it's awful that there are such cruel people out there who would do this to these poor dogs. It's also sad that ill-informed owners have been encouraged to think 'board n train' will fix their relationship with their dog/s when really all we need is commonsense.

So true. I own a blind cat besides my 2 big dogs. That cat is super friendly but calm and confident. My dogs respect him even though he's a different species, he could est their food. My Akita has the same mentality. She's 12 now and not once did any dog even dare to attack her. She is well socialized but stoic and she just walks. All dogs know that she doesn't want to fight but that she won mentally. My white GSD is the happy go lucky type and some dogs would love to attack him but the mentality of either me or my Akita keep them from doing so. Dominance is natural and all dogs understand it as a way of communication.

Amen. Even if you send it to a good trainer it doesn't help you learn to train your own dog. I say NEVER send a dog out to "board and train".

A dog needs more than excerise. A mixture of mental stimulation, excersise

Very unfortunate. Having a retired K9 officer as a mentor. I have learned that many departments don’t have the right program in place. The “trainer” gentleman who commented about the perception of the dog, missed The most important perception component which is, how no act can takes place (no free will) everything through the handler…. regretfully (blame shift) onto the dog…. Too many K9 dogs are washed out. The police industry needs to get a handle on this….IMHO

So sad.

This here is the statement that confuses me. Wild animals for sure exercise like crazy. They are living in survival and they have to walk and run and using there mental capacity to hunt all day every day. Such as a wolf that say dogs come from walk 10-20 miles daily and up to 100 miles when times are hard. That’s some serious exercise. No wolf just lays next to a tree and the rabbit comes right into its mouth. It has to work to go get it. I can say the same with even cows. They walk and walk a lot all day. They walk and eat and walk and eat. My cows get more walking then 99% of pet dogs do. There has to be something with that that the dogs are missing.

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Dogs do not need exercise to be calm. That’s some bold speculation. Are you saying you can get all dogs to be calm walking as your grey goose with no exercise more than a simple half mile walk around the neighborhood? This here is something I’d like to see from a much higher drive dog than grey goose walking with you off leash in the places you go.

Apologies for the ISO constantly adjusting. I didn't realize the exposure wasn't locked.

Probably so focused on "training" for these shows that they never socialize them which makes them resctive like this.

First of all your living room is a winter wonderland and it’s beautiful. See there are no bad dogs as long as parents/owners do what’s necessary you can have a wonderfully trained dog. Good job guys!

Camera Man could have done way better as a side critque. Capture the reactions!

good video i learned a few things!

Owners who have zero clue on warning signs

Now i did this wrnt out for smoke and the shawarma was gone and dog was in her crate knowing she did it and where she was going because of it. Sheppard husky

you asked a few questions and this guy gets so defensive that he instantly resorts to insults. responding like that in the comments in his own video because of questions about the training that HE posted is wild behavior. "I don't care what the public thinks..." *posts videos to KZbin* lol

Okay. What about doing the same thing, but to protect a submissive dog from a more dominant or an aggressive dog? Do you think the more dominant or aggressive dog would back down and leave the other dog alone?

I watch this and all I see is another egomaniacal idiot teaching dogs how to attack things like kids, smaller pets, etc. Why teach dogs how to attack? Ego ego ego ego ego ego ego ego ego ego ego ego ego ego ego ego.

To me, these dogs seem like they’ve gained a high-level control in the relationship with this trainer, Matt. The dogs are walking out in front of him on very long leads. Dogs seemed to Never be checking back in with him, the other little dog licking his face, affection is a form of control that dogs may use just like aggression. To me it shows that he has very little foundation with this dog. Most of the responses are superficial. And then, at the end, the review admits that a dog he worked with still has control (aggression) issues🤔???

Nearly all of Balabanov's training is kept tightly under lock and key, it's all very hush hush. Even the shorter length lesson videos on possession games, how to out, etc., are like $200 each and password protected. There are a lot of trainers certified from Ivan's TWC school, and many of them are great, but many are also... not so great. Only a handful of TWC trainers are truly transparent about what they're doing, Dylan Jones for example does livestreams while training client dogs, most others guard their methods like it's a pile of gold. I don't know a lot about Matt Welch and haven't seen much from him, but this interaction here from him is a bit embarrassing imo. It's not a good look. The way he immediately wrote you off and believed you were "challenging" him over a simple question feels really insecure. We don't all have to agree on the same methods, but if you can't or simply won't for whatever reason explain why you do something, it doesn't inspire much confidence in your abilities. There was really no reason for the cattiness from him.

Meant to say Ivan is a 13 time American IGP champion, not world champion

I have a dog that is scared of the squeak. I always remove the squeaker to keep him from getting used to the sound, so if he hurts our other animals, he is quick to stop. He is a hunting hound mix, and I don't want him developing his hunting behavior .❤❤❤

I’m not really understanding this video. Are you saying that aggressive behaviors are escalating because of gentle parenting? Because I’d say that is far from truth if so. It’s all about where you grew up to see the aftermath of kids that have been raised using physical punishment. Where I grew up most all kids were punished with physical punishment and I’ll tell you that most are in jail, dead, or living on the street corners begging for money. These so called gentle parents are not so gentle, they are trying to ignore there frustration and anger but the body doesn’t lie so even though they are not “hitting” the kids they are making it worse than just doing it. Aggressive tendencies come in my opinion from liars. People lying saying they are gentle but in them they are abusive.

