How To Stop Your Dog PULLING On The Leash
Summary
TLDRIn this video, a dog behaviorist works with Sandy, a golden retriever with severe pulling issues on walks. The goal is to transform Sandy from a strong puller to a dog that walks nicely on a leash. The trainer focuses on building engagement and leadership, using directional changes and positive reinforcement to establish a connection. By the end of the session, Sandy shows significant improvement, walking calmly and responsively with the trainer, demonstrating the power of proper training techniques.
Takeaways
- 🐾 The trainer is working with a golden retriever named Sandy who has a pulling issue during walks.
- 👮 The trainer usually works with death row police dogs but is helping a friend with this case.
- 🕒 The goal is to transform Sandy from a strong puller to a dog that walks nicely on a heel in about 30 minutes.
- 👶 Sandy's pulling has made walking difficult for the owners, especially with young kids, affecting the dog's exercise and behavior.
- 🔄 The initial step is to build engagement with Sandy, who is currently not responding to the trainer's movements.
- 🧶 The trainer uses a slip lead for directional changes to start building engagement and responsiveness.
- 📈 Progress is evident as Sandy begins to check back with the trainer and show signs of engagement.
- 🍗 No food rewards are used initially; the focus is on building a relationship and communication for engagement.
- 🔄 A long line slip lead is introduced to give the trainer more time to make directional changes and enhance engagement.
- 👀 The trainer emphasizes the importance of eye contact and will later reward Sandy for making it naturally.
- 🎖 The transformation in Sandy's demeanor from anxious and energetic to calm and relaxed is significant, indicating the success of the training.
Q & A
What is the main issue with Sandy, the golden retriever?
-Sandy is one of the worst pullers the trainer has ever seen, making walks a miserable experience for the owners and causing a lack of exercise for the dog.
Why is the trainer helping with Sandy's case?
-The trainer is helping with Sandy's case as a favor to a friend, despite typically working with death row police cases on a volunteer basis at shelters.
What is the trainer's initial goal for the session with Sandy?
-The trainer's goal is to transform Sandy from an extreme puller to walking beautifully on heel within about 30 minutes.
What is the foundation of the training approach used with Sandy?
-The foundation of the training approach is building engagement with Sandy, as he shows no engagement with the trainer at the beginning.
What tool does the trainer initially use to work with Sandy?
-The trainer initially uses a training lead to get a feel for Sandy and then switches to a slip lead to start building engagement through directional changes.
How does the trainer plan to build engagement with Sandy?
-The trainer plans to build engagement by using directional changes and praising Sandy when he follows the command, along with using lead pressure from the slip lead to correct him when he doesn't engage.
Why does the trainer switch to a long line slip lead?
-The trainer switches to a long line slip lead to give himself more time to make directional turns and allow Sandy to reach the end of the lead, providing more opportunities for engagement.
What is the significance of building engagement before teaching heel work?
-Building engagement is crucial because it establishes a relationship and communication with the dog, making it more responsive and willing to follow commands without the need for bribery or extreme correction.
How does the trainer handle distractions during the training session?
-The trainer uses minimal lead pressure to bring Sandy's attention back to him when distractions occur, reinforcing that looking up to the trainer brings positive outcomes.
What is the trainer's strategy for reinforcing eye contact with Sandy?
-The trainer plans to appreciate and reward eye contact behavior over time, using praise and potential food rewards to condition Sandy to associate eye contact with positive outcomes.
How does the trainer ensure that Sandy remains a happy and relaxed dog during the training?
-The trainer focuses on leadership, engagement, and relationship building, ensuring that Sandy understands he is not being abused or in pain, but rather is learning to work together with the trainer.
Outlines
🐾 Dog Behavior Modification for Sandy the Golden Retriever
The paragraph introduces a dog behavior modification session with Sandy, a golden retriever with severe pulling habits on the leash. The trainer, who usually works with police dogs, is helping a friend's dog on a volunteer basis. The goal is to transform Sandy from being a strong puller to walking nicely on a leash within 30 minutes. The trainer emphasizes building engagement with the dog as the foundation for the training, using a slip lead for directional changes to create a connection. The process involves positive reinforcement when Sandy responds correctly to commands, and gentle corrections with the lead when he doesn't, aiming to make the walk a positive experience for the dog and its owners.
