you .
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We have a kelpie who is super obedient when off the leash. Even if we run into other dogs. He may check the other dog out, but then follows like it's nothing. On leash it's much different, cause he doesn't get to check out the dog and gets frustrated. And sometimes he just gets a bad vibe and starts growling. That has been happening less recently though, partly thanks to your videos. Keep it up!
Hey zak it would be great ufa ta ll possible you could make a video on every trick you've taught Inertia or you could make it in to a mini series can you also make a video on how to get your puppy to behave around people. Love your vids keep up the great work. Also for the tricks if you could do a brief description on how to train each.
Hello Zak, I truly enjoy watching your training videos. My husband and I have had dogs over the years of our life together. Our last dog, a precious member of our family for just over 13 years, had to be put down at age 14, in 2019. We have always adopted shelter dogs. This past February 2020, we were ready to bring a new dog into our home. We adopted an 8 week old female puppy from a local shelter and she has been a wonderful addition to our family. In August, she developed a nasty skin infection. After visiting the Vet, we were given a prescription spay ointment which I have applied to her skin as necessary. The infection subsided, and just rice in November, I was given the ok by our Vet to put her on adult dog food. We give her 1 cup (or just under 1 cup) of Science Diet sensitive tummy & skin dry food. She does love it, and seems to be doing well, but I still need to apply an anti inflammatory cream to the affect areas of her skin. Should I also be giving her a Supplimental to improve or calm her skin flair ups?
I’ve been trying and trying for over a month to push past the plateau with my dog. I go out today and use what you just said and ten times better already!
Zac, you are my go to when i need dog tips. I found out about you around 7-9 y ago when I had my 1st border collie, and was looking for frisbee tips. I’ve had dogs since I was born, and always loved training them. I’ve learned alot from your videos and always give you “copy rights” when people ask me how I trained my dogs so well. The only thing I miss from you, is that when you started you did not have all these sponsors and focused a lot more on training dogs without treats (I know it's not possible with all dogs, but you used to give more options for either toys or treats). Everywhere I look nowadays people are focusing on training with treats and I think mostly its because of DIY videos (seriously, it's like petsmart store training completely driving the dog on treats) . Every single time when people ask me for tips, I recommend your videos, but I ALWAYS tell them to search up your oldest videos before you had all these sponsors, because they were ROOTS and worked. Don't get me wrong, all your videos are amazing and helpful, but I liked it more when it was just your without sponsors. Would like to see more videos with treats as a 2nd option only when really necessary. Cheers and keep the videos coming!
Thanks for the comment - I am working towards financial stability so I can adopt a dog. I do however fear the dog becoming obese due to treats, but it never seems to get addressed in training videos🤔
Thank you for this video I have a German short haired pointer Puppy about 4 months old and she doesn’t do great on a leash this video has helped Thank you so much Zak ☺️
Getting my Cockapoo puppy in 3 weeks and the past week i have marathon watched both Inertia and Kona`s videos to get myself ready. Really appreciate you Zak AND Bree for making these high quality guides!
I’ve been working with my rescued 11 year old collie mix for 2 years, and she’s definitely much better than she was. I don’t feel like I’m walking the Tasmanian Devil any more. But she still pulls, so walkie time is still a challenge.
Hello Zak : Wish to SINCERELY thank you for being so open about sharing your knowledge and experiences as you train Inertia. Your videos have helped me understand the nuances of training like nothing else - I have purchased both your books that will re-enforce/support the RUclips videos - All in anticipation to when I invite a pup to be part of my life in the coming year or two. Can you confirm if these videos will be available on RUclips for the next few years ? Once the pup is with me, I would like to review them at each stage of the training thus this question. With gratitude for everything!
You are very good. I have a challenge training my new Dalmation puppy. He is catching on fast at 11 weeks. Knows his name in 4 days, come, sits, lay down and learning small walks. He is a play biter, jumper and he wants to RUN. And hates “time out” because I cannot play all day and he is super chewer. Gets an hour exercise in morning and evening. Fenced yard but wants to dive into koi pond AND tear up container gardens. Exhausting. But, he’s cute.
My experience with prong collar was great. Used properly, these are only tools to communicate and are not cruel - I put the prong collar around my own neck and tugged, too. Does not hurt. Nothing is black and white and no two dogs are similar. GSD 8months old He would pull, yank, spring all over, and knock ppl over, hurt my shoulder. Got a prong collar. Never "popped" him, just would freeze and hold when he'd start pulling. After 2 days he figured it out and walks perfectly wearing prong collar. No issues. TWO DAYS. Already weaning him off of prong collar after 3weeks. Still not perfect but so much better wearing only a harness now. Can update again in a couple more weeks if people still thinking prong collars are bad or dont work.
Thank you!!! This is why personally I recommend Mike Ritland (Former Navy SEAL dog trainer.) This dude has a dog from a litter of puppies who at four months were herding sheep and his dog was barely trained to sit and down.
ill check him out. Zak is a great trainer, no doubt. I've used some of his techniques with positive results. Very good. The downside to Zak is that I haven't seen him train large-breed dogs with previous issues where months of training to see any results is not an option.
@@runningrock124 The problem with Zak is it took him a year to teach a dog to walk properly on a leash, where other trainers take 15 minutes. Zak excuses a lot of bad behaviors by stressing to be "tolerant" and that's not training, that's allowing a dog to misbehave, and get in a mode where it will continue to misbehave. There are better R+ trainers out there.
Thank you, very helpful. This is way different than the way I was taught when I did an internship at the humane society back in high school. It was always done with a choke collar thing and we used dogs at the shelter that spent most of their day in a kennel and we walked them on a path that basically went right through farm full of farm animals on both sides. Anytime they pulled (which was always because of all the animals and just their pure joy of being out of their cage) we were told to tug the leash and that was basically it.
