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Hello everyone I know I said I would do a19th Birthday haul for this week’s video but I filmed it and I really hated it so I decidedto do something else and I thought of this idea and I think you’d all love it.

For thoseof you who didn’t know last Tuesday was my 19th Birthday and from my Mam I got this reallycool present it’s a little book that says 97 ways to make your dog smile so I thoughtfor this video I would try them out with my dogs which means that you get to see my 3amazing puppies and yeah I get to have a bit of fun so let’s go.

Number 17 Woof most dogsare not fooled by a humans imitation bark but they are intrigued by them.

See how goodyour bark is by test it on your dog.

How to Keep Your Dog Happy

If she barks back you are truly bilingual and thetwo of you can have fascinating dialogues in her native tongue if she tilts her headand looks at you like you’ve landed from another planet stick to speaking english.

There’salso a little note at the bottom of this that says, this test is best performed in the privacyof your own home to avoid neighbours stares but to be honest my neighbours already thinkI’m weird, I don’t think me barking at my dog is going to make a difference.

It’s toolate for me but maybe if you try this do it within your own home.

ok that’s Rylee’s reaction,woof chelsea woof, I got a bark from Chelsea and cody is just doing that.

This is a lotmore difficult to film than I thought it would be.

Number 26 play hide and seek hide a treatin a clever spot and see how long it takes for a dog to discover it.

I’m going to hidemyself and treats because I want to see if they can find me, I’m sure they can but youknow it’s more fun for me if I get to join in.

Ok I have the treats now I’m going tohide them.

I couldn’t escape all the dogs I still have one, who knows I have food, don’tyou and those two are making a mess.

Another one, I don’t know how my filming skills areright now one behind the shovel, good thing Cody isn’t the most intelligent dog our gardenis a mess that is my fault oh we’ll put one here and we’ll put one in the kennel herecody go that way ok doggies go search ok I’m gonna have to give them a bit of a hint becauseagain not oh is someone gonna find it oh chelsea got it is anybody else going to find one isrylee gonna no rylee is like you tell me where they are oh chelsea found another one i can’trememeber where i oh i do rylee found one well done last one the two collies have figuredit out cody doesn’t really understand what’s happening like they’re searching oh you missedit oh no chelsea got it and rylee stole it I’ve decided that I’m going to hide underthe table oh no Rylee you have to get out, out you can’t see that’s cheating she’s cheatingout ok quickly ow I hit my head oh no this did not work ok ok you win you win.

Number39 luke I am your father speak to your dog through a cardboard cylinder of a papertowelor wrapping paper roll your dog will love your darth vader voice.

Rylee what are youdoing ow ok you’re just annoyed as I expected aw your just there aren’t you cody, cody codycody cody your just always in the way.

Number 46.

rubbed the wrong way pet your pup againstthe grain I know from experience that when you do this to Chelsea it’s really funny andshe looks really silly so I thought I would show you sit wait aw don’t you look fuzzyit’s hard to get it to show up on camera there you go don’t you look fuzzy and cute yes youdo Chels she’s just like please stop leave me alone.

Number 50 The treat fairy whileyour dog is asleep attempt to sneak a treat under his pillow without disturbing him dogslove to wake up to a surprise Cody is our target he has no idea what’s about to happenif I could get the treat out of my back pocket I’ve established I wouldn’t be a good toothfairy aw he got it cody aw there he is your so cute.

Those are all the ones I tried todayif you would like to see me do more of these obviously there’s way more there’s 97 of themthen comment down below telling me you want to see another video and give this video athumbs up so I know you liked the idea and you liked it so yeah ok if you want to tryany of these out at home be sure to send me pictures on twitter instagram tumblr you canfind all those links in the description box and I will see you next week thanks for watchingbye.

aren’t the doggies just so cute I love them actually it’s every monday at 6:30 Ijust realised this endslate is wrong but if you didn’t see the last video I uploaded itis on the screen now if you click it link in the description ok bye.

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I Made These Fun And Easy Diy Dog Treats! Happy Birthday Cookie!

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3 Easy DIY Treats for Your Dog

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What’s up, everybody welcome back to my laboratory, Where safety is number on priority today.

We’re going to make three simple treats for Luke and hugo here So you can do it at home as well.

3 Easy DIY Treats for Your Dog

It’s very simple and cheap to make treats for Luke and Hugo He is all excited to have some first.

We’re going to make very simple peanut butter ice cream for your doggies It’s only going to be two ingredients water and peanut butter We filled up water in there already, and now we’re just going to dump a bunch of peanut butter in there Boom one , ah maybe four scoops you gage it yourself.

