This is the BEST thing that’s happened to my private boarding service. This is a fun fact, 4K TVs and the quality of the video lets dogs experience fluid motion on the tv! These videos are filmed with a decent quality and the refresh rates of the new TVs are helping so much. I board special needs dogs or dogs that can’t go to kennels so this is super helpful. They love watching and will sit for literally an hour just enamored with this. They can’t physically play with other dogs but they can at-least watch this like a human would watch a movie. Thank you so much! I hope you get tons of views. I shared your channel with my fellow rescuers.
Thanks! I hope others discover this channel as well. Yes, I was aware that dogs need a higher frame rate than humans. These videos are at 60 frames per second, which is supposedly the very minimum for dogs. Back in the old days of CRTs, dogs couldn't really see movement on TVs very well. These 9-hour videos pushed the limits of what I could create, even with a very expensive desktop computer, but I wouldn't drop the frame rate any lower. It was a huge pain because so many things kept breaking or were very difficult to work with.
My pup LOVES watching these videos!! Today was the first time she was left home alone,(she's almost 6 months old) we're very fortunate to be able to take her to work with us. I put THIS on and she was fantastic!!! She wasn't whining or barking, and it put our anxiety at ease💓 Thank you for putting these on RUclips, it's actually something my dog likes and enjoys watching💙
Wow, I'm really happy to hear that! Watching dogs and hearing from lots of experts, it seems to me that dogs want to be in a pack and they don't like leaving that pack, even for a short time. These videos provide a pack for them to be part of, with all the interesting interactions that go on. Dogs like to watch dogs.
The shelter vet took the pools away due to some outbreaks of disease, but finally we're allowed to bring them back. A lot of the dogs you see in the videos have gone to adoptive or foster homes.
I don't know where in the 9-hour video this happened, but some of the dogs in the playgroup are afraid of the other dogs and go into a corner and avoid contact with them. A lot of those dogs eventually become social and have fun after a few playgroups. The ones who don't are not brought back again. Any dogs that don't go to playgroup will be walked by the volunteers and we try to give them the human socialization they need. We try to walk them every day, but with the extreme overcrowding we've had and the limited volunteer dog walkers, sometimes they only get out every other day.
My pup and i are thoroughly enjoying relaxing to this. Can i suggest you wrap some foam or some durable padding around those steel girders Lola keeps banging into lol.
We've considered that, but the reality is that anything in the yard that can be ripped apart, will be ripped apart 🐶, or destroyed by the elements, or have snakes make a home there. If a piece gets torn off, it becomes a "resource" and some dogs can fight over it (if they're resource guarders).
That's funny that her name happens to be a dog whose name gets called out a lot (like Stanley). She's a great little dog and was adopted a week ago. You can check the description on most of the videos to see the list of dogs in the video. But most of the weekday dog daycare videos don't have the list, everything was just getting too overwhelming.
My dog was freaking out watching this, haha. She's never watched my phone, so intently trying to smell the dogs as they came up to the camera and looking in the direction the dog went running away of screen haha shes looking hard like "where did they go?" Edit: 12:07 has me dying hahaha
@DogPlaygroupStories I put it on my big screen, and she had a blast. I'm scared to let her be around real dogs because the vet told me she was abused/used as a fighting dog when I adopted her. I don't want to get in trouble/let her get in trouble, so I do this for now, haha Thanks for the upload.
@@Priest_Of_Zebak If she gets a lot of benefit from just watching the dogs in the video, that would be great! If she's been a fighting dog, I would think it would take a lot of work to get her to behave (i.e. not killing other dogs!). But that says great things that you took her in! 😍
Yep, you win the honor and glory of 1st comment! I can't verify being the first like or the first viewer, but based on your timing, I'd say that's probably true.
I responded to a similar comment with this: I don't know where in the 9-hour video this happened, but some of the dogs in the playgroup are afraid of the other dogs and go into a corner and avoid contact with them. A lot of those dogs eventually become social and have fun after a few playgroups. The ones who don't are not brought back again. Any dogs that don't go to playgroup will be walked by the volunteers and we try to give them the human socialization they need. We try to walk them every day, but with the extreme overcrowding we've had and the limited volunteer dog walkers, sometimes they only get out every other day. Also, we get so many pit bulls and pit bull mixes yet so many adopters don't want pit bulls, so a lot of these dogs don't get adopted or fostered for a long time. It's very sad.
I have to figure out how to get this on the TV for my fur babies lol. I always leave the cartoon channel on for them, but I think they may find the sound of dogs playing more comforting.
Most smart TVs, Roku boxes, Firesticks, etc. have a RUclips channel available that you can select (or install and select). At that point just search for "dog playgroup stories".
