Just watched this and never thought of the treadmill as an option. I have a very busy life. Nearest park is 7 miles.away. and it's full of trash. The treadmill serves as an option to save 20min driving time and use it for training. Or play time. It would help us keep that energy low on super busy days. My Vizsla picked it up in the first 2 min. Run on speed 2.5 for 15 min first time. I think she loves it.

excellent video. hats of to you for showing us a dog who is doing this for the first time.

Very important as you stated- do not give them affection for being afraid of it! Well done

I had to spend 5 or 6 sessions, my dog thought that walking while stationary was weird. I used lots of energy to encourage her and teach her the right position on the tread. I have the most exciteable, energetic dog in the world and I'll need to use the treadmill when our summer temperatures are 90 degrees with 90 percent humidity.

I love your videos because you show real dog training and how firm you need to be when dogs are doing their avoidance behavior. Rewatched this video because I am picking up a treadmill on craigslist tonight to use when it hits 100-115 this summer. Nix is my dog's uncle! I love this line

I live in the city and I have a large yard for a city and I also have 2 Australian shepherds which are farm/ranch dogs who need LOTS of exercise, they are crated during the 7-8 hours I’m not home and the 7-8 hours I sleep which builds up so much energy in them. During the summer they won’t need to be crated as I’ll be home and they need to get there energy out, we go on walks, play fetch, work on training, go to dog parks and even visit my grandparents farm and let them run off leash occasionally. I just needed something else as they both supposedly need to loose 10-15 pounds. So I used the treadmill today!! I only worked with my one dog today and we got up to 3.5 miles and did that for 5 mins. I’m gonna get a tug rope too for more ways of exercise. I also didn’t use a choke collar or anything like that.. I used her regular collar and I stood over her and held it just to direct her on where she needed to go and she didn’t really need it she did great.

I just bought a treadmill for my high energy pit thinking it’s solve all my problems. As my luck would have it she’s terrified of it. And keeping her positioned it for just 5 minutes takes just as much energy as biking with her had. It’s been a few days and we’ve made very little progress.

if I taught my GSP that idk if he'd ever get off. Haha great video. ✌

Thank you thank you, very helpful! I have two Aussies that have the energy we humans only wish to obtain! With that said and very true, I have PsA and have been often bed ridden due to medication sickness and severe flare ups... hence I’m a horrible pet parent currently. My first and oldest is a mini, she’s currently obese 😭 I’m training myself to be a better parent which requires me to exercise her and myself. When she was a pup she refused most dog foods (price/quality/product didn’t matter) so feeding her anything became priority... that and guilt of being sick escalated over feeding of bones 🤦🏻‍♀️ Ppl don’t do it! It’s tempting to want to feed them what you’re eating but unless you have real chicken and veggies and know how much per dog to feed... don’t give them scraps! Too help my mini socialize and feel secure when I’m at work, I rescued a standard Aussie, male and approximately 2yrs old with an outrageous amount of energy and stamina that I don’t want him to lose so the treadmill on top of play and walking is my major focus with both fur babies. I’ve been looking online for a treadmill for myself but priority is for my dogs so I was curious how long the floor mat should be? Tula’s a good sized mini (not just in width/fat but height and length), Granger of course is healthy in weight, taller than his sis and much longer so some of the great compact options for treadmills seem to lack in length for walk/running strides so yours is a perfect ex of what to look for. I’d hate to get a compact one if it’s dangerous for his use. Tula isn’t a problem fitting to but he’s very lengthy. I’m glad you don’t use treats/food motivation, as from experience, they’ll do it strictly for food and retraining without is difficult. Thanks for mentioning time (of course each dog is different) the approximate time helps to know how much to expect after introductions are over and speed is elevated over time 👍🏼 another trainer had mentioned too to look out for a dog’s gate to switch from a light walk (each side front and back leg move together in unison) to a true stride (front and back leg move alternatively from another). He said to elevate the speed (slowly of course) till you can see them change that gate/stride as it’s their natural gate for running and speed walking. Anyways thanks for sharing

That's awesome!

Excited for my GSD'S treadmill to deliver this week. I work super early 4am so before work walks are not an option. By the time I get home it's too hot in the summer to go out safely. In the winter it's way too cold. Its not fair to her. This was the best option for us to keep her happy and healthy.

I know this is an older video, but amazing training! 👍

Our winters up here in Canada can be brutal I use the treadmill on my English Setter she loves it

A front & sides really helps .

Thats pretty much me trying to get on a treadmill

That is a high energy dog right their they will go any where you go

Hii! Love your vids and have a question.. A lot of people that run their dogs on mills claim that a slatmill is much safer and better then a treadmill... Personally I would only prefer to use it for a light jog 20-30 min a day for my 7.5 year old Pit. Most if not all Pit owners say that a slatmill is the only way to go, but I just dont think its true as on the slatmill he will have to motivate himself to jog, ofcourse first I will use food then maybe a toy, but im not planning to stand and cheer him for the full workout every time... A slatmill also costs a couple of thousand, but even if money is not the issue in this case, what would you recommend?

I’m trying to treadmill train my son‘s dog. He is almost 2 years old and a pitbull boxer mix. He’s full of energy and honestly I’m not struggling to control him all to it outside. I’m taking care of him for a week and want to exercise him. I was able to get him on the treadmill when it wasn’t moving but when I started moving he barks at it and wants nothing to do with getting on. Any suggestions?

