Today'S video is sponsored by pet flow. Having your dog on leash is an imperative
art of teaching them so that they catch on even faster. Today, i'm gon na show
you how to get your dog loving, leash training with `` Flurry''.
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The leash is for far more than just walking your dog. It
is the absolute best way to control where your dog can and can't go during that
first year of training, even indoors, Young dogs like Flurry who are just a few
weeks old, tend to stay really near their people.
So many mistakenly try to bypass leash training because they just conclude: ``
hey. My dog is pretty good off leash and I don't really need a leash''. But as
your dog gets older, bad habits begin to emerge slowly at first and then tend to
get out of control.
Now, let's make sure that Flurry is doing well on leash, while in this easy
setting first and then we'll go outside and see how things go.
Flurry this is
leash biting not leash, walking, So many puppies love to bite on their leash. If
your dog does that first make sure you're using a good treat And we're just simply
gon na get his attention on this treat instead of yanking the leash out of his
wouth.
Look at that
We just taught him to think from the inside-outward without forcing
him to do something And just be real, consistent, they're gon na do that for the
first few weeks of training come on, Let's go walk, Let's walk here! Good, Come
on!
Yeah nice work and I'm gon na reward, really liberally here and give them lots
of tiny, treats.
Let'S try one of those freeze-dried bits. It'S there. Oh that's good, isn't it You
love those
Let'S walk here:
Good job And look you can see how he's paying
attention to me wherever I go, he's going I'd like to make sure that I can get
Flurry's attention on me as well.
Hey up here Flurry See that, Yes, that's very good.
Traditionally, leash training
has been all about popping the leash and creating an unpleasant consequence when
your dog doesn't behave ideally on leash. That'S something we really need to get
past, though, And we really want to motivate our dogs to want to do something,
rather than correcting them. For doing things, we don't like That'll, make
training a lot more enjoyable and your dog will progress a lot faster. I'M so
proud of you.
So we're gon na go into the real world now and see if we can make this lesson a
little bit more challenging because hey if your dog won't listen to you when
they're distracted well, that means your training isn't done yet.
Of course, if you've got a young dog make sure your puppy is appropriately
vaccinated before taking them in public There's, a distinction between a training,
walk and a real walk, See a training walk has no real destination.
The entire objective is simply to get your dog paying attention to you, while
you're on the other end of the leash
When you're leash training in a new
environment for a young puppy, you must be tolerant of them being distracted. It'S
just all part of being a puppy.
I'M just gon na change directions really often over here Just to keep them
guessing and paying attention to me. Now. I'M gon na see if I can get him to look
up at me here here.
Here we go Come on There's those eyes. I love it Here. You go
buddy
Flurry is freezing up a little bit.
He doesn't want to walk with me.
But that could mean a couple of things: It could
mean hey, they're, sincerely nervous Or he could be saying ``. I want to go this
way. I don't want to go back that way''
So I'm gon na try and get peppier to get
his attention on me cause. You know, dogs like it when we're fun And he's biting
on the leash. I don't care about that right now.
I'M just happy walking more enthusiastically Good
How about this way, let's go on
the grass. The beauty of training walks is that when you see distractions like
giant exotic birds everywhere, you can use that as an opportunity to do some
training with them and get them to listen to you around these distractions.
The last thing you want to do is be on a normal walk and encounter something that
your dog has never seen before when you're in a hurry, because you don't have time
to teach them in that situation.
So here we have the benefit of having nature. We
have geese and all sorts of crazy birds.
So I'm going to walk around right here. All right,
Yeah, that's a good dog, Come
on Yes good job, And so I'm just getting them in the habit of paying attention to
me while around all these birds. But of course, when you're walking with your dog,
you can't just walk around in circles all the time saying. ``, hey look at me.
Look at me.
``, You eventually want them to walk on a straight line like a
civilized Labrador, We're walking in a straight line. Now I'm going to turn around
I'M going to try and make a straight line this way. Let'S go Flurry come on.
Look at that I mean hey. This is starting to look like a real walk right here.
It'S not just about giving your dog a treat every time. They do something good.
Let them know sincerely with heartfelt appreciation how much you appreciate that
they're trying That's what you want out of a leash training session with your dog.
Leash training is way trickier than a lot of people realize See when you have a
young puppy like Flurry, they're gon na grow so rapidly Their legs are gon na get
longer, their muscles are gon na get stronger and their natural pace is just gon
na increase.
And they just have no idea that they're walking faster than you
So you'll need to
be very tolerant and very vigilant throughout their first many months of leash
training. If your dog is particularly rambunctious when you're trying to do a
leash training session, that almost certainly means you need to do some exercise
with your dog before leash training. Now I know it might seem normal ``, Hey, I'm
taking my dog on a walk to get their energy out''.
But with real high-energy dogs, fetch is generally the best way to exercise them.
So if your dog doesn't yet know fetch that time should be dedicated to teaching
them fetch
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Good job Flurry, you did good
