Why is my dog tired
The Single BEST Way To Tire Out Your Dog! A Tired Dog Is a GOOD Dog!
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so welcome back to fenrir and today is
an exciting one with my role model dog
sully and you guys don't often get to
see
a session of me just working with sully
you only really get to see him
if i'm using him for role model purposes
with other dogs so today we're going to
have a little bit of fun
and i want to show you a way that you
can incorporate training relationship
engagement exercise fun
distraction levels so just a bit of a
drill that you can do that works on so
many things
that ultimately is a really quick fix
for tiring your dog out
but then also has all those added
benefits on and it's around a game of
fetch
um sully working line
labrador would genuinely would make a
superb
hunting lab he could do field trials
retrieval trials would be amazing
at it it's never been my interest so
we've only ever really done kind of
basic fetch work
and today i want to kind of take his
fetch work upper level
and i want to show you and bring you
along for that journey and we're also
like i say going to be working on tiring
them out giving them a bit of mental
stimulation
which is the kind of secret source of
tiring a dog out not just physically
but mentally if you can achieve that
they'll settle down much quicker you'll
solve separation anxiety or solve
destructive behaviors
so much comes just from simply tiring
your dog out and this is going to be a
fun one
so sully will retrieve anything i've got
just one of his
little toys and he'll work for anything
but you can see
that when i get a toy out you get this
laser focus from sully
he turns into a different dog but if you
look at the difference in his demeanor
from when you see him kind of
happy-go-lucky
to him being aware oh it's go time it's
working time this is about to get real
sully is now turned on into working mode
and we're about to have some fun with
that
so as always we get the toy and we look
for that eye contact
and to start with waiting for that
lovely manners i want him to be excited
and then he can go and fetch it sully
will do this
all day every day now this is a really
quick way oh boy
oh my boy thank you sully all the way in
add a boy drop it good yes
oh good boy thank you standard as it
comes you all know a gamer fetch now how
is it that we can layer that up
and this is something that in the gundog
world in the retrieval world would be
kind of bread and butter for those guys
for me i focus on
training perfect canine companions for
companion animals now this is just to be
a little bit of fun to give it again so
again i'm going to ask for a nice sit
yes getting that nice eye contact
yes i'm going to give him one more
so now we've got him we're building that
drive okay he understands it's go time
it's work time
drop it yes good good boy
now there's a few ways i'd like to layer
that up i'd like to get to a point and
this is going to be an ongoing series
where he goes out not only does he
retrieve it and this is very kind of gun
dog-esque but i'm not doing it for gun
dog work it's more for mental
stimulation and kind of our relationship
of working together
is i don't want him just to come drop it
and then wait with good manners
i want him to come into a heel position
and weight in heel that's kind of one
thing that i want i then want to be able
to throw the treat
what's he gone oh my gosh and rather
than him doing that i want him to stay
in that position
until i tell him he can break and then
he can go and fetch what it is it's here
sully
is here you're meant to be a clever dog
you're meant to be the clever dog
so again super eager to work and we're
going to start off today
with the br not who's doing a sit stay
and wait before he breaks to go
now to do that we're going to use my
trusty slip lead
and again sully will be more than happy
to have the slip lead on
we're going to lure him into his heel
position heel yes good stay
yes now this is where it gets tricky and
we need to use a little bit of lead
pressure
a little bit of our communication for
him to understand what i don't want to
happen it's not the end of the world
but i don't want to throw it out and for
him to break and apply a load of
pressure and it's just not nice
so what i'm going to do is i'm going to
start small and give him a really simple
sully stay
a little bit of lead pressure that was
just enough to make him go okay i won't
bother
now he's looking at me for guidance and
stay see how the ears are pinned foot
sore playful behavior stay
looking for eye contact break yes good
boy
oh so clever oh so clever brilliant yes
good boy
and you can have a tree for that you can
have a treat for that so already you can
see that we've only done a couple of
retrievals now normally for sully
this would be easy and he'd do this all
day the reason you can see that he's
already panting and
is because it's the dopamines go in the
adrenaline rush is going
and he's having to work out what it is
that i want from him so again let's go
through that process
bringing him into a heel sit good stay
good now the problem is it's difficult
for me not to set him up for success
because
stay when i'm talking to you guys i talk
with my hands
i also have hand signals especially for
the b-r-e-a-k
command so what i'm going to try and do
is go through this process
sid i want a perfect heel if we're doing
it
he'll sit good stay when i go through
the process
i'm not going to commentate on this one
because i don't want to set him up to
fail by me giving him accidental cues
because we're discussing with each other
so again sorry stay excellent so it's
gone out this time i needed no lead
pressure he's just responding to my stay
command
waiting for this eye contact good break
now he can go and get it good boy oh yes
oh yes
all the way
