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@cindy firestone, your settings are such that I cannot reply! BUT, you need
to prioritize fetch or some type of serious exercise prior to leash
training! Based on what you’ve said, your dog is not receptive to learning
proper leash walking, perhaps due to lack of a MAJOR structured outlet,
like 20-30 min of fetch. Hope this helps! I’ll bet he’s awesome!
Just wanna ask since I just found the other channel today, is Secretzakvids
also your channel? Or is it someone uploading your videos from another
source?
You said to put my dogs problems here. I have three Border Collies and not
one of them will play tug of war or chase and bring back anything I throw.
They are great herders, I have sheep, but they do not play with me. They do
tricks for treats at the beginning and then just to do them but I would
like my dogs to to play tug.
As a dog trainer I started out with classical training over 30 years ago,
went to PR (positive reinforcement) training when it first came out, then
on to “clicker” (operant conditioning) training about 20 years ago. I’ve
only seen a few of your videos, so I don’t know if you use a clicker at
times, or only a marker word (your “yes!” clearly becomes a conditioned
reinforcer, i.e., marker word). Either way, I just wanted to say that your
work in this video is some of the best training I’ve ever seen on video.
Your timing is superb, and your explanations are very clear and precise. I
will certainly recommend my students view this, even if their issues are
not as extreme — most owners would benefit from watching this.
I love how much you get in front of the dog and crouch so you are in the
forefront of his awareness. This is very unlike the English training style
where you aim to keep the dog at your left heel. Then you have to jerk the
leash all the time to get his attention, because he’s not facing you. Then
to avoid the sore neck you put the dog into a harness and he flies around
at the end of the leash for evermore.
We have two pit bulls, Coach and Penny. We’ve had Penny (2, female, 50 lbs)
since 02/2013, and she’s been a real trial most of that time. She’s mopey
and stubborn; she’s somewhat dog aggressive (a trainer suggests it might be
limited to other females); she’s pretty taciturn, and it’s hard to get her
excited except for… um… when it isn’t; and she has particular quirks,
such as wandering around our apartment licking debris off the floor,
wandering around populated dog parks eating debris, and licking herself
obsessively until she gets rashes. We’ve had Coach (1, male, 50 lbs) since
03/2014, and he’s a lot like Laffite: high energy, great personality, and
highly distractable.
Our hope was that Coach would help lift Penny up; the whole time we’d had
her (until 02/2014), we had also had Kalli, an 8 year old 50 lb female
German Shepherd/Husky mix who recently passed of osteosarcoma. Kalli and
Penny never really got along, and I wouldn’t say that Penny’s personality
was noticeably impacted by Kalli’s passing, but we figured that somewhere
inside she’d prefer to have another dog in the house than not, so we went
looking and found Coach, hoping he’d help her find some joie de vivre.
We have two local dog parks, but we stopped taking Penny a while back since
she mostly ignores the other dogs and eats debris (mostly dead leaves and
twigs). We took Coach twice early after adopting him, and the first time he
did pretty well except that there were small dogs with small toys in the
large dog park, and as we watched his energy level rise we didn’t want to
risk an incident since we were still in early days with him, and the second
time we just took him near and not inside the park and he totally lost it:
escalating whining until he wasn’t under control anymore, biting at his
leash, another nearby dog, and my hand. That was the first time we noticed
his high excitability around other dogs while on leash (he hadn’t exhibited
this behavior with Penny when we first introduced them on leash, presumably
because we didn’t keep them apart and he was low energy, having just been
neutered), and much like Lafitte, the behavior is limited to when he’s on
leash.
This suggests that his behavior, like you said with Lafitte, is probably
affected by his energy level and could be mitigated by good exercise. We
live in downtown Jersey City in a small apartment, so room to exercise
off-leash is scarce. What we do to exercise Coach is we take him into our
gated parking lot out back and play fetch or–weather permitting–I take
him out on my adult scooter with a harness and let him pull me around the
local high school, which he loves. If we let Penny in the parking lot off
leash, she won’t chase balls or toys and will instead wander around eating
leaves or spit-out gum or whatever. When we take Penny on scoots with us,
she seems both happy and miserable, one moment smiling, the next biting at
her leash while it’s going on and also sulking in the bathroom when we get
home. We haven’t taken her on a scoot in a few weeks.