Love that video, my 6 months old puppy is not perfect on leash walking yet but making progress, this video reminds me to be tolerant and notice that she slowly gets better and just needs more time ❤
What is wrong with balanced dog training and negative dog training? 1. Those methods WASTE MONEY. If you are a dog trainer trying to save money, why would you waste money on buying choke chains, shock collars (e-collars), and prong collars? 2. Those methods PUNISH DOGS. Dogs are smart animals. Why should we use something so negative such as punishment with "bonkers" (according to Jeff Gellman, the guy who pretends to be a dog trainer but actually is an animal abuser,)? As Victoria Stillwell once said about shock collars, "This is what I want to do with EVERY SHOCK COLLAR in a home." (Uses a hammer to break them) 3. Balanced dog training STILL PUNISHES DOGS, but punishes when a dog does something wrong. They still use choke chains, e collars, and prong collars. POSITIVE VS BALANCED VS NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT 1. Positive training is based on YES. If a dog lies down, they get a treat. If they get up, the trainer redirects them into a lie-down, and then they get a treat. 2. Balanced dog training is in the middle. If a dog lies down, they get a treat. If they get up, they get a painful shock collar. 3. Negative training is based on NO. To train a dog to lie down, trainers step on the leash or push their back down. When they succumb to the pressure and lie down they don't get anything. But if they get up, they get a rough pop with a prong collar, choke chain, or electric collar.
Thank you so much Zak! You have helped me so much. I've been watching you for about two years before getting my GSD mix puppy and she is AMAZING because of you. 😭 🙏
Thank you! This was very helpful, I have recently new dog that was a stray they say he’s about 2-3 years old and I’m starting to train him, he has issues with being distracted by other dogs and being territorial. He’s not a big player, with dog toys he’s mostly not interested or absolutely scared by them. And your videos are very helpful.
I think its very interesting learning about Zak’s training methods. I consider myself a balanced trainer (I dont post about it because Im still learning about training, and have been working with trainers for the past few months.) I would just like to talk about using adversive tools for a second. So Zak mentions that using corrective collars might work, but when you don’t do it the dog may not listen. I would counter this by saying the same goes for treats. A lot of people rely too heavily on treats, and if they arent paying the dog every time they give a command, I’ve seen dogs immediately lose motivation and stop giving a behavior. This happens a lot when weening off of treats. Another thing is having to say a command several times before the dog listens, or them not caring enough to do the command. That is where adversive tools like prong collars and ecollars come in. Let’s say you tell your dog to sit, and they arent sitting, you would give a correction. (Thats saying youve done plenty of training beforehand and know the dog knows the command sit, and they are just being stubborn.) The point is for the dog to want to avoid the negative consequence, and makes it a win-win if they cooperate. (Dog completes command = No correction, and reward, whether that be a treat or just your encouragement) Zak also mentions that using a corrective collar while neutralizing a reactive dog towards other dogs could make it a negative experience, and personally, I’ve never seen that happen. The point is to correct the dog for giving an undesirable behavior, which you train before going out and socializing with other dogs. That way, when correcting, the dog understands what they are being corrected for. Once the dog is more neutral, then a lot more praise and positive reinforcement is brought in. And this isn’t saying that me, or any balanced trainer are all animal abusers that rely on punishment, and dominating or being the “alpha”. No. Alpha mentality in dogs doesn’t exist. Leadership does though, and showing to dogs what is right and wrong is very important so that mutual respect exists. That’s why I use operate conditioning and teach leash pressure with the dogs I train. The reason I’m commenting is just to try and give some perspective. a lot of people look down on balanced training, when it can be a life changer for dogs. I’ve seen dogs be suggested to be put down for their behavior issues, and that they are untrainable, and the trainers giving this advice are force free trainers. I’ve seen force free trainers insult and talk terrible about adversive tools, and in the same breath claim reactive/aggressive dogs are “untrainable” because they aren’t responding to their positive reinforcement. Now in no way am I going to be the person to talk terrible about positive reinforcement trainers, and that they are all terrible and can’t train dogs. I think Zak seems like a great guy and is very respectful and a good trainer. But not all dogs will respond with just positive reinforcement, I’ve tried. When I first got into training, I only did r+ training, and took my german shepherd to postive only training classes when he was a puppy. As he got older though, and graduated his training classes, his reactivity started getting worse. Walking became near impossible, he would explode if he saw another dog, and we couldn’t walk with any of our other dogs because he would jump on you, start freaking out, and bark/cry if our other dogs got in front of him. And this at the time was a 60lb german shepherd that could drag you down the street. Not fun. And I was very dedicated. We put him on a harness, and did training every day. I will tell you a harness is what made his pulling issues all the worse. His harness made his walking skills all the worse, and made walking/taking him out so much less enjoyable. But we began using a prong collar on him, and he is now a near offleash trained dog because of it. (I’ll also put in that if you do think of using any kind of corrective tool on a dog, please do your research! Prong collars can really hurt a dog if they are not fitted correctly. Also I will NEVER suggest putting a shock collar on your dog. That can really hurt your dog and burn their skin. Instead find a quality ecollar, which is a remote collar that instead of shocking the dog, give a little stim on their neck, that so long is at the correct setting, are really great tools! Just do your research) But all in all, no matter what tool you use, whether that be a corrective collar, or a harness, training is all about what is most beneficial for YOUR dog and finding what training works best for them. Keep doing what you are doing, Zak!
I might get a pup soon. How many days should you sleep by your new pup before you can sleep in your own room again. This includes taking the dog out during the night
Sleeping next to them takes around 2 days to 1 week. Potty takes up to the point where they can hold their bladder for the entire night, and that usually depends on the dog.
You don't want to do that for too long cause the pup can get used to you being there and develop seperation anxiety. Proper potty training can take months
@@IsaacOtworth a normal walk isn't everything. She can do all those fancy tricks but can't even walk normal around a block. Forget that type of dog training
I am retraining my German shepherd. He is really smart but I think in the beginning when I got him I didn't do a good job. There is a lot of fails and some success. But I'm still working on it. He is worth it
I totally agree about not using the aversives because they normally cause more issues. But they're also just unkind. Dogs find it annoying, painful, and even scary. You don't want your dog to associate those feelings with you, training, and triggers. They're also risky healthy wise. Trauma to the throat, neck, and spine is not uncommon with dogs that wear these collars.
