Good morning everybody.

It's actually pathetic.

Good morning everybody.

That's much better.

Good.

We have a very exciting three days.

I'll summarize it very quickly.

Today is basically about maximizing puppyhood.

We're not doing what we should.

We're still getting utterly predictable problems.

You know we don't need the brains of Einstein to work this out.

Dogs do certain things.

Some things we laugh.

Some things we find unpleasant annoying or disagreeable.

And it's about time we started preventing them the next day is essentially it's a
learning theory redux.

It's the result of about three years of me thinking about something that I knew is
so wrong it's ridiculous.

But I couldn't work out what was wrong with it.

And it's sits basically the notion of consequences in training.

Traditionally known as reward and punishment.

That's not going to work.

It's really not that.

We've got so many new innovations in this lecture.

Punishment is not sufficient.

Even if we make penicillin non aversive which you can only do with your voice Of
course you can do it

if you're using some kind of quantum panic like a leech call or a shock or a word
like no.

But it's not sufficient.

We don't want to just inhibit and eliminate undesirable behavior.

We want the dog back on track as soon as possible.

I think we've lost that way in dog training we've been barking up the wrong tree
for about 110 years

and I've worked out I think the reasons why this has happened.

It's the disappearance of verbal feedback and language from animal training.

It's nonexistent now and it's nonexistent anywhere in the field of learning which
is absolutely ridiculous

if you think about it.

I mean when I go through the history of the field it becomes laughable.

A very exciting day.

I love talking about it.

The implications are absolutely huge huge for getting rid of behavior.

We don't want whether you're talking dog horse Gibble husband Bill whatever the
final day is basically

off leash training getting verbal control of your dog.

We'll look at all the five reward based training techniques pros and cons of each
analyze training what

are we really trying to do and then come up with the quickest easiest way to get
off leash control.

When a dog is distracted.

So I'm with today this as you know is the day off to serious his birthday Sirius
was 30 years old yesterday

and even lit a big candle for Sirius when I got home and Toppi course is a great.

Which is you know I'm sure a lot of you teach them.

They are wonderful.

They are brilliant.

But it's much too little much too late.

If we go back to like the original works on socialization at Scott and fuller.

So what is it genetics and social behavior of dogs.

I got mad because someone stole my copy my copy was signed by my mentor Frank Beach
John Paul Scott

and John Fola and I lent it.

And I know I lent it to a serious puppy trainer 25 years ago and it was never
returned.
And I think I know who has it and I'm going to track him down because that was a
very special book to

me.

Anyway I put him up so they said socialization has to happen before 13 weeks.

They said it couldn't have been for three weeks.

But of course that's wrong.

Just goes the dog cart here and see doesn't mean to say he can't smell and feel.

And when we think what is the biggest quality in dogs I would say they are huggable
right.

And might say they are handleable.

Well it's the same thing just depends on whether the dog knows you or not.

If he knows you it's a hog.

If he doesn't know you then it's a grope or you're being handled and examined and
restrained.

But to me it's the best quality in a dog.

And I don't see the point of living with a dog hog is really crazy if you have to
take your dog to the

vet have it he has clean teeth claimed it.

I mean it's too dangerous for words.

It's like living with a husband every time you leaned over to give him a kiss on
the cheek he stabs

you.

I'm being serious.

You know the whole point of living together you know is to snuggle down on the
couch at night with the

fire a glass of red wine and you're playing with your dog's ears a little bit right
inside the ear splits

here and you put your finger inside and it's so soft and you whittle it around.

When you do it.

The dog's asleep his little nose will twitch and his paws will do this and he'll go
on which I anticipate

as a groan as pleasure but we don't know.

I learned years ago a friend of mine was a sloth expert a sloth behaviorist.
Right.

So he was a psychologist at the Bronx Zoo.

And so he took a small home with him on a coat hanger and he hung it in his closet
three months because

he was studying sluffed behavior.

They don't move much you know.

So you want to be like sitting in a chair reading a book or watching the telly when
you're observing

them.

Anyway after three minutes he brings it back and I say what do you find out.

Is it the one thing if you tickle it under the chin it goes.

It lets out this like sigh of contentment.

All right.

So after three months that's all he had learned a few years later is down in
Australia at animal behavior

convention and they sat him next to the Australian expert.

So they're having a conversation right.

And the Australian slothing expert says well you know what you know about sloths.

And I says Oh not much Suzanne I mean either I only found out on things that you
know when they're really

-- off they go.

So I'm just assuming.

Assuming that's a sigh of pleasure.

But anyway to all intents and purposes socialization has to be a done deal before.

Three months went missing out in the puppy class is not a place to socialize a dog.

Puppy class is a safe for them to take a socialized dog to continue socialization
with people and to

revamp the socialization with dogs because they've been in a doggy social vacuum
since they left Mom

and the little Mapes unless there's all the dogs at home.

It's a place for the puppy to learn bite inhibition and it's a place for the puppy
for the owners to

learn how to control their dog off leash when distracted.

Hence all of the training is done off leash so we're kind of missing the boat there
now.

Years ago when I was filming the original serious puppy training which incidentally
was the very first

dog training video ever to be produced.