🔄 Building Engagement and Leadership in Dog Training
This paragraph continues the training session, focusing on deepening the engagement between the trainer and Sandy. The trainer uses a long line slip lead to give Sandy more freedom to move while still maintaining control. The goal is to have Sandy follow the trainer's directions without needing food as a bribe, instead relying on the relationship and communication they are building. The trainer demonstrates how subtle lead pressure can redirect Sandy's attention back to him, and how the dog's responsiveness improves as engagement increases. The session shows the power of positive reinforcement and the importance of the trainer's leadership in shaping the dog's behavior.
🎉 Transforming Sandy's Behavior with Leadership and Engagement
In the final paragraph, the trainer demonstrates the significant transformation in Sandy's behavior after just 20 minutes of training. Despite distractions, Sandy is now walking calmly and obediently, showing a strong connection with the trainer. The trainer explains that the key to this change is the focus on leadership, engagement, and relationship, rather than harsh corrections. The session concludes with the trainer rewarding Sandy with playtime, showing that the dog can now switch between work mode and play mode, reflecting the successful establishment of a new, well-mannered behavior pattern.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Behavior Modification
💡Engagement
💡Death Row Dogs
💡Slip Lead
💡Directional Changes
💡Free Shaping
💡Eye Contact
💡Lead Pressure
💡Heel Work
💡Relationship Building
💡Anxiety or Fear
Highlights
Behavior modification work with a death row police dog named Sandy.
Sandy is a golden retriever with a pulling issue, causing difficulties for the owners.
The goal is to transform Sandy from a bad puller to heel walking within 30 minutes.
Building engagement is the foundation for addressing Sandy's pulling behavior.
Using a training lead to gauge Sandy's responsiveness and starting tune-up.
Switching to a slip lead to perform directional changes and build engagement.
The importance of timing and finesse in applying lead pressure for correction.
Progress in engagement without using food as a bribe, focusing on relationship and communication.
Introduction of a prototype long line slip lead to extend engagement opportunities.
The power of engagement demonstrated through free shaping without formal heel commands.
Minimal lead pressure required once engagement and responsiveness are established.
The transformation in Sandy's demeanor from anxious to calm and relaxed.
The impact of leadership, guidance, and direction on reducing a dog's anxiety.
Practicing and reinforcing eye contact as a positive behavior.
Leveraging distractions as opportunities to reinforce engagement and leadership.
The final outcome of a well-mannered, calm Sandy after 20 minutes of training.
The importance of balance between work time and playtime for a dog's well-being.
The overall impact of the training on Sandy's life, showcasing the weight lifted off his shoulders.
