CHAPTER XI SITTING DITE. ONE LEMONS AND CRICKET BALLS. Around October we fulfilled the prophecy of the officer who told us that sitting tight in the German trenches was to be our function. There were nightly counterattacks preceded by heavy artillery fire when the enemy made determined efforts to retake the lost territory. There were needless alarms when nervous sentries got the wind up to use the authentic trench expression and contagious excitement set men to firing like mad into blank darkness. In the daytime there were moments of calm which we could not savor owing through that other warfare waged upon us by increasing hordes of parasitic enemies. We moved from one position to another through trenches where the tangled mass of telephone wires seemingly gifted with a kind of malignant humor called themselves about our feet or caught in the piling swivels of our rifles. There were orders and counter-orders, alarms and excursions. Through them all Tommy kept his balance and his air of fury unconcerned, but he wished that he might be struck pink if he knew what we was a do-and-elf anyway. Our ideas of the tactical situation were decidedly vague. However we did know in a general way our position with reference to important military landmarks and the amateur strategists were busy at all times explaining the situation to frankly ignorant comrades and outlining plans for definite action. Now if I was general French I'd make Erlich me main objective. There ain't no use of trying to get at this part of the line till you've got that village. Don't talk so bloom and ignorant, ain't that just what they've been a-trying? What we got to do is go around Erlich, take them in the rear and from both sides. Why don't they get on with it? What blazes are we a-doing? Of giving them a chance to get dug in again? Here we are, but got them on the run and the old show stops. The continuation of the offensive was a chief topic of conversation. The men dreaded it, but they were anxious to get through with the business. They believed that now if ever there was a chance to push the Germans out of France. In the meantime the day's work was still the day's work. There were nightly bombing affairs, some of them most desperate hand-to-hand contests for the possession of small sectors of trench. One of these I witnessed from a trench sixty yards away. The advantage lay with us. The enemy held only the center of the line and were forced to meet attacks from either end. However they had a communication trench connecting with their second line, through which carrying parties brought them a limitless supply of bombs. The game of pitch and toss over the barricades had continued for several days without a decision. Then came orders for more decisive action. The barricades were to be destroyed and the enemy bombed out. In underground fighting of this kind the element of surprise is possible if one opponent can be suddenly overwhelmed with a heavy rain of bombs. The chances of success for the attacking party are quite favorable. The action took place at dusk, shortly before the hour set. The bombers, all of them boys in their early twenties, filed slowly along the trench, the pockets of their grenade-waste-coast bulging with lemons and cricket-balls. As the two most effective kinds of bombs are called, they went to their places with that spirit of stulled cheeriness, which is the wonder and admiration of everyone who knows Tommy Atkins intimately. Formerly when I saw him in this mood I would think, he doesn't realize, men don't go out to meet death like this. But long association with him had convinced me of the error of this opinion. These men knew that death, or terrible injury, was in store for many of them. But they were talking in excited and gleeful undertones, as they might have passed through the gates at a football match. Are we downhearted? Not likely, old son. Take a feel of this little puffball, smack on old Fritzy's napper as she goes. I'm going to ask for a nice, blighty one. Four months in Brentford Hospital on me, Christmas put a knot me home. Now don't forget, you blokes. Go to the London War Hospital for me.  The barricades were blown up and the fight was on. A two hundred piece orchestra of blacksmiths with sledgehammers beating kettle drums the size of brewery vats might have approximated in quality and volume the sound of the battle. This spectacular effect was quite different from that of a counterattack across the open. Lurid flashes of light issued from the ground as though a door to the infernal regions had been thrown jarringly open. The cloud of thick smoke was shot through with red gleams. Men ran along the parapet hurling bombs down into the trench. Now they were hidden by the smoke, now silhouetted for an instant against the glare of blinding light. One hour passed and there was no change in the situation. "'Ritchie's a tough old bird,' said Tommy. "'He's a going-to-die game. You gotta give it to him.'" The excitement was intense. Urgent calls for more lemons, more cricket balls, were sent back constantly. Box after box, each containing a dozen grenades, was passed up the line from hand to hand and still the call for more bombs. We couldn't send them up fast enough. The wounded were coming back in twos and threes.  Poor old Titch, she went off right in his face. But you did your bit, Titch. You ought to be seeing him. You blokes. Wasn't we a letting-em-avit? Another man hobbled past on one foot supporting himself against the side of the trench.  "'So long, you lads. I'll be with you after the holidays.'" Those who do not know the horrors of modern warfare cannot readily understand the joy of the soldier at receiving a wound which is not likely to prove serious. A bullet in the arm or the shoulder, even though it shatters the bone or a piece of shrapnel or shell casing in the leg, was always a matter of congratulation. Those were blighty wounds. When Tommy received one of this kind, he was a candidate for hospital in Blighty, as England was affectionately called. For several months he would be far away from the awful turmoil, his body would be clean, he would be rid of the vermin and sleep comfortably in a bit at night. The strain would be relaxed, and who knows the war might be over before he was again fit for active service, and so the less seriously wounded made their way painfully but cheerfully along the trench, on their way to the field dressing station, the motor ambulance, the hospital ship, and home, while their unwounded comrades gave them words of encouragement and good cheer.  If you seize my misses, tell her I'm as bright as rain.'" "'Sami, you lucky blighter. When you're convalescent and have a pint of ale at the White Lion for me." "'And a good feed of fish and chips for me, Sammy. Mind your foot. There's a ol' just here.' "'Here comes ol' Sid.  You know, where she lives, Forty-sixth Broomey Road?' One lad, his nerve gone, pushed his way frantically down the trench. He had funked it. He was hysterical with fright and crying in a dry, shaking voice. "'It's too horrible. I can't stand it.  Look at me. I'm slatter than blood. I can't stand it. There ain't no man can stand it.'" He met with scant courtesy. A trench during an attack is no place for the faint-hearted. An unsympathetic tommy kicked him savagely.  More lemons, more cricket-balls, and at least victory Fritzi had chucked it, and men of the royal engineers that wonderfully efficient corps were on the spot with picks and shovels and sandbags clearing out the wreckage and building a new barricade at the further end of the communication trench. It was only a minor affair, one of many which take place nightly in the firing line. Two-score yards of trench were captured. The cost was perhaps one man per yard. But as tommy said, "'It ain't to trench what counts. It's a more ale. Bucks the blokes up to win. And that's worth a ol' bloomin' army-corer.'" II. "'Go at the Norfolk's.'" Rumors of all degrees of absurdity reached us.  The division was to attack at dawn under cover of a hundred bomb-dropping battle-planes. Units of the new armies to the number of five hundred thousand were concentrating behind the lines from Labrasé to Arras. And another tremendous drive was to be made in conjunction with the French. As a matter of fact, we knew less of what was actually happening than did people in England and America. Most of these reports sprang full-grown from the fertile brains of officers' servants. Reports of information which they gathered while in attendance at the officer's mess dug out were pieced together, and much new material of their own invention added. The striving was for pecancy rather than plausibility. A wild tale was always better than a dull one, furthermore the Batman were our only sources of official information and could always command a hearing. When one of them came down the trench with that mysterious, I could a tale unfold here. He was certain to be halted by willingly gullible comrades. What's up, Jerry? Anything? Nope. Narf, now. Keep this under your aps, you blokes. My governor was a-talking to Major Bradley this morning while I was a-making this tea. And he says... Then followed the thrilling narrative a disclosure of official secrets while groups of war-torn Tommies listened with eager interest. During the news was a tragic comedy enacted daily in the trenches. But we were not entirely in their dark. The signs which preceded an engagement were unmistakable, and toward the middle of October there was general agreement that an important action was about to take place. But a share-craft had been patrolling our front ceaselessly for hours. Several battalions, including our own which had just gone into the reserve at Vermeels, were placed on bomb-carrying fatigue. As we went up to the firing line with our first load, we found all of the support trenches filled to overflowing with troops in fighting order. We reached the first line as the preliminary bombardment started. Scores of batteries were concentrating their fire on the enemy's trenches directly opposite us. It is useless to attempt to depict what lay before us as we looked over the parapet. The trenches were hidden from view in a cloud of smoke and flame and dirt. The earth was like a muddy sea, dashed high in spray against hidden rocks. The men who were to leave the attack were standing rifle in hand, waiting for the sudden cessation of fire, which would be the signal for them to mount the parapet. Bombers and bayonet men alternated in series of two. The bombers wore their medieval-looking shrapnel-proof helmets, and heavy canvas-grenade coats, with twelve pockets sagging with bombs. Their rifles were slung under backs to give them free use of their hands. Everyone was smoking. Some calmly, some with short nervous puffs. It was interesting to watch the faces of the men. One could read almost to a certainty what was going on in their minds. Some of them were thinking of the terrible events so near at hand. They were imagining the horrors of the attack in detail. Men's were unconcerned the intent upon adjusting straps of their equipment or in rubbing their clips of ammunition with an oily rag. Several men were singing to a mouth-organ accompaniment. I saw their lips moving, but not a sound reached me above the din of the guns. Although I was standing only a few yards distant, it was like an absurd pantomime. As I watched them, the sense of the unreality of the whole thing swept over me more strongly than ever before. This can't be true, I thought. I have never been a soldier. There isn't any European war. I had the curious feeling that my body and brain were functioning quite apart from me.  