Amazing how far technology has come since then and now you can go home and you can
make a training DVD

in an evening.

In fact Jamie I've often done that you know sometimes we film in the morning it's
up there somewhere.

The way he puts it that people can view it around the world.

It's up there within 24 hours filmed edited posted somewhere in the clouds and
during the filming of

the video.

He always pushed around by the director you can train as you want to train.

You know you have to have.

No I want the dog to sit there not here.

I will let go some puppies are off leash you know.

So training and film is actually surprisingly difficult.

Well week to come in Grampian thingy week two people hadn't been doing the homework
and so it's making

me look bad on camera.

Now I've learnt what pet dog training is pet dog training isn't training a dog.

I mean that's simple man if you can't train a puppy that come and sit.

I mean don't get out of bed in the morning just you know self in the foot right
away.

It's Pet Dog training is about teaching people what to do and then motivating them
to do it and checking

that they have done it.

Motivation motivation motivation.

It's just like sunders lecture you know on an learnable training dogs you know we
teach them what to

do about 90 percent of training is teaching them to want to do what we want to do.

That's what training is.

Whether you're training a dog or a horse a husband or a child it's getting them to
want to do it.

OK.

So anyway I'm a little upset and a little bit of this speech is in the video and I
call it my ranch

in Sonoma speech.

And basically it's about the fate of puppies that puppy training to me offered me
an enormous window

on how puppies learn how problems develop that when I got into it was I started dog
development as you

know for 10 years.

I just watched puppies grow up.

We were really interested in how boys became boys and girls became girls.

We looked at lots of differences many differences primary sexual behavior.

But the secondary sexual characteristics urine marking fecal marking and the biggie
aggression.

So the study then morphed into a study of the development of social hierarchies.

Now when you look at male and female adults you think well are really different.

How did this happen.

When you see them grow up.

It all comes clear.

Well at the time I was dealing with behavior problems in adult dogs and some were
mystery dogs that

only misbehave when the owner is away from home.

And that was a real mystery for several years.

Now because it's all clear and really simple we know what's going on.

We know how to prevent it.

We know how to resolve it.

But it was when I started teaching puppy classes it's there it is.

I mean it's happening in front of you.

The owners are slowly surely progressing fleet scaring the dogs out.

They're not trying to it's unintentional but it's going wrong.

It's as if they read a book How Not to train your dog and I once wrote an article
called How to Train

your dog not to come when called and this was after Grendon camp and I were working
at the San Francisco

SPCA were having lunch in a park and we saw this woman calling her dog and it was
horrible.

I mean I had to hold Gwen down.

I thought she's going to go over there and pump this woman out.

You know it's the usual come here.

No response.

Come here.

Yeah like this.

I'm sorry Jamie.

Because when you scream at a dog like that the dog says yes I'll be right along.

So the dog says I do think so.

You're shouting at me and I know when you shout.

I know what's going to happen to me when I get there.

You're going to grab me and when you get angry face and that's what she did.

She grabs the dog.

She goes ugly face.

Don't you ever do that again.

And I know exactly what the dog is thinking.

-- right I won't.

Next time you call me the last thing we can do is come to you.

You think I'm stupid.

Come here what's the consequence.

You grabbed me picked me off the ground screaming in my face and roll me on my
back.

And everything she was doing was wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong.

So I wrote an article for the American Kennel Club Gazette.

I had started the behavior column there.

So the article was how to teach a dog not to come when called and it said number
one never do any prior
training.

Never never teach the dog the English language never give the dog an idea what you
want him to do.

Number two wait until the dog's at a distance and really distracted.

Like if he's chasing a squirrel or he has a nose up and out the dog's rear end and
then scream at the

top of your voice.

Come on over here you son of a female dog.

So I get this I'm killer because I thought this is what people have been reading so
I thought I'd better

formalize it and put it down.

Believe it or not I got a letter saying Dear Doctor dumba I really enjoyed your
article and the Kennel

Club Gazette.

I tried it but it doesn't seem to work.

I thought oh my word never joke around again with that kind of stuff.

I mean you never mind moving along.

So I got into my route to Sonoma speech and which is pretty much the substance of
this lecture and what

can we do to prevent this happening.

And I said look guys were in the room we got 12 puppies here that young.

But at the moment from what I've heard you let them off leash at home.

They're all over the place you know watching them you're not giving them any
instruction.

They have the run of the home and garden.

We've got dogs already which are digging eating garden furniture eating plants many
of which are poisonous

that peeing and pooping inside the chewing the carpet.

I said I know what's going to happen to these dogs when they are five months old.

They're going to be relegated to the yard and you're going to say oh he'll grow out
of it.

He will not grow out of it he will grow into it.

This will get worse and worse when that dog has the jaws and activity of an
adolescent.
When the dog has the bladder about size of an adolescent this is a little pee and
poop.

This is a mess smeared all over your carpet and your dog's going into the yard
whereupon he will quickly

learn to dig and to bark.

He thinks this is cool because now his little yips it travel a long way and other
dogs are replying

to him in the neighborhood and he may learn to escape.

Actually I get to the shelter before you surrender him there because animal control
is going to pick

him up.

But no he won't be in the yard for long.

Why.

Because the neighbors are going to complain of the barking.

