E381- The EXACT Reason Why Your Recall Sucks! & How To Fix It!

0:00 [SPEAKER_00]: Making sure that when you're asking your dog to come to you that it's not a fly by, this is a huge mistake dog owners make is their dog basically flies right by them, right? [SPEAKER_00]: They don't, they kind of check in, they come around, then they radius them, and then they kind of beacon off.

0:13 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's a huge problem. [SPEAKER_00]: When we recall our dog, we wanted to come right towards us. [SPEAKER_00]: Hello everybody, welcome back to my second YouTube channel and the No Bad Dogs podcast. [SPEAKER_00]: Today we're going to be talking about recall and the big mistakes that people make with recall.

0:33 [SPEAKER_00]: So if you have a dog and you want them to come back. [SPEAKER_00]: If you have a dog and you need them to come back. [SPEAKER_00]: Which you're pretty much the same thing because everybody needs their dog to come back when they are off leash or if you're just starting off introducing The calm command or the recall command to your dog.

0:48 [SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna be talking about all the mistakes people make now the first one is letting your dog off leash Too soon very first one every single person does this pretty much without fail So there's different levels to obedience and you're leash [SPEAKER_00]: is your training wheels. [SPEAKER_00]: Now a lot of people who have issues with their dog in the house very similar situation is you're you're having issue with your dog barking out the window or your dog jumping on people, etc.

1:15 [SPEAKER_00]: or rushing the door, rushing out the door and it's because you don't have a leash on in the house with your dog and a lot of people just I think have a hard time understanding that the leash is [SPEAKER_00]: needs to go on in the house. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, again, the leash is your training wheels.

1:30 [SPEAKER_00]: When you're training any dog, especially when you start to progress to be off leash. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, everybody wants their dog to be off leash simply because it gives the dog the ultimate freedom. [SPEAKER_00]: It gives them the opportunity to be that animal, to be that primal and stintual canine to run into chase and to frolic and to smell and to pee and to roll around and to swim and do all of those things, but it comes, [SPEAKER_00]: With the huge responsibility, the same reasons why you want your dog to be off leash, because you love them, you should take recall extremely seriously.

2:02 [SPEAKER_00]: And so getting your dog to come back again is not only something that we like, because we want to go inside or dinners done or you have to go to work or whatever. [SPEAKER_00]: It's deadly if they don't. [SPEAKER_00]: Life depends on it. [SPEAKER_00]: Now I work with dogs as a productioner all over the world.

2:19 [SPEAKER_00]: In places in Australia, in places in the UK, in places in Canada, and even in the United States where there are things that are deadly, but the biggest thing that's deadly is cars, and every single place in the world that has a dog has a car, and so it doesn't matter if you have spiders or snakes or kangaroos or sharks or bear or skunks or another dog or even a cat, getting your dog to come back is your responsibility, and you have to make sure that you have the skill sets, [SPEAKER_00]: and you've routinely worked on the exercises to get your dog to come back.

2:51 [SPEAKER_00]: So that is the first thing is get yourself a long line. [SPEAKER_00]: Now we have the no bad dog long line. [SPEAKER_00]: It's 15 foot. [SPEAKER_00]: It's specifically made for exactly what I'm talking about. [SPEAKER_00]: Getting your dog to come back to you. [SPEAKER_00]: You don't want to stick to your four to six foot training leash.

3:03 [SPEAKER_00]: You want to go to a long line. [SPEAKER_00]: You want to go to that 15 foot. [SPEAKER_00]: And I find anything past 15 tends to be a little... [SPEAKER_00]: distracting, the 30-foot, the 100-foot's gone for Bid, you're spending more time untangling that thing than you are training your dog.

3:20 [SPEAKER_00]: So put your dog on a long line. [SPEAKER_00]: Flexies are okay, so the rechargeable leshes are okay, but again they're kind of a mess, especially if you're working on corrections or you're working on leash pressure or you're working on with a larger dog, they can be kind of a mess. [SPEAKER_00]: So I just like that 15-foot training, no bad dog, [SPEAKER_00]: And the idea is, let your dog 10 feet away from you, five feet away from you, ask your dog to come, and two things happen.