@@clairebrinkleyhomes811 Totally! I think he put it really well. Being negative towards others won't help them at all! I've experienced this first hand. I didn't know about R+ training, and was taught with these collars and methods, but the R+ community has been really nice and welcoming, and forgiving, and I haven't looked back!
Thanks for this video - my 7 month old pup and I just came back from a very frustrating loose leash training session and this came at just the right time to give me some hope!
Year ago I started following all your advice because I got a reactive Rottweiler at 1 year old. We trained positively for 6 months and his behaviour got to the point where we weren’t able to go outside. Then I found trainers like Larry Krohn, Upstate Academy, Southend dog training and few more, now he is able to be off lead, reactivity towards people, traffic is completely gone. We are able to get past dogs with 1m distance and my dog is finally happy. If someone is struggling please just find more information, all quadrants of upper conditioning are essential, some dogs just can’t be helped with purely positive approach. Purely positive approach is a reason why so many dogs end up in shelters and are being killed because no one wants to help them by opening their minds.
This is so true, the story with my dog is similar, except mine was with anxiety. Positive reainforcement just confused the hell out of my dog, and there weren't enough real life applications.. I wasn't able to intervene anytime she freaked out, froze, or tried to run away out of fear. Problem is that if you don't react to your dog misbehaving (could be anything between eating poop to biting an animal or person), you don't attach a consequence to their reaction. Granted, combatting agression with more agression is a slippery slope for a catastrophy. But you must remain calm to enforce the right NO to your dog. Making them understand that some things are appropriate and other things aren't is the only thing that will work. The world isn't just happy and nice, you can just as well turn a negative situation into a lesson as a positive experience.
While I agree with you I just wanted to say that Operant conditioning is not the only conditioning tactic to help a reactive dog. People who are positive reinforcement only do not force themselves to stick to one form of conditioning.
Hey Zack, your videos have taught me a lot and I love them and quite follow them. Will it be possible for you to make a video on Interia's grooming ritual and routine and bath times? My puppy is very calm most of the time but when it comes to bath time she freaks out so much and it becomes very difficult. I would very much appreciate if you could show us how you go about your routine.
I appreciate the full range of training. A lot of people talk about the process but it's talk or they just say "in the future" the dog will be better without giving any sense of the length of training and the amount of regular training required.
My mini aussie pays attention pretty good outside, he's lived outside pretty much the entire time since he was with the breeder until 9 weeks when I got him.
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Corrective tools don't exactly work like that. For example reactivity. In most cases, when dogs are corrected for reacting, it's already too late. It's not how most of us, the tool users, correct our dogs. I, personally, use LIMA for reactivity and try my best to keep my dog UNDER threshold, if I fail to do that I abandon the mission and get the hell out of there. I don't go straight to corrections. Remember, corrections are for things that your dog already knows(most of the time). You correct if the dog fails to deliver a known behavior. You also mentioned how a dog becomes what is knows as collar-wise or collar smart. It is easily preventable and I've weaned off tools faster than food for example. For example a prong collar. I used it for a couple of months and after that weaned off of it within a week and my dog can do everything without it. I haven't used it for 7-8 months and don't plan to go back to it because my dog learned and isn't dependant on it. The amount of research that goes into tools is crazy and the people who use them right, have none of those problems you mentioned. My dog acts exactly the same when he has an e-collar on as he acts without it. It's all about how you trained, prepared for the tool use. It's common to see misinformation spread like that. It's always the same points that can be proved wrong within minutes. Before I used any tools, I believed the same thing. It hurts, it's just a bandaid, you depend on them, your dog won't do anything once the tools come off...yet here I am, using tools and have NONE of those problems. The tools don't train the dog, you do. So if you are having any of those problems mentioned, it's the problem of the handler/trainer, not the tool.
There have been numerous scientific studies that show r+ is more dependable for short and long term results as aposed to aversives and r+. so why even bother using aversives if you can get the behavior without causing the dog ANY pain or discomfort even for a short period when the results are better without. By the sound of it you are more than capable of just using r+ and not resorting to aversives, so why?
Hi there. Ok, so I have a question for you. Let's say you are out hiking with your dog. Your dog is off-leash reliable and always comes back no matter what. There have been no problems and your dog is trained with R+ only. Now, today is the day that your dog ignores a recall, chases after a wild animal. The wild animal runs towards a busy road, your dog is close behind it. The animal crosses the road barely before a big truck hits it. Your dog is the one that gets hit. Your dog is now dead. Your dog died, in pain and alone, just because you had no way to recall your dog back to you. So, what do you do in situations like that? What do you do when that "what if" situation comes? This is the reason I use aversive, those what-if situations. Will they ever happen? I don't know. They never might. But I'm gonna be damn happy I had an e-collar on my dog if ANYTHING would happen. Dogs are animals, don't forget that. They will NEVER be 100% reliable. But thanks to aversives you don't have to worry about your dog getting killed. You also mentioned studies. I've seen those studies. All of the trainers that used aversives in those studies did it extremely wrong and basically lit the dog up. They never conditioned dogs to e-collars for example. They used extremely high levels. That is not it, that is not how I, and many others, train. Science is all over the place. Proper studies take tons and tons of money and science is slow. We can't purely train our dogs on science alone, because what was scientifically proven today, might be completely different tomorrow. Train the dog in front of you. What I want you to know is I use R+ 95% of the time, every single day. I don't need my e-collar or prong collar every day, most days I just don't put them on. But I worked hard and did everything so my dog would know what those tools meant. He isn't scared of the tools, they are just another piece of gear I put on him. My dog is extremely happy. You don't have to use aversives, it's fine. But please, be a human and let others train their dogs the way they like. As long as the dogs are happy and full of life, ready to work, just let them be. Thank you.
