Hey guys, Tom Davis here, America's Canine Educator. Thank you so much for joining me if you're here. Go ahead and like this video and let me know you're here. And today we have some really good questions that I got from you guys on my last video. Some really good ones. And as you guys know, we are in the, we're in upstate New York, can you turn that light on? Coronavirus is in full effect, so not much to do, but talk about dogs for me here on the channel so I'm gonna be going over three important things today. The first thing is the fear of children. So dogs who are afraid of kids are typically, it really just depends on the breed, it depends on the age, it depends on when you get the dog, if you've had the dog since a puppy or not. But this question on the community post was my dog is afraid of children, my dog hides from children. Tyler, you're in the mirror, just so you know.  So if your dog is fearful of kids, couple things to consider and to keep in mind that kids to dogs, if they're not used to them or if they haven't seen them before can be a very different thing. So it could be a very different animal. They could be very afraid of these small individual people who move really fast and are high pitched in their voice. And so you have to consider how much exposure your dog has with kids in general. And then from there, the best thing to do to help your dog get over the fear of kids is basically desensitization within a controlled environment which would mean not putting your child or not putting your dog into a situation that really scares, hello guys, I see you all saying hello, hello, hello, hello.  So if you can get around a group of really anything, it doesn't really matter if your dog is afraid of humans or other people or kids or grownups or not, but getting them into an environment that allows you to be successful is really the key to making this situation better. Which means not letting people come, not letting make things worse. So people coming up to run up to your dog, kids running up, having a controlled group to say like, okay, this is gonna be a good environment for my dog to get better at.  Cause I think that that also has a really good play into all of this. If your dog is a little bit nervous and your obedience isn't that good, then putting them around any environment is not gonna make them be successful or help them be successful. So that's one thing. The other thing I would consider is if you've adopted a new dog and they've never seen kids, just like with humans. I mean, imagine if we've never seen kids ever, ever. Just imagine as the human being never seen kids and then all of a sudden you see this little person, it's like a kid, they kinda are like a human. They kinda look like a human, but they're smaller. Their face is a little different. They have shorter legs. I mean, it could be very different for them. So make sure that if you do adopt a dog and they've never been exposed to children that you do it slowly. Also, I would ask anybody that's here, we have about 70 people and climbing that are in here. If you guys could do me a favor and just hit the like button so I know you guys are watching and you're here. But I would say just giving it time and having enough time for your dog to be socialized properly with children and having enough time for your dog to be around kids that's gonna help them out to be successful. Thank you, Andrew, for liking and subscribing. I appreciate you, brother. We're gonna move on to the next subject and then we're gonna answer some questions in the comments below. And again, if you guys are new here, hello. Leave your questions in the comments below at the end of this video and I'll be sure to answer them as they come in. And as well, if you guys are just getting here, don't forget to like this video. So the next thing is, this is huge. I've been wanting to cover this for actually a pretty long time, which is gonna be the implied stay.    And just so you guys know, I'm on my courted headphones today because yesterday I felt like I was rewatching that video and I was just kind of too far away from you guys. So I got this so I can move my mic closer. But the implied stay. So I'm gonna explain what that is for those of you who don't know what it is yet. The implied stay is very simple. It's basically when you tell a dog to place or sit or down, it basically is then implying that stay is implied after, which means you don't want them to move until you ask them to do something else. You're implying that when you say sit is sit, down is down, place is place, right? Which makes sense, which makes sense. And I'm gonna get into this a little bit because this is a huge topic and I've always wanted to cover this. And somebody asked this in the community post, which I was really excited about because it reminded me that I wanted to talk about this. So that's what the implied commands mean, which means if you say something, that means like why would you have to say stay after you've asked the dog to do it? Now, here's my, and again, my way isn't the only way. I'm just gonna give you my opinion and my experience is working with as many dogs and as many dog owners as I have in the past. So when I wrote some notes on my board over here so I can give you guys the best advice I could give you. And also, yes, Avery, thank you. If you guys are here, like this video and let me know you're here. But the implied stay, okay, so for me, it really has to do with my clients already doing the stay or doing the wait, if you will. It doesn't really matter, they're both the same thing. But really, that's what it means to me is when dog owners come in, they've already introduced the stay to the dog. They've already started it, they've already tried it or the wait. And so for me, I, you know, like, yes, I'm an educator and we have the Upstate Canaan Academy and my job is to help people understand to be a better dog owner. But at the same exact time, I do my best to try to roll with some of the punches to not give them too much confusion, dog owners that is, not to give them too much confusion of, hey, because they're already in there and I'm already giving them, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And I'm already giving them a lot of information and they're taking that all in. So when I start talking about the stays and stuff, they get really confused. Like, they've never heard that in their whole life, what's an implied. So a lot of times I don't do implied stays simply because my dog owners that I'm working with have already been doing that with their past dogs and it's really hard for that habit to break. So that's the first, I wouldn't say the main reason, but that's the first reason why I try not to do implied with dogs that are a little bit older, less than a puppy and also dog owners who already say it. And hello, everybody. Again, I'm Tom Davis. If you guys are new, go ahead and hit that thumbs up button right in the top thing and let me know you guys are here and then at the end of this, we're going to take some Q&As live as well. And so as far as the implied stay goes, that's one of the biggest issues that I have with talking about the stays is people are already doing it. Now the second thing is, and here's the big reason why I don't do implied stays with my dogs. And this is an interesting conversation. And I don't think there's a wrong or right thing. I think it's just preference of how you train. But the reason why I don't do implied sit and stays is because when I travel with my dogs, I like to be able to tell them to stay in the vehicle when I open the doors. Then you can say, well, why is your dogs rushing out the vehicle anyway? That doesn't really happen. It's just if I open my door and my dog's waiting to go out, I can then tell them to stay where they're at without asking them to do anything else.  