So are you going to put him in the basement or the garage.

All day long for 10 hours when you're at work solitary confinement social animal.

Now in your basement I mean why did you get a dog.

What's he doing in the basement.

Well he's going to destroy the basement because from lack of guidance you've taught
him to urinate and

defecate anywhere and everywhere and to chew anything and everything.

And that's what he'll do.

He'll destroy your basement his stay there will be one to three months six to eight
months he's going

to the shelter to a little cage 10 by 10 maybe on his own.

And we're going to try and adopt him out.

There's all this behavioral baggage shelter workers that go and try and have to
make this dog adoptable

if he gets out.

He'll probably come back.

Why.

Because he's not housetrain not chew toy trained he barks all the time he's
hyperactive.
He's now fearful.

Why.

Because he didn't socialize much in the yard on his own or in the basement.

And when the kids came home from school he was so excited to see someone he jumped
up and knocked them

over.

He was beyond himself.

Our person that person a person that they no longer let him inside did so.

So obviously I'm getting pretty angry with these people.

Well in the shelter the fact is it's a sad fact there's too many dogs in shelters
their homes all of

them some of them are going to be euthanized.

So we use confinement the wrong way.

We've gone backwards.

We start by giving the dog total freedom in the breeder's kennel.

Dogs are trained to do anything.

Total freedom during the first month the first two months plus two and a half
months home.

Then we start confining the dog confined to the yard confined to a smaller basement
confined to a small

cage in a shelter and then eventually for many confined to a black plastic bag.

It's miserable isn't it.

Well we're going to do today is this is formally the launch of a new program.

It is international.

As I start the day it is also being launched in England Australia and Japan.

I haven't got the candidate yet.

All over the world.

All this stuff is already translated into Japanese and we're working on Spanish and
French and Portuguese

and we have to realize that dogs are dogs and they do doggie things.

It may seem surprising to some people but dogs pee they poop.

I mean I mentioned yesterday someone came to me and said I've got a big problem
with my dog.
Dr. -- I said What's this.

He barks.

It's like no he doesn't.

Who would ever have expected that.

Now you actually could surprise me if you came to me and Valerie said.

We got a big problem.

I said What's this.

Well I was talking to my dog yesterday and I said good morning dog and it went.

That would surprise me or my dad but it doesn't surprise me.

So we have to accept this fact and we have to let every dog owner know when you get
a dog he's going

to want to pee and poop.

Would you want him to do it.

OK.

How are you going to let him in on that secret.

Because it's no good keeping household rules a secret or else the dog will do what
he wants to do it.

Do you know what they want to do it.

Do you know where a Doberman wants to pee on the carpet.

Why.

Because that little diddy sensitive poles don't like wet.

Labrador doesn't give a --.

He'll do it on your kitchen and the urinal -- round through his feet and he's
happy.

Pause pause.

I'm cool.

OK.

But some dogs don't like wet paws.

Huskies don't.

Never seen a female husky pee.

And the urine dribbles to a high pool.

Silly funny dumps need to urinate and defecate.

We have to show them where dogs will chew things.

We have to teach them what dogs will bark.

We have to teach them.

When was that.

And for how long.

Dogs are gonna get lonely when left home alone.

We've got to prepare them for that.

Just as I think when raising a child the most important thing to teach that child
is how to stand on

his own two feet.

I don't mean that physically I mean hey you could be in this world on your own you
know horrible stuff

happens.

You've got to be able to do it on your own.

You've got to teach independence.

We've got to teach confidence.

I think the same way with a little puppy is the first thing I teach him the first
day he comes in to

the home at eight weeks lovely if the breeders do this.

But if not then the owners pay.

You have little quiet moments on your own.

And yes we're going to teach you a hobby because we know you probably can't do
crosswords or watch the

telly you know listen to podcasts.

So we're going to teach you a chew toy chewing hobby.

In fact we're going to turn you into a chew toy a holic.

So when you wake up in the morning.

Man I need a chew toy.

On that level you know a nicotine or chocolate type habit.

OK.
Because he's got to have activity.

Got to have something to do when left alone and that takes his mind off the fat.

He's alone but he needs to learn that as quickly as possible.

So we know dogs develop house soiling destructive chewing excessive barking and
home alone.

Maybe separation anxiety problems.

When are we going to prevent them.

Is it difficult.

No.

It's as easy as falling off a log.

Single problem is the owners when they get the puppy at eight weeks don't have the
necessary information.

All the information is available.

A lot of it's available in these two books which are free to everybody online.

They've been up there for free for how long.

Jamie two years.

Yes.

You download them you customize them with your own name and your e-mail to all your
clients to veterinarians

for promotion your e-mail and everyone across the world.

I want these two books to go viral.

I'm not going to print any more of them.

OK.

These are now e-books.

These will become classics like a book.

Wow.

Scott pages in how unique this is how my iPad works.

When you flick it.

Oh you have to turn yourself.

That's really cool.

That's really cool.

So all the information is available.

But owners don't know it's there until it's too late.

And what do you mean by too late.

The older the dog the longer it's had the habit the harder it is to resolve.

When it comes to socialization.

Permanent damage is done if we miss out on early socialization.

