How To Approach A Dog Correctly! What To Do When Meeting Dogs.

hey guys today I want to go over something that is really important and that's the right way the wrong way as well to approach a dog and this can be for you guys approaching a new dog but also for teaching other people how to approach your dog correctly a lot of the times you know things like jumping for example your dog jumping on people yeah we want to train the dog not to jump there's ways to do that but the reaction of the human approaching the dog can often be a deciding factor in whether the dog jumps or not kind of by our human's body language you know energy level the way we talk to the dog so I have some examples here some pictures of myself and my dog and I want to go over them with you guys so you can see some wrong ways and bright ways to approach dogs alright so let start with the wrong ways and a lot of these are very common right here's the first one and here's a way that I see a lot of people going to approach the new dog alright take a look at this and what do you notice kind of look at my body language what would you think is wrong alright number 1 I'm within my body I'm leaning over the dog alright this is very threatening when you're leaning over a dog especially a small dog alright if it's you have a tiny little dog down here then you really have to lean over them leaning over a dog is very threatening okay number two my hands I'm reaching over the dog's head alright when you reach your hands over dog's head they can't see where your hands are going and that can get them nervous they'll put their head back to try to see when their head goes back their teeth show just naturally because their head goes back their mouth opens and away the dog is going to bite you this position alright bending over a dog reaching over over their body here this is not this is a very bad way to meet a dog alright number two all right again another bad way body language again look what I'm doing I'm leaning over right now this is my dog I purposely used him because I know he'll tolerate me doing this but if you were to do if I were to do this to a strangers dog all right number one my body language is saying you know I'm threatening you number two I contact okay I'm making direct eye contact and if this was a new dog that would be a huge mistake I contact is a very threatening thing in dog world just dog to dog they know what eye contact me so when a human meets a dog for the first time and you make direct eye contact big mistake all right that's number two number you know two thing I'm doing wrong number one I'm leaning over number two I contact number three I'm in the dog's face all right look how close I am this is very uncomfortable for the dog and it's very easy for the dog to just you know jump up and bite me if you wanted to if he was getting nervous or afraid all right and the last thing I'm doing wrong is my hands right I'm holding the dog's head again that's another thing that is very threatening me into dogs right so by my body language here when I'm leaning over my you know direct eye contact how close I am to the dog's face this dog were to bite me just based on this picture he would be a hundred percent right to because I'm doing everything wrong okay next picture so now I'm standing up straight which is correct that's what you want to do when you need a new dog but look at my hands I'm holding my hands up and this is a very common position I see a lot of people do they meet a new dog and they're kind of nervous so they hold their hands above the dog look at my dog's face and it's kind of hard to see but he's interested and he's interested because he thinks I have something when you stand and a dog comes up to you and you put your you know hands up and close your fists the dog thinks you have something and this is a great way to encourage them to jump okay so other than my hands being up in closed fists and eye contact to see here but I was making direct eye contact everything else is okay right so meeting the dog don't put your hands up don't make fists because they think you'll have something and they're going to be much more prone to jump okay last one here's another common you know way people meet dogs and it's the wrong way right again look at my body language I'm leaning over the dog hands going over the dog and this is kind of what I was trying to say in the first picture you can see my dogs trying to see where my hands going he can't because it's going over his head so what happens his head goes back as his head goes back mouth opens let's go back and his teeth start to show and that can look very threatening to people it can look like the dogs getting ready to bite dog can also be prone to jump this way because again you reaching your hand over he might jump up to see it so let me go through these pictures one more time these four bad ones then I'm going to show you guys good good ones alright so number one leaning over the dog both hands going over the dog bad again leaning towards the dog right in the Ducks face grabbing the dog's face direct eye contact bad holding your hands up above the dog closed fist I contact bad reaching over the dog's head leaning over bad alright so if you do any of those things time to stop if we are noticing any of our friends or family members do those things to our dog time to teach them the correct way alright so number one take a look okay this is the proper way to meet a new dog I'm standing up straight my hands are down in front of me so there's no in there open the dog can see I have nothing I'm not leaning over the dog and I'm avoiding eye contact and the most important thing is I'm letting the dog come to me right my dog walks over or let's say this is a new dog he walks over he has the chance to smell to check me out and if he wants to stay near me he can and if not he can walk away I'm not holding on to him I'm not forcing him to interact with me I'm letting him approach me at his own pace okay body language is important though I stand up nice and tall I avoid eye contact hand straight down in front of me and hands open so the dog doesn't think I have anything position like this then I'm calmest as I know it's a picture it's hard to see but I'm calm I'm not talking to the dog getting it excited I'm relaxed position like this the dog is you know very unlikely to jump on you he's going to just come over smell you and he wants more attention he'll hang out around you if not he's going to walk away all right this is a big dog you know to rot while he's over 100 pounds so an immediate is the best way to do it small dogs it can be a little bit harder because if I'm standing up you know straight and a small dog is down here they can't smell my hands a little bit harder so in that case what we do is this position okay you can go down with both knees or I just crouch down on one but but very similar ok my body straight I'm avoiding eye contact sorry it's a little hard to see they're too little it came out a little bit blurry at the top but I'm waiting I contact my body straight I'm not leaning over him again my hands are open and low the doc and check it out and can smell me I can see I don't have anything and again I'm not forcing him into anything I'm not holding onto the dog I'm not payment I'm not even touching them I'm letting him decide if do I want to keep smelling this guy and check them out or do I want to walk away alright and you can do this too with big dogs but this is this position works better for for smaller dogs all right sometimes what can happen is if you are approaching a big dog or sorry letting a big dog approach you and instead of being you know standing up nice and tall you're in this position this can get the dog sometimes more excited as well and for a big dog they might be prone to to jump on you because I think you're going down to the level to play but when you're in this position with a dog you know only this tall it's it's not really an invitation to play because again you know proportion-wise you're still towering over this tiny little dog alright so proper way to meet a dog okay really really important keep those things in mind this is going to help to keep you safe when you know you're out meeting new dogs this is going to help to keep people who are meeting your dog safe alright anyone with children this is one of the first things I would teach your children the proper way to approach a dog alright number one ask is your dog friendly can I say hi and if the person says yes the position I'm in here if it's a big dog or small dog the position I'm in here this is how we approach dogs okay we don't approach like this or like this like that or like this alright that's not what we want to do I have a little PDF file that you can view as well just as a little you know reminder and if you want to review that and have that printed out it's a really really easy thing to do otherwise just keep these things in mind guys and this way we will make sure that you know as we're having our dogs meet new people and you know who we meet new dogs ourselves we keep everybody safe plan you know go to a big dog you'll notice that big dogs will start correctly the adult dogs rather will start correcting the puppy they'll be playing will be playing all

Channel: BrightDog Academy Dog Training

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Length: 10min 26sec (626 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 08 2016