Aside from this, the dogs wrestle pretty regularly indoors for twenty
minute stints with ten minute breaks, which is acceptable except that Coach
totally dominates Penny. He tries really hard to stay within acceptable
behavior limits, but sometimes he gets carried away, and we’ll hear her cry
when he bites her ear, but he ignores her and she cries louder, and we’ll
have to intervene. Penny constantly re-engages Coach, which makes it seem
like it’s all in good fun, so that’s fine and may even be what we wanted in
a second dog. Our best strategy to keep the play fun and safe is to
introduce toys as an intermediary, which they accept for a while, but
eventually they’ll drop it and begin (playfully) biting each other directly
again, and then it’s only a matter of time before Penny squeals and maybe
gets upset. (I’ve tried various methods to train them in this regard, to
tell them “good” and give them treats when they play with the toy and make
them stop playing when they drop it, but these attempts only serve to
distract them and get them jostling against each other for treats from me,
abandoning the toy and their play, so now I just sort of monitor and tell
Coach to “leave it” [*it* being Penny’s ear] or otherwise break them up
when they drop the toy.)
This video addresses exactly what we experience with Coach on walks, minus
an added complication that most of his distractions are in motion: other
walking dogs and bicyclists, mostly. I’ve attempted various forms of this
training strategy, but I always fail to get Coach’s attention back on me
while the distraction is still present; owners with their dogs rush off,
and bicyclists whizz by. It would have been nice here to see the cars
addressed a bit more, for example, but the theory should be good and is
directly related to previous training successes I had with Kalli back when.
Likely, a good start would be to get a person with a dog or a bicycle and
have them interrupt our walks (after giving Coach some good exercise, of
course), but I think we might also be able to take him to (towards?) one of
the dog parks and work within zones of compliance about approaching the dog
park without totally losing his cool. He seems to be less intent on
cyclists than he was when the issue first flared up…
One thing we’ve started doing recently as we’ve really sunk into how
serious some of Coach’s training needs are is that we’ve begun walking him
and Penny separately. Due to his high distractibility, Coach is
unpredictable on walks, and Penny tries to sync up with his high and
frantic energy and begins pulling at her leash in a way she hasn’t since
our first weeks together. Her bad spots aren’t related to external
distractions as much as trying to communicate with us where she wants to go
or matching Coach’s energy level when we have them out together, but when
Coach gets upset about another nearby dog he wants to greet, Penny tends to
participate and exacerbate rather than remain calm or help to police the
situation.
This is all to say thank you for this video and all the videos so far.
Excellent dog-training resources have been hard to come by, and you’ve
impacted how I and we together address dog training. Pointed videos like
these are exactly what we need, the same way our dogs need us to pointedly
address one issue at a time. We’ve already ditched both prong collars (I
had never used such a tool with Kalli and was sad when we got them first
for Penny and then for Coach), and we’re going to wholly focus on positive
behavioral training for both dogs, and do our best to get Penny invested in
our home and Coach to be able to handle distractions safely and with
dignity.
Hey Zak – I noticed a point where you “wanted to see if he would take
treats.” What do you do in a situation when he is so overwhelmed that he
won’t even accept a high-value treat when placed directly in his face?
What’s an effective way to divert attention?
I tried to do this to my dog but it didnt work… everytime my dog and I go
foe a walk, he never looks at me. So before he reacts and pull on the
leash, I told him to look at me but he didnt. So I tried again by holding
the treats in front of his face to get the attention but he still didnt
look… what should I do to get his attention on me?!!!! :(
My dog (1year old) will go outside for her walk and do her business but
less than a half hour later she will hide and poop on my floor. I don’t
understand why she does this or how to fix it….. suggestions?