I have learned that this feeling is quite common among men in the trenches. A part of the mind works normally, and another part which seems to be one's essential self refuses to assimilate and classify experiences so unusual, so different from anything in the catalogue of memory. For two hours and a half the roar of the guns continued, then it stopped as suddenly as it had begun. An officer near me shouted, "'Now, men, follow me!' and clambered over the parapet. There was no hesitation in a moment that trench was empty, saved for the bomb-carrying parties and an artillery observation officer who was jumping up and down on a firing-line bench shouting, "'Go at the Norfolk's! Go at the Norfolk's! My God! Isn't it fine? Isn't it splendid?' There you have the British officer, true to type. He is a sportsman, next to taking part in a fight. He loves to see one. And he says, isn't, not, ain't. One under stress of the greatest excitement. The German artillery, which had been reserving fire, now poured forth a deluge of shrapnel. The sound of rifle fire was scattered and ragged at first, but it increased steadily in volume. Then came the boiler factory chorus. The sharp rattle of dozens of machine-guns. The bullets were flying over our heads like swarms of angry wasps. A ration-box board, which I held above the parapet, was struck almost immediately. Fortunately for the artillery officer, a disrespectful NCO pulled him down into the trench. "'It's no use you're a-throwing your life away, sir. You won't help him over by barking at him.'" He was up again almost at once, cruelly watching the progress of the troops from behind a small barricade of sandbags and reporting upon it to batteries several miles in rear. The temptation to look over the parapet was not to be resisted. The artillery lengthened their ranges. I saw the curtain of flame-shot smoke leap at a bound to the next line of German trenches. Within a few moments several lines of reserves filed into the front trench and went over the parapet in support of the first line, advancing with heads down like men bucking into the fury of a gale. We saw them only for an instant as they jumped to their feet outside the trench and rushed forward. Many were hit before they had passed through the gaps in our barbed wire. Those who were able crept back and were helped into the trench by comrades, one man was killed, as he was about to reach a place of safety, he lay on a parapet, with his head and arms hanging down inside the trench. His face was that of a boy of twenty-one or twenty-two. I carry the memory of it with me to-day, as vividly as when I left the trenches in November. Following the attacking infantry were those other soldiers whose work, though less spectacular than that of the rifleman, was just as essential and quite as dangerous. Royal engineers with picks and shovels and sandbags rushed forward to reverse the parapets of the captured trenches and to clear out the wreckage, while the rifleman waited for the launching of the first counter-attack. They were preceded by men of the signaling corps who advanced swiftly and skillfully unwinding spools of insulated telephone wire as they went, bomb carriers, stretcher-bearers, and tent upon their widely divergent duties followed. The work of salvage and destruction went hand in hand. The battle continued until evening, when we received orders to move up to the firing line. We started at five o'clock, and although we had less than three miles to go, we did not reach the end of our journey until four the next morning, owing to the fatigue-parties and the long stream of wounded which blocked the communication trenches. For more than an hour we lay just outside of the trench, looking down on a seemingly endless procession of casualties. Some of the men were crying like children, some growing pitifully, some laughing despite their wounds. I heard dialects peculiar to every part of England, and fragmentary accounts of hare-breath escapes and desperate fighting. There was a big Dutchman coming at me from the other side, lucky for me, that I had a round-of-me-breach. He'd have got me if it hadn't been for that cartridge. I let him have it, and he crumbled up like a wet blanket. Save one of them, and that days like there wasn't a good for any thing, man, I would have been fair-murder to kill him. There wasn't a wanton to fight. Boys scarcely out of their teams talked with the air of old veterans. Many of them had been given their first taste of real fighting, and they were experiencing a very common and natural reaction. Their courage had been put to the most severe test, and had not given way. It was not difficult to understand the relation, and one could forgive their boastful talk of bloody deeds. One highly strong lad was dangerously near to nervous breakdown. He had bayoneted his first German, and could not forget the experience. He told of it over and over as the line moved slowly along. I couldn't get me bayoneted out, he said. When he fell, he pulled me over on top of him.  We met small groups of prisoners under escort of proud and happy Tommies, who gave us conflicting reports of the success of the attack. Some of them said that two more lines of German trenches had been taken, others declared, that we had broken completely through, and that the enemy were in full retreat. Upon arriving at our position, we were convinced that at least one trench had been captured. But when we mounted our guns and peered cautiously over the parapet, the lights which we saw in the distance were the flashes of German rifles, not the street lamps of Berlin. 3. Christian Practice Meanwhile, the inhumanity of war without truces was being revealed to us on every hand. Hundreds of bodies were lying between the opposing lines of trenches, and there was no chance to bury them. Fatigue parties were set out at night to dispose of those which were lying close to the parapets, but the work was constantly delayed and interrupted by persistent sniping and heavy shell fire. The soldiers further out lay where they had fallen, day after day, and week after week. Many an anxious mother in England was seeking news of a son whose body had become a part of the Flemish landscape. During the week following the commencement of the offensive, the wounded were brought back in twos and threes from the contested area over which attacks and counterattacks were taking place. One plucky Englishman was discovered about fifty yards in front of our trenches. He was waving a handkerchief tied to the handle of his entrenching tool. Stretcher-bearers ran out under fire and brought him in. He had been wounded in the foot when his company were advancing up the slope fifteen hundred yards away. When he was found necessary to retire he had been left with many dead and wounded comrades, far from the possibility of help by friends. He had bandaged his wound with his first aid dressing and had crawled back a few yards at a time. He secured food from the haversacks of dead comrades, and at length after a week of painful creeping reached our lines. Another of our comrades was discovered by a listening patrol six days after he had been wounded. He too had been stuck down close to the enemy's second line. Two kind-hearted German sentries, to whom he had signaled, crept out at night and gave him hot coffee to drink. He begged them to carry him in. But they told him they were forbidden to take any wounded prisoners. As he was unable to crawl he must have died had it not been for the keen ears of the men at the listening patrol, a third victim, who I saw was brought in at daybreak by a working party. He had been shot into jaw and lay unattended through at least five wet October days and nights. His eyes were swollen shut. Blood poisoning had set in from a wound which would certainly not have been fatal. Could it have received early attention? We knew that there must be many wounded still alive in the tall grass between our lines. We knew that many were dying, who might be saved. The Red Cross Corps made nightly searches for them, but the difficulties to be overcome were great. The volume of fire increased tremendously at night, for the more. There was a wide area to be searched and, in the darkness, men laying unconscious or too weak from the loss of blood to groan or shout, were discovered only by accident. Tommy Atkins isn't an advocate of peace at any price. But the sight of awful and needless suffering invariably moved him to declare himself against the inhuman practices in war of so-called Christian nations. Christian nations, he would say scornfully. If this here is a sample of Christianity, I'll take me chances down below when I get knocked out. His comrades greeted such outbursts with hearty approval. I'm with you there, mate. It won't be such a dusty old place if all the Christians go upstairs.  All the religious blokes in England and France and Germany ain't a going to pray them. I'm into it. I'm not in a position to speak for Hans and Fritz, who faced us from the other side of no man's land. But as for Tommy, it seemed to me that he had a higher opinion of the deity than many of his better educated countrymen at home. For Tommy. By the end of the month we had seen more of suffering and death than it is good for men to see in a lifetime. There were attacks and counterattacks, hand-to-hand fights in communication trenches with bombs and bayonets, heavy bombardments, nightly burial parties. Tommy Atkins looked like a beast. His clothing was hardened mud casing. His body was the color of the sticky, flanders clay in which he lived. But his soul was clean and fine. I saw him rescuing wounded comrades, tending them in the trenches, encouraging them, and heartening them when he himself was discouraged and sick at heart. You're going home already, blimey. Think of that. Back to old Blighty, while the rest of us got to stick it out here. Don't I wish I was you. Not Arp. You ain't bad, or strike me pink. You'll be as keen as a whistle in a couple of months. And here, Christmas in Blighty, son, say I'll take your busted shoulder if you'll give me that chance.  Remember how they fixed old Ginger up? He ain't caught it off as bad. And England before I knew him, for the man he is, I said, how am I to endure living with him? And now I am thinking how am I to endure living without him? Without the inspiration of his splendid courage? Without the visible example of his unselfish devotion to his fellows? There were a few cowards and shirkers who failed to live up to the standards set by their comrades. I remember the man of thirty-five or forty who lay whimpering in the trench when there was unpleasant work to be done, while boys half his age kicked him in a vain attempt to awaken him to a sense of duty. But instances of this kind were rare. There were not enough of them to serve as a foil to the shining deeds which were of daily and hourly occurrence.  He is weary of the interminable procession of comfortless nights and days. He is weary of the sight of maimed and bleeding men, of the awful suspense of waiting for death.  But there is that within him which says, hold on, he is a compound of cheery optimism and grim tenacity, which makes him an incomparable fighting man. The intimate picture of him, which lingers most willingly in my mind, is that which I carried with me from the trenches on the dreary November evening shortly before I bade him good-bye. It had been raining and sleeting for a week. The trenches were knee- deep in water, in some places waist-deep, for the ground was as level as the floor, and there was no possibility of drainage. We were wet, through and our legs were numb, with the cold. Near a gun-position there was a hole in the floor of the trench, where the water had collected in a deep pool. A bridge of boards had been built around one side of this, but in the darkness a passer-by slipped and fell into the icy water nearly up to his armpits. "'Now, then, matey,' said an exasperating voice, bathing in our private pool without a permit. "'And another, ere, son, this ain't a swim-and-blath. That's where tea-water you're a-standin' in.' The tommy in the pool must have been nearly frozen, but for a moment he made no attempt to get out. "'Why don't you fetch me a bit of soap, will you?' he said coaxingly. "'You ain't a-goin' to talk about tea-water to a bloke one ain't at a-bath in seven weeks!' It is men of this stamp who have the fortunes of England in their keeping, and they are called, the boys of the bulldog breed."