Yeah we can rehabilitate so we can have a dog that can function in the world but
that dog will never

be what he could have been.

I mean when I look at the.

So the moment at best socialized dog is do we picked up do and when he was six
weeks old before we got

him home.

So we picked him up in the evening and I think it was 4:30 at a conference and I'm
from a conference

in Philadelphia before we got him home that night.

He had been handled by about 250 people it's the little six week old puppy and he
loved it we picked

it up.

Conference everyone at the conference wanted to hold him.

Yeah the dog had been driven down from up north.

Everyone Oh what a cute six week old puppy for goodness sake.

Mean not only is socialization easy it's so much fun.

Who wouldn't want a little 6 month old puppy now to have she goes with such stuff.

Just watch they don't glom onto you know because a six week old puppy will still do
it and they glom

on and you have a big hickey down your neck because you can pull them off.

She was I this sort of thing.

So just remember that we then went to the red carpet club at the pool he met about
30 people there.

We flew in first class to just about everyone on the plane came out.

So there's a little puppy in first class.

I said yes to be.

That's my favorite seat.

I sort of squished over with a little puppy have the seat to himself and everyone
came out and petted

him and everything.

It's easy to do.

We all doing it.

But if you miss out on socialization it actually does become too late for the dog
to be what he could

have been.

You can resolve behavior problems anytime in a dog's life.

It is harder.

The longer the dogs had the bad habit.

So one of the maxims of poor is good habits are just as hard to break as bad habits
do.

Make sure your dog develops good habits from the get go.

You can train a dog any time in your life.

Do not include a big red hound Rottweiler coonhound cross you know the doofus

Claude.

He was a special dog.

Let's say of all the dogs I have trained he requires the greatest number of trials
to get the criterion.

So a border collie usually six to ten got it most dogs.

Twenty trials.

They've made the association that sit means your hams going to do that.

So now they sit when you say set.

Claude took over two hundred trials to get a verbal come out.

Can you believe this.

The first thing he learned was go to your bed but he was so hardwired and for some
reason that he said

Go to your bed do this say Claude go to bed.

He looked earnestly and he'd run backwards and lie down on his bed right.

We didn't teach him that it's just a way of walking to his bed but he would run
backwards and drop them

if you moved the bed full of feet.

He couldn't do it.

This is like moving a beehive.

Know anyone here have bees.

You must never move a beehive more than a couple of inches a day.

Otherwise they can't find their way back home.

You just remove it bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit.

So move the bed.

Have one day the dogs were running round the dining room table and one of the dogs
we had then on the

trot on Claude's bed and it slid across the floor.

So I set de-clawed go to your bed.

Well the bed is there four feet away and the space where his bed was that he
couldn't do it.

We have changed the exercise and I said Claude go to your bed Claude go to go to
bed and he's like this.

And he used to tap dance when he didn't know what to do.

And he's big 110 pound dog like you but I don't don't tell.

Can I call a friend.

Can I call a friend like this.

I know it.

I know your son.

He just couldn't do it.

It is amazing.

I'm not in the last year of Claude's life.

It happened one day walking him and neither Kelly and I trained him.

I have to tell you the terrible secret.

We got him and I said Well when are you going to start his training.

Just no he's your dog you're going to train him.

I want to train him.

I mean he's enormous.

I mean you know he's dumb as a rock.

I mean we did the usual thing you do with puppies you know we took him to a point
Isabel and let him

off leash and hid from him.

And 45 minutes later Kelly and I are still hiding behind this rock and it hasn't
even notice yet.

Maybe that was a little early in the relationship but we just put on a gentle
leader on him and walked

him on leash for like nine years and then one day I was walking him I thought I
wonder what he's like

off leash.

I let him off leash.

He is this dog.

He just stopped by me.

He walked along with me and then he picked up.

He found a tennis ball and he picked it up and went like this.

And we told him to retrieve that.

And then we told him all these things so we didn't even start training him until a
year before he died

and we didn't know how old he was he could have been 12 or 14 because when we got
him from the SPCA

they said he was four but they were lying.

They know I mean they didn't know his teeth were worn down.

But I think that was from.

He eats everything clawed or ate everything.

I think it's probably about 18 months and we got him.

So anyway you can train the dog any time in his life and with each teaching like
obedience commands

it doesn't really matter what they've done.

It doesn't really slow down the training.

But when it comes to temperament no.

If you haven't socialized the dog in puppyhood that's permanent damage.

And this is what people don't realize and they don't like it when I say it now.

Yes.

I feel for any of you here if you had a dog that wasn't well socialized like we did
to dogs I adopted

Ashby and Claude obviously weren't well-socialized.

So we did our best and yeah I think they live good lives.

They could cope but we clawed.

I don't know.

It's I think very clearly separate.

When I talk this is what I know it's fact.

This is what I think.

I think Claude had flashbacks to whatever his life was before I got him.

He would still have panics leading up to the last week when he was around but you
would say Claude.

Hello.

It's me Ian.

Oh sorry.

But I think we have flashbacks.

Whatever happened back then we never forgot.

And why should he.

If we have unpleasant experiences we don't forget.

So this is the thing about socialization.

You've missed it.

You've damaged that dog for life.

