This video is about Dominic and Sam, two male dogs who live together and have
been getting into pretty serious fights at home. They initially came to us and
started in some private lessons to see if we could help them to get their dogs
back together. Prior to coming to us, they had actually moved the dogs into
separate homes because the fights were becoming so frequent. Throughout the
course of their private lessons we were able to get the dogs back into the house
together, but they still had to be pretty much separated. So at a certain point, my
trainer Katherine, who was working with them, called me in to see if I could help
get these dogs actually back together. Upon meeting them it became very clear
to me that this wasn't the right moment to try to introduce the dogs back
together again. Dominic was extremely excited and nervous as soon as he came
into the training center. He was shaking and whining and making all sorts of
noises. Sam, on the other hand, looked completely shut down. I got the
impression that he was triggering off of Dominic's nervous excited energy. So I
decided to test Dominic by using my own dog Lobo, who has a very stable energy, to
see how Dominic would react to him and see if I could introduce those two dogs
together. I spent a lot of time making sure that Dominic approached in a calm
manner but as soon as he got close enough he went right into the attack.
At that point it became clear to me that we couldn't finish this job in private
lessons; we needed Dominic to stay with us so we could spend more time on his
rehabilitation. I'm not going to be able to fix this
today. We really need to get him into a Board & Train.
He's like, like I said this is as bad as it gets when it comes to dog aggression.
Just that level of 0-60. It doesn't get worse than that.
So we just got back from a little group walk with Dominic and my two dogs, Lobo
and Charlie. We didn't have the cameras rolling during the walk, it would have
been a little bit too challenging, we really had to keep things going at a
fast pace and he definitely, in the entire beginning of the walk, just wanted
to try and get to my dog. I had him on my left side and my two dogs on my right. He
just wanted to get over there. He's muzzled but he was definitely trying to
bite so I really need to stay focused and keep moving at a good pace. Didn't
want to worry about filming for that. The first probably five to ten minutes of
the walk were pretty dicey. I just kept him on a short leash and
just prevented problems and he eventually settled in. As the walk
continued he started relaxing, he started actually avoiding eye contact with my
two dogs, which was good and the walk ended really peacefully. He was looking
pretty relaxed so I just wanted to seize this opportunity to have him around them,
with them behaving a little more loosely. I've been allowing him to be near them,
like this is really great, this, if you can see, just having my dog walk by without
him reacting, compared to the last time he was around Lobo, was awesome and
especially compared to the walk. And he did actually, before we went and grabbed
the camera, he actually approached both my dogs individually and was able to
sniff them, sniff their butts without snapping, which he could not do
that before. So just that little walk, at least with these two guys, you know
that's not to say if I brought in an unknown element, an unknown dog that he'd
be equally as relaxed but at least with these two guys he's learning to be able
to accept their presence. Not a hundred percent yet but we're getting there.
Good boy, Dom. Good job buddy. So it's really important in a moment like this you'll
notice the leash is relaxed, I'm not conveying any tension to him, but if
you saw the way I sort of braced myself against the wall and changed my stance
so I'm in a ready position but I'm not tensing up, I don't want to preemptively
project any problems onto him. I need to give him the opportunity to make choices
and just be ready to intervene if I need to. And that was really good, you can see
he was a little tentative, he kind of wanted to sniff. Now in the past his
MO has been, he's gone in for a sniff and then instantly gone into an attack, so
I'm very cautious when he does that. So it's actually nice to see that he sort
of air sniffed a little bit from a distance and then showed some avoidance behavior.
So that's really really beautiful.
It's just these little things. He is not
totally accepting of the situation yet, he's not fully relaxed, but we're
definitely moving in the right direction. So now it's a matter of repeating
the process and adding different dogs.
So this is actually really good, this is just the second day. This is just our
second group walk and he's so much more relaxed already.