Yo Morning everybody Hope everyone's well just getting set up here and What we're gonna do today guys is we're gonna just do some some Q&A so I wanted to just hop on here and Normally, I have a discussion that I want to talk about but today. I just want to do some Q&A with you guys Let me flip this this way Cool Cool, is this better or is the other way better? Let me know in the comments and then what I want to do is you guys just start firing away on your questions and I'm gonna get through as many as I can so I have some coffee This is better. Okay, cool Cool, cool, cool. All right. Let's get rolling with some questions and if you guys are just getting here Don't forget to Like this video. Let me know where you guys are from Emily I'll answer your question my 16th mold Aussie continues to have issues with other dogs I have to yank on the prong to pull back from lunging and hit the remote collar But as I go up in the remote, he seems to have worse reaction It's a pretty layered question and as you guys know like whenever I answer dog training questions or it whenever I put out Content on dog training the context is always like very specific on what I'm working with how I'm working with it So take take all the information that I ever say with a grain of salt and apply it where it fits But what I would do Emily is I would suggest Going to my old YouTube video my older YouTube video that goes over how to correct a dog properly Mainly because if you're correcting a dog improperly like it sounds like you're pulling back on the prong collar, which Unfortunately won't work. You have to pop it There's meant so there's a right way and a wrong way to actually correct a dog on a prong collar any color For that matter slip collar martin gale collar prong collar so on and so forth But let me demonstrate what that means really quick. I'll grab one of my prong collars and I think that like a lot of people struggle with this Particular problem Just go over it really quick but it but what I would suggest is to go and watch the video that I did on how to correct a dog properly because It's just such an under Under estimated thing I think when people are using prong collars. So let me really quickly go over Denver. What's good, Wisconsin? What's up? fresh cheese curds So let me just go over the correction on the prong collar really quickly and this is for Emily and anybody else that's a Bit hesitant or doesn't really know how the prong collar mechanics work So this is a Herm Springer 2.25 prong collar. So this is the collar. I use on Lakota my Dutch shepherd and so When a dog is has the prong collar on like this on the contrary of popular popular belief when a prong collar is On a dog and it's pulling like this So if your dog is reacting and pulling and you're here the prong collar doesn't work that the actual prongs going against the dog's skin or the dog's neck is Not what makes the correction happen. These are not sharp. These are not intended to hurt a dog with resistance These are intended to help you or assist you or help you communicate with your dog with a pop of the leash So when your leash is on the correction actually is this so when the prongs come up in unity and correct the dog That's what you're getting. So I would suggest Emily to just take a step back and like Lakota got Something in my coffee but I would take a step back and just really go over your Your heel command your leash pressure And if if the remote collar is causing more elevation in the reactivity just stop using it for right now and take a step back The other thing that I always suggest to people that are dealing with this type of situation with dogs It's just try to find a trainer that can help you in person All right, let's get some more questions going Kenna that's a cool name. I'm in Georgia and I love your videos How do you recommend training a terrier and a ship ski to not chase cats? Is it possible? Thank you for watching? Thank you for saying that I appreciate it So as you guys know like for me Taking away a dog's like innate ability to do certain things that's pretty Wanted or is like very natural so a dog that's gonna chase like my dog right now is like hearing birds So she's very like attentive and she's looking and for and for dogs to like have a prey drive and to chase other animals is very Primal So for me like I always answer this question kind of layered, but the but the answer for me is there's always You're not gonna be able to necessarily like remove that Primalistic primal like like Lakota right now as you guys can see like she's I don't know if you can see her But right now she's like super focused on like birds that are chirping in the in the tree So you're not gonna be able to like tell a fish not to swim is what I tell people like you're not gonna be able to remove the innate Wanting to chase like cats.  I'm sorry the chase and or you're gonna be able to correct the dog For doing so but you're not gonna be able to successfully. Well, I shouldn't say you're not going to be able to but I think it's gonna be Really hard and really frustrating to try to completely remove that behavior and modify that because it's like literally telling a fish not to swim dogs have those prey drives, so What I always suggest to my clients the same thing with me like Lakota my duchy. She loves she I have a cat that I rescued at a dog thing I was doing because the the cats Dad was killed by the dogs. I was working with at the time sad story. Anyway, I have a cat and Like for me, I don't expect her not to ever chase the cat However, if she's doing it, I can recall her off and I can send her away Or put her into a downstay and she'll do that So I think the expectation for any dog that's chasing cats or doing those like really primalistic primalistic things Is to counter condition it with obedience because it's unrealistic to get your dog to not chase Cats if they have that prey drive and they have that in them. It's probably gonna happen So just work on your obedience. I hope that helps How how do you stop so Pauline asks? How do you stop jealous behavior? Give all your dogs equal? attention I Think that that you answered that question. Yes, I think just ultimately Making sure that you're being a good leader and you're not individualizing Different well, I think it doesn't really matter how much love and affection you give your dog As long as you have balance and that's what that's what like the key to like everyone Everyone has asked me like write a book Like an e-book or something which I would love to do but like it would be like three pages like balance Structure and walk your dog the end So I think just making sure that you have balance like if you're gonna give your dog a lot of a love and affection Make sure that that's secondary to structure and and like work So I think if dogs are jealous, it's because you have an unhealthy relationship with them Like if you're petting one dog and the other dog gets upset that's because they don't care about Like that's just like two kids fist fighting right in front of their parents. There's no respect there So you got to like realign your relationship Do you know how to get your dog certified at ESA emotional support animal I don't I Don't I have no idea. It's not my gig. Sorry Joe Joanne I think asked the slip collar won't stay in place make it tighter if the slip collar is on And it's falling. It's not tight enough. So you that so I have a video on DIY slip collar Type that in the YouTube and you'll find the way that I make slip collars And I make sure it's tight and customized right behind the dog's ear if it's slipping it's because it's not tight enough And I'm gonna keep rolling through these questions So you guys keep asking away and I'll keep firing through as many as I can In your experience. Is there any breeds that you find more difficult to correct consistent? Yeah, absolutely It's a good question a hundred percent There's certain dogs that are certain. I don't even want to say it's like there's there's three breeds And I'll talk about this for a second because this is like this is something that's interesting. There's three breeds that Are consistently like the same when I get them They are literally like the same, you know, the same consistent behavior. They act the same They they resist the same they vocalize the same. There's three breeds There's the Shiba Inu the Siberian husky in the Great Dane Every single one of those breeds that's ever come to train with me have all been consistently The same like there's like when we get German chipper's beagles like any other breed. It's all very Individualized but those three breeds, you know, definitely are consistently the same but furthermore There's there's obviously like more breeds out there that need more work I would say the majority of dog owners problems Like on a baseline like I said before my three page book Is exercise people don't exercise their dogs nearly as I've already brought my dogs on a walk today And I plan on bringing them hiking later And I understand that people are busy and lives get chaotic COVID or not COVID dogs generally dogs like bad behavior bad behavior or Like annoyance or consist consistently like habitual of barking Come from lack of mental and physical stimulation aka like just a freaking walk For those of you who don't know I used to be an animal control officer So I would respond to like a lot of different like it was a really shitty job to be honest because I had to deal with Like all the really crummy people of where I lived working, you know with dogs And nobody exercised their dogs like the way that they needed to dogs were getting hit by car all the time because dogs were so Pent up sitting in their backyard. It's just sad. So You know having like having like a very versatile Um, I guess Education of like what I've done in my career like I've done so much with dogs professionally in my career And the 13 years like I I'm going to do this obviously for the rest of my life, but you know So, you know, anyway, it's just it's crazy. It's crazy. But anyway, uh What tricks and behaviors to teach your dog when you first get your puppy, uh, Regina? It's a good question It just depends on like I always tell people whatever your whatever your dog is going to do at the age that you get them your You're structuring them up for how they're going to act in the future So if you want your dog to do certain things in the future Structure them for that right now. Um, obviously there's different restrictions and like guidelines to Like working dogs so or competitive dogs Like if you're going to compete or you're going to like work your dog and search and rescue or whatever like Obviously those are different guidelines to make sure that your dog is developed fundamentally But I think ultimately just start whenever you get your dog and building a good relationship for me with puppies Relationship comes first training comes second My other my associate trainer zack, uh, actually is on his way back home from chicago right now Getting his puppy. He's got a german shepherd puppy. Her name is zora And we're actually going to be doing like a whole series with her on my youtube channel of puppy development So that will be like answering everyone's puppy questions because I typically don't do Puppies because i'm a behavior modification Specialist so I usually only work with dogs with behavioral problems. So we're going to switch it up a little bit and just do some puppy stuff. So Um What doggie date will doggie daycare elissa will doggie daycare Help with reactivity. He has play dates and he's fine, but on leash he reacts Yeah, um, if your dog is leash reactive then doggie and if it's truly just like leash reactivity Then yes doggie daycare, uh, would be good. How do you manage energy? I'm struggling with my labrador retriever He's difficult on the leash and his recall is bad. He jumps up and barks Accessibly excessively i'm 13 years old. Um Well, first of all kudos to you for putting this much time and energy into like helping your I'm assuming your family dog Become better and more confident what I would do man is or girl. I don't know what you are because I can't see your name but what I would do is um just Start training your dog to know certain behaviors and um, I think to answer your question about jumping like you have to correct them Somehow for jumping so making sure that you correct the dog for jumping and making sure that you're Being a leader for your dog if nobody else in your family is going to train Then go out and work with your dog on the leash for like 10 minutes 10 minutes at a time Giving them breaks working on heels working on sits working on stays etc um, but Let's see. My golden retriever has good recall, but a lot of time he just ignores me and stands with his eating grass, uh Eating grass. I'm just gonna too many questions came in.  