윙크와의 8일간

house the happier I'm going to be what did you find you found a glove you did find a glove look at you that's really nice want to play games with me I have a toy good job good girl good girl do you want to play with me I've got oh do you want to play what have I got I've got a toy ready get it get it get it get good girl there there oh you're so good girl girl she's a good girl okay ready push the puppy away back up yes good girl going to get her want to pee she want to sit and chew that's okay she won't do that for long so eventually she'll come over and I'll reinforce that I'm not going to take her toy it's okay if she wants to sit look at you get it give her right back what you got are you a good girl I think you're a good girl she I am a good girl but it's a chillable what you got what you got are you a good girl is she a good girl if I wait a minute she'll come back I could probably talk her into it I could go get another toy and all of those things would be really appropriate and suited to the right dog but I'm pretty darn confident I don't need to do that with her so in said I'll just give her some choice about the matter it's only a matter of time before she starts to figure out that playing with me is way more interesting than the Alternatives but she's found something to chew the end of the handle um and she's having fun with that too it doesn't matter it doesn't matter at all because I know in a week if I keep working on this she won't do that I'm absolutely sure of it so it's just not worth fussing about let her have choice right what you got get get that what you got what that to that to what you got good girl I did come back and then I left she's over there where's your toy you lost it you lost your toy what are you looking for I don't have it it's over there get your toy yes good girl you what you got it's tasty you're ornery today huh so she'll come again when she's ready what's that what's that she's just sitting she thinking where's your toy you go get that toy you go get that toy come on go find it now if she abandons it I can go get it ready set get it go go go go good but I don't want to good girl I don't want to take it far get you toy you did that toy you did it I'm going chew I'm going to chew what you got now I'm going to step in and I'm going to pet her but I'm not going to touch her toy the reason I'm doing that is to teach her that if I approach her when she has things there's no reason to run away if you walk in and you take it then they stop wanting to bring you stuff and they start to actually run away when you come in so I give her a little belly rub I give her the belly

rub yeah that's a good girl where's your toy it's a good one it's a good toy yeah yeah you don't want your dog running away when you walk up with a toy that's for sure so go to some trouble to avoid that so if just telling her I'm going to approach you I'm going to pet your head going to give you a belly rub but I'm not going to take your toy oh look at you look at you what you got what you got good girl if I do reach in and take her toy and she lets go then I have to drop it right away because I don't want any misunderstanding I really want her to know I'm not taking her thing going to get that toy you're going to get that toy you're going to get that oh look at you oh look at you or she can just come and sit with me I'd like that too what you got what you got huh you're having a nice stretch on the grass are you having a nice stretch is it a nice in the sun it is this feels pretty good this feels pretty good want belly rubs too want belly rubs want belly rubs can you smack yourself with it can you you is there a bug did a bug bite you get your toy where's your toy go get it good girl that's better that's better you get that toy you get that toy where's your's your I don't have where's your to you're good girl yeah where's your toy there's your toy good girl good girl look at you that was good oh you got a toy you got a toy I do I have one all to myself what look at you good girl huh dad you got a good toy what you got what you got I'm going to get your toy I'm going to get your toy to get you first going to get you first I'm going to get it we go get it get your get oh good girl good to get her I'm going to get her want to play get your to a bug is there a bug it's a bad bug get it get a bug where's your toy go find your toy where's your toy what you doing eat the grass eat the grass okay now she's going to mouth me just ignore it hold your hands open very hard for dog to bite when your hands are like this she's trying but she's not getting anywhere where's your toy I think a toy is a better toy than me

look what you got what you got good girl get it going to getu I'm going get you good dog you are you so good you're going to go in the house and be nice now you're going to be rested huh you're going to be rested what do you think youing can I have it get your foot get your tail got your tail a bug on her [Music] tail oh alligator elator person on scooter had enough that's probably enough if I just took a ball and threw it she would almost certainly play fetch but fetch is different than tug um tug brings out more possession so it brings out different issues so I'm going to do a tiny bit of work with food okay mostly uh just to get my toy back because I don't want to take it because we're outside do some work what your cookies that's it okay ready couple more and then you're all done ready okay okay I'm going to put her away and then I'll come back to get questions I almost just picked her up because with burrito I often pick him up I don't want to keep her out today because I think she's being high maintenance and I don't want her doing bad stuff right so I'm going to just put up come here for

okay she's uh away all right Mary what do you do with your hands with the the mouthing hold your hands open hard hard see how my fingers are going backwards they're not relaxed they're back that's for really definite mouthing and then relax them as soon as possible and just keep them moving in a way that they can't get their mouths on them and just don't respond quiet is her food drive stronger than her toy drive I don't think they're I don't think you can compare them they're just different she's very good toy drive and food drive but they're on different scales um yeah right now because of her age it's easy for her to go from Toy to a food my guess is that that will change as she gets older and then it's going to be harder to get her on the food I'm pretty darn sure she's going to end up with very very high toy drive what behaviors are you discouraging as high maintenance do you mean why am I calling her high maintenance I'm not sure what you mean by discouraging um if you mean why do I call ourand maintenance okay well she's uh bothering lra so I'm having to keep taking her away from lra she's barking in the crate so not much I can do about that but wait her out um she's running through the house like a crazy dog um she's just bored she's just in a funk and busy and a little bit obstinate and kind of in her own little place and that's what I mean by high maintenance it's just puppies do that puppies have days like that so that's what I mean CD plan what you're going to do when you throw in little tidbits of work like this or you just doodling Elaine um you mean the healing I tend to default to Healing uh also I'd like to do some work out here with her because it's just more fun it's more fun for both of us so I switched over to Healing um I wouldn't actually try to do anything else that actually see right now the healing because I have food in my hands it's so easy for her to pay attention but if I tried doing something like scent workk that would be a mess because um she she she doesn't understand the exercise yet so you wouldn't want to do something in public that she doesn't understand she could do her disc work out here really easily but I don't teach new things in challenging places and as you saw she um the bugs have her attention you know so she's paying attention to that and she's kind of grabbing the you know grass and normally she's more interactive with me so today she's kind of wants to sit by herself and chew her toy and just see see what happens in the world and um so that's what she's going to get out of this session okay I'm going to scroll up see if there's anything else yeah Elaine the toy chewing how I

would handle that would really depend on the dog in her case she's such an interactive dog I know that she's not going to have a toy chewing problem I'm absolutely sure of it a different dog I might have done more and different things and again you know what just absolutely depends on the dog I might work harder I might use a second toy I might switch to a ball cuz I'm pretty sure with a ball she wouldn't do that um I might change the toy itself that toy tends to bring out that behavior in young dogs but it has some real advantages so I like to use it um I might run around more I might be more active I might do a billion things but because I know that she's smart and she'll figure it out and I know that she's driven if I let her work stuff out for herself then when she gets the message she'll get a much stronger message and she'll be much stronger so in her case I would like to help her as little as possible if it was a different dog I might help more no resting face Ela are you talking about me or the dog I'm working on my resting face I really am um I know she's getting bigger she's adorable okay Amber at what point would you bring out another toy or run away to encourage her to engage with you rather than sit with the toy um her I never would I just I just wouldn't I don't need to I am sure of that uh with a different dog if I thought that when the dog knows what the options are to play with me or chew with the toy if I think that the dog will opt for chewing at a six and playing with me at a five then that's the point at which I'm going to think about Alternatives how can I make me more than a five that's not her situation she just doesn't know yet that I'm bigger than a five she hasn't figured it out but she will um there's no reason not to bring out a second toy and to play so if it's working for you do that um with burrito I do that sometimes I'll bring out a second toy cuz chewing is so reinforcing to him um oh Olga okay um I haven't been following all the toy play videos there haven't been any um but what if you were to leave the area or run or just walk away would you see that's too much okay I'm glad you asked that Olga because see you're trying to solve a problem I don't think there is a problem I think many of you look at this and you say there is a right Behavior right you think there is something she is supposed to do and if she does that then that's good and if she does other things that's bad but that's not true all of these behaviors if they are reinforcing and interesting to her are positive behaviors we're spending time together she's doing things she enjoys it's my responsibility

