[SPEAKER_01]: Hello everybody, welcome back to the NoBad Dogs podcast and my second YouTube channel.
[SPEAKER_01]: Today we're going to be talking about something that every single yes you dog owner does.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it is harmful for your relationship and when you fix it, it could absolutely be a game changer and having a clearer relationship and expediting your dog training tremendous.
[SPEAKER_01]: And today we're going to be talking about repeating commands and why dog owners do it without even realizing it, and also why it's harmful for your relationship coming from a dog trainer, but first before we get into that, let's watch a clip of somebody actually doing this in real time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you have a stay command with him?
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, stay, you know, stay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's do a stay, come in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just walk.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let us far as I can go here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Stay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will stay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just move away a little bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Stay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good, stay.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you can tell them good, stay.
[SPEAKER_01]: And instead of telling them to stay.
[SPEAKER_01]: OK. And the reason is, good.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he gets work.
[SPEAKER_00]: He knows we're good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so good stay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Good stay.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if he's doing the behavior and he's doing it well, we say good stay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: If he's doing the behavior and he's doing it well, and you tell him to do the behavior, he's going to be confused.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: See what I'm saying?
[SPEAKER_01]: So always good stay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because if he's staying, and then he look at him and say stay, he's like, I am staying.
[SPEAKER_01]: But if he's a good stay, it's reinforcing that he's doing good stay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good stay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Stay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sets?
[SPEAKER_01]: Good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now walk backwards a little bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Stay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Good.
[SPEAKER_00]: Stay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Good.
[SPEAKER_00]: Stay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Good.
[SPEAKER_00]: Stay.
[SPEAKER_00]: You down.
[SPEAKER_00]: Down.
[SPEAKER_00]: Good.
[SPEAKER_00]: Down.
[SPEAKER_00]: Good.
[SPEAKER_00]: Down.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good.
[SPEAKER_00]: Down.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Stay.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: do this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's going to be a heart.
[SPEAKER_00]: We got to break this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Multiple.
[SPEAKER_00]: Correct.
[SPEAKER_00]: Talking.
[SPEAKER_01]: Correct.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you guys can see right there.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's something that is, I think a habit for most dog owners.
[SPEAKER_01]: We tend to just, I think our, what happens guys is our mind says, I want the dog to stay.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want the dog to sit.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want the dog to do whatever behavior it is, even recall.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if the dog doesn't do it, what our brain does is we just throw it out again.
[SPEAKER_01]: We throw it out again.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're trying to get the dog's attention and we're trying to get the dog to do the behavior.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the reality is is this is a command that we're asking our dog.
[SPEAKER_01]: This isn't a question we're asking our dog.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if our dog doesn't do it,
[SPEAKER_01]: You shouldn't repeat it as if the dog maybe didn't hear you, or if the dog maybe just, you know, wasn't listening or whatever.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's really where it comes in.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the reason why it's it's harmful for your relationship is because it's confusing for the dog.
[SPEAKER_01]: So for an example, if we tell a dog like you saw on that clip to sit and stay or stay, depending on if you have
[SPEAKER_01]: And the dog says, boom, I'm going to sit.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to stay.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to be right here.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then we look at the dog and we say, stay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Dog goes, I thought this was stay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Or for an example, I think for some reason, this makes more sense for people.
[SPEAKER_01]: It registers more.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's say you ask your dog to do a sit.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the dog puts their butt directly on the ground.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you look at him and you say, sit.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so the confusion starts to happen.
[SPEAKER_01]: When we tell our dog to do a behavior, what we want to do is use what we call duration markers.
[SPEAKER_01]: So a duration marker is essentially a keep going marker, or keep going verbal cue, or keep going verbal command.
[SPEAKER_01]: However, you want to phrase it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're telling the dog with your voice, you're doing good and I want you to keep going.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's where the good stay, the good sit, the good heel comes in.
[SPEAKER_01]: And again, that mistake is stay.
[SPEAKER_01]: The dog's doing a perfect stay.
[SPEAKER_01]: The dog's doing a perfect sit.
[SPEAKER_01]: The dog is recalling to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then we're shouting out and commanding the dog to do the exact behavior they're doing perfectly.
[SPEAKER_01]: and that will cause confusion.
[SPEAKER_01]: That will cause your dog to be potentially, I mean, it depends on your dog's personality, but it could could potentially have your dog just start not listening to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because when they understand the concept of a sit and they go, okay, I got this, we worked on it, everything's great, we get food when we sit, we get positive reinforcement, I've been doing this since day one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Awesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then we look at the dog dead in the eyes and we just tell them to sit again.
[SPEAKER_01]: So again, I think it's just habit-forming.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think our voice becomes this, stay right there, stay right there, stay right there, heal, heal, heal, come, come.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so it's a really easy thing to fix, but it makes a huge difference in the clarity with your dog.
[SPEAKER_01]: So for example, let's walk through what we should be doing.
