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we are about to meet

moira the german shepherd dog she's a

rescue dog she has

a lot of what we're looking for in terms

of a dog that

needs a good bit of training that i

think might be a great

pupil for all of us to learn some things

from

honestly i had no idea what i was

getting into

this is moira a 10 month old rescue dog

who grew up on the streets of new

orleans

because she is a very strong german

shepherd but she's also 50 plus pounds

of raw energy

that's enough whoa

relax with a desire to how do i say this

enthusiastically interact with her

surroundings

this is exactly the kind of behavior

that can scare a lot of people if that

was a dog she would be like i'm not

paying attention to you i'm paying

attention to that

okay there's yes

okay i have to be totally honest with

you i am feeling a little bit

overwhelmed

so much for the tie out huh she's

looking for a new home and i've been

given two weeks to teach her how to be

better behaved

oh geez that's my mic there is no way

see not as easy as it looks but if she

keeps making first impressions like this

she could have a hard time okay we have

a situation no

this is going to take longer than two

weeks moira loses complete

composure anytime she sees a dog there's

virtually no chance she's going to

disregard a dog

anywhere within 50 yards of her this is

going to be a relatively unconventional

dog training lesson how am i going to

get through to her

this polling is insane i think i've made

a miscalculation

jumping on the furniture is definitely a

problem with moira if she keeps behaving

like this

nobody is going to adopt her and it's

going to be my fault we have to address

this biting this biting

must stop she is way too old to be doing

this kind of biting

i will teach this dog

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oh my gosh how about this way look at

her a whole cluster of dogs over there

look at this loose leech right now here

come on

good girl much better yes

come is she getting trained

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okay thank goodness i'm able to teach

her something

this is reality dog training revealed

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we are gonna do a dog training series

