2020 12 16
Training 101...
Here’s a million dollars worth of puppy training.( or it does work with adult dogs too)
Fiirst you must establish communication for that I always suggest that people watch that old movie miracle worker where Anne Sullivan finally breaks through to Helen Keller and Helen learns the one word “water “.. the idea that Helen finally realized there was logical communication she was brilliant ..
and I do find that's very much like what happens with our Danes. There is a “water moment”—they learn to learn...
the path we take is at three or four weeks old when they start of solid food to start spoon feeding them canned dog food after the regular meal /...if they were starving which all puppies are, ... you couldn't get their attention but after they've had their breakfast it is possible to open a can of dog food I get along handled ice tea spoon and hang on to it and give them a spoonful a wet food which they love .
the trick here is to hold the spoon slightly high so as they look up at it and get tired they sit down-----the minute their rear end hits the ground you put that spoonful of dog food right in their nose so that eventually in very short order you could have 10 puppies sitting all around you waiting for a next spoonful and they have realised that jumping around isn't going to help ....the second step with the canned food is to tap the CAD twice with your spoon so they begin to recognize the noise and realize that If they get near you and sit down quietly they will get food in their face..
so you've started them thinking ,,, Now if you say their name just before you put the food in their mouth you basically have taught them to come with their called.
so conceivably by the time they are seven weeks old do you have a puppy that's better trained the most people's dog who have gone to dog training class for two years .
so moving on .. the next step is leash training ..
the biggest mistake here is to put the leash on and hang on because as the dog reacts to the restraint and backs up into it-------- that leaves you following/?chasing ?---- the dog backwards with your hands stuck out in the air while the dog is struggling with something it doesn't understand----- so as far as the dog concerned it looks like you're chasing it and you are the one causing the problem .. And some dogs will forever have a problem of a person approaching them with their hands stuck out ... which unfortunately everybody tells kids is the correct way to approach a dog----- it's not --- but any rate you can't train the public .... back to the dog if you start the training with a leash by having the dogs rear end in a corner .. you could introduce the leash and take 20 minutes to kind of explain to the dog but when the leash tightens He is to move toward you .
Having got this far the puppy is really doing things which it thinks is normal without you commanding them to do things ..... .what you're trying to do is that teach them to think and do what's reasonable .. they will go through a bit of a teenager irascibility is that a word ???.. but very shortly it is possible to have short sessions where you cause the dog to think . We have an expression around here that you have to wander around in crowds or wherever enough to achieve boredom before you can try and teach the dog something .. you cannot teach a dog to paces himself next to your leg if he is getting all excited about traffic or the fact that somebody else is reading a newspaper in a chair not very far from him .------. they have to have seen all those things and got bored with them before you can then say OK now there's a perfect way to do this walking bit... “ most notably... when I put that vest on you you are going to walk next to me without tightening the leash at all . I listen to people all the time tell me that their dog is impossible"he pulls all the time every time we go for a walk .".that's because no one ever explained to him he was not supposed to do that . Around here I don't like to ever see a tight leash .. if you've tightened it and strangling the dog-- not thinking.. shame on you .. if the dog tightens it by pulling himself some other direction then shame on the dog and he needs correction there's no reason for at leash to be tight with an educated dog -- just look out for the absent minded human . ultimately we prefer to have no leash ..
It is really very simple--- if the dog pulls against the leash give it a sincere pull backwards to land the dog back where you want him and then relax the tension quickly... he'll only do that two or three times before he's cured for life--- you have explained to him the jumping ahead and yanking on that thing is not a good idea .
------I say that's $1,000,000 bit of advice because that's really all Caesar ever does and he certainly made $1,000,000 on it –
I am not copying Cesar millan .. I did it first----- I'm older than him
I'm sure there's a lot goes on off camera ,,, but every time he's dealing with a dog he talks about taking it for a walk and you watch that dog stays right next to him so something has happened to make that dog walk next to him and he does not tolerate the tight leash . That's his basic concept and he was doing fine when he just dealt with dogs when he got to analyzing people it got a little off base but his dog management if you go for a walk and that dog is not going to drag you around .
Another concept was taught to me by mary the donkey... Mary was perfectly behaved and would walk next to me with their head right near my right shoulder and she was absolutely lovely ....as long as I paid attention because if her head was 1/4 of an inch ahead of my shoulder, she would turn right and be gone and all I could do was hang on to her lead rope it get dragged around..... and she knew it .. If her head was in place , I had the leverage to stop and turn her to the left around me and have control .. but all she needed was a tiny little bit to whip me to the right .. very much the same thing is true with dogs you could have them come around you which turns them in front of you around and back and then in place on your right hand side -----but if they're ahead of you they see a squirrel on their left///. they're gone ..
201t de- tails--- like we use purina canned pro plan chicken and rice... for spoon training...
It is certainly a good food, but more important, it is the right consistency to stay on the spoon. Doesn't sound like much but if you have a couple puppies in front of you and you have stuff on the spoon which has pieces slide off onto the floor then you may have one puppy paying attention to you and several other puppies sniffing around the floor at your feet ..which defeats the practical purpose .. when I start that maneuver I very often have a bath towel where the front end of these puppies will be and if I drop too much so that they're distracted by it then the game's over and I have to change the towel .. you have to constantly think about what your puppy is thinking and doing ....
plus you have to hang on to that damn spoon so they don't swallow it==== that would be very bad --- the long handle helps
all that is true with adult dogs too... it just takes longer... they have more details in therir heads to unload....
If you get to this stage you are ready for training 201.. stair climbing