Thank you so much for posting this video! I have a Jack Russell Chihuahua that needs to lose some weight. But he is skittish about a lot of things. I was just wondering start him on the treadmill...

I want to get a treadmill for my dog…but this video made me so incredibly anxious. I felt like the dog was going to get hurt any second…

What do u guys do for heat conditioning? Like for summer time field trials? In the trials I run, they’re 30 minute runs. My male gsp burns out about half way through and really slows down hunting. What’s the best way to condition him to keep going in the summer?

Those happy tails!!!

My dog is jumping upfront, how to stop that?

How frequent are the training sessions when introducing a dog to this concept? Couple times a day for 5-15 minutes? Once a day? Weekly?

Look at her tail going haha

Seriously thinking of buying a few of these and opening a small business for people to bring their dogs in.

Do you ever use a harness instead of the collar?

I'd suggest the use of a harness for control as opposed to a collar to reduce the chance of a cervical spine injury.

My dog is a puppy what age should I start training her on the treadmill

My mom decided to buy a little Yorkshire terrier that is the most energetic, weird dog you’ll meet. I run a lot and I’ve tried to take him on runs to get his energy out but he just wants to sniff everything and doesn’t want to run at all with me. So I have a treadmill but he is terrified of it. Just tried getting him on it and he was absolutely terrified. I went slow but he was freaking out and tried to hold him while I walked just so he couldn’t get away and so that he could be in my arms and hopefully relax a little. He went ballistic and scratched me pretty good. I’m going to keep slowly working and let him walk around the treadmill and get used to it before I try to have him start. Hopefully this video helps me

Unfortunately my dog just drags his feet and won’t walk. He’d just let it drag him if I didn’t stop it. Any advice? He’s not all that afraid of it. I just can’t get him to “walk” on it.

and she is the teacher wow.

Hi,I have a 6 months old dogo argentino and I did everything to try to get him on the treadmill and I couldn't. Any special tricks ?

My dog just sits until she falls off

My dog is so weak how improved

I have rescued a one year old Aussie pup that is now blind from a trauma, chocking, or strangulation. I’ve been to the vet’s n done every treatment, but they said it was a permanent condition . She’s so completely full of energy n scared when any animal come around for the sheer fact of pent up working dog energy. She explodes when there’s any kind of movement around her 😣😤😮 I have gotten a treadmill and need advice on the best way to introduce her n get her to exercise some of this built up energy. I need to calm her mind! Any advice would be helpful 😞😉😊

Hi, I loved your incredibly informative treadmill training video. Billy and I have been training on a treadmill for 9-years. However, he only manages a kinda power-walk. I am hesitant to increase the pace any higher, to try and get him to jog, as I fear he may still try to do the power-walk and blow some joints…yikes! Can you help? Here he is:
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I'm walking but I'm not going anywhere. I'm must be in another dimension or sumthin'..

So that’s a normal treadmill for humans right? Not dog specific?

This worked perfectly only problem was my German Shepard was trying to cuddle me while walking

Do not use a normal collar like she’s doing here, use a body harness while training

i love how she tries to cover up the fact taht she hasnt trained them well on the treadmill.

Just some constructive criticism, I introduced the treadmill last night prior to checking out this video to both my dogs but used a well positioned slip or prong and it helped greatly with communication and control of the dog. Good tip on increasing the speed it definitely helps with those anxious freak out moments.

I’ve had enough. Just bought 300lb wall hooks to keep her in place. She gone learn

This is the worst advice I've ever seen

The dog is clearly terrified because you skipped steps and didn’t correctly introduce them to the treadmill. You said a harness should be used, you know the dog shouldn’t be tethered… so you should delete this and make a new video instead of trying to keep it online for more views 🙄

Oh noooooooo- this was very bad

Dog is obviously afraid and doesn't want to move, and you try this shit on the FIRST day the dog comes to your kennel?? The dog barely knows you. This is the best training y'all can do? Why not get her used to the actual object first before you ask her to use it? You could reward her for just looking at the mill, sniffing, touching the mill, and you'd get a dog more happier to be around it and work up from there. "they just need to get over it" is the best way to fail any dog with major behavioral issues and honestly just the most apathetic way to treat a dog that clearly has anxiety issues when it's all over the place like that. Good is not her resisting the mill at every second and forcing her to walk the fire. This is some poor training to make up lack of skills when the dog isn't on the same page, same boat, or even on the same continent as you. You could have used a less green dog like the 2nd dog and it would have been a better video because you could have started from any part of the training process because the dog would already been comfortable with it and can demonstrate getting on the mill, starting, stopping, etc. ????

This is a terrible video of how to train a dog to use the treadmill. First. You should not tether your dog to the treadmill. This is just an accident waiting to happen... SMH

Why on earth would you put a dog on a treadmill and tether it using a collar instead of a harness? You are literally showing people how to potentially strangle their dog. Take this down, redo using correct safety equipment. Shame on you

New title- How NOT to train a dog on a treadmill. Harness never collar for many obvious reasons.

This is NOT how to get a dog comfortable running on a treadmill. This is how to make a dog be terrified of the treadmill because the trainer is incompetent and using force and strangulation as a means of cohersion. Please check a force free trainer who doesn't abuse the dog and risk injury to the dog. Doing it this way can actually injure the dog.