Hi, I'm Kevin Rubel, and this is Diesel, the Wonder Dog. And June's What's Neat starts now. The What's Neat show is sponsored by Caboose, sharing our passion for trains since 1938. This is What's Neat for June 2018. I'm your host, Ken Patterson, and this month we've got a really good show. First of all, we take a look at David Stewart's O-Scale layout.  We also take a look at Paul Brenneke's N-Scale layout. It's called the Grand Layout, and I know you've seen it in the model industry in the past, and it's a real treat as this one fits into a bedroom. Campbell Rice. He shares with us this month a way to make really cool pine trees, very quick, and it's something that I would have never tried, so it's pretty neat to see that on this month's video. The Walthers Paper Mill Project is a structure that I've been working on for a few weeks. I wanted to build something as a background prop for some of my outdoor photo shoots, and this building fit that just perfectly. Also, Steven M. Conroy supplies us with some beautiful drone footage this month and modeling ideas from above. It's a military train consist that's absolutely fascinating to watch. And with that, let's continue on with the rest of the June 2018 What's Neat. After this layout construction segment of What's Neat, I wanted to build the Walthers Paper Mill kit as I need fresh and new looking buildings all the time to use for background props for some of my outdoor photography assignments, and I thought this building being large would be just perfect for that. I started by laying out all the parts on a table and understanding the basic assembly process by simply reviewing the kit's instructions. I like to use masking tape to assemble the main structure parts just to better understand the size of the building and to visualize any modifications I may want to make to the structure in the future. And in this build, I wanted to build interior floors, something that would add strength to the overall kit which will ensure stability during rough handling while out on photo shoots during the setup process. I started building the base of the structure using quarter inch oak plywood cut to the size and fitting inside the main walls of the building as they're assembled. I then used one half inch square blocks for supports to hold the second floor into place. Then the building's main walls would simply fit down and snug around the wood interior floors and then hooking itself and gluing it at the base. I cut a space in the base to accept railroad tracks and I also cut holes in the bottom of the wood so I'd have access for my hands up inside of the building and for carrying the building. Now I put six support columns into place and set the second floor on top of this. Now if you look the second floor has an edge or a lip on one side and this will support the second story set of walls of the building kit. I added a second sheet of plywood as a sub base for the building, gluing our first floor plywood on top of this, providing us with a stronger base that the outside walls will then sit on top of. I put weights on this until the wood glue set up and dried. Turning my attention to the windows, I painted these with Rust-Oleum camouflage brown paint. I also used can spray paint, Rust-Oleum redwood color which makes great brick color. I painted the outside walls of the entire building with the plastic safe Rust-Oleum redwood color and I allowed this, I applied this actually in multiple coats, spraying on just a little, letting this dry and then spraying a little bit more on again just simply to avoid paint runs. The plywood base did warp while the gray primer dried outside in the sun. This was a problem, so I fixed this by breaking out the half inch square blocks and replacing them with one by six lumber cut to size which then the second floor would fit on top of. I also scored the base with a radial arm saw to straighten it and flatten it and allow the wood to lay flat when glued together. I also put heavy weights on top of this as it was drying and this pretty much solved the problem of the quarter inch base warping, thereby the building would then sit square on perfect onto this base when it's dry. I screwed and glued the interior floors together with one and a quarter inch wood screws. This made for a very strong assembly. Using a can of spray paint, I sprayed Rust-Oleum textured sandstone color, a sand finish paint along the building's foundation, masking this with blue tape to protect the red brick areas. Using an airbrush set to less than 10 pounds of air and filling the cup with a little bit of floccal cement gray color, I carefully painted the building's cement top cap trim around the top of the entire building. This color detail will bring out the lines of the structure and make it look very prototypical. I assembled the brick inserts into the window sections as per the building's instructions, gluing this with tester's plastic glue. I then glued all the windows into the building with liberal amounts of tester's glue and setting weights on top of this until the glue finally cured. For window glass, I cut 1 32 inch clear acetate or plexiglass, cutting each piece to fit over all the windows on all four sides of the building's interior walls. Now this was attached in place with a little bit of clear silicone glue here and there dabbed around the areas around the windows. With the outside walls of the building painted and assembled and the completed structured plywood interior painted and dry, it was now time to glue the walls to the plywood interior structure. Now I used clear silicone glue to attach this together, gluing the base all the way around the structure along with the second floor edges and attachment points. I then set the building over the interior section, setting the walls into the bead of glue and setting this aside to dry overnight. I ran a bead of tester's plastic glue around the inside walls to glue the roof sections into place. There were four of these. Now it was time to weather the building's exterior with a wash of burnt oil paint, thinned with turpentine. Now I dipped the 1 inch wide artist brush into this mixture of paint on a flat tile, mixing it, and then I applied this to the outside walls, applying a grime wash, pulling this down with the brush until the entire building had a wash of this weathering, careful to avoid the windows. This cuts down the red tone of the fresh brick color and makes the building look more realistic in outdoor sunlight during photo shoots. And that pretty much finishes this new outdoor photo prop for photo shoots. Check it out. This is the Walthers Paper Mill building, which in all honesty, it really could fit any type of large factory structure. You could even cut out the end walls and make a dynamite locomotive facility out of it. But it's a really great prop. I plan to use it a lot in the future. And that ends pretty much this layout construction segment on What's Neat. For this segment of What's Neat, I'm with Paul Brennicki. And Paul has shown us one thing. And that is small things don't necessarily have to come in big packages. He has got the most magnificent end scale layout. You'll all recognize it as being published in more than, I don't know how many articles, but I know he's got six plus covers in the industry with the Grand Railroad in end scale. Now this is a prototype layout designed exactly the way you've seen us design layouts in St. Louis where we always shoot video. And that is for the run by effect. That's how I like to shoot my trains and build my layouts. And that's exactly what Paul has done here following absolute prototype standards. So Paul, so I don't keep talking. Tell me about this awesome layout you built. It's a proto-free lance and a modern contemporary, which is today.  