Yesterday at a private that I loved.
Holly is a really cute dog and she's got tons of skills. But you know what?
As soon as a person comes into the picture that goes out the window,
she turns into a jumping machine. Do you struggle with jumping up?
Find yourself constantly saying off, off, off.
Do you think you've tried everything? Well,
I'm gonna show you a way to eliminate jumping up on people without having
to use treats, without having to say off, off, off.
You don't need to correct your dog. In fact, you barely need to talk to them.
I want you to watch this clip and tell me what you see.
So you're just gonna say with me, start forward with me. Oh,
I'd like to Hi to you. Hello. She's, yep. Right back to the,
the pink mark. I love it. She can almost pull you off your feet.
. Good. Okay, little girl. Ready?
And start forward again. Whoa, I'd like to see you.
She says I wanna see you too. Good. Yeah, that's it.
Let her calm. She's connected again. So start forward again with me.
I'd like to see you so a little less up. And you don't even mean to, uh,
we're just gonna let her figure out how to win this game.
Did that look familiar to you? Maybe your dog doesn't know how to win that game.
In fact, maybe they can't win the game. Like Holly,
Holly knows how to sit. In fact, she knows she shouldn't jump.
But when she sees a person, she's just over threshold.
She's so stimulated she can't help herself.
So we're gonna teach the dogs how to win. Needs to be a much,
much calmer. In fact, we taught Holly pulling towards me.
Launching herself is not gonna win my attention. Okay, now don't check out.
Don't think, Ugh, this is a pulling-on-leash video cuz it's not.
It's a jumping-up video.
But if Holly can't get to me without launching towards me
on a tight leash, how do I ever think when she gets right beside me,
she's gonna manage not to be jumping up. Next thing I need is a win.
And you might be surprised by what win I'm looking for. So you can see.
So she's super smart. She was pulling like crazy the time before last.
She slowed down a little bit. I wasn't sure if she really had or not.
And that time, not only did she slow, I was gonna comment like she did better.
She was slowing down. But she's problem-solving. Pulling,
didn't that technique of launching forward didn't work. She looked at you.
So as soon as she does that again, you're gonna, you can even drop that leash.
She's not going anywhere except to me. And you can um,
you can reward her immediately by go say hi.
I know she's very high now because we took a break.
She might pull again this time. That's fine. Oh, it's exciting.
Oh, it's exciting. It's exciting. That's it. Right back.
Good. Let her just calm down a little bit. Reconnect a bit.
Good and forward. And pause. Go say hi. Okay. Hi.
Whoa.
You got to see me. You got to see me. Ooh, what was the win? Marta slowed down.
Holly slowed down with her.
Didn't pull forward on the leash and even checked in with Marta,
which means her energy level is so much lower. So now she can think.
Now with your dog, your first win might look slightly different.
Holly did that little check-in, which is fantastic.
But if your dog pauses,
doesn't pull in the leash and makes that choice to be calmer than they were,
that's the first win you wanna, yes. And let them have that win.
Let them go say hi to the person.
Watch this next attempt and pay close attention to what Marta
the handler does. Actually, more importantly, what she doesn't do,
I'd like the pet you get. Oh, look at you. Hi.
Ooh Woohoohoo.
That was even more of a win. Holly even rocked back into a sit,
showing the ultimate of calm. However, this is really important.
Marta did not ask her to sit. Holly chose to.
And that is critical for this technique to work.
We need the dogs to make the choice that's more powerful
and the dogs are truly problem-solving. What works. Now,
once the dog gets it right,
we need to mark that we can do that with a yes or simply go say hi.
They now have permission. Oh, and work that response to name, Holly. Yes,
lovely. You can reward that Great response to name Yes.
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Are you thinking, well what good is that? I want my dog to greet people,
not be 10 feet away. Well, we need the dogs to learn how to win the game,
otherwise they're never gonna control all their energy cuz they don't know how
to win. It's not worth it. But we're not gonna now close the gap, right to me.
So I did a couple more passes with Holly moving closer and they worked very
successfully. Your dog might not do it in one shot.
It depends on their problem solving skills.
It depends on their impulse control to be when we start out with this.
So you may take your time letting your dog build on successes,
but in this next clip we get Holly right to me and I want you to see,
we had to troubleshoot a couple of problems in there.
So I want you to watch how we do that. You're gonna come up,
I'll bend over so she's not, um,
jumping and then you're gonna stick that foot on the leash and we'll do a little
visit. Hod, let's see you. She's coming up.
There's our first snag. Let me pause that.
So Marta was coming in close. Um,
she was gonna get her foot on the leash then I'm gonna talk about in a second
why she was doing that. But before she could, Holly jumped up.
So right away Marta just moved her away.
Cuz what we don't wanna do is let the dog know they can win and get
self-rewarded by not following those rules. So, hey, you jump on me,
you don't get to visit. So watch this next step cuz.
I think she's going to ace it.
So she gets moved away, she's gonna come back and again, again,
we let her calm first she comes in, oh, and she's perfect.
She sits. Now Marta's gonna sneak her foot on that leash. Perfect, because now,
now Holly didn't try and jump, but if she did try and jump,
she's not gonna get any rewards. She's just gonna feel the tension.
Marta's not holding her down. But if Holly goes to jump,
she's getting immediately feedback that you're not gonna be successful.
And if that happened, I would just back away and stop giving her attention.
What a good girl.
Now this technique is all based on the premise that the
dog is going to make choices. It's the only way it's going to work.
So there's three key things that you absolutely have to know for this
to work. Number one, your dog needs more wins than losses. Otherwise,
why are they gonna try harder if it's never going to get them what they want?
Number two, this is about emotional control. The dog,
in order to make the right choice to visit, a person has to control themselves.
Remember,
it's hard you've ever heard somebody say relax to you when you're all wound up,
it's hard to relax. So it takes a lot of energy.
So if we kept doing this with Holly,
her performance would go down because she just doesn't have that ability to
control herself anymore. And number three,
this technique is only going to work when the dog only wants
that one person to go see them.
If you noticed early on it was actually making it hard because there were other
distractions in the room and the dog's only gonna control themselves work on
that impulse control cuz that's hard if they really,
really want to get what's at the other end of the hall or
the yard. So we need to make sure there's not other distractions.
Otherwise they'd much rather go self reward in something else rather than do
that work to be successful.
This video and this technique are all about getting the dog to make better
choices.
If you want your dog to make better choices outside and give you more focus,
check out this video right here. On that note, I'm Instructor Carol.
Happy training.