unlike any other series that we have

ever done before we have heard you loud

and clear you guys have been insisting

that we work

with an adult rescue dog with an unknown

background with various issues

so we've been combing through dozens of

dogs who have applied to be on this

series and we have made

our selection you're crazy i will let

you hold this bag

you can just set that on the ground what

we were looking for

so there you go sit you taught her down

you said

uh just sit oh okay sit

very good oh she's perfect she's great

oh you're strong aren't you yeah

good girl do you know how to let go

let's see what the person who knows her

best has to say about her

hey i'm valentina i've been fostering

the german shepherd moira rose

one morning i woke up with me and my

roommate we looked outside and we found

moira laying in my front yard i sat with

her

probably for about an hour before i

could tell

if she was friendly because she was

really scared of my roommate

and then eventually she just approached

me when she finally came to me and she

ate

she immediately vomited that's why i

contacted arno

animal rescue new orleans and i told

them the situation

and they made a vet appointment for her

the next day i've been fostering moira

rose for about three months

she's really sweet but she has some

issues from the moment i saw her i saw

potential she met a few people that

turned her down because she was jumping

all over them

she's had some unfortunate run-ins with

birds

since i've been fostering her moira

definitely needs help controlling

herself around

birds other dogs meeting people for the

first time

i'm also hoping that she can learn a

more reliable stay and recall and that

generally she'll just be more obedient

pretty sure she'll never learn how to

let go of a toy also

it would be great if she could learn

some more tricks for potential adopters

just to show off a little bit she's so

smart and she's funny she's really

clumsy and goofy

marie rose deserves the chance to be the

best dog that she can be

hey moira hi beautiful girl come on in

good to see you we have the other two in

the studio right now just so we can give

her some time to

check it out that's why we filmed

okay i need to work on your furniture

jumping i see

i really do she's a jumper

valentina her foster mom has just walked

out of the door and you can see moira is

a little distraught by it

so we need to make her feel right at

home i don't know about you

but the thing that makes me feel really

comfortable is food

i mix some nom nom here with her regular

food so she can adjust to it hopefully

she'll extra like me now that i'm giving

her really good food

i love how you can see all of the

individual ingredients and know exactly

what they are

in this formula they obviously use real

chicken and vegetables that are human

restaurant grade

i also love how it arrives at my door

freezing cold

every two weeks and these meals are

actually designed

for your individual dog they take their

breed and their weight into account

a big faux pas is to try to feed your

own dog a homemade diet without having

an extensive knowledge of dog nutrition

if you think your dog will enjoy nom nom

they likely will

you can get 50 off of a two week trial

at my special link trinom.com

zach i'll have that in the description

my first objective

is to literally just get her comfortable

with this downstairs area where she's

going to be hanging out with us

and like every dog on earth she's

immediately drawn debris

each room is a new environment to her

with different floor surface different

smells

i think what i really should do is take

her outside that

just occurred to me as she's smelling

the carpet to immediately let her know

where to go potty

when you have a new dog that first 24

hours

should in part be focused on giving them

ample opportunities to go potty in the

right place i mean they don't know

that they're not supposed to go inside

or anything like that so it's really on

you to prevent those accidents that's

really the biggest thing you can do for

potty training

i want to get moira comfortable wearing

a basket muzzle

the reason i want moira comfortable

wearing this is because i don't know her

that well but i do know that she's very

strong and she has an extremely strong

prey drive and since i'm about to take

her in public i'm going to take every

precaution

understand that muscles do have a stigma

associated with them a lot of people

will see a muzzle on a dog and assume

that it's not the nicest thing to do

but actually these are extremely humane

muscles you'll notice all the openings

in them

so a dog can breathe they can drink

water they can take treats so they're

really just designed

to protect all of the dogs interacting

with one another and you never know how

things are going to go

it's much more responsible to use the

muzzle and not need it than

realize you needed it after the fact

even when i introduced our older dog

indy to inertia i had a muzzle on her as

well so

when you're putting a muzzle on a dog

it's much better to prepare them for it

ahead of time

rather than just throwing it on them so

a really clever way here to get your dog

comfortable with sticking their snout

into

the muzzle is to feed some chicken

through it

and just kind of let them nibble it

looks like she's doing just fine

good girl i'm gonna let it come off just

like that good girl

make sure you choose a muzzle that's big

enough for your dog to be able

to easily eat drink pants and bark

moira is actually between sizes so we

started with this one but i think i'll

upgrade her to an even larger muzzle

next time

fasten it on a little reluctant there

but here let me see if i can get her

motivated about this chicken

can you sit i'm asking her to do the one

thing she knows how to do

sit because i want to make sure that

she's comfortable enough to focus on me

