Dogman Downunder

SCIINTIFIC DOG TRAINING A Little ramble about junk science.

AGGRESSIVE WOLFHOUND X RIDGEBACK I got a call from a young couple asking for help with their three-year-old dog who was aggressive to dogs and people. He particularly didn't like men and when they first got him at one year old it took three weeks for the male partner to get enough trust from 'Whiskey' to be able to touch him. Whiskey was very aggressive to anyone who came into the house and that included all their friends who he had known for years. He would be alright around some of the women and one male friend was ok as long as he didn't move too fast. With some, he wouldn't stop growling and when they went to leave he became more aggressive. It reached a point where he leapt at one friend really aggressively. Then, he had to be locked away while anyone else was in the house. Having already spent thousands on pseudo personal trainers they had a lot of questions before agreeing to have me come out to help. Let's have a few words about what 90% of personal trainers are doing because it is a scam and immoral. The first scammer sat on the deck and talked about distraction and just watched the dog from up high while whiskey was in the garden. From that assessment, she advised my owners to teach him 'Sit' and distract him with a ball or food anytime he tries to attack people. 'Now give me your money' Needless to say, that didn't work. Number two pseudo trainer turned up and she actually went for a walk with the owners and the dog Problem with that was, she wouldn't go near the dog. While they walked on the pavement with Whiskey this junk trainer walked three meters away on the road. Her answer to him reacting to other dogs aggressively was to tell them to teach Whiskey a solid 'Heel'. No instruction how the hell they were supposed to do that apart from feeding treats. She said they should teach a solid 'Sit' using treats rewarding him when he was good. No instruction or what to do when he was bad because a solid sit would make him into a good boy. Doesn'

HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO STOP BARKING DOGS? Six lessons? Six months maybe? or a year or two?. I guarantee any trainer, and that means most trainers, can stop any dog within Sixteen years. Unfortantly with most trainers nowadays that is a realistic goal. How many treats are involved?... A hundred a day for many years?... maybe twenty tons over the life of a dog is a reasonable estimate. Wouldn't it be nice if owners could get mostly on top of the problem before the dog dies? 'Don't be silly they say, your dog has mental problems' or 'you are a useless owner and it's your fault'. 'I'm a professional and I know better. if you spend two hours a day for years getting a solid 'sit' you can make them sit when they bark'. Give me your money and don't ring me again if you are too lazy to do the right thing with your dog'. The following videos are from a proper treat-free dog trainer who doesn't blame the owners but teaches them what is possible. All videos are unedited and from the same one-time consultation. There is no need to wait for your dog to die before getting some peace. Scroll down the comments for videos. Cheerio for now. Coming next- Human aggressive dogs

PROTECT YOUR DOG FROM OFF-LEAD DOGS Let's deal with kids running up to your dog first. That's easy, just keep your wits about you and point at the child coming in and say, 'Stop', in an authoritative but nice manner. Then explain to them how they must always ask first. If you want your dog to greet them wait a moment and then say ok to your dog and let it go up to the child. If your dog doesn't want to go up to the child don't make it and don't let the child come to your dog. Both your dog and the child have learnt a lesson. Be nice, you have done a good thing and children don't know any better. If the parents are nice, have a chat with them. Children and dogs are a good mix if you control it. If the parents are not nice, totally ignore them and don't say a word. They hate that. ADULTS THAT WANT TO PAT YOUR DOG Say 'wait', then explain to them you are teaching your dog not to run up and jump on anyone. Just about everyone will be polite and nice and help you by standing and talking if you ask them to. If you have a human-reactive dog , use the public who want to come near as training tools. Take that annoyed look off your face and smile, but be in charge and stop everyone yourself. Be confident and in control. The public are used to everyone being weak and feeble, so when you say 'Wait' with authority in a calm voice but mean it, they will stop and immediately give you respect. Weakness gets bullied. CHARGING DOGS Now we get to the nitty-gritty. How do we stop a charging, off-lead dog running up to our dog that is on the lead? The first thing to do is get some courage, Without courage everything I teach you will be a waste of time. Unfortunately, we now have an awful lot of men who should take charge but are effeminate babies who wear more makeup than their ladies. If that isn't you, you have no reason to get offended and know what I'm talking about. It's a male duty to step up and protect women. I see too many men standing back and watching a lady struggle with a