Um Technology has come so far. Um, hence why I'm sitting here having coffee with all of you homies right now via like youtube live YouTube, uh, or I mean technology has come so far, which is why I I refer a lot of my recall issues with remote collars Um, but I also think that introducing the remote has to be done by a professional Unless you really really take your time to figure out how to do it Um, so ultimately like recall to me if you're not going to use remote collars Um, I would be working on long line recalls So putting like at least a slip collar on your dog getting a 30 foot leash out Telling your dog to come and then popping them if they don't I did a video I think my my most recent like produced video not live Um, we touch base on recall and how to introduce it. So check that out Hello from israel. What's going on israel? My german shepherd is getting up used to the e-collar and tests me A lot harder when it's not on her So just make sure what I would do very simply put the e-collar on her as much as you possibly can First thing in the morning out first thing in the morning put the remote collar on and Let them condition to it and wear it as much as you possibly can How to teach my dog to catch a frisbee Well, you can't really what I would first of all do is teach them to catch anything So like out get something like this. This is like a little toy and just start throwing things like with the quarter come here So like with I don't know if you guys can see her. Come here. Come here. Good So like just start throwing stuff for her to catch or your dog to catch and then transition to a really Um easy like frisbee like a small frisbee Hello, sir. Good day. Hello. I have a three month old rottweiler and when I'm going to give her a walk outside She just stops at the gate because other dogs are barking at her. What should I do, sir? Thank you um Well, if there's I don't really understand like if I don't know where you're living But if there's a bunch of other dogs barking at you, I would simply just try to find a different time to walk your dog Um, I think that that's huge. Uh, and then as well as like lots of positive reinforcement One thing that works really well with dogs who are like very not wanting to move and don't do anything um is they You need like a long line to kind of lure them out Um, so try to do a long line as well as maybe just trying to go at a time where there's not a lot of dogs I'm gonna have a couple sips of coffee. Uh, if you guys are here like this video, um We have like I think sun's 200 like almost 250 people here And 50 likes, which is awesome. So if you guys are here, I'm gonna take a couple sips of this like this video really quick In a coat this year Lola's in the truck. Come here. Cokes. Come here, baby. House come Yes, good. House Fui kushe No kushe Yes All right, I'm gonna get back to answering some questions Yay, we had a bunch of likes. Thank you So the reason why I tell you guys to like the video is because it helps other people who follow me Know that I'm live so we can answer more questions Um All right, Amanda. I hear you dog. Um, please help me.  Um, I think the question is is your dog is maybe fearful of the the collar So what I would do is just lots of positive reinforcement So if your dog really likes something like food or a ball or something Put the collar on take it off. Put the collar on take it off Put the collar on take it off and make it as much as you can if the dog can't physically put the collar on because It's sensitive or whatever then try to do a harness and try to like desensitize that How do I Help me get my Help me Lindsay asked helped me to get my rescue German shepherd comfortable with the hose For giving him baths any tips are welcome. Um, well again, this kind of goes back to what I talked about in the beginning of this video with Dogs like being naturally afraid or hesitant or reluctant to do certain things A hose, uh, you know spurting out like Freezing cold water is something that they don't enjoy so they're going to want to try to get away So the best thing to do is just try to acclimate your dog to the hose in a very positive way By maybe like how having somebody help hold your dog And then putting it over them and giving them lots of positive reinforcement as you're doing that But again, that's just one of those things that it's really tough. Um When you're getting your dog to like acclimate to something that they hate How do I teach my dog to heal command? He's four years old. Uh, cad I have probably 25 videos on exactly how to do that. Um, so I would recommend Out I would recommend checking that out Uh, good morning Tom from California. Hey, good morning Kimberly. Thanks for joining. I appreciate it I know it's kind of early there, but thanks for hanging out with us. What's been your favorite case and why? um I don't know. Um, I think I think I mean Sorry, it's a motorcycle. I think a lot of a lot of cases are like my favorite You know as of lately like we're not as you guys may or may not know We're not doing private training right now So it's been a little difficult to like get as much content as I can out here Which is why I'm going live in between my my fully like produced videos Um, but I think like every case is my favorite. I love when people come in and they Like need help like to the furthest extent and I'm able to do that So I love all the work that I've done so far um Jeez lots of questions. I appreciate you guys hopping on. This is fun. Um Are you going to england? Are you in england or america? I'm in america. What brought you to move from new york to colorado? I'm not in colorado. A lot of people think that I so I traveled to call. I was born in colorado Um, I love colorado. Um, I would love to move back to colorado I I only lived there when I was a little baby But um colorado, I visited a couple times a year because it I love I have a lot of clients there and um, I also just absolutely love colorado. It's like a very very very special place for me. So I'm actually in new york, but trust me if if I could be in colorado I would and it's something that I've thought about in the near future um Any certifications one should look for when trying to find a dog trainer. Oh, that's a really great question I love those questions. Um, so, you know, I talk about this frequently. Um, the dog training certification process is a very Weird thing and I'll give you my experience with it. Um In most cases dog training certifications are filling out and studying curriculum via textbook or online Uh, I I'm a mentor train trainer for the animal behavioral college of the united states Um from what I understand, it's pretty good curriculum And at the end they have to go and shadow somebody uh and put in their hours to basically get certified but the problem is is Um, not just with that company. Um, but the problem is is I think a lot of people get in Let me answer your question because I'll get off in a tangent. I don't want to do that. Um I don't think so. I don't think that there's certain certifications You have to look for what I tell people as far as clients looking for dog trainers Look at reviews look at and read between the lines. Um, I mean because look at reviews look at videos Look at stuff. They're doing with their dog. Like what we do is Obviously like for us Um, we're like a pretty big company like in our area because we train so many dogs We have four full-time trainers that train dogs Every day like a ton Um as well as like our boarding train program people flying in and coming in from all over the country We obviously get like a lot of media and like attention for that. Um, and You know for me, it's like the proof is in the pudding for a lot of for a lot of situations like I I used to go What I used to do to like try to not only help people but to help people understand like our business a little bit better And how we do things I used to literally go live In my training sessions like I would just go boom live and I'm going to work with a client like live Just to like help people like get a better feel for who we are as a company Because I wanted to do that as the business owner because no literally First of all, I don't know anybody else that's that's ever done Live sessions like a completely vulnerability like going live to thousands of people Um, I feel really comfortable doing that. So, um, when you're looking for a dog trainer Certifications aren't the only thing you should be looking for. I don't have a certification Although I certified dog trainers for different companies and colleges So it's like I said, it's a kind of like a really gray area. But um, Anyway, my neighbors dogs are barking at my rottweiler. Oh, I lost it. Sorry um Hey, tom from england. Can I use a prong caller to help keep my rescue street? My rescue street dog calm and build confidence. Yes How long do you um How long do you help dogs that struggle with trusting new people or dogs become aggressive? He's on He's a palm tree. Um, just having the people ignore your dog I think Creating structure and guidance and leadership through having people ignore your dog is the best when I was at the wolf Sanctuary working with wolves in the summers when I did that in colorado Which was an awesome time The best thing to do for animals or canines who are unweary or nervous of you The best thing to do is to just Ignore the animal and they will find trust in that How do I make meeting other dogs a positive neutral experience for my rescue dog? He can get quite nervous and tense um, so just in general the best thing to do for Teaching dogs how to communicate with each other or introducing dogs had to communicate with each other is um to go I have a video on this. It's a live video. It's kind of it's kind of like not that great but um The best thing to do is to just go for a walk and have the dogs be very First thing is just meet on neutral grounds. Don't let a dog on your property and meet Especially if you don't know how it's going to go if you have two dogs that are like Gangbusters all the time with every other dog and they're super friendly Then you don't have to worry about anything But the best thing to do is just go out and make sure that your dog is like getting associated with the other dog Naturally and on a walk and make it structured. So if you're meeting two new dogs, just go for a walk together on neutral grounds How do I stop him from eating his poo? Well, a lot of times that's a nutritional thing Um, not a lot of times but most times it's it's a it's it's a nutrition thing So sometimes dogs who have deficiencies because of their food Um, they will do that to get like it's a natural thing Like they are deficient of certain things and they'll go and do that Like they'll eat rocks and sticks and poop and like nasty stuff. Um, so check that first. Make sure your dog's getting what they want Um, lisa, please help. I have an eight-year-old shepherd Becomes more neurotic hates loud noises sirens thunder. So your dog hates sirens or thunder works Thunder works fireworks She becomes more destructive busting through crates calling at the door cbd does not work That's a good question. A lot of people have problems with this If cbd doesn't work, I would do cbd in conjunction with exercise before these things happen if you possibly can And then the other thing is is turning