3:48 [SPEAKER_00]: So you have your long lines, they can't run away from you. [SPEAKER_00]: So there's the safety issue or safety concerns. [SPEAKER_00]: But then also, you have the ability to correct your dog if they don't listen. [SPEAKER_00]: So you say, [SPEAKER_00]: Lakota come, whatever the dog doesn't, you pop the leash and they come to you.

4:06 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's important to be able to get your dogs attention too because a lot of people, again, make that mistake of letting their dogs off leash and allowing them to do whatever they want when they want. [SPEAKER_00]: And so when we ask them to come, they're like, yeah, I'll be there when I want to.

4:21 [SPEAKER_00]: Not only is that extremely damaging to your relationship with your dog because now your voice is optional, your commands are optional, your demands are optional, and your commands are loaded. [SPEAKER_00]: But it's also extremely dangerous because if you actually needed your dog to come back, it's you've taught them that.

4:38 [SPEAKER_00]: They can come back when they want and you know, maybe if it's if it's something exciting for them they will or there's not enough rabbit poop to go around they'll come back. [SPEAKER_00]: So making sure I think like the long line in holding your dog accountable or kissing cousins for first making sure that you correct your dog when you tell them to come don't repeat yourself [SPEAKER_00]: God forbid, guys, if you watch any piece of my content and you are serious about training your dog and having a healthy relationship with your dog, please for the love of God.

5:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Do not repeat yourself. [SPEAKER_00]: I want to like go into like a robotic malfunction and steam comes out of my ears. [SPEAKER_00]: Do not do that. [SPEAKER_00]: Not only, if you repeat in yourself, I know immediately your relationship sucks with your dog, and I also know that your dog doesn't listen to you and, again, same exact thing.

5:29 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's awful to do. [SPEAKER_00]: It's dangerous to do. [SPEAKER_00]: Don't do it. [SPEAKER_00]: Tell your dog to come if they don't correct them. [SPEAKER_00]: Period. [SPEAKER_00]: Don't beg your dog. [SPEAKER_00]: Don't bribe your dog. [SPEAKER_00]: That stuff is so dangerous. [SPEAKER_00]: Don't do it.

5:44 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, the next one is luring, I shouldn't say luring, but diffuse it, not diffusing. [SPEAKER_00]: What's the right word I want to say? [SPEAKER_00]: Basically eliminating your, your recall, your food on your recall. [SPEAKER_00]: Sorry, wow. [SPEAKER_00]: So, phasing out your food on your recall is another big thing.

6:07 [SPEAKER_00]: So, a lot of people what they do is they predicate their entire recall off of food. [SPEAKER_00]: And now, if you're just joining this podcast or you're just joining me now, it makes sense. [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, we're going to reward our dog when they come to us. [SPEAKER_00]: But we have to make sure that that reward is not the reason and the only reason why your dog is coming.

6:25 [SPEAKER_00]: If you predicate your success solely on motivation, we are teaching our dogs a dangerous game of economics, which means if they see something else that's more motivating or more valuable to them, they are going to chase that thing and ignore what you have in your pockets, and to be fair to the dog you've taught your dog to do that.

6:45 [SPEAKER_00]: You chase motivation because I've taught you your whole life if you come to me you get paid. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, if they chase the rabbit, do they get the rabbit? [SPEAKER_00]: If they chase the other dog, do they get to play? [SPEAKER_00]: If they chase the cat, what do they get? [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

6:56 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's important for us to understand that we do not want the dog to only come because they think they're getting food. [SPEAKER_00]: Because I guarantee you, on 100% at some point in time, if that's the way, and that's the only thing you're leaning on with your dog, you will fail. [SPEAKER_00]: Your dog will choose something else over that food at some point in their life.

7:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, it's, and again, reward your dog when they come to you, pay him when they come to you, but to phase that stuff out, you really need to make sure that you're heavily verbally paying your dog as well. [SPEAKER_00]: So don't just, good job, good job, good job, good job, good job, and then pay, you want to do a good job and then not pay, good job and then pay, good job and then not pay.

7:36 [SPEAKER_00]: So you phase out the food, maybe they get it, maybe they don't. [SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of this lottery thing, you guys. [SPEAKER_00]: That's why gambling and slot machines and gambling in general, so addicting to people because they love the idea of What if it's there? [SPEAKER_00]: What if I hit the jackpot?