instead of this new contraption on her

face yes

very nice rei and i are going to take

our evening walk with inertia and moira

it might be nice for these guys to check

each other out from a distance but will

keep the dogs way far apart to avoid

overwhelming either dog this will also

be a good opportunity for me to see

firsthand what i'm dealing with when

moira encounters other dogs on a walk

okay moira is so worked up bree and

inertia are down there but moira is like

really really wound up

so you can see we've got a lot of work

to do here

this rambunctious behavior with moira is

probably

just play but i can tell you i know that

inertia does not particularly love

this type of rambunctiousness and that's

okay it's so important to be an advocate

for your dog

over everything else you don't want to

put them in a position

where they're extremely uncomfortable

and i suspect if i were to let them

go much further here that inertia would

feel pretty overwhelmed

if this is the kind of behavior i can

expect when she sees other dogs moving

forward it's clear to me that the

priority needs to be teaching her to

listen to me

as a human being in fact i'm hoping to

be able to teach her to stop paying

attention to dogs and pay attention to

me instead i don't want to reinforce

this crazy behavior by letting her go

and meet dogs that she's lunging at we

put inertia up so now we're going to

continue on our walk

with moira and see how she does we

should probably talk about the muzzle

a little bit more here as well i mean

the world is a very unpredictable place

and moira has a history of not being so

nice to

a particular chicken i understand and i

don't want to take any chances i at

least want to get to know her better

i mean out here in an environment like

this it may look like there's not many

people

but people occasionally like to take

their dogs off leash out here

and i just don't want to take any

chances because she's not a 12 week old

puppy

that's for sure it's okay here we go i

mean straight away i've got this clipped

to me for

redundancy here just in case because she

is a very strong german shepherd and i

want to emphasize this is more of a free

walk than anything i'm really just

trying to assess her and see what she's

like i'm not trying to prevent the

pulling so much just yet because i don't

even have any basic communication with

her i think i can see why my audience

has been asking me

to take on a dog exactly like this

because she is gonna be some work

that much i can tell i mean you can see

there's the tension right there she'll

just keep going

and going oh boy she hears dogs

all right i'm gonna see if we can keep

moving here come on girl

not bad got a bike coming up over here

let's see how she reacts to the bike

and again this is really just a science

mission to see

what her issues are because some of that

we have to discover

good girl you're doing great alert right

now i see a couple of dogs in the

distance

these dogs coming up are moving pretty

quickly so i'm going to let them pass by

it's often easier to focus on containing

an outburst if you're not

walking at the same time with your dog

she just gets extremely excited and

activates every muscle in her body

when she sees another dog i mean if they

were just a little bit closer she would

have really been losing her mind i

suspect

so now we're going to change a variable

on moira right we're going to go into

the neighborhood and see if she

acts the same different better worse i

don't know

the neighborhood is a different

environment all together there are

houses there are barking dogs behind

fences cars all of that

and again i'm just on a discovery

mission right now to see what i'm

working with for the next two weeks

she's acting a little bit more pully a

little bit more

interested in her environment and here

i've got to keep her on a more narrow

path it wouldn't be very polite to let

her go into people's

yards oh gosh poop bags did you bring

any i know

you guys would totally cancel me if i

got caught not picking up my dog's poop

okay poop bag secured one of the things

i love about

dogs that have ears like this you can

very easily

tell what they're listening to by the

way they're pointing their ears

and so when they're ahead of you you

kind of like to see if their ears are

peeled back

paying attention do you see right there

but she's got a set of ears right there

look at them

i enjoy making series like this i think

they're

so much better than just like one lesson

with a dog you get to

see what you can accomplish with a dog

over a period of time which is

fun and i just love showing you guys how

every single dog is so

different but you have to take different

approaches sometimes with different dogs

to get to the same place

you can tell she's a really smart dog

though i mean she's really interested in

everything that's going on around her

oh boy look how she's looking at this

duck though

make sure i have a good grip on her

because they're not really scared of her

at all

whoa boy i mean you see what i mean that

is why we put a muzzle

on a dog there because she doesn't know

how to react yet she's a strong dog it's

perfectly conceivable to think

that you know she might get an extra

couple of feet there and that

is something we want to avoid with her

and i'm resisting doing too much

training with her because i want to lay

some groundwork first but we're going to

be focusing on that exact behavior

moving forward

she's already starting to pull towards

this ugly duckling over here

i got a bite coming so i can't really

move right now so i've got to really

keep control of her let me

create some distance here pulling is

starting to

recur and she's getting a little more

amped up i mean i feel much better

holding on with two hands

with her because if she decides to get a

burst of energy

