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I learned engage/disengage from Susan Garrett!

I am plaining on letting my SDIT golden (1 yr) take off leash hike is and walk ahead and sniff is that okay?

I want to treat on the same side as the dog to prevent them coming in front of me to get across to the treat hand. Your timing and treat location is awesome just not sure most people are that quick. Will usually tell my students, your hip even with their shoulders because both of those are stationary. Looking forward to the seminar. Thank you so much! Will fwd to my students. Hope that helps.

No luck on the workshop. I can’t get it to load. Thanks for putting some on RUclips where I can watch.

How long does it take you, ballpark, to train a service dog? Basics, not complex disability tasks.

Grandma, why couldn't you just sit in the car and tell it where to go? Like we do. (sigh)

Yes! Suzanne Clothier's automatic check in! First thing we teach in any of our classes. Head on a swivel. Key is acknowledging every single check in. So Yes/treat or if you don't have treats on you, thanks for checking in, good decision! Thank you. Fwding this to my CGC/Therapy Dog students. Hope this helps.

is it just a matter of consistency? (I think I might have asked this before). because I am training for a service dog, and I want her to wear a vest, I would just use the collar unless she is working?

My GSD has a halter, martingale, and work harness. The halter is being returned. When she's not wearing her vest - she's a pet on a normal walk, probably going to her Nonna’s to play in the yard. When her work vest goes on - we’re working/training and only Nonna is allowed to reinforce certain behaviours. (Find Nonna is a task currently working ‘cause I faint and can get separated and very confused in large areas.) But yeah, just not wearing the vest is enough for her to know it’s down-time. She gets super excited to see the vest ‘cause it typically means taxi ride or church with Nonna. (Nonna = grandma)

I'm so excited for these videos. I have a seven month old golden retriever SDiT. Some days, she does so well with walking the way she needs to, and other days, it's like all of her training has gone out the window. I know it's her age, but sheesh. I hate to wish time away, but I can't wait until she's more mature and becomes the dog I know she can be as well as the dog I need her to be.

This was a really useful video. Any advise for items that can be used to help differentiate to your dog that it’s time to heal or that they can go ahead and move freely besides a harness? My SD is fully trained though we are adding some newer tasks. One of her tasks is guide and we use a harness for that so I wouldn’t give her one for when I was letting her sniff around since that’s what we use when we are working.

I never thought about using diff collars for diff things. I was only using diff vests but they aren’t always needed. Thank you!

I like mixing it up with my 1 yr old Rough Collie, I use a long line leash for potty breaks, play time & sometimes walks. My 6 foot hands free leash it only used for training. But even on the long line I will mix up him just being a dog and put in some training as well on our walks because otherwise he gets bored easily and he seems to enjoy it more when it's mixed up. I got lucky with him that even on the long line when he is "just being a dog" I can still most of the time get him to come to a heel when I say the word and he thinks it's fun. I also found that when I pair his hands free leash and his sdit vest together I get a better "ready for training/work" response from him and less hyper behavior now rather than before when i would get the 6 foot hands free leash he would still be hyper excited puppy behavior. I just had to learn what worked best for him and me and this so far is working. I love your videos. I watch every single one. Even though I've had personal dogs that I have actively trained basic obedience with for over 20 years doesn't mean I still can't learn something new from someone else.

I should preface this with an admission, being autistic means I don't follow the normal formula of constant drilling and repetition. I recently lost my fully self trained SD to a heart arrhythmia at 3 1/2 years old, so I'm now training my 4th self trained SD (all field bred Labs) and she's now at 16 weeks. The first thing we work on is the bond, which is mostly just doing everything together. We sleep together, eat together, work together, and play together. The second thing we work on is paying attention and listening to me, which I suppose is focus and engagement. We don't do any formal training until about 6 months, but until then we're informally working on the essential basics and good manners toward anything with a heartbeat. I can't stress the importance of structured exercise enough, it solves 90% of all problems before they even start. We use structured walks in mixed environments with an opportunistic attitude. I'm constantly on the lookout for anything that presents an informal training opportunity and try to expose her to as many different environmental variables as possible so we know what we need to work on. Every dog is different in how they handle various stimuli and I want to identify her strengths and weakness ASAP. Right now our primary focus is on recalls and "leave it" because they're the most important for safety reasons and the best for learning attentiveness and listening to me. Good manners are extremely important because there are going to be failures in public access training. If your dog has good manners, all will be forgiven... if it's even noticed by anyone but you. It also solves issues on the human side. Nothing brings out the best in people like a friendly, attentive, well mannered Lab happily working at your side. My dogs aren't trained to be technically perfect, but they have better manners than 90% of the people we meet, and are cordial toward everyone from squirrels to people. I'm not a dog trainer (much less a good one) but I always end up with a best friend that I'm absolutely proud to have by my side everywhere we go :)

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Thank you so much, your videos are so helpful! I have a question though. When you refer to a tight leash and not moving, what if your puppy is super chill and laid-back and will not pull you, but he will lay down and not want to move. Does that constitute a tight leash and not moving then as well? Or is that reinforcing his behaviorof laying down and getting what he wants by not moving?

I am working on training my Havanese to be a psych service dog for myself. she is too food motivated to train with either treats or even her kibble. For some reason it was impossible for me to use a clicker. She is very praise motivated, so I've been working with that instead. She is so so so eager to please that even at just over 2 she is great with any task after 2-3 commands by me. I am so happy!

