I just wanted to demonstrate the leave it command I didn't care about anything else in there okay I haven't done anything with Lucas since he had the seizure like episode nearly killed him so I'm very careful what I do with them but what I wanted to show here dog training techniques we had a good discussion on one of the post yes s someone made about the leave it command a lot of people say it's useless they don't use it I can't imagine that there's three things that my puppies learn first leave it means don't touch it out drop whatever in your is in your mouth and come to me those three things are vital the thing with leave it it quickly becomes possibly the strongest command in my dog's repertoire that's a big word that's French I think as well as my clients dogs very important guys what you see is it works much faster more effectively than the recall or anything else I don't know the science behind it but it does and I don't talk about anything or debate anything or argue anything unless I've done it hundreds of times if not thousands of times so there's nothing that drives me crazy when someone says well my dog.
One dog doesn't matter ten dog doesn't matter tell me after a hundred dogs after a thousand dogs so the reason that I talk about the leave it command is because it's extremely beneficial to people extremely helpful guys if a rabbit took off right now and I've shown this on film I've set Lucca up with this if a rabbit took off running right now a cat a deer anything and he wanted to go after it all's I have to say is leave it there's no yelling there's no screaming and it's automatic the dog doesn't even think about it so I wanted to demonstrate there you see his insanity for the ball his Drive so even going down being worked up I'm holding him back he's shaken I send him I say leave it it's automatic and what does he do he's looking at me and then from there I can tell him down I can tell him come I could tell him anything and he's going to okay so then what I demonstrated the last time there is I gave him the recall I think on the way to the ball and you see hesitation you see a little confusion because the drive overrides that but the drive never overrides.
Dog Training Commands List
The leave it command not sure why I think in my mind maybe the dog figures let's say it's chasing an animal you tell them leave it maybe they think well well if I catch it I can't touch it anyway so what's what's the sense but it's extremely effective I don't understand this concept of not just being literal with the dog okay I'm going to teach what I preach all the time I'm gonna tell the dog exactly what I want so if I don't want him to touch something I'm gonna tell them to leave it there is nothing simpler than that that is the simplest form of communication between human and dog being direct and letting him know exactly what you want now if you don't believe in the command or you think it's useless and you want to give the dog you know a Down when they're about to approach something you don't want him to touch or you want or weak that's there's nothing wrong with that's on you but unless you have a lot of experience teaching a dog leave it many dogs you you can't you can't debate that it's very difficult to because it works not just with my dogs with all dogs again it's probably the only command that I teach where there's no rewards ever and there's very few Corrections.
So for the most part when I'm teaching a puppy if the puppies off leash and I tell them they you know and the reason is they give you many opportunities to get repetitions and right repetitions so if the puppies going to touch something and I tell them leave it and I move them away you know they're going to keep trying I gave an example on that post yesterday mango the first correction or the first punishment I ever implemented with mango was at 8 weeks old and that's because she's extremely extremely hard-headed there was a dead bird eight weeks old in the road and she of course wanted to get in it and I said leave it she wasn't on a leash if she was on a leash I just say leave it and pull her away no least correction no nothing I just remove her like I do with clients dogs and just by repetitions they learn very quickly but with mango I said leave it I moved her away well guess what she went right back to it I said leave it one more time and moved her away the third time when she went back I took the scruff her neck gave a little quick pinch and she yelped the bird was no longer interesting.
Essential Dog Training Commands
Could I have done that the first time yeah but it's not important to me you understand what I'm saying so with Luca or any of my dogs even buddy who I don't work with I don't train if we tell our dogs to leave it that means don't touch it it's off-limits and that's how it's always going to be I'm very literal with my dogs I'm gonna tell them exactly what I want again I'm going to teach what I preach I'm going to explain to them and show them exactly what I want I don't understand the concept of telling a dog if your dog's going out and there's a big pile of cow poop and you don't want them in it for me I don't understand the concept of telling them to down or come that's just foreign to me because to me then the dog never learns eh I don't want you to touch that and I want the dog to know hey that's off-limits I don't want you to touch it but if that's your style and that's what you prefer again there's nothing wrong with it but don't discount someone else's style especially someone like myself who has shown it for years years I did a video years ago with my four dogs in the kitchen with the ribeye steak on the floor right told leave it and I went to cook the rest of the dinner.
If the dogs are down and there's a steak in the middle of them and I don't want them to touch it what else can I tell them I don't want to recall them I want them where they're at I don't want them to stand there in a down so I tell them exactly what I want be clear to the dog explain what you want leave it hey don't touch it that's off-limits okay I don't want to see that Luca knows that one other thing when I teach it I see a lot of people do this I'm not saying it's wrong I don't do it though I see a lot of people teach leave it with rewards meaning they'll put some food some kibble the dog's kibble or some treats on the ground they restrain the dog whatever and they tell the dog leave it and when the dogs doing well and not touching it they mark it and they released the dog to get the food again not saying that's wrong but I don't do that okay I don't use rewards for that command and I never in the teaching process use something that I'm teaching them not to touch okay so for instance if I'm teaching the command leave it I'm not gonna then turn around and allow them to have what they want once they know it very well like I did with Luca now then you could use it for different levels of very advanced obedience which you guys have seen him do many different things but if you take all of those things that I've done with look in articel all.
Basic Obedience Commands Your Dog Should Learn
The more advanced obedience there's nothing advanced about it it's all the basics know very well in all situations so my challenge to anyone if you think that's not a good command and by the way there's no tools there's no e collars there's no leashes if your dog can't respond to the verbal command at the highest level arousal and distraction your dogs not trained and that's just a fact I can't do that with mango right now because she's not trained to that level but she will be shortly you understand what I'm saying so anyone who discounts that and you say you're gonna use something else just make some videos show it in a really high state of arousal no tools some of you will do it very successfully no matter how you teach it and some of you will fail miserably but you won't talk about it or show it there's a lot of people talk and in today's world there's a lot of videos that you can watch punishment punishment punishment Corrections Corrections Corrections that's what we hear right there's so much emphasis on on punishment and Corrections very little emphasis on teaching and training.
The fact is the better you get a training the less Corrections and the less punishment you're using that's a fact no one can dispute that nothing wrong with punishment Corrections but when your whole training system is based around that that's just not my style anyway you know that's that's not my style but again I back it up with my dogs I back it up with my clients dogs you understand what I'm saying it's very important if your dog performs under that situation it doesn't matter how you teach her or what commands you use or how you approach it as long as it works but I'm saying for those of you that struggle in those situations getting your dog to recall from those really high level distractions animals bikes joggers cars anything the basic obedience commands your dog should learn for leave it command I can guarantee you will work better than anything else always I hope this hopes again as long as you're getting to success guys and the results and your training you mainly do what you got to do as long as it works peace.
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