How to Train a Barking Anxious German Shepherd Dog with a Prong Collar

right now what I'm seeing is a lot of when I'm when I'm watching what she's doing it's it's very disengagement so there's no so if you what I try to do is just trying to watch okay the issue is obviously the barking but where's that coming from is what I'm trying to figure out and so you see how she always like checks out so yep absolutely I agree yep you got it exactly and that's that's this that's the stem of the problem is this okay so we don't matter that's why you're getting all of this real reactivity because she's living a life of constantly fighting the Battle of I got it I got it I got it I got it's kind of like PTSD where the dogs constantly trying to just fight a battle that's not even hers and she's losing her mind and stressed over it and so we want to that's the core and then from that stems the reactivity the barking obviously that we don't like alright so I want to try to tackle the core which is get her attention tell her that she's working with us then the reactivity portion will be a lot easier to to work with in the future the reactivity is just a branch off of the problem okay so the naked eye the problem would be the barking but so what I'd like to do is I don't think that the slip collar is going to be a safe tool with that much reactivity I think using it in small distracted areas or minimal minimal stressful environments would be okay but when you get a dog that's lunging actively going after another dog we have a couple different opportunities we can either how can we disengage the dog through positive reinforcement to avoid the situation by bringing her into another place mentally but judging by how intense her reactivity is that's never going to happen so we have to actively immediately when when the dog does it boom tackle it right there like this is what I don't want okay like my other leg another trainer Morgan said on the phone with our boarding train earlier she said if it you can't avoid these situations if a child's marking your new walls you can't walk away that's not going to teach anything and so there are certain circumstances where we can lure the dog away and reward the dog for non reactivity if it's minimal that's the only time that that'll work if the dogs kind of her come food yes pay but in this scenario she's going from zero to a hundred quick and she's actively going forward so two things I don't love about that she doesn't mean how she looks and if she does get away from you and another dog takes it how it looks she's gonna get into a fight right so she's uncontrolled in these situations so we can't talk about what can we do to discourage the behavior through avoidance because when you do that type of training you're not dealing with the problem at hand which means if I brought another dog out and I tried to lure her away or put a hare just tried to try to just escape the escape the problem it's just gonna make it worse because she's so amped up and you're pulling her back and back and back and back and it's just making her more upset so what I'd like to do is say the foundation is gonna be this pay attention to me with nothing going on and then when another dog comes out the dog knows clearly what they need to be doing but right now she doesn't have any idea right yeah you can't yeah you can't and and there's something to that like there's no problem with using positive reinforcement but purely positive reinforcement isn't a method it's it's a style it's it's it's a type of ideology of like this is the way that I want to train which is totally fine but in these cases you just can't you can't put a triangle in a circle it just doesn't fit and so that's what will happen a lot of times is people who have one dimensional style of using just positive reinforcement they will no matter what it's not gonna help so good boom right back done doesn't work not gonna happen so moving on to a more just moving on to a more realistic approach that's going to work we're going to teach the behavior first follow me around the room if you don't pay attention to me you get disciplined not like militant this is exactly what you have to do I'm gonna say hey we're gonna go this way and then we're gonna go that way and then we're gonna go this way and you have to pay attention to me and that's gonna start getting that dog honed in on me in exactly what we need to do so I'm gonna switch to a micro prong collar which is gonna be a lot safer than this safer to use than the flat collar or the actual movement immediately it's safer to use than the flat collar or the slip collar and I'll tell you why she's how how much does she weigh okay so 65 pounds maybe get a little bit bigger pulling constantly on her neck and the front of her neck it's not like she's pulling it from the back end she's pulling it directly from her neck that can cause some severe damage down the road to her lair necks and trachea and all that fun stuff so the prom caller sits on the neck right on the muscles and so these aren't sharp or anything I've done G's countless videos I'm wearing these things myself and training with them they're safer to use because they give the dog direct pressure all the way around the neck so instead of wear like the slip collar or the flat collar even the martingale collar it'll only apply pressure excuse me it'll only apply pressure in one spot and when you get a very heavy dog or a strong dog and they're constantly pulling like I couldn't put her on our slip collar in those situations because it would hurt her you know all two four six eight how many prongs you have are applying pressure up so it's safer to use because it's pressure pressure pressure pressure pressure instead of just one spot if you had a dog or a minor little reactivity you could get away with something smaller like a slip collar or something but because it's so intense she's gonna keep slamming on her own neck you don't want [Music] good come good you see that says she looked at me first time she looked at me since I've been working with her so that's what I want to start creating with her I want to start creating some sort of structure with the dog you could bring dug through Brittany where she's not so independent good so you see the amount of engagement I get now because now there's it there's I'm actually communicating to her I'm not just a statue on rollerblades with a piece of rope right I'm actually communicating to her in a way that she understands where she's like oh okay good so it's it's a form of operant conditioning so that means correcting the behavior we don't want and reinforcing to be every do want good sit now you can give the dog a reward doing would be considered a balanced dog training approach it's just like children again 12 year olds drawn all over the walls with marker if you avoid that a reward that it's not going to go away so the goal in any training that I do or any speech or lecture that I provide is very simple within the hour session my goal isn't to fix the dog that's impossible it's not going to happen but my goal is to progressional e move you into the direction that you need to go on an information basis so your information so you need to know what the problem is and how to overcome it and now we know like you said before it's not so much the barking it's what's the core which is the reactivity and it's the anxiousness and the lack of structure and control now that we're doing that we're gonna fix the reactivity the big picture is is she's never been punished for acting like a complete psychopath at the end of the leash and she'll never learn that way never ever ever ever ever so we can talk about the 15 different ways to punish a dog during those times but what's the most effective and efficient way to do it and that's just when it happens corrected and in a manner that the dog actually respects and listens to it like okay got it okay uh uh sit sit good girl yes okay brick good then you can let her go and sniff the dog so that's the process isn't it it's clear right yes it's clear so we teach the dog what we want through leash pressure before there's a dog in the room do this do this do this if you don't do this you get corrected period that's it and it's a it's something that she understands very clearly it's not it's not abnormal for her to feel the that basically the teeth like what another dog would do as a correction she's like okay what I'm doing is wrong right okay so now I'm gonna use an object reward as I'm doing this tune-up to see if I can minimalize I'm not looking for the dog completely lay down when another dog walks by right now in the future yes but I'm just looking for less reactivity the duration of the reactivity all the the intensity of the reactivity and throughout the process it's gone down dramatically anyway okay he'll good yep good yep yep good girl ah sit I'm gonna flash the ball really quick sit yes good girl yes good girl ball get your ball good girl I'll explain that me now just the dogs coming through good good girl so I'm positively good girl good girl yep yes good girl heel yeah good girl save it good heel good girl good yep yep good girl heel good yes spring good girl good job good good girl yeah hahaha good girl see now I have her like fully with me right so now we're now we're creating a relationship so this is great so now I'm building a relationship with a dog that I don't know through tug and play and this is just it's just push it stay slide wide stay so nice and feathered through there right you get a intact big Radi for good girl but Dutch oh good girl good good and so I'm just cuz she doesn't have this big issue with dogs that's not it it's just the reactivity when we see a dog what the hell do I do so two things that are gonna happen which is gonna be so remarkable for you your relationship with the dog is ultimately going to become way better and she's not gonna lose her mind so you can do more things you can go more places 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Channel: Upstate Canine Academy

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Id: 40LEBE0xMRY

Length: 14min 16sec (856 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 11 2019