she's a lot to handle stronger than she

looks and she looks strong

using the handle right here to really

get control of her she's really trying

to go after these ducks so i don't want

to

encourage this these are the moments

where you have to be careful and

really be responsible about managing

your dog so i'm going to probably go

around over here

hopefully that'll be enough oh my gosh

gosh girl no ma'am come on over here

so what i need to do there when she has

wow

here because i need to create distance

right there but she doesn't know any

better i mean that's on us to teach we

don't blame our student right

she's not been trained and these are

some of the issues you deal with with

rescue dogs who don't have extensive

socialization with the world

they haven't been taught specifically

how to act in those kinds of situations

so

honestly it's a very puppy-like behavior

but

puppies often learn because they have

people teaching them and raising them

so she's managed to retain a lot of

those puppy behaviors but she's

metamorphosized into a full-grown german

shepherd dog

it's not the ideal combination but

that's okay because dogs are smart

and they can learn i'm gonna just gently

encourage her to go this way now

okay got another duck we need to get out

of duck valley here

there's a belief by some in dog training

that using a harness like this will

encourage a dog to pull my view is a bit

different though

see my goal is to achieve authentic

communication with moira over time

that is not contingent upon a particular

collar or harness

the idea is to get her genuinely paying

attention to me and listening to me

because she understands the concept

not because she's wearing a particular

device let me see how she does with loud

trucks cool awesome

i mean it might seem silly but a lot of

dogs are like whoa that's weird that's

crazy let me bark at it

and so that doesn't look like an issue

at least so far that we'll need to

address

so these are the things i'm looking for

okay i've got a pretty good idea as to

what i'm working with here

this tells me what i need to start

working on next if i am to have

any success training moira i'm gonna

have to really

establish a bond with her you've heard

me say before the best way i know to

establish a bond with a dog especially a

new dog

is to get him playing with me

unfortunately she

really loves to play tug of war right

now so before i go to bed tonight

i'm going to get her a little bit more

tired by playing

she's also getting me a little more

tired as well boy you got to watch that

bite right there

you want to be careful when you're

teaching an adult dog like this how to

play tug-of-war

because their aim isn't always the best

so they could bite you by accident we

want to avoid that

i noticed when she got dropped off she

definitely doesn't know how to reliably

let go

so i'm going to go with my favorite

method of teaching a dog to let go of a

toy

i'm going to become an oak tree and make

the toy boring

and when she lets go i'm gonna say yes

and give it to her

yes good did you see that she only let

go for a

minute fraction of a millisecond there

and what did i do i

immediately rewarded her and gave the

toy right back to her that's really

important not to be too greedy when

you're first teaching let go but let go

can be taught in a single training

session with many dogs that remains to

be seen with you though

let go yes very good good girl

good and

yes a little bit longer that's on that

was at least a full second that she let

go of it you have to do this like i

don't know 10 or 12 times in a row maybe

yes good you can see i mean she's

instantly getting this

let go is one of the easiest things to

teach a dog i'm pretty confident she's

going to let go this time so i'll say

let go before she does it since she's

starting to make the connection

let go yeah there you go

you can see how she let go ahead of time

so we're gonna continue working on that

for sure

good girl let me see how she does on her

basic fetch

let go since she is learning the concept

of tug

i will be transitioning that into fetch

later on

okay looks like her fetch needs a little

work and fetch for her

is going to be really important because

she's got a ton of energy i'm going to

put the leash back on her because she's

not yet reliable in the house

good job and there's her first

successful pee

so i'm still trying to let her out she

didn't pee at all on the walk not one

time so that's

really good well at least potty training

is off to a good start

there she goes oh boy i suspected she's

been wanting to just get out here and

run a little bit and get rid of some

steam boy she's quick

whoa gosh that's my mic boy she is

wild i would rather she probably chased

me than me chase her

so when she comes in my area i'm gonna

run from her that'll be good for

reinforcing recall it'll be good for her

fetch training when we get to that point

later on

dogs love to chase and if you know what

you're doing you can use that to your

advantage you can do this instead of

cardio it's actually proving to be a

great way to burn

some of that energy off right now don't

know if i can hold up much longer though

as fun as that is for her and me to be

honest with you

it's a really great way to just get your

dog enthusiastic about running to you

and obviously this isn't something

that everybody would want to do but if

you're up for it have some fun with them

oh my gosh boy that dog running at you

at full speed is no joke she may be the

fastest german shepherd dog i've ever

seen

so far she's doing great in her crate

you might notice

that i've set up an air mattress i'm

going to be staying down here

as is customary on the first

really i brought your pillow thank you i

appreciate it you're welcome

so yeah we've got her in the crate here

i'm gonna

keep you posted on how she does on her