Transcripts
so got a fun case today i haven't done
one of these for a little while if
you've been following the journey you
know that i tend to do
all my in-person behavior modification
work is done with the death row police
cases
on a volunteer basis at the shelters but
this was for a friend
we've got a beautiful golden retriever
called sandy sandy
yeah good boy good boy wonderful
temperament very happy-go-lucky
lovely dog butt is one of the worst
pullers we've ever seen
and has made for its owners who's a
friend of a friend so i said i'd help
them out
it's become a miserable experience for
them they've got young kids
their cycle has begun where they are
finding it very difficult to walk it so
it's not getting as much exercise or the
behavior start to slip in so
my goal of today it's a very
straightforward case for me bread and
butter i miss doing these quite
straightforward ones
is to go from a extremely bad puller
through to beautiful heel walking and
i'm hoping we can do that in about 30
minutes it'll be a really lovely thing
to do for them
so classic case not a bad dog
not an aggressive dog not a reactive dog
just a dog with
no engagement so the foundation of what
we need to start with is just simply
building engagement
now as you can see even just me moving
around here sandy's not engaged with me
at all
he's doing his own thing he's looking
where he's going it's not a bad thing
it doesn't come from any kind of
problems like i say aggression the
dominance reactive it's just
no engagement so all we're going to do
is we're going to start with a tune-up
i've brought him out on the training
lead to start with just to kind of get a
feel for him and i think all we're going
to have to do
is we're going to swap out to my trusty
slip lead
and we're just going to do some
directional changes start to build up
that engagement
once i get that engagement we're 75 of
the way then we'll tune it up turn it
into a heel with a bit of free shaping
and hopefully in 30 minutes or so we'll
give this dog back beautifully he'll
train with stunning engagement
right so all we're going to do is we've
got the slip lead nice and high on his
neck
and what we're going to do is start just
doing some directional changes so i'm
not looking for any heel yet
but as he goes sandy let's go
sandy let's go good
sandy let's go yes good straight away
sandy let's go
good boy sandy let's go
good sandy let's go yes good boy
that one i'm going to lavish with praise
so we're going to go back and talk about
that one again i'm not bothered about
this we're going to deal with all this
later
what i'm looking for is when i mark it
with that sandy let's go and i turn
is that he's engaged with me and comes
if he doesn't engage with me
and ignores my command and he's off in
the distance somewhere else
a little bit of lead pressure from the
slip lead is going to inherently correct
that for me
and it's going to make him just snap him
out i think oh yep this way
next time sandy let's go is going to
mark that behavior
oh we're going this way that's how we
build that engagement it really isn't
rocket science
it's just a little bit of finesse at the
right time of when you apply that lead
pressure so i'll show you that again
let's go
sandy let's go oh yes good boy
let's go
oh good boy let's go yes
good so already you can clock this
he's starting to engage with me already
because he's waiting for me
to make my movement sandy let's go yes
that could be a little bit better so
he's still doing his own thing
but we're at that 50 where he's checking
back to me now so we're starting to
build
engagement sandy let's go oh good boy
yes
oh good boy and you'll notice at this
point i'm not using any food
work look at the difference already from
a little bit of engagement sandy let's
go
oh good boy we're already at a one
finger walk
this we can tune up
let's go oh good boy yes
vocal inflection no food works i don't
want to bribe that behavior
i want that behavior to come from
legitimate relationship and engagement
with me
later on i'm going to bring in food
reward i'm going to lavish it with food
reward when we're really dialing in the
heel work but for now
engagement shouldn't be a bribery a
result of bribery
it should be a result of relationship
and communication
so as you can see we've swapped out to
one of our prototype products that we're
working on which is a
a long line slip lead the reason i've
done this is because
as you already saw making huge levels of
progress with engagement
but within being so energetic so
boisterous so lively
he is naturally reaching the end of the
slip lead very quickly which isn't
giving me
a lot of time to get my timing and
finesse for those directional changes in
swapping out to a long line as you'll
see in a minute will give me a little
bit
more time to let him go out for me to
make my directional turn
and give him the opportunity to engage
with me and come
if he doesn't then he gets a little bit
of lead pressure to redirect him and
build that engagement
so we're just going to drill that now
i'll have joe film it for a little while
so i'm going to let him have a bit of
space sandy let's go
yes good boy what a good boy what a good
boy
again i'm not after any kind of heel
work yet he doesn't know what the term
heal means he's never been taught it
so to expect that from him would be
completely unfair
and to correct him would just be cruel
but what i want to do now is again sandy
let's go
now he ignored me a little bit of lead
pressure good boy yes oh thank you
again we're in this together good boy
this i don't mind
we'll deal with this afterwards it's all
about engagement we swap back to the
short lead and we're getting that
