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Hi! I'm Captain Ray Varner with the Page Police Department for expertvillage.com. What I want
to show you today is when you're teaching obedience, to be able to read the body language
of the dog. As you can see, this dog is walking around. He doesn't know obedience, but he's
walking around and everything's okay. He handler will pull him into the heel position and start
to make him sit. Now, you see his mouth will be closed, his tail will be tucked, and what
we want to show you is that when he starts making him do something that the dog does
not know what to do, he gets worried about it. His body language will tell you that he's
worried about it. When the tail is tucked and it's kind of hot here so he's panting.
Even a dog that doesn't have his ears standing up, he'll pin his ears back. His ears will
be pinned back, his mouth will be closed and his tail will be tucked. That's telling you
that he doesn't understand what you're telling him and what you're trying to teach him. If
you read in the body language of the dog, then you have to mold him and start talking
to him nice and say no this is what I want you to do. You need to put your butt down.
You need to sit down. You need to sit here beside me. You're praising him and you're
molding him. Now look at the difference in his temperament when you're talking to him
and you're praising him. He's still is kind of worried about it, but that's okay. He's
coming around. This is the heel position. As soon as he gets proficient in the heel
position, then what you'll see is the tail will come untucked. He'll sit there and go
oh I got this down. Then what you're going to do. The next command will be down and you'll
say down, and immediately pucker factor. He's going to shut his mouth. He's going to put
his tail between his legs. His ears are going to be pinned back, and he's going to say I
don't know that one. Then you'll say, "Hey, hey that's okay. I will show you." Then you
mold him. You swoop his legs and you place him in the down position. You praise him and
say this is what I'm trying to tell you, this is the down position. Then he's going to go
oh okay. Remember what you're dealing with. You're dealing with the brain of the dog.
You're not dealing with the size of the dog. We had a rottweiler that was 100 pounds. We
had to go up and you grab the leash like this. When you say sit, you have to put your finger
underneath the leash like this and say sit. That easy to to tell him to sit. His whole
body was like that. His ears were pinned back, his mouth was closed, and he didn't understand.
He's like okay i'll try and he sat, and you're saying, "Good boy, good boy." and you're making
him sit. Now, most people will think hey this is rottweiler and they walk up, they put a
pinch collar or a choke chain and they rip his head and say, "No, sit." All you're doing
is regressing in your training. Now he's not even thinking of the commands you're teaching
him, he's thinking of the pain that your just gave him. Every time you get close to him,
he's thinking of the pain that you just did, not any corrections or not the commands that
are going into him. So remember, it has to be the body language. Read the body language
of you dog. We've had daschunds that were out there attacking everybody and you would
have to pull, and pull, and pull them to make him come back. We were giving the actual daschunds
more corrections than we were giving this rottweiler, because we were dealing with the
brain of the dog, not the size of the dog.