over time to help her see that interacting with me is way more interesting than the Alternatives and because of her genetic wiring that's easy to do anytime I step in and try to overwhelm that process I'm setting myself up for responsibility that I don't want to have she's not my dog so longterm it's not my responsibility but that's not the point longterm I want her always thinking about how she is going to drive behaviors and make things happen anytime you say come and you run away to make it happen the dog looks at you and says how are you going to make this happen it's the same thing as taking a cookie out of your pock and showing the dog I don't want to lure Behavior if I can help it there's nothing wrong with the dog sitting on the ground chewing a toy it is not a problem there's nothing to fix it just is behavior it's just one more option on the table and over time I will make that a less attractive option in very subtle ways and I will make interacting with me a positive option and I will put money on the fact that by the time she goes home in 2 weeks you will see nothing like that you will see a completely different picture one week or whenever she goes home um it will take care of itself simply by letting it go away and letting her learn for herself Tanya did you ever work with a dog who would prefer cheing over playing oh yeah yeah burrito um or that always the technique of playing is not working so well I'm not understanding the second part of the question um but yeah lots of dogs prefer chewing over playing and so there's things you can do you can use less desirable chewing toys right harder toys uh don't use squeaky toys those are a nightmare don't use long fluffy whippy things that are entertaining without your help um don't throw at 30 fet that's asking for trouble don't play out in a great big area where she can sit in the grass and sunbathe um play in the house make set up your environment so that it's more fun structure small spaces teeny tiny tugs on the toy act give give more action give more to the dog so there's lots of things you can do if you want later on I'll bring burrito out and um see I'm on vacation when I start working again I can't do this um I can bring burrito out and show you because there's there's no question that burrito will do more chewing if he's given a choice but there's things I do with him that are more active and so he's more um uh he's coming around in ways that make it hard to see where he came from okay um okay did I get you all let's see yeah she's amazingly focused she's just just is but you know Amber okay so she's well focused outside but remember yesterday I

let her walk around the front yard for 10 minutes I paid no attention to her I just followed her to make sure she was safe I did not have her on a leash she could do whatever she wanted to do right so she had that choice she's been out here three times now the second time she did it but a much shorter period of time because she figured out I had a toy this time she actually reverted I would say she was closer to the first time but again I think she's in a funky mood today um it's only a matter of a few more days cuz she's naturally focused which is could potentially be a problem if she doesn't get enough socialization that's why I was kind of happy to see her go and do other stuff because I think it's important that she know that the world is a safe place and that it's not all about working that the world is safe and it's not because I have a toy Elaine lovely relaxed expression Belina is referring to me the human I have become so mellow about watching dogs do other stuff it's been very healthy because it is not my natural disposition to sit around waiting patiently I think the reason I've Gotten Good at it is I see how well it works if I calmly patiently wait the dog out I know I will get a much better result and that has given me a lot of patience how many times a day are you doing this I try to get her out twice a day uh I just started out here last night um issue is my dog I'd work with her more um mostly I have to work with her because it's keeps her brain busy and uh she she needs to do things she's a working dog you can't just not do things with a working dog you can use their brain or you can use their body so you can pick but you can't not do anything or they they make trouble right so then they're not happy so I have to do stuff with her um I can do play because it has two benefits one is I actually am teaching her things so that's what the hell right so me mental stimulation she's working at details but the other is there's physical exercise so she's interacting she's doing stuff so that's a really that's a positive thing so how many times a day her I'll probably do this twice um my own dog four or five times how long I don't know how long did I have her out maybe 10 minutes um so maybe 10 minutes just playing it's training in a way but it's mostly playing do you want to see burrito I can do that do you think that having re good morning um I hope this is on the right group please somebody just tell me now if I screwed it up so I'm going to work with winky with her toy she's being tyrannical because she's bored and just really quickly I'm going to talk about that um there's two

reasons when or times when puppies tend to be kind of difficult one is when they're bored and they need to do something so in her case she's been in a crate all night she slept she's ready to go she just wants to do something and the other is when it's time to go to bed and they're just tired and and then they're being obnoxious because they're sleepy so um I handle those differently if she just needs to get out she just needs to get out right that's part of having a puppy is you get it out and the other or get a much lower energy dog if you just don't really want to do it um and the other time is when they need to go to bed and then you just have to Crate them and they might do some barking and you just have to deal with it so we're going to pick up where we left off my job is not to discourage chewing it's to encourage coming to me right so try to think of it in terms of what you want not in terms of what you don't want I just want her to interact with me so she has her toy look at you gotcha nice look at you you got yes she starts the movement towards me I resp I push her away cuz that actually makes it more likely that she'll come back a that's my girl that's my girl what you got oh so she left let her go cuz this is better than yesterday right what you yes what I want is when I push her away I I want her to Circle back more quickly so I'll work towards that slowly it's a good girl push her away let her come back push her away let her come back you're doing good pumpkin drag her behind you push her away she can choose she's going to sit and chew I don't think you can see that I'm not sure what your angle is it's fine yes if she gets up and comes to me I'm going to reward that if I get the toy from her I'm just giving it back whoops did you see how I tried to go towards her yay that was a bad habit shouldn't do that so now she's going to take a little nap but she's a look at you she's coming back push her away Let Her Go Let Her choose wait she's thinking her ears are up she's watching me her mve starts mine yes so if she sits and chews I'll watch her that's no problem but I won't respond if she wants my attention she needs to oh look at you she needs to come back to me yes this is good good watch how her behavior is going to drive mine yes look at you she starts it I pick it up now yesterday when I'd throw her away like that it would take her much longer to come back right that's a girl yes now let her think about it what's more fun chewing or playing with me she's

thinking yes good girl you just forgot your toy go get the toy that's okay that's a H yay look at you that's my girl that's a girl constant tension and motion if she jumps I have to go with her yeah what girl what girl let her go yay that's so good where is she let her go she's sitting and chewing I don't think you can see her now the episodes of sitting and chewing will increase the longer I work on this cuz she'll adapt if I take her from behind like this that's very low pressure go naked husband just showed up but I think we're okay look at the ears up she's thinking she's thinking she'll probably come without her ball CU at this point she's thinking about me or bugs now she's back to her toy I'd rather she hold her toy when she look at me because the odds of coming back with it or better but it doesn't matter if I can get her to come back and I can get her to interact with her toys just a matter of time before the two come together she'll be back bug hunting is really awesome bug hunting is really awesome are you a good girl where's your toy Go Get It Go Get Your toy good girl yes don't you get that b you get that ball you get that I'm going to get her yeah it's opposition reflex right push her away so you push on her body like well that was too far she has to be a little bit engaged before you push or it's not opposition reflex it's just pushing your dog away that at the end look at you look at you where's your toy good girl you bring that toy you bring that toy push the puppy let her go she comes back push the puppy P the puppy push the puppy up to my hands so show her hand to take her toy going to get that one so she starts to Target your hands that one don't up up up up got get that get this one get this one that's okay that's it now we do a good belly rub did you get a good belly rub did you get a good belly rub yeah yeah bil the bil okay oh she's such a good girl what you get want to do teeny tiny bit of work do you want to heal I have cookies want to do that give her a little mental

break okay just to make some variation in her life here we hey look at you want to few more who's a good girl oh it's a good girl you are oh yeah that was good started lining up on her own huh ready yes nice that's it good want do it again ready and hry CU you want it to be fun so that's hurry and that's in right good job cookiee I didn't drop anything that's okay you can figure that out all right so we got our toy that's not stealing it's been on the ground for a long time is there a cookie impressed what have I got ready what is what is it are you ready get get get get get get good girl yes yay look at you look at you look at you oh go get that there she is it'd be totally fine for me to take off running after she's moving towards me but I'm not sure how to do that with you guys on the camera cuz it's on the tripod girl good girl good girl where's your toy did you lose it that's it you got you got girl yeah get it don't keep it if you get it give it back Y where it go better hold on you better hold on what you going to do what you going to do I'm going to get going to get it ready go that way good girl yes if you back up and you face the dog get it that's it you reduce pressure if you stand still they have to come into your space that's a little harder so back up lower your body and they're more likely to come in right and then let her go past you pull from behind if you pull from behind it's very low pressure I think she's had enough so cuz she is a squishable pumpkin let's scratch her little tmy tell her she's lovely which she is and then put her away you're ready to go back she no cuz you can't be in the house loose without me in there because I love my family but they're skills of supervision are really questionable so I'll be back without her so give me a minute to put her up it's a loud family come all