This is basically two miles of mainline on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. And going uphill is toward Denver and I just do railfanning on it. I don't do any switching or any passing. I can't even, if you had to pass you would have to have double track tunnels and I can't do it in this model room. I love the heif. It's got it so that you can reach things right away. Another thing I've noticed in looking at your models is you super detail your locomotives. You put on absolute scale handrails in end scale. Well, you need a lot of magnification for sure. But if you put them, you know, my parameter on a plastic handrail that's 80s in diameter, which doesn't make any sense, you know, makes the models look goofy. So by cutting them off and using brass wire and a rectangular verticals for the stanchions, you can make it look pretty good. Plus I cut all the grab irons off and use 8,000 brass wire for those too. Even your stack trains tricked out with handrails, all the stirrups, very fine little parts. Well, thank you. Some of those are scratch built so you can do. Now this grand, how did you come up with this paint scheme for your layout? Well, the paint scheme is my college colors. How about that? Blue and silver. And I looked at the Burlington Northern and in the old days, they used to have big numbers on the back end. And I thought, well, I just want to put the grand. And I just thought that if I could put a sweep back behind the engine, that would make those look pretty sharp. And it comes out pretty good. I like light silver, in other words, silver or gray trucks and tanks. I think if this layout illustrates anything, it is exactly the fact that you can put a super detailed run by effect layout in a bedroom. Because we're essentially in a normal standard room, which possibly anybody has to work with. Right. Actually, I have a 56 car cold train, which I run in here. You even fit a helix in here, I saw. Which is a pretty good sized train. And I try to use DPU equipment wherever it makes sense. Well, I got to tell you, Paul, I am so honored to be standing here. Because honestly, I am a fomer as well. And I have seen your modeling in previous articles. I've seen the very fine rail and all the signals and the details. And it has always inspired me that you can do a run by effect like this in end scale. Well, thank you. I really enjoy it. It's just a lot of fun to run trains. I do a lot of photography work down here. And that's another just an amazing hobby of all the things you can do and learn to do. I just enjoy doing it. It's awesome. And thank you so much for sharing this with the viewers of What's Neat. And that ends this end scale segment of What's Neat. For this segment of What's Neat, we're going to do something a little different. We're going to make some trees. We've never made trees in all of the shows so far from all 70 something shows. And today I've got Campbell Rice with me. And he is going to show us how to make a really easy and cool pine tree. So Campbell, it's all yours. Thank you, Ken. What I do is I make trees fairly cheap and anybody can do it no matter what budget you're on using simple stuff that you can find from your ordinary dollar store. Use 16 gauge wire, a paint brush, a little bit of Rust-Oleum camouflage paint, and some Melmer's glue. And so that's about it. So let's get busy. Let's get started here. So I'm going to pull out some wire and this is going to basically determine the length of your tree. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to pull it out for time sake here. It should take about five or six minutes to do this. So I'm going to turn it like that and I'm going to give it a cut with the wire cutters. So I got something that looks like this. Let's whip it back around. All right, then take you some vise grips and clamp on and then I'm trying to get it as straight as possible and level both of them. I use, you'll need to use a tacky glue, something that has a pretty good hold to it. Elmer's glue is just not good enough so I get this at the hobby store. And I'm going to just put a little tab right here on this. All right, that's probably plenty. And I use a Q-tip and I'm just going to kind of take this and I'm going to run it down one side of the wire just like that. You don't need a whole lot, just enough to get it to, just enough to cover the wire there. So that's that.  And then you want to go under one and then lay it on top of the other, just like that on top. It doesn't have to be perfect, really simple. We're already starting to look like a tree, all right? Okay, so when we get to this point and we've got them all lined up, we take our drill with an ordinary hook inside of it and I take that and I'm just going to simply put on there and give it a spin. So that's what this creates here. Now I'll take my scissors and I'm going to kind of trim it up and you want to kind of give it that, let's see what we're going to do, a pine tree here. So we're going to kind of give it that point somewhat of a pine tree and it doesn't take, you don't have to be perfect with it, just kind of cut some of the straight branches off. All right, so I'll take my wire cutters and I'm going to cut the little loop off the top, just like that. And then I'll take my paint, I'm going to skid it over this bucket here, I'm just going to kind of give it a quick spray, be sure to rotate it around and get it from the top, so that way it covers it. So basically what we have here is we have the look of branches. Once you do that you may have to kind of touch it up a little bit because you can kind of see where we're at. All right, I'll get to that point.  