GRAEME HALL Look Graeme.... I watched one of your telly shows last night and you used my Stick boundary training to 'Try' and stop three dogs barking and charging the front door It's good that you secretly follow me and learn from my videos, that's why I put them up. So owners and other trainers can learn a different way if they wish. But if you are going to copy me you have to 'Copy everything', not go off on a tangent of your own and only copy the striped stick part. You had three dogs to train but two of them disappeared without explanation, presumably in a puff of smoke somewhere and we never saw them again and you then tried to teach just the one Whippit x. Not a hard task if you follow my advice but you managed to make a complete pig's ear of it and failed to get the Whippit to stay behind the Boundary. "For goodness sake man!" you're on the telly. At least get one dog to change. Failure like that is embarrassing to yourself and it gets my stick boundary training a bad name. 'Dogs behaving badly' They were still behaving badly when you left. Up your game Graeme. Ring me on 0407131277 and I will tell you how to do it properly and what you did wrong. In the meantime, watch this video again to refresh your memory from when you first liked the idea. Cheerio

GREYHOUND RECALL {Final} Warning...I don't usually give warnings but this is one that needs saying. Never put a Greyhound on a long line unless you are blessed with a huge amount of common sense and are always aware of everything that is going on over a large distance. If you have to look at your phone while out with your dog leave it at home. If you cannot keep 100% concentration on your dog and the environment never put a Greyhound on a long rope. No Greyhound should be allowed to run at speed and be jerked back hitting the end of a long rope. "Don't let it happen' Keep your wits about you. Lead work like this is for owners who have a brain. "I'm not your mum, use your own brain when it comes to common sense" In this last video, you can see what all the boundary and Park structure work was all about. It was all leading up to becoming...in the eyes of the dog,.. 'the Master'... A leader who the dog respects so he wants to follow my lead. This is what 'Dog Whispering' is all about. Making little rules so your dog respects you and he then wants to be with you and do what you want. Anyone can force a dog to do something or bribe a dog but when it is off-lead, your dog has to like you as a master and leader to get full control. Think of it this way- Religious people will follow their God all the time. but they won't follow their best friend all the time. They love their God over everyone. Get your dog to think you are his God and he will love and follow you always and they do think good masters are Gods, They long to follow a master and be devoted to a master. They feel safe and have freedom and joy when they have structure and someone in charge. My dogs can go miles chasing prey but I never have to worry about them coming back. They will always come back to me because I am their home comfort. I am a part of the pack. the most important one bar none...even if I am the slow bugger leader who cannot keep up. Little rules make the big rules easy. In this vide

GREYHOUND RECALL About an hour after starting the park work, we move on to recall training properly. Remember all the previous work giving little rules is a build-up to this. You cannot do the hard stuff if you don't get your dog to do little rules. In this first video, I test Peanuts pack instinct and it turns out to be nearly non-existent. Some dogs want the pack and some couldn't care less. That's why you have to become a leader. The leader bonds the pack together so they all want to be part of it. They only follow a friend if they feel like it at the time. If you become a respected leader they all want to follow all the time. If you have a Greyhound on a long lead common sense has to used all the time so it doesn't see something to bold after and come to a full stop at the end. If you don't have any common sense don't do this, Go get advice from the buttercups. The owners have 200 acres where their dogs can run free but Peanut just disappears for hours and cannot have that freedom until he has a Master he wants to come back to. Having a dog is a responsibility and it's the owner's job to grow up and take responsibility as a adult so their dogs can have a free and decent life. Tratado...Cheerio Note---My previous posts have upset some ignorant buttercups because Peanut looked like he didn't want to do something and looked unhappy because I made him. I suggest the buttercups get some counselling. Peanut won't be going to see a therapist because he has more backbone than all the buttercups put together and was completely over it in two minutes. and he goes on to show he loves me for it. Buttercups---A message from all dogs. 'Please take a lesson from your dogs and grow up you wimpy Goblins'