Consequences are important and necessary. Positive reinforcement is important, but it can NOT be the only tool. Neutral and negative reinforcement is PART of teaching appropriate behavior. The lack of "negative" language like "no" will only make the situation worse

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People who train only with treats get into situations in which the dog doesn't attend to them so therefore don't give a crap about the treat. I see a huge uptick in people who have inappropriate breeds of dogs for their level of knowledge and willingness to do what is necessary. As a child of the 60s, I never once saw a pittbull, or any of the bully breeds for that matter, and few terriers. People didn't keep border collies and other working dogs in little houses or apartments, as they were "working dogs". There were a lot of German Shepherds and lots of GSD attacks. Wrong dog for most people. I lived on military bases and two bites, the dog was destroyed. My mom was mauled by the neighbors' GSD in 1964 and my little brother was mauled by a different GSD in 1969. Mauled, not just bitten. Most people had smaller and medium sized mutts and they were generally friendly and easy going and since most houses had families with kids, they were generally good with kids. Some people had poodles. The childless couple across the street had a pair of Great Danes that they brought out to play with kids almost every day after their walks. After supper the sidewalks were full of military men with their families walking their dogs. Kids and dogs listened back then. My dad was very gentle with our dogs but he was firm and clear in any instruction. The dogs loved him but they also knew they were lower in the pecking order than any member of the family, including the cat, lol. People now sit on their butt and that's how they parent both kids and dogs. I trained my Labrador with tiny food treats to establish a wanted behavior and then as she grew older we used play as a reward for obedience training. She also just plain loved praise. People think they need a big badazz dog for protection. My male black lab fought off both a chow that came after me while we were jogging and a Rottweiler that came into my yard and went after my little girl. He wasn't going to win the fight with the Rottie but he bought me time to get a shovel to help him out.He would have put himself between any of us and any person that meant harm and I didn't have to train him to control the prey drive (which is why so many breeds are WRONG for most owners), and I didn't have to worry about him jumping the fence and tearing the face off of a kid. I now carry a much better equalizer, as my dog and I were attacked by a Pitt mix and nothing I did could make the dog stop. Of course, the pitt owner blamed me and my old deaf lab for basically existing. Typical, she was a brat raised to never take responsibility and had a pitt mix as an "emotional support" animal. My yellow lab female put herself between me and a mustang (psycho horse owned by psycho owner in a group boarding situation) that charged me out in the pasture. She turned the horse, and then darted after it, but came back to me 100% of the times I called her as we moved toward the gate to get out of there. Most people shouldn't have kids or dogs. Passive parents "treat" their kids in bribe form: eat 2 more bites then you can have the chocolate covered sugar bombs you are having a fit for....if you behave in the store you can have a toy, then they buy a toy just to get the screaming kid out of the store, despite the horrible behavior. Seriously, I want to spank many parents. Kids and dogs need to be fed a lot less and nothing other than what parents put on their plates or in their bowls and every bite should count nutritionally. My kids called me Mominator. I never hit them. They had rules and consequences according to age. I hardly ever had to discipline. Our house was never chaotic, it was fun and often filled with my kids' friends. Same with the dogs. My kids hated being in stores with people and their screaming brats. People told me "I was lucky". No, I put a lot of effort in every day and I resent what has happened to todays children and the dogs. Effort is the opposite of lazy.

Interesting video.

My apologies for the slight echo in different parts. I'll fix that on the next one.

Idk I don't think people who have dogs that suddenly turn n do damage to children actually train their dogs. Perhaps that's the problem the dog probable has the pack mentality and turns on the child in a grab for dominance over the child. After all if the dog n child n guided n left u supervised enough then to the dog the child is competition. Prob for attention cause parent always o n screen thinking they are supervising

It's annoying how they're making it out like it's some conspiracy or deliberate attack that people are questioning the validity and effectiveness of only using differential reinforcement for all dogs for every situation. People are simply realizing that it actually doesn't reliably work, and cannot be generally applied to every dog and their individual circumstance. I mean, how many people wind up begrudgingly at balanced trainers in the end anyways after wasting thousands of dollars on positive only folks who wouldn't turn away dogs they weren't capable of handling due to ego? How many people were told their dog is a lost cause and set to be medicated and managed for life if not scheduled to be euthanized because of positive-only incompetence? This isn't to say that there aren't shitty people on the side who utilize punishment, there definitely are, but this claim that positive-only reliably works for all dogs, particularly aggressive dogs, and to add to that if you utilize punishment you're a reprehensible person because punishment is never necessary, is just laughable honestly. You can teach all the alternative behaviors you want and reinforce them as much as you like, but if the dog still finds the "bad" behavior just as rewarding as before, they're going to continue doing it. Relying solely on differential reinforcement rides on the contingency that the dog will always find what you're offering as most rewarding, otherwise everything falls apart. Not to mention a lot of people inadvertently condition their dogs to be more reactive and more unstable by constantly throwing treats at their face and begging for them to maintain eye contact, desperately trying to hold up a smokescreen that prevents the dog from reaching any self-actualization.