first night so far she's doing really

well in the crate although you might

notice she's

chewing on a chew right now a beef ten

didn't you and she's enjoying that so

that's really

putting her at ease you know giving your

dog something they really like when

you're trying to get them

comfortable in a crate oh my god look at

my hair it has been that kind of day

it has yep yeah can you tell we're worn

out already

so a picture is starting to be painted

as to the direction we need to take for

her training but

i have to be totally honest with you i

am feeling a little bit overwhelmed

um i'm still quite confident we can do a

lot but i only have

like 14 days to try and get her

ready to be a well-behaved dog

for her future family whoever that might

be and she has a lot of bad habits that

a lot of people don't want to deal with

i mean this is one of the issues with

rescue dogs very often

they have a history of getting away with

things jumping on people or

running after wild animals or anything

like that that can be really difficult

to manage

once the habit has been established but

you know it's nothing that we can't deal

with but it is gonna take some extra

focus and patience

and i think we'll be okay i hope so

anyway

okay so maura decided that she wanted to

hang out up here on the bed

i don't think i'm gonna let her sleep

with me but it is so tempting because

there's nothing more cuddly than a

german shepherd dog

hey moira how are you gonna do over the

next two weeks

she's just looking for trouble to get

into i'm positive of it

i'm trying not to keep her in the crate

for very long periods during this first

night

so i have her tied out right now

see she's right there she's right next

to me i really like to introduce the

environment and the general house

slowly over a period of time not all at

once so that might

put her at ease i mean she's not

i wouldn't say she's like super stressed

out or anything moira

you know what i think you're ready for

another potty break i just want to be

cautious and careful and there she goes

good girl even if you've had a dog for

years when you go to a new place it's a

good idea to be extra thorough about

letting them out to do their business

always remember if your dog has an

accident inside the house that's on us

it's our job to teach them so resist the

urge to blame your dog or punish your

dog

and just take them out more often that's

usually the solution

and do that for like an extended period

of time weeks

months whatever it takes you remember

let go

yes good your training's already

starting to work

i got some toys for her to play with

she's enjoying them

squeaky keeping her engaged what percent

chance do you think there is that she

will end up sleeping in your bed tonight

i mean i don't know i oh would think

about a hundred

no i'm just kidding right now i'm not

trying to be too strict as much as i am

just trying to get her

to acclimate to the house and the new

place and everything

i don't see much harm right now with her

getting up here

but nonetheless i think it will be

important for her to feel comfortable in

her crate as well so we'll try to

balance those things

and i'm definitely trying to avoid the

mistake of too much freedom

too early though i am trying to grant

her some freedom so i don't overwhelm

her with rules straight away but

managing the environment is super

critical

when you're training a dog i mean you

can see that even though i'm managing

the environment

there's stuff on the chair over here she

can get to dogs are smart i still have

to really watch her

i'm content that i'm watching her good

enough and she can only go within about

a 10-foot radius here

that's why i exercised her and that's

why i gave her plenty of play time

and we'll do lots more tomorrow i know

we're starting to bond already you're

doing great

so great that's the shot okay fine i

will play with you

now i've been working out for you okay

i'm ready

ow she got my finger a little bit but

she eased up so that's a really good

thing we're actually having dinner

delivered right now i'm curious to see

how she reacts

if she even notices someone comes up to

the door let go

someone not good girl i like that she's

focused on me right now

i noticed when i opened the door it

looks like she would have wanted to run

out the door so another reason

to control the environment and even more

important reason to train your dog how

to stay

at an open door which i'm sure we'll get

to at some point

time for dinner this is not for you

she's trying to take my dinner you had

nom nom it was just as good

i've had her tied out there she looks

really comfortable i'm finished with

dinner

and i'm ready to go to bed so i'm going

to go put her in the crate i still

haven't ruled out the possibility that

she may not be a great dog because she

does get pretty

frantic in there all right she's back in

her crate now

she does i mean i'm really starting to

get the picture here this is what i mean

when i walk away from her

hey brie when i walk away from her she

really starts to get frantic

starts to walk in circles in her crate

and pace back and forth you're trying to

get out of the way

you're so in the shot that's okay though

you beautify the shot but when i come

right over here

this is the logic of having the bed

right year for now as she adapts

she's more likely to relax

see what i mean i think she gets a

little more comfortable

i mean she's still you know the yawning

there of some anxiety probably

or maybe she's tired so the bottom line

is i think she might have separation

anxiety

okay good night for now and hopefully

i'll see you in the morning but if

anything happens overnight

you guys will be the first to know say

good night good night

it's three in the morning right now and

as you can see moira

is starting to feel a bit frantic i got

up to get some water

and she just is like oh my gosh