So if you tell them to down or sit or place, that isn't implied that they have to stay in that location, which is fine. There's nothing wrong with that. That's great. But the problem is for me, when I'm teaching my dogs, is when I open a door and they're three or four dogs and they're at a time, I don't wanna necessarily have to ask my dogs all to sit and down in order for them to stay. So I like having the stay command because it allows me to get my dogs to stay in one spot.  You guys all have to stay in there, run around the truck if you want. It doesn't matter to me. So for me, that's why over time, I had some colleagues of mine say, like, I don't understand why you don't just do implied stuff. I get it, there's nothing wrong with that whatsoever. But I started thinking about it and I started realizing that, well, if I do the implied stuff, then if I open my, my dogs don't run out the door. But if I'm, if I'm doing, if I'm in the, when I travel and stuff and I have my dogs and I'm in the middle of nowhere at a big rest stop with thousands of cars passing every minute, hundreds probably more. But you get the idea and then I just want them to stay. Like if I'm in the back of my truck and all my doors are open because of whatever reason, having that stay command is really great because it allows me to just tell them like, hey, do whatever you want, but stay. So that's a really great question. And there's, I don't think that in my opinion, there's no wrong or right way to say, like, should you tell your dog to stay? But at the end of the day, that's why I don't do stays because of that reason is because, again, if you want, like even if you open your door to go outside, sliding glass door, front door, back door, any door, no matter like where you're at and you're not really in a situation. Like if you're in a crowded area, right? And again, like if you would say, well, your obedience should be perfect, like blah, blah, blah. Yeah, but there's a lot of dogs that, the way that I train, see, that's the thing about me is I'm not a competitive dog training, obedience person. I'm training for real life dog owners that have problems with their dogs, that want their dog safe and want them to have a great relationship with them. And that's what I train for and that's the advice I give for. Now, if you talk to somebody that's in a competitive obedience world, this would all be different.  I like just applying that stay, which means, dude, I know you're up, I want you to just stay right there. So having that stay is kind of like the cherry on top for safety for me. I don't, like I said before, if you, there's people who come in and even some of my other trainers, I have three full-time trainers that work with me, some of them do implied stuff and we all share clients so it's not a big deal. But I think implied's just like a style of what you like to do and I get that question a lot and I try to just explain to people why I don't do implied stays and those are my reasons. So anyway, if you guys are here, like this video for me really quick, I'm going to take a drink of water and there's over a hundred people in here. So if you guys can just hit that like button really quick and what happens when you hit that like button guys is it tells all the other people who are subscribed to me or all the other dog people who are on YouTube that there's dog stuff going on here. That's why I'm telling you to hit it so we can get more people in. Third thing for today, which is another really great question that we got, which was the question, I don't have the questions right here because my computer's about to die but the question was basically somebody asked, hey, I know that you talk about not treating your dog too much or I'm sorry, it was a puppy question, not treating your dog or your puppy too much. Why do you do that? And then also how to wean away from that. So the real underlying question was is this individual had been working with her puppy and she watched one of my videos and it kind of like hit with her and she said, that makes sense. And so the question is, she's been doing treat, treat, treat, treat, treat, treat. And now her dog's a little dependent or her puppy is a little dependent on that treat and she wants to know how to move away from, ooh, too bright. She wants to know how to move away from depending on that treat and maybe how to wean off of it and I'll explain it really simply. Again, it's a great question. First thing is, is the reason I don't love to use food with every single thing that I do is simply, hey, that's your question. Yeah, see, I told you I'd answer it. So the reason why I don't, first of all, the reason why I don't do food every single time when I'm doing stuff is because the dog then becomes a little dependent on it. Just like with us, like if we went to work and we got paid every single minute for doing whatever and then all of a sudden they're like, hey, I don't have any money on me and or we can't, whatever, I'm gonna pay you hourly. That's gonna cause a riff in your relationship because the expectations have then changed. Now when you're teaching, I use food every day when I'm training dogs, but I'm also the same person that tells people to be very careful how you use food because it's such a strong drive for dogs, a very strong drive. Like a food drive for animals is huge. So you gotta be really careful how you use it because it can go, it can work against you. It can work against you pretty hard actually because they're like this and they're so like crazy on that food that they completely check out what you're actually teaching them. It's kind of like me on a Friday night after working 12 hours and there's cold beer around, I'm not listening to anybody, I'm just ready to have a beer. So it's the same thing with dogs is you gotta be careful how you administrate and deliver your food because it plays a big role in your relationship with your dog because then they become potentially dependent on it, which would be the dog not downing or sitting because you don't have the food which becomes a problem.  They say sit down, stay and heal. I said, great.   So I'm not gonna get too much. I mean, I could, there's really nothing else to do here in the coronavirus, but we'll talk about it maybe a little bit later, but again, thank you guys so much for jumping on here and hanging out with me. Again, I plan on doing this every day because we're quarantined and I wanna give you guys content until we're back to getting all of our clients in and filming some other stuff. But thank you guys so much for joining me. I appreciate you guys. This is fun. But going back to the food discussion, what you can do is like, say you're telling a dog to down.  