Discipline like a mother dog would do. She loves her puppies, but also wants them to be socially correct, as a dog. Sometimes they yelp when mom bites their ear, or swiftly pins them down , with her paw .

Great video👊

positive only training ruined my relationship with my first dog. :(

You should treat a dog the way other dogs treat each other. That's the language they understand. That doesn't mean abuse your dog or harm them, but it does mean using language they understand. Big voice, nape holding (the back of the neck where a lot of communication is handled). You can check them without hurting them. I think ignoring the behavior causes more stress and creates more problems, but I think it's very easy for people to lose control of the situation and veer into abusive actions which do way more harm than good... so I understand where the tendency to get away from this kind of discipline comes from. As a person who survived discipline that definitely teetered on abuse, I understand the inclination to want to avoid it all together. But I genuinely thnk you can discipline without hitting. Same as with a dog. When you discipline with anger, it just makes everything worse. That's the challenge. Good socialization, clear boundaries and a lot of love and patience go a long way in rasing a happy well adjusted being.

Have you seen "Ryanprater4" guy? I remember watching a bunch of them when I had TikTok, still not sure if he's actually right with "it's not aggression, that's how he shows excitement". It's been a couple years and the guy is still not mauled by his dog... But their dynamics is crazy anyway.

I've got three rescue dogs that had PTSD. A stable, loving home with healthy routines has transformed them into total cuddle junkies. They are good to each other, engage in normal dog/wolf activities like cleaning each other's ears and teeth. I was trained by a great trainer in how to use a muzzle in certain situations and it was transformative! As the alpha, I get to tell the dog when and how it's allowed to use its mouth. The dog in question came to me frightened and very concerned about defending herself and protecting the things she loved. With a muzzle on, she learned that everything stayed the same, nothing was lost, despite her not being able to bite. She learned her fear was unnecessary. I think she was really relieved that she didn't need to worry anymore. She became the mom of the pack and she's living her best life now, filled with happiness.

There is a lot of information available about the idea of coevolution between humans and domesticated dogs, almost like a symbiosis. Individually, the lack of good socialization training in both humans and dogs is definitely common in aggressive behaviors.

One thing that must be stressed is that most parents of bad kid don't actually do "gentle parenting". They do passive parenting. True gentle parents are assertive and do include boundaries. The whole point was to better understand children as emotionally complex people who have verying levels of understanding through development. And to discourage aggression against children too young to understand whats wanted from them or when a situation CAN be negotiated. People took things too far (as usual).

Having powerful breeds is a responsibility, unfortunately the breeds that are more powerful are also the one unresponsible people seem drawn too. Just like their kids they will flake responsibility and it will lead to negative consequences I really don't think it's super complicated.

We want dogs to submit. In relation to a human. In every context. Do you want your children to submit? And be submissive? Yeah similar functions may be present, but the goals are entirely different between DOG and HUMAN CHILD which will become an INDEPENDENT HUMAN ADULT INDIVIDUAL. Just something that comes to mind...

social decay. optimization lead us to forget how to communicate, relate, and form complex social dynamics.

Excellent points on the subject through the lens of behavioralism. Keep it up

let me save you some time: its the food. the food now and then is way different...the food we feed kids and dogs is toxic sludge compared to way back then

around 12:00 There's also the fact that kids are hit and abused by their parents for no good reason and in turn hit other kids.

I really liked the Ivan Balabanov podcast from a couple weeks ago with Michael Ellis, Dr. Hilliard, and Dr. Cottee, I think it ties into this discussion well. They address some really important points regarding orgs like AVSAB and how they love to tout that their methodologies are based on "scientific evidence", when in reality it's laughable to call what they do objective or based off of any credible science. The whole thing where AVSAB claims that aversives/punishment are not effective in behavior mod is such a crazy statement to make. It's simply incorrect. There is around 50+ years of animal science which proves otherwise. The FF obsession with cortisol levels in dogs in particular is incredibly strange to me because they use short-term collections of data to make long-term analysis of dog welfare which makes literally zero sense. Dr. Cottee said it best, an animal's welfare should not be based on short snippets or moments of time, but viewed holistically over the course of their life. Cortisol measurements are likewise flawed indicators of welfare because nearly everything in life can raise the corticosteroids in your blood, it can be the result of something good, bad, or even neutral events like waking up in the morning, it doesn't necessarily indicate that something terrible has happened. Stress is an inevitable, essential part of life. We are made to experience and overcome stress. Whether it's our dogs or our children, we can choose to either teach them how to productively handle stress and become resilient members of society, or we coddle them away from it and stunt their lives and development. Animals that are not exposed to aversive contingencies in training and throughout life are impoverished of information and do not learn appropriate coping mechanisms from stress.

Yes, "modern" treat training is ruining dogs left and right. Woof!

I can think of a few reasons

some dogs simply should not have been born

… here from Radical/Robert Hynes