Exercising, your dog is an important part of dog ownership. For a lot of dogs,
especially dogs in training, going for a walk,
just isn't enough activity to burn off all of that energy in today's video,
you're going to find out how to use this household object to burn off twice the
energy in half the amount of time you can even use this at this object indoors.
I'm Ken Steepe. This is instructor Carol, and this is Texas.
Welcome back to McCann Dogs.
We're going to talk about teaching our dog to go around something.
Why would I care that my dog goes around something pretty cool trick,
but more importantly, it lets me exercise. My dogs,
Texas is just about six months right now. And I don't know about your puppy,
but she's a pain to walk. So I can't really go for walks.
I have to train her not to pull. It's hard to get her that exercise.
And it's really frustrating so I can teach her to go around an object.
And back to me, she gets great exercise.
As she gets older with my older dogs, I had to the park. I can see a tree,
50 feet away. I can send them around that tree. They get a great ride.
I'm at with Thorpe, my high energy Border Collie.
We've got all this space and you know what? If we went for a walk,
he would jog along beside me and not take advantage of all that space.
But as long as I've got trees, I can ship them out around a tree.
He gets a great run. I can even throw a toy the other way.
And now he's getting a great run without me having to run around this field.
We're gonna get started talking about the process in just a second,
but I want to talk about how I start this. What do you need to do this? Well,
you don't have to go invest in any really expensive dog training equipment.
If you've got a bucket, if you've got a plunger,
a cone, a wastepaper basket, you are all set to go.
As much as the plunger is kind of cool.
I'm not trying to teach her to go around a plunger.
I'm trying to teach Texas to go out around any object. So for out on a walk,
I see a tree. I see a pole.
I can send her out around worried you don't have enough space. Well,
she's had a couple of sessions already on this when she was younger and I did it
in the house. I don't want to do it out here with all the distractions.
I started in a very small area in house. Let her be successful,
get value for this.
And now I can move very quickly to get her some exercise.
Why people often fail is they start with this technique.
They take their food and they lure their puppy. You're in and reward.
But you know what? Texas didn't even see the plunger.
She was so focused on the food and my hand.
I never going to be able to build any distance away and have her go along around
it alone and get some exercise.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to be sneaky.
I'm going to take a treat.
I'm going to let her see that treat. And I'm going to put it behind that. Now,
where do you think my pup's going?
Break.
Yeah. Well go ahead girl. And I'm going to do the same thing again,
and I'm not trying to get her to go around. That will come,
but I want her to say, I love going over there.
Break.
Yes. Go ahead, girl.
Yes. Good girl. You ready? I'm going to do one more where I drop that.
Treat slung up.
Ready? Yeah, go ahead girl. Now I'm going to fake her out.
I'm not going to put a treat there, but as soon as she goes over there,
instead of luring her with that food,
all rewarded. So I'm going to pretend to put one.
And then when I release her. Break.
Yes! Guess where she's going? Yeah. Good girl. Good work,
Texas. Go ahead.
Girly.
And then I'm going to do that again. Pretend to put one there.
Break. Yes. Good girl. Good girl, Texas.
Now this time, I'm going to pretend to put one there,
but instead of rewarding or right there, I'm going to call her.
So she will wrap the cone before the reward
break, Texas.
Yay. To y'all.
I moved just off to the right so that she doesn't tempt you to come back around
to me. Good girl. Good girl. Now,
I don't know if you realized it there, but I was using a different language,
dog language.
And it's really important because if I truly want to get 50 feet away,
get my dog a great run. You need to understand how I did that. Number one,
dog language. I had my dog lined up in this direction.
So when I send I'm giving my dog a clearer path from my
shoulders, dogs will get it.
The other thing I did was when I released her, I said,
Break that's just her release command. Like, okay, you can go do something.
The other thing I did was I don't want her sniffing around there.
I'm not rewarding. I want to hold onto her till I'm ready to work it.
The other key word, dog language that I said was the word. Yes.
And if you noticed, I said the word yes.
Just as her nose started to go around so that she will learn.
That's the point that she's right. And that means cookies are coming.
If you use that dog language, you start out close. You've got great treats.
You know what? You can progress so fast on this exercise.
Texas has never seen a plunger and this isn't her backyard.
So she's in a new area. I'm going to move her back slightly.
I'm already with my toy. Are you ready?
Set. Break. Yes. Good girl.
Good girl. So she's already getting a run,
some exercise and you know what?
I had enough to run with her and it wasn't frustrating with her pulling me down
the street. Now I know some of you are thinking it's a border Collie or,
Oh, she's a dog trainer, but you know what? If you follow these steps,
you can build amazingly fast with any dog.
Now let's see how she does. This is our first time going around a water bottle.
I haven't really pushed distance.
We're going to see what happens and how I fix it when she's wrong.
So first of all,
I am going to line her up and I'm going to
start to reward a little differently. Ready? Break. Yes. Get it.
So sometimes I'm going to reward. Yes, Texas. I'm not worried about their round.
I'm going to break it down. Sometimes just moving away from me is good.
Other times break. Yes. I'm going to throw up thirties girly.
I'm going to throw just around there,
because if she has to run all the way back to me to get the treat,
maybe distance. Isn't so much fun.
Other times break.
Yeah. Good girl. I'm going to run away. She gets food or toy.
Once she gets back to me,
let's see how far Texas can go out.
So I'm not going to build 20 feet at a time.
I'm just going to go back about three or four feet. You ready?
I'm also going to add a little bit of body motion. I'm not bowling my dog.
I'm not
Loring her in any way. My food's over here,
but the hand closest to her and my foot are going to step because dogs
follow the line of motion. We've got ready? Break.
Yeah. Good girly. Wow. You've got like 10 feet out.
Okay. Can we go a little further, maybe 15.
Are you ready?
Set?. And I'm restraining her and he sad.
Oh, too far. So I'm just going to come in a little closer.
Ready?
Are you ready? Set.
Woo.
Yeah, go ahead.
Girly. Good work. Good work.
Yes.
Good work. Okay. Let's try it a little long one. Are you ready?
I'm going to line her up so she can see it. Ready. Set. Break! I
Moved to quick. Ready break.
Oh, good try. So I'm gonna reward just going away. Break. Yes. Get it.
Good girl. Let's do that again.
Ready? Break.
Yes.
Ready, Break. Too far. Okay. Ready break.
Oh dear two. Just too far.
Ready break.
It's okay. So no correction. If she can't make it that far,
I'll just move in a little closer.
Like
yes. Good.
Girly. And I want to reward one close.
I need treats that show up a little better. Yes. Good.
Girly.
Whew. Let's talk about what happened there. Number one, I worked there too long,
which she bad. She actually got a little worse. There was she being bad? No,
she was tired. I did a little bit too much. Tried to push it too much.
That's okay. She was still having fun. Time to quit.
You didn't see just going that short distance. My puppy's worn out.
If we went for a walk together, she wouldn't be worn out, but I'd be exhausted.
So,
uh, let's talk about what I do. And she struggled. Well,
I moved in a little closer. I think my body motion actually,
capture attention too much. So I maybe need to stand still a little bit more.
I can move back in. Just build lots of value. The more she does that,
the easier it will be to build distance, but you can see,
I got 20 feet away in one session!
Don't have a lot of time to exercise your dog.
The around is just one example.
If you want to see more like this button right here on that note on Carol,
this is Thorpe. Happy Training!