Leash pressure communication DctK9 (important nuance, details)

we're actually we're doing a couple cool things we have a lot of dogs here they're all holding place they're gonna get ready to do some socialization but miles is getting ready to go home tomorrow he was a board and train or is a board and train that came for aggression issues and leash pulling and all that good stuff and um one of the questions that we get a lot because we do a lot of live periscopes live Paris Facebook all that good stuff one of the main questions that we get is um what we mean when we're talking about fluidity and leash pressure and what our expectations are so there are a couple things that I look for and a couple of drills that lately while I'm out on the walk I've been working on and just want to kind of show you what I do and some of the finer details that I think make a big difference that might not be caught um initially on video if I show it we get a lot of people that'll say oh we're doing it and then when we kind of look at it if you do a Skype session or something like that I always find these little details so this guy wasn't the best on leash pressure and um come here buddy and in a nutshell um I'm not gonna get too basic I think the the overall concept everybody knows is when we're teaching leash pressure we're working with negative reinforcement so it's the removal is that's what makes it negative the removal of something to reinforce reinforcement anything that increases the likelihood of a behavior repeating itself so I would remove pressure to reinforce the correct choice that a dog made in this case it's moving in the direction of the leash what's really important about this is that when I'm using the leash we have the nose that is following in New York City it's very important there are a lot of people that cover leash pressure there aren't many people that need leash pressure and it's not a necessity the way it is here in New York so a couple of things that are very very basic I need to know that when leash pressure goes this way this guy goes that way when leash pressure goes this way this guy goes that way I need to know that I can put him into an SI t with leash pressure leash pressure can come off what we do sometimes to get this a little bit or fluid is having dogs gravitate around us right so one of these is a little bit of a modified version from one of my good buddies Tyler Muto and he does this serpentine or serpentine drill but what I think he does is as he's moving forward as he's moving forward before he switches this dog to this side his right hand comes and basically does that work for him nothing wrong with that awesome exercise and it's basically this the dog is coming to you and then always coming into you and behind you as you walk forward um what I like to do is I like to think of myself almost as like the Sun and before I switch hands I'm trying to get that accomplished with the hand that I have it in so I'm getting the dog's nose to turn making this switch the dog is coming behind me and all that we're doing basically is having him gravitate around me as I move forward or possibly move back throughout this if your dog knows verbal markers if they're heading in the right direction you can technically use food to lure good let him know where we're going but this is very important I need to know that anytime I'm using this leash I am NOT pulling come here buddy we just came from outside that's why he has the coat on any time we use this leash I'm not pulling along the spine one of the main reasons a dog cannot turn this way a dog can turn this way a dog can turn this way right very very important one of the main reasons for leash pullers is when we're using a prong collar in the beginning the pulling is not as bad so people go oh yeah this is better but what they don't realize is they're building a dog that eventually that pressure they're gonna become desensitized to it's gonna become white noise so what we want is a dog that walks on nothing I want to know that if this dog is doing this and I apply this pressure he's coming and it's that sensitive right so that's one exercise that we work on another exercise is as I'm going forward in New York City there's a lot of single-file stuff that we need meaning I can't have dogs doing this if I'm applying leash pressure this way what I don't want is a dog to go this way but not follow I want a dog any time I'm applying this it's almost like it's what's leading the nose I don't know if you guys can see that the leash is this way it's leading the nose right the nose is the first thing that follows or I guess the nose and the ears or the nose in the eyes and that's what gets the body to that's what gets the body to to follow if I can control the senses nose eyes and ears I have everything that I need so a lot of times what happens is when we're kind of pulling or you're working with problem dogs you get dogs that will kind of go toward the pressure or you're getting oppositional reflex if they're going toward the pressure people go oh well the dog knows leash pressure they're coming toward it but what's not happening as a dog is not flowing with it and you can see there the way my body moves it's almost as if like I don't even really need sort of like leash pressure I'm hardly applying it it becomes very very very smooth and a dog learns how to follow this right so what I don't want is I don't want the dog to feel pressure and go toward it but still face a distraction and that's basically what these fundamentals are sort of working toward in New York City I need to know that if I have distractions I kind of wish we could set this up is if I'm moving and this is a person that I'm walking by a lot of times I'm not I don't want to be doing this and moving my dog out of the way or sort of bringing him to me and trying to like like pull him next to me I want him to learn to follow in the