and have seen tucker before he's doing a whole heck of a lot better it's almost tempting to walk now so it's it's a long road for him sure he's brought her dog blockhead and blockhead cerise is a pit bull i'm not sure his mom was a little teeny tiny red white staffordshire terrier who had seven enormous black puppy so maybe half laker be case from los angeles the title of our show today in the topic is helping audie dogs being nice and why what this is is taking a dog that might be fearful or new to new surroundings or a new home and they're they're not responding properly and sharif has this program where she trains her dogs if you want to call it training you do and to to be not trick dogs to show tricks but to integrate them into the home and be part of the family you may have seen sharif from time to time  milan on the dog whisperer and she his friend is friends with caesar and you learn most of your techniques from caesar well i really started out training dogs because i had two bad dogs myself yet i was so very much like many of my clients i didn't know any better and my dogs were pretty good at keeping me entertained but i wasn't very good at keeping them in a taint and as a result of that they became very naughty dogs and i don't think that there are many dogs that are just bad so i don't like to say they're bad behaviors but maybe not a behaviors that we just find a way to to correct yeah i think it's people that make some of these bed dogs bad you know but you're a nurse in fact the last time i saw you when you were in california which few years ago you were in a trauma ward and this is a big change from from being a nurse to being a doctor well it is but you still get to take care of things and still get to fix things which i really really enjoy the way that i made that transition was when i was working as a trauma nurse i was working twelve hour shifts and sometimes two or three days sometimes even four days in a row so for me to decompress i would come home from work and i would get my two pretties all running around the house and crazy and jumping on the furniture and doing all kind of inappropriate behaviors for dogs but really good things for mean and one day i came home from a four night shift and i was sitting on the couch and one of the dogs was sitting on the couch with me the other one was underneath the coffee table and they looked at each other and i had been missing obviously a lot of different signs and they had a horrific fight they tore my christmas tree down there was blood in the ceiling and i was just mortified so when that happened i called my mom and i said i'm going to put the dogs down because i had taken care of a woman in the trauma unit that week whose pitbull had the gloved her leg from moving his bowl which means they she had the dog had bitten her at the th and drug all of her muscle and everything off down to the ankle and honestly i was a little afraid i didn't want to have that happen i like grew up here bad dogs get put down so i called my mom and said i'm going to put the dogs down she said no no i saw this little mexican dude on t v with peter jennings last night and it was when cesar had been interviewed about that case in san francisco where the press a canarios had killed a woman in and you know i remember that in an apartment building yes i remember  out in the hallway yes so which turned out that you know it's a very big misunderstanding and what they were missing what the dogs had been telling the owners you know so this frustration was taken out on this woman and ultimately caused her death so i called the t v affiliate in los angeles they gave me his number and two days later he came to my house and help me work with my dogs and it was a life changing experience from that moment on were those the dogs that i saw  we were visiting together in san diego yeah we were in san diego yeah yeah that was buster and sabrina martinez i remember them yes yes they're pretty big dogs they were pretty big but i saw it so when we talk about training  you know i had a lot experience over the years with people and trainers and so forth and i hear the clicker method and i actually saw one and i talk about this from time to time i actually saw trainer that was using this technique where you were up and bop the dogs on the head yeah i want to take my dog to you you know he said he's giving a lecture on this topic i'm thinking wow why would you do that and then i hear reward training and things like that what is your technique i would say that my technique to training dogs is a discipline not punishment there certainly is a certain amount of dominance in there because i have to be able to control my pack because your alpha i need to be alpha yes and they all need to be something other than that they're not even allowed to have a pecking order within themselves so discipline is an educated way instead of a punishment way with my dogs i would like to say this is what i want you to do it's not i want you to do this and i'm going to make you it's more i want you to do this let me show you how and so it's a whole different way of doing that because i think so many noddy behaviors are because dogs just don't understand what we want from them describe noddy behaviors as you know it's a pretty wide range it can be everything from being on the floor to guarding resources and your resources i would imagine that like for tech or you're the biggest resource going well you know you're absolutely right and tucker and i have to watch a little bit because he doesn't bite but he'll nip and if you approach only while holding him and if you approach me kind of like too quickly he gets upset because he's i feel is protecting me you know but my right is also protecting himself yes so that's a little bit of both things tucker's a little special case because a lot of trauma boys a lot of trauma so you have that emotional protection protections he gets that so he feels the need he has to return that for you and addition he can't walk so he can't physically go away from the situation i don't really recommend holding little dogs all the time be because they're right here and this becomes their rounds own this is this is mine and i'm going to keep it and i think that's why sometimes a little dogs have that aggression close up like that so how does one address that the aggression that sitting like that it's sometimes just telling the person who's coming to me you can you just