Be sure to get the top, the bottom, just all over real good, just heavy coat it. You can recycle this, that's why I'm doing it over the bucket. It's also what you can do is you can take this trunk and spray it some more if you want and you can put sawdust in it and then give it another coat of brown to kind of give it the look of bark and you can use your imagination, you can do different things, you can put, I've done plaster over the top to kind of give it the snow effect and just pinch it off and you have a tree. Campbell, that looks fantastic, that looks just like this other one that you did a little while ago and on this other one we've got sort of a pine needle effect in addition to the undergrowth coverage that you've just shown us make here. Let's show them how to do the pine needles. Sure. So your tree is still wet and we're going to hook up this knock static grass gun to this wire that you just spun with the drill and that'll give us the conductivity to create the static charge. So when I turn this on and you rotate that and if you look, you can't really see this on video, but with my eyes I can see that it's being attracted to the pine tree as we do this and that it stands up. I can see the silhouette. Yep. It's going to be very difficult to show this on film, but essentially it creates the effect of pine needles and you can further experiment with that. But Campbell, I got to tell you what, what you've just done is really cool, simple and expensive and it works. It works. It works great. And for five minutes and for probably about two cents a piece, you have trees. That's awesome, Campbell. Thank you very much for sharing that with the What's Neat folks. And that's this segment of What's Neat. For this segment of What's Neat, I'm at David Stewart's O-Scale layout here in Colorado. It appears to me, David, you've put a lot of thought into this maze of a layout. This is very large. It seems to occupy almost your entire basement. It's double deck, hand laid track. It's just beautiful. Tell us about all of your layout. Well, you are right. It encompasses all my basement and then some because we are standing under the garage. Okay. You didn't know that, did you? No, I didn't. I know your valences are beautiful. The ceiling is black. Your boards are lit. Yes. Yeah. I have an extra 800 square feet because I put in two 20 by 40 foot long concrete precast beams for my garage floor. They put in a topping and then they give me my garage floor. I have a 3,000 square foot basement and a 2,300 square foot house. Wow. I know where your priorities are now. Yes. Yes. Yes. We've been working on the layout 10 years. Okay. All the track is hand laid, O-Scale, about 260 some odd turnouts of all varieties. I see you've got tortoise switch machines on them. You're using the electric switch machines? Yep. Pretty much. And several thousand feet of track. Now, when we walked in, you were holding up a piece of paper representing the new bridge that you're fixing to build out as you walk into the layout. That's a pretty impressive project and you said that bridge is made out of what? It's your thing. Your thing. Yeah. And I'm not making it. Vince Griesmer, one of the crew members on the panel. I'm very fortunate to have many guys who share time, talent and treasure with me to bring this thing to completion. When we first walked in, you showed us your rain room where you have the lightning effect and thunder. And as we walk through the aisles of your layout, it almost feels like I'm walking through a theme park, whereas you are trying to direct our attention to the models and at the same time create an atmosphere where we feel like we're in one spot and we can't see the rest of the layout where we're at. I've heard of people talk about doing that, but I've never actually seen it done. And with your curtains between, I think you've accomplished that effect really, really good. Well, that was why I changed O-Scale. I was in HO for 27 years. And I really wanted to get up by the track in the scene feel. And O-Scale, I saw it at a train show and I thought, wow, this is so big, eight times the mass of HO. Yes. And I thought I could create a series of sausage-linked scenes discreetly designed so that you are totally in that scene. Sausage-linked. That's a good description. Yeah, just like one after the next. And we have several right here in this room. We have sausage-linked one here, over here, the classification yard, another one down here, the staging yard. And this is the only part of the layout that's double decked, just for the staging. There's a giant one-loop helix that brings it up to this level. Now you really operate this layout, and I see you've got car cards here. And these car cards appear to have the actual freight cars on them. Can you get that, Jess? So his car cards have got pictures of all the freight cars to help eliminate any confusion. And also when we walked in, I noticed you had a very realistic CTC switching system. Is that actually a real one? No, we built that. I did the cabinetry. Bob Sobel, who you met when you came in, he did all the electronics on it.  It's got to be really enjoyable to sit in that room and have control of the layout. I don't know if you noticed in that room, if you took a picture, but there's a window right next to it. Yes. That window sash was in the construction area, so we wound up with it left over, and I thought, what can I do with that? So that wall actually folds out by furnaces behind there, and the sash is there. But now in the age of cheap big screen TVs, there's going to be a live video feed into a big screen TV from where that room sits on this layout, which is over in Rexburg. That's a cozy little room. This is absolutely amazing. I don't know what to say. Hand-laid track. That takes forever. Code what rail are you using? We use 100 on the secondary and 125 on the main. Code 100, and this is an HO scale, folks. This is, so think about that. That'd be equivalent to Code 55 in HO scale, which looks absolutely fantastic when you look at the overall effect. You've got a multitude of freight cars, brass engines. Well, we move a lot of coal. We load it, actually loads. We use live loads, and we move the coal from the various loaders on the coal branch, and they run over the layout. You haven't seen the rotary work yet. We'll watch that thing, because on the last layout, we would, over the course of an afternoon session, we would load and move by rail and dump for barge loading, eight plus real gallons. That's a model of the Whiting Gluticide Dumper. You can look at them up online and watch them work. And I built mine from Plexiglass, styrene, brass, and after it dumps, I'll show you what powers the thing. That's cool. And it appears it comes back into position and you're ready for your next car.  