JOBS FOR GREYHOUNDS Give your dog a job to get a better recall. This video says it all about how Greyhounds have a different mindset from your average dog. I ask Peanut to jump over the obstacle and he says 'Why that's pointless' and who can blame him? A lot of Greyhound owners would say 'Why'? what has that got to do with recall?' The reason is, I am bringing up my leadership and you will see in later videos how much of a difference that makes when I become his respected leader he wants to follow. Getting a dog to come back to you isn't just a case of teaching it to come. If a dog doesn't respect you as a leader all the punishment. praise or thousands of treats will not work when the time comes when your dog really doesn't want to come back. Bribery and or punishment on their own will fail at some time. You have to have a dog want to follow you as a person he wants to be with above anything. Little jobs you make then do are the fuel for that leadership. Cheerio for now. Thought of the day-- Ask the cage trainers if they think a Greyhound should be locked in a cage and how big.

GATE RULE My stick boundary rule to keep your dog safe. You won't always be there to feed treats and give praise. You need to rule with your calm mind so your dog controls itself when you are not there. There is a good example of the dogs talking to each other with energy transferred from the owner.

RECALL Does your dog run to you to get put on the lead and then run away? That's your dog demanding you 'hurry up' If you cannot get your dog to come straight to you when you are at home you have no chance when out in the wide world. Fix that first

GREYHOUND [4] Now we move on and start doing some boundary training with my boundary stick training. This is the foundation of all my training because it calms the dog's mind unlike 'Sit' or 'Lay down' which put the dogs in a fixed position. No dog can relax its mind if it is forced to be in any set position or made to stay fixed on a mat. My way helps the calm side of your dog take over the wild side. That's the key to getting a well-behaved dog. Now you may well ask 'What has that got to do with recall? It is no good going out and trying to get your dog to come back without having respect at home. Out in the wide world, your dog must want to be with you because you are its leader.A master makes little rules to make the dog want to obey when it gets excited. Lo and behold , Little Jax the perfect whippet isn't so perfect. It turns out he is a bit of a spoiled brat. When telling a dog off it is no good just waving your finger around. It's your energy that counts. You must bring up nasty energy or you will fail. 'Treat your dog like a human and your dog will treat you like a dog' I'm leaving the problem of the fear of the dog door until the end because I must build trust to work with a nervous dog so I will spend a couple of hours doing other things with the dogs first. Cheerio for now Next a video and talk about those horrible harnesses.

GREYHOUNDS [3] I was called out to see 'Peanut [Fawn dog Greyhound]...' Pebbles' [Brindle Bitch Greyhound] and 'Jax' the Whippet. Peanut, was over-excited, needed a better recall and he wouldn't go through the doggy door that led outside to the back garden. Pebbles, had developed a fear of whistles and was frightened of the school crossing down the road by the park. the lollypop lady blows a whistle down there to tell the children when to cross the road. Jax was said to be perfect. This video shows the very start of our consultation and I am starting to exert my leadership and dominance over the dogs. Greyhounds are not true hounds but they do require much the same approach as hounds. They like to think before they do something if it goes against their DNA. For instance... if a rabbit runs straight past their nose, instinct kicks in and they chase it. If you tell them to 'come here'. no instinct kicks in and they tend to ask, 'Why?'. Then they think, 'Oh, I will get in trouble if I don't, then they stroll over. Don't expect fast obedience with either. To get a good well-behaved Greyhound you have to have respect from that Greyhound as a leader. Once you have that leadership and respect they will listen and come back to you. You cannot bully or love a Greyhound to make you its leader. This means you have to provide food, housing, grooming, rules, and freedom so your Greyhound can get out and about and sometimes be off lead, injuries aside. You will see me get Peanut off the sofa and tell him off. It is very important to have an after-effect with your disapproving energy. If you just say 'Off; and pull him off without the right negative energy he will treat you as a bigger force at that time but you will not be elevated in his mind as a leader. You will just be a person who pulled him off and he will not respect you. Respect has to be earned in his mind. It's psychological. Ask any questions you like about this video. In the next video, we get ready t

