Stop Doing This With Nervous Dogs

Having a hard time hearing you through that loud ass piano music.

Yes, people, dogs need strong leadership. Not weak reassurance that they cannot possibly understand.

This is super helpful thank you. I have a Shepard boarder collie rescue who is scared of her own shadow. I couldn’t imagine what she went through before she was rescued the man did a real number on her.

I had my rescued fearful dog for about 3 months and I was doing the confident leading and as she learned to trust me she was getting better. But then I started adding a soft reassuring "he's o.k." if someone was running towards us or if a noisy motorcycle was going by and ,I don't know, I see a difference in her when I communicate that she is safe with words, adding it to the confident reassuring walk

I always tell my anxious boxer “cmon one of us has to be tough, we can’t both be anxious” since I’m naturally an anxious person too but with training I’ve learned to calm my anxiety and lead! U can def see the difference when u take the lead and they trust you and calm down! My boxer is a scaredy cat but slowly I feel so proud to see her go past benches or trash cans timidly but still goes through them when she used to want to run away in the opposite direction !

I'm a dog 🐕 and this man understands us! 👌 😶

Wow I just learned some thing important in less than a minute! Thank you! 😁

Excellent advice.

Very good content. Straight to the point! 🎉

I do that with my boy. If i hesitate entering somewhere, he'll be looking around more than usual. But if i go somewhere without hesitation, he has the same attitude and follows with confident waddles and tailwhips. 😁

I personally always tell them it’s OK and talk to them but I make them go through whatever I’m trying to get them to do. My last rescue was a four-year-old LGD mix and she would not let me walk her or touch her for over a month and I have officially adopted her and can at least walk up to her to put a leash on and walk her to where I need her to go but I can take a lot more time than people are wanting to realize and commit to. Nice video!

Confidence and mellowness counts. If your in a car wreck tense, you get hurt more than if you were just relaxed. When two fighter face each other, the calmer and less emotional almost always come out on top. Dogs respond to your demeanor and personality. My new pups always run when the miss or I yell at the movie screen for whatever reason as it's the only time we yell so it's so very intimidating. Almost all come back when they understand they are not under attack and see us repeat the behavior and laugh slightly uncontrollably. This person is a great trainer. Beautiful dog.

I love how happy the dog is

This is very true. Dogs are masters of body language.

It's the same with kids. So many parents coo their babies/ kids when they are crying or upset or nervous, for example, when most times the best response is to ignore them and let them watch you be comfortable, calm, and confident.

THANK YOU for giving us the propper tools to speak doggies language 🥰🥰🥰.

Your amazing mate so helpful this channel so glad I found it

Yes!! I learned this with dogs that were just bad on leashes too. Stop and sniff everything and pull. You just have to face forward and start marching with authority and don’t stop even if you feel they’re resisting at first. As soon as they see you’re looking forward and marching ahead with authority, they immediately follow you as the pack leader

You have it, my friend. Keep up the good work. As I often say, the problem is really at the other end of the lead.

I would ask my gsd to sit, and just wait until he was ready to move on, once he looked at me I would say hi, let's go,