[SPEAKER_01]: When we get a dog into a behavior, for an example, like sit or stay or even heal, and the dog is doing it, replace asking them to do it again with good sit, good stay, good heal.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, as your dog develops to higher levels of obedience, the amount of verbal praise will decrease because the verbal praise is reinforcing.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of like a kid riding the bike for the first time.
[SPEAKER_01]: For an example, I have two young boys myself, so I know I'm gonna be going through this, and I kind of already have with my three-year-old.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're on a bike, they're doing anything, anything with your dog or even your kid.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anything that you're cheering on.
[SPEAKER_01]: The first couple times, you're really enthusiastic.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you're doing it, you're doing the right thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good job, keep going well done.
[SPEAKER_01]: But over time,
[SPEAKER_01]: You start to decrease that cheerleading because it becomes kind of nuanced and mundane, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, okay, we've been doing this every day.
[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't need.
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't need a cheerleader.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think if you really look at the learning curve in the learning process,
[SPEAKER_01]: The reason why we cheerlead so much or use our derasional markers with dog training is simply because in the beginning, they need that reinforcement.
[SPEAKER_01]: They need that, I think this is it.
[SPEAKER_01]: They need that stamp of like, yes, you're doing it, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Imagine if we went outside and we have a 20 year old, a 15 year old and a 12 year old, swimming in the pool.
[SPEAKER_01]: Mom and dad goes out and goes, oh, you're doing it, good job.
[SPEAKER_01]: or you're 12-year-old, you're 10-year-old or you're 20-year-old, takes off on a bicycle and we're out there cheering.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yay!
[SPEAKER_01]: No training wills.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why we do it, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: We do it in the beginning because it is a big deal.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we're trying so hard to teach them, yeah, you're doing it and that's the beauty of dog training.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why I love working with dogs is because that little window of them starting to get it is
[SPEAKER_01]: euphoric for me that I finally see a dog that starts to do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I remember I was working with a what we would call celebrity dog, Miss Famous Miss Peaches and Barstool owner Dave Portnoi out and then tuck it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I specifically remember Miss Peaches is an older dog.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's not a puppy.
[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, the whole internet seemed to be interested in mispeaches.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so there's a lot of pressure to get this dog to recall from a very short period of time.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I was at Dave's house for like a week, which, I mean, a week of training with a older dog who has no training and has gotten away with everything with Dave for the last two years is not a lot of time.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I specifically remember, when Miss Peaches started to recall out on the beach, off of dead animals, off of fish, she recalled off of other dogs without any equipment, just with my voice.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I remember that moment in time, I was like, oh, thank God, she finally did it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it took a long time.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it took her up.
[SPEAKER_01]: It took, and I just remember that, and I had this with many of my clients, but that was very, very memorable for me because she took a long time to finally go, oh, and that's why the old saying, like you can't teach a dog, old dog, new tricks, you can, it just takes a lot longer because they basically have been ingrained.
[SPEAKER_01]: for years, months, mostly, most times years of doing the opposite of what you want.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it does take quite a, it's like breaking an old habit.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's very, very difficult to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: So anyway, I just remember that you fork feeling where I was like, oh, she's finally getting it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I just remember going out, recalling her off of everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: And she did amazing.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, I just think that that moment in time where the dog is starting to really get it, we cheerlead so much, but you want to make sure that you're cheerleading in a positive way that is actually beneficial to the dog and not confusing to the dog.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's why I'm making this podcast and in this video is because often time dog owners will simply
[SPEAKER_01]: recall their dog, sit their dog, stay their dog, and they actually will make things worse by continuing to repeat the command that the dog is doing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, you could get away with it for sure, but, you know, for certain amount of dogs, it can definitely be confusing, especially if you're working with a newer dog or an aggressive dog or an anxious dog.
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, you're telling them to sit, stay, they're doing exactly that and you look and dead in the face, stay, stay, stay and they're like,
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm almost positive, this is what stay has been my whole life, and so it could be very confusing.
[SPEAKER_01]: So make sure when you guys go out with your dog and you ask them to sit and you ask them to stay that you're using, and you guys can just go and look up, there's many, there's many different uses of duration markers.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can just put in the chatGbT or Google, like, what's a duration marker?
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, it's just that keep going, like it's that encouragement.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're not done with the behavior yet.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're on the right track, like the race isn't done yet, but you're doing really good, your time's good, etc.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so it's important that you guys are just have that have that distinction between positive reinforcement.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, if you're dog, for an example, if you do a sit stay and your dog starts to get up, you can use a verbal correction like, at no sit, good sit, step back, good stay.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, I always tell my clients when they're asking their dog to sit and stay,
[SPEAKER_01]: Instead of saying, stay, every, again, this is redundant for me, but just go to your dog, pay him and say, good, stay, pay him with food, especially in the beginning.
[SPEAKER_01]: As you advance, you start taking steps back and you just shoot him a lightning bolt of positive reinforcement.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good, stay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Boom.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hit him with it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's just important that you guys understand that because I see so many dog owners make that mistake.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's such an easy mistake to make.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's such a habit to make, but it's really important that we understand why we shouldn't be doing that.
[SPEAKER_01]: and it also can benefit your relationship with your dog and your training significantly.
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