There were no theatrics today. Yesterday when we first started he was
definitely a little bit dramatic in the beginning. Today he was much more relaxed,
a little bit excited in the beginning but no lunging at the other dogs. And
this, you see I'm letting him kind of sniff behind these guys here. Anytime he
wants to sniff them is generally a good thing. Hopefully when we get back to the
training center we'll do a little socialization. That was nice to see, the
introduction of a new dog that he's never met before, he was definitely more
tense. She came right up to him to greet him and he wasn't 100% ready for that
and he got a little bit jumpy but it was so minimal compared to what he had been
doing in the past, compared to his first meeting with Lobo. And then the fact that
he was able to go up and sniff her butt and walk away without snapping at her
just tells me that we're making really huge progress with him because he's
never met her before and she came in with some pretty strong energy and
he handled it. Not perfect but we're on the path.
Yeah, good boy buddy!
That was good. That was really good. Charlie corrected him, he jumped but he
didn't lose his mind. That was really really good.
What we've done already is we had Sam in a socialization group by himself and
what was interesting to see is he came in very excited and very happy-go-lucky,
and then at a certain point just sort of switched and started getting highly
stressed, started trying to control dogs and manipulate them. His tail would
go from being straight up to being down and tucked, and then you'll see him in a second with the video.
He's very stiff, panting and trembling right now. So we then went for a group walk and that's
where I brought out Dom and him together for the first time. So I had Dominic and
Lobo and Charlie on my left side, him on my right side and then Amy had a few
dogs as well, and they did very good on the walk.
Dominic actually sniffed his butt a few times. He's very very avoidant and after
the walk we just came in here and basically just started doing some
socialization. So this is the first time now in quite a while that these two have
been together where they can freely interact. Sam's just dragging the leash
right now, Dominic I'm holding his leash at the moment, but I'm basically letting
him go wherever he wants to go and they're really avoiding each other
completely. What's been very interesting is Sam, who, you know sort of
thought that this guy was the main source of trouble, Sam's energy is just
way off. And when Lobo and Olive started playing earlier, Sam actually went in and
lunged at them while they were playing and so we had to interrupt that. Dominic,
that triggered Dominic to start getting worked up and go back into his old
pattern of the stress and trembling and whining, but I just corrected him
relatively lightly and he actually snapped right out of it, which was really
awesome because previously, once he was in that state there was really no coming
back from it, which is why we needed to bring him in to board and train, because in
private lessons he would just instantly trigger just coming in the building and
then you couldn't really get him back to a normal place within the context of a
private lesson. So it's nice to see him be able to kind of go in and out of that state a
little bit more freely. Obviously we'd like to see him not even go there, but
the fact that he was able to snap out of it quickly is a really good step in the
right direction. So we're just gonna let these guys move around a little bit more.
Sam's obviously going to need a lot more one-on-one work to get him to a better
place emotionally because actually Dominic, who I thought was gonna be the
much bigger challenge, is actually turning out to be really chill in
socialization. He has his moments of course but this guy's a nervous wreck.
Sam's a nervous wreck right now so we're gonna have to deal with that.
So today is day seven for Dominic and day two for Sam, and I just want to point
out how relaxed Dominic is at this point in here. So far today we did a little bit
of a group walk, and I just had Dominic on the dog powered treadmill. Did some
work with him on the treadmill as well as him being near Lobo while Lobo was on
it so that he could practice not triggering to excitement. That's been one
of his things is fast movement; high energy activity is one of the things
that triggers him so having him near Lobo while Lobo's on the treadmill, Lobo
moves pretty intensely on there, is a good exercise. Overall, Dominic at this
point, we've got Charlie, Lobo and then Sam his housemate in here, and I don't
even really need to keep an eye on him. He's just chill, which is amazing to
see. Some people will ask, you know, if he's doing so good, why the muzzle still?
You know, we take safety really seriously here. For me, just because the
dog's done good for a few days or a few weeks isn't enough, I need to be a
hundred and ten percent certain that that dog's not going to injure another dog or
a person if there's human issues. He doesn't have human issues. And especially
if we're gonna bring in other dogs that belong to other clients, we don't risk
anything here. You know, this isn't a television show. We're not going for
sensationalism. This is real, real world rehabilitation and muzzles are there for
safety. So you know he's only here until the end of this week. I probably won't
really remove the muzzle in an off-leash socialization setting within that time
frame because it's certainly not enough time for me to have seen him doing good
to be that 110 percent certain, and we just don't want to take any chances. But
you'll see him, you know, wandering around. He's just looking fantastic, and I'm just
really focusing on Sam now. Sam's got some insecurity and confidence issues
and he tends to shut down a little bit more in socialization, so we're working
on just some really simple agility equipment just to get his feet moving. And to get
him and Dominic moving around each other a little bit more because yesterday they just sort of
avoided each other for the most part and that's basically it for today.