I’m glad I see water for them now…except the long thing with water is green & gross. I enjoy watching the dogs I talk to them thru the screen…I was telling Lola to be nice lol as if she can hear me…Patricia was making me sad I think her stupid family dropped her off & she kept wanting out of the gate & staying over in the corner… & one of the tan ones was a little scared…I love animals! Thank you for what you do… please always be nice to them they feel lost and scared! My daughter & her friends have volunteered at a shelter for about 15 years, I’d like to but I think I’d get very attached & cry a lot idk 🤷🏼♀️! I don’t own a farm and could not adopt any other animals right now…but in my heart ♥️ I’d adopt them all! Why are people so mean & drop they’re pets off & surrender them for the most stupid unacceptable reasons! ✌🏻☀️
The long thing is actually a livestock water trough. The bottom of it is rounded so that livestock don't walk in it. It's definitely better than the kiddie pools that we also use. Yeah, there are a lot of sad cases. But many of them turn out well. About a month ago I was getting ready to bring dogs to/from the playgroup and a member of the public flagged me down and said there was a stray dog walking around the nearby lake. I went over and convinced the dog to let me leash him up. He was very hesitant but he seemed to want a place to go and trusted me. He went into isolation at the shelter for a while and I didn't know how he was doing. Then a few days later while I was recording a video, one of the walkers brought him to the playgroup and he was really happy to play with the other dogs. He's now a regular: Budgie. Two days ago I walked him and he wanted to go to the playgroup, but it was already over. Yesterday I brought him to the playgroup and he was very happy to jump right in.
@@anthonydavella8350 Yes. I just bought a $100 canopy this morning because the old one got ripped to shreds during a storm late yesterday. The Behavior Team who run the playgroups helped me set it up and it has a lot more shade than the old one for the dogs and people standing outside the yard.
That's a very good concern. Everyone you see or hear in the videos has the same concern. Right now it's June in Tucson, Arizona 🌵🌵🌵, one of the hottest places you'll ever find. Also, it would seem like withholding water from shelter dogs running around outside would be adding more stress when they are already extremely stressed out and vulnerable to opportunistic diseases. The reasons for not having water (given by the authorities at the shelter) is to avoid the spread of disease via a common water source during a disease outbreak. We can't even give individual dogs water within the play area because it would cause resource guarding issues, which is true; that's why the water sources are kiddie pools and long troughs, so one dog can't monopolize and guard it. We were able to bring the water back for a while until the next disease outbreak. It's true that dogs can (and do) die during these outbreaks, so it really boils down to whether you see the main issue being the spread of germs or being the compromised immune systems of the dogs. Everyone here agrees that the playgroups are very important to the mental and physical health of the dogs, and that dogs playing helps prevent them from getting sick.
Let me also answer your question about what we're doing with the dogs. I'm guessing that you mean what is the overall activity happening in these videos? The answer to that is that dogs need play for their mental and physical health, especially dogs at an animal shelter. They've lost everyone they ever cared about and have no idea why they're at the shelter and if they'll ever get back to anything like a home. They're locked up almost the entire day in a small kennel. So getting out and playing with other dogs is really great for them and helps them get adopted. Some dogs don't like playing in the yard, even after trying it out several times. Those dogs get to be walked by volunteers at the shelter, hopefully every day. But we've gotten so many dogs and lost volunteer walkers, so we try to make sure every dog gets out every other day, either walking or being in the playgroup.
I would love to contribute to this fab organization but there is no info on this and I worry it’s one of those cults that show one day in a year the dogs are out. I am just questioning because I love (and my dog Xena too) your content. I tried finding the donate link. I would love to contribute but can’t find a link to do so!
It's the Pima County animal shelter (Pima Animal Care Center). Pima County includes Tucson and a very large portion of southern Arizona. If you're considering directly donating, I'd recommend bypassing this channel and going to the Friends of Pima Animal Care Center web site: www.friendsofpacc.org/ That link is at the top of the channel page. Friends of PACC is an official 501c3 non-profit and has been voted the best non-profit in the Arizona Daily Star's Readers' Choice Awards (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023). Right now the shelter has over 500 dogs, which is way over capacity. The shelter tries to walk every dog at least every day (or have them attend these playgroups that happen every day except for county holidays). However right now there are so many dogs and not enough volunteers that the goal is now every other day and they've been fairly consistently hitting that goal thanks to the very dedicated volunteers and the work of the Behavior Team staff at the shelter.
Actually I don't remember. This video is over a year old and we have something like ten thousand dogs go through the shelter per year. On most of the videos, I actually have the names of each dog and their identification number in the description, so I can look them up. But I didn't include that for these 8 to 9 hour videos last year. I wouldn't even know where to look within the nearly 9 hours of footage in this video.
Gizmo is my favorite. He seems a little shy or nervous....any reason why?? Can I adopt him? So sad to see so many dogs not wanted by society. But seriously would love to have Gizmo in my life.I want him. My boxer Randall would have so much fun together!!
I'm not sure what I can say legally, so I'll quote the public info for him: "He’s had a bit of a rough life and hasn’t always been treated kindly...." Gizmo is currently in a medical foster home while recovering from a disease and I believe he's adoptable.
Any information on how to adopt him would be appreciated. I'll try and do some research for how to adopt him. I will give him all the love and compassion he deserves.
@@JasonLonitro-sm5gg you would need to contact the Adoptions team. You might try calling first, then go visit them in the lobby when the shelter is open, ideally during times when they're not busy (weekday afternoons?). Right now they're probably very busy due to yet another disease outbreak.
Pitbulls are simply way too affectionate wiggle butts to be allowed. 😆 I've worked with a huge number of pitbulls at the shelter and if there's any breed that scares me, it would probably be german shepherds or chihuahuas.
Yeah, if a dog fight happens, it's important to be able to separate the dogs quickly without getting bit. Sometimes other dogs observing the fight can jump in, so typically the handler radios for help and everyone scrambles to grab a dog's leash and get them all apart. Also it's important to be able to quickly and easily get dogs out of the playgroup and not have to chase them down and grab their collar (which could be dangerous in some cases).