footsteps that I'm leading or that I'm leaving so if I'm walking and I realized this individual was coming or it's just something in the way I want to be able to move and I want his nose to follow my body I'm gonna show you as I go around this as I'm turning the dog is basically and I'm not staying like this I'm also I don't I also don't have 30 feet of leash where I'm kind of doing this and saying yeah my arm is going back but the dog is not moving I need to find that area where when I move as I Circle the dog is never really gonna hit me even if that means I come back this way and I back step and that's a very very important exercise is that if if I have a dog that's pulling me I can be coming this way and if he's about to pull I can take this back step and throw him off and that's essentially the direction that leash pressure needs to go in if you have a pulling dog a lot of it is coming to follow you now the reason why I have those gravitation exercises where the dog gravitates around you or you become the Sun essentially is because you need to know that when a dog is facing or distraction they're going to be looking let's let's assume that for this guy the distraction is in this direction a lot of mistakes that people make is when you're getting a dog to follow you things are pretty much single-file if I didn't have that in my way I'm still going to be circling in a way where I'm never hitting the dog he's following in my footsteps so he becomes my trailer you see what I mean so everything that I'm doing is a little bit of pressure kind of here and there but he's not glued to me at my side we're not doing a precision sport heal or anything like that I want a dog that learns how to follow in the direction one of the main reasons when you get pushy dogs I don't want a dog that's doing this but still focusing on this so a lot of that stuff that pressure becomes from behind my butt pressure and angles change when a dog is facing a distraction one of the main reasons if this dog was looking in this direction and I was to apply pressure to get him to not face this way all that this dog has to do is turn and what I mean by that is if he's looking this way and I apply pressure rather than following it you get a dog that feels and if he's fixated he's still faces so if my pressure goes this way all this dude has to do and I don't know if he's really gonna do it right here it's basically swing around and now as I'm pulling this way trying to get him to not pay attention he's already facing that way so what happens if I'm pulling this way I'm going along his spine it's not gonna help to turn his head in that situation stampin bench down hey yeah don't embarrass me I'm shooting a YouTube video in this situation I need a dog that knows how to follow pressure in front of me and that's very important because when a dog is facing a distraction sometimes I might switch hands and there might be a touch as my leash pressure goes this way to get a dog to not be fixated on the distraction or I might have my leg that as I'm sort of walking let me move this out of the way real quick as I'm sort of walking if he's really fixated my leg can almost come this way to swing his butt out as I use that leash pressure all right so that's very important when you have distractions you need to know especially if they're on this side that the angle has to come in front of you if I already have a dog that understands this then when I use it as I in a sharper eye I guess a louder tone the dog knows what to do the problem is people start correcting their dogs and a dog doesn't even know how to do it if you were gonna teach them fluidly right so that's one thing another exercise that we focus for on walking is teaching the dog to cycle behind you now before I switch to this hands behind me I already have a dog whose nose turns this way that's very very important before I switch my hands so as I'm walking to you if I'm sort of walking I come this way he follows this way I come this way he follows that way if I come over here once I get that that's when I make the switch I'm gonna do it again backwards this way let me go ahead and move copper copper come here buddy I know I'm moving you all over the place copper hey let's go good job would just hang out over there for a second so I'll come over to you so you guys can see this but as I'm moving this way if he's in my left even if my body has too exaggerated to get him to come this way this is what I'm doing and I'm just flowing as I'm moving forward flowing as I'm moving forward but what you need to notice again is that the dog's nose is what's following the leash right even if I start going straight I have a dog if I don't get that I have to have to exaggerate I didn't get the head turn that time so my body has to help I have to give more information very important overtime if needed I can pretty much almost go straight come over here really good follows the leash comes over here right if the dog doesn't really know that it's a little bit easier I come over this way I make it easy with my body come over this way very very simple stuff and this is just a couple little tips that's going to help make leash pressure communication easier which will help with problem dogs with distractions and should be able to help you on the walk as well once the dog understands it

Channel: Dream Come True K9, LLC

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Keywords: negative reinforcement, real world dog training, conversational leash work, leash pressure, DctK9, Dream Come True K9, nyc dog training, best dog training, new york city dog training, Blake Rodriguez, weimaraner, dog aggression, leash pulling, puppy, puppy training, Cesar Millan, Tyler Muto, Jeff Gellman, Sean O'shea, Kikopup, tab, Zak George, dog whisperer, positive reinforcement

Id: 34sc7w7SmzY

Length: 11min 37sec (697 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 08 2016