getting your puppy to come back when called is one of the first things you
should teach them it's so important and in this video we're going to talk about
simple puppy recall hi I'm dr. Alex from our pets health helping you and your dog
to live a healthier happier life and today I've invited two dog training
experts to come and talk to you about simple puppy recall so Ken and Kayl
McCann from the YouTube channel McCann Dogs and between them they've got years
and years of experience training dogs so I asked them to talk about simple puppy
recall because it's just so important as well as having a well-behaved dog it can
also be a great safety aspect so if you see your dog about to run across the
road if they're about to get in trouble if you can call them back with a hundred
percent reliability then it might just save their life so without any ado I'll
hand over to Ken a big thank you to dr. Alex and everyone at our pets all for
inviting us to hang out with you guys today
now my name is Ken steep and I'm from YouTube channel called McCann dogs where
every single week we published a new video to help you spend some quality
time with your four-legged family member and our training facility McCann
professional dog trainers we've helped over 80,000 dogs to be good family
members since 1982 and in that time we've collected a lot of data about
learning styles about puppy tendencies about you know training techniques and
procedures but we've also collected a lot of information about what skills
puppies and dogs need the most having a great recall can be a life-saving skill
you know we often hear stories about former students who their dog was
chasing an animal or they slipped at the front door and our students called come
and the dog turned around before they got to the road or before they got into
a dangerous situation in a minute I'm gonna introduce you to somebody who
knows a little bit about dog training he's 21 time world champion of dog
agility Kahle McCann and she's gonna talk to us about how to get a great
motivated recall from our puppy now I like to do something with my puppy
every single day whether I'm training her to do something to do with agility
or just basic dog training I like to do something small every single day now
today I thought I would play around with my puppies recall now she's loving
months old and knock on wood her recall is pretty reliable she's off leash most
of the time but but I know about dog training is that
it's often a really smart idea to practice skills around distractions when
you don't actually you know need them or it's not an emergency situation so why
that rather than waiting until she's actually distracted chasing after
something or looking at something that's very exciting to her it's a good idea
for me to practice my recall setting up some of my own distractions to work on
reliability and get a lot of opportunity to get some rewards in so I'm gonna play
around with some of that right now so the first thing you're gonna do is just
start a hangout here and not really look like I'm about to do something because I
often struggle with with that distracting my dog because if she thinks
I'm up to something she paced too good of attention to me so I'm just gonna
sort of let her wander around a little bit when she's not focused on me I'm
gonna call her to come and when you practice something like this mix up the
ending sometimes when I call her I'm gonna praise her and just have fun and
tug and play or even use some food other times I might make her come in and be
really stationary and controlled a attention right now
that was a smart thing count it yeah so she's not a lot faster that time so I'm
gonna reward her for listening by letting her play tug again what pyramus
be head
so as I've been trying to practice here she started catching on to the game so
I'm gonna sort of make it distraction I have a little piece of chicken wiener
here a hot dog and I'm just gonna throw it out in the grass and let her sniff
and try and find it once I see that she's gotten it I'm gonna call her and I
expect her to stop sniffing and come to me right away and then this time I'm
gonna choose to reward her by way of food so when she gets in close I'm in a
drawer in get her to sit reward her often just to get her common settled and
some dogs might prefer this style of reward over the other I think she
prefers to play and tug and be crazy but I don't want a crazy dog all the time
sometimes I do want her to be calm so I make sure I practice both
yeah so I get a room or several times when she gets me and the other thing we
recommend you do is also practice sometimes taking the whole of their
collar because if you need to hook a leash on or get them focused get their
control a lot of dogs will boot out of the way when you put your hand in their
collars so she's really used to me putting my hand there because she knows
I'm gonna get rewards out to give them right to her good gasps and then last
but not least she's not allowed to leave this until they release her so she
doesn't just use me as a drive-through make sure you hold that lady okay well I
hope this videos giving you some training ideas for your new puppy it's
such a fun time when you know you bring a puppy home and you get to work with
them but investing that time and effort is invaluable at this point in their
learning these are the kinds of skills that will last them a lifetime a big
thank you to dr. Alex and everyone in our pets health for inviting us to come
and hang out with you guys on the channel and on that note I'm Ken I'll be
training right big thanks to Ken and kale for talking to us about simple
puppy recall today it's just such an important skill and it might just save
your puppy's life like I mentioned at the start the other thing that we need
to think about with puppies especially if you've only got a young puppy is
socialization now socialization is incredibly important the biggest cause
of death in dogs under the age of three is because of behavioral problems and
socializing your puppy safely is a great way you can really reduce that risk and
I've got a video all about that linked up here and down in the description if
you'd like more information about training your puppy then make sure you
check out the youtube channel makan dogs where you'll find Ken and kale giving
you a lot more information and great strategies of training your dog and
having an awful lot of fun in the process which is what it's all about as
well make sure you subscribe to this channel to make sure you don't miss out
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to live a healthier happier life and until next time i'm dr. alex from our
pets health because they're family