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Can you make a video about best Guard dogs for families.

How long should getting food motivation take? When do I move onto the next steps?

I've followed some of Zak's training tips, and my dog is making leaps and bounds in improving their behavior.

After months of you tubing and expensive dog training what you have said makes perfect sense .

I have a Jack-Russell mix puppy that's about 3 months old (although that's a guess as she is a rescue) and I'm having trouble with teaching her basic things like how to walk on a leash. When I try to walk with her she will stop dead and sit and refuse to walk unless I give her food. Other times she will go crazy and pull all over the place, biting the leash and trying to play tug of war with it and being very reactive in general even after play and giving her time to calm down afterwards. I'm teaching her a marker word which is going well to the point that even after the first session she will follow it even after removing the leash but trying to teach her to walk is just resulting in her ignoring me and doing what she wants. Do you have any advice?

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I disagree with your definition of maintenance. Sure, with a lot of these breeds you don't need to get them regularly groomed. However, some of them shed so much that if you don't hoover daily or every other day you are going to have dog fur everywhere! A friend of mine has a German Shepard husky cross and a jack Russell. She's not big on hoovering. The entire house is covered in dog fur. But with a dog like a cockapoo or a bichon, you need to have them groomed every 3 or 4 months but you don't have to buy a thousand lint rollers and fuss about getting all the dog fur off your coat before you go into that job interview or business meeting.

I have a 5 year old Jack Russell and a 1 year old Maltese/ Bichon frise mix both are energetic. My Jack Russell was really easy to train and is really social I guess I had luck with him. My Maltese mix is a nightmare it took us more than 6 months to train, he’s really stubborn, and highly aggressive to people and other dogs aside from my Jack Russell.

Helpful. Teaching them right at the beginning is so much easier than Un-learning bad or unwanted behaviors.

Great videos, thanks so much youve helped me alot

I was shocked at the German shepherd one…

Considering how popular oodles/ doodles are I’d love to see this with them. I grew up with beagles on a farm- I was allergic to them and the farm (Australia the world capital for allergies) so I’ve had a poodle and now a Moodle (Maltese poodle) as an adult, but I think they’re so popular now because of fashion (always is a fashion with dogs) and that they don’t shed much or smell like other dogs (and maybe that they’re pretty friendly too!). Regarding grooming, it doesn’t feel like much of a chore if you get them clipped regularly and/ or short. I find oodles super friendly and trainable, easy to maintain, but challenges are- barking, small dogs that are more difficult to toilet train, and can be fussy with food.

For clarification, do you double-click as some kind of special signal? Or is it just the device that does that?

The problem I had was my dog would start barking every time she saw the dogs on this show, and it was hard to watch.

Love this video. Staffordshire Bullterrier next?

pleased that he has noted the difference between english owners and american (re training and exercise) and how honest he is about the potential danger of a pit bull

Labradors are just the very definition of "dog." You hear "dog," the labrador pops into mind, with maybe a Golden Retriever. I love these Labrador-ables. Black, yellow, chocolate. The "reds" and "silver" aren't actually different types of labs. They are variations of the yellow lab and a recessive gene of a chocolate lab, respectively.

You missed out Border Collies 😢

Border Coliie???? Probably one of the most popular dogs in Belgium today.

Great training advice but you are showing one of the smartest dog breeds, the Belgian Malinois! Yes we can definitely learn from your advice but Belgian Malinois are not the average person's pet! That being said having any dog started on a long lead with your advice will definitely help training! Which unfortunately most people don't do !

Every dog owner was once a first/time dog owner; everyone had to start somewhere. I like to think that even first-time owners, if they are dedicated to knowing their own personalities/what their legitimate lifestyle choices/needs are; are committed to researching up on dog breeds that fit into what they know they want (including meeting dogs in person, talking to breeders/rescues and other owners) and are fully prepared to take on the responsibility of bringing a new dog/puppy into their life, they can and should be able to adopt the breed they want. There’s going to be a learning curve no matter what, but if they’re honest with themselves and are committed, they could be well on their way to becoming expert, experienced dog owners.

Excellent and I’ve trained “difficult to train” breeds and been doing so for decades…other than comment about little old ladies ..I’m one and i dont’ go to slots BTW. OMG!!! You just mentioned Robert Sapolsky?! Brilliant. Been following him since the internet was hardly a thing. I also do like Cesar Milan AND your are more nuanced and comprehensive…Cesar Milan good for starting out and trainers whose emotions are an issue in training and for problem behavior though your techniques are more varied and preventative (CM’s exercise, discipline/boundaries/structure, affection is also somewhat preventative)

Wonder where a rough collie would fit. Ahh well

so i got out the start of the video. you got a dog with zero experience ... right then in the first six months you say you messed the dog up . then i see the next thing you have a biusness less then 8 years later training dogs. i am a trainer and have been training animals for more than 30 years in zoos with all kinds of animals and havebtrained horsrs and domestic animals to. dog ive always had and have realy good dogs and alway have. ive put my hole life into training and i do get paid to train and hsve a falconry bisuness .. but i get a laugh thinoing your on the first dog and just have a biusneess training . you might be good at training but i feel even with my level of experience in the first few years training peoples dogs would be notba good call. its kinda like a va at the vet office saying they watched for a week wnd can do a surgery. i have licenses and certifications to train.