My Jack Russell mix is an extreme leash puller. We will be walking and I
keep her right at my heels, or try to at least. I say try to because she
PULLS! and pulls and pulls…To the point that she’s gasping for air. She
will gasp for air for the entire walk, and she just wants to run away, so
in combination with the gasping, she is scratching the ground, like she’s
grabbing the ground.When I first got her it wasn’t nearly as bad but she’s
just over a year now and at first I figured “she’d learn, she’d eventually
realize it’s uncomfortable or hurts and she’s figure it out”. But no. If
only I could record her doing this to show you how OTT she is!! The only
time she doesn’t do this is when we are half way done with our long 4-mile
daily walks and begins to tire out… Any advice?
Well my 10 week old puppy keeps eating grass when I let him outside in my
garden for excersise. (He has only jad 1 vaccination he still needs to have
his next one before he can go walks) So I just wanted to know if for a 10
week old puppy eating grass is ok?
Would this kind of training also work on my 9 month Jack Russell/Dachshund
mix? Everytime we cross the street she lunges and barks at people and
bikes… please help!
Zak
I’ve been looking for something on a similar subject to Laffites only
my 6 year old 15 pound rescued Chihuahua has an issue with barking growling
and lunging at other dogs and some humans on walks. I have been working
with him for 3 years to break this habit and it has diminished alot with
smaller dogs but large dogs are doggy enemy number 1 in my dogs eyes. He
has also made many human friends and I now am quickef at telling people not
to reach for him and then i explain why while also explaining that he needs
to go to them on his terms.
Is there a way I can help this process along? I have travel limitations as
i can’t drive and pet dogs are not allowed o public buses. Any ideas?
Wow, this dog. I’m glad there are patient people in the world. I grew up
on a farm and when I was a kid…a dog that acted like this one? Destined
for a deep hole.
This was great, but my dog is larger and weighs more than that one. I try
to be ready for it but I’m occasionally thrown off balance when she’s
barking and lunging and I end up on the ground, trying to hold on.
Squirrels, cats, other dogs (especially small ones) all set her off while
on leash. How would you recommend I control her when she’s over-excited
and won’t respond to treats? I can’t put distance between her and the
distraction if I can’t physically move her. Would really appreciate some
help. Thanks!
me n my dog Ray we live in Melbourne. every time we push the button to
cross the street, the button makes the ding ding noise which drives him
crazy just like the one in this video biting the tree.
Hi Zak! My dog is similar to Lafitte in that he is SO incredibly distracted
when we get outside on leash. I noticed in the video you checked if he
would take a treat or be interested in taking a treat before you started
working. My issue is that my dog is not even interested in a treat when we
were are outside on the leash. He will be interested in it in the back yard
but out front he is WAY too distracted. i’ve used regular treats, soft
ones, cut up meat, etc. Help! He is a 2 and a half year old lab mix.
i had a dog that pull on the leash like him, so i went out and bought a
longboard and to see how she would like pulling me on my new longborad and
she LOVED it.
+Zak George’s Dog Training rEvolution just want to say that I think that
this is probably the best video I have seen from you, I love all your other
videos too and find them extremely helpful but to see the transformation
with this dog was incredible. To that owner you are so patient and you are
actually an inspiration to many dog owners that are experiencing similar
issues. The fact that you didn’t give up on your dog is fantastic. That
appeared to be a very difficult and frustrating behaviour to manage. My dog
has some leash reactivity issues as well so i know how frustrating it is to
be walking down the street and be dragged down the street to get to the
dogs behind the gate. I’ve been working hard with him too. I hope you
continue to make these great videos Zak. I do have one question though and
I don’t want you to think that I am a bad dog owner. My dog wears a check
chain only because I feel that he might accidently slip a flat collar. Is
there any chance you could tell me what the best training collar would be.
like a martingale or just a flat collar. I don’t want him slipping his
collar. In all other aspects of my training I am very positive. Thank you
so much for these videos Zak.
I have an 11 year old Irish Setter who is wonderful. However, she is a
rescue dog and I have had her for two and a half years. She pulls on the
lead dreadfully and is extremely difficult to train not to do this. She
has arthritis in her back legs and has been limited on exercise by her vet.
I also think she may be bored as she has started to eat bits of tree bark.
