Everybody's shown with a good dog and in our continuing series of do-it-yourself articel we've got Cral dad man and we're going to be doing crate a lot of people just think the crate is just just get the dog in the crate we find that there's a lot more value to doing the crate exercise correctly than just stuffing the dog in there or letting him run in or letting them run out we call this part of our leadership exercise trilogy which is crate thresholds and structured walk we tend to find a lot of value in how we do the crate exercise so I want to show you that we're going to work with Cral if you've seen the other articel thresholds you know that Cral is kind of a softer energy guy we just got him today just under an hour ago and but he's a pretty gentle soul doesn't have a lot of training or anything like that but it doesn't have a lot of state of mind issues so pretty sweet guy so that means that how I do the interaction the crate with dog will be dictated by his state of mind he if he was really bratty I would be firmer with him in the way that I correct and direct and share pressure because he's a gentler guy you're going to see me be doing a gentler approach with him to make sure that it matches his state of mind and helps him to succeed so wants to walk in the crate that's great ask him to wait and listen for me to give him direction the better our relationship gets the more courteous he becomes the less pushy he becomes the more you really get your relationship kind of smoothed out in a good gear so typically when we see dogs they've got problem probably haters it's because the owners aren't asking very much of them there's a lot of little conversations going on that they're not turned into and the dogs are blowing them off.
How to Crate Train a Stubborn Dog?
In a lot of context which is adding up to a bigger conversation where the dog just disrespects them in totality so when I'm talking about is little moments here that don't take up hardly any time the second here a second there that can actually impact your relationship cost your dog feel totally different about you and give you totally different behavior so that's the value of this it ain't just the crate it's something totally different so I'm going to bring them over to it walk them up long pause right I guess we go I didn't ask them to sit it's great that he does but I don't want to ask him to sit so that's a really important part of this is I don't want to spoon-feed Mac I don't want to say walk up max it great I can get to that point down the line but right now what I want to do is I want him working harder I want him to be tuned in I won thinking where Shawn that Shawn just stopped I should probably stop - I want him working and I want him to be accountable for where he's at I don't want him on autopilot you so the more I seconds if you just do this to this especially initially the easier it is and right now I don't necessarily want to make it easier I want to make it better so don't get the city man leashes loose don't queue it by holding it back there we go great so I don't have to get in an English pressure at all Bessie will walk up and they'll kind of like hold them back a little bit like that that's not the conversation I want I want the dog to be responsible he walks up hop the leash and let it know I didn't ask you to win there yet great these pressures this just because it doesn't mean Matt comes up that was just a little extra challenge.
I added in there you can't just shut it give a minute and then open it up and see what you get but I saw he was already getting a little bit of wine to come out so I just use that as a moment of practice a few repetitions of shutting the gate opening it up and the reason I do it the way I do it is I open the gate I kind of step back if you open the gate you crowd it right here you're not giving him any chance to to make a mistake your your body your body proximity your position is is pressure that's going to keep him in that so I don't want to do that once again I want him thinking I'm wanting accountable so that's what I open this up now he's starting to get a little bit more demanding with it so if I start to see more demanding from them the pressure will get a little firmer with this you saw when the pressure got a little firmer I got a change in behavior if you keep going soft like I was talking about the other articel of thresholds because he's a soft guy I'm using a softer approach overall but that doesn't mean that when he fluctuates I'm not going to give him what he needs which is not a moment he's starting to get a little more like I know I want to come out I really want to come out and I'd say no you really can't come out and I had to do with a little bit more pressure to get buy-in from him which created a state of mind shift and the behavior shift to give you a nice sit-down kind of thing so just because he's soft doesn't mean that everything is soft look for the moment what is my dog giving me if he's pushy then you have to give them enough pressure for him to get buy-in.
