Basic Pincher Collar Obedience and Understanding (Dog Training)

Alright, somebody on the forum was asking a little bit about dog training. He noticed the way that Scout acts in some of the videos. Sometimes he's pretty crazy going after sticks and deer and stuff like that. But for the most time, to quote him, he's pretty squared away. And I told him I could make a vid about how I use my pinch collar, the pinch collar on the dog. So this is obviously a pinch collar. It doesn't hurt the dog no matter what anybody tells you. He's not scared of it. He's scared of you running. He knows what it means. means he's going to work. That's what this breed is for, for working. They thrive on it. So there's a couple things on how to use it. First off, putting it on, you're never going to slide it over the dog's head. You're never going to have it together and slide it over the dog's head. It's meant to be tight. It's meant to sit right up under the ears, right here, so you get the maximum control. You don't want it sliding all over the place. If it's loose and it's sliding, you're not getting the proper correction okay so to take it off you just undo it easy and then when i put it on i just kind of line up where i'm going to put the leash in put it around his neck so that it's really up around his ear uh underneath his ears and it's on okay that's tight i can fit a finger in between but that's tight i'll show you closer in a second i'll show you right now i guess two hoops okay you don't want to just put it through the one you want to put it through both of the hoops so the leash is going through both of these hoops okay i got a good firm grip on it okay and we're gonna go out and we're gonna walk around the block but you notice i haven't been saying you want to go for a walk you want to go for a walk and get them all hyped up like i know he knows what i mean right now uh but i'm not like antagonizing let's go for a walk blah blah that's just stupid in my opinion you're you're you're building the dog up so that he's gonna be all agitated all hyper and rambunctious before when you're trying to get them calm walking so i just grabbed the the leash out of the collar or sorry the leash and the collar out of the out of where i keep it and i put it on him he's he has his leash and collar on him and he's not doing anything he's just sitting here because i didn't amp him up okay it's a lot of one of the mistakes a lot of people make so i'll just show you a few things before we head out let's go off come back here All right, so I'm giving him commands right now and he's listening and I don't have to correct him because he knows all of this Already, but when you're first starting out, there's ways to use this collar. Okay, so I'm gonna give him a stand command He's standing now, right? So I'm not gonna say the word. Oh good boy. I know stand up stand I'm not gonna say the word where he puts his butt on the ground because he'll do it Okay, I'm gonna say the word forget it I'm going to tell him the command and I'm going to show you on on the the pinch collar. How do you do it? So first sit it's you tell them the command sit and you pull straight up Okay, and they sit now that's not gonna happen like that right the first time but the key to it is to not say sit Sit sit sit sit and pull and pull pull pull pull and let go of all that stuff You say the command one time Okay one time and then you pull straight up until he sits all right for down i give the command down and he's going to do it and i'm not going to correct him at first good down good down because he knows it okay now i'm going to show you how to do it stand sit okay so the down command it just like sit was up down no wait wait wait wait good boy down is down so i'm going to pull down on it and tell him down continuous pressure down and when he lays down same as sit when they do what you want you say good and then repeat the command so he sat good sit if he you go you tell him down he goes down good down don't say good boy good dog it's it's the command and then the praise that corresponds with the command sit good sit down good down stand good stand okay so the stand command is I have the leash in my hand I'm gonna to pull it towards the dog's nose. Stand. Good. Stand. Sit. Good. Sit. Good. Big praise to it first because that's what they're thriving on We're not, this kind of training isn't treat training. Okay. There's nothing wrong with treat training if you want to start off that way. But I believe personally that your dog should listen to you because you're telling them what to do, not because they're getting a reward out of it. Okay. They're doing something for something. Not because you said, not to be rewarded. My reward to him is praise and petting. You know what I mean? That's what he wants more than anything. This dog doesn't care about treats. Treat, treat, treat. He doesn't know the word treat. Most dogs be going crazy. You want a treat? He doesn't even move. He doesn't know the word. Doesn't mean I don't give him treats. It means I don't give him treats for doing things. I give him treats when I'm sitting down eating dinner, when I'm watching a movie, I can give him something. You know what I mean? It's not because he did something to deserve the treat. He does something to deserve my praise. That's fine. I'll give him praise. So same thing with the up command Okay, if you want your dog to jump over something or jump up onto something you're gonna use a command You're gonna use up and you're always gonna stick with the same commands for everything. So for up I'm gonna tell him up and I'm gonna hold on sit and I'm gonna move him with the leash up onto the couch Okay, up good. Ah when I want him to get off of the couch I'm gonna use the word off not down because down means to lay down Okay, I can put him up on top of something now say down and he lays down If I wanted him to get off and I was saying down it would confuse him. So the command is off