Say It Once Dog Training

Don’t be this person!!

CC was as calm as a cucumber with 66 people over for our client appreciation party. This is a huge reason why ✅

Leave it 101 Don’t pull your hand back, instead just close it quickly and firmly

Barking is normal. However, if they don’t stop barking after you say “no”, there lies the problem. Everyone always asks me the same question, how do I properly correct my dog. Or how do I properly tell my dog to stop. The one thing that you need to understand is if you say no, you have to be willing to back it up with something that your dog perceives as uncomfortable. Often we, as dog owners, think that we are correcting the dog, but they do not perceive it as a correction/punishment. You are just nagging or annoying your dog, and strengthening their bad behavior, and diminishing the value of your word. Finding the consequence that is most effective, comes down to both you and your dog. Using the leash inside your house, a squirt bottle, pet corrector, remote collar, their normal collar, all could be effective in following up the word no. Learning how to use these is where you would want to hire a trainer, but I’ll fill you in on the biggest mistake. Dog barks > you should say no without moving towards them > if they don’t stop, only then will you go towards them and now, a correction is inevitable, even if they stop by the time you get to them.

If your dog misbehaves, when you have guest come over, you need to watch this video Typically, in these heighten situations where someone doesn’t have control of their dog, you will see a lot of yelling, screaming, in general chaos. The benefit of starting to use the leash in the house is that if you say something, you only have to say it once and then you can make it happen. there’s no repeating yourself, anxiety, and realistically, your dogs, not listening to you when they’re in the state of mind anyway, so why waste the breath. Do you ever use a leash in your house?

We have lost all ability of showing compassion, understanding, and ability to speak with thy neighbor. But then again, if this happened to me, I would be perpetuating the cycle and would 1000% be in jail..

How many people have been bum rushed by an off-leash dog? A few things I want you to consider. You are absolutely allowed to simultaneously show grace to the human and stand up for your dog. What I mean by that as some people do make honest mistakes. Unfortunately, it happens. This is an extremely frustrating mistake. If you have a dog that is fearful, reactive, aggressive, and so on. if I’m walking one of my dogs, or another dog, that is super happy, go lucky, and I can tell the dog approaching is also happy-go-lucky, I give my dog the release command, and I allow them to interact. My dogs are better at greeting and de-escalating that I am. this all changes dramatically, if the oncoming dog is not friendly, or if the dog I’m training is reactive/aggressive/fearful The second that my dog believes that they need to aggress in order to protect themselves, I’ve lost. We won our dogs in this situation to trust that we will take care of the entire situation. At this point, there is nothing that I will not do to protect that. Some dog owners carry mace, a pet corrector air spray, I even have one client that walks two very small dogs with a cattle prod. In this day and age, I do feel like owners need permission to protect themselves and their dogs. I have to be 100% honest, if my dog ran up on your dog, and you kicked him, I would be so disappointed in myself for allowing that situation to happen. with all of that being said, do not forget to show grace to your fellow human being. Mistakes happen all of the time, but if it happens on multiple occasions, it is no longer a mistake and it is stupidity.

How do we do dog 2 dog greetings with our new puppy Captain Crunch! Let’s talk about it in the comments ⬇️ ask any dog greeting question below.