What can I do to get her to walk with a loose lead and not pull and give
her some entertainment which is not too strenuous. She is not a dog who
plays with toys or shows any interest in them. Can you advise me about
what I should do and expect, please?
+Zak George’s Dog Training rEvolution i think it would be interesting if
you put a video up on how to train an antisocial dog. I know many friends
with this problem and i think you could help them. Thanks in advance for
any support.
My cardigan welsh corgi randomly lunges and barks at people during our
walk. She heels great and walks great on the leash. she also becomes
submissive when she meets strangers who wants to say Hi during our walk.
Her ears would go back, tail wags, lies down and crawls toward the person
and even rolls on her back and asks for belly rubs. But after she gets a
few seconds of petting she just snaps.. lunges, barks, growls, shows teeth.
She’s just so unpredictable.. any help or suggestions would be great!
Thanks!
Zak George's Dog Training rEvolution
@cindy firestone, your settings are such that I cannot reply! BUT, you need
to prioritize fetch or some type of serious exercise prior to leash
training! Based on what you’ve said, your dog is not receptive to learning
proper leash walking, perhaps due to lack of a MAJOR structured outlet,
like 20-30 min of fetch. Hope this helps! I’ll bet he’s awesome!
iTruth1
so what happens when your in the real world and you dont have cookies all
the time? Ill tell ya what, the dog will stop coming to work, and regress.
doglover
i love Laffite’s one ear up and one ear down look, and that spot on his
eye!
renetto
Another great video Zak! Roman is responding very well to your training:)
Haroon Bilimoria
What if youve got and akita and they interpreted direct eye contact as a
challenge?
Mr E Meatshield
Just wanna ask since I just found the other channel today, is Secretzakvids
also your channel? Or is it someone uploading your videos from another
source?
lee ann Lynn
You said to put my dogs problems here. I have three Border Collies and not
one of them will play tug of war or chase and bring back anything I throw.
They are great herders, I have sheep, but they do not play with me. They do
tricks for treats at the beginning and then just to do them but I would
like my dogs to to play tug.
auntiekaykay9
As a dog trainer I started out with classical training over 30 years ago,
went to PR (positive reinforcement) training when it first came out, then
on to “clicker” (operant conditioning) training about 20 years ago. I’ve
only seen a few of your videos, so I don’t know if you use a clicker at
times, or only a marker word (your “yes!” clearly becomes a conditioned
reinforcer, i.e., marker word). Either way, I just wanted to say that your
work in this video is some of the best training I’ve ever seen on video.
Your timing is superb, and your explanations are very clear and precise. I
will certainly recommend my students view this, even if their issues are
not as extreme — most owners would benefit from watching this.
Julia Galvin
I love how much you get in front of the dog and crouch so you are in the
forefront of his awareness. This is very unlike the English training style
where you aim to keep the dog at your left heel. Then you have to jerk the
leash all the time to get his attention, because he’s not facing you. Then
to avoid the sore neck you put the dog into a harness and he flies around
at the end of the leash for evermore.
Giuliano Spera
the dog is very good with you! pfffffffff
Yunalilly
What about playing tug to walk by the tree? Using a toy as his currency
seems like it would have served better than food.
Greg Freed
We have two pit bulls, Coach and Penny. We’ve had Penny (2, female, 50 lbs)
since 02/2013, and she’s been a real trial most of that time. She’s mopey
and stubborn; she’s somewhat dog aggressive (a trainer suggests it might be
limited to other females); she’s pretty taciturn, and it’s hard to get her
excited except for… um… when it isn’t; and she has particular quirks,
such as wandering around our apartment licking debris off the floor,
wandering around populated dog parks eating debris, and licking herself
obsessively until she gets rashes. We’ve had Coach (1, male, 50 lbs) since
03/2014, and he’s a lot like Laffite: high energy, great personality, and
highly distractable.