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Thank you for this video. I have a 6 months service dog in training. This helped me a lot.

All of your free resources are incredibly helpful. I can't wait to get my puppy and start the academy!

Your hair is beautiful!

Thanks for the amazing videos but I hope you can help me with one thing… my 9 month old puppy will poop and pee anywhere even on her bed in her crate! I take her out often and sometimes she goes outside and sometimes inside. She has even pooped on her toys and food bowl! 🤦🏻‍♀️. We have ruled out a UTI. I got another puppy around the same time and who is just 2 months younger and is already fully housebroken. Thanks again. I’m looking forward to watching more of your videos!

Thank you for the clip. A harness or work jacket can be necessary for some tasks. Lead handler to nearest exit is a task Epsilon does. A collar an leading (pulling gently) was a task we waited to learn to cue. It can be challenging to teach an Assistance Animal when pulling is the task. Learning cues to do things generally not permitted when working can be confusing for young dogs. Eps is cued when it is ok to go sniff or make noise or dig a hole or lead me to an exit. You are so right about not rushing young dogs. This learning cue giver has made, and still makes many mistakes along the way. Having a smart and enthusiastic AD has many upsides. Learning calm and reducing excitement in high distraction environments has been a process and, even as a young, fully qualified and certified owner trainer AD team we still have to keep up with improving our skills and tasks. It is a mammoth job for a PWD to owner train and Assistance Animal. It has been worth it for us. I am very grateful for the cue giving teachers and dog trainers I visit regularly to help us and helpful online AD training channels. Thank you. 🐾

This is so important and I wish I knew it sooner! My dog came to Home depot for his third PA training day and while he did fine, I do regret bringing him in a way. It was a busier location than I expected, it was loud, huge, and honestly scary from a dogs perspective. Definitely sticking to craft stores for now.

Just want to say, thank you so much for all the great advice/training tips, I don’t have a puppy yet but plan to get one in the near future to train as my service/ assistant dog and your videos are really helping in putting me on the right track from the start!! 🥳

How do I help him if he's fine once he's settled IN the space (ie PetSmart or the college where he's allowed to go) but it's getting there that's the problem. He's anxious around traffic, buses and big trucks especially. I've been trying so hard to help his anxiety, and while he's made strides since he was a 4 month old pup, at 11½ months old he's very anxious and scared. He's a Belgian Malinois. Whenever I take him outside he listens well in a certain radius on our street, he does plenty of sniffing, hangs out on his long line right up until a bus goes by. Whether or not he will end up being a service dog, I don't want him to be this anxious. It can get bad enough that he won't even take the really good treats. I've been trying to associate the high value treat with the scary thing, but I've been also wondering if it's been rewarding the anxiety.

I think I am misunderstanding what you said about harness vs collar in section 3. Sis you mean that just the collar means “go ahead a be a dog” and that the harness means “now we are working?”

In a sit, I can hand my dog her treat then ask her to stand up! She stands up! Then I ask her to sit again. I have a video of her sitting when I asked her to when she was 8 weeks old. She was next to my pet Cairn Terrier mix. 😉

It is really interesting to me, learning-development nerds may know - you need to both rest and reset to gain effective learning, there is deeper learning when there are integrated opportunities for rest and re-setting in the lesson itself. And this is also why it is better to have simple, short, lessons and time to have breaks and care-free play , even when doing intensive learning. moments of rest and reset is essential for integration of information, which is essential for efficient learning. Cookie tossing is such an easy efficient method, so simple yet can be very specific. I love it!

This was really helpful, thanks very much for the video.

What breed would you suggest for Hepalegic Migraines

This is so good to know!

I'm super anal with that and my Rottweiler service dog. I could throw anything in front of him and he won't eat it until I tell him to. Super important in restaurants most restaurants are just littered with puppy treats. Touch on the nose for just saying yes when it's okay. I started training my dogs with numbers 30 or so years ago. I still have 10 fingers so that's 10 different commands. Dogs are capable of learning multiple languages for this same command they are super cool and super smart. Thanks for the video young lady❤

Pls make a stimulus control video

Thank you soooo much for all of your training!

Thank you, that takes training to a new level.

more luring than shaping....

Can confirm! My dog was the pup of the litter that was at my feet the whole time, we picked her, she lacks confidence and is fear reactive.

Thank you for the video! Very helpful

So much good information! I'm not looking for a service dog, but I want the kind of qualities that a service dog has. Especially the "don't decide solely on emotion" was a good advice. (I've never met a golden that isn't food motivated😂).

I picked a dog, yeah he doesn't have all the confidence in the world, but he ticks the other boxes. We can work on confidence, and we have been, and it's been going well. If he fails, he fails! I'm not overly concerned, he's still a fantastic companion!

you talk to much

what about for a dog that isn't picky at all and eats anything

I can't find the video you talk about with clips from you testing a litter of puppies and the 'it's your choice' game. Can you signpost me to it please?

Helpful!

Great idea!

How and where do you find a good breeder?

I have PTSD and could really use a Service Dog. However, I don’t want a Labrador or Golden Retriever. I love these two breeds. They are very affectionate. But that’s the problem. I need a Service Dog that is attuned to my needs. Also with these two breeds, other people are more likely to distract the dog.

My SDiT was attacked by a dog a few weeks ago. since then he has become VERY reactive to other dogs. I need advice