it looks like she's stressing a little

bit i'm gonna go ahead and give her an

opportunity to go outside

and let her go potty and it's raining

but i have to tell you guys she was

doing really well

so i got up there so she whipped pee so

that's good

all right maybe that'll make her feel a

little bit better we'll see

looks like she's coming back in now good

mood so hopefully now she'll relax

we can both get some sleep because we

have a lot of work to do tomorrow

all right good morning you did so well

last night i'm so proud of you

you only got up one time okay let's go

good job i'm gonna stay here because

it's cold and wet out there

i'm using a retractable leash i don't

want to let her just

run outside right now to do her business

even though we have a fenced yard

because

i don't want her to experience getting

away with not coming back when i call

her or

chasing a dog up and down the fence if

one walks by for whatever reason

so i still want to have some control

over the environment here for her

morning

break there she goes

she doesn't mind the rain so much which

is great

then i'm gonna go get ready for life

okay

good girl we got a lot to do today

oh my gosh we have a lot to do including

stopping jumping

okay we might have a little bit of a

situation here i had to go and get ready

for the day

and i know that bree is extremely

experienced with dogs

so i felt perfectly comfortable putting

her in charge of moira

oh boy oh my gosh so you were really

good about making sure she

didn't pick up anything she wasn't

supposed to right

oh no okay well you were able to keep

her from getting any worse at

her play biting right

she's still play bites you need to stop

biting

here you want to bite like this that's

what you can bite

but if there's anything you're great at

it's keeping dogs from excessive barking

one of your

best skills she's barking at me

so when she was working was she asking

to go outside or go potty or anything

i tried that i brought her outside we

stayed out for

a few minutes and she didn't seem like

she had to go so i think she was just

super bored so i gave her a toy okay and

she was good from that point on right

moyra's tied to me now why you ask

this is why so much for the tie out huh

oh my goodness it happened so

fast this would have happened to me too

honestly i mean we

have really underestimated what it's

going to take

to manage this dog's environment don't

get me wrong she's bright

she's sweet but she is raw and there is

a lot of work to do here

so we have a new tie out it's metal

inside oh yeah yeah it's a steel it's an

actual tie out this is

actually a long lead right so it's are

bad for using a thing that

for not the purpose it was intended this

is what i love about this series though

making the adjustments for the

individual dog that you're working with

showing you the miscalculations

so she does seem to get pretty anxious

in the crate the second i get more than

about 10 or 15 feet away from her she

was good

sleeping in the crate last night but i

think i want to be very careful about

how i use the crate moving forward

because she stresses

easily in the crate when she's in a

crate you can see her pacing

back and forth she starts panting so

these are

telltale signs of anxiety with the dog

and we want to minimize that

i'm not going to give up completely on

great training though because

i mean there are still times where it's

useful to have your dog go in a crate

and she's not totally traumatized she

still goes in voluntarily i don't force

her in so i'm probably gonna have her

sleep in the crate tonight but like

during the day when she's hanging out

she'll either be on leash with me or

hover tight out or cover in the backyard

for some outdoor time

tonight i'm gonna have to sleep down

here and probably

for a good bit i'm really still trying

to get my bearings with her and

figure her out i mean it takes me a good

three days of working with a dog to

really start to get to know them i feel

like and this is just day one

yeah that's true and i remember on day

one with kona i

totally thought you were gonna sleep

downstairs every night for

three weeks because she was very very

anxious

when you left her alone and you ended up

not having to so we'll see maybe there's

hope

i think with rescue dogs like moira too

like they've had experiences who knows

what her background is but

it's common for a lot of people who

don't know dogs to keep their dogs

in a crate for too long so she could

have had some experiences in the past

i don't know where she was in a crate

for a long period of time but i still

haven't ruled out the possibility she

just might not be

a dog that does well in a crate so i'm

gonna be watching that closely

by the way i mean i'm discovering she is

a proper level three german shepherd dog

meaning the highest energy one would be

a couch potato two is probably what most

dogs are in that range and

she crosses into three territory for

sure

i've been giving moira so much attention

that i decided to give

inertia a little bit of time and play

some frisbee with her to make sure her

needs are being met

and obviously i did some instagram

stories make sure you're following us

over there too

all right let's get back to moira oh

there's a dog walking

past our fence here

girl what's this oh yeah good

i was just doing a test that i wanted to

see how easily i could get her attention

off of the dogs but you can see she's

definitely quick

to react to dogs and notice them very

similar to my own dog inertia in this

way

i'm hoping to really teach her how to

focus on me when i request her attention

so that's something i'm going to

immediately get started with

it's finally time to get down to

business with moira and do some serious

training with her

i put her back on leash right now

because she tends to want to roam a