Our hope was that Coach would help lift Penny up; the whole time we’d had
her (until 02/2014), we had also had Kalli, an 8 year old 50 lb female
German Shepherd/Husky mix who recently passed of osteosarcoma. Kalli and
Penny never really got along, and I wouldn’t say that Penny’s personality
was noticeably impacted by Kalli’s passing, but we figured that somewhere
inside she’d prefer to have another dog in the house than not, so we went
looking and found Coach, hoping he’d help her find some joie de vivre.
We have two local dog parks, but we stopped taking Penny a while back since
she mostly ignores the other dogs and eats debris (mostly dead leaves and
twigs). We took Coach twice early after adopting him, and the first time he
did pretty well except that there were small dogs with small toys in the
large dog park, and as we watched his energy level rise we didn’t want to
risk an incident since we were still in early days with him, and the second
time we just took him near and not inside the park and he totally lost it:
escalating whining until he wasn’t under control anymore, biting at his
leash, another nearby dog, and my hand. That was the first time we noticed
his high excitability around other dogs while on leash (he hadn’t exhibited
this behavior with Penny when we first introduced them on leash, presumably
because we didn’t keep them apart and he was low energy, having just been
neutered), and much like Lafitte, the behavior is limited to when he’s on
leash.
This suggests that his behavior, like you said with Lafitte, is probably
affected by his energy level and could be mitigated by good exercise. We
live in downtown Jersey City in a small apartment, so room to exercise
off-leash is scarce. What we do to exercise Coach is we take him into our
gated parking lot out back and play fetch or–weather permitting–I take
him out on my adult scooter with a harness and let him pull me around the
local high school, which he loves. If we let Penny in the parking lot off
leash, she won’t chase balls or toys and will instead wander around eating
leaves or spit-out gum or whatever. When we take Penny on scoots with us,
she seems both happy and miserable, one moment smiling, the next biting at
her leash while it’s going on and also sulking in the bathroom when we get
home. We haven’t taken her on a scoot in a few weeks.
Aside from this, the dogs wrestle pretty regularly indoors for twenty
minute stints with ten minute breaks, which is acceptable except that Coach
totally dominates Penny. He tries really hard to stay within acceptable
behavior limits, but sometimes he gets carried away, and we’ll hear her cry
when he bites her ear, but he ignores her and she cries louder, and we’ll
have to intervene. Penny constantly re-engages Coach, which makes it seem
like it’s all in good fun, so that’s fine and may even be what we wanted in
a second dog. Our best strategy to keep the play fun and safe is to
introduce toys as an intermediary, which they accept for a while, but
eventually they’ll drop it and begin (playfully) biting each other directly
again, and then it’s only a matter of time before Penny squeals and maybe
gets upset. (I’ve tried various methods to train them in this regard, to
tell them “good” and give them treats when they play with the toy and make
them stop playing when they drop it, but these attempts only serve to
distract them and get them jostling against each other for treats from me,
abandoning the toy and their play, so now I just sort of monitor and tell
Coach to “leave it” [*it* being Penny’s ear] or otherwise break them up
when they drop the toy.)
This video addresses exactly what we experience with Coach on walks, minus
an added complication that most of his distractions are in motion: other
walking dogs and bicyclists, mostly. I’ve attempted various forms of this
training strategy, but I always fail to get Coach’s attention back on me
while the distraction is still present; owners with their dogs rush off,
and bicyclists whizz by. It would have been nice here to see the cars
addressed a bit more, for example, but the theory should be good and is
directly related to previous training successes I had with Kalli back when.
Likely, a good start would be to get a person with a dog or a bicycle and
have them interrupt our walks (after giving Coach some good exercise, of
course), but I think we might also be able to take him to (towards?) one of
the dog parks and work within zones of compliance about approaching the dog
park without totally losing his cool. He seems to be less intent on
cyclists than he was when the issue first flared up…
One thing we’ve started doing recently as we’ve really sunk into how
serious some of Coach’s training needs are is that we’ve begun walking him
and Penny separately. Due to his high distractibility, Coach is
unpredictable on walks, and Penny tries to sync up with his high and
frantic energy and begins pulling at her leash in a way she hasn’t since
our first weeks together. Her bad spots aren’t related to external
distractions as much as trying to communicate with us where she wants to go
or matching Coach’s energy level when we have them out together, but when
Coach gets upset about another nearby dog he wants to greet, Penny tends to
participate and exacerbate rather than remain calm or help to police the
situation.