Well, if you normally pay them with food every single time, all you have to do is simply just wean away from that food and just use your verbal. So just say, yay, good down. So usually when we're doing marker training and you can mark with food and you can mark with a verbal which would mean marker would mean when the dog does it you're doing something to capture the behavior to say that's what I want you to do. So you go, yes, good down or whatever you're using. Gets a little confusing, but you're using food to reward and then you're also using verbal. So what I suggest people is just teach them with the verbal instead of the food.  And then they become very excited just to hear your voice. So food is the very, very cherry, cherry, cherry on top. And the problem is, is if you use that food right in the beginning of teaching very basic stuff that your dog will probably do with a little pressure on the leash and verbal praise, you can't ever really one up that.  They become less driven because they've gotten all that stuff in the past. So it's a little tricky. You gotta be careful how you use food because again it's a hard drive for dogs and it could become very distracting. So wean away from it with just isolation of instead of once every time, do it once every four times marking with your voice so the dog is still getting motivated. So anyway, that's that. So those are the three questions and that's what we've been doing here live. Now I wanna answer some of your questions and we're probably gonna do this again tomorrow. So no worries if you guys don't get your, I just don't wanna go like super, super, super, super long on here and so anyway, all right. So let me just rewind a little bit and see what we have.  She year old, Collie Healer Mix. She's nervous, doesn't like strangers, has nipped a couple. Well, Collie Healer Mix, they're very prone to knit people they like and who they don't like. That's just in their nature because of their breed. But what I would do is just try to teach your dog either a focus commands or teaching your dog to focus on you but also doing a lot of directional changes.  So they're paying attention to you. I do a lot of tune ups in my session. So if I'm out with my dog and they're not paying attention to me, I'll turn and go the other way and say heal. And if they're not paying attention, they get the leash snaps and they're like, whoa, whoa, sorry. And then they go and I keep doing that to get the dog's attention. The other thing is it's just making sure that you have some sort of motivation with your dog. Good boy or good girl. You can use a little bit of food. You can use a toy.  So just making sure that you're doing something for their motivation. And when you're out and they're a little nervous of things, there are certain things that you can do to get your dog a little less stressed about the areas that you're walking. But I would say just giving them a job is the best way to take their mind away from what's going on around them. But that's what I would do. But also making sure your basics are good.    If you don't have an exercise to get your dog engaged with you, then you're not gonna be able to do it out in public. So try to do that before and teach them like, hey, look at me, this is where I come. All the good stuff comes from me.  If you guys are new here, go ahead and hit that like button for me. I'm answering dog training questions of all the sorts here. Here, this just popped up. Sydney asks, I have a rescue I've had for seven years. She does great with people, but there's one person she hates. Whoa, sorry, hold on. You're welcome. There's one person she hates a lot. I don't know why she's on guard around him. Any advice why this could be? Great question, Sydney, I deal with this a lot. You know, one thing that I find humans us that do and they do wrong is when you see an animal that's afraid of you, we automatically talk like this and we get really excited and we get down and we're like, hey, and then that freaks them out, just like I just probably freaked you guys out in the camera. So one thing I would suggest, who knows why she doesn't like him. If they don't know each other and she doesn't like him, then who really knows why that happens, right? But the most important thing is managing your people or managing the people around your dog that makes them nervous. Just say, hey, please don't look at my dog, ignore my dog, no eye contact, no talking, and your dog will find comfort in that. If your dog's a little sketchy, it could be past experiences if you've adopted your dog and they had a bad experience with an individual that maybe smells the same, looks the same, has the same job or whatever. They could be associating that and then that freaks them out. So having that person completely ignore your dog is the best thing to do. And then also going out and doing activities with that person.  Sometimes things don't, okay, she was used as a bait dog and was starved.  Good for you, Sydney. But I would say it probably has to do with past.  So they're gonna do everything they possibly can to get that dog out. And so just ignore the dog completely, go out and do exercises until you've built trust. Sharon asks, how can I keep my healer from attacking the Broomer vacuum? Well, that's a prey drive. So like we talked about before, your healer, like a Border Collie or a Blue Healer or any type of those herding dogs, they're gonna go after anything that moves, which is their job. And so you can't really like train them necessarily to not want to do that. Like you can't tell a fish not to swim. It's just like you can't tell a herding dog not to chase things that move. However, you can certainly work on your obedience to counter condition this behavior. A place command and a stay command is something I would be working on. You're not gonna be able to tell your dog, like, hey, don't care about things that move because it's a herding dog. But you can certainly counter condition this type of behavior with obedience. So I would, my dogs do it all the time. Even when I'm snow blowing, lawn mowing, my Dutch Shepherd will do that all the time. And obviously that's not safe.  So working on your place command and your stay command, I would suggest. This is fun. Thank you guys for hopping on here and joining me and having a good time. Let's see, I'm trying. This is just a lot. Okay, so Meg asks, I think I'm saying that right. Our female three-year-old German Shepherd loves us but she attacks anyone at the door. We've tried so many different things. How can we break this to having friends over? So this is a question a lot of people deal with. This is basic. I have, first of all, I have videos on this. But when dogs associate something with something, it could be something on one end of the spectrum. It could also be something on the other end of the spectrum which means you can get keys and a leash and your coat and your dog's gonna go, okay, we're gonna go somewhere. It's the same exact thing dogs will do with bang, bang, bang on the door, ring the doorbell. It's an association. So first couple of times your dog probably had no idea what that was. But what happens is they start over time associating, they start associating somebody at the other end. Basically alert barking. So somebody knocks on the door.  