little bit too far so i'm going to let

the leash drag

so that i can more easily get to her

right now i've got a piece of chicken in

my hand and you might be wondering why

because before this training session is

over

we're hoping to perform a magic trick a

magic trick that will involve

moira leaving this piece of chicken

alone when i drop it in front of her

let's first see how she does sit that

looks good leave it

okay so she didn't listen to me i'm

going to teach her how

to leave that piece of chicken alone in

this training session in a matter of

minutes

i hope so anyway i'm going to try

something a little different with moira

because she is a really high drive dog

i'm going to put the chicken aside

and i'm going to take something a little

bit less valuable to her these are sweet

potato treats she still likes them

but she's a little less excited by him

we're gonna practice teaching her how to

leave these alone do you know why we do

this the reason we do this

isn't to necessarily teach a dog how to

leave a treat alone it's to teach them

what we call

impulse control right that is leave the

thing alone

that you want to get we'll let her know

i have sweet potatoes in my hand

i'm going to close it i'm going to wait

for her to lose interest here

just for a fraction of a moment see

she's realizing that's not working

going forward isn't working you see how

i reveal it and then i close my hand

yes good every time i say yes i'm going

to give her a treat

let her discover that it's open again

yes did you see that moment of restraint

it was

just a small moment

here we go we're getting there right now

yes that's a smart dog let me get it one

more time

here we go i like her sit

yes i'm gonna go ahead and reward on the

set

yes good so very quickly able to get her

to leave those alone

now let me see if i can get her to leave

it alone when i drop it on the ground

that is the hard part

actually let me take a smaller step

before i do that the reason it's hard

when you tell your dog

to leave something alone and you drop it

like that there's movement it's natural

for them to pursue it so this time i'm

going to

place it on the floor but i'm going to

cover it up

same logic here but it's on the ground

this time

this is the beginning of teaching your

dog how to leave things alone on a walk

whether it's

grass or another dog even

you have to teach them it just because

you want to go for something doesn't

mean you get it

see she's being persistent i want her to

see that it's not working for her

those are some sharp claws ouch

yes the fact that she moved on there is

what i'm going to acknowledge

notice i'm not saying leave it or

anything i'm really just trying to walk

her through the thought process

where did it here oh my god it is a

magic trick

i'm going to go in slow motion here look

at this

leave it yes

leave it yes so leave it's looking great

we're gonna test with the chicken and

then we're gonna teach her how to look

at us when we ask

and you'll see why that's extremely

important and how those two things are

related

leave it and look at me are like the two

things that i teach

first to any dog leave it this one's

harder though this is real chicken

yes leave it

i'm starting to say leave it because i

can see she's really starting to

understand the concept

now for the big test right let's see if

she'll leave a piece of chicken alone

when i drop

it

yes very good and i'll take that right

now

we're gonna see if we can take that to

the next level and you'll see why

leave it really matters if we're

training a dog we obviously want to

reliably be able to get their attention

on us so i want to teach moira how to

look at me when i ask

she's doing really well now i'm going to

go ahead and take the leash off since

she's really focused on me this is

really easy to teach

i think i'll stick with the chicken she

seems to be enjoying it i'm going to

keep the pieces really small though

holding it up right there and i'd say i

have pretty darn good eye contact right

now

yes so that's right the first step is

literally holding up a really good treat

to your eyes

is she looking at my eyes not really

she's just looking at the treat right

now

you see that i mean this is essentially

teaching a dog how to look at our hand

which i will point to my face in a

minute but look at me

yes so this time i'm gonna fake her out

a little bit i'm gonna make her think

i've got a treat

look at me yes no treat

but look i'm gonna come over here gonna

get the treat and give it to her

here yes even making a sound like that

anything you can do

even if it's accidental to get them

paying attention to your head

is what you want to do look at me yes

she followed that finger

right up to my eyes look at this look at

me

yes let me get a few of these in look at

me

i'm saying look at me only as she's

doing it

look at me yes can i stand up now and

see how she does

i'm extending the training bubble

remember it's easier for dogs to listen

to us when we're closer to them

look at me yes love how she's looking up

at me remember dogs are predisposed to

take direction from people

we selected for those qualities in them

so it's in them to do it very easily

let me see if i can let her attention

wayne for a moment then i'm going to ask

her to look at me

laura look at me yes

she responded well to her name there

that's also something i really want to

focus on every time she responds to

or a sound or her name i really want to

reinforce that

moira yes

look at me yes

watch this now this gets me really

excited hopefully this will go as

planned ah

leave it let me get her warmed up a

little

good

look at me yes okay let's work up to it

the idea here

is to be able to drop an amazing

distraction in front of her

and get her attention on me this is the

first

version of doing that if we can't get

our dogs to do this we can't reliably

