Capturing Calmness- help for hyper dogs-dog training - training a dog
Capturing Calmness- help for hyper dogs-dog training
This video is a tutorial on how to teach your puppy or dog to be calm. Some dogs need help to learn how to relax. Calmness does not come naturally to some breeds .By reinforcing your dog for being calm, your dog will start to choose calmer behaviors in the future and actually enjoy being calm. Tips for teaching a Default Settle: Don't drop treats if the dog looks up at your hand as you move to give the dog the treat, instead try again later. Don't cue the dog "down". It works better if the dog figures it out on his own and CHOOSES to lay down. Use high value treats like real meat or cheese for such a wonderful behavior.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
My dog is a smart boy. He learns every command in two or three repetitions and I totally adore him. Your videos helped me a lot, but we still have a problem. He argues with me. He knows what I want and he's in a good mood, but just ARGUES! He snorts, squeals or whines to show his disagreement. And wouldn't take the treat. :(
ReplyDeleteWait wait. If you are training the other dogs in front of Splash using a clicker, how does Splash knows that its not from him?
ReplyDelete@JC82393 You identified the issue in your first sentence. You can't leave a young, social neing isolated in a yard all the time and not expect such behavior. Please, keep her indoors.
ReplyDeleteI am going to start referring dominance based trainers to this video who don't understand conditioning and why using treats doesn't mean the dog only behaves in presense of food. Thanks for your great, easy to understand videos. I adopted a Dobe who has been through several homes and even put on Prozac because dominance training FAILED. She's now doing awesome :)
ReplyDeleteI have just got a new puppy, Maltese cross. We named him Oscar. Love you videos I am going to start the calming first as i don't have a clicker yet.
ReplyDeleteI'm doing this excercise with my puppy... but I'm not sure if it's okay that she's laying on her back. :D
ReplyDeleteOh Splash you are so so so cute!
ReplyDeleteI feed my dog when ever i want to ps big fan
ReplyDeleteFantastic video, have been looking for something like this for ages for m 2 year old schipperke! And if anyone knows schips, they are HYPER :)) So this will be awesome :)
ReplyDeletei love your videos !!! <3
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I have a 4 month old Pit/Lab mix, and I always leave her in the backyard. When I take her inside the house she runs around the house, jumps on people and on all the couches...She is too energetic, and I hope this video works on calming her down in the house...
ReplyDeleteGreat video showing the whole concept. I have a Whippet/Cattle Dog/Doberman mix that is on high alert so much of the time. A trainer has recommended that we teach our dog this. Its great to see it done before doing it.
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ReplyDeleteMy dog is the same way. I just use the toy as her reward, but I switch in affection as a reward also because I don't want her ro become obsessed with the toy. I've hurd that more exercise will also help your dog to keep from only wanting toys, but I do not know if this is a true statement.
Question if a dog doesn't have any food drive, and is really toy motivated (but get highly excited when see a toy). What would be a good reward. I have been using chicken, hot dogs, cheese, but nope.
ReplyDeleteAs I type this my 4 dogs are lying at my feet. I want to teach this as a default- the dogs are all EYES ON ME, they usually are but my question is....if I treat them now as they are looking at me is that them thinking about the food?? Cause I know you said not to treat when they are thinking of the food- or is that just top capture calmness/settle and not the lie down as a default? Sorry- slightly confused but still psyched as heck to be learning from ya! AND FOR FREE AT THAT!!!
ReplyDeleteGreat video and this is my second time through it. I have a question during the settle exercise. You have not given a settle command, should one be given? If not, how do you get the dog to settle under other circumstances (i.e. while on a walk)? Also, you don't click for the desired behavior or even say "good," what is the reason for this? How do you know when to click to reinforce (mark) a behavior as opposed to when not to? Thanks so much, your videos are amazingly helpful to me!
ReplyDeleteAnd when he barks, should I ignore him until he stops and gets distracted then I give him treats?
ReplyDeleteMy dog is always following me around, so that means that he will see me when I get treats. When I get treats, he knows I have them and will be very excited, watching me all the time, waiting for me to give him the treats. After a while, he will get impatient when I don't give him the treats and he will start barking at me. So I can't get him to settle while I have the treats; only when I don't have any treats will he then be relaxed. (continued in next comment)
ReplyDeleteIf I take my Chihuahua anywhere, she will hold her bladder the entire time, and she will start crying telling me that she needs to go. When we find grass, she wont urinate. So we get back in the car and finish driving home, here she is very excited to pee in the backyard. How can I cure her fear of public urination?
ReplyDeleteBut other than that, I really like this video :D
ReplyDeleteI dont think the part where you say "calmness does not come naturally to some breeds".
ReplyDeleteYes, the dogs of the same breed is similar, but they are also very different. It all depends on the DOG not the breed if it is calm or not..
Its like saying that all chihuahuas bark, when in fact, SOME chihuahuas bark..
you could toss the treats??
ReplyDeleteor he may be learning that you are a predictor of food. the solution would be to stand next to him until he calms down with treats in your hand. that way you walking to him would not be a predictor of the food, him calming down would.
well, try this video for the crazy behavior. also maybe exercise her more? you have a yard? play fetch with her all day. another component may not nessecarily be physical enery but mental energy. after you work on "no mugging" start to train fun tricks. if he gets them right away, maybe you need to work more on mental energy as well as physical energy. for barking, check out the 5 barking episodes of kikopup's, and also the positive interupter when you think she is being unsafe
ReplyDeleteThis will also be useful when I'm on the phone perhaps? At the moment Django likes to chew his bed when he's not got my attention.
ReplyDeleteYes after I did some more research I found out the same technique that you mentioned, he is now calm and stays relaxed even when he sees me, Thankyou still though :)
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