Rottweiler training / how to eliminate fear and anxiety

[@tyler558806]

Your patience and understanding of the dog is out of this world. Love to see this kind of training and it being shared to others. Keep on keeping on sir

[@solomonstello]

Remarkable progress in such a short time.

[@bethb6568]

I know this is an older video however as I research and learn how to help my reactive Am Staff mix boy...it actually made me clap when he stepped on the mat the first time...so awesome and helpful to see how patience and direction can help the anxious dog... love it..

[@sheilabraund6481]

I just found your channel....I must say I'm very impressed.... your right there's so such thing as an unfixable dog...... keep up the great work! You're a pleasure to watch train Thank you for sharing

[@shelleyhaldane2107]

I watched this entire video with a huge smile on my face! Thank you Sir for these videos, and that girl is gorgeous. My daughter told me about you as we adopted a 6 yr old female Rottweiler a couple weeks ago and I see our girl so much in Hika(sp)? I’m going to be trying all your tips and techniques as Mollie has fear and anxiety too.

[@Pepperpuff3]

SO cute! "Oh, that's a tough rottweiler!" How I talk to my pups when they conquer anything that's "so scary"

[@nicolelabrecque1224]

Totally see how importance of this drill. Beautiful foundation work. Thanks for sharing!

[@liannehynes9826]

Fantastic to see common sense and trust x. Good job x

[@jcw3618]

Brilliant! Can actually see her confidence build in a few short minutes!!

[@tiffanytrixtr7271]

This video made me day! God bless you man. This is beautiful!!

[@zambC]

blessed to watch u work. Not silly at all can tell u got lots of love for ur dogs and only want the best for em. Keep it up

[@westhoop]

Already walking with pride. Awesome

[@servicedogchopper7613]

Agreed. Same for pitbulls. A confident pitbull isn't the one that bites. We still work on confidence. Even though he is now a working service dog, he is still in training and we constantly work on confidence and overcoming fears. He has to be around so many people things that dogs aren't usually around so fears are big things we work on. Currently he has anxiety over the car due to a recent car accident that I was in when he was with me 3 weeks ago. So, we slowly just work on it and overtime his fears and anxiety about it ease as I reinforce car = good things happen here. I never use the e collar when he shows anxiety. I slow it down and work him through it. I don't use the e collar for correction but rather communication anyway. I have taught a task (item retrieval up to my lap) with the e collar. But, even still, all good, zero bad. And slowly we get through it.

[@CAPS_AMERICA]

I love your neighborhood and your house. This is exactly the kind of place I wanted to live my whole life through. I love that weather too. Thanks for the video.

[@spicyshizz2850]

Well ima save this and ask about it in a couple years

[@cb8741]

Wow that’s great. You make it look so easy!!

[@1skyboi]

Thank you Larry for these videos. They help a lot. Now my husky goes off lease biking with me! Your videos helped so much. He heels even on the bike ride.

[@bernadetteholmes3792]

Love, love, love your videos!!!!

[@marcos1976ful]

hello larry very surprised at the way and professionalism with which you train all pets, I have two 5-month-old female rottweilers and I would like to know how I can train them I live in nj, thank you very much and I hope you can guide me.

[@taracottle8024]

At what age would you suggest getting my male rottie neutered ty gray vid

[@Kaschin]

She is a god damn beauty

[@LauraHopkinsCDL]

Nice job Larry. She is very nervous indeed. Well done.

[@zhippidydoodah]

I enjoy your videos. I adopted an adult female rottweiler a few years ago, love her to pieces. She came with tons of fear, anxiety and panic. She also came with a bulging cervical disc (C3-C4) identified by the great neuros at Animal Specialty Hospital in Yonkers. I noticed in the videos that Aika (Hika?) has a lot of the odd little movements, steps, stances and rear leg wobble that my girl has. Her family might want to consult with a neuro vet to evaluate for any disc disease or injury. #1 reason not to use a collar or tug/pull method of training.

[@ianking2542]

Beautifull work my friend

[@ajcontreras4259]

What type of treat are you using

[@UchihaNottz]

Sliced bread? Thats the best thing in the world! That’s big shoes to fill 😂

[@ahmadfarzad5939]

Amazing, humane work. Why do you put your head up when she comes to your chest and you pet her?