Does that mean I think you're going to be loading these somewhere? Yes. Okay. Operational loaders. We'll have four of them on the layout, just like we did on the last layout. That's neat. Thank you. And that rolls on down in the receiving yard, where the engine puts it up onto the train to load again. And these are what works. DCR gear, SD24HO gear, all the different pieces and parts to make it work. That's neat. Here's an operating hump yard. So we actually classify. And I noticed you had a mirror above that. I filmed the mirror that you had so that you can look down and see the couplers when you separate the cars. Yes. Now Dave, I see you've got an operating hump yard here and it appears you've put a lot of thought into it to make it operate exactly like the prototype. For most of us, building a hump yard is about getting the grade correct and trying to get our models, be it HO or O-scale, to roll at the correct speed. But you've built retarders. Explain this to us. Well as the train comes over, the hump, press the hump, the magnets will automatically release the KDs. However, as the tracks fill up, you'll need to retard the cars. So the magnets on top here are going to disconnect the cars. Disconnect automatically, yes. And then as the car rolls down, you've got a button that you push that makes these foam retarders through servos on airplanes move a little outward and pinch the flanges. That's good. And it slows it down just like the prototype. That's the answer so many people have been looking for on how to do, including myself. I have thought about this for years and gave up on how to create a retarder system that actually a manufacturer could produce, but let alone just model for your own self. So how ingenious of you to do this. Thank you. I puzzled about it for quite a while. But yet it's operationally fun at the same time. It is function and form all tied together. And what we've discovered is just with the prototype already new, you can classify trains in a hurry, as opposed to a modern road being the bottleneck on the yard. We classify trains faster than they can keep up with them. Now the idea is you want to get all your cars to roll as freely as you can, but not too freely. So some of them just rolled too freely. I'll show you what we did to slow them down. See the phosphor bronze? Yes. You put some bronze on there as if it's a track pickup to slow down the axles. It's just a hard wiper and that will slow the car down. So I can tweak these just by pulling on them to get just the right amount of speed. Do you think people could apply this technique to H.O. scale? I don't know. I think it's worth trying. And that's something we should check out. But this is definitely something that's neat. Yes. This is mass that we're working with. So that's about two pounds right there. That's cool. There's a lot of thought. You are very creative and you said you've got help on this. And that's awesome. You've got fellow friends that enjoy your hobby, isn't it? It is my number one passion in the hobby, is the people. People would say your arrows are hot passion. I say no. Meaningful relationships. That's my passion. I'll tell you what, Dave, I appreciate you showing all the folks on what's neat. Your awesome, awesome artistry. Thank you very much, Dave. You're most welcome. And that ends this segment of What's Neat. All of the model railroad products seen in this episode of What's Neat are available through Caboose in Lakewood, Colorado, or order online at MyCaboose.com.


Hey, good morning, guys. Tom Davis here, America's kid and educator. How are you guys doing? Hope everyone's doing well. I'm going to move you so you're not getting all that light, that harsh light there. Move you over here. Maybe. Let's see. Oh, that's a little better. Hope everyone's doing well. I actually have been on the phone all day doing online sessions with all of my online clients from all over the world, which has been fantastic. And one thing I want to talk about today is something that a lot of people are asking me. A lot of people are getting new dogs. I'm messing around with the light here. Sorry, guys. But a lot of people are getting new dogs right now because of the coronavirus and what we're dealing with. And so there's been a lot of, hey, how do I introduce a new dog to my house? And a lot of people are doing things the right way, and most people are doing things the wrong way, unfortunately.  Because one great thing from this whole coronavirus thing is people are adopting dogs, but at the same time, people are getting rid of dogs because of the understanding of how untrained their dogs are of being pent up in the house with them. But today, I want to talk about how to bring a new dog to your home successfully.  Hi, from Finland. Hello, I hope everyone's doing well. So if you guys are in this live video, go ahead and hit the Like button for me and let me know you're here. And we're also going to do a giveaway. So this is the first giveaway we're going to be doing in a live, which is going to be fun. So what we're going to do for the giveaway is I'm going to be giving away two free no bad dog stickers. They're super cool. I don't have any right here, but I'm going to be giving away two of them. And at the end of this live video, I'm going to answer. I'm going to ask you guys a dog-related question. And then once this video is posted, you just have to go to the video and put your answers and let me know what the answer is. And then the first, I'll probably just do the first hour. I'll pick two random people. So anyway, so thank you guys for joining me. I appreciate it. Tello from UK. I actually did an online session in UK today as well. Los Angeles, Scotland, Finland. Hello, everybody. Denmark. Hope everyone's doing well. We're going to answer questions at the end of this video. If you're watching this video after it's live, thank you so much for joining us here on the Upstate Canine Academy channel. So let's start off with how to introduce a new dog to your house or to your life, really. Well, the big thing here, guys, is understanding that this is primarily going to be geared towards dogs who aren't puppies. So we're not going to be necessarily talking about dogs who are six to eight weeks, eight to 10 weeks, depending on when you get your dog. But we are going to touch base on bringing home puppies throughout this process. But there's some huge mistakes that people make when they do bring home a new dog, regardless of their age. We're going to talk about that. Phoenix, Arizona, what's up? So the best thing to do, guys, is when you're getting a new dog is to give them what they need as an animal, which is leadership. I talk about this a lot. Some of the worst cases of anxiety. Some of the worst cases of dog aggression. Some of the worst cases of you name it. When it comes to bad behavior, the majority of the time, dogs are not given structure.  