I think you said it was a German Shepherd, very vocal dog. So when a dog knocks at the end of the door, the dogs are gonna go like, hey, there's somebody on the other end. I have to investigate. You have to think about your dog as an animal. So when they're in their home and they're doing their own thing and they're laying down and then bang, bang, bang, they go, whoa, and they go over and they bark and it doesn't really set that person up for success by any means. So what I would suggest to do is start to desensitize the door with just having somebody work on it with you. Don't be afraid to use your leash and your collar with your dog and going out and using a leash and a collar to work on leave it. But I mean, honestly, if this is a really big problem and you've tried, I think you said so many different things, then go to the core and say, okay, this dog is reactive. You need a command to let her know that she has to leave that, she has to stop that behavior. So you have to teach her what leave it is first and then after you've taught her how to leave it, then you can start applying that to that practice.  I personally would also be working on a place command because once your dog's at the door, it intensifies. So putting your dog into a place downstay.  But the problem is 9.9 times out of 10, which is probably what I'm about to tell you is people don't work on counter conditioning, obedience. They just want the problem to go away. My shepherd's barking at the door and somebody comes over and knocks on it. That's very likely for that to happen. It's a very natural primal inherited. I'm protecting the house type of thing. So the absolute best thing to do is for you not to try to completely take that away because it's unlikely and it's unfair. I would work on, hey, thank you, leave it.  So I would spend a lot of time working on your obedience to make sure that your obedience is good. Spend a week on each behavior and master them. Place, leave it, stay, all of those things and then start working on those behaviors in practice, banging on the doors, ringing the doorbell, so on and so forth. But it's not an overnight thing. Getting an animal, putting that animal into your house and expecting them to coexist and live by your rules is not likely. It takes a lot of time, it takes a lot of patience and it takes a lot of practice. Now, one thing I find out in my profession is is a lot of people say, well, my other dog, my last dog, my neighbor's dog, my mom's dog, my brother's dog, you got lucky. So I understand sometimes you get some lucky dogs in your life that don't care about anything and they're the best. I have one my own, but sometimes you just have to practice all of those things in order for that to be successful. I'm gonna answer a couple more. If you guys haven't yet, hit the like button up top, please. So let's see. Can I use, here, Ian asks, can I use the page button on the E-collar as a correction for my shepherd? That's a fantastic question, Ian. As you guys know, I've partnered up with my friends over at Dogture this year and Dogture and I are doing some really exciting things. So for those of you who don't know what a remote collar is, it's very simply. No, it's not a shock collar. Can it hurt your dog? Sure, if you want it to. But when we train on remote collars, it is a very low level to get your dog's attention from a distance to make sure that you can responsibly recall and communicate with your dog. That's what we're talking about when we talk about remote collars. When I get my remote collar out, my dog goes crazy, they get so excited because I actually ran with my dog earlier with the remote collar with no leash because of the remote collar ability. So very good question. Can you correct your dog with the pager? For those of you who don't know what a pager is, it's a vibrating session on, or I'm sorry, it's a vibrating setting on a remote collar. You absolutely can use that pager as a correction. You just have to be careful. What I would suggest is not just getting the pager or getting the remote collar, putting it on the dog and using it. I like to just use the remote collar in a lot of other different ways to make sure that it's not aversive, it's not correct if your dog gets excited when they see it because they know they're going outside, they know they're going off leash, they know that they're working, food will be involved, and so on and so forth. So to answer your question, I would say making sure that you have a really good relationship with the dog with the remote collar on the low level stimulations first before you use the remote in any way as an aversive. Good question, Ian. Okay, let's see, Amy asks, please help me. I have a pit bull that around six years old is very reactive and fearful of people and dogs. I'm pretty sure she has anxiety and can't hardly get her on a walk she is dragging me in. It's really hard to say with that information. I would say Hunter, the E-collar that you're talking about is this good collar, yep. But going back to what you were saying about your dog being fearful. If there was a traumatic experience, whether you know it or not, it's gonna take a little bit of time. One thing that I would suggest is making sure that you're using a collar that allows you to motivate your dog to move forward and you can use your motivation, or I'm sorry, your momentum to move the dog forward as well.  So what I always suggest to people is make sure you can literally get your dog to move forward. Don't have that conversation with them. Don't turn and say, hey, why don't we go on this way? I think it's gonna be great over here. It's not a good idea. You don't wanna have that conversation. You literally just turn and go and move with your dog. If you don't have a collar, a martingale is the very least of what I would do. A martingale is just a collar. Hey, Taylor, can you let the coat out for a second? I'll show you what a martingale collar is, but making sure that you have just some, come here, I'll show you what a, coat up, come here. She's so sick of like, and she does my online's with me, come here. So a martingale is a collar like this. So it has just a little buckle and then you're allowed to pull it. So it creates some sort of pressure on the dog. So it's just a normal flat collar with a little, let's take this off, bye-bye. It's a normal flat collar like this and it has a little pulley system like this. So it's the least you can do.    So the fear becomes more of a, hey, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna work. All right, I'll take a couple more. Diana asked, Kate's on my dog is reacted towards other dogs and I'm trying to socialize her more. What do you recommend taking her to a dog park with a muzzle? Nope, I think that would make things a lot worse. Dog parks are, it's gonna, no, don't do that. It would make things a lot worse. So when your dog is fearful of other dogs, you gotta really take a look at the situation. They're very skeptical. They're like, I don't know about this. And then you throw them in a situation with, boom, all these other dogs coming from all over the place, very overwhelming, they can become very vulnerable. If you put a muzzle on them and they get attacked, which happens every single day in a dog park, it's gonna really set them up for, not good, not good. I would be getting, I would find yourself a group class trainer that has group classes that you can get around other dogs that are moderately trained or halfway trained that you can get around dogs that are calm. Cause you could think about it. If you're afraid of something, say you're afraid of, let's say you're afraid of flying, right?   