Laura's Life Don't you just love uneducated dog owners! People don't get real true dog training! Someone stopped my heel training early in just to ask me if I was training. Yes, leave us the eff alone! I tend to ignore people when I can and become a bitch when I need to be.

It is hard but I achieve it with a six year old dog .

It is never too late. It us 3 years later so I have to ask...how did you do with you dog?

@@DougZaga ?

Yep from 8 weeks to 25 weeks is main development peroid. If u miss this peroid and dnt start at 8 weeks you are screwing yourself and your puppy. Adult dogs alot alot harder to train but it possible. My own personal experience taught me it's not gonna be the same as when you start at 8 weeks.

She said the dog had been from home to home and she just took him in. She didn't have that choice. Engagement can always be achieved and it's never too late.

@@kevinmatthews9469 thanks for reading what I wrote more carefully than the above and sticking up for me :)

When people have specific training questions we recommend that they go to our website and post those questions in the ASK CINDY on the front page of leerburg.com. Cindy has been training dogs since she was a teenager and has competed in several dog sports at a regional and national level. She was also a vet tech and owned a boarding/training and grooming business for many years as well as breeding working Dobermans and Belgian Malinois under the kennel name Kaiserhaus. Questions posted to ASK CINDY are answered almost every day. They are also recorded in our systems if a dog owner has additional questions Cindy will review the previous Q&As and this helps her give better feedback and assistance. leerburg.com/newcontact.php

I'm sure you know he shouldn't be allowed to chew on branches! You could always put your dog on leash and go outside with your dog much easier to keep him from chewing twigs.

+Renee c You can do engagement work with any age dog. We even produced a DVD just on how to get engagement. You can read about it here: leerburg.com/EngagementDVD.htm

Yes Teri, you're weird. Lol. That's why we like you.

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I know this is old but where the heck did you come up with that rationale? Lmao

@@DougZaga - She's saying that "getting your dog trained, should be just as important to people as some look at getting their dog fixed as an absolute neccesity". She's not saying LITERALLY all dogs need fixed or that fixing a dog is the end all be all. Its just that the same crowd that's always screaming at breeders as being "murderers" and insist that every single dog everywhere should be fixed, are typically the same type of people who's dogs are chaotic and completely untrained and a complete nuisance. (I seen her comment something similar on one of my buddies videos a long while back and we had a back and forth conversation about what she was trying to convey. Because I was under the assumption she was saying "all dogs must be fixed".)

@@strikeforcek9149 ok. Thanks for clarifying this because that 1 sentence statement can be confusing! 😂

I still don't agree. Not everyone believes getting you dog altered is a good thing. If it weren't for people with love of the breed and good genetics the breed would be crap

Prioritization goes to training because there are more opportunities for bad outcomes with an untrained dog than a surprise litter. It's math. The surprise litter can be controlled by the owner taking responsibility for the pet. Instances where fixing matters are predominately owner caused due to negligence or financial hardship. Fixing has been the marketed response to negligent owners than for example licensing pet owners and means testing because profits. Anecdotally, fixing is also used to "solve" behavioral issues that may have been due to poor training. Unfortunately, this mentality has led to people fixing their pets very early in life. In these cases, the pet owner and vet should be charged with animal abuse. Fixing pets before they are sexually mature leads to health problems later on in life. For a dog, sexual maturity is about 2 years. If an owner can't control a dog for about a year, fixing will not correct owner negligence which will manifest in other forms at some time. It boils down to fixing is not a natural occurrence. It's predominately marketed as a convenience and a profit source. This must be weighed against what would naturally occur in a dog's life. Sure, dogs adapting to digesting more carbohydrates in their diet is an adaptation wolves don't share since we don't hang with wolves, but it was done over thousands of years. That's not to say things like vaccinations aren't important. However, legislation for vaccinations is often driven by profit, not what is best for animals, or people. Fixing is primarily a cover-up for owner negligence because if owners had to be qualified, like they have to be to drive, the market would be a great deal smaller which means less money for the unscrupulous.

They have PLENTY of free videos with plenty of info. And twit DVDs are PACKED with tons and tons of information.... You act ad if them advertising is a bad thing? Lol. How the feel so you think they can afford to produce DVDs, lectures, and put on shows? Their business pays for all that... I mean, isn't that what all businesses do, advertise to generate sales to create revenue?

like everything else on you tube? get an ad blocker if it bothers you so much?

Uh- actually would've been strange to have footage of anything he mentioned. They were all basic concepts. He also has hundreds of hours of active work with dogs.

its like a job, if it would not give you money, so you can buy food, most people would never consider learning whatever it is they working with, because most people doesn't work with what they want but with what they know. if you want to work with what you know you need to change the way you look at your job and what you want out of it. if you just want your dog to listen not really giving a shit if it cares about you, food is a great way to train it. Same here if you just want to survive, working at McDonalds is quite a good job. think about it, change to a raw diet and stop training with foods its not good for your dogs psyche and physical health

I believe that he have curses teaching the dog to work without reward. I think is "finishing the job"