In my opinion the handlers use the spray bottles too much. The handlers are trained by the group Dogs Playing for Life who pioneered animal shelter playgroups and who trained hundreds of shelters in how to run them. They've been amazingly successful with hundreds of thousands of shelter dogs in terms of socialization skills within groups of dogs. I've attended one of their 5 day hands-on training sessions and they were able to get improvements in dogs that we would have never attempted to socialize with other dogs. It's important to use an escalating set of adversive feedback to the dogs. For addressing a single dog, the spray bottle of water is effective because it impacts one dog. The shake cans impact all dogs in that area. When using the spray bottle, there are levels of escalation starting with 1) spraying in front of the dog, 2) spraying the dog's feet, 3) spraying the dog's body, 4) spraying the dog's face. A handler should use the minimum level that will get the dog to change whatever they're doing and it should be clear to the dog what they did wrong. If you use too high of a level, the dog will correctly think "what the hell was that for?" Ideally you want to correct them at the time they decide to do something (or not do something) so it requires watching them carefully. In practice, it's difficult to do this for hours every day and it can be easy to over-use the spray bottle, especially when you work with the same dogs day after day and the dogs don't seem to learn or choose not to learn. The top experts are able to communicate with the dogs what they should be doing before using adversives and when the dogs fully understand how that works, it's very effective and dogs don't get sprayed much.
...to add another thing to what I wrote: the handlers spray them to get them to stop doing something. Usually it's because they're not staying away from the gate when a dog is entering or leaving the play yard.
I scanned through parts of the video but wasn't able to find where there's a tan dog in a corner (it's nearly 9 hours of video). We bring in a lot of dogs who are a bit afraid of socializing with other dogs to see if maybe they'll eventually have fun. Even if they just stay in a corner and avoid other dogs, it's probably still better than being in one of the kennels during this time. This time of the morning is loud and often frightening with very excited dogs barking and wanting to be walked next. Volunteers try to walk every dog every day, but some days not all get walked. We have a mechanism to ensure dogs get walked at least every other day, but usually every day. We need more volunteer walkers.
Yeah, I'd say about a third of the dogs in the shelter are pit bulls and pittie mixes. Some people out there are breeding them or not getting them spayed/neutered and most of the general population doesn't want them. A lot of apartment owners often don't allow them.
@@Trash2Cash Memphis is still at the shelter and available for adoption. He definitely can't be around any small animals, including small dogs. He has separation anxiety and would need to be crate trained. We don't have anything set up to transport dogs. Anyone adopting him would need to come in and work with an adoptions councilor. I'm glad you're interested in Memphis and looking to adopt him. He's been in the shelter a long time.
We've do about 300 playgroups per year, with about 30 dogs in each playgroup, and we've been doing them for more than 6 years. So that's about 54,000 dog visits with leashes. I've never heard of any serious issues with leashes being stuck on things or tangled up. Yes, that does happen, but it's never a big issue. On the other hand, I know of cases where the leashes saved dogs (and probably people) from serious injury when a fight broke out. It allows the handler to radio for help and have several people rush into the yard and separate dogs using the leashes, including dogs that are conflict driven and jump into the fight. One that I personally experienced in the play yard had 7 dogs involved. With that kind of extreme agitation going on, you don't want to get near a dog's mouth as they can redirect on you. Shelter dogs are much more stressed than dogs in a dog park. Many of them come from unknown backgrounds. Many come from abuse, neglect, and hoarding cases.
Dogs come in to the shelter with all kinds of problems. They're evaluated by the shelter veterinarians in the clinic and treated appropriately and put on whatever diets they need. Staff and volunteers monitor the dogs on a daily basis, espec the volunteers who walk the dogs daily. You'll see dogs in the play yard with medical problems but they are being treated and the dogs have been approved for the yard.
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Actually that was not only cleaned but disinfected (Rescue). Around the time that this series of videos was made, we actually did this multiple times during the day, clearing out all the dogs between sessions. All the common water was eventually removed from the play yard due to disease outbreaks among dogs that didn't even attend these playgroups. Now it's July in Tucson, Arizona and we're still not allowed to put water in the yard and many of us worry that dehydration is a bigger risk in playgroups than disease.
Will y'all take them leashes off their necks while playing. That is so sad that y'all care enough to get them but not enough to take their leashes off so they can play!!
The leashes are there for their safety based on experience with thousands of these shelter dogs as well as training from the people who pioneered shelter dog playgroups. We received a 5-day round of re-training just last year. You'll notice that we remove the slip lead leashes when the dogs arrive in the catchpen and then put a different leash on the dog (drag line) connected to their martingale collar. Everything we do is carefully based on experience. Sometimes the people running the playgroup do make minor mistakes but the funny thing is, no one has ever pointed out any of those actual mistakes.
Удивительно, как питбули друг с дружкой бегают. У меня -бы уже 20 раз подрались. Если два кобеля, то они по-любому подерутся. Могут вместе спать друг с дружкой, один другого облизывать. но...все равно потом подерутся из-за какой-нибудь ерунды. С другой породой даже близко не подходи, сожрут одномоментно. Даже суки очень агрессивные. У меня когда Милка скалилась, кобели в сторонке сидели, боялись шелохнуться. Милка в гневе была очень страшной. Даже если одет металлический намордник, то лучше с другой породой не подходить. Может так махнуть мордой в наморднике, что мало не покажется.