Good boy, Sam!
Yeah! Good boys!
Good job!
So this play that's going on is awesome because this type of energy is
exactly what used to trigger both Dominic and Sam. Sam would just go right
in for a bite in the past when stuff would get this energetic and Dominic
would start going into his total stress state, trembling, whining and then
eventually kind of going in and wanting to be involved in that, so the fact that they both
learned to just accept this type of energy and to not have reactions to it
is such an important part of their rehabilitation because it's the
excitement that would often trigger them to then get in fights with each other at
home. So much of our work has been about not reacting to situations that
previously would cause excitement.
Good boy buddy, good job!
So today's actually the last day that we have Dominic and Sam he re, and today we
also have Kya the Rhodesian Ridgeback. She's just here for day training. She
comes in once a week or every other week for some day training and she's a very
fearful dog and has socialization issues because of her fear with both people but
but also other dogs. And there she is here. And so it's just awesome when we get dogs
like Dominic and Sam here, and they've been with us for a while. At this point
their behavior is so good that I'm actually using them to help work with
Kya. So we just got back from a group walk and now we're just socializing
and it's just the four of us here. So I have Lobo and Dominic and Sam and Kya is
over there. And you know these guys are just paying it forward. They've been here
working it hard, working hard and they've come really far and now they're able to
help contribute to the rehabilitation of another dog which is always a beautiful
thing.
You know, the big thing is, you guys have started with your obedience, that's all
good, but I don't want you to become over dependent on that. I think the key is
making sure that you are who your dogs need you to be, you know what I mean?
You know, they need to see you as in control, as, you know, protecting them and
keeping them safe, as moderating their behaviors, as, you know, putting parameters
on their choices. But if we just say okay you're gonna lay down there, you're gonna
lay down there, don't move, we're not allowing them to make choices so
we're not influencing their choices. So at a certain point we have to have them
around each other and that's where the muzzles come in to make things really safe.
Good boy Dom!
And so I just wanted to make sure, he might be, you know, with you guys
present sometimes that changes things.
We especially want to see if there's any jealousy, or anything like that.
This is now a new experience for him being around other dogs around mom
and dad. That's a new experience. And this is something we can do more of in
private lessons even, right. And so if I'm watching him and his behavior is getting
to a level that I'm uncomfortable with, I would just step in and tell him to stop,
you know what I mean. I don't need to necessarily wait until he snaps. If his
ears start going up and forward and that tail is sticking straight up and he's
puffing his chest out, I might step in right there and just say no, enough.
Hey! And that's all it takes with him.
It's easy, right. And again because he goes right into surrender, you don't have
to, it doesn't need to be any more than that. See this is controlling space, you
see it? and Lobo's being very respectful but he's moving Lobo.
He's keeping Lobo at the perimeter of the room there, you know. Again, some of
that's normal but it starts to become excessive, right. See how he's doing it?
He's doing basically what we have you guys doing with the food and
everything else. This is the natural, where it comes from. So you can see
Dominic was like "oh yeah Lobo's here," got a little excited, but he was able to let
it go a little bit more easily. And that's what I mean, like that's a little
hint of what I mean when I say he's a bit more unstable. He actually, he's able to
move on easier. He's hard, like when he's in that high intensity, he's hard to pull
out of that, but from an emotional level he's actually, it's actually
easier for him to move on. He's still clinging to his need to control. He needs
to see you guys are in control because that's what makes him feel safe. Sam
needs to see you guys in control because he's a control freak, and he needs to
know that it's not his job to control everything, you know what I mean? He needs to
let go of that. He's hanging on to that so hard, he needs to just let it go. That's
the whole name of the game. Things that cause excitement, we want to practice
calmness. You don't need to worry, I'll keep you safe. You need to stop being a
control freak. That's the conversation.
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