I talk about the shelter atmosphere a lot. I used to be an animal control officer. I volunteered at the shelter. And I still try to work with the shelter on most occasions. And the thing about the shelter is, guys, animals are, yes, they probably would be in a home with no other dogs or with maybe one or two other dogs. But shelters are very routinely based. They get fed a couple of times a day. They get let out a couple of times a day, usually. They get clean and fresh water. A lot of the shelters are new or whatever. So they're getting a better life than you would think. We think a lot about dogs and shelters as an emotional state of mind, which doesn't really help them. And so when we get dogs, we automatically assume that they are dogs who have been abused and neglected. That's a different story, of course, that they probably do need a little bit more love immediately to trust. But honestly, the best thing to do for dogs when you get them is to give them a routine, give them leadership, give them structure. Just like with humans, if we are abandoned and we are lost in the middle of the desert and we haven't seen people for six months and we're barely surviving, what you really want to see is somebody coming in and say, hey, mister, I found you. Help is on the way. I have a little bit of food. You can take a little bit of water. Do this. Do that. Look at me. Pay attention. How many fingers am I holding up? Where are you from? They need that.  And they hug you. And you guys just talk about your feelings. I mean, empathetically, it's nice to think about. But the reality is, if you want somebody to say, thank god, you know what you're doing, you know where we're going, all of that.  So what structure? Sometimes people will ask, OK, what does that mean? Structure for a dog who doesn't know obedience or any type of new behaviors or old behaviors, existing behaviors. The first couple of days of your dog's life with you can be bringing them for a walk, literally putting them on a leash and walking them around your neighborhood and just giving them that structure to say, you're on the leash with me. We're going to go for a walk. It's a great bonding experience. It allows the dog to get acclimated to their environment. It allows the dog to get acclimated to you as the handler and anybody else in the family. So the session I just had from the UK online was we have a new dog. And the dog is iffy about some of the people that are coming over to the house, family members and things like that. So anyway, slowing down a little bit. I'm going to take a little bit of coffee. If you guys are here, go ahead and like this video. And I appreciate you guys joining me here on a, I think it's Tuesday. Forgive what day it is these days. But go ahead and like this video and we're going to get going on this. And then we're going to take answers or questions at the end. So yeah, so getting your new dog home, bringing them out for a walk is one of the first things you can do. And then also people, so that's the next big thing is people say, hey, what about new dogs and new people?  If you have another dog and you have other family members, the best thing to do is not have them go right into your house. A lot of people make that mistake of letting your dog right into the house with the other dog and with the people. It's really a very irresponsible thing to do. And again, this is a little bit more towards dogs who were over the age of one year old, and not a puppy, it's different, when you get a little baby puppy, but don't let your dog into the house immediately. There's a lot of things that can go wrong. People want to do that because they're like, hey, here's your new home, enjoy it. It's better than a shelter. So just make sure that you're not doing that. So when you get home, you could text, call your family, have a friend come out with you with your other dog if you don't live with anybody and say, hey, we're going to go for a walk, we're going to see how this works. And so when you're bringing home that new dog, you want to acclimate, just like fish acclimate, it takes a couple of days for them, couple of hours, I can't remember the fish whole scenario when you put it into the bag, into the tank, but it does take time to acclimate so there's no shock into the system.  Because if you have a dog that's preexisting into your house, it could certainly create some sort of possession issues. It could create a lot of different resource guardian issues. So making sure that you just get your other dog, go for a walk. They don't have to meet. They don't have to go nose to nose immediately.  Because a lot of times people who are handling dogs get very nervous, they pull on the leash, they make it very uncomfortable and it's just not a good scenario or a good situation for the dogs at all. So going out for a walk. Same thing with your family. If you don't have another dog and you just adopted a new dog because, great, however and why ever you adopted a new dog, tell your family to come outside and let's just go for a walk. So don't just bring the dog inside because if the dog is okay with you, that's maybe because they've hung out with you during the meet and greet process.  So the dog is already acclimated to you and they kind of have that bond with you, which is great.  That's where I would say that within the first 24 hours of getting a new dog, adopting a new dog, rescuing a new dog, the problems are gonna happen within the first 24 hours because of human error and human mistake and assumptions, which is all very, very unavoidable, not unavoidable but avoidable because you have every right and every opportunity to make this more successful. So going out for a walk, no talking to the dog for a little bit, no looking at the dog, no trying to give the dog treats. Again, dogs need structure. They need somebody to tell them, hey, we are all very confident individuals and getting on your hands and knees and talking to the dog, very submissive, very insecure to the dog, especially if you're dealing with a dog that lacks confidence and lacks security of what's going on. If you get down and you create that within you, it makes them very uncomfortable. So just no eye contact, no looking at the dog, no talking to the dog and just continuing to move forward and just say, hey, we got this. There's a lot of situations in the wolf sanctuary that I used to volunteer at in the summertime. It's a sanctuary, so they don't breed, they're taking in wolves or wolf hybrids that people have bought and because they thought they would be good pets for whatever reason. So obviously, having a hybrid or just a plain wolf is not a great pet and people realize that pretty quickly that it takes a lot of work. Anyway, so there's certain wolves that are in the sanctuary that you can actually go in and interact with because they're decently associated with people. And so the first thing we tell people is keep your shoulders up, don't look at the wolves, don't talk to them, don't reach out to them, just walk straight through them. And there's this little girl there that she was like six or seven years old, little girl. And she wanted to go in and meet the wolves and we said, okay, great. And I said, you're the queen of the land, you own everything, don't look at them and the wolves are tall. So wolves are not as heavy as some dogs but they're very tall, they have large heads but they're very skinny and lengthy and a lot of leg. And so she came in and she just walked in very confidently and the wolf is just going whoop right out of her way. So animals really, really, really respect that confidence. And the other thing is first impressions, right? Animals, first impressions are so critical for animals. And that's a great example of talking about some of the wolves and how they deal with things. And it's the same thing with dogs who are a little bit fearful, a little bit insecure, not sure what's going on. That first impression is ginormous.  