on the music as loud as you possibly can to White noise the the the stuff shutting the door putting them in a calmer space bringing them to a friends or family's house If you're gonna have like if it's 4th of july and you live in an area where there's going to be fireworks Try to go somewhere else try to plan that out If it's a storm the thunderjacket works good anxiety crates work good putting your dog an anxiety crate It's it's they cannot escape it. It's impossible. It's forged steel. Um, so those are some tips Those crates are expensive, but if it's a problem then What's your feeling with protective dog training? Um, so this is a good, uh Subject and this is a really good topic to chat about especially in the dog industry Um, you know, as you guys know, like I try to stay in my lane as much as humanly possible Um by just doing what I'm good at which is and what I love which is behavior modification And um, so for me protection dog training is awesome. Uh, we do it at my facility One of our police canine dudes comes in his name's christ jones. He's super cool. He's one of my good friends He comes in and does um protection work. He hasn't done it in a while because COVID and um, you know, we do it in kind of like seasons, but It's a great a bit. It's a great opportunity for dogs to outlet certain things. Um Most working dogs or most dogs with like a prey drive, um, really love it I think there's an enormous misconception of like what protection dog training is I can't tell you how many times people actually think that we're training dogs to bite other people That litter. I mean, yes, that's what we're doing, but it's not about the person It's about the game um that you teach at a very fundamental level So literally when you for the most part When you see a dog like biting the bad guy in a suit, it's because they they want to play tug with that individual I've done many demonstrations about that, but you know, it's not really my gig But I have done it a couple times and I know a lot of people have fun doing it as a hobby for competitive like ring sports and stuff So, um, if you guys are here, I'm going to take some more coffee like this video I'm going to answer some more questions with you guys Daniel um Do you have any tips for starting a dog training? canine behaviorless company, um So I've discussed this um on my podcast and for those of you, yes, I have a podcast. It's called the no bad dogs podcast It's ranked. Um, it's actually ranked in the hundred. It's it's it's not like a huge I don't know. It might be a huge accomplishment because I don't know how many people are in this field, but on Spotify and apple I'm ranked um 123rd in All podcasting all over the world as far as education goes. So it's a pretty popular podcast, which is cool And you can just search that in any podcasting platform called no bad dogs But I talk about starting a dog training company What people don't realize I'm going to get into a little tangent really quick. Um So just bear with me for a second. This is this is regarding like dog training in general um When I started When I started working with dogs, it was it was because my dog died at a very early age um Uh, some of you may know this story some of you may not but basically my dog died at an early age It was very traumatic. He died in literally puppy died in my arms blue lips everything. It was really bad Um, and so long story short after that time I was working really really hard to support that animal because I got kicked out of my house at an early age because I had dogs um, so I I I like devoted I so I worked so much. I wasn't able to spend time with the puppy that passed away It was kind of like a really bad thing but serendipity Um, kind of kicked in and I started a dog walking business. Um, I got laughed at made fun of I was 20 19 20 years old Started my own business I gave my friends my business card and I was told that I was the stupidest person ever for thinking I could run my own business. Um, because uh, you know, let's say 12 years uh Earlier, uh, we didn't have like a social media instagram just started happening It wasn't as as it is right now And so long story short, um, I did dog walking for like five years professionally And I was only working with dogs who couldn't go to doggy daycare So they had behavioral issues they had behavior problems And the reason why I started getting the training is because I just had a couple people because I was known as like the dog guy I was like walking down streets with tons of dogs the whole pack walking thing all that stuff Um, so that's what I was known for and I was young too So like you have the advantage of still being at that age where Everyone was still hanging out as friends and things like that And so I was known as the dog guy and it's all I did is I devoted like I My entire 20s gone like none of that mattered I worked really really really hard to devote to master my craft at like Understanding dogs and canines and then I started working with the wolves and everything and so long story short. Um You know starting your own dog training company was an organic Thing for me. It wasn't something that I thought I was going to do it just organically rolled into its own thing And now I'm at where I'm at and I I literally feel like I haven't even started I have so much planned and so much to do for Trying to do the best I can in the industry uh to to like motivate and to help other people So, um, I think I have a podcast on it. It's it's called answering the number one question. I get check that podcast out But really it's just about getting your getting all your experience in with as many dogs as you possibly can to To just gain your experience like go out and get your hands on dogs And and do that for an extended amount of time You know the dog training industry is also very difficult. Um, just because it's extremely saturated and You know, there's a lot of like politics that go into it Especially if you start getting to a certain point You're gonna have a lot of people trying to like attack you for that Like I've worked with a lot of people who shadowed me worked with me. I've devoted time and energy and helping them Um, and they turned completely against you once you get to a certain point in your career Um, which I think happens in everybody's career, uh, for whatever reason So it's a very uh, like political weird thing. Um, and it's a tough thing to like try to be successful in because nobody wants you to be successful Um, so it's tough. But anyway, I would suggest suggest work hard Work with as many dogs as you can make the right decisions. Um, and just do right by the dog All right, um Chris asked would you help do e-collar sessions? Um, so when I do so I do online sessions guys for those of you Don't know you guys can click the link below to work with me directly E-collar and it may it's basically consulting so it's all the questions that you guys are giving We spend an hour actually talking to each other about the exact things that you're working on It's it's been extraordinarily helpful to hundreds of people, especially during covet. Um, I've been doing like Five or six sessions every single day. Um all over the world, which I've been doing for about four years Um, so to answer your question. Yes, we could talk about it But um, I also have like a lot of hands-on videos Of me introducing it with dogs as well So in conjunction with those I would say yes Keep up the good work. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Can dogs train at any aid? Yes um, it is a very It's in every industry time success breeds jealousy by others rock on. Thank you very much. I appreciate that and it's It's true. It's freaking true. It's really hard. Um, you get it's tough. It's a tough thing But you know, I just I'm working really hard I have a lot of really good friends in the industry that I'm really happy and grateful for and We rock out and you know, just pick your tribe for sure Have you ever worked with two dogs in the same household who can no longer be freely together? Yes, um, you can't really fix it. You can manage it. Um, so that's really all you can do How to stop puppy from biting without saying no, um physical correction So if you just grab a dog and just kind of like pinch them off of you That's what their mom would do and if if it's a puppy. That's pretty new Then they'll definitely be like really understanding to that because they just went through that I'm going to do a puppy video soon Um Tom, you're the best. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. Thank you for everything you do um, thank you um So shadow is chris chris. Um, so shadowing right now Is looking kind of like weird just because my schedule as you guys may or may not know Um, basically right now I'm doing on like my normal career is online training and then flying to other people. So Um, and then servicing my out-of-state clients that come into the facility. So right now Um, my shadow program because everything is going to get funneled as soon as the gates kind of open up next month my whole schedule is going to like probably go crazy Excuse me. So um shadowing right now is going to be a little tough because my inconsistent schedule And obviously we don't want you guys to come in. Um, you can shadow my other trainers, but um I I don't know my schedule because of the whole covid thing. So you can check back with my website Um My little rescue puppy toby A lab hound mix is afraid of other dogs not to not to the point where he's aggressive But he's skittish. What should I do? Um, that's a good question I what I would do is just make sure that you get your dog around the proper dog. So very neutral calm friendly dogs Is is a good opportunity if you get your dog around a bunch of really like Overwhelming dogs that are like really in your dog's face.  Let me know where you guys are from as well as Um, and I'll keep answering these dog training questions for a little bit longer because this is fun What coda what you doing, baby? Is it correct to train a dog in the house than the yard? Yep, that's an easy transition It's a great thing. Let's get this video to like at least 200 likes. We have 250 people here Um, we need some more likes in here and again Why I keep saying this a lot of people like give me crap after the video like stop saying that We already liked it I said just I'm just saying because there's like so many people here And the more you like the video the more it tells my other subscribers that I'm live if they don't already know So I'm just trying to help everybody out. Thank you guys two thirteen. That's great Alabama, whoo What's the weather in alabama like right now? Mary probably pretty hot Fager lakes Awesome new york Cool How do I get my dog to stop reacting to the doorbell? Um So this is like a very uh conditioned thing. Um, so dogs who react to the doorbell, uh, is the same type of conditioning that we do with like positive reinforcement stuff like with clicker training and marker training So basically what it does is the doorbell goes off and the dog starts to associate the doorbell with somebody being on the other side So the best thing to do is work on leave it place and desensitizing the doorbell throughout the day And correcting the reactivity when it happens 80 degrees in alabama. It's not so bad wisconsin. I love wisconsin california. Love california. I love Wyoming colorado. Hell. Yeah Um, how do I teach my dog the difference between heel and when he can move around freely the brake command regina? Good question. I talk about it very frequently The brake command is absolutely huge being it. Let me show you what I mean kota. Fui come on So like with lakota house So watch this I'm gonna try to do this so you guys can see So this is what she wants kota. Come here good house Break good So the brake command for the dogs that we work with and the dogs that we train Basically, uh signifies to the dog that they can do whatever they want Um, so the brake command is a great opportunity to teach your dog how to turn things off and be able to be a dog So I think it's the fairest