It wasn't a good experience.  But if you get up there and you're smooth sailing, boom, you're like, hey, it's not so bad. Get around dogs that are gonna respect your dog's boundaries, understand body language cues and so on and so forth. So no, I would not bring your dog to the dog park to socialize if they're fearful. It's going to make things worse. Get around dogs that are calm, neutral, and just take your time with it and go from there. Matt the dog trainer, hello Matt, how are you man? I'm a prior Air Force dog handler trainer. Can you recommend additional psychology, recommendations, education, a good book? It's a good question. I get this question all the time. I really don't have a lot of books. I'm really like bad at reading, not bad at reading, but I just don't, it doesn't register with me that well. A lot of people can read and register it I'm a hands-on person. The most I can tell you is hands-on. That's how I learned. That's how I got to where I'm at is just working hands-on with as many dogs as I possibly can and making sure that you're training with somebody who does behavior. Because if you're going to do basic obedience and puppy stuff, you're not gonna see a ton of different behaviors. You're gonna see very adolescent, similar behaviors and that may not be a value to you. All right, if everyone here right now just likes this video really quick, I'm gonna answer two more questions. Okay, yep, 132 likes, 126 people watching. You guys are the best. I'm gonna answer two more questions and then we will do this again tomorrow. If you guys haven't yet, don't forget, subscribe to my channel, turn on your notification bell and I'll see you guys tomorrow after these last two questions. Okay, here we go. Yeah, Matt, no worries, brother. Yeah, just get out there and maybe just ask another trainer who does well with books. I just, it's not my thing and I don't wanna act like it is. It's just not, I'm not, I can't. I can, but I can't. Okay, so let's go. What questions do we have here? You're the coolest, you're the best. You guys are the best. Thank you so much. How to train a deaf dog? That's a good question, Christina. To train a deaf dog, what I have found the most successful way and this could be out of your comfort zone, this could be out of your whatever, but the best way that I've successfully trained a dog has been the remote collar and that tells you how much the remote collar varies in the user and how you use it. I train, I've trained six month old deaf dogs on the remote collar, beautifully, beautifully recall, sit, stay, et cetera. So basically what I would do, he's 10 years and he has lumps. Okay, so he's deaf because he's older. Well, if you're trying to teach new behaviors, it may be a little bit difficult, but I would start doing hand commands for basic obedience and that's probably the best you can do it at that moment is just do hand commands and you can start to get into remote collar training if you'd like, but that's what I would do is just try to find, if it's something that you're serious about, it's something that you could do. Shame is just do the best you can. I know it's crazy out there. It's really bad. It's really bad. All right, let's see. I'm gonna answer this one here. So Tina ask, that's a cool way to say Tina if I'm saying that, right? Is it fair to muzzle my dog? Taylor, do you think Tina T-E-E-N-A? That's cool. Is it fair? I always ask Taylor these questions. She's usually pretty good about it. Is it fair to muzzle my dog while introducing him to my mom's new puppy? He's very reactive when it comes to dog. I'm nervous. This is a great question. How to introduce a dog that's reactive to a new dog?  And he's gonna come running up and he's gonna be, yay, let's play and boom, there could be like some sort of attack. So you gotta be, you gotta be really, I'll answer that in a minute, Trish. You gotta be really careful how you do that. The best way to do it is, I have a video on this that we did live. It's not like the best quality because it's live and outside and you can't really hear me that well, but the best way to introduce a new dog safely, a couple things, is using a chain link fence so you can bring them up on a leash, but the most important thing is, is don't give them a lot of pressure. So if you bring them up and you're tight on that leash, it's gonna create a lot of conflict, it's gonna create a lot of frustration. So when you're doing this, make sure that if you're going up to a chain link fence, letting them sniff each other and seeing what happens, that's the safest way to do it. The other thing you can do is simply go out and go for a walk and literally just walk around with your dog and the other dog, not letting them interact, not letting them sniff and see how things go. Off of your property, do not let the dogs on your property inside the house immediately. To do that, it's gonna create a lot of problems. But so going out, going for a walk, using fences, using gates to have them meet and play it by ear. Your question was, is can you muzzle your dog? Absolutely.  But I wouldn't do it at first because it could make the situation sour. So just be really careful how you do it. I would do it at the end. I would put the muzzle on at the end if you're gonna let them in the house and in the yard and play with each other. So walks, fences, and gates, then the muzzle, that's totally fine.  I've been here for 40 minutes. Thank you guys so much for joining me. If you haven't yet, don't forget, like, subscribe to my channel. If you're watching this video later on, what we're gonna do is this, leave your comments in the comments below on this video. So if you guys have already asked your questions, when I post this live, there's not gonna be any questions on the video so you have to go and re-ask them. So you guys ask your questions in this comments and in the video after this, I get off and I will answer those, I'll pick those questions for tomorrow and then I'll see you guys here tomorrow. This is so fun. Thank you guys so, so much for hopping on here. It makes time go by while we're in the coronavirus, whatever. If you guys have any room possible, dogs and shelters are being euthanized because people aren't allowed to go to the shelters to take care of them. If you guys reach out to your local shelters to see if they need help, if you guys have room to foster and you have the ability to foster, do so because dogs are unfortunately going to be wiped out of shelters because nobody's gonna be legally allowed to go there as this thing kind of progresses. It's very sad, hurts my stomach. There's nothing I can do because I'm full here and then we can't go to the facility really to do that. So if you guys haven't yet, reach out to your shelters and see what they need. Rescue, see what they need and just do the best you can to advocate for those dogs who don't have a voice. I will talk to you guys tomorrow. Thank you so much.