I feel so bad. We paid thousands of dollars for training with our dog and they told us it wasn’t possible to train her leash pulling without a prong collar 😭 I live in an apartment and if I use a simple collar she is too strong for me and I can’t control her. We will need to try these techniques at home first for sure. Thank you for these videos.
I don't have time or patience for months of training for my parents 90lb Newfie. I use a prong collar. He said it's a patch, but they work. With the prong collar it was a week to no pulling. It is also nice to see what the hard way looks like.
Zak's videos are always so encouraging and calming when I am feeling a bit frustrated with the training. I appreciate them so much!
“now they’re only terrible on leash 50% time remember your in the right direction” sooo needed that bc my dog is so great but the leash is the one place he struggles and these past couple years have been rough w it but i am so happy w his progress even if it’s small
Stop. Don't complain about the sponsors, he is providing us with free content
My only complaint is they aren't available here and would be good to have a discount code (unless I missed that bit)
Its not free. There's ads and he makes commission when we watch a video
@@buddyholly4672 and yet still free. If you don't pay.
Could just as easily put all this on a website behind a pay wall.
@@buddyholly4672 do you pay for those ads? No, shut up.
@@Joshpods We are paying a price that is much higher than what most people think. We are paying because we keep watching these videos that give incremental and incomplete information that does not really allow us to train our dog and just make us keep coming week after week because we still have problems. Two much better channels are the one from Emily at Kikopup and the one by Nate Schoemer. I just which I had found those earlier.
It is obvious how much effort you put into training dogs and it makes me happy when ever I watch your videos,
Thank you
I don't even have a dog yet, but I am addicted to this channel ❤️❤️😂😂😂
Same here🤣🤣
Thank god you mentioned to keep the potty walk separate from the casual walk and training walk. I was actually mixing the two. Now I am confident and able to understand whys…. Thank you.
Thank you for being honest and showing it doesn’t happen overnight. It definitely is a process that can easily take up to or over a year. I wasn’t consistent with my pit (and regretfully used the prong collar for a year). Once I committed to teaching her how to leash walk, it was like night and day but it took A LOT of time and patience. I wished I had tired her out more often before her lessons! Totally recommend it. It’s been about over a year in training and she’s doing much much better.
I can totally relate with my pit/ lab mix! Seeing that it’s working with you gives me hope that we don’t need the prong collar
I come back to this video every time I get frustrated with leash training. It takes time! Thanks Zak :)
Awesome video! My Molly is a 5 month old Old English Sheepdog at my farm and I started my channel back in July chronicling the transformation of our farm stay startup. Molly shows up as an 8 week old pup in episode 6 and we’ve been watching her train and grow since then. I’ve started leash training a while back and she’s doing very well... she still pulls a bit though, still working on that. Molly is not longer chasing the chickens, but she still wants to chase our ducks. I’ve been training Molly with a lot of what I’ve learned from your channel and will keep doing so.
I have been dog-sitting this past week for a 6mo Golden Retriever who struggles with loose-leash walking. I can't even count how many videos I have watched this week about teaching your dog to stop pulling on the leash, and this is by far the most helpful I have seen! I appreciate Zak's comments about different kinds of walks (socialization, training, exercise, etc.) and being more tolerant of pulling during some of those walks than during others.
I also really appreciate the idea of working on loose-leash walking very slowly and close to home (including inside the home at first). That lines up exactly with what I am seeing from this Golden--she does all right when we are in the back yard or close to home, but the farther away we get, the more she wants to pull to go sniff and explore the new things out there.
Thanks, Zak, for reminding me about the need for LOADS of patience, along with understanding about what we are actually asking our dogs to do.
This is the first training video that I actually sat through without loosing interest. I have a 10 week old puppy and she’s a puller. You gave me genuinely helpful information!
I’ll be trying your tips out ASAP!
Thank you 😀
He's shoes are always on point!!!
Yeah, the shoes are so prominent, he should consider using them for ad revenue.
When I first got my big guy this was a HORRID problem. Though I didn't teach him to stop pulling on a leash. When I set boundaries, guidelines and expectations and fixed our relationship, he just stopped on his own. LOOOOOOTS of love went into this, too.
Also one of the things you never seem to mention is that dogs will tend to progress until around a year old, then will typically regress a little. This is a normal thing and many people find it discouraging to the point of quitting or feeling like a failure. This is normal behavior and should be expected.
This is also why service dogs don't start full service work until around 18-24 months if they begin training at 8-9 weeks old as puppies. Slow is fast sometimes. Expect the regression when they hit their phase and keep on working through it.
I would say exercising or playing with your dog prior to leash training is the ultimate key without it is futile. It frustrating at first to tire your dog out just to train the dog on the leash but it's essential
Amen! It is essential.
And here I am trying to use leash walking as a form to exercise him 😩
@@iverson7x prong coller mate.
Man, thank you for that. We currently have a 6 month old foster dog here. Things are going smoothely, but sometimes, she just wants to go home and pulls like crazy. I watch a lot of your content but hadn't watched this one, but I did things very similar to that. I was just frustrated that it didn't seem to help. But now I know that I'm on the right track and that my understanding of training is overall pretty accurate. I'm motivated again!
great encouragement mate!! Progress not perfection. Love the way you break it all down and most of all, demonstrate. Nothing better than that and I appreciate your effort, passion and consistency.
Zak, you make everything seem so easy and possible! I lost my four-legged friend early this year and watching your videos kinda makes me wanna get another one soon. I'll be sure to train my dogs to come your way! Amazing work you're doing here!!
plot twist: the reason these vids are so good is because Zak applies the same techniques to training dog owners with these vids
I just love the realistic training approach Zak has. A lot of people will say that a slip collar will magically work because your dog doesn't want to choke themselves, but I see no difference in behavior when I use one, and my dog may hurt herself if she is being reactive to a barking dog or something. I don't feel comfortable physically pulling her away from a distraction with a slip collar on, so we end up not going anywhere when she is distracted. I tried a harness (and I honestly felt guilty for using a harness because of all the training advice out there that says it will encourage pulling) and I actually found that my dog was MORE responsive to direction with the harness, probably because I was able to pull her to change direction more easily without feeling like I was hurting her. Zak's channel is the first one I've found that truly prioritizes our love and respect for our pets. I want to communicate with her and keep her safe above all else.