come on sully you can do it is that lead
in your face
good boy that'll do that was excellent
so that time i left the lead on just
because again because
i'm filming the video it makes it a
little bit more difficult what i'm going
to do this time
is again we're going to swing him into a
heel position heel sit
good stay good boy yes
so this time i'm not going to apply any
lead pressure again but i'm going to
give him a very conscious s-t-a-y
command
and i'm going to make it very clear what
i want from him and the relief pressure
will only go on if he feels like he's
about to break so sully stay
good stay
good stay waiting for eye contact good
stay
break and off you can go go and find it
good boy
oh yes oh yes slowly drop
good boy yes oh good boy
right so now is where the level comes up
again now this time what i want to do
is for him to not have to do this with a
slip lead so we're going to work on this
again
so slowly heel yeah sit good
good boy good boy stay
so this time i'm going to just use one
finger in his collar
no pressure but just so that i can
control and not set him up to fail
so sully stay
good stay waiting for eye contact good
boy break
yes now again in the gundog world you
won't want that eye contact
this isn't what i'm doing because
obviously he needs to be watching his
bird and making sure
that he knows where things are what i
want from this is an engagement and a
tire in him out drill
and as you can already see when sully
starts to lie down
he's already getting tired so i would
say i would argue
and joe behind the camera or vouch for
this sully just
freestyle 45 minutes 60 minutes
we're what five or ten minutes in and
we're about at that level of tiredness
and that comes from mental stimulation
now what i'd really like to do
and again because he's a very smart boy
sully heel sit
stay good good boy is i would like to do
this
without having to put any hands on it
now again the reason
i can teach this to sully so quickly is
because first of all we're using
our basic commands that he already knows
which is why i preach about that you
only need a handful of commands to keep
your dog under control
so we've got heal sit stay we're tying
all of those things in so we're
practicing and repeating those things
and now i'm going to use a stay command
and then my b-e-r-a-k command now what
i'd like to do is to achieve it without
using anything whatsoever
but i've got to be aware at some point i
need to not be holding on to him
and hope that it's not going to allow
him to fail you need to use your
experience with that
sully might be there now and it'll be
cool if he is
if not we'll just go back and practice
and drill it again this isn't for
working purposes this is just purely for
fun and for exercise so again surely
stay
stay looking for eye contact
stay good break
absolutely perfect that's exactly what i
wanted to achieve from this session
and again you're gonna see he's gonna
lie down now the reason sully does that
is because his energy levels are
dropping for me this is a
telltale sign that sully is now tired
he's expelled that energy that i wanted
to expel
in what would normally take 45 minutes
because i added the kind of brain
challenge element to it
has drastically recruit decreased the
amount of time we needed
to help him calm down settle down and
bring that energy down
now is that a perfect retrieval no it's
not
does that matter to me no it doesn't
because i have my expectations from
sully
as my canine companion not as my gundog
so like i say
purely for fun and for engagement which
is why i'm not going to correct this
because it's
not a life-threatening thing i'd rather
make it a fun enjoyable experience for
him
over the coming sessions of this i'm
going to start to really encourage
that retrieval to come all the way in
then not only do i want it to come all
the way in but i want you to hop into
that heel position on your own
then i want you to offer that sit and
stay before i then throw your toy
before i then allow you to break so
let's do it one more time let's see if
we can end on a win
so you want buddy so again i've got his
bone
still very excitable but we're
definitely burning off this energy so
sully heel
yeah sit yes we'll go straight through
it
sully stay
good stay
stay
good break excellent good boy so that
was a perfect example
what i wanna i wanna finish on that one
because
i think there's a lot that we can talk
about and i don't wanna waffle for too
long
you saw me use my verbal correction
there sully was very much about to go
and the reason he didn't go was because
i simply added in my
and my clique which to sully knows
whatever you're doing
don't do that thing and he respected it
and it was communication
and that's i wish there was a better
easier way to help people understand
that
because you can watch that and think oh
that's pretty cool that's amazing
that will can do these things the click
the noise
that's all irrelevant that doesn't
matter that's not a trick that's the
micro
the macro picture is the reason that
works is because
sully trusts me as his loving leader
we have an amazing relationship because
of that and that allows us to
communicate
effortlessly it doesn't only allow me to
communicate what i do want
in terms of making it look really fun
and heal sit stay break
all that fun stuff the more important
thing for me
is that it allows me to effortlessly
communicate to him what i don't want and
with nothing more than a click and
i managed to squash something that for a
working retrieving gundog breed
is incredibly difficult impulse control
to not want to go out and retrieve that
nothing more than a click and a verbal
correction was enough to keep him in
line
that stems from leadership and
relationship and that should be the
things
that you're focusing on leadership is
everything and most importantly
leadership is love
