hello dog lovers my name is Saro I'm a dog trainer and I also coach dog owners
in today's episode I'm going to talk about high-energy dogs who are also
hyperactive dogs who most dog owners feel like their dog is high-energy and is
too much for them and they try to calm them down by providing a lot of high
activity high-energy activities the problem is not what you think it is
subscribe now dogs are not born hyper or high-energy in a high energy level
everything changes when dog owners bring their dog to their home a dog could
be a low to medium level of energy by birth but what happens when we
bring them to our homes dog owners start making a lot of mistakes and help them
to become an hyper active and high-energy dogs so what I mean by that
is most of the time dog owners are providing high energy activities with
their dogs so that causes dog to become high energy
so usually when a dog owner has a dog they automatically they think you know it's a
hyper dog it's a high-energy dog so they need to provide a lot of exercise for
the dog but actually dogs don't need that much exercise when you over
exercise them you are creating and helping the dog to develop high energy
mentality so you don't want to do a lot of activities that are not natural for
the dog so one of the things that you have to be concerned about is
species-appropriate exercises that you have to provide for
your dog so what are the few things that you can do to help your dog to become
less hyperactive and less hyper or calmer
so number one thing is you've got to start reducing your dog's activity if you were
giving your dog 30 minutes of activity you should start giving it for example
20 minutes 15 minutes if you were giving 3 hours you should give an hour for
example so first thing is you got to start reducing the amount of exercise
that you were providing for your dog believe it or not most of the bad
behaviors that are developed in dogs is because of being over exercised and that
causes the dogs to become stressed and behave badly the
best formula or number that I can share with you is provide a maximum 60 minutes
on an hour of activities for your dog the second suggestion that I have is to
provide most of the exercise focused on mental stimulation so I would suggest
70% mental stimulation and 30% physical so what that means is everything that
you're doing you have to consider if it's
mental or physical mostly so dog training for instance is both mental and
physical but mostly focuses on mental stimulation let's say if you're doing 15
minutes of obedience training with your dog is actually equal to an hour of
hiking your dog so my last suggestion to you is if you have a dog who's hyper and
high-energy or if you have a dog in general listen to your dog most dogs
they want to live a quiet calm life it's us humans we are on the go all the
time you have to go we have to do this we can't even focus on anything more than
twenty seconds that's crazy so understand this concept that our dogs
are here to help us to give us some ideas of actually taking it easy
relaxing and making sure that our lives are not going like crazy you have to
slow down and think about what we are really doing so dogs in general are
trying to tell us to calm down and take it easy but we don't listen to them and
we actually drive them more crazy with providing high energy high activities
and they don't like it actually I have another clip that I'm going to show you
this is Cheech who comes to our playcare and he has been to our playcare for the
whole day in this clip and he's being picked up by his mom so you can see how
hyper he is even after he's been to our playcare for the whole day and he
played all day mentally he hasn't learned to calm himself down so
physically he's excited but I'm sure hundred percent sure that mentally he's
exhausted he's tired but the owners dog owners like you need to practice to
teach your dog to be calm especially in moments like this when they go overboard
they become stressed and anxious when they see you
after a long day let's say and they become hyper and they can't control
themselves physically and mentally you need to help them to calm down and relax
so remember if you have a hyper high-energy dog try to do these three
things stop over exercising your dog so your dog doesn't get stressed it causes
stress in them second of all provide species-appropriate amount of exercise
for your dog and three relax teach your dog to relax and you learn to relax as
well and maybe you and your dog can teach each other how to relax if you
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very much have fun and have fun with your dog