Hey there, it's Duke Ferguson here at Unleashed Potential dog training here at the doghouse.
Have you invested a lot of time and energy into training your dog and you're getting
results, very positive results, but then you find there are breakthroughs and there are
situations that you just can't excel and get that success through with you and your dog.
Um, it could be just a lack of the tools you're using or motivation, whatever it is. There
are lots of approaches. In this video, I'm going to show you how you can introduce a
pinch collar to your dog and still maintain a really good, happy attitude while changing
their behaviours, getting the dog to think, building a relationship with this tool. Now
I know you're like, eh, Duke pinch collar. Ooh, what is that? Or I don't like that or
whatever. Just relax. It's just a training tool. Okay.
Just like other training tools. So in this video, I just want to give you another view
or another insight, or I let you sit on the sidelines, watching a private lesson
that I do, and then I'll actually teach direct to camera as well on some concepts.
So I hope you find this of great value. If you don't want to use the tool if you're nervous
about the tool and you just want to get more education that there are other approaches
to maybe what you've seen out there. Um, because the tool does work now. It's not a tool that's
for every dog or every issue or every person. All right. It's just a tool I want to give
you for your tool belt. So whether you want to use this tool or not, or you're thinking
of using the tool and you're just learning and you want more information on another approach
on how you can apply this.
This video is for you. It's the first beginning stages with a very young dog. Who's pretty
hardy and barky and a party animal. He's going to be a great, great fun dog. He's going to
be amazing. And this is just an intro. Okay. On how we'll set the stage to introduce this
tool and get a result and build that relationship. This collar is a prong collar. Okay. It evenly
distributes just hold there and let him lick it. Evenly, distributes the pressure all the
way around his neck and it doesn't choke. That's what it's supposed to not do. And it's
actually supposed to, for dogs that have sensitive trachea, it's actually good because it keeps
the pressure away from the trachea and it looks like hell, it looks like unless you're into this type of stuff.
So I remember the first time I put it on a dog, I was actually
nervous and shaking many years ago.
And when you put it on the dog, we need to make sure that see this ring, this round ring,
that's a stopper that stops this from going any tighter once it's fit. So when I really
pull it, I can't get it any tighter. But if you look at that looks brutal. It looks like
it's in my arm. It doesn't even hurt. Seriously. It's cause it's so evenly
distributed. It's more of a sharper pressure. So this is never designed to be tight all
the time and having the dog drag you. But I will tell you, if we do too much, low-level low-level
for long, long periods of time, weeks, and weeks and weeks he'll get used to it. There's
a thing gets you make them tough.
You make them tough to it. And then it stops to work. So we want this pinch
collar to have meaning, we don't want him to be numb to it where he pulls and
doesn't care, but we don't want him to be nervous or scared or shut down. Now here's
the rule. When the pinch goes on to dog, you must maintain loose leash. That's that's the
rule. We're going to teach him how to, he can keep it loose. There's the gentle, Hey,
pay attention. Low-level communication. When you give him some sort of a stimuli, he is
going to learn to shut the stimuli off and get the mark and the feed. He already knows
the mark and the rewards. Right? But do you know, just by releasing the pressure is a
reward. So when we add the pressure to him, he's going to say, hmm, it's not that comfortable.
How do I make that go away? And we want to do it in controlled environment. The best
we can. So it's the least amount of stress. But I will tell you when you're making him
grow to be stronger and better, a little stress, that's new. He works through it. He
becomes better and stronger. Then you add a little bit more and a little bit more in
the world goes, and eventually, you get your s*** together. And it takes time. If we've never
experienced any stress or pressure in our life. And then all of a sudden there's a bunch.
You don't handle it well, and you shut down. That's the problem with the pressure, but
it's not the tools. It's the way we use it. You know what I mean? So what we need to do
is fit it when I fit it, and I put it on him. When it goes on your dog, I want to be able
to get a finger or a finger and a half between the prong and the dog's skin, but not this
much. Okay. When I pull this, this is your D-rings. This is the D and this is the O-ring.
So that's how this will work. And it loosens.
You're going to do two things. You will be giving pressure, dog yields, releases the pressure.