The Good Dog Training
So you got you can be successful in moment so open this up back nice craziest moment let's go the whole way boy forget us give me a nice thing great what so I don't know if you saw that leash pressure were out unless you can see that but basically taking it excuse me and off to the side of his head just saying the word crate and as I say the word then I'm guiding with leash pressure in now if he gave me a lot of struggle I would just hold the leash pressure until he started to relax and buy in and then I would relax the leash as he goes in now like I said one of the exercises I like to do once he's in there stand back don't say that too far don't let him blow doors on here and get out but I stand back and give him a full opportunity to make a choice if once again if you're doing this he doesn't have much choice he's not going to go anywhere don't feel like he doesn't want to come out your ass you blocking you so get your chance the doors open gives me a nice thing awesome and you can shut it course you take your leash upon power and then you come to get your dog out what's up so you guys see can you see the learning process the decisions going on so a couple of times you try to tried gate shut on them because I can't get out like that I guess I got to stop and wait great so he stops waits gives me a smaller which is all I'm looking for anybody let's go again great can you take our prong collar off on collars off stand back no want the head out like that so I give him a verbal correction and Zach actual physical consequence of shutting that on him now if I was in my second day of working with him and he was still giving me that.
I would be more firm with this so right now I'm still being fairly soft with him he gave me a little more pushiness I gave him a little more firmness with this but before in the second day and I'm still getting that probably going to be pretty firm with this right off the bat because I don't want to spoon-feed him I want to I don't want to make it harder for him to be successful by being too soft on him so you can be too soft and you can be too hard and you got to find what's just right for the dough you okay everybody so that's basically the crate technique that we use um see he's wiped out from all that high-energy exercise uh your buddy so the crepe is about much more than just managing a dog or what I'm trying to teach you here is about more than just your dog not charging out of the crate it's about much more than the mayhem involved with opening the crate door and him knocking you down which we don't want it's much more about we definitely want that either but it's much more about making sure we cultivate a state of mind that is a respectful courteous state of mind because if your dog feels like he can come charging out of your crate and bowl you over you're going to have problems in other parts of the relationship other parts of your life together guarantee so don't miss this moment it's a huge moment huge opportunity a lot of dogs are intense about either going in or coming out those are your those are your gateways to behavioral changes with your dog and relationship changes so this guy isn't super intense about either one.
Crate Training an Older Dog
I was pretty easy to go in and he's a little more eager to come out but not a lot so you saw the pressure being pretty mild but if this guy was gangbusters about going in there be firm pressure to stop that and he was gangbusters about coming out there the firm pressure from this to stop that as well what I'm looking for is just the right amount for the dog to get buy-in to help him out to move to a better space get your relationship in a better space so it ain't just the crate this is about much more than that this is part of our like pivotal leadership exercises so do one last rep we're going to wrap it up and Mack go on vacation let's go up pause buddy here we go curious moment oh nice great job nice pressure take your prong collar off stand back in a second Oh give me a courteous moment fantastic we're making good progress great boom go away don't make a lot of sound Oh Pookie I'll be back soon you're gonna make a dog more nervous and more anxious just be proud of him quietly walk away do your thing and come back few hours later there's my good boy don't do a big grand entrance same rules apply nice and low-key.
If you try to try job we're going to shut this you have your prong put your paw on did you do to do it soon as you put the prong and leash on be prepared for your dog to associate that with movement most likely going to give you more challenge when you initially put that on so put it on you grab the leash a lot of dogs as soon as you got the leash will also start to charge out so look look for something stepping on it no so look for all those moments all those cues or keys to your dog where they're going to try and come out because all the leashes on we're moving or totally she's in his hand we're going to be coming out and let those be moments where you challenge him to think don't just boom feed him you have your leashes on your prongs on I've got this in my hand and I'm standing back in the crate doors open but it doesn't mean anything until I tell you to come out right so now this guy's really thinking it's really important stuff for let's go all right everybody so that's the crate exercise that's mr. Mack hopefully you get the gist of what I'm talking about really important exercise do it right and be and be really consistent with it and you'll find some really nice changes in your dog so I'm Sean with the good dog this Mac will see you guys soon take. I hope you have found how do I train my dog crate in this articel. Thanks and check out more of our.
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