Thanks for this! Our dog (Cusco) has a lot of Vet anxiety, and we generally have had to pre-medicate her and put a muzzle on her for Vet visits. One thing the Vet tried at a recent visit worked incredibly well. They needed to draw blood for here annual physical, and when Cusco saw the Vet tech with the syringe in her hand, she freaked out. There was no way she was letting that person near her! The Vet had a towel that was sprayed with a calming phermone, and she put that towel over Cusco's head, so Cusco couldn't see the Vet tech approaching with a needle. Cusco immediately calmed down, and the tech was able to lift up her leg and draw the blood with no problem! Since then, we have had several more visits to check for a chronic cough, and the towel trick has worked to allow the Vet to listen to Cusco's chest breathing with the stethoscope. It is really an amazing tool!

Thank you for the video,

Great video! I particularly needed the reminder that I am not a bad dog parent because my Willa is so anxious at the vet. Thanks for all the tips!

Perfect timing- my reactive dog has an appt for her annual check up today!

What a great video ! Very informative!! Thanks got sharing !!

My dog howls at me when I don't let her mouth or bite my hand.

Do you have to count the calories of the pepper in the daily food allotment? If so, how do you figure out how many calories are in a pepper or in anything else you feed your dog?

I am a Hungarian visitor, and though I read well in Englsh, your talking is very fast, and also the written text is running quickly. Would it be possible to write the text independently, just to read it over, then I would be able to synchronize it to the audio. lt is my problem from the beginnig, so learning is difficult on this way, needs a lot of time, and sometimes there are misunderstendigs. Could you help me Steffi?

Thanks. I live in a place where many people let there dogs run off leash most of the time. My dog is 20#, which is small around here, so I'm often fending off a much larger dog. When there's been a negative interaction, the other dog owner has said their dog is reacting badly because my dog is on a leash. Ironic, eh? Is there any truth to that?

I've found that my sometimes reactive dog is totally fine with passing people on trails as long as they don't talk to him or reach out their hand. I think my body language is usually pretty clear that a stranger should not approach him -- I do try to put him on the other side of me. I love it when people ask if they can say hi. I usually say that he's wary of strangers, but I think that saying he's in training is so much better. Because, of course, I hope he will become more comfortable with these sorts of interactions over time. And once he knows someone, he really is as sweet as he looks. Thanks for the video.

What about off-leash dogs?

Great tips! Thank you. But what if you have two dogs and you usually walk one on each side?

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Thank you for the helpful strategies! How do you handle a situation when an off-leash dog approaches (or charges) your leashed dog? And would your tactic change if your dog is reactive?

I just say please excuse us in writing in training my puppy to not react to other dogs and people. No one has had an issue with it so far.

Love this trainer!! Please sub. I always say to my Corgi who loves everyone, "Not everyone loves YOU!' He gets it.

I love that sometimes walking away and being rude is necessary. I have muzzled dogs.. and you have no idea how many people want to approach my dogs even when I say no... they react and the person gets upset and says it's my fault.. too humorpus what they do.

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I actually just trimmed my dog grinch toes lol!

Great tip. And do you recommend we train our dogs to walk on BOTH sides, not just the traditional left side? What do you do if your dog walks ahead because he is more interested in “being the leader” and scouting out iwhat interesting things might be ahead ( a person, another dog, a cat etc). then getting the treat? He often will control things by returning to his side position when he wants a treat, then forge ahead again..

Will work on this with our 5 month old Havanese puppy who is motivated by companionship more than anything at this time. We also recognize when he is stressed by environment and have been able to reduce that with giving him high value treats while sitting on a bench in a noisy environment first for 5 minutes or less and then la bit longer, always saying 'Cars and trucks". Everything loud and clanking with motors or without is called cars and trucks and now he just relaxes (took two weeks of daily work) and is able to move on with a sniffy walk even past construction zones. Doing the same now with dogs and people with great success using a cheerful "dogs and peeps" while petting him and acting like it's the most normal thing in the world. Being non food motivated, he does well with calmness from us and the verbal naming situations, removing him immediately when we see signs of stress and repeating this every day, twice a day. Thanks for this video. It helped me understand how to perhaps make him more interested in food as a motivator. We took our farm pup home to an unfamiliar and loud urban environment when he was 3.5 months home so did not have the opportunity to socialize him to noise from 8 weeks onward so it's been a bit more challenging and is taking a lot of work everyday. If I was not at home al day I would reconsider taking on any puppy I could not afford to hire a trainer for.

Thank you. You are always so clear.

How much sense this makes again!!

Mahalo - I totally make this mistake! will work on correcting going forward. I appreciate your insight and training expertise. It has been very helpful with my doggos.

Amazing how much sense this makes! I'll start undoing the mistake.

Actually i have an Old English Sheepdog and he was jet black when born and turned completely grey by the time he was 1. It's common for the breed, is that not the case for other dogs?

oh god, that just solved half of our training.problems!

My dog barks in the car the entire time we are driving. He loves the car but the barki g is tense. How do you stop this?

Which muzzle are you using here? Baskerville? We got a leather one from the dog trainer but I feel like it's hard to get treats to him and would be hard for him to drink with.

My dog is small and starts jumping for rewards.

Any tips for training this with a toy Cavoodle please?. She is so tiny it’s hard to bend down to give treats (LOL).

Guilty!! I will switch hands and treat from my left hand, … Just curious, why do we walk our dogs on the left side?

Thank you so much for this tip! I will have to use this on my foster puppies!❤❤❤

Thank you

My dog thinks the water is for drinking, any tips on how to stop that?

Hello, I have a new problem with my husky mix. She is sniffing so hard I can barely hang on. So sniffing is good, I understand but you didn’t elaborate about a dog that pulls too hard. What can I do?

We live where in some seasons there is a lot of mud. Two of my three dogs are trained to "wash your paws" by jumping in and out of a baby pool when I tell them. I will use this training on the 3rd, who is terrified of water. THANKS!

Can you give more time to read?

Pack yawn

My dog is every shy and anxious . She’s a pitbull puppy born February 20, 2024 . I try to train but she’s too scared and shy of everything I give her chicken and everything nothing helps .

gentle leader training pls video

Would giving a dog an old shoe help with having the dog from chewing on GOOD shoes?

THANK YOU FOR THIS TIP.😊😊

Or have a dog that cant resist any wet surfaces 😂 ours can bathe in a cup of water if he sees one

I didn't have to do any of this with my 2 dogs 😆 they just saw a big container (not even a kiddie pool) filled with water and just jumped straight in 😅 though they love water. We live in a city surrounded by a river with trails all around it and whenever we pass during walks, they want to jump in and sometimes we let them 😊 same with water fountains 😁 there are at least 4 here

For step 1 (and beyond actually) beside luring with a treat, one could also throw a dog toy in there, or put a bowl of water or ice cubes in the middle. 😊

Don’t give too many treats while doing this they might think from then on that getting in the pool gets them treats

Any tips on keeping your dog from peeing in the damn pool 🥴 mine loves to go like she's a toddler

Yo yorkie is pretty smart and listens when he’s at home or on leash but off leash he plays games won’t go to far but won’t let me catch him if he sees dogs or people running he will go after them but if I run the other way and he notices me he will stop and run after me and then he would let me grab him and other times he just keeps running around

We skipped to a full body of water