Now if we did have breeders in the seminar I'd be very delicate explaining that
because I think pretty

much when owners buy a puppy at eight weeks of age they are totally screwed.

They they're buying livestock a dog that has been raised to eliminate anywhere and
everywhere to anything

and everything doesn't even know it and purposely Oh no we don't teach him that
he's a show dog I think

they're getting the short end of the stick and this we have to change.
And I think we can do it when readers realize the benefits of a program like this.

So anyway back to the ranch in Sonoma for the dogs that go to the shelter.

People tell the children in the house.

Well we found him at a new home and an elderly couple with more space.

They have a ranch in Sonoma County.

And I kept hearing this story and I thought there's got to be some wrong shop there
that I have to buy

has a couple of million dogs on it that you already know we know where it is right
and the kids know

where it is.

It's up in the sky and and it's kind of ironic because Jamie knows my son by the
way Jamie he days he's

he's the James and James and Kenneth and he knows my big dream is I want to run in
Sonoma County.

And as I just said the kids know where it is up in the sky.

How ironic if that's where my ranch is.

I dream about it.

I think about it all the time.

I mean I'm a farm boy I grew up on a farm.

I want to go back and have a big round with loads of animals around you know horses
pigs sheep chickens

dogs and what have you.

And that's what I do each day.

I just get up build a stone wall you know dig a pond or something like that.

Then the animals and it could well be I won't actually get the real ropes in Sonoma
County will just

be my dream and up I go up there.

But you know I'll still be happy.

I'll be there playing with my animals building my rocks so to move along.

We've got to do something about this.

How can we prevent this.

Basically I think it was about 11 years ago we started open Paul Kelly my wife
myself and the purpose
of open pool was it was by request could we get the Berkeley Humane Society and
Berkeley animal control

talking to each other and working together.

And we tried pretty hard but essentially the answer to that question was no we
couldn't.

After like two or three years work.

But we set up the computer program and this was at the same time the Davis shelter
medicine program

was being set up.

So we worked really closely which she led up to Sheila Gibson and and that was good
because I'm a veterinarian.

I'm a pretty old veterinarian.

That's why my vet knowledge is like 40 years ago.

Things have moved on since then.

In fact when I was at college parvovirus didn't even exist we hadn't made it yet.

By the way where do you think parvovirus came from.

Yeah.

Obviously manmade by accident.

My guess would be an Passau aging vaccines in another animal.

I would probably guess a cat vaccine in something like duck eggs and quite by
accident.

We made a virus that was bad for dogs.

Why do we think this.

Why do I think this because it broke out in every single major city in the world
within a couple of

months.

That means it was shipped by air.

This didn't spread naturally.

It was shipped and I would imagine injected into an animal.

I'm guessing cats I don't know could be humans but I'm guessing cats and then dogs.

Got it.

So it was before parvo.

So I wanted technical assistance.

And the question I had was look at all these rules and regulations at the shelter
about what you can

do and what you can't do with animals the size of their cages is written down.

There's only rules about physical stuff and physical health.

There is not one stipulation about the animal's mental health.

So Kelly and I sat down and we devised some really simple minimal mental health
requirements for kenneled

animals whether the animal is kenneled at the breeder's kennel

adults or a puppy whether it's in the owner's home for the first couple of months
whether it's in the

vet clinic for hopefully a very short stay or whether it's at a shelter.

And these provide for comfort companionship entertainment and education pretty
basic right.

Simple things like an adult dog needs for trips to a doggy toilet a day.

And after eliminating requires three trips to the pretty simple That's how you
train the dog a puppy

needs to go every hour.

All he needs to be confined in an area that has a toilet and is designed so his bed
is the farthest

place from his toilet.

Then a three and a half to four week old puppy will housetrained himself on the
other hand if you just

have him in a little pen with paper on the floor with it training him to go
anywhere and on paper.

I can't wait for Sunday morning when I'm reading the paper on the floor.

The puppy comes along with toilet how much up right on the sports page.

So we came up with these minimal mental health requirements.

And the goal is I think how can we get these up and running in breeders can also be
a difficult one

in the arm home at eight weeks.

That will be easier in shelters.

That is more difficult because shelters are usually governed by boards and boards
of directors.

And if you've ever worked on a board most of it will know that the board probably
couldn't organize
a booze up in a brewery.

I mean it's very difficult to get boards to move quickly and make decisions.

It's why I like doing business with Dogstar daily board meetings the three of us
myself Jamie Kelly.

Every decision goes to one.

Jamie and Kelly against him and we start doing it that night.

We move we make changes.

OK.

So how do we do this.

We've got to predict and prevent predict and prevent those of you that came to my
cat.

How many people were in Sacramento.

The whole front row here.

Good Lord.

This is it all love it.

No you were there way though you knew who else you knew.

Cool Welcome back.

So those of you who were at the academy

know what I've just forgotten I was going to tell you it.

Yes.

Thank you very much.

Absolutely it was just what I was going to say predict and prevent and predict and
prevent it.

You can't prevent it you know what it is that I gave you the dog training matrix.

OK.

And for those who don't have that you can get I think open ports in the open pool
manual.

Go to poor dot org.

