Carla Nammack-Wenger: Hello, my name is Carla Nammack-Wenger we’re working you on teaching some basic training skills for dogs and in this segment, we’re going to teach you how to socialize your unsocialized dog. Today I have Marie and hairless Chinese crested, Paisley joining me and Paisley has a history. Paisley is not good with other dogs. In the past, his bitten at many other dogs, he gets afraid when they approach. And what most owners don’t really understand how to correct the dog with this behavior, they think the dog is afraid or aggressive but really it stands from inexperience.
Paisley hasn’t had a lot of experiences around other dogs and that’s what we need to help him over come. All right, with Marie first I'm going to ask you we want to start this Paisley need to have some positive experiences around other dogs. In the past he has probably been with other dogs they charged at him, he’s become afraid. We wanted him to start to learn that dogs aren’t going to hurt him, so it is very important that you have him around other calm dogs first.
What I'm going to ask you to say bring Paisley in and let him sit in the couch with you and relax.
Marie: Okay.
Carla Nammack-Wenger: We need to counter condition him and then realize that all dogs aren’t going to jump in, they're not going to bite him and he needs to relax. Now with of that said, it is important that he show you many negative signs such as a lip curl, growling, grumbling, lunging you need to interrupt that behavior before it escalates into a lob attack. If Paisley casually looks at the other dog approaching that’s fine, that’s expected. He is observing the dogs approaching. But if he gets to the point where he’s looking that gaze on and staring at the dog as one sign it tells you, something is yet to come but if you interrupt that, if you see a lip curl or if you see a growl, if you see anything with excitement you interrupt it. And you can interrupt it with your voice, you can say “Shh…” you can say “Hey” you can gag him with your finger anything what's going to break his focus off of what he’s distracted at.
So he’s very well again, he seems pretty calm right now. I've seen him the past he has been a little more excited then. We’re going to see if we can draw out some of that excitement so we can teach you what to do. So right now Peanut, I'm starting with a very calm tone, Peanut is relaxed his following me and his minding his own business and that’s what we want. We want Paisley to understand the dog in that room no big deal, I'm going to invite some other dogs in little by little and we’ll going to see how Paisley reacts and watch you interrupt with the bad behavior.
Marie: Okay.
Carla Nammack-Wenger: If Paisley is good it’s important that were going to enforce that behavior so you praise him if he is good, let him know you’re please with his behavior. If he shows any badness that’s what's its time to interrupt. Okay, Paisley you relax and have a nice time and I'm going to bring in a dog. Now again its important one has to be a positive experience for Paisley, so I'm inviting Beauty in she is an elderly dog very gentle nature and I know she’s not going to jump to Paisley. However, she has half blind, she doesn’t see well, so might very well coach him and if she does you know what to do right Marie.
Marie: Yes.
Carla Nammack-Wenger: Okay, now close a lot to Paisley, Paisley is avoiding eye contact with Beauty at the moment and this is good. If this is calm, he’s not showing any fear, its just avoidance that’s not uncommon so for the last time I'm going to bring in some more excitement and see if he can provoke a response. Come here, we create a little more excite entering the room.
Marie: Hey.
Carla Nammack-Wenger: Back in with Curl and Marie that that was good the time was good but little sharper.
Marie: Okay.
Carla Nammack-Wenger: Its important when you need to correct your dog, the correction needs to be effective. You don’t want to correct and correct and correct its important the correction will work the first time. So its settle, if its “Hey” doesn’t work try “Hey” make it work, make it effective. He’s actually, he has been very good right now he’s avoiding the situation. With this its important, we just want it to relax so turn around and make him face the distraction.
Marie: Right, down.
Carla Nammack-Wenger: Nobody is going to hurt him, okay were ready for some more, I'm going to bring in some more dogs and Marie are you ready.
Marie: “Hey”.
Carla Nammack-Wenger: Come on stay, come on puppies.
Marie: “Hey”.
Carla Nammack-Wenger: And that’s not uncommon, until he has had the positive experiences that’s not going to avoid. If he is feeling threatened when the excitement comes around him, but the crucial part of this is you learning how to interrupt that behavior before it becomes a problem. But it is important; he’s not going to become a social dog overnight or an hour. Its probably he’s experience in this type of situations on a routine basis. Get him around as many dogs as you possibly can but you carefully watching don’t let him get away with it but we let him learn that it could be fun to be around other dogs. Isn’t this just a start, this is one, one exercise that you can do with him. Remember start with one dog or if your way up to the more excitement, timing of your caution in watching him.
Marie: “Hey”.
Carla Nammack-Wenger: Okay and you can praise him if he is good, it’s a lot of excitement for him with this little pugs running around. But the key to this the dog feeds off your energy.
Marie: “Hey”.
Carla Nammack-Wenger: Close contact here, if you're proper relax he’s more plan to far more relaxed, if your nervous or stress he’s going to think something is wrong. So be calm, watch him like I hop interrupt quickly that gives him the experiences of being around with other dogs. Okay, so that some tips on how to socialize your unsocial dog, now let's move on.
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