slow it down a little bit because like right now if i reach over and touch tucker he would be so surprised because he's not looking at me exactly has no idea and even if i would say hey tucker if he doesn't make eye contact with me that doesn't help either so it's slowing the person down getting the dog to recognize it and allowing it to do it at a pace that the dog feels comfortable that our contact can be threatening also it would be really inappropriate if i just said like this and talk to you like this but for dogs that's actually polite and that is a lot of reasons why there are so many problems between people and dogs before the show when i first saw so what i was doing was putting them in a threatening position absolutely they don't know each other and it's face to face it's not a way the dogs meet each other that are unfamiliar with each other and how to dogs meet each other while they smell each other and usually their rear ends i say that that's  they go in to read the signs of a dog's chemistry and worth their about and then as they get more comfortable they can move forward so that they're kind of sensing the pheromones and all of that it's the it's the polite way that canines meet each other ok little child or an adult or somebody with another dog what's the proper way that you shouldn't handle your dog to kind of ward off any confrontation with you with the people or the or another dog well i recommend that a time that you're out walking your dog you take them anywhere you're kind of observing the whole landscape expects you when you have your dog in a training mode or a dog that has issues like blockheads kind of a scaredy cat he looks like a very menacing fellow but he's actually a very soft dog which means he doesn't have a hard edge he never looks at anybody hardy actually takes things back and looks at things but you're responsible when you have your dog out in public to take a look see how the other person's approaching you do they seem like they're happy go lucky are they having too much high energy is their dog behaving well so you control that whole situation as you control on the leash so let's say that somebody is coming at you with a dog is how pulling like that i would allow dogs a dog to meet another dog in that state because that would be threatening the owner can't control on their end no matter how well you have good control of your dog that dog's a little out of control so what i would do is to put block had behind me and walk up and meet the person keeping can distance between me and the other dog until things calm down a little bit you know it's always best in a very calm state where it's kind of controlled it's not always possible but that's ideal that's ideal so when we have these little issues like say barking dogs one of dogs bark dogs bark for a variety of reasons one thing that they bark for is that what we hope them at this is an intruder alert and you listen to different tones dogs have tones of bark ear they do and you learn that from your own dog the more time that you spend with your dog become intuitive to what they're saying to you not so much in the language but the speed the tone in the occurrence of the bark so if it's an intruder alert you want them to go and bark but you don't have an off switch for that ok buddy you let me know i'm coming to the door how do you  switch conditioning the same response to that ok would you give him an example of ok my dogs barking and remember somebody coming to the door or just hearing sounds outside you ask them to be quiet and there needs to be a reinforcement for that so if i say be quiet and they're not quiet maybe a correction with a leash some people use very little spray some of them use a noxious sound in a can with coins in it but it get frustrated you know so an example using a leash is a really great way to make a correction not personal because you don't have to use your hands i really want to use hands for good things when i am giving create treats or i want to pet them i don't ever want to use my hands for something that's really stern so if i had a barking dog and i said be quiet and the dog shuts up and i say oh here's your treat doors i'm actually reinforcing the barking no if they're quiet and you want to give it right away and that they consistently don't bark when you ask them to it's about giving the positive reinforcement that way so whether it's a tree or you say their name or they're not getting a correction all of those things can be considered positive over the years that people talk to me quite often about training and i'm really not a trainer i did real well with my dog your dogs are very well behaved but it's not it's it's one on one and they know they're loved and cared for and it's and it's you know works pretty well for me but i don't think i'm knowledgeable enough to train somebody else's dog so i give a little bit of advice from time to time but the most complaints i get are barking jumping and peeing and so are they all dressed the same way no no sometimes barking can be for again the intruder alert or a dog is very bored and so they have a lot of pent up anxiety and they get very bored and when they're bored we have to find ways to keep them entertained like your dogs were dogs that were bred to go down holes and face a badger or these guys are pretty brave and they like to have a job so they have to have things to do yeah ok as many dogs do they need exercise regularly and sometimes they just need manage where they're not able to see people going by all the he's pretty much stopped that but he'll do it every once in a while if i believe well he's claiming the spaces anytime a dog marks he claims of space so if you're not there edmunds not here so i'm going to take that space now also want to dog is a a late neuter where they've been able to force lift her leg a large part of the time that's a male dominance move and in addition to that sometimes it's just too much water access and it's difficult depending on where you live in the temperature dogs have to have access to water but they'll just drink and drink and drink some time and if they're not able to get outside and alleviate themselves enough they'll go in the house so it is about managing those resources yeah i want to break that well it's very difficult especially when you get a dog who's older and sometimes it's a physiological problem that they have you know expression if they've been abused maybe they don't