And it's this is how I train people to be behavior counselors and I developed this
technique at the

San Francisco SPCA when I designed the behavior program in the middle of early 80s
that I was trained
the traditional way where you do it by subject I call them all cold ology
education.

You start with biology.

I think that's cool.

I like this.

Then you get into zoology and then you move in your school and it's only colleges
physiology pathology

bacteriology and you go on and on and on and on.

And when you are educated and you finish and and you pass and you become a
veterinarian and you're let

loose on the general public.

I remember every case I saw I thought What the hell's wrong with that animal.

I mean what a stupid way to teach people right.

I would do it the other way round and say What are the problems that animals have
what medical problems.

So if I were to say to you you have a five year old box in the waiting room tell me
what's wrong with

it without even saying it.

OK if you get to about I would be thinking Tumut right away.

All right you have a seven year old Doberman in the waiting room.

I be thinking something wrong with his heart.

You know a Shar-Pei.

Oh good lord wonderful so when the problem is you can't believe I'm going to get my
BMW.

I love being a vet because I have a shar pei practice.

Yeah we had a pretty good idea what the problems are.

Well the behavior is so much more predictable.

So on the matrix it says here are your problems.

Oh here are your situations.

So the three situations.

New Puppy new adult dog.

Dogs and children.

The problems are let's list them.

There aren't that many House soiling destructive chewing excessive barking.

Home alone.

Maybe separation anxiety.

We've got to decide whether it is or not fearfulness to people aggression towards

people biting aggression

towards other dogs.

Probably with a huge fear component and then the hyperactivity triad.

Or is it just Spasso sheer hyperactivity jumping up pulling on leash.

OK you're good at and then no recall too.

I mean that's about it right.

Yeah.

So the way I teach is right.

How many training tools do you have.

How many does it list on the matrix going to remember.

Is it 16 15 17.

I lost about 15 tools.

So instead of just listing clicker training I'm not a union mogul unilateral
trainer.

I like to use old techniques so I list everything.

That's their forte.

Oh man.

Some people are just so you know everyone's going to be looking over your shoulder
now.

Writing that down.

Yes.

And so for each problem you have 40 impossible tools the way you use the matrix is
you have to rank

order.

What are your training techniques you're going to use to use this to solve this
problem.

OK so say house soiling.

Well I would say confinement let's make it even better auto shaping because that
means you're confining

the dog in an area that at one end toiler the other.

And then I would say reward training.

You're now going to confine the dog in a crate when you're home and every hour
you're going to take

him out.

You know he's going to pay.

The crate allows you to predict when he wants to go.

So you can be that to show him where to look at the stuff.

Horrible horrible horrible.

To clear it up and then to give him three liver treats for doing it.

So that's the way the matrix works so I train people by problems.

And this set of problems that's on the matrix will enable you to.

Eighty six percent of Onos problems with their dogs.

You know we know this because the San Francisco SPCA when I started this animal
behavior hotline that

was nationwide they wrote it up in the National Enquirer for several weeks.

We got five to seven hundred calls a day.

We had a big A lot of big case histories we didn't put base after specifics on what
life had 100 cases.

It was based on about 10000 cases to the point when that phone rings.

I can tell you not only the species they own.

But the problem they have to make money on it the way I did that was I asked anyone
I said Look how

about you give me five to one odds.

When that phone rings I can tell you what animal they have.

And the problem the animal has five to one odds which means if you win I give you a
dollar if I win

you give me five and I got loads of takers.

Well I know there's a twenty five point four percent likelihood that that phone
call is a cat litter

box problem.

So I'm going to clean up right now.

Basically I've got one predictability but I've got five to one odds.

So over time I'm going to make money.

So every behavior counselor who came to me and the first one was Gwen Bonin camp.

She wants to become a doggy behavior counsellor.

I said right here's your first problem cat litter box training.

Why it's the biggest pet animal killer in the world.

I'm going to give you thirty five minute education and you're going to save more
lives than any veterinarian

will resolving physical health problems.

Cats die because litter box problems.

OK.

The most common problem there is in any way.

And when I finished I said all right now do you want to know how to house train a
dog.

Yes please.

Well go through your notes cross out the word kitten or cat and put in puppy or
dog.

And that's the opposite.

Same technique same technique.

Yesterday to the vet I was talking about how I housetrained a whole bunch of cows
when I was milking

them because they pooped everywhere and then I had to clean it up.

And farmers do this every day without thinking they milk and then they clean up all
the kale faeces.

What is wrong with them.

I did it one day as a 15 year old and thought this is going to change and from now
on you poop in the

field before milking.

And you're going to poop before I release you.

So you do it in the dung channel because I have a hose then disappears.

You are not going to walk slowly and can't do it when you're walking you know.

It's not like a dog who has the courtesy to squat.

So you get your bag and you can pick it up all at once.

The cows that you finish milking them.

They step out of their stool.

They get on the concrete apron.

So you say you've got about an hour and a half work cleaning up.

So I just housetrain them.

The principles are the same.

Any animal child.

Same thing with children you have more fun.

Oh dear I shouldn't embarrass Jamie should I.

I don't know whether he can remember this when I started off with him.

I gave him little Talcott's to aim at the target.