This shelter handles many thousands of dogs, about half of them are pit bulls, so we have a lot of experience with a huge number of pit bulls. You can see their behavior for yourself in the 100+ hours of videos on this channel. There are too many false stereotypes about pit bulls.
Every now and then we get a "you guys are idiots" comment and I have to stop what I'm doing and respond to the challenge to our credibility. Essentially this *is* like a prison. We get all the dogs discarded by the community and a large percentage of them are abused, neglected, and/or poorly socialized. The staff and volunteers do truly heroic work in getting them to be adoptable and avoid euthanasia. We would rather buy 50 more kennels than spend a bunch of money on fancy architecture that the dogs won't care about. The dogs actually like the sand. We can sterilize it when needed. The dogs get a huge benefit from these playgroups and I've seen so many cases of them being adopted because of the improvements they gain. Everything we do is based on experience with many thousands of dogs over the years and backed by world class experts who pioneered shelter dog playgroups. Etc. etc.
This is sad - that you have to spray the dogs with water to actually back off... water is essential for their survival and they're being sparyed with it for a punishment... Training is needed as this sad method is temporary.. Thumb down just for that otherwise good videos.
No, it's not sad. These shelter playgroups were pioneered by some of the best dog experts you'll find, who have worked with many thousands of dogs and about 400 shelters. The techniques they have taught us were very carefully developed with a great deal of compassion for the dogs: all the dogs, especially the most vulnerable of them. Keep in mind that this is a dog shelter with 500 dogs that have been discarded by society and we are a limited number of staff and volunteers. The techniques we use have outstanding results compared to the alternatives. You definitely would be horrified seeing what eventually happens when the handler doesn't use adversives. You might be thinking of like a kindergarten and this is more like a maximum security prison. The key principle is to use the minimum amount of adversives. That typically starts by spraying the ground in front of the dog, then the dog's paws, then the dog's back, etc. then use the small shake can (affecting all the nearby dogs), then use the large shake can, then the air horn. Handlers know most of the dogs already and generally start out at a level of adversive appropriate for that dog.
Remember that even the smallest tail wag can brighten someone’s day. Wishing all dog lovers endless joy and laughter 🐾💖😌
I have 3 dogs. Two don’t care about tv and 1 loves watching tv. This is her favorite show. When she is left home alone we turn it on also.
I'm glad at least one of them likes the videos! It's odd how some dogs have no interest at all.
My dog loves this channel. Thank you for posting 🥰🐕
That's great!
This is the BEST thing that’s happened to my private boarding service. This is a fun fact, 4K TVs and the quality of the video lets dogs experience fluid motion on the tv! These videos are filmed with a decent quality and the refresh rates of the new TVs are helping so much. I board special needs dogs or dogs that can’t go to kennels so this is super helpful. They love watching and will sit for literally an hour just enamored with this. They can’t physically play with other dogs but they can at-least watch this like a human would watch a movie. Thank you so much! I hope you get tons of views. I shared your channel with my fellow rescuers.
Thanks! I hope others discover this channel as well.
Yes, I was aware that dogs need a higher frame rate than humans. These videos are at 60 frames per second, which is supposedly the very minimum for dogs. Back in the old days of CRTs, dogs couldn't really see movement on TVs very well. These 9-hour videos pushed the limits of what I could create, even with a very expensive desktop computer, but I wouldn't drop the frame rate any lower. It was a huge pain because so many things kept breaking or were very difficult to work with.
My pup LOVES watching these videos!! Today was the first time she was left home alone,(she's almost 6 months old) we're very fortunate to be able to take her to work with us. I put THIS on and she was fantastic!!! She wasn't whining or barking, and it put our anxiety at ease💓 Thank you for putting these on RUclips, it's actually something my dog likes and enjoys watching💙
Wow, I'm really happy to hear that! Watching dogs and hearing from lots of experts, it seems to me that dogs want to be in a pack and they don't like leaving that pack, even for a short time. These videos provide a pack for them to be part of, with all the interesting interactions that go on. Dogs like to watch dogs.
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My dog loves this channel. Watches it for hours at a time
I'm glad your dog enjoys watching these videos! I think they provide a lot of enrichment for dogs.
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I just found this Channel a few days ago and I leave it on when I leave my dog, she watches it and seems to like it.
I'm glad you dog seems to like it.
your channel is genius and thank you for all you do for these dogs!
Thanks! I see that you're doing cool stuff with your own dogs up in the Great Lakes.
This is my pug’s favorite show. Thank you for posting these. He loves it when new videos come out
I'm glad your pug has fun with these videos. I should be posting one 2-hour video per week going forward.
Doggies and a surprise performance of Bolero! Two of my favorite things!!
Here's another video with the same version of Bolero. This is to help get Tyler adopted. ruclips.net/video/8uIWLIJHm-0/видео.html
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My dog loves this channel. Thank you for posting 🥰🐕
Glad to hear it!
Thank you for adding those little pools of water!! 😊 So awesome! We love the doggies and pray they all find wonderful loving forever homes 🙏
The shelter vet took the pools away due to some outbreaks of disease, but finally we're allowed to bring them back. A lot of the dogs you see in the videos have gone to adoptive or foster homes.