So off good off and now how to do that with the command up with the leash It's just give a little tug off off good Good off. Yeah Okay, so going in and out of your house is a big thing the pack leader goes in the door first and goes out the door first. So when I'm leaving I'm gonna leave first when I'm coming home coming in first That's just to simulate the pack leader thing. That's what you want to be. So I'll show you how to do that So he's sitting he's gonna wait there for me. I'm gonna literally go outside Scout come wait for him. Good calm now he's outside and tell him to sit put him into a sit and i'm going to go back inside shut my door and this is our routine every single time okay so then when it's time for me to go i grab him say heel yeah always let me walk he wants to go that way so i'm going to turn this way never let the dog dictate um where you're going to go okay so with walking this leash is loose and he's not pulling if you have oh sorry there's the loose leash there if you have a tight leash like you're pulling back like this the whole time i always say a loose leash is a loose dog a tight leash is a tightly wound dog so this is how you want to be walking okay i'm barely touching this this when he starts to go ahead of me a little bit let's give him pull back give him the command heel okay sit put him into a sit this is i don't i don't recommend doing this until you know your dog's gonna listen so there's him sitting there I'm walking across this street he's gonna stay there until I tell him to come come he really should have listened on that first come sit good good so when you get a little bit more experience doing this you can have your dog sit sit scout good sit walk away from him notice I'm not telling him to stay sit is the stay command I told him to sit and i didn't tell him anything else after that so he needs to still be sitting so i don't use stay so i'm going to give him a down command from distance scout down nope back he didn't listen because we haven't been working on this too much so i'm going to bring him right back to his spot give him a little correction a little tug on the thing sit now put him into a down because that's what i told him to do down so it's consistency it's following through not everything works every single time um that obviously didn't work and i brought him there and with no emotion I'm not angry or upset about it. There's these two little kids running towards him, and that's probably not a good idea. So I'm just going to tell him to stand and come. Good. So as I was saying, though, you don't hold a grudge. You don't worry about it because he didn't listen. You just put him back and make him do what you said without emotion. All right, Scout, you need to go, boy. This is my house here. When we come up to the sidewalk leading up to my house, he knows what to do. i didn't say a word to him and he sat down good sit once again i don't recommend you do this until you know your dog's not going to take off or whatever so he's way back there i'm gonna open my door take my time all the time he's just sitting right there i'm literally gonna take my keys out of the door shut my door take my shoes off put my door back up until i say the word before he's gonna come oh look at that awesome because there was people walking across the street he did not listen come on come so once again without a motion put him back a little correction have him stay there so it just goes to show you like he's done this a thousand times and he never moves but there was people walking across the street with a baby carriage and he was kind of kind of tripped out by it and now there's people driving by that's all right he shouldn't move because uh wait just because i want to make him wait a little bit longer because he moved come now he's gonna go behind me automatically he's gonna step behind me not in front of me and that's a sign of good boy sign of uh submission we're taking this thing off you do the same thing from the same link you just pop it off okay and that's it easy put it on take it off it takes a little bit to get used to and then big praise for a good walk there's lots of petting i don't have to say anything to him just big praise i'm gonna do what he wants let him go get a drink you're allowing him now to go get a drink, do whatever, fulfill whatever needs he needs, and that's a reward as well. By letting him drink water, by letting him go pee, eat food, whatever, those are your fulfilling needs that he needs, and that's a reward as well. And what he wants to do is just get petted right now, as you can see. So that's very, very, very basic. There's more to it. What you have to remember obviously is sorry just one second what you have to remember obviously is to keep a cool head all the time like i said be almost robotic about it except for when you're praising you can show emotion when you're praising um but this method isn't for everyone like i've said a thousand times whatever method of training or whatever you want to call it um makes you comfortable that you're comfortable with use that if you want to treat train by all means treat train if you want to use a choke collar whatever just make sure you're doing it right and make sure you feel comfortable doing it because if you're second guessing yourself well i don't know if this pinch collar is hurting him you're feeling bad and that's the dog's going to pick up on that and not understand why it knows that you're feeling bad about it but he has no clue why he doesn't can't rationalize um like this dog's happy as hell he's licking me we just i just took the pinch collar off and we had a good walk he's he's a content dog walking an hour a day is the best. For the dog, it's going to create stability, it's going to create a sense of routine, all that stuff. So I hope that worked out. I hope that answered everybody's, or the one forum member's questions. And that's it. If you have any more questions, let me know.