But when I put in battleships he loves that sink the battleship instead of spraying
this sort of thing.

Got I'm really focused you know I'm being sorry Jeremy that side.

And to this day he never misses

it.

So

what are we going to do.

Well those of you who have read Scott and fuller and that's very old science by the
way.

And you know pretty much the stages of socialization.

Right.

Right.

Wrong.

Zero birth two weeks three weeks 13 weeks.

So this is the big thing that came from Scotland Thaller you have the neonatal
period you have the transitional

period.

This is what developmental psychologist do.

This is the transitional period.

You know I've got news for you every day and your life is a transitional period and
depending on what

you decide to do you're going to be different either better or worse.

But you are going to be the same tomorrow as you are today.

That's what development is about.

But bless their hearts.

Developmental psychologist love stages.

Yes.

And this was called the critical period of socialization from three to 13 weeks.

So from their studies they graphed out the ease of socialization.

They actually got was this

k so can you socialize the dog when he's 5 months old or eight months.

Yeah but it takes a long time because each stimulus each exposure to a person has a
tiny effect.

If you want to socialize do do do do do you want to do it right.

The graph is incorrect.

Let me do it again.

All right good.

Here we go.

We go like that.

OK.

So they arbitrarily put in these stages.

Why between two and three weeks is when the eyes and ears open and then three and a
half weeks these

puppies start to play with each other the plane like maniacs and they continue to
play and the play

that they have with each other all the exposure they have to people effects and the
way they measured

it is contact latency.

You send in an Observer.

So all this research and the observer wore a white lab coat all these poppish were
never touched by

humans.
You know this is you wouldn't do research like this these days it's it's bizarre.

So basically what happens is the research just stands at the end of a long
corridor.

And the puppy's cage is opened a little guillotine gate and that's the puppy.

And they measured how long was it before the puppy made contact with the person.

So that's how they measured socialization with people.

And what they found was exposure to people between 3 and 13 weeks stack the deck if
the purpose saw

people between 3 and 13 weeks they were really happy to run towards them when they
were tested later

if they didn't.

So this is the sad thing about the research.

This stuff would never be done these days but it's so important that it was done.

These puppies were isolated and were shown humans that three and a half months or
four months.

They didn't want to approach them.

So basically what they're saying is what you want the dog to do as an adult you
better make sure he

has the opportunity to do that as a puppy.

Well this is a little bit scientific and silly.

So I decided it up differently.

So I'll do my Grath.

Now this makes a lot more practical sense.

Yes that is a pretty good transition right.

One when you're inside secure soft and warm and then that moment next moment you're
out

what's going to happen at eight weeks.

I would say that's a pretty heavy duty transition for most Poppa's right.

Oh let's put it another way.

When the puppy moves from the kennel breeders kennel to the owner's home.

Think about it.

The pipe is taken away from Mom littermates goes into a totally new environment
probably with children.
Man that's a change that makes a huge big difference.

I pretty much agree with Scott and follow with 13 weeks.

I'm going to call it 12 three months because it's easy to remember and it's now
showing this is pretty

urgent because boy this is really urgent.

What we're talking about here

and the an 18 it's a massive change in dog behavior.

This to me is the transition between puppy hood and adolescence with a -- it can
happen overnight

with male dogs it will happen in about a week or ten day period.

You can time it pretty accurately 18 weeks by looking at the canine tooth.

The old canine tooth puppy tooth has dropped out.

You now have a new one coming in.

So what you want to do is when puppies come into class if you know their birthday.

Take a picture of that muscle just the canine too and you can age dogs very very
accurately just by

looking at the canine tooth because if you see half a canine tooth he's too old to
puppy class.

That's how it is.

But just too that's what I did.

You know as a vet student I took photos and when I knew their birthdays so now we
have these situations

at the breeder's kennel the first month the home

from three months to four and a half months.

Then we move into adolescence.

How long does it last.

Well little dogs probably by the time that to get them to be socially mature big
dogs they've got to

be about three.

But the whole point is adolescence is a period of behavior change and a lot of
stress especially for

male dogs.

We've got to get through it but luckily it only has to do with dog dog interactions
preventing behavior

problems as easy as falling off a log socializing a dog.

So he loves all people and never wants to bite them.

So your dog is solid.

So if a kid runs up and smacks him on the head pokes him runs into him with a
skateboard.

The dog is just going to but not respond.

You just get out of the way.

Very easy to do.

Very easy to produce a solid dog.

I like doing this I'd love it.

I mean you can do what you like to.

You can kick him you can hit him last night.

He always comes up when he wants me to chase him at his favorite game.

And I now get the other dogs chasing him too because it's hard for me to chase him
around around the

table after we come back from dinner at West side cafe where the party is tomorrow.

By the way you're all invited in about the party right party for serious.

Six to nine.

The west side cafe.

Please do come along.

So I've just been out there and now I've got to chase the dog round the table.

Me and them ask Great.

I'm going off to him I'm frightened.

I'm screaming.

I'm grabbing him.

And we have a game he has he carried something in his mouth always.

He had a big deal.

And so I try and kick it out of his mouth.

But you do anything to him.

He's unbreakable and he loves it when we drink water we say.

Who wants to be beaten.

Adoun is the first sitting me me me being me.