So pressure and release. Okay, now there's the pressure release to teach, but then there's
also pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, puppy stuff. You know how, when he walks in pop pop a little
tiny bit, or we poke kind of just touch it, those, but we do it in the little guys and
they just to redirect attention, you're already getting a little poke, to redirect attention
to food. So notice it's in a room it's less distracting. We have some food. Now watch
this where I normally will hold the leash. This is where this goes. And when he wants
to leave, immediately in the beginnings today, I don't want him to just hit the end of it.
It's okay. He's feeling that there like, look
On his own. Okay. So what I will do, there's there's really no one you
One way. Right? So he knows to sit. So if I add pressure, I released the pressure "Break"
Okay. It's just the thing is he has to feel the pressure to think about it. So the, let
the don't speak, pressure on, just gentle, pressure off. That's his first reward "Break" is his second
and this is a little new and it's itchy and he'll, he'll have to adapt to that a little
bit. Now, if he's going to go this way, I'm going to go the other way. This is pressure
and release. That's a good boy break. All right. And I just let them feel it over
and over and over, but not any higher distractions than this. So it's going to be look this way.
Yeah. Good boy. Break. So he's getting the pinch. I let him experience this. Okay. So
when I'm walking, he goes, if he goes one way, this is good. "Break" I'll release him now
and say, come and give him a little pop, everything. I want him to feel
"Sit"..."Break"
Okay, pressure on pressure off. And it becomes a game. You just make a game with
the pinch of collar. So it becomes a pinch collar game, right? It's like, I'm going to
go and if you're going to get the stimulation, you didn't move fast enough. Simon says go,
or we go, so we go move up. Hey buddy. And I stop the pressure on off. Try not to do
too much. Right. I move and I stop. So when you're walking, good boy. Okay. We get
closer to this dog and look, I'm this way. Good boy. There's the pinch, feed in motion
if you want. And look, he heels. Good job buddy. Ah, "Break"
He turned
Technically I want him to feel that pinch, but right now I want to see what he's like
He's actually pretty good. He knows more than yeah. Good for you. I'm smiling behind this ugly thing. So you're going to take over. Who wants to go? Here's the rule
always loose leash. If it's going to get tight, see, see how it's not really tight, but if
it's gonna get tight, my hands are low. As I'm not pulling and choking.
If he's going to jump, I'm just going to and listen, here's the big thing.
Once he's conditioned and understands it, don't be afraid to make a mistake. He'll forgive
you in a heartbeat to trust you. But we do that. There's a lot of people are too scared
to make the mistakes in the future. And actually he will get comfortable with this low level.
And you might need to just a little bit more of a tug tug in a situation and he'll know.
So this is good. So keep your hand nice and low relaxed. And you can even let that left
side go. Now, take a turn, turn. Let him feel it. Now, once he feels it and responds
Mark and feed so you can feed him that a boy. Exactly. So he goes, there you go. And you'll
go towards that dog. Good for you. Gave a little tug tug. Did you see that? She gave
a little tug tug and he engaged with his head now. Perfect, nice and gentle there. Now feed
that feed, that feed that, keep walking. You can keep him in the motion too. Right? So
stop for a moment. I'll explain that. He went distracted from you. You're gone. You gave
a little hey, hey, poke, poke, and a kiss. Right? The kiss came after. It was soon as
he turns. You want to be like, hey buddy. Yeah. And show him the money right there.
What you're doing is like that poker the kiss and keep motion right there. Excellent.
And you're trying to find what levels work for him. And I'll tell you, there will be
very light right now. Once he gets a little comfortable, you'll see, he wants to pull
more after, but you're going to find a level after a while because it is leash training.
That is just one or two little 'tick'. We want his emotional response. When he feels
the pinch to respond to you with very good, happy heart. Okay. Make it worthwhile. Paying
attention to you should be the best thing in the whole world. It's your dog. It's a relationship.
What is love? What is respect? You got to build that by training your dog and not being
scared to put a pinch collar on your dog. Right? Cause there's ways to use the tools
that makes joy brings the relationship closer. People think just pinch collars are the furthest
from the relationship and they push you away from your dog and it hurts your dog and it's
abusive and all that.
No, no. The word abuse. Look it up. It's from us. It's how you would use that. That's a
tool. If I take my truck. I go downtown. I road rage, the trucks not the inhumane thing. It's a tool.
I'm the nutbar behind the wheel we need to do is have less frustrated people behind the
wheels of the tools. We have people and train people that love their dogs. When people love
their dogs, the dogs are usually unruly. They're unruly because they're often loved to death.