She is such a good dog
I have learnt so much from you, and my relationship with my dog has gotten so much deeper and better as a result. thank you so much!!!
Thank you so much ! Your training videos help ! My puppy is just barely about to turn four months old and because of you and Pupford thirty day training - she has learned so many things already . Leash walking is still a bit difficult because she wants to eat everything from grass to leaves as we are walking and sometimes she starts biting at my heels - but from now on i am going to be extra patient and have a bag of good treats on me and see how much better she gets . She is very smart and already knows a bunch of tricks thanks to you .
Had to train my 12 week old Border Collie not to get the zoomies when a car drives by. Repeated sit and stay and it worked.
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my border collie puppy lays down when he sees a car and then as it passes tries to chase it
My 13 week old puppy is already improving on his leash thanks to you. Your methods work so well.
Getting my 1+a half year on dog on Tuesday. Super excited to train her using your videos 🥰
We have a kelpie who is super obedient when off the leash. Even if we run into other dogs. He may check the other dog out, but then follows like it's nothing. On leash it's much different, cause he doesn't get to check out the dog and gets frustrated. And sometimes he just gets a bad vibe and starts growling. That has been happening less recently though, partly thanks to your videos. Keep it up!
Been using your RUclips teachings with my corgi puppy and he’s super responsive and doing great overall
Hey zak it would be great ufa ta ll possible you could make a video on every trick you've taught Inertia or you could make it in to a mini series can you also make a video on how to get your puppy to behave around people. Love your vids keep up the great work. Also for the tricks if you could do a brief description on how to train each.
Hello Zak, I truly enjoy watching your training videos. My husband and I have had dogs over the years of our life together. Our last dog, a precious member of our family for just over 13 years, had to be put down at age 14, in 2019. We have always adopted shelter dogs. This past February 2020, we were ready to bring a new dog into our home. We adopted an 8 week old female puppy from a local shelter and she has been a wonderful addition to our family. In August, she developed a nasty skin infection. After visiting the Vet, we were given a prescription spay ointment which I have applied to her skin as necessary. The infection subsided, and just rice in November, I was given the ok by our Vet to put her on adult dog food. We give her 1 cup (or just under 1 cup) of Science Diet sensitive tummy & skin dry food. She does love it, and seems to be doing well, but I still need to apply an anti inflammatory cream to the affect areas of her skin. Should I also be giving her a Supplimental to improve or calm her skin flair ups?
She's gotten so big!
I’ve been trying and trying for over a month to push past the plateau with my dog. I go out today and use what you just said and ten times better already!
Zac, you are my go to when i need dog tips. I found out about you around 7-9 y ago when I had my 1st border collie, and was looking for frisbee tips. I’ve had dogs since I was born, and always loved training them. I’ve learned alot from your videos and always give you “copy rights” when people ask me how I trained my dogs so well. The only thing I miss from you, is that when you started you did not have all these sponsors and focused a lot more on training dogs without treats (I know it's not possible with all dogs, but you used to give more options for either toys or treats). Everywhere I look nowadays people are focusing on training with treats and I think mostly its because of DIY videos (seriously, it's like petsmart store training completely driving the dog on treats) . Every single time when people ask me for tips, I recommend your videos, but I ALWAYS tell them to search up your oldest videos before you had all these sponsors, because they were ROOTS and worked. Don't get me wrong, all your videos are amazing and helpful, but I liked it more when it was just your without sponsors. Would like to see more videos with treats as a 2nd option only when really necessary. Cheers and keep the videos coming!
Thanks for the comment - I am working towards financial stability so I can adopt a dog. I do however fear the dog becoming obese due to treats, but it never seems to get addressed in training videos🤔
Still watching and learning...my reactive dog is now sooooo much better thanks to you ☺☺
Thank you for this video
I have a German short haired pointer
Puppy about 4 months old and she doesn’t do great on a leash this video has helped
Thank you so much Zak ☺️
Getting my Cockapoo puppy in 3 weeks and the past week i have marathon watched both Inertia and Kona`s videos to get myself ready. Really appreciate you Zak AND Bree for making these high quality guides!
I’ve been working with my rescued 11 year old collie mix for 2 years, and she’s definitely much better than she was. I don’t feel like I’m walking the Tasmanian Devil any more. But she still pulls, so walkie time is still a challenge.
Hello Zak :
Wish to SINCERELY thank you for being so open about sharing your knowledge and experiences as you train Inertia. Your videos have helped me understand the nuances of training like nothing else -
I have purchased both your books that will re-enforce/support the RUclips videos - All in anticipation to when I invite a pup to be part of my life in the coming year or two.
Can you confirm if these videos will be available on RUclips for the next few years ? Once the pup is with me, I would like to review them at each stage of the training thus this question.
With gratitude for everything!
So helpful! My puppy pulls a lot. This is way to helpful! I also signed up for the 30 Day Pupford Course :) This is amazing, thank you!
Her body awareness. Those turns!! Amazing!!
These videos make me feel more hopeful for the future with our Staff terrier lab mix! 3 months and high energy 😅
Fence barking?
I'm about to be Inertias PR representative lol 😆 😂 🤣
I love your videos
I just got me two puppies there leash walking skills are bad but after watching this video somehow it improved a lot
You are very good. I have a challenge training my new Dalmation puppy. He is catching on fast at 11 weeks. Knows his name in 4 days, come, sits, lay down and learning small walks. He is a play biter, jumper and he wants to RUN. And hates “time out” because I cannot play all day and he is super chewer. Gets an hour exercise in morning and evening. Fenced yard but wants to dive into koi pond AND tear up container gardens. Exhausting. But, he’s cute.
I have a new jack Russell and ur video has made a big difference on her behavior walking etc. Thanks Scott
My experience with prong collar was great.