They're like, hey, and you have to give them all the information that they need to be successful.  You really wanna be very confident and just ignore them completely. Ignoring an animal will tell that animal that you're confident and they can be secure with you. They don't need that type of stuff. So anyway, first impressions are really big. So getting the family out, going for a W-A-L-K, and getting to know each other that way. Now, the next thing that you guys can do, and then we're gonna take some questions after this and if you guys are here, there's about 150 people in here live. Thank you guys so much.  And then, like I said in the beginning of the video, we're gonna do a giveaway of some No Bad Dog stickers if you guys answer the question correctly, which is gonna be fun. It's nothing we've done here before on the live. So anyway, so I always talk about turning the love down and turning the leadership up.  That's a good one. I like that, but it's true. A lot of times people, again, associate, hey, we got a new dog, they've been neglected and abused. We gotta give them all this love. We gotta give them toys. We have to give them treats. We have to give them, do whatever you want. And that lack of structure and that lack of discipline will actually turn your dog completely, oppositely the other way. So just making sure that you guys are giving them that. Now, secondly, if you're bringing in a new dog with another dog, proofing the house. So making sure that once you've done the walk and the dogs are acclimated, you can use a chain link fence for safety to have them get to know each other. I've talked about that many times in my other videos using a chain link fence just to get other dogs basically associated with each other safely. You don't have to put any pressure on the leash. And it's really safe because the dogs can look at each other through the fence and they can start getting to know each other a little bit through the fence and it's safe and it kinda protects them from that. So the other thing is, again, if you do have another dog, taking up toys, taking up food bowls, taking up water bowls, anything that the dog can possess.  It's because you're throwing them into a situation that's not successful.  So anyway, so I hope that those tips are helpful and I hope that those things are clear because it's just little things like that that really make a huge difference in the dog's behavior and their success. So if you guys are here, I'm gonna answer some Q and A's here live. If you guys haven't yet, don't forget like this video if you're watching this in the future, we're gonna do a no bad dogs giveaway and the giveaway question is gonna be at the end here in a couple minutes and all you have to do once this video is posted is go to the video and leave your answers and I'll pick two people randomly to win some stuff. All right, so let's get into some questions if you guys have them, let's hear it. Vanessa asks, I have a three month old puppy that cries when I leave the room. Should I only come back when she calms down? I don't wanna set her up for separation anxiety but have a hard time letting her cry. Three month old puppy. It's a good question, Vanessa. You can do two things. You can let her cry it out but you just have to be conscious that once you do make the decision to say, okay, I can't take this crying anymore, I gotta go in, then your dog has basically trained you. It's the whole effect, the baby is crying effect.  So you wanna wean away from that as much as you can but just know that if you've made the decision to say, okay, I'm gonna put this dog in here or away from me, you have to kinda follow through with it all the way and make sure, so to answer your question, yes, I would wait for them to calm down and then go in and give them attention or whatever. So yeah, let's see. So we have a question. I'm getting a new dog, he's 18 months old, Dalmatian. I went to meet him today, his original home, we're nuts, he was a very aggressive towards me and the owner, is it a good idea, what should I do? Well, again, taking the information that I've given before, a lot of meet and greets, especially if it's by not a professional, somebody who doesn't do this for a living, if you get somebody that has a problem with their dog or their dog becomes aggressive to their family members, chances of them introducing you properly are not good. So I would make sure that you're giving the dog a fair opportunity to be successful.  And just trying to get to know the dog a little bit more in a situation that's a little bit more neutral, which is exactly what this video is about. So I would just give it a little bit more time and try to take the dog out of the situation that he's in. If he doesn't like the people he's with, he's not gonna really like anybody else that enters that home. So I would take it somewhere else. You're welcome, Vanessa, no problem. Let's see. Tara asks, I have a 12-week-old German shepherd that is very bitey and reacts with further biting if disciplined in any way. 12-week-old German shepherd that's bitey is probably going through, hey, I miss my siblings, I wanna tease on something, I wanna play on something. The more frustrated you get. So dogs, animals in general are like mirrors.  This is fun. So you just have to make sure that if your dog is bitey, I talk about this probably in every video because it's the number one question that we get. They're not bitey because they're probably just chewing on you because they've chewed on their other siblings for eight weeks, 12 weeks.  So you just have to make sure that you're not giving them your extremities. So don't give them your fingers, giving them something to chew on other than your hand or your body. Don't react. Don't react.  