Yes. Good work. Good. Yes. Good boy.
What if I told you that there was a simple way that you could teach your dog to
stop pulling on the leash? In this video instructor,
Steve is going to show you the simple steps to stop that leash pulling fast.
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Now we often spend a ton of time with our young dogs teaching them to walk at
our left hand side.
But I also want my young dog to know that even if he's not at my left hand side,
even if he's just hanging out with me, that he shouldn't pull on the leash.
And we're going to take a few minutes now to teach little final.
Here are a few steps to build a little bit more value for me and teach him not
to pull on the leash ever. No. Often the question is, what's the difference?
Why does it matter if my dog understands not to pull in the lazy money?
Apparently our tale is quite fun right now.
I'm having my dog understand that they shouldn't pull on the leash is very handy
when I'm,
I'm maybe just around the house or even around the neighborhood talking to a
friend. If I happen to take a couple of steps,
say buddy okay with me and move and want to talk to even you guys,
he knows that he shouldn't pull on the leash and he understand there's a little
bit value from moving with me if I move to the left or the right.
He understands that he should just kinda hang out. Go ahead, boy. Yes.
Excellent job. So he's really starting to get a good understanding of this,
but I want to go back and show you the steps of how we got to this point. Now,
it may seem like final knows that's really,
really well and he's starting to get a really good understanding of it,
but I've spent a lot of time doing some of the basics again,
letting them know first and foremost that there's some value for me not only for
me and my person and my striking personality,
but also some great rewards and some stuff that he's really,
really interested in. Okay. I spend a lot of time rewarding my dog,
reinforcing the fact that I'm actually here. Anytime I tend to give him a treat,
he is generally pointed towards me.
I am delivering that food from up high near my face down towards him.
He's not looking elsewhere in the room and I'm putting food in his face or I'm
not just taking food out of my bait poach and delivering it to his face.
Really letting them understand that really good things come from here because
final is starting to understand that good things come from me and I have some
value to him now he's what?
I'm going to start to add a little bit of a little teeny bit of motion to really
help him make a choice. And I'm going to help him make a right choice.
And the right choice I'm looking for is for him to simply not pull on the leash.
That doesn't mean he has to stand, sit or lie down.
He just has to keep the leash loose. Now when you have a busy puppy,
that's a pretty tall order and I know you're probably shaking your head saying
that's not gonna happen, but here's how we're going to do it.
We are going to get a little bit of food in our hands. And when I do this,
I'm going to encourage you to actually move in a manner that moves your dog away
from your left hand side.
They can be anywhere as long as they don't pull on the leash.
I'm going to start by giving him a command. Now I say with me, you can say,
stay close. You could say whatever you like and I'm going to take one step.
I'm going to take one step and I'm going to pause.
And as long as he pauses with me, I'm going to simply say yes and reward him.
The nice thing is he figures out pretty quickly that staying with me gets the
tree. So it looks like this with me. Yes. Good boy with me. Yes.
Good boy with me. Yes.
Good boy with me. Yes. Good boy.
So you notice by moving in a manner that encourages his focus by pretty much
either backing away or moving side to side a,
it's easier for him to be right and be,
it's easier for me to keep that reinforcement focused on me.
After I've spent some time taking one step at a time,
I'm going to start to move a little bit more. Now I know what you're thinking.
You're going to start to move all over the place and think your dog understands
it. I still need to break it into little bits to help my dog be successful.
So in my mind,
two or three steps maximum and then I pause and the pause allows my dog to do
one of two things.
Either to pause with me or to pull on this leash. Now he let us,
he pulled on leash to that side. I didn't say anything.
I just stuck my hand on the leash and, gave a little bump,
bump bump on that leash until he checked back in with me. Okay.
And I just waited a second.
I didn't praise him yet because he hadn't checked in with me.
I want my dog to know that the value is here and if you pull on the leash,
there's just a little mild on consequences,
which is just some bumps on that leash. So we're going to go on. Oh,
he's pulling again. So here's what it looks like. A little bump, bump, bump.
Hi buddy. That's better. Good job. Yes. Now I can. Yes. In feed him.
The hardest part about teaching my dog not to pull,
and the leash is being conscious to address it every time the dog does.
I'm building some value for them not pulling on the leash,
but if he does and not waiting until he's pulled away to go see a dog.
And it's a really, really big fix. It's a quick little fix,
a quick bump on the least.
He regained his focus on me and then I can praise him. Good boy. Good job.
Now I'm going to try those couple of steps.
I've got a little food in my hand again, but it's not on his nose to start.
It's up out of the way to help him make a choice. He ready? Good boy with me.
One, two. Yes. Good boy. Good job. I could take out another treat. Try it again.
One, two. Yes. Good boy.
Maybe I moved forward a step with me. Yes. Good boy with me.
Yes. Good boy buddy. You know, you notice he was going to sit there.
That's fine. I didn't ask him to sit. His only job is not to pull on the leash.