This is all to say thank you for this video and all the videos so far.
Excellent dog-training resources have been hard to come by, and you’ve
impacted how I and we together address dog training. Pointed videos like
these are exactly what we need, the same way our dogs need us to pointedly
address one issue at a time. We’ve already ditched both prong collars (I
had never used such a tool with Kalli and was sad when we got them first
for Penny and then for Coach), and we’re going to wholly focus on positive
behavioral training for both dogs, and do our best to get Penny invested in
our home and Coach to be able to handle distractions safely and with
dignity.
Maria A
That dog literally has perfect markings and ears <3
Nora Camann
My dog howls when the ambulance goes by. I kind of like this though so have
not gone to correct it. It’s just too darn cute.
eabrams00
Hey Zak – I noticed a point where you “wanted to see if he would take
treats.” What do you do in a situation when he is so overwhelmed that he
won’t even accept a high-value treat when placed directly in his face?
What’s an effective way to divert attention?
박안나
I tried to do this to my dog but it didnt work… everytime my dog and I go
foe a walk, he never looks at me. So before he reacts and pull on the
leash, I told him to look at me but he didnt. So I tried again by holding
the treats in front of his face to get the attention but he still didnt
look… what should I do to get his attention on me?!!!! :(
Kamila Cullen
Your videos are so helpful! Thanks so much :)
Sam Marie
My dog (1year old) will go outside for her walk and do her business but
less than a half hour later she will hide and poop on my floor. I don’t
understand why she does this or how to fix it….. suggestions?
Taylor Jones
My Jack Russell mix is an extreme leash puller. We will be walking and I
keep her right at my heels, or try to at least. I say try to because she
PULLS! and pulls and pulls…To the point that she’s gasping for air. She
will gasp for air for the entire walk, and she just wants to run away, so
in combination with the gasping, she is scratching the ground, like she’s
grabbing the ground.When I first got her it wasn’t nearly as bad but she’s
just over a year now and at first I figured “she’d learn, she’d eventually
realize it’s uncomfortable or hurts and she’s figure it out”. But no. If
only I could record her doing this to show you how OTT she is!! The only
time she doesn’t do this is when we are half way done with our long 4-mile
daily walks and begins to tire out… Any advice?
IpetsUnited
Well my 10 week old puppy keeps eating grass when I let him outside in my
garden for excersise. (He has only jad 1 vaccination he still needs to have
his next one before he can go walks) So I just wanted to know if for a 10
week old puppy eating grass is ok?
Mark Kalinowski
Zak George training is the best method I’ve tried….now if I could only
get 1 1/10th of his energy. My two black labs love him too…. 🙂
Rohit Sonawane
My dog (GSD 4 month old) would pick up and eat anything he see’s while
walking (leave’s, rocks etc). Can you help me out with that?
bensabee
What should I do with a dog thank doesn’t care for treats? She doesn’t much
care for any that I have tried
Skruny
I love your videos, it helped me a lot, I have been trying to find
something to help my dog and finally I found your training :D
ana kraus
Would this kind of training also work on my 9 month Jack Russell/Dachshund
mix? Everytime we cross the street she lunges and barks at people and
bikes… please help!
Jodie A.
Zak
I’ve been looking for something on a similar subject to Laffites only
my 6 year old 15 pound rescued Chihuahua has an issue with barking growling
and lunging at other dogs and some humans on walks. I have been working
with him for 3 years to break this habit and it has diminished alot with
smaller dogs but large dogs are doggy enemy number 1 in my dogs eyes. He
has also made many human friends and I now am quickef at telling people not
to reach for him and then i explain why while also explaining that he needs
to go to them on his terms.
Is there a way I can help this process along? I have travel limitations as
i can’t drive and pet dogs are not allowed o public buses. Any ideas?
Jodie A
wb6162
Wow, this dog. I’m glad there are patient people in the world. I grew up
on a farm and when I was a kid…a dog that acted like this one? Destined
for a deep hole.