Used properly, these are only tools to communicate and are not cruel - I put the prong collar around my own neck and tugged, too. Does not hurt. Nothing is black and white and no two dogs are similar.
GSD 8months old
He would pull, yank, spring all over, and knock ppl over, hurt my shoulder.
Got a prong collar. Never "popped" him, just would freeze and hold when he'd start pulling.
After 2 days he figured it out and walks perfectly wearing prong collar. No issues. TWO DAYS.
Already weaning him off of prong collar after 3weeks. Still not perfect but so much better wearing only a harness now. Can update again in a couple more weeks if people still thinking prong collars are bad or dont work.
Thank you!!! This is why personally I recommend Mike Ritland (Former Navy SEAL dog trainer.) This dude has a dog from a litter of puppies who at four months were herding sheep and his dog was barely trained to sit and down.
ill check him out.
Zak is a great trainer, no doubt. I've used some of his techniques with positive results. Very good.
The downside to Zak is that I haven't seen him train large-breed dogs with previous issues where months of training to see any results is not an option.
@@runningrock124 The problem with Zak is it took him a year to teach a dog to walk properly on a leash, where other trainers take 15 minutes. Zak excuses a lot of bad behaviors by stressing to be "tolerant" and that's not training, that's allowing a dog to misbehave, and get in a mode where it will continue to misbehave. There are better R+ trainers out there.
Thank you, very helpful. This is way different than the way I was taught when I did an internship at the humane society back in high school. It was always done with a choke collar thing and we used dogs at the shelter that spent most of their day in a kennel and we walked them on a path that basically went right through farm full of farm animals on both sides. Anytime they pulled (which was always because of all the animals and just their pure joy of being out of their cage) we were told to tug the leash and that was basically it.
Love that video, my 6 months old puppy is not perfect on leash walking yet but making progress, this video reminds me to be tolerant and notice that she slowly gets better and just needs more time ❤
I will definitely try these tips with my dog
also, THANK YOU for speaking out about physically "corrective" collars!
What is wrong with balanced dog training and negative dog training?
1. Those methods WASTE MONEY. If you are a dog trainer trying to save money, why would you waste money on buying choke chains, shock collars (e-collars), and prong collars?
2. Those methods PUNISH DOGS. Dogs are smart animals. Why should we use something so negative such as punishment with "bonkers" (according to Jeff Gellman, the guy who pretends to be a dog trainer but actually is an animal abuser,)? As Victoria Stillwell once said about shock collars, "This is what I want to do with EVERY SHOCK COLLAR in a home." (Uses a hammer to break them)
3. Balanced dog training STILL PUNISHES DOGS, but punishes when a dog does something wrong. They still use choke chains, e collars, and prong collars.
POSITIVE VS BALANCED VS NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT
1. Positive training is based on YES. If a dog lies down, they get a treat. If they get up, the trainer redirects them into a lie-down, and then they get a treat.
2. Balanced dog training is in the middle. If a dog lies down, they get a treat. If they get up, they get a painful shock collar.
3. Negative training is based on NO. To train a dog to lie down, trainers step on the leash or push their back down. When they succumb to the pressure and lie down they don't get anything. But if they get up, they get a rough pop with a prong collar, choke chain, or electric collar.
@@thebiblemessenger stop humanising you’re dogs ignorant fools
Thank you so much Zak! You have helped me so much. I've been watching you for about two years before getting my GSD mix puppy and she is AMAZING because of you. 😭 🙏
Thank you! This was very helpful, I have recently new dog that was a stray they say he’s about 2-3 years old and I’m starting to train him, he has issues with being distracted by other dogs and being territorial. He’s not a big player, with dog toys he’s mostly not interested or absolutely scared by them. And your videos are very helpful.
thank you for addressing e collars!! super helpful! Very well spoken. logical. makes sense!
This is probably the most important video regarding this topic. Thank you, Zak!
I trained my two staffs without treats that way they are not just doing it for food , worked for me.
What did you do instead? Toys?
@@W0lfm0ther just gave them lots of praise maybe I just got lucky.
Nate schoemer is an awesome dog training instructor like Zak, for anyone wanting something similar but without the product plugs
ive got a collie too and all your videos helped me train her just like inertia💗💗 thanks zak
Thank you so much, I needed that video today! I have a 7 month old Aussie that loves to learn, but is so smart.
I love your videos, I have a labrador. Keep up the good work
Love all these videos, especially since I have a 15 week old border collie
So cute and funny... I guess its true when they said "people who live with
dogs are happy people"❤️❤️❤️ Thankyou Zak
Zak always flexing on us with them kicks😄😄
I think its very interesting learning about Zak’s training methods. I consider myself a balanced trainer (I dont post about it because Im still learning about training, and have been working with trainers for the past few months.) I would just like to talk about using adversive tools for a second.
So Zak mentions that using corrective collars might work, but when you don’t do it the dog may not listen. I would counter this by saying the same goes for treats. A lot of people rely too heavily on treats, and if they arent paying the dog every time they give a command, I’ve seen dogs immediately lose motivation and stop giving a behavior. This happens a lot when weening off of treats. Another thing is having to say a command several times before the dog listens, or them not caring enough to do the command. That is where adversive tools like prong collars and ecollars come in. Let’s say you tell your dog to sit, and they arent sitting, you would give a correction. (Thats saying youve done plenty of training beforehand and know the dog knows the command sit, and they are just being stubborn.) The point is for the dog to want to avoid the negative consequence, and makes it a win-win if they cooperate. (Dog completes command = No correction, and reward, whether that be a treat or just your encouragement)
Zak also mentions that using a corrective collar while neutralizing a reactive dog towards other dogs could make it a negative experience, and personally, I’ve never seen that happen. The point is to correct the dog for giving an undesirable behavior, which you train before going out and socializing with other dogs. That way, when correcting, the dog understands what they are being corrected for. Once the dog is more neutral, then a lot more praise and positive reinforcement is brought in.