DANGEROUS DOGS AT CAFES On Saturday 26-11-22 my lady was sitting down having a coffee on the footpath with her 15 year old little dog who was in a pram, The cafe is called 'Sweet Bambino cafe' situated on the Esplanade at Paradise Point Gold Coast Qld. My Lady saw a Staffie attack another person's passing dog on the public walkway. The woman with the aggressive dog pulled it back and then proceeded to approach the other person's innocent dog again muttering the insane words of 'Hi puppy good girl' My Lady thought... "this is not going to go well, some dog or some passing child could get badly injured here" so started filming the dogs. I am absolutely sick of self-entitled fools with dangerous dogs putting everyone at risk at this Cafe while the Cafe owner stands by and condones it. Then this woman noticed the dogs were being filmed and behaved like a spoiled violent baby. She started screaming like a demented banshee demanding the video be deleted. My Lady, who is much older than these cowards and had her 15 year old tiny unwell dog in a pram, was then subjected to a verbal and physical attack from this coward. Not only from this banshee, but the banshee's partner, a cowardly man joined in verbally abusing my lady. It doesn't stop there. Like a pack of pathetic nasty evil rats, two more people joined in venting their cowardly crap . Another pathetic cowardly joke of a man came out of the cafe claiming to be the owner and said these people were his friends and demanded my lady leave the pavement area outside. I am sick to death of seeing these dogs and other dogs at this cafe attack innocent dogs walking by. This cafe is turning into a greasy Joe's, and the creep of an owner should have his licence taken away. There will be a day of reckoning for the cowardly men who attacked my lady. I will now let her tell her story. So, I just sat down with my coffee, having said a pleasant hello to the owners of the two staffies. Then the guy with the tan dog comes

BARKING DOGS AND THE TERRIBLE EFFECT OF PUNISHMENT This is the last video in the series on barking dogs. In total, I spent about two and a half hours one morning with these two extreme barkers who barked at everything they saw or heard. In all that time I didn't say one bit of praise for anything. All I did was tell them off for all their bad behaviour for two and a half hours. All dogs are loyal, loving friendly and fun. All will have to do to get our perfect dog is get rid of the dog stuff we don't want. No one has to teach any dog how to have fun or how to be happy. They are looking for a leader to take charge and then they are happy. According to 100% of new-age dog trainers, these dogs should now be cringing wrecks terrified of me. In fact...they are terrified of the world without someone to protect them and take responsibility over their lives. If ever you see the words "No harm dog trainer' be assured that trainer is doing harm because of their weakness and selfish ways while virtue signing about how kind they are. Watch the video and judge for yourself. Our spiritual connection to dogs coming next Cheerio for now .

BARKING DOGS{7} In this video, we have moved on and I hand the reins over to the owner. I go outside and do everything I can to wind the dogs up Previously when friends have come over, despite making friends with the dogs and the dogs finally stop barking, every time someone moves quickly or stands up they go into another frenzy of barking. So I am blowing a whistle and running to stir them up so we can train them. Broken record now--'Dont avoid the issues', go head first into them so you can train at the worst time. Fiddling around for weeks or years trying to keep below threshold is a complete waste of time. The mistakes you and everyone will make doing this for the first time are,, you will not respond quickly enough to the barking. You will walk away while the dog is still barking and not ready to submit to your rules. And the biggest one of all is you will not be strong and nasty enough to your dog. It will be a caress of affection rather than strong bad energy. Be weak at this point and you will fail forever. 'Step up or give up' My final video comes next when I show how my punishment has made these dogs trust and like me. The total time of all the training in the videos, travel and all the off the camera work from start to finish is two and a half hours. One consultation. Now, if you get to this point after ... let's say, four hours, remember the whole lot has to be done in one go. not spit into a little bit here one day and another bit another day. If you cannot stop your dogs from barking at any of the video stages, something has gone wrong. Put a video up on my page and I will tell you why so you and everyone else can learn . You cannot learn without making mistakes and you cannot correct those mistakes without me teaching you what you did wrong. Cheerio