Cindy Firestone
This was great, but my dog is larger and weighs more than that one. I try
to be ready for it but I’m occasionally thrown off balance when she’s
barking and lunging and I end up on the ground, trying to hold on.
Squirrels, cats, other dogs (especially small ones) all set her off while
on leash. How would you recommend I control her when she’s over-excited
and won’t respond to treats? I can’t put distance between her and the
distraction if I can’t physically move her. Would really appreciate some
help. Thanks!
Ziqian Li
me n my dog Ray we live in Melbourne. every time we push the button to
cross the street, the button makes the ding ding noise which drives him
crazy just like the one in this video biting the tree.
Lucy S
Hi Zak! My dog is similar to Lafitte in that he is SO incredibly distracted
when we get outside on leash. I noticed in the video you checked if he
would take a treat or be interested in taking a treat before you started
working. My issue is that my dog is not even interested in a treat when we
were are outside on the leash. He will be interested in it in the back yard
but out front he is WAY too distracted. i’ve used regular treats, soft
ones, cut up meat, etc. Help! He is a 2 and a half year old lab mix.
poloo .angel
My girl liked to roll in poo after showers…dont know why… even when she
was old…we really had to look out when we walked her after baths..
George Goss
i had a dog that pull on the leash like him, so i went out and bought a
longboard and to see how she would like pulling me on my new longborad and
she LOVED it.
rustyredbc1
+Zak George’s Dog Training rEvolution just want to say that I think that
this is probably the best video I have seen from you, I love all your other
videos too and find them extremely helpful but to see the transformation
with this dog was incredible. To that owner you are so patient and you are
actually an inspiration to many dog owners that are experiencing similar
issues. The fact that you didn’t give up on your dog is fantastic. That
appeared to be a very difficult and frustrating behaviour to manage. My dog
has some leash reactivity issues as well so i know how frustrating it is to
be walking down the street and be dragged down the street to get to the
dogs behind the gate. I’ve been working hard with him too. I hope you
continue to make these great videos Zak. I do have one question though and
I don’t want you to think that I am a bad dog owner. My dog wears a check
chain only because I feel that he might accidently slip a flat collar. Is
there any chance you could tell me what the best training collar would be.
like a martingale or just a flat collar. I don’t want him slipping his
collar. In all other aspects of my training I am very positive. Thank you
so much for these videos Zak.
Beth Stafford-Jones
I have an 11 year old Irish Setter who is wonderful. However, she is a
rescue dog and I have had her for two and a half years. She pulls on the
lead dreadfully and is extremely difficult to train not to do this. She
has arthritis in her back legs and has been limited on exercise by her vet.
I also think she may be bored as she has started to eat bits of tree bark.
What can I do to get her to walk with a loose lead and not pull and give
her some entertainment which is not too strenuous. She is not a dog who
plays with toys or shows any interest in them. Can you advise me about
what I should do and expect, please?
Shelica Norwood
Dog barking and biting. . 4 months old . He will sit and stay but don’t
know how to get him to not bark all the time and bit
lisa kabalu
My rhodesian boxer, marley chews swings and tires
Max S
Zac, you’re a dog lover, not a pack leader. LEARN TO HARNESS NATURE AND NOT
TEACH DOGS TO ACT LIKE PEOPLE.
ekam brar
+Zak George’s Dog Training rEvolution i think it would be interesting if
you put a video up on how to train an antisocial dog. I know many friends
with this problem and i think you could help them. Thanks in advance for
any support.
21Javex
My dogs pull, bark, and they sometimes get out of there collars.
katrisha valenciano
My cardigan welsh corgi randomly lunges and barks at people during our
walk. She heels great and walks great on the leash. she also becomes
submissive when she meets strangers who wants to say Hi during our walk.
Her ears would go back, tail wags, lies down and crawls toward the person
and even rolls on her back and asks for belly rubs. But after she gets a
few seconds of petting she just snaps.. lunges, barks, growls, shows teeth.
She’s just so unpredictable.. any help or suggestions would be great!
Thanks!