I wanna cuddle the poor yellow mom in the corner. She looks tired and just wants some peace.
I don't know where in the 9-hour video this happened, but some of the dogs in the playgroup are afraid of the other dogs and go into a corner and avoid contact with them. A lot of those dogs eventually become social and have fun after a few playgroups. The ones who don't are not brought back again. Any dogs that don't go to playgroup will be walked by the volunteers and we try to give them the human socialization they need. We try to walk them every day, but with the extreme overcrowding we've had and the limited volunteer dog walkers, sometimes they only get out every other day.
My puppy loves these videos and I put them on our TV and he will watch them and go up to the TV and sniff😭🫶🏻 Thank you for posting these
Awesome! Too bad we don't have Smell-O-Vision.
I love these videos
Glad to hear it!
Great videos. 😊 . My dog watch them all day long.
Wonderful! I'm glad your dog likes them.
My dog has watched over 8hrs of your video
Great! Dogs seem to get a lot from these videos. I think they feel like they're one of the pack.
Wish I could keep them all. Sweet babies
not enough love for tyler!! he seems like a lovely boy :') thank u for these videos!! using them to desensitise my two :)
Thanks! I hope the desensitizing works.
My pup and i are thoroughly enjoying relaxing to this. Can i suggest you wrap some foam or some durable padding around those steel girders Lola keeps banging into lol.
We've considered that, but the reality is that anything in the yard that can be ripped apart, will be ripped apart 🐶, or destroyed by the elements, or have snakes make a home there. If a piece gets torn off, it becomes a "resource" and some dogs can fight over it (if they're resource guarders).
My dog loves watching Lola on the TV. She tries to play with her.
Again, thanks for the contribution and it's wonderful that your dog enjoys this so much she feels like she's with Lola!
I just found your channel and my dog loves your videos! Her name is also Lola so when she heard her name she got excited lol😂
That's funny that her name happens to be a dog whose name gets called out a lot (like Stanley). She's a great little dog and was adopted a week ago. You can check the description on most of the videos to see the list of dogs in the video. But most of the weekday dog daycare videos don't have the list, everything was just getting too overwhelming.
I put this for my dog
Wonderful!
By the way my dogs love this
I'm glad to hear that! Note that this video started out with way too many ads. I just fixed it.
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This group seems very happy to be getting some necessary play time
Most of them are happy. Some of them are afraid, but a lot of those end up being happy in later playgroups.
Ola is awesome!! She's ready!!
My dog was freaking out watching this, haha.
She's never watched my phone, so intently trying to smell the dogs as they came up to the camera and looking in the direction the dog went running away of screen haha shes looking hard like "where did they go?"
Edit: 12:07 has me dying hahaha
Yeah, some dogs really believe it's real and try to find the dogs. 12:07 is hilarious.
@DogPlaygroupStories I put it on my big screen, and she had a blast.
I'm scared to let her be around real dogs because the vet told me she was abused/used as a fighting dog when I adopted her.
I don't want to get in trouble/let her get in trouble, so I do this for now, haha
Thanks for the upload.
@@Priest_Of_Zebak If she gets a lot of benefit from just watching the dogs in the video, that would be great! If she's been a fighting dog, I would think it would take a lot of work to get her to behave (i.e. not killing other dogs!). But that says great things that you took her in! 😍
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Yep, you win the honor and glory of 1st comment! I can't verify being the first like or the first viewer, but based on your timing, I'd say that's probably true.
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OMG that poor mama dog sitting all alone. I hope she was adopted by a good family. so sad. All the Pit mixes wow.
I responded to a similar comment with this:
I don't know where in the 9-hour video this happened, but some of the dogs in the playgroup are afraid of the other dogs and go into a corner and avoid contact with them. A lot of those dogs eventually become social and have fun after a few playgroups. The ones who don't are not brought back again. Any dogs that don't go to playgroup will be walked by the volunteers and we try to give them the human socialization they need. We try to walk them every day, but with the extreme overcrowding we've had and the limited volunteer dog walkers, sometimes they only get out every other day.
Also, we get so many pit bulls and pit bull mixes yet so many adopters don't want pit bulls, so a lot of these dogs don't get adopted or fostered for a long time. It's very sad.
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I'm really glad! I believe these videos have a lot of benefits for dogs and people (and apparently cats as well).
I have to figure out how to get this on the TV for my fur babies lol. I always leave the cartoon channel on for them, but I think they may find the sound of dogs playing more comforting.
Most smart TVs, Roku boxes, Firesticks, etc. have a RUclips channel available that you can select (or install and select). At that point just search for "dog playgroup stories".
If you have a gaming system you can search it up via the RUclips app
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Yes I always leave this on tv for my dog! He loves it!!
I’m casting it to my pup rn
I’m glad I see water for them now…except the long thing with water is green & gross. I enjoy watching the dogs I talk to them thru the screen…I was telling Lola to be nice lol as if she can hear me…Patricia was making me sad I think her stupid family dropped her off & she kept wanting out of the gate & staying over in the corner… & one of the tan ones was a little scared…I love animals! Thank you for what you do… please always be nice to them they feel lost and scared! My daughter & her friends have volunteered at a shelter for about 15 years, I’d like to but I think I’d get very attached & cry a lot idk 🤷🏼♀️! I don’t own a farm and could not adopt any other animals right now…but in my heart ♥️ I’d adopt them all! Why are people so mean & drop they’re pets off & surrender them for the most stupid unacceptable reasons! ✌🏻☀️
The long thing is actually a livestock water trough. The bottom of it is rounded so that livestock don't walk in it. It's definitely better than the kiddie pools that we also use.