So we get the plastic water bottle like a dong dong dong dong dong dong.

And you throw it in the air and he goes home and just flattens it the recycling.

It's you know it's so easy to do this stuff making sure that a dog is dubbed dog
friendly.

It's a challenge.

I now know why it's a challenge.

So it's much easier to get there.

And it is by the way dog trainers dog syndrome a dog reactive dog much more dog
training has a higher

percentage but how do I put this.

My people have dumped dog aggressive dogs.

If they're a dog trainer it's really interesting.

It's really interesting.

Loads of reasons for it I think.

But it is a fact.

But now we know how we can get there.

And yes you can get with a boy dog with good on doing this.

Now I don't know eight nine and he's still got his goolies on and never been in a
fight.

Well put it this way.

Never responded in a fight.

Been attacked many times but he just sits whacked his butt looks at you closes his
eyes and hopes will

go away.

And the other dog when he does that turns his back on them.

Usually they call what's going on here.

I'm going to pick a fight with you.

Yeah well I want you to look at my butt and Keller's innovation to get the dog not
only to you back

up.
Come here and sit.

But to wag about to whack a tail.

OK.

Because you're presenting a non threatening stimulus to the other dog now.

But also the dog is putting out the vibe.

You know what potentially attacking dog.

You are an ant in the whole realm of things you are nothing nada compared to what I
have to do with

my own.

I have a mission.

And that's the best way to stop the dog being attacked.

So these are the periods.

So let's call them two years or three years.

A dog of course is an ultra cool animal takes a long time to develop.

If this same graph for a horse would go like this two days from birth to two days
you better do it all.

Yeah.

If it were a goose.

Forty five minutes.

That precocious animals.

It happens that quickly.

They bombed.

They imprint.

And it happens if you want to handle holes you better get in there before he's 48
hours old and you

pick him up and you get people to bang buckets and pop balloons and get white
sheets and flak in his

face and you pick up his little hooves and you tap on them like this with a hammer
and you put your

little finger up his rear end and then he pops the stomach tube.

That's it for life.

He's cool with it.

He's a 3 year old stallion You should come over here and you try to pass the
stomach too because now

he's up here.

He's 17 too.

And it's very fast.

Dogs take a long time two years to three years before they reach social maturity.

Human male is probably the the longest slowest maturing out Trinkle beast.

I think that human malicous because females always mature quicker in most mammals
human male I would

probably say 72.

And then they got it.

But of course it's too late.

So I'm getting there.

I'm nearly there.

Soon I'll be socially mature.

But then of course it's too late.

So they'll sit me in a chair but I will be wise.

Should you want to talk to me about situations and problems.

Because I would have seen it all.

I will now be calm.

All right.

So this is when we're going to do stuff.

Dying dying dying dying.

The breeder.

Let's start with the breeder.

We have to let readers know.

So how's the best way to do this.

I think that potential puppy buyers let them know as I've looked at this problem I
think the best way

to deal with it is that veterinarians are essential.

And I think they're pretty easy to get.

And if you anyone read the puppy training initiative puppy raising initiative I
posted on dogs to one

owners one for dog professionals.

Well that's the one you want to link around and at the bottom is pertinent
information for breeders

pet store owners veterinarians trainers and humane rescue shelter.

It's the vet one you want to send around.

I took a long time writing this over my six weeks at home.

That's what I was working on.

Thinking about it here is something that you can email to vets that tells them why
they should judge

every single puppy owner that comes in because they have access to every puppy
owner.

Eight weeks of age and tell them it's an emergency.

You have got to socialize this puppy before 12 weeks.

There's no hurry to get him out to the park.

You've got to bring the people to your house.

Totally safe socialization.

As long as outdoor shoes remain outside.

If we look at areas which are relative risky or relatively safe from Pavo no area
is 100 percent because

the virus can come in through an open window dog poop that drives in the sun
someone treads on it Wolf

it's there.

So no was totally safe.

One of the safest places is the home as long as outdoor shoes remain outside.

When a puppy is on board that means for three months you don't want to be bringing
in your outdoor shoes

as you try in dog poop and a puppy class area pretty -- safe if it's taught indoors
on impervious

floors.

The most dangerous places for a puppy to be both at the vet clinic.

The most dangerous place in the world is in the car parking lot where every sick
dog pees and poops
and it's probably not bleached.

Once a month if until the second most dangerous place the waiting room floor.

So as a vet it says by all means.

You know you can say well you know wait awhile before you go to puppy class and I'm
cool with that.

Wait until the dog three and a half months old four and a half months old.

I mean it's only four months old but he's got to stop before he's four and a half
months old.

But you must tell him socialization must happen at home and you must tell them
don't bring a dog into

the clinic keep him in the car carry him from CA to exam table when we're ready
let's keep him safe.

So that's written for you to e-mail the link to every veterinarian that you know or
to print it out

and automatic foments for your promotion.

We've got to spread the word because veterinarians are essential to this program
working.

They have the privilege of having prime access to puppies.

And so I've linked to lots of other veterinarians that are saying this.

They must not waste this privilege.

They must tell people you've got to socialize your puppy safely at home and because
they are aware respected

profession breeders may actually do what they say.