thing to do. It's one of my major major command Um upstate new york. Whoo. Cool. Um, my beagle is an outside dog. He bites If inside and working with him sometimes in his pen. Is this anxiety? No, it probably just sounds like a working dog with lack of exposure Um, hi. Hi tom. Love of your videos What should I do with the dog that is scared of strangers? Um, I answered this earlier But just making sure people are ignoring your dog if a dog look at the point of view from the dog If the dog is afraid of people and is less less likely to get comfortable with people Like I said before working with wolves. I learned this The more you don't engage and the more you don't have any conflict with the dog by looking at them talking to them The better so when people come in and when people come over if they ask to see your dog Just tell them um that she's she or he is in training Somebody asked me, uh, stop kota. Fui somebody asked me, uh, what kind of coffee i'm drinking i'm drinking Nespresso Um, so that's what I drink when i'm home usually Um, i'm looking to ah I'm looking for a replacement for the sit command with my dog. Sometimes that makes them stop and focus. Um I don't understand that question. Sorry We just adopted a second dog both spayed females. What is the right way to introduce toys together? Um, well, it's tough Uh, I would just make sure as long as the one or the other one doesn't have like a resource guardian issues with toys I think that you'll be it's fairly it's fairly easy to say that they'll be fine like with my dogs Um, none like look at Lakota right now She's literally laying on her toy with her head None of my dogs have problems with that. So I think it's just uh, it's just a matter of like setting your dogs up for Success and being realistic with if your dog like really doesn't like other dogs playing with their toys or being possessive of toys Then it's not a good idea to have them out. It's way safer Um, how do I get my two month old German shepherd puppy not to pee and poop inside the house without a crate?  It's pretty simple Um Tom you're awesome. How do I handle a dog that redirects on a prong collar? Um, try to use a I think it's elissa try to use a dominant dog collar or a slip collar Sometimes if you use a prong collar for a dog that's potentially reactive or aggressive They will redirect because it kind of just ticks them off What does puppy pee when I Why does puppy pee when I go to him?  He doesn't focus. I'm structured with him. Um, yeah, that's you answered your own question there Um, if your other person is just like the play person in the relationship or the buddy in the relationship As soon as that person enters the picture as you're trying to be structured and serious and working with your dog Then there's a likelihood of that individual person um Throwing your dog off. Um, so the best thing to do is just correct the dog The dog has to know focus first and engagement first before you can correct them But if your dog isn't paying attention to you you can just give him a little bit of pressure For doing that north carolina. Cool. I'm going to north carolina next month Um, how do you use dutch or german commands? You just use them. Just start using them Kenya cool. Kenya. That's pretty far from here Um, are you coming to kansas city soon? Nope. I was going to but now i'm not going to texas How do I uh, how do I correct my dog's reactiveness while in the vehicle sometimes leave it works? Um, don't be afraid to leave a leash and collar on your dog When you're obviously with the dog so it's unsafe to leave a dog with a collar and a slip or a prong collar on unattended But um, correct them with a leash a lot of people think that the leash is only intended for outside on walks The leash can be used in the house in the car Um, so on and so forth Tony, uh, nashville, uh, I don't I mean I go to nashville.  We love country music and We love good food. So nashville is always a good place for us, but um, we don't have any training in nashville Um, and this goes for anybody if if anybody's interested in having me With them we do that's like part like the majority of my business these days Is I come to you if you guys are interested in not only hosting Or if you if you know a training facility or you know an area that you guys can use to have me host a seminar Anywhere in the world, uh, you can email us and um, that's something that we do quite often Obviously without quarantine, but Cleveland. Yes, abby. We're gonna do another cleveland thing I just don't know when we have to wait for all this to calm down to book it But possibly in the fall if not, it'll probably be um I don't I don't know probably in the fall. We're gonna try Um, I'm watching your california videos. You're awesome. Thank you. Those california videos are awesome Um, I had a lot of fun doing those Um, should I ignore my gsd puppy? Why whining at night if she's it? While she is outside, um If she's outside she probably just wants to come back in I don't really understand that question But our family dogs jumps and growls at the new at any dog or humans that walk past We want to take him off leash at the park Um, if you're if you want to take any dog off leash You have two options. You either use the only technology on the planet that is able to connect with your dog via Wireless remote like dog trim makes or you just depend on positive reinforcement in conjunction with verbal cues to get your dog back But for me, uh, I don't I don't suggest anybody having their dog off leash. Um, unless they that's why you see a lot of Other dog trainers sometimes like have dogs on flexies the entire time of their life Because they don't want to make the jump to using technology So for me, um, it's really about Uh, correcting a dog if they don't come back and being able to do that is is with the remote collar It's the only other way you can do it Florida, uh, I went to miami last year is the hottest place I've ever been to in my life So I'll probably never go back to miami again. But um, no, I actually had a good time in miami It was just like too uncomfortably hot. It was so uncomfortably hot that I felt like I was in a different world. Um, so, uh, that's that's that Australia, um, we got some works for something in australia. But like I said, it's really just about getting a place Um, the hard the hardest thing about me doing seminars guys is finding a place that has an indoor facility that we can do it in so Minnesota was 97 that's hot Um, geez a lot of questions. I appreciate this guys I'm gonna take some coffee. You guys like this video if you haven't yet Oh, and by the way, um, we did a giveaway the last couple videos On the no bad dog masks as well as online training sessions with me We're gonna do giveaways pretty much every video forever now So you guys make sure you turn on your notification bell for those of you Don't know what that is when you subscribe to like my channel or anybody else's channel On their home page, there's gonna be a little bell And if it's off, there's gonna be a line through it And if it's on it'll be not aligned And when I go live or when I reply back to people including yourself It'll notify you when I talk back to you because a lot of people Don't realize that but if you turn your notifications on Especially when we do the giveaways a lot of times we do like the first three people or whatever Um, it'll better your chance at winning like online sessions with me and stuff Why are you blocking me? Well, if you're on here, I haven't blocked you So I don't know what that means Um, I have an online training session tomorrow looking forward to awesome.  It's gonna be fun Um, how do I introduce yourself to scared dogs in a kennel a shelter or a kennel? Um, well, it just depends on the safety Like if it's a really scared dog and they're not gonna do anything to you Just go in there and work with them for a long period of time positive reinforcement Consistency and patience and if it's if it's a dog that's actually like aggressive or mean then using a catch Bull is like the safest thing to do Um, any ideas to help me with my German shepherd puppy. He's suspicious of other dogs and barks a lot Um confidence and exposure um, so making sure It's hard to go and walk sometimes because he tends not to listen Well, those are two different things if your dog doesn't listen That's an obedience problem If your dog barks at other other dogs all the time then that's like a relationship confidence problem Do you do do you do online training? You can I do online training all over the world when you guys go to my online training portal You pick a time and a date and it's automatically scheduled for like it doesn't change my time It gives you my availability in your time zones. So yes, we do them all over the world every day How to stop your dog from being aggressive, uh, that's a pretty Weird question like there's so much to that. Um, love your videos use a 2.25 Is a 3.25 too big for an 80 pound gst. Nope, that's not. Um, just make sure you have a safety clip for all your prong collars When I pick up my son's pit bull Lunges for my face. I'm not sure what his intentions are. How can I get him to understand when I'm holding my son? It's not allowed.  Um, so if your kid's small enough to replicate like a doll or vice versa Um, I would be working on it with that But ultimately finding the trainer that can actually come into your home and help you with that. It's it's that's that's like Yeah, that's huge. Can you give me tips for my new dog? It's an austrian shepherd and I'm 14. Yeah, just train it Um Tom is there a particular dog to a model that you prefer to use? Yes. I use the dog to 280c That's my preferred Coda Come You should just went after something over there. Good girl Who knows? Uh, but yeah, the dog to 280c is my preferred model. Um, I also like the the dog to arc, uh, hands free Which is really really nice Um, what happened to the the e-collar educator nothing I don't understand that question. What happened to it? I don't I don't get it. Um Should you discipline a dog that is frightened outside or will backfire? She's obedient, but no, I don't think you should discipline. I should you discipline? Like yes, but should you correct them? Probably not. Um, just take your time and be patient with it Um You will be announcing on youtube you're coming i'll show yeah, I will i'll be announcing it everywhere if I do come there You're the best dog trainer on youtube. Thank you. I appreciate that When do you think using a halty instead of a pinch collar? Um, it's a good question. I think The majority of like the tools that we use guys like Again like when my clients come in So there's so there's also like a difference in businesses. There's some businesses that Spend like six months with dogs and they're um That's like the way that they're structured for us because we have we if we If we spent six months with all the dogs that we worked with like we do packaging And then our we wouldn't because we're so busy Um, we get hundreds of inquiries a day for dog training if we did like six month packages We literally would wouldn't be able to get to 10 percent of our stuff So you have to like also gauge like what type of dog training that you're dealing with Um, are you talking about like somebody who kind of does it on the side and has the opportunity to spend a lot More time individually because they don't have a lot of other things going on Um, so my point is is like when you're using equipment the way that we use equipment is efficiency and effectiveness and uh Humane control as quickly as we can so for us like the halty is good The harness is potentially okay. If you're like if you have a dog that doesn't do anything bad Um the flat collar the martingale, but the majority of times like the clients that were The clients that we're teaching and the clients that we're working with are Like historically just like dog owners and they need help desperately and they don't they just need help And so for us like the herm springer prom callers are like huge Um, because they just give you like fast effective