This one step can solve 90% of your puppy problems.
One of the first things that we tell our students to do when they get a new
puppy is to have that puppy drag, a leash or a line around the house.
When they're out of the crate,
that allows us for some great management in between training times.
And one of the most common things that we are told is that well the house line
doesn't work. Or my puppy just chews on it,
it's not surprising that the puppy's interested in that line.
We've just tied it around their collar. It's a chew toy, it's new,
but you know what the people struggle most with when it comes to that house
line?
Supervision.
Well, that's not really realistic supervision, but this is.
Realistic supervision means when my puppy's outta their crate,
I'm giving them 100% of my attention. I'm not making dinner,
doing the dishes or updating my social media.
Puppies are learning all the time and it's our job to teach them what to do,
instead of waiting until they do the things that we don't want them to do.
Left their own devices, puppies will chew on electrical cords.
They'll run through and jump on the couch.
They'll do all sorts of things that are rewarding to puppies.
How does a house line help with supervision? Well,
it extends my reach and allows me to interrupt things very quickly and takes
away the dog's ability to run the show. If she were to wander off,
I can quickly give her a little, Hey, I can step on that line,
just like she's doing right now and prevent her from going and doing other
things. Now, if I was looking elsewhere. Pup, pup, pup. Hi girlie.
If I was looking elsewhere on my phone, I wouldn't have seen that.
I wouldn't have caught that moment that she was thinking about running around
the corner. So what do I do when I can supervise my puppy? Well,
this is where your crate comes into play.
And I can use that as an even further management tool to prevent her learning,
to do the things that I don't want her to. Now, we've talked about what to use,
and we've talked about when to use it. Now, we're gonna talk about the how.
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This house line allows me to use my voice and quickly back it up.
So that the dog learns my voice has weight.
And I can interrupt things very quickly. I can prevent things from happening.
Let's say like she wants to run off down the hallway and get into the laundry.
And I can also interrupt things that have already happened.
Let's say she jumps up on the couch instead of me going to her and grabbing onto
her and having a little rough and tumble play. She says,
what a great game I can calmly take the line. I can direct her off the couch,
and there's no inadvertent reward there without a line.
And this is something that if you have a puppy you've already experienced,
they grab a sock and you go to get it from them. And what do they do?
They take off running you chase after them.
What a great game for your puppy puppies know exactly how long your arms are and
are glad to just stay out of reach, and really have a lot of fun with this.
This house line allows me to extend my reach and simply interrupt things from
becoming a self reward. When I first brought Maggie in here and attached this,
uh, line to her, she was pretty darn interested in it. She wanted to chew on it.
She wanted to play with it. She wanted to trot around and carry it in her mouth.
And I had to spend a little bit of time letting her know that that wasn't
something that I wanted her to do. Um,
it really is important that we interrupt that quite quickly. Now,
how did I do that while a I had the line? So I was able to gain control.
I was able to just simply go down, take a hold of her collar,
remove the line from her mouth and then give her another job to do. Good girl.
Now don't be discouraged if you do that and your dog immediately goes back to
chewing on that line. It takes some consistency and it takes some repetition.
So I'm simply removing that line.
And it's a little bit tangled around here and pretty darn fun right now.
I'm simply gonna remove it from her mouth. I'm gonna go back to the bone.
This is what I want you to chew on. Here's what supervision should look like.
Maybe it's several five or 10 minute sessions throughout the day.
Simply teaching your dog to follow and lure with food.
Maybe it's five or 10 minutes,
several times through the day of playing tug and having some toy fun with your
dog or teaching them to retrieve. Oh, are you ready? Are you say, get the thing,
get the thing, get the thing. Yay. Good girl. Bring, bring, bring.
What a good puppy dog. Hooray.
Another thing I can do is teach my puppy to chill out.
I want my dog to know that there's a time for them to do nothing
and it's surprising, but puppies don't do that. Naturally.
We need to spend a little bit of time doing that.
And if I'm supervising her and I have this line in place,
I could bring her onto this little bed here. I can have her kind of hang out.
I can give her that bone and that can be her job to do.
And now that I've spent some time training her, making her user brain,
taking a little bit of the energy off.
Now I can actually plop her back into her crate,
and she's gonna settle on her own. She hasn't rewarded herself.
I've been the most valuable thing to her.
And now she's relaxed and I can do all those things that I needed to do.
Cuz sometimes you need to make dinner. Sometimes you need to do the dishes.
Sometimes you wanna check on your social media.
These puppy problems are learned behaviors.
If your puppy's allowed to chew on the couch,
they're going to chew on the couch. If they're allowed to steal the laundry,
they're going to do that. But if you are using your crate to manage,
you're supervising by being 100% focused on your puppy and using this house line
or leash to give you that one step to help your dog understand they shouldn't do
things. Your puppy problems are gonna disappear.
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