have a very peak bladder you know or maybe they have urgency because they have an infection or something like that so if they're healthy and everything is about limiting water make sure that you get them out as often as possible in addition using a really good cleaning product you know that smells as well in their way that  them back yeah absolutely so jumping what would we do to stop jumping jumping is a huge problem for many people usually as a result of excitement when you meet a dog when you meet a dog you want to try to be calm because you're going to get whatever you give a pick up your emotions and instantly your emotions and your energy yes it's an exchange sort of a very dynamic situation so when you meet a dog you want to meet them calmly you know because then they're less likely to jump now to correct that i like using a leash again and you can just let the dog have a leash on around like in the house ok quite often people complain that when somebody comes into their home that the dog jumps on visitors ok so you want to practice somebody coming to the door and you're asking the dog to either sit and use in the corrections or you let them the least drag on the floor and you step on it so that every time the dog goes to jump they've been corrected without you having to use your hands and you kind of like oh i don't have any idea how that happened look he went to dump and now you can't so your tone of voice when you say sit and what is that what's that i use a very soft time with my dogs because i've already told them blockhead good boy blockhead sit sit thank you good boy and notice how he checks in yeah that's really important he gives an eye contact because we have that relationship when i'm training a dog the first thing that i want to get them to do is to start looking at me i want them to look to a human being to make any decisions and that's again you being alpha in a kind way distant just to dogs really like it when you can alleviate their responsibilities you know dogs want to be your buddy and be happy go lucky you know if they're always on alert they're always having to see what's going on it creates a lot of anxiety and not a behaviors so when they learn that everything's just kind of cool and calm it just makes them so so much better so block it is lying down right now and he's paying attention i'm would go i would even after he's off leash reliable ok so i don't really have to have him on a leash that's an interesting term explain off off off leash reliability is that you can take your dog off leash anywhere and they're not going to run off which is incredible because that's not always the case it takes some practice it really does and it helps when you can start a dog from a puppy because you want to become the most valuable to thing to them that no matter what there isn't anything else that they would want to leave you for not that they you create a co dependence where they can't live without you which causes separation anxiety but just that they would rather if they if you call them that they come how do you do a separation anxiety that's a big deal separation anxiety is probably is the most difficult thing to deal with  because we tend to put so much emotional weight on our dogs there is no other creature in the whole universe other than another person they can relate to us like our dogs and maybe even dogs you know have that unconditional love th about when we have emotional needs and we place those on our dogs and then we allow them to have bad behaviors let's say you start training a dog to go to a crate i really like crates i love crates because they're five star hotels with open what bars as far as i'm concerned i want to dog to love that because we need just human time some time you know some people don't like you know whenever you just need them to go somewhere but let's say you start training a dog you put them in a crate and they whine and they cry and they bark and you go and get them out then they become conditioned that if they won and complain embark in there they will come and get them so they're kind of training us to go do that things that help with the law it does other things are that when people leave for work and they come home in their houses are destroyed or their curtains are pulled down or their sofas have been eaten that's a form of anxiety because they don't know what to do with themselves so sometimes management in a crate or just leaving them for short periods of time to begin with and then increasing them as ago by makes the dog feel more secure you know and not expecting them to be able to hold all that emotional needs you know they need some alone time as well sometimes you know i kind of use the in a more general way i don't actually have crates of course i had six but i would get them in the laundry room and i did that more for their safety because they were stairs to go down sure there's a go upstairs i was concerned about them falling you know hurting their backs doing all that kind of stuff and and so i actually had a big crate recently and it worked really well it's perfect and interesting story  who's a holistic vet in san diego dr blake i don't know if you know dr blake but he told me to visualize this you're leaving in the sun going up in the sun coming down the moon and then assign how many days come out and kind of mentally send this picture and i at the time i'm more open to this stuff now but at the time i thought ok you know if it wasn't for him telling me i probably would have ignored it and i did it didn't work and sugar just walked into the into the locker room and sat down on the bed oh wow i would love to believe that we have a telepathy with our dogs like how magical would that be that would be so cool but i think maybe for me on a more rational way maybe to my science often also convinced yourself to not worry about sugars reaction and going in there so then the dog realizes like oh my dad's not worried about this there's no reason for me to worry about this so however it works it was you know what i would love to believe in the magic of telepathy but also that calm idea that you had went right to her as well you know throwing the shirt in when you leave was at work i do i think so yeah s evidence and i know that you're there they absolutely do yeah so one of the good ideas you would think about for separation anxiety because that's another big one the thunder shirts there are shirts that they're finding