7:51 [SPEAKER_00]: And so make sure that you phase out your rewards by Randomizing your rewards schedule every other time every three times every four times, etc But the thing that stays is the thing that you will never be without which is your voice [SPEAKER_00]: So, that leads me into the third biggest mistake when teaching a recall to any dog, which is not targeting yourself and rewarding your dog once they start towards you.

8:14 [SPEAKER_00]: So, let's say you ask your dog, come. [SPEAKER_00]: Actually, let me back up. [SPEAKER_00]: You really want to make your recall inviting to the dog. [SPEAKER_00]: So when you tell your dog come, you want to go, oh, that sounds fun. [SPEAKER_00]: So some people will go, dot com. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, why you mad at him?

8:29 [SPEAKER_00]: Why he's yelling at him? [SPEAKER_00]: Why you disciplinary with him? [SPEAKER_00]: Your voice inflection matters for sure. [SPEAKER_00]: Excuse me, so make sure you tell your dog come and you make it fun. [SPEAKER_00]: Then what you do, second mistake is people stand like a board straight up in the air, like a post, don't do that.

8:45 [SPEAKER_00]: Bend your shoulders down and invite your dog into you, walk backwards, back pedal, and then verbally pay your dog as they're coming towards you. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay? [SPEAKER_00]: So pretty self-explanatory guys, I don't have to dive into that. [SPEAKER_00]: Don't be a stick in the mud. [SPEAKER_00]: App, activate your dog, have fun with your dog, motivate your dog, drop your shoulders.

9:02 [SPEAKER_00]: Good, good, good, good, good, good. [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, good. [SPEAKER_00]: Right? [SPEAKER_00]: So you're constantly like praising them and using that positive reinforcement. [SPEAKER_00]: And I would say maybe the last thing, but for sure next, is going to be making sure that when you're asking your dog to come to you that it's not a fly-by.

9:19 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a huge mistake dog owners make. [SPEAKER_00]: They're dog basically flies right by him, right? [SPEAKER_00]: They kind of check in, they come around, then they radius them, and then they kind of beacon off. [SPEAKER_00]: And that's a huge problem. [SPEAKER_00]: When we recall our dog, we wanted to come right towards us.

9:33 [SPEAKER_00]: And so two things. [SPEAKER_00]: If you're just starting off recall, get your dog to basically touch your toes and sit right in front of you and then release him with your break command. [SPEAKER_00]: It's really important that the recall is all the way to you. [SPEAKER_00]: Why would we recall our dog for them to come kind of near us and then back?

9:49 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a facade, that's not real. [SPEAKER_00]: That's like asking your dog to heal and they only do it for one second. [SPEAKER_00]: What's the point? [SPEAKER_00]: Makes no sense. [SPEAKER_00]: It's a waste of time. [SPEAKER_00]: It's dangerous. [SPEAKER_00]: So we want our dogs to suck all the way into us and sit right in front of us until we either put the leash on or retell them okay break and they can go back.

10:08 [SPEAKER_00]: Now for those of you who are introducing the recall you start with that suck the dog all the way to you pay them with your food as they get close and they're right on top of you and only let them release when you say break Again the long line comes in extremely handy right there [SPEAKER_00]: The dog comes all the way to you, they've just been off leash, they sit right in front of you.

10:28 [SPEAKER_00]: If they decide to say, okay, I'm out of here, I got the food or whatever, because that happens. [SPEAKER_00]: You can correct the dog, hold the dog accountable with the leash and say, you can't leave until I release you. [SPEAKER_00]: Don't just release yourself from the table. [SPEAKER_00]: Don't just cross the road because you want to get to the other side.

10:41 [SPEAKER_00]: Make sure that there's permission and there's gatekeeping involved with your dog just dismissing everything you just worked for. [SPEAKER_00]: It's really important. [SPEAKER_00]: Again, it's not to be in control of time. [SPEAKER_00]: It's for safety purposes. [SPEAKER_00]: And then, if you guys are introducing the recall or reinventing the wheel with recall, what I like to do because your dog is already accustomed to recall is a optional, but b means I'm just going to come near you and run by you and smell if there's food and if there's not running away.