Don't do that. If you do this to a puppy, they're gonna go, roof, roof. They're gonna bark right back at you and talk back. So you have to be, take the higher road, ignore them with the verbalization and just correct them for doing that. Okay. Yeah, and they could be teething. Ah, okay. So we have a, this is an interesting question. I have a new German Shepherd, nine months old. It constantly eats out of the other dog's bowls. Drives me crazy. How should I stop him? I think, if the dog is eating while the other dogs are eating, then you would just either crate your dog so they eat by themselves. If your dog is running up and eating all the other dog's food after they're done eating, then making sure you're pulling the dog's food after they're done eating. So again, if you guys are here, go ahead and like this video. We're gonna do a giveaway. If some no bad dogs, some merch here in a little bit. And I'm answering Q and As of your dog questions right now. So at the end of this, I'm gonna ask a dog training, a dog question. See how well you guys know your dogs. So let's see, here's a good question. I adopted a year and a half year old, 200 pound English Mastiff. He's such a lover, but every once in a while he gets a certain way when he runs around and stops listening and tries to jump. He runs around, stops listening and tries to jump. It sounds to me, swagger dagger 99, is your dog is probably just getting overstimulated. It sounds like a very playful type of behavior. A year and a half still not fully mature mentally. So probably just getting overstimulated and jumping and getting excited. And again, it's the same thing as the puppy that we were talking about. If you match that behavior with, no, knock it off, stop. And you're very vocal and you're matching that behavior.  So just try to ignore the dog, walk away, turn your back, disengage. As soon as your dog gets to that heightened state of mind that tries to get a reaction out of you, you stop what you're doing, walk away, and disengage with the dog.  A 200 pound dog should never be jumping, period. So again, if you guys are here, you can ask me your dog training questions. Let's see. Is it bad to never socialize your dog if they are dog aggressive? Absolutely not. It's a good question, Sarah. If your dog is aggressive towards other dogs or doesn't like other dogs, that's a decision that they've made. My St. Bernard doesn't really like other dogs. He's an intact, almost 11 year old male. He gets pretty grumpy with other dogs. He's seen a lot of dogs. And so the decision is to just say, okay, you don't like other dogs. I respect that. That's okay. That's natural. That's normal. And no, you don't have to socialize them. It's okay. And I think a lot of people get, they get very confused with that. I personally think a dog that can go up to any person and to any other dog rollover and submissively pee on themselves is not natural. It's great because we can trust them. It's a great dog to have. But it's weird that some dogs have been bred out of suspicion and primal instincts to keep themselves safe on who they trust and who they don't. So I think that that's the breed standard now. Everyone wants that dog who just doesn't care. They'll hop in the car with anybody. But at the same time, if your dog doesn't like other dogs, it's okay. It's natural. It's just something that you have to deal with. I think a lot of people think that it's, there's something wrong if your dog doesn't like other dogs. And that's just simply not the case. It's a decision just like with us. We don't like everybody. And dogs don't, you know, they're the same way. So anyway, okay. How do I stop my six month old puppy from screaming when he sees another dog in some humans? The real question is, is what are you doing about it when it happens? So you have to correct certain behaviors. It's a bit of operant conditioning. So when you're raising anything, same thing with kids, same thing with teaching, same thing with students. If you're not telling them what they're doing effectively and it's working, then you need to switch up your game and do something differently. And then of course, rewarding them if they do something right. So anyway, it's a good question, but we're gonna answer some more questions. This is fun. Does anybody know what day it is? I think it's Tuesday. But anyway, so middle of the week or beginning of the week here in the coronavirus epidemic stuff, crazy, crazy stuff we're dealing with, but it's Tuesday, thank you. I hope everyone's doing really well. Just a quick side note as I'm looking through some of these questions, I'm looking at this situation with a glass half full. I'm very grateful that I'm able to hop on here and have a community with you guys and talk with you guys and just realize how busy life can get. And this opportunity to have a government mandated shutdown to tell people like, hey, you can't do stuff anymore. I never want anybody to get sick by any means or circumstances, but this whole government shutdown kind of gives us an opportunity to reflect on how busy I think our lives get and how simple things can get once we slow things down. So I hope everyone's looking at this with a glass half full, but sure. All right, let's get into some questions. How do I pick the right breed for me? I have handled many breeds and have two poodles, but I wanna get working breed. I just don't know how much is the right one for me. It's a good question, Brianna. I think the most important thing is, is just know your limits, know your schedule. I think if you're experienced handler and you've had multiple dogs and you're comfortable with dogs, I would say finding, because there's different flavors of breeds too.  Different working breeds have different behaviors and personalities. So I think just making sure that you find your, you find the breed that fits you best and you find the breed that works for you best. And then honestly, finding the right breeder to have like a good relationship with, I think is important because you can tell them, hey, this is my lifestyle. This is my experience. This is my comfort zone. This is how much time I can have with the dog to devote to the dog. I think that that's the most important thing is just finding the right breeder. Once you've picked your breed, talking to a couple breeders to feel comfortable moving forward. Is it possible to change the dynamic of two dogs who already live together? The older, smaller dog has become more timid over time as the newer, younger dog, bigger dog wants to play, but plays a bit too aggressive. Is it possible to change the dynamic? It's not possible to tell the bigger dog to stop growing. No, but the smaller dog that's more timid of the dog that's maturing and getting bigger, let them play that out and let them mature together. And there is a good chance that the smaller dog is gonna continue to, because you gotta think how dogs look at situations. You get this little smaller dog and then all of a sudden they have a brother or sister and then that brother or sister just keeps getting bigger and bigger and stronger and they wanna keep playing and it creates kind of like a weird dynamic. So it will definitely change as that one older dog becomes a little bit more mature and less playful, but I would just wait it out a little bit and see how it plays out and then using obedience in the future to counter condition that playful energy towards the smaller dog that could potentially be not safe for that dog. Let's see, what's the first leash I should get? First leash, Ryan, good question. We have our training leashes on our website at America's, no, it's Shopify, it'll be in the description below once this is posted or it's in there now. You can click on our Shopify account and it has our training leashes, four foot leather leashes are the