control without like having to go into like this whole dog training course because the reality is guys is like We're training people who don't understand dogs We're training people who need help with their dogs desperately because they love them and they need help like right now and so, um Using head halty's are totally fine if they work But my my opinion on them or is is exactly like my like do whatever works But head halty's the only reason why I don't like them is because they don't have the opportunity to shut off There's constant pressure all the time because the dog is constantly pulling on the nose like this Um, and it also becomes very aware and and apparent to the dog when it's on because it's so bulky in the dog's face Whereas if like a pinch collar or a prong collar It's just like a regular collar that goes on that you apply pressure to and it's a lot more safer Because the dog is actually listening to the verbal cues instead of Reacting to the pressure that's given like the head halty. So it's all just on how you use it How you're comfortable with it, but um, I hope that that breaks it down to you Because I think that that's important to know like What type of training company that you're dealing with because there's a lot of training companies that take in Maybe two or three dogs a month and spend every single day with them Um, and which is totally fine and okay, but there's there's also like a lot of dog training We try to help as many people as we possibly can And try to keep up with like the the amount of dogs that come in that desperately need help And for us like it's about education effective efficient and the the hermspringer solves a lot of that and um Um, fortunately, we have some some cool news coming up with hermspringer Hopefully that we're working on some cool projects with so i'm excited to be able to get into that with you guys at a future date Um, let's see Can you come to san diego and help with my fear aggressive german shepherd? Um, yeah, sure. You just got to hire me. I'll go anywhere if you hire me Uh, especially if there's cali kremen involved for those of you who joined my uh live sessions before you know that I'm a fan of the cali kremen I plan on going to the abc college. Do you know if I can specifically request for you? Yeah, you can I don't I don't know exactly how it works. But yeah, you can request me as a mentor trainer um I just don't know if they if they only like allow people to do mentorships with people that are local or not But yeah, you can request it Do I chain do I train protection dogs? Uh, no my facility does but I do not it's not like it's not my gig kota knows recall but only often comes uh his own pace stopping to smell and do whatever Even with the e-caller What can I do? To keep his focus on me. Um Just using what I do is like Using the continuous option if the dog knows the rec the recall really well as well as the uh remote collar And just using that as an accelerator to get the dog to come to you faster And then as well, um, you can help structure that up and continue that up with a With um a long line too How do I get my dog's attention and do recall why he's playing with other dogs? That's like a really really high So to answer your question, that's a very very high level thing to do to recall a dog playing with other dogs Is like top tier obedience So you really have to make sure that your dog knows their stuff before you even entertain that idea What is your opinion on? Uh, wow What is your opinion? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? How do you choose the right size prong? Um, go to hermspringer.com and check out the uh the sizing chart that they have How do you train a dog not to bark and bite people when I'm not home? That's really tough to do if you're not home to reinforce things Um, but I would I that's a higher dog trainer. That's something I can't answer in 30 seconds. Unfortunately What's bs when you say what's your opinion on bs? Would that mean bs? I have a gsd and doberman that have fought five times requiring stitches. How can I fix this again? um Higher a dog trainer. That's really like a very in-depth thing. That's life dependent. So Um What's your opinion on breed specific laws got it? Um It's tough. Uh, my opinion on it is they suck Um, but like, you know, I I try to make sure I do my research before I fully put out like this is how I feel But like my immediate response to that is is that kind of sucks for dogs Because I know a lot of dogs who are on those lists like are like the sweetest nicest dog So, um, it sucks But like at the same time is it in places that people are because for me it's like the same thing I thought about like remote collar training how all these places were banning them And then I started realizing that these countries literally have no education on the equipment Therefore it might be a better thing for them to ban them and then grant access to this equipment by educating or taking a course So like it's the same situation Is there a bunch of people in the area breeding these dogs for like really bad stuff?  That's a great question. Um, Siberian huskies Great Danes, uh, are the toughest two breeds to train because they just don't want to work, uh for anybody or anything Thank you guys you guys are the best Um, have you ever gotten bit? That's a good question I have I've gotten I've never gotten bit by training a dog Um, I've never like I have all the aggressive dogs that I've worked with I've never gotten bit ever Uh, and a lot of people will say well, then you haven't been doing it long enough and I kind of reply of like or Uh, you're just extremely careful and do diligent and experienced.  It's tough How do you feel about protocols? I think that they're awesome for the right people making sure you work I'm they're like the best like workers ever. Do you believe in raw food diet? Yes. I feed all my dogs raw food Um, I have a podcast on that on my podcast on my no bad dogs podcast um, so I go into depth with a specialist on exactly why I feed raw food and Um, things like that. This is the longest live I've ever done. We've been doing this for about an hour I'm going to take some more coffee and answer some more questions. I appreciate you guys It's an absolutely beautiful sunday here in upstate new york. Um, I hope everyone is really Sane and happy and healthy Um, and things are starting to open up in the united states, which is like really Um Exciting to hear so I'm going to take some more coffee if you guys are here. Don't forget to like this video Um, see if we can get it up to 300 likes. That would be cool My first live is the longest one. Yeah, this is the longest live I've done But like I said, this is just a beautiful day and um, we don't have any content filmed right now to put out So I wanted to hang out with you guys for a little bit um I am in like the saratoga area whoever asked that. Um What basic should I teach my dog before introducing her to other dogs or people? Good question heal uh, leave it sit stay And probably place for other people in the house Hmm How to stop a dog fight best thing to do is pull their back legs out. Um, that's the best thing I've I've learned over the years pulling their back legs out. It doesn't happen often knock on Something, uh, it doesn't happen often But when it you know, it dogs are dogs and when you're working with As many dogs as you do it it happens, you know, and it's just one of those things What slip collar do you use? I make my own slip collars You can look that up on diy slip collars on my youtube channel.  Yep, all the time. They're one of my favorite breeds the train. We got one in right now from New York City Um, how do I stop a dog puppy from biting on the leash? I'm going to do a video on that, uh, coming up soon How tight should my spranger be? Uh, your how your your prong collar Your prong collar should be tight enough to where it doesn't move down But not tight enough where it's like going into the dog's skin. Um, so just making sure it stays in place Um In a shelter environment, what type of training can I do to get a scared dog not to shy away from people? It's been really that's really really tough. Um, I've done some shelter work myself in the past 300 likes. Whoo. Thanks guys I appreciate that. Um, it's been really tough in the past because it's just a really it's a really crappy environment for anybody Honestly, because it's like too chaotic and you get a dog that shuts down The best thing to do is to just try to get that dog out of the kennel and spend some time with it outside And just do the best you can to like use social media to push the dog out of the scenario because honestly Like a lot of the dogs that are shy that sit in the back of the kennel Don't make it because they're they don't open up. They become defensive. They become potentially aggressive So it's tough shelters are tough, man How do I approach training with my pet lab and working lab differently? Well, if it's a pet that means that they probably don't have a job and if it's a working lab and they're doing Work, um, then their their routine and their training would be in differently But other than like that, um, I don't think that there's really too much of a difference Ah I'm a retired trainer and still learning from your videos. Thank you very much Um, how do I discipline my dog? Um many different ways voice inflection body pressure Um negative reinforcement positive positive punishment. Um, there's many different ways that you can, uh discipline a dog Wow, there's a lot of questions Let's do this one Julia. I have a three month old Aussie and I live in Texas. He is barking a lot And he sometimes jumps up on us and tries to also play bite. Um Yeah, just make sure that you're correcting the behavior if the dog is like actively doing like All this like here's like a good example is Lakota. I think you guys can see her Lakota Is a dutch shepherd, uh, basically she's a black malinois, um dutch shepherd Um, you know for me and my dogs, it's it's and that's why I started working with dogs Is because my whole life I had the ability to like just have clarity with them Um, and it's really just about like teaching them. No, you can't do that and yes, you can do that So operant conditioning, um, if your dog is doing something you really don't like and is very inappropriate or detrimental to your health Or theirs if you're not doing anything about it to punish them in that exact moment Then it's going to continue to happen. So what that punishment is who knows get a leash on your dog Um start correcting them for that. It really just depends Uh, do you train with positive reinforcement? Of course positive reinforcement is is it's impossible not to train with positive reinforcement Um Is your recent video the german shepherd used a plastic pinch? I use the plastic pinch on grizzly bear Mainly because it was available really quickly and I didn't feel like the regular prong collar was necessary During that time because he was new and I didn't want to put a lot of pressure on him or um, you know Make him feel a certain way during his you know, put him through a lot of work the first day I actually trained him yesterday on a flat collar and a leash which was pretty cool Do I like yorkies? Yes How do I introduce? Two dogs two other dogs bring him for a walk on neutral gowns any thoughts on the pet corrector. Uh, I don't I don't know what that is Doctor iq mini any tips on getting going watch my youtube videos and how to introduce the uh remote collar Um, what's the best way to start as a dog trainer? Uh, I Uh, I answered that a couple times But like listen to my podcast about answering the number one question I get. Uh, I think that that's that's like a good place to start um Do you sell safety chains? Yes, I do my website. Uh safety collars or safety clips. Uh, americascanoneducator.com I'm gonna answer a couple more here.  