Yeah, there are a lot of sad cases. But many of them turn out well. About a month ago I was getting ready to bring dogs to/from the playgroup and a member of the public flagged me down and said there was a stray dog walking around the nearby lake. I went over and convinced the dog to let me leash him up. He was very hesitant but he seemed to want a place to go and trusted me. He went into isolation at the shelter for a while and I didn't know how he was doing. Then a few days later while I was recording a video, one of the walkers brought him to the playgroup and he was really happy to play with the other dogs. He's now a regular: Budgie. Two days ago I walked him and he wanted to go to the playgroup, but it was already over. Yesterday I brought him to the playgroup and he was very happy to jump right in.
My puppy watches these raptly.. plastered to the monitor, lol.
Awesome!
My dogs enjoy watching your videos. Big 👍👍 to you.
Was going to send you a clip but couldnt find any contact info 🤷
It's in the "About" section of the channel. The email is DogPlaygroupStories@gmail.com
Very happy that your dogs enjoy watching the videos!
@@DogPlaygroupStories awesome I'll send it over this week ☺️
Nice video. Hello every one
Thanks! The dogs say hello back.
Thanks!
@anthonydavella8350 Wow! Thank you, Anthony!
Goes to the dogs care?@DogPlaygroupStories
@@anthonydavella8350 Yes. I just bought a $100 canopy this morning because the old one got ripped to shreds during a storm late yesterday. The Behavior Team who run the playgroups helped me set it up and it has a lot more shade than the old one for the dogs and people standing outside the yard.
My dog loves these videos , my concern is why the dogs don’t get fresh water and what is it they’re doing with the dogs ?
That's a very good concern. Everyone you see or hear in the videos has the same concern. Right now it's June in Tucson, Arizona 🌵🌵🌵, one of the hottest places you'll ever find. Also, it would seem like withholding water from shelter dogs running around outside would be adding more stress when they are already extremely stressed out and vulnerable to opportunistic diseases.
The reasons for not having water (given by the authorities at the shelter) is to avoid the spread of disease via a common water source during a disease outbreak. We can't even give individual dogs water within the play area because it would cause resource guarding issues, which is true; that's why the water sources are kiddie pools and long troughs, so one dog can't monopolize and guard it. We were able to bring the water back for a while until the next disease outbreak. It's true that dogs can (and do) die during these outbreaks, so it really boils down to whether you see the main issue being the spread of germs or being the compromised immune systems of the dogs. Everyone here agrees that the playgroups are very important to the mental and physical health of the dogs, and that dogs playing helps prevent them from getting sick.
Let me also answer your question about what we're doing with the dogs. I'm guessing that you mean what is the overall activity happening in these videos? The answer to that is that dogs need play for their mental and physical health, especially dogs at an animal shelter. They've lost everyone they ever cared about and have no idea why they're at the shelter and if they'll ever get back to anything like a home. They're locked up almost the entire day in a small kennel. So getting out and playing with other dogs is really great for them and helps them get adopted. Some dogs don't like playing in the yard, even after trying it out several times. Those dogs get to be walked by volunteers at the shelter, hopefully every day. But we've gotten so many dogs and lost volunteer walkers, so we try to make sure every dog gets out every other day, either walking or being in the playgroup.
I would love to contribute to this fab organization but there is no info on this and I worry it’s one of those cults that show one day in a year the dogs are out. I am just questioning because I love (and my dog Xena too) your content. I tried finding the donate link. I would love to contribute but can’t find a link to do so!
It's the Pima County animal shelter (Pima Animal Care Center). Pima County includes Tucson and a very large portion of southern Arizona. If you're considering directly donating, I'd recommend bypassing this channel and going to the Friends of Pima Animal Care Center web site: www.friendsofpacc.org/
That link is at the top of the channel page. Friends of PACC is an official 501c3 non-profit and has been voted the best non-profit in the Arizona Daily Star's Readers' Choice Awards (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023).
Right now the shelter has over 500 dogs, which is way over capacity. The shelter tries to walk every dog at least every day (or have them attend these playgroups that happen every day except for county holidays). However right now there are so many dogs and not enough volunteers that the goal is now every other day and they've been fairly consistently hitting that goal thanks to the very dedicated volunteers and the work of the Behavior Team staff at the shelter.
What type of surface are they running on? Looks nice
It's just sand.
I Love the black and white dog with the 2 black, symmetrical ears. What’s his/her name please? 😊
Actually I don't remember. This video is over a year old and we have something like ten thousand dogs go through the shelter per year. On most of the videos, I actually have the names of each dog and their identification number in the description, so I can look them up. But I didn't include that for these 8 to 9 hour videos last year. I wouldn't even know where to look within the nearly 9 hours of footage in this video.
Gizmo is my favorite. He seems a little shy or nervous....any reason why?? Can I adopt him? So sad to see so many dogs not wanted by society. But seriously would love to have Gizmo in my life.I want him. My boxer Randall would have so much fun together!!