[@Nothingregular]

Wholesome content!

[@shenghofu]

Great video, this's what i need. but what if my rottweiler doesn't like treat much ? if I hv a snack in my hand, he may show some interests, but he is not likely to do things for that.. he would just look at me and like it's fine if u don't gv me that treat. I tried do this before the meal time, and I got the same reaction...

[@kankerzaro627]

sFu same here i got mine with 6 months im pretty sure the trust lvl is pretty low

[@Kay-ev5re]

Hi Larry. I have a Great Pyrenees who is very timid and reactive. He's never bitten anyone, but he does not allow strangers to pet him and he'll bark at them when he's on our property. I'm okay with the barking because I can control it; he is a guard dog after all. But he is not good with other dogs and lunges when we go on walks. Again, he won't bite (never has). He's easily spooked too and jumps at the slightest sounds, even in the HOUSE! How do you socialize a 2 year old dog without overwhelming them. It's also hard for me because I don't really like strangers but they like to approach because of how pretty he is. It stresses me out! Thanks

[@KellyeR1970]

Kay I just wrote the exact same comment about my pit bull, she does the same exact thing, but I don't know if she would bite because I don't let her get near anyone. Mine is also 2, she was fine from about the age of 1 and just got worse over the year. I hate it because she's such a sweet girl but everyone thinks she this mean aggressive pit bull and she's not.

[@servicedogchopper7613]

Kay Strangers equal good things happen. I use the prong collar with 2 fingers on the leash. I started a 4 yr old reactive (overly excited by people but reactivity nonetheless) American Pitbull Terrier in service dog training. His true temperment is calm and chill but due to mine thus his isolation it caused reactivity so I had to work through that. Today you would have never guessed but it took a lot of hard work. None of that is on video sadly as I started my videoing about 4 or 5 months into training but I did many calming activities with him. After I learned how to use a Mini Educator correctly and spent a good 3 or so solid weeks teaching him the language of it, we would go outside where there are a lot of kids, dogs, and people in general (I live in an apartment complex but you can do this in a park) and I would lay out a blanket and a chair, down him on the blanket and I'd sit in the chair. Any whining or any head lift, any sign of any reactiveness got corrected with the e collar. The calmness got rewarded. Built that duration up slowly until we were out there a solid hour or more. I also changed how I lived with him. Calmess was our home from now on. The only thing I allow is barking at the door for saftey since I live alone but he must stop barking (and whining), be totally silent and go to place and stay there when asked. That got trained slowly. Check out BAT 2.0. Its great as well. Use many different techniques. So what works for your dog may not for another. Every single dog is different. One may need more corrections and one may not need any at all and may do horrible with corrections. Structure works for us. But our needs are different. Research reactivity. There are LOADS of techniques out on youtube for free. Try them all out and see what works. I can say that a prong correctly fitted and correctly used is a powerful tool as is the Mini Educator correctly used. I know Larry doesn't use the prong but Chopper responds the best with pressure. That's him though. Your dog maybe totally different. You need to research, try it out, research, try it out, etc. I've had to get creative in many ways but it all pays off in the end.

[@servicedogchopper7613]

Kellye Raiborn What I wrote above would also apply to you.

[@analarson2920]

Daily clicker training and develop confidence and focus on you and the behaviors you want, take their strongest behavior and find a way to use it properly, and exercise them. You also have to work on your issues and be calm about strangers, dogs feed off of us. Once your dog behaves how you like indoors and slowly add distractions when they are ready, this takes time and dedications but it works, then work to a porch or walkway that has no distractions. Slowly add distractions. If you leave a dog just running around a yard you will get issues. See Kikopup as well as Larry here on clicker training. You can not force a dog, it just adds to anxiety, and e-collars may add to fear, just makes the issue worse. Also make sure you dog is healthy, has limited vaccines and is fed cooked or raw food,, see Dr Dobias and Dr Pitcairn here on youtube and their articles and books. If a friend who was disabled with MS at age 50 could take a wild unaltered stallion adult that want to kill 2 men and never could leave his stall to the most well behaved horse that won awards, you can to, just get local support and don't give up. The rewards will be amazing. Also your dog needs a job, if it is going to be alerting please see Stonnie Dennis as he trains attack dogs to also stop on command and be safe around kids, but first you need to work through the problems calmly and get a predictable dog. Hope something here helps you or someone else.