hope to be able to get their attention

off of something on a wok like a

squirrel or something

this is kind of how we plant the seed

and really show them an easy version

of leave it even though it's still a

little bit challenging but it's not as

hard as you might think

just kind of take the time to explain

leave it

look at me yes that was a magic moment

right there

leave it look at me yes

it's called the leave it look at me

combo i write about this in my book in

detail as well

i'll have links to both of my books in

the description leave it

a lot of movement to that one look at me

yes and this is the kind of thing you'll

do

five ten minutes at a time you know just

do a few reps here and there i don't

want to burn her out on it

but she's really starting to get the

concept i think that's a good place

to stop right there so really pleased

with her progress

leave it look at me combo first lesson

check okay thank goodness i'm able to

teach her something

she is a really smart dog that's the

thing like high energy dogs like this

often get the reputation of being really

difficult or stubborn

in most cases i found it to be the human

being who's just

uninteresting to the dog because they're

like come on let's keep it going let's

do something cool and we're just focused

on sit and lie down and roll over and we

don't go beyond that so

really important to keep pushing your

training too like many of you i actually

have a job

making youtube dog training videos and i

have to go preview a draft right now

which requires a lot of focus from brie

and me to do producer stuff

so i want to make sure that she has

something to do i'm going to give her

a tasty really high value chew to keep

her attention focused on this now you

can't get by with this all the time

but maybe once or twice a day you can

get by with getting them to be

preoccupied

and stimulated with something they

really like here good girl

and so i'm hoping that'll keep her

satisfied while we get our youtube job

done

we have to stop making a dog training

video right now in order to go watch a

video about training a dog right now but

we're still making it part of the video

oh my gosh that makes my brain

hurt welcome to your new puppy survival

guide

for example i've lost like six pounds

since this video

right now we are previewing a video

making notes while also you may notice

filming a video

two series at once we're so productive

it's funny because you're wearing the

same outfit so it's like

zach and a red hoodie stacking a red

hoodie and a cam over there

real life sack still in his red hoodie i

cannot even handle all the universes

that are touching right now

simultaneously

how does she do that yes good work she's

such a good dog

oh my gosh kona i wish you were here

right now

it would be so much easier it's crazy

because i actually

learn stuff when i watch my own videos i

learn so much i see where i'm screwing

up and i i mean that's

usually what i learned yes good

right there yeah i'm going to get rid of

those jeans

oh no look at me i'm so khaki right now

they're in my closet right now

i'm donating them they make the shoes

pop she goes back to doing what she's

doing she's probably those shoes don't

need any help

i was still still chewing on me at some

point

this is a 30 minute video it usually

takes us about an hour hour and a half

sometimes depending

to go through this i appreciate the

variation on the youtube channel that

we're going to have

with her versus the kona series versus

the inertia series

versus the next one which we haven't

even talked about yet but

i'm sure it'll be good looks like moira

is a little bored oh yeah she just

finally how long has it been

like probably 45 minutes or something

she just finally

stopped chewing that bone but she's you

know she's wanting a little bit but

she's

i mean you know a little little stress

there

but not as bad as she would be in the

crate but she also needs to know how to

be alone here for a second while we get

through

this she's doing you're doing a good job

girl ended up getting distracted looks

like she found a toy to play with

my communication see i knew she'd be

okay

yeah cool we got all our notes yeah well

i think you know you were doing so well

i that was like an

hour of work yes okay so you're probably

wondering what are

the absolute essential items that you

need during the first

24 hours of having a new dog let me

briefly cover those

of course i like to have a crate so i

can easily control the environment

if you feel like your dog will not

destroy a bed that's a good thing to

have

of course a food bowl and a water bowl

definitely have at least a six foot

leash

i like using harnesses with dogs this is

the blue nine harness if you're

wondering it's

my favorite harness that i've worked

with be sure to have a long lead as well

that way you can give them a little more

freedom while being able to still

control

their surroundings and of course two or

three toys of varying textures

and some different things for them to

chew on as well of course you're gonna

need their food and treats i like to

have a variety of different types of

treats because dogs like people

are sometimes in the mood for different

things but we'll talk more about that

later in the series

and as far as their food goes if you

want to try nom nom for your dog

you can get 50 off of a two week trial

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zach i'll have a link below subscribe to

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my books too

all of the links will be in the

description now the moira is settled in

the real

training will begin wish us luck

episode one is in the books here

she has gotten tired first 24 hours is

up

and also brie has been working very very

hard too

she's exhausted so we're taking a break

pretty good so far though you're doing a

good job moira