remarkable things for those because some dogs don't feel comforted by hugging you know that some dogs like they're going to shrug off a hug because that's not how dogs deal with each other human beings primates we hug each other to make them feel better so it's really bizarre that that actually works for a dog so thunder shirts work well awesome effect in an upcoming show we're going to we're going to be showing the others oh very nice very nice yeah they're finding recently that some dogs with aggression actually have lower amounts of aggression when they've been wearing the thunder starts been exorcised and then go into a pack of dogs and what's the reasoning behind it not sure yet asher yeah i haven't seen it but i've talked to some of my dog colleagues that are finding some success with it y so can you show us series some of the some of your techniques with blockheads this is my best technique right here the block you could just sit here with us he's not pacing he was a little anxious when we first came in because his new surroundings it sounds different it smells different here but this is an achievement because he can sit here with us and just hang out i don't have to hold him i don't have to tell him to stay anywhere he would want to have to hold of his stuff so this is just there well you know sometimes i feel like the love the fact that he can lay here and not pants and not be nervous around these things is an achievement and how did you do that he just knows that like if he's just here i can take care of everything here's a very capable dog of doing serious damage sure if he needed to and there's been times we've done the cross country road trip and about day three where people come into the car he's looking like a pit bull yeah you know which i want to have happened he's very good at recognizing good and bad people you know but this is a great environment to be he can be calm here for me you know and this this is the most that anybody could ask for a dog just sit here and you know she's not touching me now he's not leaning up looking for for attention and that's a conditioning thing when he was a puppy he wanted to do that he wanted to sit on me now look just get a little bit of your own space so he's confident in this area that everything's fine because the the humans are fine here when you want to teach your dog that's something i really have never done well dachshunds are a little tough to makes it just anatomically after them so what's of technology use just to i really i really do like to use a treat for that because we want to utilize their noses back pull up push the nose back and it sits now for a puppy that's a difficult thing to learn so you want to just put a little bit of pressure back here right above where their hips would be so you pull up and sit when you push so you kind of need three hands  seems to be but just using their nose up push down and it's a little bit of pressure right here and then after a few repetitions it is that repetition of it was and you and if you're giving a treat want to give immediately that's exactly what i wanted from you exactly tell a story there was a show that cesar did for a dog that had post traumatic stress syndrome he had been in war and the dog could hear a cell phone go off and he would become utterly in panic so he had totally forgotten how to be a dog so one of the ways to rehab him was to be experiencing a bunch of puppies so we went to the shelter and i picked out a little tiny pretty who was pregnant and she had her puppies for this dog basically to learn to be a dog again so he got his puppyhood back and he actually got wiggly and happier with normal dog behaviors instead of having to be in work mode all the time well blockheads mom had was just tiny and she'd been in the streets for a long time she was enormously pregnant only god or and about two weeks she started delivering the puppies and blockhead was the last puppy born and he was dead when he was born so  i just can't let this happen it was probably some of my nursing things so i breathed into him and rubbed him in and he came around and he got his name because when it came out his head was just square he just had this little  blockhead so he was a little slow to learn to resuscitate him and he had a deficit that you brought him out of yeah and he was fine yeah well your nursing education surely comes in handy but you know the series is dead as a physician and she comes from a family of physicians and i think being around that really kind of like steers you it does it that story didn't surprise me but you know he's he's a lucky dog there's no there's no question about it you know we have about a minute before the show is over ok to talk about it's pretty simple this is attention color it's quite pretty it's christmas color but this one in particular is called a martin gale which looks like a fixed length color has this wide band here but as i pull it up you can see that i can dog with those pinch collars pretty much simulate a mother's fight so that works out ok but i do like the martin girls for a dog who's been trained just to get him to pay attention so now he's wagging his tail it's like i'm getting this now that i think you have to work  beverly's dog i would be happy too but i think that the the tools that people used to train their dogs they have to feel comfortable with and their fact and not cause injury and not cause injury absolutely absolutely that's why it's good to call a trainer to learn what's best to help you and your dog blankets a place and you have contact information which which is been on the graphic for the show and you're happy to consult with  your valuable for hire two to train their dogs and i give a discount to anybody who rescues the dawson i feel so very blessed to have worked with cesar and met such a wide variety of dogs and if blockheaded would have ended up in the shelter he probably would have been euthanized black dogs euthanized more than any other dogs and shelters and i think that you know it really helps dogs not have to go back to the shelter if they get a trainer etc i am very discount to anybody who has a rescue dog so what's the use of the time span of the training or it varies greatly depending on what the owner wants and how what's happening with the dog generally in about two weeks if they come for boarding and you're basically kind of training the let's talk 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