right for for I got a little workout that time you can see a lot of improvement from yesterday that may not be training at all it could just be she was having a bad day yesterday it could be she was having a good day today um I did work with her last night for 5 or 10 minutes and she was doing a nice job last night too okay let's look Molita go to bed Seline she is a good girl she's super trainable um really when a dog has a genetic package that has all the pieces the trick is not to screw up any of the pieces it's not going to be hard to get her I would my guess is that by the time she goes home I won't be able to get her off me with a toy that she will be so tight around my body that it's constant um but it sure does help that she came with a genetic package that has her balanced in a way that makes it very doable now it's really more a matter of um working with who she is and what she has because it's it's harder it's doable but it's harder with dogs that are more unbalanced and where you have to work a little harder to uh kind of balance what they bring to the table she's easy hello Ellen good luck at your nose workor trial Marty and when you let her go if she doesn't come back how long do you wait forever I'm not going to do anything with this dog to cause her to come back because um in my mind The Learning Experience for her is the process of comparing the value she gets from laying on the ground chewing her toy versus what she gets if she interacts with me anything I do to cause that to happen more quickly slows down the learning process this is the difference between shaping and luring right in a nutshell um I would much rather just wait her out and then if it goes to the point where she just walks away and just gives up on the whole thing well I pushed too hard I went too long right um and if I really think she's just going to settle in for a good chew then I'm going to say is that a temperament issue should I be using a different toy with this dog so like with burrito I would look at that as a temperament thing and I would uh switch my toy that's not the case with this dog canel Samantha you're welcome you guys are getting my play seminar pretty much in well with one dog in miniature uh Seline if your dog seems to enjoy uh if your dog seems to enjoy tug in in if I guess think what you mean is playing intensely but oh in intense but short birth but doesn't really hold toys in his mouth otherwise uh would what you're doing with wink be applicable my dog has only brought a toy to me like three times in his life um maybe uh you might try leashing the toy leashing the dog um I'm just kind of

picking up where she's at so it's so hard for me to tell people what they should do when I'm not seeing it because there's tons of other things that are very likely going on um so it's it's really hard for me it's not that I wouldn't help you I just it's hard cuz I don't see what she's dog is doing uh Karen no joke uh she says this is a great exercise program for puppy owners it absolutely is this puppy is so small she weighs nothing but when I play tug with lra I get a nice little workout Zari has her dog watching let me know how that works for you all right do you have guinea hens no I have um a family of blue jays so between the Blue Jays and the lizards and um what else is here there's something else I oh squirrels how could I forget um between those three uh I I pretty much have problems with every dog that comes through here it's my feet yeah I'm glad the birds are entertaining you I hate them I hate those birds they're beautiful to look at but when you live with blue jays you appreciate them a lot less hello Elizabeth good luck with your confirmation thank you uh Joanne this is great I feel like I'm watching you train Willow good wi could be Willow I can believe that they're belgians belgians are belgians okay do you have any other questions so recap the dog drives the behavior right if she wants to sit and chew she's welcome to do that that's good for a five for this dog right now she doesn't know I'm that entertaining but she's certainly learning quick that playing tug with me is way better the only way that's going to work is if I find a way to play with her that meets her where she's at right so if I over her if I play so hard that she's not winning it's not fun for her she's not engaged if she gets hurt um then I'm not fun right I'm not raising my value the way to raise my value is to make sure I play in a way that matters to her and that's extremely individual right but there's little principles you can use so as a general rule if you want a dog to come back you should play more softly right don't play so rough if a dog is climbing up you and hurting you you can play harder because it tends to give you a little more space if you turn away from the dog or pull the dog behind you you're reducing pressure so it's easier for the dog if you face the dog you're increasing pressure but if you face the dog and back up you're reducing pressure so I know that all sounds rather complicated but generally since you're just going to play with your own dogs you can kind of think about it in advance and then try out different things right so I mean that's kind of what the play class is it's what kind of a dog do we have in

front of me and what should we do with it when he is too like Winks see go family Winks everywhere reducing pressure I need this lesson you know Tanya um the biggest problem I have in seminars is uh people inadvertently pressuring their dogs so that the dog doesn't want to come towards their space and into their thing it's actually it's it's a hard lesson because we want to look at the dog and by definition looking at the dog is additions of pressure Terry you feel like this is Christmas oh I'm excited I'm about to finish cuz I think there's no more questions but I'm glad you're here and I'm glad you're having fun so if you have a question get it out there we good no more I think we're I think we're good let me just review make sure I've got your questions all right Jennifer when Charlotte plays with me she humps me from behind is this okay I don't know how do you feel about it um that would not fly with me um is she humping you or wrapping her arms around your legs those are different so I don't care if the dog wraps their arms around my leg just to cuz they're just trying to hold me still um being humped is just a sign of overarousal but I can think of ways I'd rather spend my time so I just take them off of me and redirect there's all kinds of things you can do to prevent them from getting to you so if it bothers you just don't let it happen oh Sam yeah this is what I teach in seminars see you're saving a couple hundred bucks today um what a deal yeah Seline there's your humping question I think is just arousal it's just one more form of arousal what if they play with front paws a lot hard on the clothes and skin you know I think I have a video of kissu her name is C IU if you go to my YouTube channel I think it's a public video so just search kissu playing Put in kissu playing strong dog and see what comes up I'm pretty sure I have a video there that kind of tells you how to manage dogs that are very strong or big or powerful there are things you can do to keep their front feet off of you uh it's more of a technique Nikki not over pressuring a small dog um I can't help you with the bending hurting your back I get it I just sit on the ground and do most of my play on the ground but eventually you're just screwed right with the little ones uh you can do tons sitting on the ground that's a good start um I I actually treat small dogs the same as big dogs if you think about it a puppy is a small dog right so and I do exactly the same thing if she was my puppy and she was 8 weeks old this is what we would be doing right I just she's four months old so she's doing it now it is the same um I just stand up when I can and I spend a

lot of energy teaching dogs to jump up to my hands but if it's a small dog like with burrito I never completely get around it so I usually sit if I'm just playing and if I'm trying to work him I'll stand up but I strongly encourage him to jump up to my hands rather than me going down and actually that's what one thing I'm really working on with him right now because it just makes my life easier you're welcome Deb okay good luck Tanya um I don't I can't remember but I'm thinking you're in my play class aren't you one of my gold students or maybe you're or maybe you're in healing games um regardless if you're in one of my classes and I see things around play that I think I can fix for you I usually just address it um quickly if it's going to become an ongoing thing I can't but if it's just a quick thing so if you're doing something um that concerns me and I think I can just give you a simple a simple quick answer I'll just give it to you what I won't do is obviously turn the game into the class into the play the play class okay are we all done all right guys this is good this is fun to do bye good morning Facebook um I'm going to continue with the puppy on play right play skills that's pretty much what I'm going to do with her cuz that interests me um tug in particular couple of questions people ask so I'm going to address them a little bit uh Toy selection the reason I use this kind of a toy with her is because she already has fetch so if I throw a ball she already kind of comes back um what I'm working on is Tug is different than fetch because tug has such an element of um possession it's bringing something back and then fighting about it is different than bringing something back taking it and throwing it so it's pretty common for dogs who will fetch a ball not to be as enthusiastic about fetching a toy but as you can see um she's she's getting quite a nice little attitude about um even with the tug sticking close staying with me and playing with me so I'll work on that the other thing I kind of want you to just notice in general is how much engagement training is taking place here she starts the behavior avior I respond so for those of you who pay attention to things like this it's basically stage three right so she looks at me that's fine I wait for any movement towards me I respond the other thing you might want to keep an eye on is the matching Behavior the extent to which um if she's moving faster I'm moving faster especially now I'm really trying to show her that if she's running I'm running that she can control my behavior huh huh come here pumpkin you got look at you stage two stage three good girl I may