The flag of the United States of America, often referred to as the American flag or US flag, is the national flag of the United States. It consists of 13 equal horizontal stripes of red alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the canton bearing 50 small, white, 5 pointed stars arranged in 9 offset horizontal rows, where rows of 6 stars alternate with rows of 5 stars. The 50 stars on the flag represent the 50 states of the United States of America, and the 13 stripes represent the 13 British colonies that declared independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, and became the first states in the US nicknames for the flag include the stars and stripes, Old Glory, and the Star Spangled Banner. The current design of the US flag is its 27th, the design of the flag has been modified officially 26 times since 1777. The 48 star flag was in effect for 47 years until the 49 star version became official on July 4th 1959. The 50 star flag was ordered by then President Eisenhower on August 21st 1959, and was adopted in July 1960. It is the longest used version of the US flag and has been in use for over 59 years. At the time of the Declaration of Independence in July 1776, the Continental Congress would not legally adopt flags with stars, white in a blue field, for another year. The flag contemporaneously known as the Continental Colors has historically been referred to as the first national flag. The Continental Navy raised the colors as the ensign of the fledgling nation in the American War for Independence, likely with the expedient of transforming their previous British red ensigns by adding white stripes, and would use this flag until 1777 when it would form the basis for the subsequent De Jure designs. The name Grand Union was first applied to the Continental Colors by George Preble in his 1872 history of the US flag. The flag closely resembles the British East India Company flag of the era, and Sir Charles Fawcett argued in 1937 that the company flag inspired the design. Both flags could have been easily constructed by adding white stripes to a British red ensign, one of the three maritime flags used throughout the British Empire at the time. However, an East India Company flag could have from 9 to 13 stripes, and was not allowed to be flown outside the Indian Ocean. Benjamin Franklin once gave a speech endorsing the adoption of the company's flag by the United States as their national flag. He said to George Washington, while the field of your flag must be new in the details of its design, it need not be entirely new in its elements. There is already in use a flag, I refer to the flag of the East India Company. This was a way of symbolizing American loyalty to the crown as well as the United States aspirations to be self-governing, as was the East India Company. Some colonists also felt that the company could be a powerful ally in the American War of Independence as they shared similar aims and grievances against the British government tax policies. Colonists therefore flew the company's flag to endorse the company. However, the theory that the Grand Union flag was a direct descendant of the flag of the East India Company has been criticized as lacking written evidence. On the other hand, the resemblance is obvious, and a number of the founding fathers of the United States were aware of the East India Company's activities and of their free administration of India under company rule. In any case, both the stripes and the stars have precedence in classical heraldry. Mullets were comparatively rare in early modern heraldry, but an example of mullets representing territorial divisions predating the US flag are those in the coat of arms of the valet of 1618, where seven mullets stood for seven districts. Another widely repeated theory is that the design was inspired by the coat of arms of George Washington's family, which includes three red stars over two horizontal red bars on a white field. Despite the similar visual elements, there is little evidence or no evidence whatsoever to support the claimed connection with the flag design. The digital encyclopedia of George Washington, published by the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon, calls it an enduring myth backed by no discernible evidence. The story seems to have originated with the 1876 Play Washington, a drama in five acts by the English poet Martin Farqua-Tapa, and was further popularized through repetition in the children's magazine St. Nicholas. If a new US state were to be admitted, it would require a new design of the flag to accommodate an additional star for a 51st state. Potential stateward candidates include US territories, the national capital, or a state created from the partition of an existing state. According to the US Army Institute of Heraldry, the United States flag never becomes obsolete. Any approved American flag may continue to be used and displayed until no longer serviceable. The flag of the United States is one of the nation's most widely recognized symbols. Within the United States, flags are frequently displayed not only on public buildings but on private residences. The flag is a common motif on decals for car windows and on clothing ornamentation such as badges and lapel pins. Throughout the world, the flag has been used in public discourse to refer to the United States. The flag has become a powerful symbol of Americanism and is flown on many occasions with giant outdoor flags used by retail outlets to draw customers. Reverence for the flag has at times reached religion like fervor. In 1919 William Norman Guthrie's book The Religion of Old Glory discussed the cult of the flag and formally proposed vexellolatory. Despite a number of attempts to ban the practice, desecration of the flag remains protected as free speech. Scholars have noted the irony that T he flag is so revered because it represents the land of the free and that freedom includes the ability to use or abuse that flag in protest. Comparing practice worldwide, Testy noted in 2010 that the United States was not unique in adoring its banner for the flags of Scandinavian countries are also beloved, domesticated, commercialized and sacralized objects. This nationalist attitude around the flag is a shift from earlier sentiments. The U.S. flag was largely a military ensign or a convenient marking of American territory that rarely appeared outside of forts, embassies and the like until the opening of the American Civil War in April 1861 when Major Robert Anderson was forced to surrender Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor to Confederates. Anderson was celebrated in the north as a hero and U.S. citizens throughout northern states co-opted the national flag to symbolize U.S. nationalism and rejection of secessionism. For the first time American flags were mass produced rather than individually stitched and even so, manufacturers could not keep up with demand. As the long winter of 1861 turned into spring, that old flag meant something new. The abstraction of the Union cause was transfigured into a physical thing, strips of cloth that millions of people would fight for, and many thousands die for. The supposed symbolism of the colors red, white and blue is drawn from heraldry and was not originally intended to apply to the flag. Charles Thompson, Secretary of the Continental Congress, discussing the proposed U.S. seal, gave symbolic meanings for the colors in the seal, drawn from heraldry, with white signifying purity and innocence, red, hardiness and valor, and blue signifying vigilance, perseverance and justice. Over time, that explanation came to be associated with the flag. Over the years, other interpretations have included that red is for the blood of patriots, spilled in the fight to protect the country. In 1986, President Ronald Reagan gave his own interpretation, saying, the colors of our flags signify the qualities of the human spirit we Americans cherish. Red for courage and readiness to sacrifice, white for pure intentions and high ideals, and blue for vigilance and justice. The exact red, white and blue colors to be used in the flag are specified with reference to the chaos standard color reference of America, 10th edition. Specifically, the colors are white, old glory red, and old glory blue. The CIE coordinates for the colors of the ninth edition of the standard color card were formally specified in JOSA in 1946. These colors form the standard for cloth, and there is no perfect way to convert them to RGB for display on screen or CMYK for printing. As with the design, the official colors are only officially required for flags produced for the US federal government, and other colors are often used for mass market flags, printed reproductions, and other products intended to evoke flag colors. The practice of using more saturated colors than the official cloth is not new. As Taylor, Noche, and Granville wrote in 1950, the color of the official wool bunting is a very dark blue, but printed reproductions of the flag, as well as merchandise supposed to match the flag, present the color as a deep blue much brighter than the official wool. Traditionally, the flag may be decorated with golden fringe surrounding the perimeter of the flag as long as it does not deface the flag proper. Ceremonial displays of the flag, such as those in parades or on indoor posts, often use fringe to enhance the appearance of the flag. Traditionally, the Army and Air Force use a fringe flag for parade, color guard and indoor display, while the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard use a fringeless flag for all occasions. The first recorded use of fringe on a flag dates from 1835, and the Army used it officially in 1895. No specific law governs the legality of fringe, but a 1925 opinion of the Attorney General addresses the use of fringe, is at the discretion of the Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy. United States Code Law books. This opinion is a source for claims that a flag with fringe is a military ensign rather than civilian. However, according to the Army Institute of Heraldry, which has official custody of the flag designs and makes any change ordered, there are no implications of symbolism in the use of fringe. Individuals associated with the sovereign citizen movement and tax protester conspiracy arguments have claimed, based on the military usage, that the presence of a fringe flag in a civilian courtroom changes the nature or jurisdiction of the court. Federal and state courts have rejected this contention.