Now after a little bit of that work,
you can see that vinyl is really starting to understand this.
He is understanding that his job is not to pull on the leash,
even though he's hanging out with me here.
He's being conscious to not pulling the leash.
I'm going to make things a little bit harder so that I can show you guys how to
fix this kind of thing. Okay. You're not really pulling,
but there's some tension there.
So I'm going to set up a couple of things and we're gonna work through that now
because he started to get an understanding of it.
I need to now prove it through different things that may cause him to pull on
the leash. You know, I've got some great toys here.
He seems interested in those and I also have this little container with food and
you remember me remember this container of food from our leave it video.
I'm going to put these down on the ground now I'm going to be very specific
about where I put them and you can see he's quite interested in these.
I'm going to put them fairly far away. My leash is a six foot leash.
I'm going to make sure, first and foremost,
he can't reward himself for going for those toys.
And we're going to go to this because he's really excited right now.
Now I've put these distractions down on the ground pretty strategically.
I've placed them far enough away that my dog can't get to them,
but yet still close enough that they're interesting to my dog now. Fine,
I'll sit. I'm going to have him sit for a second while I talk to you guys.
Here's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to take the exact same approach I'm getting.
You get a little food in my hand.
I'm going to give him that little whiff me command.
I'm going to take a step maybe to my left this time and I'm just going to pause.
As long as he pauses with me,
you better believe I'm going to quickly yes and reward again,
maintaining that focus on me by rewarding from my person down to his.
Okay. Here's the other side of the coin though.
If my dog decides to go and pull on leash adds, any tension,
I'm simply gonna turn and face him and with my leash,
Shannon has his head level.
I'm just gonna add some pulses on the leash until he turns and looks at me and
let me go to praise him because I want him to know what he's looking at me and
moving towards me. Good things happen. However, the moment the leash goes tight,
I had some from pulses on the leash and we continue on from there.
Like anything else,
if my dog is making lots of mistakes and pulling and pulling and pulling,
I need to move further away from those distractions to help my dogs be correct.
My goal is to teach my dog, not have the makeup make,
make mistake after mistake. So here's what's going to look like. Okay.
He shifted positions, so I'm going to go this way though now. Okay.
So I've got food in my hand with me. Yes. Good boy.
I know he made an excellent choice there. I actually going to reject pot.
Reward him with two or three treats. Good boy. Good job with me.
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Good boy. Yes. Good job. I'm gonna make this a little harder again with me.
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Good boy. Yes. Oh, you're being a superstar right now.
Hi, gotcha! Yes, I did. So perfect. I moved to this toy. He went, Hey,
a new toy. I'm going to pull up my leash. I didn't say anything.
I'm not yelling or screaming.
A few quick pulses on the leash and he instantly turned and then I praise him.
So I'm going to go right back to that toy now and see if we can be a little bit
more successful with me. Yes. Good boy. Excellent boy.
Good job this way. Good job. Where are ya?
Good boy with me. Well,
little pulse in the lease cause they dropped the treat. Good job buddy.
And that can happen. You can drop a piece of food,
you can do anything like that. That gets the attention.
The dogs need to learn that if that lease goes tight,
there's just a quick little consequence that gets them back on track.
What exactly is the expectation with this?
How do I know if my dog's not pulling on leash?
Because if the dog's learning it and you're not sure of it,
it's important that we help you with that. My expectation is that my dog,
okay buddy, move with me.
But you see how this clip is hanging straight up and down with just a little bit
of extra Slack in that leash. That's what I expect.
If there's any sort of tension, the cup starts to move in the leash,
which is going to in a second right here. But I got you. Yes I did.
That was a perfect example of a little tension bump, bump bump.
Good boy with me. Yes, good boy. Excellent. Good job.
I'm not waiting until he's pulled and pulled me over to something else and
rewarded himself for pulling.
I am also definitely not going to let leash out as he pulls.
I've set my leash length.
I'm teaching him that here is where all the good stuff happens.
As long as that clip hang straight up and down, you rewarded for it.
The moment there's any tension, I simply address it. But again,
it's my job to help him be successful so he understands what his job is.
Finally,
you can see us starting to get a pretty good understanding of what his job is in
terms of keeping the leash loose. But I can tell you that consistency is key.
Every time the leash is attached to your dog,
if you're conscious that the dog is moving with you and not pulling on the leash
and also rewarding them for not pulling on the leash,
that will start to be their default behavior.
And the more I let them rehearse doing things I don't want to,
the more they're going to you promote what you permit.
I like to keep that in my mind. If you permit them to pull on the leash,
they're going to continue to. Now, if you have the same expectations,
instead of just doing them in the living room, do them on the front driveway,
the front walkway,
add distractions to help your dogs be successful in spite of those distractions.
Now having your daughter go understand that they shouldn't pull on the leash is
a really valuable life skill.
That is also very different though than teaching my dog to walk on my left hand
side. And if you're interested in learning what that,
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