not I may not have set my angle up as well today so I don't know if it's easy for you to see I think I moved my camera I should just find a space and leave it there huh where's your toy good girl I don't steal from her even if she lets go I give it right back the reason is she's trying sometimes she's just mechanically she makes a mistake so with some dogs you would absolutely you would steal you would tease you would run off to teach them to play more intensely she's trying she just doesn't always get a good bite ready that's it that's it got [Applause] yes okay I'm going to ask for my toy back I'm going to get the toy back and then I'm going to throw it cuz I know that's reinforcing to her yes look at you look at you look at you right so now really what she just needs is to move to run to get some exercise huh so I'll let her do that good girl where'd she go I'd like to tighten up that Circle where's your toy good girl I'd like her to come right back so that was about a six foot radius that's okay that's certainly heading in the right direction but that that is something I would be looking at over time I wanted to come right back to me and stop or smash into me I don't care that much if she starts to smatch into me there's things I can do to to stay safe where's your toy where's your toy so she came back without the toy you know what that's pretty good huh I got I got one out of two so let's go with that tell her she's lovely she is right so be happy she came back hey I like that way better than running away right so we're heading in the right direction I can tell her to go get that toy but keep your priorities straight right the more important thing is if she come back where's your toy where's your toy where's your toy I don't have it I don't have your toy I do now ready set where's that's it good girl nice that's better that was a nice of return huh good girl I go get you I go get you I don't want your toy I don't want your toy that's opposition reflex that's it

where'd it go where'd it go go go go get it get it get it good girl get it get it get it so when I push on her you see how she doesn't she gets more into me and she doesn't clam down on the toy it's not a problem but I'm going to work on that I'm going to teach her that if I'm pushing I may well grab so hang on she'll figure that out pretty darn quick get a little tired you need a breath want to do some obedience just to get your little head clear there we go good that's it look at you good good girl wait get you it ready what that was too abrupt a transition for her she didn't know I'd switch so that that's why I didn't get a very good response so I could handle that better huh have you had enough you good girl so that time she started coming to me realized she'd left her toy behind and she went back and got it who's a clever girl huh who's a clever girl got you gotch you get there you get you get let's work on that again all right so push her away pull ready Push Pull Push Pull Push Pull now I want her to clamp down right Push Pull Push Pull Push Pull push gotcha good girl so on the last one did you say I set up a little rhythm Push Pull Push Pull push come on that's it good eventually no hands on dog just push good girl push good girl cuz I want her to take as much responsibility yes for this game as possible huh super all right she's done um I'm going to put her way it's easier for me and I'm going to come back we can talk and it's I can already feel how hot it's going to be today I know some of you are thinking that's funny because I live in California we have a dry heat right so you're thinking you don't know anything about heat but an oven is an oven I don't really care how dry the heat is it's not fun so um I'll put her away then I'll get somebody else out for their little morning session um burrito would make an interesting dog but I'll talk to you first just in case you have any questions about this one and then I'll turn this live off and I'll just start a new one for burrito you have a good time pumpkin what are you doing what are you doing okay ready got to get back to the house all right let's go

for for for okay that was wink session and you know what I picked up a cup of coffee on the way back what a deal oh that's bright I have to change the angle so that I'm not hold on quite so much in the sun where's that coming oh it's the mirror okay sorry that must make you a little SI sick there you can look at something new now whatever that is um it's a nice view isn't it uh let's finish up this dog and then I'll I'll grab another dog I'll just answer your questions and then move on okay she is a cute puppy Jamie um Jamie okay so your dog regrips on the toy usually that's a problem with uh tension so if your tension is strong enough it's actually impossible cuz if the dog tries to rebite they lose the toy cuz you've pulled it out of their mouth so make sure that you're keeping your tension high enough and that usually solves it if you're talking about uh when you've let go of the toy in between then personally I don't worry about it because doesn't affect me Karina with burrito if he let go of a toy while tugging would you uh play keep away to encourage a harder bite with burrito no because there's something about burrito something with his mouth uh that makes him uncom comfortable when he plays tug so it's a it's a problem because uh he does want to play but I think it hurts him and it causes him to do weird chattery things and and he seems distressed and so I am going to a lot of trouble right now to find ways to play with him that don't hurt and so in the effort to build his confidence I would be super careful about that so I would say no for burrito re she's so quiet actually no she has a voice on her that is um noteworthy and she shared it with me at 2: in the morning um a lot today yeah it's been a long night um Mary these videos have shown me that my pacing is too slow you do so much in a couple of minutes I've often wondered when people say they train their dogs for an hour what the hell they did for an hour can you imagine doing that for an hour in 10 minutes you can train a lot of stuff with a train dog with my my former competition dogs I could cover all of open and utility in 10 minutes easily easily and that included some drills so I don't know what the hell people are doing for an hour and maybe that's it maybe they just sort of wander and but that's so not interesting the trick is not to use your energy to cause the dog to pay attention the trick is to let the dog cause your energy to happen if that makes sense um but the dog should absolutely be able to drive you into becoming a more interesting person just

don't use being a more interesting person to cause the dog to work chew on that for a while Lee are you worried or should we be about their puppy teeth playing tug with young puppies I see her feet lifting but is she jumping or are you lifting her in play I'm really not worried about it if a puppy tooth comes out that's pretty much okay an adult teeth on a dog are pretty are pretty strong if you think about what they use those teeth for so uh I'm not worried about it I know some people are but then again some people worry about everything I mean I'm amazed at the things people find to worry about I am not a worrier by Nature and I do lift her um I've had six seven eight week old puppies that I had no qualms about walking them around while they hung on the toy with all four feet off the ground didn't bother me at all I wouldn't be shaking them because they could go flying but if I was just moving from one place to the other and they were attached I didn't care uh re I'm interested in the transition you meant from food to toy right oh how could you have done it better all right so what I did wrong so what she's referring to is when I was working with the food and then I said yes and I threw the toy I really did catch her off guard she didn't realize that I was about to switch so what I should have done was after I gave her the long cook last cookie said good girl okay brought the toy back out showed her that we had switched directions and then thrown the toy it would have been a two-c transition but it would have prevented that kind of huh what just happened look not a big deal but it's not ideal okay all good any more questions for this little one okay and then I'll go get um I'll go get burrito I think it's probably better if I finish the lives and then start them again so that uh if you ever want to find one again you can find it more easily just by searching the dog's name so I think you're all good good morning I'm going to go get wink now today what I'm going to work on with her toys is uh tightening up her return to me I'd like to get that a little tighter and continue to work on her uh pushiness which is fine but I just want it more so let me go grab her for did you did you a chewy a chewy yes that was good baby

you already hot I'm tired that better you got what you got just going to lay here it's warm come here can sit with me I won't take your toy want come here you're so cute you're so cute so she did fine for a couple minutes I think she's a little hot and tired too so if she wants to just sit and chew I'd rather she's sit and chew with me for company huh I mean she'll play I can pick it up I just wonder if maybe I'd be hitting that point of diminishing returns what if I throw it foret that's a girl good girl that's better than yesterday that was three feet yeah that was good that was you are so funny you are so funny what you doing your head huh is want do another one ready [Music] you find a different toy so if she doesn't bring it right back it could be a little possession did you find a new toy you uh could just be she doesn't really want to play that game uh she says no I found something new that I can chew on instead did you find a new toy find a new toy toy it's not a you toy so in general you would avoid this issue just by not having the stuff down and around but I don't really care that she's doing it because I know it'll go away but if I did have concerns maybe a different kind of dog I just wouldn't have stuff and there's just stuff all over out here uh so for most dogs you probably just want to take that option off the table it doesn't matter now we're going to get a Chenery you want cookies huh want to work on your pivots good girl