I'm not sure what I can say legally, so I'll quote the public info for him: "He’s had a bit of a rough life and hasn’t always been treated kindly...." Gizmo is currently in a medical foster home while recovering from a disease and I believe he's adoptable.
Any information on how to adopt him would be appreciated. I'll try and do some research for how to adopt him. I will give him all the love and compassion he deserves.
@@JasonLonitro-sm5gg you would need to contact the Adoptions team. You might try calling first, then go visit them in the lobby when the shelter is open, ideally during times when they're not busy (weekday afternoons?). Right now they're probably very busy due to yet another disease outbreak.
Where is this dog daycare located? I live in ohio.
@@JasonLonitro-sm5gg Tucson, Arizona. ---> 🌵🌵🌵
Is that spray bottle just H2O or a vinegar mix?
It's just water.
I see a whole lot of pitbulls and i dont see any aggression so tjere you go.for the people that say that pitbulls should be banned
Pitbulls are simply way too affectionate wiggle butts to be allowed. 😆 I've worked with a huge number of pitbulls at the shelter and if there's any breed that scares me, it would probably be german shepherds or chihuahuas.
I'm guessing there's a reason why they don't remove the leashes?
Yeah, if a dog fight happens, it's important to be able to separate the dogs quickly without getting bit. Sometimes other dogs observing the fight can jump in, so typically the handler radios for help and everyone scrambles to grab a dog's leash and get them all apart.
Also it's important to be able to quickly and easily get dogs out of the playgroup and not have to chase them down and grab their collar (which could be dangerous in some cases).
@@DogPlaygroupStories Thanks.
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Why do you spray them when they get near you???? My dog loves these videos but im not a fan of people spraying on them
In my opinion the handlers use the spray bottles too much. The handlers are trained by the group Dogs Playing for Life who pioneered animal shelter playgroups and who trained hundreds of shelters in how to run them. They've been amazingly successful with hundreds of thousands of shelter dogs in terms of socialization skills within groups of dogs. I've attended one of their 5 day hands-on training sessions and they were able to get improvements in dogs that we would have never attempted to socialize with other dogs.
It's important to use an escalating set of adversive feedback to the dogs. For addressing a single dog, the spray bottle of water is effective because it impacts one dog. The shake cans impact all dogs in that area. When using the spray bottle, there are levels of escalation starting with 1) spraying in front of the dog, 2) spraying the dog's feet, 3) spraying the dog's body, 4) spraying the dog's face. A handler should use the minimum level that will get the dog to change whatever they're doing and it should be clear to the dog what they did wrong. If you use too high of a level, the dog will correctly think "what the hell was that for?" Ideally you want to correct them at the time they decide to do something (or not do something) so it requires watching them carefully.
In practice, it's difficult to do this for hours every day and it can be easy to over-use the spray bottle, especially when you work with the same dogs day after day and the dogs don't seem to learn or choose not to learn. The top experts are able to communicate with the dogs what they should be doing before using adversives and when the dogs fully understand how that works, it's very effective and dogs don't get sprayed much.
...to add another thing to what I wrote: the handlers spray them to get them to stop doing something. Usually it's because they're not staying away from the gate when a dog is entering or leaving the play yard.
My dog loves trying to play with Lola
Thanks for the contribution! I'm glad your dog enjoys these videos to the point of playing with Lola! That's wonderful!
Hi big man they guess Momo purple jack they make it way better Peter mama he mama got in a My Nana won’t let my dog in because he’s just chill
It's always fun when dogs at home get ahold of the keyboard and type stuff in.
The tan dog in the corner looks so sad what kind of dog is he / she and it's name
I scanned through parts of the video but wasn't able to find where there's a tan dog in a corner (it's nearly 9 hours of video). We bring in a lot of dogs who are a bit afraid of socializing with other dogs to see if maybe they'll eventually have fun. Even if they just stay in a corner and avoid other dogs, it's probably still better than being in one of the kennels during this time. This time of the morning is loud and often frightening with very excited dogs barking and wanting to be walked next. Volunteers try to walk every dog every day, but some days not all get walked. We have a mechanism to ensure dogs get walked at least every other day, but usually every day. We need more volunteer walkers.
Is it just me or is there a lot of pitt/pittmixes in that shelter?
Yeah, I'd say about a third of the dogs in the shelter are pit bulls and pittie mixes. Some people out there are breeding them or not getting them spayed/neutered and most of the general population doesn't want them. A lot of apartment owners often don't allow them.
Where are u located?! I wanna adopt lupas I think his name is??!
Tucson, Arizona USA. 🌵🌵🌵
I don't recall a dog with that name. If you can give me a timestamp, I might be able to find him.
@@DogPlaygroupStories I’m sorry I meant Memphis I don’t know why it did that
@@DogPlaygroupStories do u guys transport??
@@Trash2Cash Memphis is still at the shelter and available for adoption. He definitely can't be around any small animals, including small dogs. He has separation anxiety and would need to be crate trained. We don't have anything set up to transport dogs. Anyone adopting him would need to come in and work with an adoptions councilor. I'm glad you're interested in Memphis and looking to adopt him. He's been in the shelter a long time.