engagement really nicely sandy
sit oh yes thank you good boy and i'm
just always looking for this eye contact
again happy dog
relaxed demeanor and now what we've
started to do
again direction changes but now we swap
back to a short lead
is that we started to three shape that
behavior to the left
now what you're about to see is the
power of engagement in this level of
free shaping again i don't mind this
that's a problem for another day
because what you're about to see is how
let's go so again
demeanor i'm in charge of this walk
and that level of engagement changes
massively so if you've that you'll see
these subtle
changes in his head movement where he's
going to just quickly check to me and
see everything's okay
sandy let's go oh yes good boy
and he's responsive sandy yes so again
that was beautiful i was hoping that
would happen
so you saw that all the minimal amount
of lead pressure with a finger
is required just to bring him back into
position when he's in this position
happy go lucky tail wagging
looking up to me let's go good boy thank
you good boy
bit distracted by the camera man this is
another opportunity
sandy we just bring him back in again
we're talking literally a finger worth
of lead pressure
this isn't a dog that's being abused
this isn't a dog that's in pain
this is finally a dog with the weight of
his world off his shoulders
because somebody stepped in and taken
control of this walk so as you can see
now
shoulders back head up literally walking
in with a finger
i'm sure the cameraman can see that and
he's happy because we're now working
together
rather than separately and him having to
make his own decisions
and not used any commands other than
let's go
good boy if he goes too far ahead
a little bit of lead pressure just to
remind him bring him back in
now the reason this works so well and i
didn't have to jump to
extreme levels of correction or
corrective tools
is because of that engagement because it
became responsive
through the conditioning work that we
did during the directional changes drill
so it might seem silly that you're going
back and forward
the outcome of that drill is to build
engagement we built enough engagement
now
around distractions in a farm
environment where with the tiniest bit
of lead pressure
it can bring him back to me bring that
attention back
and have him looking now again this is a
dog that's how old is he joe
i think he's three three years old and
in
20 minutes his life has been transformed
through a little bit of leadership
guidance and direction now we just need
to layer on that build on that what i
would like to see now
is more eye contact i'm not going to
correct him for it because he doesn't
understand
but i'm going to appreciate that
behavior over time if when he naturally
gives it to me
he's going to get rewarded or i can lure
it oh goodbye yes thank you
so the little noise he got his attention
he looked up to me
then we praise and reinforce that
behavior what that starts to build up in
his mind
especially an incredibly intelligent
mind like you aren't you
is that oh when i make eye contact he's
nice to me
i could have food rewarded that if i
want to i don't think he needs it same
principle again
boy yes good good boy
he'll start to very quickly learn that
looking up to me for guidance and
direction
making eye contact to me brings in
positive things
i will start doing that more i'll start
praising and reinforcing it more
that display of behavior will increase
and that engagement then increases over
time
but what we've done is we've shaped new
behavior that now through practice and
repetition when we hand it back to the
owner
will become second nature the way that
for the last three years
pulling and not looking for any guidance
and direction has become second nature
and again we now have a well-mannered
calm relaxed if you can go back to the
start of the video
and look at the energy level differences
it's these things that mean more to me
when i talk about the weight of the
world comes off a dog's shoulder when
you step in and take the steering wheel
that's what you see in here
calm relax rather than giddy jump it's
not necessarily
hyperactive or playful oftentimes it
stems from anxiety or fear
so we've got a beautiful example here
what a lovely distraction somebody's
just rocked up to the farm
we're now going to do this again look at
different straight away
attention has been broken but i need to
bring this back to me oh good boy thank
you
good boy let him know that when you look
up to me everything's okay and we're
going to just write so he's distracted
by
this sandy let's go look at that
beautiful okay boss where are we going
one finger walking shoulders back
chest up i'm in charge of this i'm not
asking you to not look at that car
i looked at the car something new is
here who's that why are we doing it
but i've said it's time to go so we go i
say let's go
oh good boy thank you and i'm leading
this we're walking this let's go
oh good boy thank you good boy
again a little bit of lead pressure
brings him back in
good boy put in the space for 20 minutes
just through i can't stress it enough
focusing
on leadership engagement and
relationship
has transformed this dog's life and i
want him to be a dog i want him to be
happy
that was work time sandy sit oh good boy
thank you
i've asked for that from you now break
and off you go good boy
go and be a free dog go and have the
world is it your oyster
yes and we can play but now when it's
time for me to bring that back
up sandy let's go and it's work time
again
let's go good sandy sit
sit oh good boy yes sandy break
and now it's time to play and be a dog
you
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