Very interesting. Thanks. I really like your approach and videos. My common sense tends to agree with you. However my low faith in human nature brings me back to reality: too many incompetent canin professional, too easy too inadvertly misuse by dog owners, too many dog abusers that would tie them around the nuts of their dog to may them obey. Thanks for the reference to Debbie does Dallas by the way it made my day (I did nt know this master piece made its way to UK :p ).

Hey I’m the person that Kobe bit I am the I am tys little sister and what your doing with this dog is amazing so I have to say Thankyou

His smile screams sociopath. I always stuck with balbanov, ellis, cabral, and schoemer

Finally someone who advocates balanced dog training and is not shy to show how he corrects a dog. I only found your channel a few days ago and I‘m taking a lot from it. Thanks 😊

No G-Shepherd

Looks like Romanian Raven Shepherd Dog crossed with some thing smaller - he's gorgeous. Hope he's doing great now.

Jack Russells on the groomablity, 4.5? Ive owned them and they mult more than they own! The last one i owned shead 300% more than my 35 kg bullarab. It was washed and brushed regularly and it would sit on the couch just after i vacuumed it and the couch would be covered in fur in 5 mins afterwars. It was not allowed on the couch without sitting on a blaket because of this but my lager dog hardly left any hair at all.

Just go with Bernese Mountain Dog and be happy. You can't go wrong.

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"I'm going to post a video critiquing dog breeds and putting them on a tier list on youtube." "That's a bold strategy, Cotton."

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If they are banned in the UK, you wouldn’t have seen too many. I am in Australia. Loads at my local dog park and who are off-lead, and completely socialised and the best dogs. It’s how they are raised. Would trust a Pitbull before a dachshund or chihuahua

Pitbulls are brilliant dogs

A lot of people get Blue/Red Heelers and Kelpies, and it ends in a nightmare.

So sick of seeing owners getting the wrong dogs… wouldn’t get a dachshund if you paid me. Noisy and aggressive towards other dogs, or a timid mess. IVDD is far too common. I prefer Staffy and Bully breeds.

Excellent

I am a 1st time dog owner and have a 10 months old female Rottie . Very easy to train , very social with people and other dogs(so far) , great with my 10 year old son and loved around the neigbourhood ! Will bark at outsiders when she's in the house (not much just enough to register presence )but stops upon command . Exercise requierments with 1 short walk in the morning and a long one in the evening ( some days I add some fetch in the park ) she is pretty Happy ! Loves swimming in the summer and generally a good all round dog for me . Would never go for another breed !

I definitely made the mistake with my pup of not taking her out to socialize NEARLY as much as I wanted due to 110+ weather. Struggling with confidence now that we're working on, but luckily not reactive. Trying to get her out every other day to every day for real short training sessions followed by some fun outside in a park (NOT a dog park) or a hike in the woods

As a first time dog owner I must say, how happy I am for skipping puppystage with adopting a two year old rescue. All the fresh puppy owners where sleepdeprived and stressed, while I had to wake mine around ten to get our first walk in. Secondly, choosing a dog that doesn't have the supersmarts, will make live easier for you aswell. Those two aspects imo, are often overlooked. Adult dogs are still trainable, but much more reasonable to deal with than baby and Teenage stage. If you can not afford a high end breeder, the things you have to compensate and trainn for in bad breeder dogs or rescues with unclear backstory even out. There is a reason, why most dogs abandoned by their original owners are around 1-2, which is the hight of tantrum time, right after that it gets much easier I am told. So go out there, get an older stupid dog, and you will ne golden lol.

Pit bull tried to murder my dog. It's no joke. I understand they are good to their owners but sime of yheir genetics are baatshit

My dog's gonna be... the one I identify with at the shelter... but NOT a pitbull. My ex's is a great dog but he pulled a hernia out of me (something I didn't even know could happen.) Never again.

Beautiful and nice video. It was hard for me to teach no to my dog when we were outside, like, dont chase that rabbit. She was always leashed except a few times in the forest or in an enclosed area. Limited freedom due to i couldnt trust her. I failed her.

thanks, first time viewer here, really liked your experienced analysis. Since you asked, please do another one on a border collie, a whippet, a st bernard, an Akita, a boxer, a pug, a german shepherd and a greyhound.

It works for cats too. I may not have them with as many commands as the dogs but they are leash and open-door trained. I actually use completely different songs as my verbalizations but I taught myself to only use "AAHT" or the Intense-Stare-And-Point for corrections. Cats turn into billiard balls if you scare them and it just destresses the environment. I can call the furwads separately and as specific groups. Examples: one cat is "zippity do da", the older cats are the traditional "Kitty kitty", the younger group is a high-pitched "eehh daaa keeeeteeee" which allows me to give medicated food or higher calorie things to the right ones. When mine are misbehaving/disobeying too much, I skip a night of canned food so they only get kibble that day. This happens once every 4-6 weeks. It's natural for dogs to not always "successfully" hunt so they're fine skipping now and then. Next day, they're right back to behaving again.

All so large. I have a Maltese as my first dog, it was hard as a puppy, but after a few months it became amazing and has been ever since. My best decision ever.