[@servicedogchopper7613]

Ana Larson E collars (a mini educator), correctly conditioned and correctly used *DOES NOT* cause fear. Larry uses an e collar as do I. I have many videos with his e collar refresher trainings and he is playful, happy, and in no way in fear or being hurt. E collars (again, a Mini Educator, not the cheap brands) are *POWERFUL* tools if used correctly. It even helped me teach my dog how to bring items up to my lap (he is a service dog in training, therefore very essential) when all techniques with the clicker failed. We still use marker training, a lot. We dont use the clicker due to fear that he could not overcome (fear of the clicker, not of the e collar, due to a word I said when I used it so we use marker training now which still works just as well). But the e collar is an amazing tool. Most especially for off leash obedence which is also essential for a mobility service dog but even pets that go hiking off leash obdience is essential. "Positive only" failed for me when I did it correctly for over 4 months. We couldn't even get out of the door. For *FOUR MONTHS* I struggled. Add in an e collar and 3 weeks to condition that correctly and *BAM!* Our training took off! I would not be where I am today without it. Please don't speak of a tool you are ignorant about!

[@dawnel]

Niiiiiice.... Very nice... I like it

[@mariabydesign9686]

Hi Larry, The Duke (rottie) will be 10 mos on the 16th. I've been letting him noodle around (long line) to his hearts content on morning walks. A few new events may come up and he comes close to me for assurance. I build up his self-confidence. My question: We go to a weekly handling class and the trainer says I should have him more focused on 'me'. The Duke is quite a social butterfly. Just LUVS to meet 'n greet. He follows me everywhere in the house, but it's a different story outside. Any thoughts? thx!

[@michaelg3463]

You have do outdoors training esp with distractions. Indoor and Outdoor training else you have trained dog just inside the house. Hope advice helps.

[@KellyeR1970]

My pit bull has become very scared of people, she will be 2 in June. She used to be fine with people coming in the house or walking by people on walks, now when people come over she barks and growls at everyone. I have to either put her up or leash her, I'm to scared she might bite someone. She's such a sweet girl I hate that she acts like that cause people just think she a typical aggressive pit bull and she's not. Any tips on how I can turn this behavior around? She also goes nuts when passing other dogs on walks, she almost chokes trying to get at them. This started at about 1 year old and just got worse.

[@warfighter1988]

How is it going now?

[@sincitygardens7976]

My 8 week old male Rottweiler only wants to be out side he doesn't like being in the house is that good or bad

[@yer-mom4599]

This is so helpful. My boy is 10 months old and already weighs about 100-110 pounds and is afraid of almost everything. I’m 5’2 and weight about 100 pounds so it could easily become a situation where I’m being dragged across the yard. I’ve been working on him walking at my side instead of in front of me. Also how to confidentiality walk around and across something that he’s afraid of. It’s hard work lol. He’s improving so much though. The most important thing is patience.

[@NightmareonAnyStreet_]

U said it right. Patience is the 🔑

[@yer-mom4599]

@@NightmareonAnyStreet_ it really pays off. My big guy is doing great! 🖤🤎

[@end-game2030]

Good luck Hika

[@hughess004]

nice job

[@mirmirbaxter8474]

I've been watching and researching all I can about Rotti's so I do it right next time.

[@bernadetteholmes3792]

I adopted a sweet little Staffordshire mix in Oct to train for therapy work. She is afraid of everything. Not people or other dogs, just things in the house or objects in my hand! This will help??

[@abigailfischer3374]

New sub here and great video

[@ahmedalbather7213]

Hello sir That’s a great video May i add you on Facebook if that’s ok with you ? I’m getting me a Rottweiler and i some answers from an expert like you. I want to send you pictures lf the dog and the mom and dad

[@Eric.D7]

Beste dog in the wold

[@user-rw6fi2me2x]

So awesome. Sadly, I guess she goes back home to her owners that helped make her scared in the first place. :(

[@kevinrtres]

Totally. I see it in my friend and how she has allowed the poor thingy to be terribly anxious.

[@MF-gi9bc]

Your painful shoes