Well, there are two awards left and now is the moment where we have to hope for things to go right Because one of the awards needs to be received by Skype So I'm gonna ask Stephanie my colleague to come up here and try to set this up This award is the the the major award. We give the Richard Dennis award So Stephanie's gonna get about a moment here You can have one minute to chat and then I will be back up here in about one minute This is a thank you to all of you For all the work you have been doing continue to do because you're gonna end this insanity Called the war on drugs. There is no such thing as you know I write music and my song says there is no war on drugs. There is a war on us You're taking All the work you have done you serve a very special award to each and every one that has participated in this incredibly inspiring Conference as are everyone that I have attended since the early 90s when we were DP F and I was awarded by you with a Robert Randall award and I thank you all for being you and Either action it up or enjoy it or whatever. I'm so sorry. I can't take it back to New York with me Thank you so much LV. Thank you so much for all your work and leadership Okay, I think we have success here. I Think we have success. I don't think we're gonna have please but I need everybody to quiet down right now Please if anybody's talking next to you ask them to be quiet right now Thank you This is the Richard Dennis award before there was George Soros there was Richard Dennis the first Philanthropists to step up in the late 1980s and say I am going to put my money In fact, I'm going to put millions of dollars behind ending the drug war this guy helped launch drug policy foundation He was pivotal to making putting this issue, you know really out there in a time when it was the height of the drug war And we named this award after Richard Dennis the global Commission on drug policy Right, which grew out of the Latin American Commission on drug policy created by presidents Cardoso former presidents Cardoso, Brazil Gaviria of Colombia is a deal of Mexico a few years ago and then expanded to include George Schultz and Paul Volcker Richard Branson The former president of Switzerland Ruth Dreyfus the former the actually the current prime minister at the time of Greece George Papandreou Kofi Annan joined this a remarkable group of people and the report that they put out two years ago That basically called for what we call for a DPA and ending the drug war for legalizing marijuana for harm reduction with The other drugs for changing the whole way we do this for breaking the taboo on Consideration of all alternatives and they're continuing to commitment They didn't just put out a report the members of this commission have individually continued to lobby to speak publicly to call current presidents and others And this is expanded now to include the former president of Portugal President Sarpio the former president of Chile logos the former president of Poland and a host of others one reason drug policy is changing in the world Is not just because of the remarkable work of people at the level of civil society But also because of those bold leaders and former leaders who are able and willing to commit time in their lives To make a difference. So first First I'm going to see Richard Branson. Are you on the line? I Am can you hear me? I can And Richard I think is calling I think he's in Kenya so Richard just for a minute or two Please say a few words. Thank you so much for being on Well, thank you very much. I'm actually sitting in the mara and we just saw seven lines chasing a water buffalo from from from my the deck of my tent so a Very different at very different place from where you are at the moment But you must come one day Anyway, no just to say that you know, thank you very much on behalf of the Global Drug Commission for the award and present president Kaderso formed the Commission two years ago to do a sort of fact-based studying on the war and drugs and then on office over the last two years it became very clear to the Commission that the war and drugs was an abject failure and that they needed to be a new approach and we've studied What's gone on in other other countries like Portugal where you know for the last 12 years Not one person has been put in prison for any kind of drugs and it's worked and and and people are you know people are You know nobody's gone to prison and even with something like heroin they've managed to reduce the amount of heroin addicts by 70% and and And the amount of you know spreading of HIV and hepatitis C is has reduced dramatically so Anyway, just want to say keep up keep up the good work. We'd also like to congratulate and thank the DPA for all the great work that you do and Would look forward to continuing to work together in the years to come. So thanks very much Thanks so much Richard Now I think Is George Papandreo on the line Yes, I am. Well, yeah, I'll tell you George, I'll tell you when when on this commission there were a lot of former presidents on there There was one guy who was still in office a sitting prime minister Dealing with all the politics of being a sitting prime minister and said I'm still gonna join the commission And that was George Papandreo. So George, please share a few minutes with us. Okay Well, thank you. Thank you Ethan and even during this major crisis in Greece I felt that this was an opportunity to change our policy. I Personally as a young kid volunteered at a church in Toronto to work with kids using drugs I realized that they were not the problem that the organized crime was when I became minister and of youth Later on in the 80s. I Realized prohibition would not work because we were even having Drug drug trafficking inside the jails. So I felt that it was only helping organize crime and and and Getting getting kids into into and many people into a lot of trouble So the work that our global commission has been doing. Thank you very much for your support on the DPA We've got some impressive people from Kofi Annan to Torval Stoltenberg to as you said president Gavaria and and president Cardozo and Some traumatic shifts in drug policy around the world from Portugal to Uruguay and also states in the US such as in Colorado. Congratulations Well, when I was Prime Minister, I proposed a radical law on drugs and I I tabled a draft in the Parliament in 2011 for full decriminalization of drug use and removing cannabis from the criminal justice system and Dealing with with two certain types of of PNF penalties for drug drug traffickers, but also the right treatment for drug addicts which completely changed the whole logic Towards harm reduction