They love too much. They're given everything. And then they get frustrated. They don't know
what to do. And there's so much do this. Do that, do this, do that. This side of the fence,
medieval torture tool, shock collars pain add. Then you got your clicker training only
is type a no religion. Who's right? Who's wrong? There's no right or wrong folks.
It's doing it with skill with intention, with love, with compassion, with meaning
like you got to have a goal. And then you gotta say, okay, it's not a matter of slamming
a pinch on a dog and just banging him. Right. I've done that years ago, years and years
ago, it worked- loose leash. No problem. But the loose leash never gave you a waggy tail
back then. Not quite to that extent, not to what we do now. Right? But you're looking
at 25, 35 years of screwing it up. Don't be scared to make a mistake. You have a relationship
and in a relationship there's trust and a bond and love and respect. And maybe you don't
have all of that, but you got some of it. You got trust. You can make a mistake. All
right. The goal is, try not to, but how do you learn in life?
How do you really learn and grow in life? If it's from success, you were in a struggle.
There's only two things in life, right? We're at you have struggle. The dog is struggling to
get what he wants. And he barks at everything in the world. He's a young
teenager. They all do that. What I like about dogs is they're just doing it. When they're
not drunk, it's easier to communicate with the dog than it is the teenager. So look at this,
there's a pinch collar. This is how pinch collar should be conditioned. And then go
get as close as you can there with the camera, like right up on him, man. It's just okay.
And yes, people could say, Oh, there's no distractions. Will I study in the library?
I don't go to the local pub to study. This is where I want to study because why? we create
success. We build this relationship. They're building a communication system because this
is the first time this puppy has ever had a pinch collar on.
Okay. People see pinch collars. They say, Oh, why don't you use positive reinforcement?
Um, take a look. a little closer. People see the pouch and the marks and the clickers
we use. They're like, Oh, you should try a pinch collar the dog's not working. Well.
You should see us in a week or two. All right. People are too quick to judge
you guys. You've got to relax. Yeah. It's a puppy. It's a pinch collar too, but it's
being done right? You want to avoid the unpleasant and the tools and all the stuff that the haters
will say. Cause they're not all wrong but they are wrong about the tool. It's the pressures, the issue,
the tools. If you know how to use them, you don't have to road rage and drive downtown
and kill people. You can go down and get a coffee and come back and get more coffee and
even cake for everybody. That's a great tool. Now, as he's walking with me, it's loose slide
down. And then he sits by your left side and the money comes. So I do it again. Good boy.
So again, I prepare for the stop "Sit" Okay. He's a little reactive to the hand and we
say, "Sit" there, we release the pressure, take up some slack, feed right there.
Do you want a new Tip? To HEEL with no pinch ....without the two step... place board
And we can do a heel game and you can actually teach him also to go to the left, right and
left sides, different names. But right now we have this is Heel. Okay. And I'd say
to him, look, the food is low. Watch this. He needs to look in my eyes. I'm already adding
distraction. When he looks up to me, which is what you guys will be doing teaching him
this everywhere I go, "Break"he goes and he runs, I don't want him to hit the pinch collar.
Now watch, he comes in and back into a beautiful position that I like. So I'll say
"Heel" "Break" and I throw it. If you can get them to think by doing nothing, I talk to you and train a dog, do that all day. And that's where I don't get tired of training dog's
all day. Right?
So pressure to sit and release. So there's so many things you can do. So "Sit" "Break" game
for pinch, but literally make it sort of a game that when you were going to go, pop, you hit
that pinch like he flies into cause look at puppies, right? Yeah. Look at this.
Okay. "Sit" "Break" and we play right. "Sit" "Break" touch him, feed him. Be
fun. Put your favourite song on and dance the heck out of it for repeat there's one or two
songs. If he's really being a pain in your ass, Say I'm going to give you my attention. Turn the music on.
All right. So I hope you got good value from this and that you got your
tunes picked out. You might not need much just to get to that next level. And this is
another tool and an approach that helps you a little bit more of a positive aspect, um,
versus some of the negativity that we see on the internet. So I hope you find that helpful.
And if you do need extra help, you want coaching from me or one of my trainers or any online
video training and go to unleashedpotential.ca Or dukeferguson.com and
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