yeah she's very good at sitting too good at sitting or stand less sit huh nice nice look at you yay that was good that was so good Miss Ry okay get your toy we're done your drop ready on it say Get it that's it get it that's it oh what a good girl that's a good girl hold on hold on that was too much that was too much nice all right think we're going to quit well done I'm going to put her away okay pumpkin ready to go in your house are you going to bark that's what you're going to do okay for okay um that's it today it's not a whole lot different than yesterday she's getting better at tightening up coming back to me she's playing a little rougher which is nice um her fet just getting a little better what I'm looking for is just tighter circles tighter circles coming back uh with a ball I think she probably come right back to me but with the tug she has to think about it but that's about it it's it is it's getting pretty warm uh I'm not even going to work my other dogs today not in the morning um I'm going to just take raika for a walk before I can't and then sit in the nice house just let the world go by any questions your daily wink fix that's right Nikki what will you do when she's gone super cute okay you good any questions for today it's really really not that different at this point I mean at some point you just keep building on what you have you just kind of look here and there and decide what uh what things you want stronger and which things you want to uh extinguish a little bit that's about it and that's kind of where she's at now we're just working a little here and a little there okay we're done I'll talk to you later

bye you you got get you girl look at you you a look at you get you a good girl good girl good girl a good girl oh that's good girl yeah going to get you get your to get you ready what you got you [Applause] got that's my girl that was very good look at you look at you nice do something else having a pretty good time huh having a pretty good time the different to how about the itty bitty one this ready you get that get it a look a girl look at you look you that was good that was so good that was so good look at you look at you oh a good girl yay it's a winky girl she's a smarty pants she's a smarty pants it's a little burito toy just right for your skinny little nose nose this one ready that's it this the the one I'm playing with that's my

dog let's do something else ready let's go get the cookie get the cookie here it's crumbly cookie a new one it's not crumbling huh ready too slow ready drop it I actually care that she puts her feet up I just ignore it let her jump let her jump let her jump let her jump feet go down rewards your dog yeah she's smart though see she pick yourself out fast huh go this way go the other way can you do it play Ready Set ready for big bre give go yay very good very good good

girl well done look at you look at you all right had enough okay let's put you away and then we'll talk to people and then you're done huh Bing good are you ready get you for okay let's see if you have any questions this is my 25th broadcast how's that possible Facebook says I've done this 25 times that's I'm having a little trouble with that so much fun she's really focused on you yeah she's coming along really well good morning Denise hi Lee when you're playing with her in the beginning just turning and have her fall into healing informally with this help is a fun way to slower dogs to May pick up speed yeah if I had been talking more in this video I would have said that what I was doing is an early healing game so it would be very easy for me to start reaching down and pulling her toy when she's in that position building value for wanting to be at my side because when she figures out that being at my side with her head way high causes me to grab the edge of the Toy That's healing so as a matter fact it's a perfectly fine way to teach healing um adds a little energy and drive so for sure if your dog plays now the trick is always reach for the toy where she should be so if she's a little laggy or a little wide or whatever uh you won't be getting the toy because it's not where it needs to be and when the dog figures that out that'll really help your healing Tanya are you working on one side for healing uh I'm only training healing on one side but I'm actually starting to work her on both sides just to balance her a little bit that's why I'm making a real effort when I'm playing tug to have her come up on both my left and my right because um I've done enough now on the left that I'm afraid I'm going to unbalance her so I'll only work healing but healing I mean how much time do I spend two minutes a day it's just nothing but playing she should learn to play on both sides no matter what no matter what her Sports she should be very comfortable so I'm doing a little more now yeah she's she well Tanya she's not she's not a challenge so the thing about her if you just look at what she offers and you work with the kind of the next logical step she progresses and progresses and progresses because she's genetically wired for this kind of stuff most dogs would would um get stuck and the other thing that's kind of weird about her normally everything is two steps forward one step back so um well In fairness I worked her last night out here and um she had a bad night uh there was a few things one the reason I brought that second toy out today she got obsessed with that thing last night she wasn't having me or my toy and

that's fine I worked through it I was kind of hoping she would show you that again today so we could have talked through it but you know cuz she's bright she kind of learned in one session that she is welcome to do whatever she wants you can play with other toys but anything I have is way more interesting than anything she has and she got that lesson today's the first day I actually tried playing with the second toy uh yesterday I was only focused on trying to get her to abandon it and come back and play with me cuz she just wanted to sit and chew and chew and chew but uh so she figured that out so what I would do now cuz I know she does have a little bit of um it's mine I would there's actually a lot of toys down around here I would start rotating through all of them just playing with one playing with one drop that one and go get another one so she's welcome to have an opinion she's welcome to pick a toy if I just uh like the way I let her out I just said out here and she can do what she wants um I don't care I I'll work with what she picks but if I decide to switch I would like her eventually to be able to switch for me and that's what I was working on Ashley what do you mean by being worried about being unbalanced um are we referring to the toy play when I was playing on both sides if you always play with the dog on the left you're orienting their body to the left so you're strengthening one set of muscles if you work on both sides your the dog's physically is better balanced they're you know it's just like I work so much on the left that um I'm my left arm and hand are much stronger and I'm much more comfortable maneuvering the side this side is hard for me I have to think and I'm not quick um and that's because I'm not balanced I haven't worked on both sides enough um that's more of a problem for some people than others it's more of a problem for some sports I know a lot of people do teach formal healing on both sides and I don't I think I probably could or should or whatever but I would say this I don't heal my dogs for half an hour at a time I I do two minutes a day with any dog so I'm not really worried about causing physical problems I do play though on both sides I play with toys on both sides I do a lot of run and fetch and my dogs spend a lot of time just being dogs so I don't think they're going to be as physically imbalanced but I would be a little concerned about it with her if I only taught her to play off my left side because it would make it harder and harder to get her to come to my right side and my right hand okay okay I think I've got everything so what I was trying to work

on with the food today was more movement and healing as I've said a 100 times healing uh Precision healing is boring and mostly what I've worked on with her is precision healing uh pivoting on the left hurry to the right so today I'm trying to add more look you need to pay attention because you don't know which way I'm going to go I might go between my legs and then I might take off to the right I might take off to the left you just don't know um so I'm trying to get her moving and um engaged Precision healing is all about what's in it for the dog it's a cookie but it's not about the interaction with you as soon as you start adding a little game to it uh then it becomes about the interaction with you the activity and the rewards and also your rewards go way down so it's a nice way to start thinning the rewards plus it's just fun to play with her okay I think we're good for sh you okay W get your back get your back ready set get it good girl do I [Music] have girl that's it girl good girl that's

it you're so good you're so good Ready Set get it get it get it nice good girl yeah de dog are you a dead dog I go give you a dead dog she's a dead dog she a dead dog Ready Set get it good girl go get it puy you're so smart you're so smart you're so smart yes you are good girl ready chattering how cute get [Applause] [Music] her good yeah drop it [Applause] P you Ready set go good girl get her I'm going to get you ready set go good girl that's it good hey to am Go Get