Undercutting crime and of course pandemics rather than chasing people this draft, of course as passed in the water down version after I left, but so there is still a Room to be to change here in Greece, but we keep to keep the work going and Thank you very much DPA for all the support you've been giving and I'll be by your side And then we will be by your side in working on this issue Okay, George. Thank you so much And I think one more Says a Gaviria, are you there? Okay, well, this is the true firebrand on the Commission says a Gaviria was the president of Colombia He was the head of the OAS He has been the most persistent and relentless advocate in the global Commission So President Gaviria, please just say a few words to us But to tell you and your sorrows and open society and the drug policy Alliance for all the help We have received since five years ago that we created on the leadership of President Candozo the growing Commission for Latin America Latin American Commission he was extraordinary Work we really got that in Latin America We broke the taboo and it was so important that in the last summit of the Americas even but the president Obama in Practically the main issue of that of that meeting was drug policy reform and they asked for two reports. They were Presented a few months ago It's clear that the wheel in Latin America is to reform policy to look for harm reduction and to look for indication of marijuana for treatment similar to other kind of drugs like alcohol and cigarettes If you can hear me We can no longer hear you But we caught the thrust of your message. So thank you ever ever so much for being with us And for all your work And I just like to ask Rebecca Laird to come up here. Rebecca is the communications director of the global Commission based in Brazil and Rebecca I want to present this award to you to bring back to the global Commission. Thank you and no Brigada


My name is Coach Coco and I love volleyball.  So do you want to be a tricky volleyball player? Do you want to know how to play short in deep court? This video is for you. Let's get right into it. My cell phone is not only being a swinger but being able to have that spidey sense of volleyball in which I can read the court and know how to do short and deep plays. There is two different types of court. We have the short court and the deep court. You want to know how to play both of those kinds of courts for the optimal volleyball usage. Let's let's let me explain it a bit further. So when we're looking at the court we know that the short court is anything before the 10 foot line. The deep court is anything behind the 10 foot line. If you understand volleyball rotations you've seen enough volleyball games. You just observe volleyball in general. You will start to get to understand and know exactly how players move. Typically players tend to move very similarly that they've played before. So if you played a team before most likely they're going to play similarly again. So if that's information that you already know in the past use it to your advantage. So if we know that for example if we know that there's going to be a blocker here when I swing and everybody's going to bunch up to then cover what's available the deep court. So that's something that you want to use through your vantage. So if you know that they're coming up everybody's coming up use a deep court. If you're playing and you're sitting on the bench and you see that everybody is just scatterbrained everywhere but short is open use it to your advantage. This is what we mean by playing short and deep court. So that means that for example if I know that everybody's bunched up am I going to give the ball and just tip it right there. Everybody's waiting for me. No I'm going to push it deep because she's not there. We want to be and think steps ahead. We want to think more proactively than these other players. Another example let's say there's a blocker here. She's blocking she's so good. She gets everything and just goes boom okay every time. But we know that the outside over here she's painting her nails. She's not ready. She doesn't know what she's doing. Okay she's just kind of lobly gagging. Am I going to keep painting in the block to just get chick chick boomed every time?  We just want to think more proactively. I know that a lot of you all are in the skill level now where you kind of are reactionary. The ball comes to you and it's just muscle memory and you kind of just do what you think you can. But I want you to start practicing thinking proactively. That means thinking forward. Thinking about what you can do next instead of what oh my gosh the ball came to me. I was going to react. Now we want to take a deep breath. We want to scan the court go around. Okay I see the libero. She's way far up. She shouldn't be this far up so I'm going to give it to her. I want you to start thinking about it that way. But on the flip side I want you to remember that while you're thinking about it like that other players are looking at you like that. So that means that you don't want to be predictable. You don't want to be the player where oh she hits angle every time. It doesn't matter we're going to block angle every time because she hits it every time. I want you to be have some diversity. Have some variety. So don't hit it angle every time. Try to hit line tip angle. Work on your roll shot. Work on your push. You want to add diversity so that way somebody doesn't peg you as a predictable player every time. So when you're playing short and deep court that means that you need to think that step ahead. Everybody's bunched up.  Everybody's in the far back. I don't know what they're doing back there. Go short. Think steps ahead. This is one of the key things to becoming a smarter faster better volleyball player. And one of the things that we want to do. I want you to be able to do is have that volleyball spidey sense that you can just see what's going to happen and you know what to do. It starts small start slow. It doesn't have to be something that you make a change immediately. But just start thinking about that short and deep court.  And I want you to take a look and see some of the patterns that you're noticing. Are your teammates always playing real close to the net? Are they always playing really deep? Is nobody gathering? Is the blocker going up and nobody's there? I want you to think about that. And then I want you to put in the comments below some of the things that you noticed because it might be something somebody else have noticed as well. So I hope this video has helped you a little bit get your spidey senses. Please like comment subscribe and I will see you guys next time.