And this isn’t saying that me, or any balanced trainer are all animal abusers that rely on punishment, and dominating or being the “alpha”. No. Alpha mentality in dogs doesn’t exist. Leadership does though, and showing to dogs what is right and wrong is very important so that mutual respect exists. That’s why I use operate conditioning and teach leash pressure with the dogs I train.
The reason I’m commenting is just to try and give some perspective. a lot of people look down on balanced training, when it can be a life changer for dogs. I’ve seen dogs be suggested to be put down for their behavior issues, and that they are untrainable, and the trainers giving this advice are force free trainers. I’ve seen force free trainers insult and talk terrible about adversive tools, and in the same breath claim reactive/aggressive dogs are “untrainable” because they aren’t responding to their positive reinforcement.
Now in no way am I going to be the person to talk terrible about positive reinforcement trainers, and that they are all terrible and can’t train dogs. I think Zak seems like a great guy and is very respectful and a good trainer.
But not all dogs will respond with just positive reinforcement, I’ve tried. When I first got into training, I only did r+ training, and took my german shepherd to postive only training classes when he was a puppy. As he got older though, and graduated his training classes, his reactivity started getting worse. Walking became near impossible, he would explode if he saw another dog, and we couldn’t walk with any of our other dogs because he would jump on you, start freaking out, and bark/cry if our other dogs got in front of him. And this at the time was a 60lb german shepherd that could drag you down the street. Not fun. And I was very dedicated. We put him on a harness, and did training every day. I will tell you a harness is what made his pulling issues all the worse. His harness made his walking skills all the worse, and made walking/taking him out so much less enjoyable.
But we began using a prong collar on him, and he is now a near offleash trained dog because of it. (I’ll also put in that if you do think of using any kind of corrective tool on a dog, please do your research! Prong collars can really hurt a dog if they are not fitted correctly. Also I will NEVER suggest putting a shock collar on your dog. That can really hurt your dog and burn their skin. Instead find a quality ecollar, which is a remote collar that instead of shocking the dog, give a little stim on their neck, that so long is at the correct setting, are really great tools! Just do your research)
But all in all, no matter what tool you use, whether that be a corrective collar, or a harness, training is all about what is most beneficial for YOUR dog and finding what training works best for them. Keep doing what you are doing, Zak!
I might get a pup soon. How many days should you sleep by your new pup before you can sleep in your own room again. This includes taking the dog out during the night
It depends on temperament and exercise of your dog roughly it takes 10days to 1month
Sleeping next to them takes around 2 days to 1 week.
Potty takes up to the point where they can hold their bladder for the entire night, and that usually depends on the dog.
You don't want to do that for too long cause the pup can get used to you being there and develop seperation anxiety. Proper potty training can take months
Zak George lowkey a millionaire
Yeah for ripping people off. Till this day he can't walk his dog normally next to a dog. Thats why he still don't show it. Remember next to the bridge
@@superstankydanky808 His dog is still in training.
@@superstankydanky808 he is still training remember she is still a really young dog she won’t know everything f
@@malaya9621 dang over a year old and cant even walk normal next to a dog. Wow!!!!! Thats crazy.
@@IsaacOtworth a normal walk isn't everything. She can do all those fancy tricks but can't even walk normal around a block. Forget that type of dog training
I am retraining my German shepherd. He is really smart but I think in the beginning when I got him I didn't do a good job. There is a lot of fails and some success. But I'm still working on it. He is worth it
I totally agree about not using the aversives because they normally cause more issues. But they're also just unkind. Dogs find it annoying, painful, and even scary. You don't want your dog to associate those feelings with you, training, and triggers. They're also risky healthy wise. Trauma to the throat, neck, and spine is not uncommon with dogs that wear these collars.
Agree completely. He is probably not being ‘judgey’ in the way he says it so as to encourage those that use them to stop and not alienate them.
@@clairebrinkleyhomes811 Totally! I think he put it really well. Being negative towards others won't help them at all! I've experienced this first hand. I didn't know about R+ training, and was taught with these collars and methods, but the R+ community has been really nice and welcoming, and forgiving, and I haven't looked back!
I love that you have weave poles in your living room! 😂
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Very good training advice,he understands what motivates the animal...
Great video Zak, love your book and will definitly apply your training tips when we get our Aussie.
Really great vid and advice as always TY so much!❤
Thanks for this video - my 7 month old pup and I just came back from a very frustrating loose leash training session and this came at just the right time to give me some hope!
Who knew Zak has such a collection of funky sneakers???
The fact his Border Collie is named Inertia is absolutely fantastic and hilarious
Petition for Zak to make a video where it's just love cuddly cuddly with inertia :)
My dog pulls a lot so this is very helpful thank you 🙏
Same
I cant believe that ive been following inertia for a yr now 😊
Another absolutely great video! Thank you!!
I just got a new puppy and she'll be vaccinated enough to go walking soon. These videos are such great help!
Year ago I started following all your advice because I got a reactive Rottweiler at 1 year old. We trained positively for 6 months and his behaviour got to the point where we weren’t able to go outside. Then I found trainers like Larry Krohn, Upstate Academy, Southend dog training and few more, now he is able to be off lead, reactivity towards people, traffic is completely gone. We are able to get past dogs with 1m distance and my dog is finally happy. If someone is struggling please just find more information, all quadrants of upper conditioning are essential, some dogs just can’t be helped with purely positive approach. Purely positive approach is a reason why so many dogs end up in shelters and are being killed because no one wants to help them by opening their minds.
This is so true, the story with my dog is similar, except mine was with anxiety. Positive reainforcement just confused the hell out of my dog, and there weren't enough real life applications.. I wasn't able to intervene anytime she freaked out, froze, or tried to run away out of fear. Problem is that if you don't react to your dog misbehaving (could be anything between eating poop to biting an animal or person), you don't attach a consequence to their reaction. Granted, combatting agression with more agression is a slippery slope for a catastrophy. But you must remain calm to enforce the right NO to your dog. Making them understand that some things are appropriate and other things aren't is the only thing that will work. The world isn't just happy and nice, you can just as well turn a negative situation into a lesson as a positive experience.
