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So it does sound like the dog has generalized insecurity and anxiety. And we would start by controlling the management on the dog. And I'm going to talk more about it in a second. And we would start with obedience training from the very beginning with this dog. We would do reward-based training. We would do marker training. If you want to use a clicker, that's fine. You don't need to use a clicker. You can use your voice. But that's where we would start. And within that context, we would get a place bed. And we sell these place beds, or you can buy them at pet stores. And we would teach the dog a place command. And we would focus on that. We want our dog to be able to go and lay down on a dog bed and stay there until we release them from that dog bed. And in our training videos, we have the progression on how to take a dog through that. I mean, you can get our basic dog obedience video, one that I did, and it's well-received and well-explained, the steps well-explained in that video. So in the beginning, the dog's trained in the living room to go lay on its place bed. But then as training progresses and the dog learns that it has to stay there, and that when it gets off, you're going to put it back there, and it knows that command, then we'll start moving the place bed to different locations. In your house, in your backyard, all the time when the dog is on leash. You do all of this work on leash, so you have control of the dog. And quite frankly, having control of the dog makes the dog more relaxed. It doesn't have to think for itself. It knows, hey, I'm on leash. I can only do what he wants me to do, she wants me to do. There's nothing wrong with that. But on these dogs, keep them on leash. In the house, too, on leash. Cindy goes on here to even say, we teach all of our dogs to do this in a variety of locations. And when we travel, our dogs, when we travel with our dogs, we bring an elevated bed and an X-pen. So we put our dogs in an X-pen for a long, long time. I mean, we have a two-year-old German Shepherd at our house, and we don't give him free reign for the whole living room or the whole basement where we have a TV and watch down there. There's an X-pen down there with a raised bed in it. And this is a high-drive, immature, two-year-old German Shepherd with a lot of energy and a very active personality. If we let him run around the whole house, he'd be climbing on the couch and poking us nose in everything he could because it's just the way he is. So we put him in an X-pen, and he learns that, yeah, he can lay next

to us, but he lays next to us in his X-pen, and he lays next to us on the raised dog bed. And then when we travel, it goes with him. And when this lady goes to his parents' house or her parents' house, take the X-pen and take the raised dog bed and put it someplace. And in the beginning, do that when you're in the house with the dog. And in the beginning, it can be when you're in the living room together, and then you can put the X-pen in another room. When you're in the living room, I mean, think outside the box, break it down into small little pieces, and expand on those pieces to fit you. You have to deal with the dog that's in front of you, and you have to make it very clear to the dog what you expect. You don't have to correct him when he doesn't do what you ask him to do. You just have to tell him, no, get back on the X-pen. You know, have a little bit of patience and realize that you might have to tell this dog to get on its bed 150, 200 times before it finally figures out, I better not get off that bed because all she's going to do is put me back on the bed. So that's all covered in the basic obedience course. So by doing this with this dog, if she has the X-pen there, the dog's not going to go and sit at the door and whine. It's not going to come and try and get on the couch or get in between her and neighbors that come over or friends that come over. It's going to go in its X-pen. It's going to lay down on the raised dog bed in the X-pen, and it's going to learn to be calm and quiet. There's nothing wrong with that. One very important thing, though, is to not accidentally reinforce the behavior of the dog acting nervous and whining. Don't try and soothe the dog. Oh, Fido, this is such a sad deal. Well, if you're going to be okay today, here, have a piece of food. Let me give you a treat to take your mind off of how bad this thing is. Nah, don't do that. That is just going to make it all worse. You have to learn to be calm, not be mad. Just be matter of fact. No, get in your bed. You don't have to pet them. You don't have to try and calm them down when they're doing all of this. You shouldn't try and calm them down when you're doing this. If you've done your job right, and they know what the get on your bed command is, you say, no, get on your bed. That's all you have to do. You're not mad. You're not soothing them. You're not feeling sorry for them. You're just saying, hey, get on your bed. You know what you're supposed to be doing. It's just that simple. And that works. Don't kid yourself that that doesn't play with your dog. It does. And just as importantly,

when you have other friends around or your parents or whoever, tell your friends, leave my dog alone. Don't go and pet them. Don't tell them, oh, Fido is so sad. You're in the pen. She's really a terrible owner. You can't do that. We'll let you out just as soon as she leaves the door so you can stand by the door and whine and tell you the cat's come home. It's not going to work. That doesn't make any sense at all. So make sure they understand that you're all on the same page. And then this lady came back and said, yes, I did purchase the basic dog obedience and we're reviewing the commands and using those tools. Thank you very much. Would corrections be effective for this situation? I found some research that shows that corrections for maladaptive BX, that's a new word for me. I had looked that up in Google. At the threshold can increase generalized anxiety and genetic anxiety. Well, that was all. I'm not a big, I just had never heard of that before. I had to look it up. I'll read you what I said, what it said. For people who are not familiar with maladaptive behavior is defined as behavior that interferes with an individual's activities of daily living or ability to adjust to and participate in particular settings. What the heck does that mean? I'd have to think about that for a long time, figure out what that means. So the lady goes on to say, sorry for all the questions. I'm a behavior analysis with humans and love learning about how to apply the behavioral concepts I know to dogs. I'm also a big research nerd. And then she laughs. Thank you for all your help and advice. The fact is we would not use corrections with this dog. We would use positive methods and reinforcement. If you start correcting a dog for whining, if you start correcting a dog to go when it's whining at the door, you're going to make that dog more insecure, not less insecure. It would be a total mistake to put a prong collar on that dog and crank it every time it starts whining. But what we would do, what we would prefer doing, is to give that dog a task to do that would block the behavior that it might do. The example here, the dog wants to go and stand at the door and whine, or the dog gets very nervous when somebody comes over. We want to block that behavior and how do we do it? We ask the dog to go over here and lay on his bed before the dog even has a chance to go and stand at the door and whine. So rather than correct him, we'll give them a behavior they know that they've already been trained to do before it even starts. And then that whining and

being anxious when somebody comes is blocked and the dog doesn't even do it. So the bottom line is correcting an anxious dog for being anxious is only going to make it more anxious. How's that for a triple anxious answer? Good management can solve a lot of these problems and the use of a being on leash all the time to block bad behavior, using a place bed to block bad behavior, using an X-pen to block bad behavior, is a solution. I'm about to do a video here in the next week or so to show people how we use X-pens in our home. We just don't put them into a, we just don't put our dogs in an X-pen with nothing for the dog to do in there but lay around. And we have a new puppy now and I think you'll find it interesting when I do this thing. So in closing, the bottom line is anxious dogs find comfort in knowing what's expected of them, knowing the rules that they're expected to follow and that causes them to be less anxious. So if you have a question on anything as far as training your dog, behavioral problems with your dogs, breeding with your dogs, the health of your dogs, go to leiberg.com, scroll on the front page right down to ask Cindy and send Cindy a question and you'll get an answer from it. If you want to learn more about how to train your dog, either at a pet dog level or more advanced training, we have excellent online courses with some of the best instructors in the United States, really good online courses. And go there and look at that and then we sell a lot of good training equipment. We don't try and compete with the big box stores. We only sell quality products that Cindy and I would use on our own dogs. Be with the cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop cop