It Ready Set get it good girl that huh there roll on your head on your head I'm you you got what you [Applause] got you're good girl you're good girl look good girl yes you are what you such a good dog yes you are you are enough enough all right you're done okay for I am relocating to a place with less sun it's too bright okay that's more comfortable for me so there I kind of changing direction a little bit I'm taking the skills she already has some of the things I already taught her with food and um combining them into personal play so my guess is that those of you who are really struggling with biting in personal play are making too strong of a line between toy play and personal play and then you're saying the dog won't hold the toy blur the line right so if you think about it if you look back on this tape later on there's a lot of personal play in there but it's a very blurry line right so she's not as inclined to let go she doesn't quite know what happened notice I use the food the same way I make it very playful very light um keep her moving all the time through in a little bit of healing the more you can blend all those things your play your work your interactions the better off you're going to be all right let's see any

questions you are hello ladies I was very happy with that session I really was I felt like um we're making nice progress this Allison has a baby to be babysat good morning Nikki a stupidly simple thing let's see that I've gotten out of these videos is how much time you spend on the ground playing with wink we old people often don't like to get down on the ground because you have to get back up but I'm obviously going to have to get over that I totally get it um at some point in the last 15 years I started to grunt when I stood up I'm not sure when it happened but it's unfortunate however if it helps stay down longer right put a chair out there and help yourself up you don't have to get down I just um for me it's actually easier what you will notice if you look back at the First videos to now you'll notice I'm bending over a lot less right my back is a lot straighter because the more she comes up to my hands the less I have to bend and so believe me that's personal goal is not to walk bent over that's a little awkward and with dogs like burrito size I never get to get over that it gets better but in an obedience I don't have to bend over anymore but in play I always have to bend over with burrito so the fact that she's now starting to jump up to my hands and I'm spending 70% of my time upright upright as opposed to Bent makes me very happy um the other thing you'll notice is that as she becomes a stronger dog and more uh physically capable uh it's going to get harder for to play with her just because of her size and her weight and she'll get better at using her body so if you notice how much time I'm actually not tugging I'm just moving my body offering my hands for her to jump to tug for three seconds let go of the toy move to a new spot as long as the dog constantly climbs and pushes your space it doesn't matter you don't have to play continuously if you teach your dog to play tug as in you pull they pull and then you let go and the dog runs off then you can't ever let go right but I don't teach that I teach if I let go slam back back into my space over and over again and so very soon the other thing you'll notice if you watch is that if she has a toy in her mouth I am attached to it less than 20 to 30% of the time so it's a privilege for her when I actually play right the rest of the time she's just asking me to play and I'm deciding if I feel like it that's a huge benefit it also allows me to start incorporating it into training like healing because if she shows up in heel position and I like what I see I have the option of reaching down and pulling on it if I don't like the option I can talk to her I can tell her she's

adorable she's still being reinforced but she's not getting let's say the ultimate interaction that she wants okay Lisa thank you um catching this but never found the one Jeb Deb did it's on her own page I've not finished watching all videos yet so sorry if I missed it is there a reason for right side healing position lla my um camera automatically does a mirror image so it's it's not actually on the right hand side it's on the left it's confusing though I understand that she does love the bull uh full body contact and the interaction um it's actually like with burrito that's something I'm always trying to work on he'll bounce on me but he doesn't like to push but I think when you're small that kind of makes sense all right any other questions okay so this is when things kind of get fun for me cuz I can start to feel how all the pieces are going to start to get together I can start to see how I'm going to create Dynamic healing rather than just start stop start stop that just do you all in it's boring as hell so don't do it get going make it fun it's a game right so 90% of my time we're playing games we're having a great time and she's learning a couple of things which is great but the more important thing is that we're having a good time the rest comes huh okay so going forwards the kind of things I would work on now she's doing very well switching toys very happy with that uh do you see how she knows Ready Set now so that's impulse control so while I didn't call it that the fact is that's teaching her impulse control did you see what I did when she went forward and she grabbed the toy before I told her to very quiet but that's impulse control training that's my way of saying you can break if you want you can mess with the toy but it's not going to work for you um soon she won't do that at all CU she's smart girl huh um was going to say something and I sort of lost it oh so now she's switching between toys that's good I think I might uh maybe I'll start doing some presentations so what that means is instead of throwing the toy to start her or activating It On The Ground I'll see if I can get her to start targeting so holding the toy up and saying get it we'll see I think she's just right on the edge hard to say if she's really ready for that I'll find out if she's not she's not then I just back it up and worry about it later she obviously will be soon enough okay if there's no more questions I'll let you go would you be having a 65b male jumping into that much do you mean into me into you is that what you're saying um well if you watch you'll notice I mostly have her Target my hands not my

body so the only time she t targets my bodies when she goes low so that's not really a problem um if they're targeting your hands that's kind of why you do it so they don't slam you um so yeah it's actually exactly the same but really review that and notice how much time I have her jumping to the left to this hand to the right to this hand and if you watch it you'll see that she almost never contacts with me almost never puts her feet up on me I might pull her up but that's different notice I mostly pull her left and right side also notice how little time my hands are out away from my body mostly they're in close to my body because it's much more comfortable and safe and I could do that comfortably with a big dog if you start getting all bent over you're actually really risking your well-being because that's that's just unsafe good Rue I'm expecting all of you to go out there and be playing and doing a great job I'm actually finding these enormously valuable um for you because what I realize is seeing the rhythm of how you play and how you progress over time it's so quiet that it's actually hard for me to find a way to do that in edited videos without taping every single tape and I can't do that long term but I can certainly do it for two weeks so I think um if people grasp the rhythm of how I play with the dog and the amount of time I spend and the things we do and then if you look back over time and see how this affects this and what she's learning I think that's going to be super helpful for you guys um eventually to to see what it all looks like because I think there is a tendency for us trainers or whatever to focus on one thing so today is personal play today is toy play today is food play and we get really stuck and we we get it in our head that there's one way to do things just play with your dog just blend everything have a good time throw in some training do some running around do some belly rub go back and forth so your dog learns all of those skills in one session okay all right guys thank you talk to you later bye yeah okay guys that's it we're done she did a nice job thanks bye good morning uh today I'll work with wink on toys and food we'll kind of keep up where we've been the one thing I wanted to mention bring up is that she's clearly losing more teeth now the bigger ones not the little ones in front and so I'm seeing more blood on the toys um more that kind of stuff licking her mouth so some people uh feel you should stop playing with toys when the dog tease other people say just continue straight on through if the dog's okay with it um I'm in the continue straight on through group unless the dog is

distressed but I will say that if your dog is teething and if you also have problems with chewing toys that's going to get worse so if I had a dog that was chewing toys a lot I would start to consider how I might want to reframe my sessions to get me around that issue um in her case I'm going to ignore it and just kind of uh see what we get with it if it was burrito for example I would handle it differently because um chewing is more important to him physical discomfort is more important to him and I wouldn't want to develop a habit of having a dog say chewing is a nine you're an eight see because right now I know that with this dog chewing might be a five but I started out as a five but by now I'm I'm a pretty solid eight to nine right um but chewing is going up in value so as soon as chewing starts to get very close to interacting with me then I start to lose the battle and I need to make some changes so that's just something I'm going to put out there and it's really going to come down to how she behaves right if she's just looks like she just really wants to sit and chew that's not a problem I'm going to switch over to food and we're going to do other stuff um maybe she'd be okay with Fetch and not tug uh maybe tug is okay on some toys and not others maybe tug is okay if I do it certain ways uh I don't play that rough anyway so I'm not going to hurt her but I also don't want teeth flying out all over the place and now she's licking herth mouth and chewing and you know having problems so uh just put that out there and I'm going to go get her and we'll see what she does with me do you what do you have what do you have get that to get that to your butt get your butt come a little bit lighter on the play not quite as rough where' she go [Music] [Applause] she how you doing how you doing OE fo don't you get my feet don't you get my feet where' you find what did you find what did you find I don't even know I don't even know what you got oh GL Ready set

go get death roll you want cookies yes good girl you look at you so silence predicts action right keep her on the food keeps me safe you do something good there you go all right H come on hurry come on where's your toy okay let's try here got it good girl I don't want it to run away when I approach so the best thing you can do if that happens come over pet the dog oh I hope you can see me I might be a little out of the frame I don't know anyway she's going to take her toy and have a rest that's fine but don't take it or she'll avoid when you walk up I don't want to play keep