Yes I want a dog and my first training is just going to be lots of exposure, car rides, dogs, people, tugging on the ears and toes a bit
While I agree with you I just wanted to say that Operant conditioning is not the only conditioning tactic to help a reactive dog. People who are positive reinforcement only do not force themselves to stick to one form of conditioning.
Thank you for reminding me to be more tolerant.
Trying to train my 2 year old shepherd mix how to walk nicely on a leash and to keep attention. Was feeling very discouraged until I saw this video!
YES I NEED THIS
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Hey Zack, your videos have taught me a lot and I love them and quite follow them. Will it be possible for you to make a video on Interia's grooming ritual and routine and bath times? My puppy is very calm most of the time but when it comes to bath time she freaks out so much and it becomes very difficult. I would very much appreciate if you could show us how you go about your routine.
I appreciate the full range of training. A lot of people talk about the process but it's talk or they just say "in the future" the dog will be better without giving any sense of the length of training and the amount of regular training required.
My mini aussie pays attention pretty good outside, he's lived outside pretty much the entire time since he was with the breeder until 9 weeks when I got him.
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LOVE YOU❤️❤️🧡YOU DESERVE MORE THAN LOVE, THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU INCREDIBLE VIDEOS KING OF DOG TRAINERS. You helped me to train my Australian Shepherd well. ;)❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for this amazing resource! Inertia is so beautiful too
New starting video 😍😍
I think Zak is the only person that makes me like sponsors, how does he do that?????????????
Zak’s so goofy & it’s so fun to warch! I don’t even have a dog 🤣
I love your videos, Inertia is so big and beautiful. She already knows a lot of cues. Great work with her Zak. 😍
thanks for being so helpful! i wouldn't have been able to teach my friend anything without your help! we thank you!
Circles do work great for my German Shepard I just rescued…I agree with all your training tips u really see results if you stay consistent
All I have learned here with your videos work perfectly ! Thank you thank you thank you!🙏😎
thank you so much, this has been difficult for me and i think these tips will help
Your dog is absolutely gorgeous
Corrective tools don't exactly work like that. For example reactivity. In most cases, when dogs are corrected for reacting, it's already too late. It's not how most of us, the tool users, correct our dogs. I, personally, use LIMA for reactivity and try my best to keep my dog UNDER threshold, if I fail to do that I abandon the mission and get the hell out of there. I don't go straight to corrections. Remember, corrections are for things that your dog already knows(most of the time). You correct if the dog fails to deliver a known behavior.
You also mentioned how a dog becomes what is knows as collar-wise or collar smart. It is easily preventable and I've weaned off tools faster than food for example. For example a prong collar. I used it for a couple of months and after that weaned off of it within a week and my dog can do everything without it. I haven't used it for 7-8 months and don't plan to go back to it because my dog learned and isn't dependant on it. The amount of research that goes into tools is crazy and the people who use them right, have none of those problems you mentioned. My dog acts exactly the same when he has an e-collar on as he acts without it. It's all about how you trained, prepared for the tool use.
It's common to see misinformation spread like that. It's always the same points that can be proved wrong within minutes. Before I used any tools, I believed the same thing. It hurts, it's just a bandaid, you depend on them, your dog won't do anything once the tools come off...yet here I am, using tools and have NONE of those problems. The tools don't train the dog, you do. So if you are having any of those problems mentioned, it's the problem of the handler/trainer, not the tool.
Yess well said !
They're banned here in the UK because they're cruel. They're not necessary.
missed the point again, Ash.
There have been numerous scientific studies that show r+ is more dependable for short and long term results as aposed to aversives and r+. so why even bother using aversives if you can get the behavior without causing the dog ANY pain or discomfort even for a short period when the results are better without. By the sound of it you are more than capable of just using r+ and not resorting to aversives, so why?
Hi there. Ok, so I have a question for you. Let's say you are out hiking with your dog. Your dog is off-leash reliable and always comes back no matter what. There have been no problems and your dog is trained with R+ only. Now, today is the day that your dog ignores a recall, chases after a wild animal. The wild animal runs towards a busy road, your dog is close behind it. The animal crosses the road barely before a big truck hits it. Your dog is the one that gets hit. Your dog is now dead. Your dog died, in pain and alone, just because you had no way to recall your dog back to you. So, what do you do in situations like that? What do you do when that "what if" situation comes?
This is the reason I use aversive, those what-if situations. Will they ever happen? I don't know. They never might. But I'm gonna be damn happy I had an e-collar on my dog if ANYTHING would happen. Dogs are animals, don't forget that. They will NEVER be 100% reliable. But thanks to aversives you don't have to worry about your dog getting killed.
You also mentioned studies. I've seen those studies. All of the trainers that used aversives in those studies did it extremely wrong and basically lit the dog up. They never conditioned dogs to e-collars for example. They used extremely high levels. That is not it, that is not how I, and many others, train. Science is all over the place. Proper studies take tons and tons of money and science is slow. We can't purely train our dogs on science alone, because what was scientifically proven today, might be completely different tomorrow. Train the dog in front of you. What I want you to know is I use R+ 95% of the time, every single day. I don't need my e-collar or prong collar every day, most days I just don't put them on. But I worked hard and did everything so my dog would know what those tools meant. He isn't scared of the tools, they are just another piece of gear I put on him. My dog is extremely happy. You don't have to use aversives, it's fine. But please, be a human and let others train their dogs the way they like. As long as the dogs are happy and full of life, ready to work, just let them be. Thank you.
I feel so bad. We paid thousands of dollars for training with our dog and they told us it wasn’t possible to train her leash pulling without a prong collar 😭 I live in an apartment and if I use a simple collar she is too strong for me and I can’t control her. We will need to try these techniques at home first for sure. Thank you for these videos.
I don't have time or patience for months of training for my parents 90lb Newfie. I use a prong collar. He said it's a patch, but they work. With the prong collar it was a week to no pulling. It is also nice to see what the hard way looks like.