I'm in the UK would you recommend will at Fenrir?

I know he mentioned Will during one of his videos! He said “as my friend Will always says, Leadership is love” which is definitely Will from Fenrir.

How do you get your dog to pay such attention to you?? I have a 10 month olD 100LB GSD. He's very obedient, but I'd love for him to pay attention as yours does.

Your videos changed the rest of the life of my Black German Shepherd, Kylo. 6 weeks ago he got ahold of mine & my wife’s Yorkie (one of the 3 we had) and we strongly considered having him put down, but ultimately decided that couldn’t bare the thought of it. So instead, I promised my wife I would find the information & start to train him so that we could help gain more control over situations where he would become reactive. I found your videos and got to work the next day with leash training & the herm springer collar… to less than ideal results. Finally on day 3, our relationship clicked into place and it was like a miracle happened. He wasn’t scared or intimidated; he wasn’t reactive or pulling away from me constantly, or running inside to hide from me.. instead he listened, gave the proper response and was promptly rewarded with minutes of belly rubs at a time to let him know how happy and proud I was. And most of all, HE was happy about it. He was so excited every day to get outside and put on his new collar and walk around the yard with me. Eventually the street followed, then the block. Then with practice, we got him to stop reacting poorly to strangers in the house and strange dogs outside. In fact, he started looking at me all on his own when he got anxious instead, so that I could give him a task & he would complete it with a big beautiful doggie smile & wagging tail. I’ve never seen my big boy so happy and receptive in the face of so much change.. it makes me so proud. Unfortunately, just a few days ago on the 27th, we went outside to go potty after church like normal. All of his body language was the same, eating/drinking habits, everything was normal as can be. We played in the yard for a few minutes after he went to the bathroom & then when I went to call him over to the door to go inside… he arrived in front of me ready to sit and wait for the door and had a heart attack right there. I tried everything to help him but I was too late so I just held him while he looked in my eyes, terrified.. and I’ve been a mess ever since. He was only 6. BUT…. Not to derail any further, I just want to thank you for your content and what you do. I was so excited to keep working with him because for the first time I was able to develop our relationship together and I learned how to treat him like a dog, the way he wants to be treated. And seeing him start to become so well behaved AND retain his childlike, goofy personality… it is something that I will always keep close to my heart. I love & miss him so much, and because of you and your channel I was able to give him the best last 6 weeks of his life and make him feel as fulfilled as he made me. Thank you so much… it really really did change my life and the life of my sweet boy & I will be a lifetime subscriber of yours because of it

Can you please tell us what kind of dog Lacota is? Thanks

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Yes. I have a small dog. A Coton. But I think I try to go from A to C. The dog won’t be ready and then the dog will not do it and I will be frustrated because he didn’t do it. I am trying to get him to stop barking and jumping like an idiot when my son picks his dog up (he comes here while my son is at work). So I need to practice down and stay. I need to extend the time and the distance before I can introduce the “huge distraction” of my son opening the door and coming in. That might be “Z” for my dog as he’s been acting crazy for years! Just because my dog can do a down stay when it’s quiet and nothing is happening - that might be C. It’s not Z.

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They're a lot of work!

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@@brandymusson9838 hi nice, I’m having a good day Ty , where are you from?

I know this is an old comment but I thought you might be happy to know that four 15min training sessions throughout the day is WAY better than one 1hr training session a day.

Thanks so much, I agree.

@@tomdavisofficial Thanks so much for your videos, your approach to training has made me so much more patient, and my cats are so much more responsive and excited for training. They know the phrase 'wanna do some training?' now and get all bouncy over it.

@@TC-ep5hy I'm trying to train my cats, do you use the same methods as with dog training? I assume you don't use positive punishment or negative reinforcement as much with them, as I imagine that would scare them too much.

@@inkwhiskers9948 I'm very lucky that my cats are extremely food motivated so I tend to use treats and very short targeted training sessions. Some behaviours they pick up on right away, others have taken weeks to see even a tiny bit of success. I think they have a much lower frustration tolerance than dogs do... if my boys aren't getting something they tend to give up or get distracted easily. I break things down as much as possible for them and go extremely slowly, in several sessions a day. Like permanently training a puppy, lol. Right now with Thor (8 year old male cat) we're working on a release cue before he's allowed to eat. He's known 'sit' for ages so I get him to sit, and then broke all the steps down into micro-steps. So first we worked on me being able to move at all without him lunging from the sit. Then on me being able to bend down. Then on me being able to put the bowl on the floor. Then on me being able to let go of the bowl. If at any time during any of these steps he left the sit, I picked up the bowl and stood up, and got him to sit again. Some of these steps we spent weeks on, he's getting older and had no patience whatsoever (he's a little spoiled ngl). But right now he can manage 8 seconds and waits for my release cue before he gets up from the sit, so we're making progress. This took... maybe 3 weeks and we had some backslides because I only trained this twice a day using his wet food, but we were also working on him taking treats nicely from my hand (worst case of sharkmouth ever lol). That's a lot better too, but again it helps that he's so food-motivated. Honestly it's a LOT like training a puppy, very low attention span and may not always easily understand what you want, so you have to be very clear. Tons of short training sessions, use food as much as possible, etc. There's a lot of clicker training out there that works w cats quite well, I tend to use a marker word bc I don't always have a clicker around, but the same basic principles that work on dogs/puppies seem to work well on cats.

@@TC-ep5hy okay! I trained my sister's cat to go in his crate for bed just like you would a puppy. Because I train dogs I just automatically used the same methods. I wasn't trying very hard however because I wasn't sure I was doing the right thing, but I'll keep going with marker training my tortoiseshell and we'll see how far we can get!

Use mirrors or reflections in windows to watch the dog while you are not facing it to correct him as soon as the dog moves.

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Check out the channel playlists. There is a 3 part series about how to work on the heel.