BARKING DOGS [6] We finally move on to the main point of this session, stopping the dogs barking in the house. This is where all the previous work with my boundary stick training and building up my dominance over the two dogs comes to fruition. Online Training-- Just a short bit of advice about online training. If you do want to learn how to train dogs better you must watch videos of things being done wrong as well as the trainer doing it right. No one, and I mean no one, no matter how good does anything right the first time. You have to know what little things you do wrong when you try for the first time. You have to try and have someone watching so they can tell you those little mistakes. When Podrick starts barking and I start stalking him what you cannot see is the negative energy I am giving out all the time. I'm not just walking slowly looking like I have pooed myself for fun. I am giving out calm, I'm in charge energy. That's what will work for you, Your dog doesn't care that you might look stupid, he doesn't care about your wagging finger, words or your screwed up face. But he does care and listen to your energy. Getting that energy right is key and going slow and stiff will help you get the right energy. As soon as you feel just the least frustrated you will lose the battle. And it is a battle of wills and energy. If you cannot have more determination and better energy than a little stubborn dog you may as well give up. 'Step up or give up' Podrick and I are doing a dance of wills here. Watch carefully when I stalk him. It looks like I am in control of Podrick but I am teaching him he is in control of me. He controls what I do just as we control a car. I stalk him for barking, when he stopped I stop going forward and my negative energy starts going down. He tries to go forward and I move to block him. I stare at him and he looks away and I flick my eyes away and stop the negative energy. He stares at me and lifts his lip growling and my negative ener

BARKING DOGS [5] Now we take them both down to the promenade where there are always dozens of dogs and people whatever the time of day. The surprise here was It was Rosie who became the instigator. Rosie, who I had down as perfect and being led astray by Podrick. We spent about twenty minutes getting on top of that problem and then it was back home to start stopping the barking in earnest there. All that I have done before is leading up to dealing with the main problem in the home. I now have respect and a lot of trust from Podrick and Rosie so they won't be scared sh*tless when I punish them for barking. There are three videos here and two more in the comments. Barking in the home video coming tomorrow

BARKING DOGS {4} The foundation of all my training is my stick boundary training at the front door and in my opinion, there aren't any videos around on stopping dogs rushing out of the front door better than this one. Watch it twice and read this twice because there is a lot going on that anyone can learn from. I put my Dogman stick boundary down and tell both dogs, in doggish, not to cross the stick. Then I get the owners to go to the other side so they want to follow. My plan is always to confront the issues at the highest level. The owner leaving makes them go to the highest level and try to cross the boundary. This is the first time totally unedited and these dogs have always rushed out of the door. But as you can see with the right language and energy I can tell them exactly what I want and get obedience in minutes. There is no need for weeks, months or years of training. When I see videos of trainers teaching owners to open and shut the door continually in the hope the dogs get fed up or saying sit, sit, sit then feeding treats to bribe the dogs I get really frustrated. Can they not see my videos of how easy it is to save a dog's life and stop it from running away only to get knocked over on the road, or never be found again.? Stopping the family dog from running out of the front door is the number one issue to fix before anything else. All the other training is a complete waste of time if your dog is dead or permanently missing. It's an easy fix and don't let any trainer tell you differently. There I am on the goggle box screen in real life doing it with two of the hardest breeds to train. I stand to the side so the dogs have free will to go forward or not and tell them not to cross the stick. The light brown dog who I will call Little Angel because she is an Angel abandons Podrick and takes me as her leader. Angle has been following Podrick for years but abandons him in minutes for me. Watch how she stands behind me and says to Potrick, 'Do what y

BARKING DOGS {3} In this video, I am explaining how dogs don't understand English but they all talk Doggish. How dogs don't hear what we think they hear, how 'shut up' means get excited to a dog, and how 'Good boy' means get excited to a dog. How, when a dog who is a barker gets excited, that then leads to barking. How excitement is your enemy when you want good behaviour. Watch this video twice because it is a perfect example of what a dog hears compared with what I say. The total opposite of what we as humans hear. The next video is getting the dogs to stop at the front door with my Dogman boundary stick training to stop them from barking. Cheerio

