SECRET dog training technique that professionals use to increase a dogs speed ...

All right, today's video is going to be about the importance of how to motivate a dog into great performances. A lot of professionals spend their whole lives, if they're competing especially, on trying to find the right methods to get high level performances out of their dogs. Meaning, if the exercises they're working on, they're trying to get the two things out of the dog. One, do the exercise as exact as possible, and two, as quick as possible. So trying to bring those two things together is not always the easiest thing to do. So there's a few elements involved in this. One, you have to know how to teach an exercise perfectly. Two, which most people find very challenging, is if you can find how to get the dog to do the exercise perfectly, can you make that dog fast? I have mentioned this in other videos. I'm personally a stickler. I want as much speed as I can possibly get out of a dog. Down. Sit. Down. Sit. Sit. Down. Come. Why? The challenge in dog training is not really that you can get the dog to do something. The challenge is how much speed can you put on that dog. That's the challenge. For me, because I love a challenge, I want to make dogs as quick as possible when they do something. And that's the balance that every top professional, especially if they're competing in sports, is trying to achieve that. So here, I'm going to show Khaleesi's. I just put Khaleesi's up a few days ago. Now, I showed here Khaleesi's doing her circle around the body backwards. Now, what people don't know, and I didn't say anything in the video about this, it was her first day when we were showing it on the video of learning that exercise. Now, number one, if you see it, people don't realize that that little circle around the body, how difficult that is to teach. Now, Khaleesi's has practiced with going backwards, and she walks backwards and heels backwards. So that set this up for us. Now, you're going to see here with the first day, you're going to see Ben's hand with the ball moving around Khaleesi's, guiding her with the ball around because it's her first day. It was so good, even for the first day, that I put it up and used it in her sequences because it still was very good. Now, when I saw Khaleesi's this time, it was a week later, but what we did was I asked Ben, the owner, because since she loves balls, to get a ball with a string so he can play with it and make more motivation. Just release her and just make her miss, right? Just play with her, right? Right, right. And then they're close, right? And then what I want to make her quicker in all of her things, but we're just going to use today the exercise of the circling as an example because that's what we were working on as what the motivator looks like in one week. And really, I think he had the ball just for a few days and worked with her. So it was really just a few days of switching from a ball with no string to the ball with the string and adding extra motivation and what the performance looks like just days later from this to now this. Right. Now you would think, now there's two things here. One, there's no more ball, Ben putting the ball around his body and helping her with the ball to go around. You just say it and she just goes. I mean, lightning fast. You would think that I sped the video up and put on fast forward the way she's spinning into that thing so fast. So she'll right again. And it's regular motion video. There was nothing touched up with this. That's how fast this girl is going around that body now because of more days of doing the exercise, getting it more fluent to adding an extra motivator to put her into an extra gear to want that toy, adding that performance. Right. So it's blending the exercises together, knowing what's going to make them really quick and responsive and fluid, getting the best out of the dog. And that's exactly what we have here, especially with this exercise. Now you're going to see here because Callis is so motivated now with the new toy and understanding when Ben says shield exactly what she's supposed to do on the cue now without any of the gestures. Now, while Ben stand there, we're talking, she just decides she can't take it anymore. And she starts doing a shield herself, trying to see how to get him to give her that ball. So she just starts pulling things off and starts doing the shields by herself. What you're going to do is when you see the slowdown, give her a reward. Right now, you see that behavior, right? And that was her offering a shield without asking because she's how do I get it, man? So you're going to hold the ball up to your left. Right. I see the right. Right. So you do your shield. That's right. And do it again. That is motivation. That's a dog now telling you, please, how do I get that toy? I mean, you're holding off too long and you haven't asked me for anything. What do I have to do to get that toy? So she just starts going around Ben for nothing, trying to see if that would work and give it a gamble. Like, okay, you saw that. Did that work? How about now? That's what we want to see a dog working and trying. And we haven't even asked for anything. They're dying to get that toy reward. So this is what you need to achieve and find when you want to get the best out of dogs. You have to find the right motivators. Not every dog's the same. Some are very food driven and not that toy driven. So that means you would have to work on seeing if you can amp up that toy drive and that dog. But the thing is, you would have to have good skill to know how to get that out of a dog and build toy drive on that side to be able to do that. So that's another tricky thing. So you pick, find what makes your dog crazy and you have to build those motivators. So even if a dog has a lot of motivation for something, you have to build it more. So very important, very important skill when you want really, really high level obedience and you tricks or whatever you want to do, you have to be a great motivator. You have to find the perfect balances to make a dog work, make them driven, make them passionate about toys and playing in the game. So anybody who thinks that I am not a positive trainer or I don't do that, they're highly mistaken. I'm a huge positive guy and I am big time into positive motivators. So hope you enjoyed. Till next time, Miami Dog Whisperer.