Let's hope the leads don't catch on anything
We've do about 300 playgroups per year, with about 30 dogs in each playgroup, and we've been doing them for more than 6 years. So that's about 54,000 dog visits with leashes. I've never heard of any serious issues with leashes being stuck on things or tangled up. Yes, that does happen, but it's never a big issue.
On the other hand, I know of cases where the leashes saved dogs (and probably people) from serious injury when a fight broke out. It allows the handler to radio for help and have several people rush into the yard and separate dogs using the leashes, including dogs that are conflict driven and jump into the fight. One that I personally experienced in the play yard had 7 dogs involved. With that kind of extreme agitation going on, you don't want to get near a dog's mouth as they can redirect on you.
Shelter dogs are much more stressed than dogs in a dog park. Many of them come from unknown backgrounds. Many come from abuse, neglect, and hoarding cases.
52:56 who gavebro the pass🤔
One of your dogs looks seriously emaciated. PLEASE…, help him.
Dogs come in to the shelter with all kinds of problems. They're evaluated by the shelter veterinarians in the clinic and treated appropriately and put on whatever diets they need. Staff and volunteers monitor the dogs on a daily basis, espec the volunteers who walk the dogs daily. You'll see dogs in the play yard with medical problems but they are being treated and the dogs have been approved for the yard.
You guys are awesome. Thank you for replying.@@DogPlaygroupStories
Plz tell me mommy was adopted
I don't have the details on the individual dogs for this video, but she was probably adopted or fostered.
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Ignore this comment as this is a personal msg for someone
For Mel
I'll never get tired of doing things for you cuz I'm sure that im truly in love with you and I feel that its forever
Please clean that long thing that holds water they are trying to drink out of it…🙏🏻
Actually that was not only cleaned but disinfected (Rescue). Around the time that this series of videos was made, we actually did this multiple times during the day, clearing out all the dogs between sessions. All the common water was eventually removed from the play yard due to disease outbreaks among dogs that didn't even attend these playgroups. Now it's July in Tucson, Arizona and we're still not allowed to put water in the yard and many of us worry that dehydration is a bigger risk in playgroups than disease.
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Will y'all take them leashes off their necks while playing. That is so sad that y'all care enough to get them but not enough to take their leashes off so they can play!!
The leashes are there for their safety based on experience with thousands of these shelter dogs as well as training from the people who pioneered shelter dog playgroups. We received a 5-day round of re-training just last year. You'll notice that we remove the slip lead leashes when the dogs arrive in the catchpen and then put a different leash on the dog (drag line) connected to their martingale collar. Everything we do is carefully based on experience. Sometimes the people running the playgroup do make minor mistakes but the funny thing is, no one has ever pointed out any of those actual mistakes.
Удивительно, как питбули друг с дружкой бегают. У меня -бы уже 20 раз подрались. Если два кобеля, то они по-любому подерутся. Могут вместе спать друг с дружкой, один другого облизывать. но...все равно потом подерутся из-за какой-нибудь ерунды.
С другой породой даже близко не подходи, сожрут одномоментно.
Даже суки очень агрессивные. У меня когда Милка скалилась, кобели в сторонке сидели, боялись шелохнуться. Милка в гневе была очень страшной.
Даже если одет металлический намордник, то лучше с другой породой не подходить. Может так махнуть мордой в наморднике, что мало не покажется.
This shelter handles many thousands of dogs, about half of them are pit bulls, so we have a lot of experience with a huge number of pit bulls. You can see their behavior for yourself in the 100+ hours of videos on this channel. There are too many false stereotypes about pit bulls.
Can't you give them a more stimulating environment than some sand and bare stone walls? Shame on you
Every now and then we get a "you guys are idiots" comment and I have to stop what I'm doing and respond to the challenge to our credibility. Essentially this *is* like a prison. We get all the dogs discarded by the community and a large percentage of them are abused, neglected, and/or poorly socialized. The staff and volunteers do truly heroic work in getting them to be adoptable and avoid euthanasia. We would rather buy 50 more kennels than spend a bunch of money on fancy architecture that the dogs won't care about. The dogs actually like the sand. We can sterilize it when needed. The dogs get a huge benefit from these playgroups and I've seen so many cases of them being adopted because of the improvements they gain. Everything we do is based on experience with many thousands of dogs over the years and backed by world class experts who pioneered shelter dog playgroups. Etc. etc.
This is sad - that you have to spray the dogs with water to actually back off... water is essential for their survival and they're being sparyed with it for a punishment... Training is needed as this sad method is temporary.. Thumb down just for that otherwise good videos.
No, it's not sad. These shelter playgroups were pioneered by some of the best dog experts you'll find, who have worked with many thousands of dogs and about 400 shelters. The techniques they have taught us were very carefully developed with a great deal of compassion for the dogs: all the dogs, especially the most vulnerable of them. Keep in mind that this is a dog shelter with 500 dogs that have been discarded by society and we are a limited number of staff and volunteers. The techniques we use have outstanding results compared to the alternatives. You definitely would be horrified seeing what eventually happens when the handler doesn't use adversives. You might be thinking of like a kindergarten and this is more like a maximum security prison. The key principle is to use the minimum amount of adversives. That typically starts by spraying the ground in front of the dog, then the dog's paws, then the dog's back, etc. then use the small shake can (affecting all the nearby dogs), then use the large shake can, then the air horn. Handlers know most of the dogs already and generally start out at a level of adversive appropriate for that dog.