BARKING DOGS {2} The dogs are put away in another room so we can have a talk about the problems and I can explain how dogs think and how to talk Doggish so they understand more what we want. Talking Doggish is the key to getting the behaviour you want in the quickest way. That's talking with your energy or emotions rather than human voice and body language. As it happens these two tykes just won't shut up so I had them put on the lead and, well, let me take it step by step so you can get a guest to do this in order for them to gain the confidence of your nervous dog. I shouldn't have to say this on my common sense page but I will just this once., Obviously don't get your guests to hold a seriously aggressive dog. That's it, no more wasting ink on just telling anyone to use common sense. Move the guest chair right away from the table and the owner because dogs get power from the owner and cave effect under the table. Then put your dog on the lead and hand it over to your guest. Now the dog cannot flee from me and when he barks or tries to get away I pull him close to me and then let the lead loose again. Trust This is one of those psychological moments where you can learn about how human psychology is different from ours. I have dominant respect from these dogs just because that is my energy, but I don't have trust. You will notice I don't correct them for jumping on me as you have seen me do in other videos. That's because they are different dogs with different personalities. They are nervous about me so I need trust as well as a dominant persona before I can correct them. What I am going to tell you now is very important for how you deal with dogs in the future. Most people think making friends with dogs brings trust. It doesn't. Trust..with dogs, comes with being a leader, not being friends with them. If I sat there and make friends with them ,which is the easiest thing to do and you will see countless trainers doing that and it looks good but is in fact bad.

BARKING DOGS IN THE HOME {1} This is the first in a series of short videos showing step by step how to stop your dog or dogs barking in your home. The quality of the videos may not be the best but the information about dog psychology and stopping dogs from barking is the best I have seen on any videos anywhere. I know they are my videos, but I really think they are the best. Everyone should watch them and learn new information that I haven't seen any trainer show before. If you know of any videos of the same or better let me know because I love watching good trainers. I managed to delete the knocking on the door because I'm stupid with computers. Never mind, I'm perfect in every other way so being computer illiterate is a small price to pay. Perhaps I can be humble now. Well...for five minutes at least. We knocked on the door and the two sausage dogs went barking mad, as is normal with every sausage dog on the planet. We walk in, and as you can see the two dogs go crazy, Podrick the light dog wants to drive us away and makes continued attacks at our feet. Straight away I can see this is nervous aggression and all they want to do is drive us away. If this ever happens to you, tell the owners to keep quiet and still, and then you have to stand your ground without moving. Moving and talking would just escalate the aggression and get you bitten. We are showing confidence and dominance just by standing still and letting the first flush of excited aggression subside. Owners' intervention at this moment is the most dangerous part. Don't let them intervene. Tell them to stand right back because the dogs get strength from their owners. Let the storm pass a bit. Tip for novice trainers- Never do this with any big dogs until you have a lot of experience. Walking into someone's house when they have aggressive dogs is one of the most dangerous things any trainer can do. You have to know what you are doing, so start with little dogs. These dogs bark at everything. Eve

BARKING DOGS The number one complaint councils receive about dogs is barking and It's a problem that is very difficult to stop without expert help. That expert help is in severely short supply. So I hope this series of videos can help in some way for you. The two dogs here are making their owner's life very hard, especially the light one named Toby. I left to visit them with the words to Margo, "Easy day today, I'm seeing two little barking fluffies' Should have kept my mouth shut because Toby...the little tyke, turned out to be the hardest to stop barking dog I have ever encountered, bar one Collie who was medically insane. And I have seen a thousand or two of the worst cases. Toby has a big problem in he is totally obsessed with his lady owner and that obsession overrides every feeling he has to the contrary. Still...two and a half hours later we had him doing what he has never done before in his life. There is a series of seven videos coming up after these quick videos I took of these two showing step by step what to do. Follow these videos and learn how If you want.. Scroll down to the comments for the other two videos of these two tykes. Cheerio Ps--The video is taken on its side so you can lie down and relax while watching it after a hard day's work. Nothing to do with me being a useless cameraman.