Dog Training video with Rottweiler
This video was actually taken a couple of years ago at a seminar that I did with Ashton Fitzgerald, and my wife Lianne in Canada. It was taken at a Veterinarian hospital, and done for the benefit of shelter dogs. We presently do have a Canada location for dog training in Oakville Ontario. You can see at the beginning of this video, that the dog needs some help in getting more attention. Rottweilers are pretty big, strong dogs and this woman is slight in size. Although she can keep the dog fairly close to her, you could imagine the difficulties that she would have in having the dog in a distracting area and trying to get it’s attention. Being able to work dogs off-leash around distraction, gives the owner of the dog a big advantage, in that a dog like this needs exercise, and other than keeping them confined to an area in your back yard, usually if you go anywhere at all there will be some sort of distraction around, or the possibility of distraction entering the picture. This woman also says that she has had this dog since it was a puppy. This is very important in dog training, and as you can see in the video, despite what ever the history of the dog might be, it is very changeable with the education of the owner to our dog training. You notice quite a bit of sniffing on the ground in the beginning of the video, and although at times the owner is making an effort to pull her dog away and continue to walk, these dogs can be very big and strong. You will notice at the beginning of the training as I take the dog, you will notice the dogs head shake a bit as it can feel an annoyance that it is not familiar with. You will also see this annoyance disappear as the dog quickly becomes familiar with the language that we are speaking. Yes, this is a language, as is obviously seen in that I am not speaking to the dog, but rather conveying information through the remote dog training collar. You will see similar things in all sorts of other tools used in dog training, and an example would be a dog being very aware of a prong collar the first time it is used, and then settling in shortly. Another example is the annoyance that a dog may have the first time that he has a halti or muzzle on. You do see the dog start to sit and to look at me midway through my initial training with him. I am a strong believer that it is very difficult to teach a dog anything, without the dog paying attention and looking at you. Dogs that are scared or frightened will rarely look at you, which is a good beginning for timid dogs as well. You can see the dogs attentiveness get much better throughout the video, and you can also see the ease of the transformation from me, to the owner that is involved in the training a bit later. It is very important for the owner of the dog to be able to handle the dog, because after all, it is her dog. This training is also very useful in getting other members involved in the training, and makes it better for the lives of both the dog, and the owner.