Do you have an academy in alabama? No, I do not Um, tom, thank you for sharing your knowledge. You're welcome. Um Um How many training sessions a day and for how long great question melissa Um, I would go out and work with your dog for quality over quantity So like 10 15 minute sessions as many times as you want throughout the day. Um, oh look at lola You just want to make sure that the dog Excuse me, isn't um getting like really tired. So, um, I think that that's like crucial Um Do you feel it's harder or easier to train large versus small? I think it's it's harder to train smaller dogs Because the mentality that dog owners have when they raise smaller dogs is the dog could do no harm because it's small And they don't care about it Uh in that sense. So I think smaller dogs get the shorter end of the stick because people don't People don't realize that they're animals and they're dogs and they have the same like learning capacities as like A regular like big dog. So I think it's harder with smaller dogs because Uh, not too many times. I've seen a smaller dog actually treated like a dog. Unfortunately They're constantly being picked up, babied coddled talk to pampered And it creates just a nightmare of a dog mentally and it's it's in my opinion Really really hard for them to come out of it. Um, so I would say smaller dogs hands down like no questions asked Like really tough compared Um, yeah, we are trying to get something in europe I think the uk is like our our our goal right now um So we're trying Uh cbd is good for dogs. Um, just got to get the right stuff Uh, how do I teach my dog how to settle down and relax teach them to place and stay Um, all right guys, I think I'm going to sign off for today because I've answered over an hour worth of questions So I just want to say thank you guys, uh, sincerely. Um, before I sign off. I just wanted to let you know Uh, we're gonna do this again. So don't worry if I didn't answer your question. We'll do it again. I'm not going anywhere Um, I'm gonna go enjoy the day with my dogs and hopefully the family and um, I just wanted to say thank you very much for supporting me on youtube and commenting and liking on the stuff that I do it it gives me fuel to keep going Um, so thank you guys so much for for hanging out with me today and continually in the future We're just like growing as a community and getting bigger and bigger and healthier and healthier and everybody's happy. So Um, you're welcome. I will always do this if you guys are willing to listen and and to uh, Take in the information. My goal as you guys know is to help as many dog owners as I possibly can I'm in the people business not in the dog business. Um, the dogs are the easy part The people are a little bit harder. So I'm going to continue to do this I hope everyone has a wonderful day a wonderful weekend If you guys are watching this, don't forget to like this video before you sign off If you're watching it in the future like and comment. Tell me where you guys are from Um, we'll see you guys next week for sure Turn on your notification bell so you don't miss my next live that we do Um, that's it. Have a good day everybody. Bye


Oh no. Oh gosh. Are we excited or does your honey edge? Oh. I'm rich. Juicy content. This is weird. He still post music video hangover. Ugh. Today we're reacting to a trailer. It's called Marry 2. You know what we should do one time? What should I do? You should say, today we're going to react to a trailer and then it's cut to us standing outside looking at a trailer. It's Marry 2. We reacted to Marry 1. We did. It's with Danouche. Say his name for me please. Danouche. We've reacted to a couple of his films now. We have. But this is also the same film that Rowdy baby. Rowdy baby. For those of you who don't know what to do when you say Rowdy baby. Rowdy baby. Just like that. Because shoes. Yeah. Here we go. Hey. Full on. It looks like fun KGF. Yep. KGF is pretty serious. Yeah it does get serious. But stylistically it looks very similar. But then also it looks like a fun KGF. A lot of fun. There's two quotes of where there should be shirts with his face on it. The one is of your bad on your dad. And the other one is on the baddest of the bad asses. With his face on it. A shirt with that would be phenomenal. So obviously the first one first. Total just fun weekend guilty pleasure.  No one's getting any awards for this.  You don't know.   If you are bad I am your dad. It looked like it had some really fun south indian. The I love the eyes of the not south indian. Songs in it. And you do have a 300k hangover. I do. I have one too. It's all that old monk I had to drink. So many takes.  Also I don't want to read the synopsis in case it gives away spoilers from the first ones. Obviously he's alive was not really a spoiler. He's the main star of the film so we assumed he wouldn't be dead. Shocker the main star is not dead. Wait another James Bond I thought he died.  But yeah it looks really good. That was weird. Ash just said to Creteville.  Turn that song. Should we watch Mari Shamatop. Remember that? No there was mixed emotions about that one. Was there? I saw a lot of people that said it was really good. And I saw a few who were like Whether that's every film though isn't it? Not always the case. I think it's always the case. What were you guys just talking about? I just said I want a bagel. My song was from Wicked. All quality stuff about the trailer were reacting to.


Past is not destiny, first I believe on the unlimited capacity of humanity to adapt themselves for new situations. I have the privilege of flying with more than 20,000 passengers. Imagine to share the fears and the state of happiness of 21,000 persons. And I start to observe in the last 30 years the take-off as a powerful metaphor. The way people take the take-off is the way usually we deal with our lives, a new project, a new relationship, a new business. Let me share with you how does it work at take-off. On the take-off I have to achieve the speed of 10 miles in the short space of 24 feet carrying a passenger. The passenger usually 200 pounds so I have to run 10 miles carrying a hang glider of 120 pounds. At the end you have a height of 1600 feet so if my passenger doesn't help me to run I have to carry the hang glider, the passenger, 10 miles per hour. So I start to observe a pattern in these 21,000 persons. My passengers used to come to fly and say, okay, I'm going to run and they run. But 95% they say I'm going to run and they didn't run and I have to carry them. So I start to be curious why there are some passengers with different reactions to the same event. So I conduct a survey through the light of biopsychology observing post-rate contraction of the face and breathing and cognitive performance on the take-off. And on the landing I had a volunteer questionnaire about matrix of the parental, emotional matrix, social interactions. And then I was relating these informations. I found the 5% of my passengers that they run I named them the diamond personalities. Because they arrive before the take-off radiant like a diamond and cooperatives. And they have cognitive performance. The others, I found 3 kinds of fears. One, one fear. Imagine who was small and I got the message from my parents that they were scared of heights. As a mammal brain I get the same information. The second kind of fear is the trauma. Imagine who fell from a tree when they were small and I got the information. I have to have fear with altitude. And the third fear is more delicate to say is the mass violence. It's when Rui developed with low self-esteem. But I have good news. In this, I have thousands of feedbacks of my passengers they were almost paralyzed before the take-off. Where they send me letters and mails talking about that after the flight they observe a change of pattern in their lives. So I used to observe that we can develop resilience or adaptation in our lives. And we call this neuroplasticity. It's the capacity of the brain to develop new connections. Let me share how does it work. Imagine who has information that I cannot fly when I was small. When I take off one scary neuron, open the eyes and say like this, Holy crap, I'm flying. And then it starts to share this feeling of empowerment with other neurons, creating what? A new synapse. And creating what? Infinite possibilities of choices in our life. And creating what? A neuroparty. And what the religions call free will. The neuroscience call neuroplasticity. But we can use this also for ourselves. We are already working in this segment of sports and social segments using these fundamentals. And how we use it? Searching for new situations. And I have also observing before my most fearful passengers before the take-off, we work with visualization. In this visualization, we use different kind of feelings. And the most powerful take-off with my passengers, they were more paralyzing before the take-off. We're using the feelings of compassion, attributing the compassion as I have for the take-off. An example. Imagine I'm very scared and I'm going to offer my take-off here as a symbol of love to Amazon. I'm sure people want to run now. So all the other feelings, it's gratefulness on the take-off before we take-off. The other is forgiveness. And the most powerful one, love. And the people, my passengers were almost paralyzed before we take-off. And we use on this visualization, these feelings, they run very, very well. I want to end our speech with one of the thousands feedbacks we have our passengers, that's from Sophie, that she talks like this. Hai hui, thanks for making my acrophobia disappear. I need to jump off a plane now. I know how now, I can do it with the right memorial file. Thanks, Sophie. That's why past is not destiny. Thanks.


All this month, get up to $50 off any Android smartphone from Appalachian Wireless. Any Android you desire. All $50 off with two-year agreement. Better service, bigger savings. That's today's Appalachian Wireless at East Kentucky Network Company. Thirty-seven-year-old Tommy Lee Travis Engle of Kentucky 194 East in Pike County has run afoul of law enforcement again, this time for allegedly soliciting people to kill a former prosecutor, now a judge, in Virginia. Engle was convicted last year in a 2014 case out of Virginia. Engle, who at the time was considered homicidal and suicidal, abducted his then three-year-old son, prompting a nationwide Amber Alert. Engle eventually turned himself in to police in Pike County and was arrested. The child was unharmed. Engle received a two-year suspended sentence with the condition that he received psychological treatment for disorders allegedly resulting from his military service. Earlier this year, Engle was indicted after allegedly setting fire to a business at Zebulun, burning the business and several vehicles parked within, and he's been lodged in the Pike County Detention Center since June. It was at the Pike Detention Center that Engle's latest alleged crime resulting in the new indictment occurred. While there, he developed a plan to try to get some people to injure or possibly kill the person that was the prosecutor in his case in Virginia. The Kentucky State Police has intercepted communications in which the plot to injure or kill this now judge was outlined. According to the indictment, that prosecutor turned judge is Judge Marcus Brinks. Pike Commonwealth Attorney Rick Bartley said Brinks, a former military veteran himself, helped Engle get a favorable disposition in his case because he was sympathetic to Engle's alleged psychological trouble from his military service. He actually got a very favorable disposition of having the charges reduced to a misdemeanor, partly because this judge who was then the prosecutor was very sympathetic to his claims that as a veteran he had suffered some type of emotional problems because of his experiences in the military. And yet the prosecutor that tried to help him now finds himself on the receiving end of some very serious threats. Engle remains lodged in the Pike County Detention Center and is now charged with retaliating against a participant in a legal process, a class D felony charge punishable by up to five years in prison. In his previous arson indictment, Engle could face life in prison. In Pikeville, Chris Anderson, EKB News.