best leashes to use in my opinion, especially when you're just learning how to train. Let's see, can you train a dog not to hunt or chase smaller dogs? My Rottweiler watches small dogs and tries to hunt them. I always have her on a lead around little dogs, but the owners just let theirs run up. That's two questions, I think, but your Rottweiler has a prey drive that's a primal, hey, I wanna chase anything that squeaks in this little and fluffy, which is very common for most dogs to have that prey drive. So you have to make sure that you're being responsible, that it's more about being responsible to the other dogs when you're out. Unfortunately, the more your dog is trained, the less things you're gonna be able to do with your dog, which kind of sucks, doesn't really make any sense, but you can't take that out to answer your question. No, you cannot take the prey drive out of the dog. You can certainly use obedience to control that prey drive, threshold stuff, leave it, heal, so on and so forth. I would make sure that you're making every precaution that when other dogs come up to you that the owners know that your dog is not friendly by just telling them that. So, let's see. Okay, I'm seeing this question a lot. I get it, okay, okay, okay, let's see. Let's see. My dog keeps yapping at the ball until I pick it up. How do I stop that? Well, I think your dog is obsessed with the ball, which is pretty normal for most dogs. Again, it's just like something that they can do. So you just have to have that off switch. So if your dog is obsessed with an item, what I tell people is not leaving it out for them to access that at all the time. So making sure that you're not giving the dog access to the ball because they're gonna keep pushing it and pushing it and pushing it and pushing it and pushing it to you. And that can create a lot of frustration for your dog because they're gonna constantly wanna play and they're gonna constantly wanna push it to you. And so you just have to make sure that you're not leaving that ball out because they're gonna keep doing that. So I would recommend the first thing to do is just take it away. Put it somewhere where the dog can't see it and then just work on an off switch to say, hey, we're done playing. Because if you have the open relationship of, hey, if the ball's out, we're gonna play, your dog's always gonna wanna choose to play. So anyway, let's see. My almost three month old puppy keeps whining in the beginning of every walk. It takes him one kilometer to start walking normally after everything. Is that okay or is that normal? Sorry guys, I got to interrupt it here. So anyway, I would say making sure that you're understanding that your dog when they're out is gonna get overly stimulated and they're gonna get excited when they're out for a walk. So it is pretty normal for them to get excited and to feel like they are, to feel like they are like, it's a lot of overstimulation. So yes, it's normal to answer your question. There's really not much you can do to tell the dog to calm down except just stopping, putting the dog in a sit and just working on calming the dog down a little bit. So yeah, it's normal, but just letting it play out and just understanding that your dog's gonna get excited when they go for a walk. All right, I'm gonna answer a couple more. If you guys haven't yet, don't go ahead and like that like button up top. And then again, we're gonna do a giveaway at the end of this video, which is going to give away two free no-bad dog stickers if somebody can answer the question properly correctly and we're gonna be giving that away at random. Let's see. How to control a very dominant shepherd mix that's very dog reactive to behave and get along with other dogs. He's 130 pounds. Mmm. I would say how to control a very dominant shepherd mix that's very dog reactive. How to control a very dominant shepherd mix that's very dog reactive to behave. He gets along with other dogs and he's 130.  Explain that a question one more time. So does anyone have any tips on introducing a new puppy into the family right now? I just went over that, because Sandra, if you go back to the beginning of this video, that's what I would recommend. All right. Thomas asks, hey Tom, could you do a little bit in depth about what there are with main step, what are the main steps to a new puppy when starting the train, obedience, et cetera, basically raising a new pup from zero to hero? Great question.  And so every, that's such a great opportunity for you to just really teach them behaviors. Bringing in a new dog is exciting. They're eager to work usually. All right, guys. When you bring them in, what you can do is get them to do your training. So teach them a lot of free shaping stuff. So if you're not familiar with free shaping, you can look it up, but and then the other thing you can do is just use a little bit of food with your dog, use a little bit of tug with your dog, getting them out and working with them to teach them new stuff. Let me rephrase. When you're working with a new puppy, think about what their job is gonna be in the future. So training them to do what their job is gonna be in the future. So if it's, you know, whatever, it's important for you to make sure that when you get a new dog out, that you're thinking about that, thinking about the future. Okay, what is this dog likely gonna do in the future? What is this dog's job gonna be in the future? And just starting to develop those skills and starting to develop those techniques for the dog at an early age, using not a lot of pressure, a lot of just small room, lots of motivation, lots of motivation for the dog, lots of food, lots of tug toys, anything that the dog is motivated in and teach them free shaping new behaviors and just having fun with it. I think the most important thing with a new dog is just having fun. So anyway, so that's what I would do and just realize that there's not a lot of pressure. People ask me that all the time, like, hey, I got a new dog, what should I do? What should I do? What should I do? And just, there's really not a lot of pressure to it. Just develop your dog the way that you want your dog to be in the future because whatever they're doing at that age is exactly what they're gonna do in the future. So just developing the dog, however the dog is gonna be in the future. All right, guys, so what we're gonna do is you're welcome, man, no problem, no problem, guys. So anyway, I hope you guys are doing well. I appreciate you guys all hopping here on live. Like this video and then we're gonna do the question right now. So in the famous series of Star Wars, what character was created off of the dog? So in the movie Star Wars, so if any Star Wars fans, and then if you guys, once this video is ended, you have to go to the actual video to leave your answers. But what famous character in the Star Wars series was based off of a dog? 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