away want to play with this Ready Set get [Applause] in that was also to start of teaching a little bit of targeting a toy in my hand so I built a little dve I got her moving I'll do it again so you can see she's an alligator see I just drag her around like a dead thing um you're getting heavy I teased her with the toy I went back I went forth I went back I went forth I put two hands on it I kept up the same movement and I let her get it if she doesn't come in with energy she was a little unsure there if you really watched you can see it I keep going right I can go back to the ground but I'm sure as he not going to feed it to her because if you feed toys to dogs they lose interest CU that's not predatory right ready I have another toy behind my back set get it get it get it get it so we get the toy moving get the toy moving get the toy moving get the toy moving get two hands on the toy keep it moving keep it moving keep it moving keep it moving there we go got away two hands on the toy keep it moving keep it moving there once she's on it let go with one hand there's no reason to have two but you really want two hands when they target because you want a dog targeting a horizontal surface targeting a vertical surface is a trained skill if you expect it you'll get bitten a lot so if you hold your toys like this plan on being bitten a lot so dogs should Target horizontal unless they're trained otherwise and then you can let go so here we go again Ready Get Set get it keep this way moving get it get it get it it's okay for me to her away I'm just pushing her off my hands so that's how I get her centered on the toy then let go and there you go enough Ready Set get it get it get it get it good job build up some food drive hold her back same as a toy I got a cookie ready set get it go keep it close to her nose get that toy get that get good girl okay get it I overfed her so she said how about if I offer a down so now need to get her moving go get the T yay nice nice look at you we done winky done Miss winky I will miss her when she's gone she goes home in a couple days all right she's done I'll put her away come back see if you have any questions yeah I think that was the stuff I wanted to do today for

okay she's away um gosh I hope you saw most of that and now I'm looking at it wondering if I was at an off angle that's too bad so I wanted to do uh more with t play uh in work but she's just not there she's not ready so that's that let's see all right can you explain targeting horizontal against yeah so if you think about the way a dog's head is this the same as ours their mouth is here do you know how hard it is to turn your head like that and bite something it's not that different for a dog dogs aren't designed to do that they bite from the top so if a dog is actually chasing real prey what he's probably going to do is smash it into the ground so that's still a horizontal head right we train dogs in some bite Sports to turn their head and and to Target things that are off center but it's a trained skill the dog doesn't just do it so if you think about it you're holding a toy if you have a toy like this and you present it like this dogs don't want to bite you I tell you that right now the odds at the dog Target here is very good if you hold a toy like this the dog goes for the horizontal surface well that's you so the problem is cuz the dog doesn't want to bite you what they do is they bite right here at the junction of your fingers in the handle and um while it's an accidental bite a bite hurts kind of regardless of the dog's reasoning and then what happens the owner starts to get mad CU it hurts they yell ow the dog comes off but the dog was just doing their best right so then the dog doesn't want to bite anymore or the dog becomes very unsure about interacting because it's not serving them well so just get around the issue all together hold your toy this way right so remember you play you play you play you play you add the second hand to the toy you keep it moving look at my little figure eights here right figure eights there we go and then the dog gets the toy did you see I'm going to push the dog out on this side push the dog out I'm doing that because what it does is it forces the dog to come around Target on the center then I don't get bitten as a matter of fact if you watch or go back and look again you'll see she's nowhere near my hands that's up to me that's how I structure her once you get her on the toy though let go with one hand because that gives her movement if it's a very powerful dog keep two hands on the to toy but she's just a baby that's the last thing she needs right Elizabeth that's why I get teeth on hands could be um I I say this all the time it's a technique issue the amount of time I get bitten is so tiny I mean it's it's almost non-existent um and that's because of how I present the

toy it's very clear to the dog how to bite where to bite and it keeps their confidence high right uh what does happen sometimes right here the dog's tooth will come again they're not biting me but they're bumping their tooth against my fingers on these sides right in there and it's actually it's pretty painful but it's not something the dog can control it's the side of their mouth it's not they're not biting at all uh so I look at that as sort of take one for the team I don't think there's anything to be done about that all right teething seems to bother some for tug and others not hardly at all be nice to have a good plan for the ones it does put off yeah um the the thing is don't jerk the toy that's always just a little uncomfortable so make sure you're nice and smooth and usually they do all right but you're right you know individuals it's that's the way it is okay not live on my iPad says I need Flash oh Peggy I have no idea I'm no techno person I'm so proud of myself when I make anything work the angle was good okay that's good excellent good okay so we all good any more questions all right okay goodbye good morning uh today I'm going to do my video in the patio my children's evicted me from the house so we'll work out here I don't want to work in the front yard because I'm going to work on um kind of shaping Precision stuff and I would prefer that she go out into the front yard with a lot of energy and movement and such and here I'm going to work a little bit more on details normally I would do that in the house and that would work for me um I want to show you pocket hand from the front it will make more sense to those of you who have mastered it from the side the one thing you have to know the dog must stay on the food if the dog won't stay on the food it's not going to work it's that simple your hand these fingers are a block this is where the food is or you can do this I do both it just depends so if she wants the cookie the cookie in my hand and if she wants it she's going to have to come around to the there it is she has no choice get the cookie but to come around and get it right that's too big okay she wants the cookie get the cookie where is it where's the cookie there it is so now if I start doing that same thing and pushing her just a tiny bit watch did you see how I moved her butt okay so she wants the cookie she's crooked right put the food here she's straight you can do both sides she wants the cookie she's going to come and get it and I can straighten her okay so she's um to her credit because we've done so much in heel position she's already setting up over there so to get her to front I'm going

to have to turn her around right so here there and then she's in front now okay let's see where her healing is at all that stuff I've been doing in the front yard should be doing good things for her understanding of precision right because she's learning to work off my body she's learned that when I work in the front yard I always help her right if I move my body and she doesn't go I bring my hand down quickly if she goes too far we go the other way cuz she has to learn that you can see if you watch her carefully there's unsureness right so she's not absolutely sure where she should stop but she has to work that out that's okay that's why she's a learning dog now if I want so for healing so now we can go this way we can go this way we can go this way we can go this way reward you're did so good you're just so smart now the reason I was working on pocket hand with her from the front is because I'm starting to incorporate giving me back the dumbbell so now when I put it down and she gets it her job is to get it into my hand so where am I going to feed her in front that part's pretty easy right right there but I want her to drive back a little bit right so now when she brings it back I'm going to move and I'm going to move when I feed her that's actually the important part that keeps her driving forward put the dumbbell down yeah good girl wait good girl yeah good hands down click for giving it to you keep moving keep moving give her the cookie in front good now if you want to come around from the sides she has to find her way and that's well I didn't have to but that's where I would have used my pocket hand so let's look at that that goes down now she's been good so we'll try the other side where'd you go where' she go where the winky I don't see it where it go where' it go she goes I want my cookie I want my cookie where is it it's over there good girl that's a good girl I talked to her cuz she's trying what she needs to do is get it to the front of my body that's her job not mine there she is that was good I'd prefer she came up this way so because just mostly because I don't want her to think it's a one directional thing so what I'm going to do instead of putting it so far behind me I'm going to put it a little more out here so she's more likely to see that click bring her to the front click bring her to the front when you give her the cookie good where she nice oh that was my fault I called you off didn't I I'm sorry see that finger there that was making her straight right so there's pocket can't I can just turn her I can go both ways good so there's a really easy way with your adult dog especially if

they're bigger it's not so easy if they're small but if you want them in front you make your hand a block bring him to the front and feed him make a block feed the dog for what it's worth this is not trained I've uh I've done this exactly once with her it's just it's a combination of luring see there's a lur kind of a hard lur actually it's a very distinct lur but eventually that's actually useful because there it is if I can take my hands and move my dog around then as she gets bigger in particular if she starts to come in not straight that means a lot to her it doesn't yet but she's already kind of figuring that out let's look at her scent work good girl now at this point there' be no reason whatsoever not to put cookies in this jar and the reason is her indication is not a hard indication I can tell when she's found it but I would like more persistence so an easy way to get that would be to put food in here right so here's what I'm going to do take a cookie put it inside shut it up oh je that's looking good get the other ones put them down and wait yes she gets one on top open it up oh that was so good put another one back in nice give her free cookie put it back down that's right you are so right okay and now I can do it without a cookie cuz now we have a little bit of habit right [Applause] a little out of control but oh well there we go actually you can't see them can you hold on let's see if I can bring the back she doesn't like that either well who's lucky you are that's it cookie cookie P her over there it's that one that's right good girl did you see she steps on it now that's becoming her indication it's fine eventually it'll be a pickup and it won't matter that's right good girl that's right good okay so that's where she's at with that okay we do a little more healing and then she's done all right ready oh we have a few more cookies not a lot we used a lot today in in yes look at you look at you e what fancy dog huh ready Goods she's trying see she's trying a little too hard huh so when I go backwards that's a hard one good I had to scrape my feet so I don't hurt her in in in sideways and pivots left are the same just a matter of degree I didn't teach her sideways it's just automatic so if you can go this way you can go this way notice her butt was slightly behind me so I went the other