11:09 [SPEAKER_00]: So then what I do is I separately teach the touchpad command, so I teach the dog to put their two front paws on a touchpad and then once your dog puts your two front paws on the touchpad, we call this touch, right? [SPEAKER_00]: So it takes depending on the dog, a lab, it'll take me 15, 20 minutes and then what you do is we call bridge this together.

11:29 [SPEAKER_00]: So the dog sees the touchpad, puts their two front feet on it, they get paid. [SPEAKER_00]: So what I do is I bridge that touch pad with the recall because your dog, again, you've already introduced the recall, you've already failed, you've already taught your dog sucky. [SPEAKER_00]: It's sucky right now, right?

11:44 [SPEAKER_00]: Your dog doesn't come all the way to you, they do a drive by whatever. [SPEAKER_00]: So what I do is I teach the dog touch separately. [SPEAKER_00]: Spend a day, spend a two days, spend two hours depending on the dog and your skill sets and your time. [SPEAKER_00]: Then what you do is you put that touch pad in between your legs and you tell the dog to come They start coming towards you and as they get close you tell your dog to touch and that's where they end up and then eventually You'll fade out the touch command and your dog's new recall is right in between your legs because of that bridge So that's really important and I would say pretty close to last but not least Also equally as important for you guys out there training your dog to come back no matter what

12:22 [SPEAKER_00]: is every, for some reason every dog owner do this, I say, let's work on your recall. [SPEAKER_00]: They put the dog in a sit, they back up, they say, stay, they recall your dog. [SPEAKER_00]: Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah [SPEAKER_00]: Don't ever do that.

12:46 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, at the end of the day, it's not bad. [SPEAKER_00]: It's not going to hurt you, but it's certainly not going to help your recall. [SPEAKER_00]: So what you want to do is on your long line, let your dog out. [SPEAKER_00]: Again, that 15 foot no bad dog long line is huge. [SPEAKER_00]: You guys can find that link, the description.

13:00 [SPEAKER_00]: That's why we made them specifically for you guys to master that long line and start to reduce the risk of your dog being dangerously off leash. [SPEAKER_00]: Ask your dog to break, let them go 10, 15 feet away from you. [SPEAKER_00]: You're at the end of the leash. [SPEAKER_00]: Dog come, they turn around, they zip to you, you pay the dog.

13:17 [SPEAKER_00]: So don't ever just put your dog into a sit stay and just sit there and look at him and then recall him. [SPEAKER_00]: Nope, nowhere, you know, that's like shooting on an empty net, guys. [SPEAKER_00]: It's like, okay, I guess it's good practice, but it's not realistic. [SPEAKER_00]: Let's have some defense.

13:29 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's have some realistic training scenarios here to actually prepare us for a realistic future and success with this recall or any behavior for that means. [SPEAKER_00]: So it's important for you guys to do all the things the right way. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, you guys can check out my training courses online.

13:47 [SPEAKER_00]: You can check out all the equipment that we talked about, the long line, the no-bed dog, [SPEAKER_00]: The no bad dog organic beef liver nubs these are going to be crucial things when you're teaching your dog recall Make sure you have the the right treats and made all of those My my gosh, excuse me.

14:03 [SPEAKER_00]: I made all of those As a dog trainer for people who want to you know do better at dog training right in one better results I built a squeaker into my script my treat pouch so it gets your dog's attention that long line is easy to wash and then our organic Beef liver treats are [SPEAKER_00]: a huge hit and of course they're organic because the liver is quite literally the thing that breaks down all the toxins but the number one treat as I've again as I've said travel the world and work with dogs has been beef liver dogs love it it helps with your reinforcement game it helps with your dog staying sticky to you and it helps your dog learn faster because they absolutely love that.

14:40 [SPEAKER_00]: Guys, these are the mistakes every single person makes with recall or introducing it. [SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully this was helpful. [SPEAKER_00]: And if it was, leave a comment in the comments below. [SPEAKER_00]: Make sure you subscribe to my second YouTube channel, the NoBadDogs podcast on Spotify and on iTunes, etc.

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