What NOT to do and why- dog training clicker tips
February 20, 2012 by TopDog
Filed under Getting Ready to Train Your Dog
PLEASE READ THE WHOLE MANIFESTO IN AN EASIER FORMAT HERE: www.dogmantics.com It also translated into Dutch Swedish Spanish and Portuguese on that site. Here is a small excerpt: The many problems with using physical or psychological intimidation: 1) Without perfect timing, intensity, and consistency, the “training” amounts to nothing more than abuse. 2) The animal learns to avoid the punisher in order to indulge in undesirable behavior. 3) These techniques can cause irreversible emotional damage to the animal. 4) The punishment can increase stress hormones, arousal, and aggression. 5) Animals can habituate to the punishment — meaning that the intensity of the punishment must keep increasing to have any effect as the animal learns to endure it. 6) You cannot change an animal’s basic emotional response to find children, adults, or other animals (or anything for that matter) reinforcing by using intimidation; you can only suppress the dog’s punished behaviors. 7) Intimidation can cause dogs to hide their warning signs before attempting to bite. 
Dogs trained with punishment can feel trapped by their handlers, since the decision to leave a ‘stay’ or to leave the handler’s side (to escape from a bothersome child, for example) can cause punishment. Animals who feel they have no escape tend to bite rather than move away. 9) Intended intimidation can actually increase the behavior you wish to extinguish, as intimidation involves giving a form of attention to an animal. 10) The …
@korgscrew2000 I bet I could control you if I had a gun. It wouldn’t make you happy, you would be oppressed, but it would work.
@fr4ize You stop giving free food, get into learn to earn their dinner. When dinner only comes with training, you can work to better food focus them, in low distraction environments, like at home. Then you click train to play with toys. First teach target, then click for mouth opening on object to raise criteria. Then finally click for grabbing toy. I have dogs that didn’t care about either things when I got them, now they love click training and toys.
What a sad comment section, so many people justifying bullying dumb animals. And by dumb I don’t mean stupid, for those of you on here who obviously are.
@palsbro89 There are so many vids on yt of him strangling dogs, he is over.
@lst2freak which is great, cause we all know they understand english. Are you ever dumb.
what if ive done one of these things..(bad things shes mentioned) awhile ago when i was younger and just started training with also a really young, timid dog. and Now I realize what i was doing was the wrong way! I feel so bad and awful knowing that! I love my dog more then anything but i always feel such guilt and like a mean person for that in my past.
@palsbro89 check out Dr. Sophia Yin’s video: ‘JRT aggression - counter conditioning’
How would you train a dog that is not into food (even cheese or meat), nor toys and that is stressed out and won’t eat or play? Also what would be your reaction and response when a dag is aggressive and gets into fights with other dogs? I train dogs regularly and I’m interested in positive methods, however sometimes I use intimidation and negative response to unwanted behaviors as I often find positive method don’t work with certain dogs…
I think this video is a MUST SEE for all people who interacts with dogs (or other animals) – pet owners, trainers and other professionals.
Now Emilys manifesto is also translated in to Danish (by me) and has been posted on her website.
Denne video er aktuel for alle i hele verden, der har med dyr at gøre – baade privat og professionelt!
no offence.but i bash my dog if doesnt listen
master-slave relationsship? who invented that term? thats right – you! not Cesar….
positive reinforcement isnt all there is in the world.. what would you do with a highly human-aggressive dog? offer it a treat? i very much agree with the fact that you shouldnt use emotions in dog training but it is possible to use physical touch without getting angry or frustrated.. dogs use a lot of physical touches so why shouldnt you? its very human to think that all has to be possitive but that is not the reality in the animal world. not that you should ever be mean to your pet. just firm
My puppy kept chewing his wicker toy box. I whipped a towel on the side board and said “Hey!” He did it again and then I whipped the towel on the side board again. He hasnt done it since. Also, he still loves me and follows me everywhere.
@captmicha Don’t think so. I think a lot of people just don’t know any better.
I was playing with my dog she is about o be 2 years old and its a girl so we were messing around ant i was pretending to be a dog and knuged her with my head and pushed her a little and she knows who’s boss but then i let her win for once and now when i play with her she alwas wants to do is win and i dove over my center table and tackled her and i fell off my bed with my dog i got a concussion and cracked the floor but she was never the same can u twll me y
Thank you for your wonderful advise and calm approach. Having a dog will ultimately force one to look at ones self and realize that every action is causing reaction. Dogs are here to teach us about ourselves if we are paying attention at all. Acting out without thinking is rampant in our society….
@BIGbrando84 not very smart are you? It was pretty obvious what she meant, she gave an example…don’t take an angry tone of voice in hopes of intimidating your dog into doing what you want. Duh.
One more comment, sorry. Only when people start to accept that psychological abuse is on par with physical abuse, only then will it begin to stop. The Dog Wheesperer uses some physical abuse but largely uses psychological abuse and because it’s not recognized by many as a form of abuse, he has the large following that he does.
But the “master slave” relationship makes people feel important and in control and that’s their sole reason for forcing those roles.
@Berto55535 I believe she covered this topic in one of her videos before. Her advice is very astute and helpful, I’d try to find the video(s) if I were you.
@BIGbrando84 I don’t agree so I’m going to call her a hippy to validate myself.
@NostalgiaMedia Thank you for admitting this and keeping an open mind! Your relationship with dogs can only improve the more you educate and improve upon yourself. No one is perfect but willingness to change and improve is as near to perfection as one can get.
@anvandarnamnnr1 I’ll believe it when your dog tells me himself. Until then, that’s just what you claim.
awesome channel!
political correctness now in dog training -.- i tought my dog to behave around people and other dogs with corrections. my dog still loves me and i’m very proud of him.