way to teach her to pull it out right right in in pull pull up up in giving her little vocabulary she got a little confused so you help her out right away don't let them struggle do you see how all that work in the front yard with energy and drive has made her very sensitive to little changes in my body that's why I train that way uh or it's one reason I'm going to put her away now sadly I have to have to put her in the house um I have to put her in a crate because she's not going to be supervised and then I'll come back and we can talk come here pumpkin okay um so I was kind of thinking about this last night what is this training is it um shaping is it luring what is it and the best I can say is it's Play It's play training I use food to lur to cause things to happen as fast as possible I get off the lur so if you were watch watching that pocket hand stuff my hand is on my waist now but boy I'll come down fast if I need to help her if I see anything that tells me she's not feeling confident there boom down comes the hand support your dog right the work outside it was the same it's just it happens so fast you might have some trouble seeing it right so I work her fast and Fast and fast and Fast and as soon as I see any manipulation or position boom I put her back I might drive her around a little bit reward reward reward go back to work and what you start to do is you get huge attention because the dog is like I've got to pay attention things happen so fast that she doesn't have time not to pay attention and then what happens when I come back here because I actually haven't been doing this kind of work with her um it's automatic it just happened so what I taught her in my front yard carried over very nicely to hear but it was so much more interesting than the way like so for example what I do online with Precision healing it's all about the food and that's fine but you teach the dog to only work for the food when I incorporate a lot of mov and a lot of kind of gamey spins and energy what happens is it gives the dog more reason to do it and it also hypers sensitizes them to your body so if what you're working on is teaching your dog uh that little tiny Twitches of your body mean something that carries over very very well to when you do it slow and carefully so here I was working very very slowly and I was doing that cuz I need to see what I have um it's it's pretty easy for me even working fast to see what I have but I don't think it is for most people for most people speed really masks errors um but with time you get better at seeing them and so then what I did here was I'm testing it all I'm doing is little tiny bits of

precision work I need to see what I've got and what I have cuz I saw I have a little over rotation to the left her butt goes behind me a tiny bit so what did I do pivot left pivot left pivot left stop her G butt goes behind me go to the right a tiny bit reward that and over time she has hasn't worked on this very long has she over time what starts to happen is it feels right to her she starts to feel straight but I don't I don't test and wait and let her struggle I just make her right make her right make her right so she can feel good so it's kind of um it's a little bit of learning to make things happen it's errorless shaping because if I don't get what I want right away I make it happen I I make her right I find a way to allow her to be successful um it's games you know it's fastpaced um tomorrow she goes home so that's it but I had a lot of fun with her um just fun dog to work I hope she has shown you that um the dog does matter right the trainer does matter so a skilled dog with a skilled trainer is going to move much more quickly than a skilled dog with an unskilled trainer actually that's almost your worst combination or a um skilled trainer with a less skilled dog right the more the dog brings to the table the easier and the thing about her it's not about intelligence uh most dogs can learn that fast it's it's not that's not what matters what matters is Focus right so I can take her here where she's been one time she does go out potty here so this is not unfamiliar but that's not the point in my front yard the first day it took her 10 or 15 minutes to run around and look at things the second day took her one or two minutes and after that she never looked around again that is genetic all right so I didn't teach her that she came with that package you can move so much more quickly with the dog that brings brings that genetic package to the table because you're not fighting with them and then the second thing she has is a lot of interest in what I have she wants my food she wants my toys she also likes my personality she likes to engage so now I have a focused dog who cares about what I have I'll tell you guys if you have that you have 95% of it solved that is enormous to have that kind of uh temperament to work with both of those are largely genetic you can work on them you can mess with them but if you look at like burito or lra when when they are engaged they learn just as easily just as fast the difference is they don't stay engaged that way and that is what makes really good competition dogs the ones that start out genetically with a package like that are much easier to work so let's say on a

scale of 1 to 10 let's say she's a I'd say she's actually a 10 anything from a seven to a 10 you're going to be fine it might be slower but it's very easy to work with a seven it's just a matter of uh time you just show them that you're fun and then it all comes together but when you're working with dogs that are on the zero to five end of the scale either for drive or for Focus or their environmental suck is strong like in burrito's case his actually his drives are okay it's his environmental focus is super high if I take him to a training building he's indoors totally different dog he's actually quite good quite focused but that's not my reality I don't have training buildings we don't really trial indoors here so I'm not I'm not putting energy into that I'd rather just work the problem forever um when you have a dog that's bringing up package like that to the table your life is easier if you have a dog that's in that 1 to five scale your trainers and your friends can all tell you if you just did this and if you just did that and while it's true you can do a lot to make things better you will always be fighting an uphill battle and In fairness to you I am impressed by people who take the time to fight the battle but don't misunderstand you're fighting a different battle right it's a different road if you have a more challenging dog it doesn't mean you shouldn't get on the road it does mean you shouldn't tell other people that they don't why don't they just do this or just do that or just raise the value of the treats because it's not like that um genetics really matters doesn't it the third one is endurance and attention span and energy hers is a little bit exceptional because she's so young you know for uh I think she's five months now for a five-month old puppy to be able to pay that much attention is lovely however that is not a big driver for me um because I find that most dogs get there with age it might be two or three years of age but it really I don't care about that but the environmental thing is genetic and it doesn't just go away and um drives for things tend to be genetic so toy drive uh most dogs have better toy drive than their owners realize just because the owners aren't working with the dogs in a way that brings that that out but the innate interest is still there um so you can work on it you can do things to make it better but um you don't create it right with a different person win would not be bringing back the toy I know this uh she would be showing some possession and I think she could end up frustrating an owner but not because of her at all just because maybe some people would do

things that would um not work for her so let me see what questions you have since we're sort of wrapping up the end of the wink series huh it's kind of sad it's kind of sad all right why do I have so much trouble um meh Facebook is not playing it live I think it is but it may not be for you working fine here cancel love the steering um for once I catch you live I was in the middle of reviewing our homework for healing games and this is when it came up well glad who made it Susan who is the puppy uh she's my friend's dog I borrowed her for two weeks but she's not mine I want Wink's kind of genetic package in my next puppy too how do you reliably evaluate a litter for puppies for this kind of people focus uh Chrissy I don't think you can I know people say oh I took the one that hangs out with people well lur hung out with people too it's not the people focus that I'm looking for it's the lack of environmental focus and that's really hard in my opinion to evaluate in a six seven eight week old puppy yes there are things you can look for um but I will always tell you go back to the parents go back to the pedigree I put my money any day on the parents and the pedigree over the puppy I just that's where I'm at other people are in different places okay no more questions you all good okay let me just double check and then you're uh you're free okay so I think we're done um tomorrow before if I don't know when her mom's coming but uh if I have time in the morning I will do uh probably one more play session in the front yard just a little more toy stuff and uh tonight I might do another um session of sun articles and I might do a little bit more retrieves CU I enjoy doing uh pocket hand and stuff like that from the front that's just entertaining for me when I do it entertains me um and I'll probably do more of the through the legs she really likes that she's getting good at it uh and then I'll send her home and her mama can do whatever she wants Tanya more what I don't have any more the doggy's going away I'm I'm being left without unfortunately although there is some stuff I'll do with uh burritos some stuff about play that I need for uh my online class so I might do it live and then just take it over to the play class cuz I see what people in that class are needing right now okay so you're all good no more questions okay that's it guys I'll talk to you later bye-bye