There is not really an exact recipe And then which is going to be whisk it and we need to really really well mix it up Good and I have this Gadget right here look at Luke: he’s like “I’m ready!” I’m ready for ice cream But yeah, we’re going to mix it up first very very well So that’s it just two ingredients in two steps Super easy probably the easiest way to make dogie ice cream then we’re just going to put it in a form If you have bananas you can add bananas in there, they don’t flavor I don’t have any bananas who ill just do peanut butter ice cream.

Yeah, I guess it’s more like a popsicles not ice cream And now we’re going to stick it in the freezer make sure it freezes all the way first of all we’re going to put parchment paper right here boom But then we’re going to put it to the side, and then we will need sweet potatoes And then we’re just going to lay it out one layer by itself each piece We’re going to do half sweet potato chips for the doggies and half chicken Chicken strips usually very expensive at the pet store, so this time we’re just going to do it ourselves Luke , it’s not cooked yet.

Don’t eat raw meat Not good for you, so this is going to be a lot cheaper than buying chicken strips at the store So we’re just going to cut the chicken just like french fries and the little pieces Boom something like that Luke is ready.

He’s standing out here cheering me on come on man.

Cook me some treats Then same thing which is going to lay it out one layer.

Don’t stack it up.

So it cooks evenly Just like that, okay This is all the chicken that looks actually very beautiful and look we almost didn’t use none of the chicken only like two strips and looks like there is going to be a lot of Chicken, I’m just doing it two recipes at once.

It’s pretty much very similar Temperature in the oven so I’m just gonna do it all in one but if you want to cook only chicken you just fill it up all the way then you’re going to pre-heat your oven to 230 Fahrenheit We’re going to cook it 90 minutes on one side, so it’s a low heat That’s why it takes so long you see how its dehydrated So we need to flip all the chicken so the other side will get cooked as well You could probably even use hand it’s not too hot, but make sure you don’t burn yourself and the chips looks done So I’m just going to take Em off Well look how much smaller they got Potato chips, you can do them only 90 minutes So guys looks like for the chips 90 minutes for the chickens just two hours after 90 minutes, we flipped it over we added 30 minutes to it and dehydrated looks really cooked so now I’m just going to put it all together and try to give Luke and Hugo one of these and See if they’re going to like it okay, ow! They liked it so much they almost bit my finger paw (Laughs) He just put upon his head fine.

I give you guys a treat.

Let’s see if they going to- ah Hey, you guys they’re really loving it look they pushing each other away Okay, I have two treats over here.

I haven’t told you to sit yet and they they too smart for their own good ah! That was my hand You guys need to be nicer Looks like they’ll love it a lot.

Okay.

Let’s see if they’re going to like the chips sit.

oh Yeah, they love the chips too – I’m so surprised.

I thought they’re not going to like the chips and they love it sit yeah wow they eating sweet potato chips Look at Luke’s face.

He’s so funny You want some more? hugo Every time every time come on hugo.

hey sit (Luke Continues To Bark) catch He catches so well Hugo Taras you need to practice more okay? What about chicken you guys going to catch the chicken sit stay Luke catch good boy Hugo stay Hugo Hugo catch (Laughs Loudly) Hugo Taras you need to practise more okay? What about chicken you guys going to catch the chicken sit stay Look catch good boy.

Hugo stay hugo Hugo catch ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Stay Hugo catch ha ha oh Wow, you got it he was like “not this time” all right you guys want ice cream today is a hot day Let’s go get ice cream for Ya, oh Yeah, I’ll get ice I get the ice cream This is what peanut butter ice cubes looks like and they’re super excited hey! stop jumping You know what I’m going to put both of them in one bowl.

Let’s see what they do.

Hey There’s water in there.

its been raining.

Here one for you one for you.

Oh Looks like they’re lovin it Here one for you one for you.

They just like nope.

We just wanna eat one from one together Hugo is trying to take it out, but it’s slipping out Yes, you can see they’re loving it There is not even that much of what do you call it peanut butter its mostly on the bottom but as you can see they get to eat the ice Cube and They taste like peanut butter and they get to cool off in the summertime cause huskies Have this double coat so it’s good for them to cool off Luke finally is actually quite into it Yeah, as you can see its best to.

Just put it in a bowl like that and its gonna fly around and there and he’s just gonna keep licking it He’s trying to bite into it Hugo is just straight up licking it as fast as he can Isn’t it funny? as you can see the dogs have enjoyed it I enjoy cooking it for them and give it to them and playing with them and hopefully you enjoy watching this video and if you sit.

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Fade Lures, Phase Out Treats – Get Your Dog to Listen

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Training Treats For Dogs

A food motivated dog is one that can be trained very quickly.

However it’s really easy to get stuck being a hostage to treats.

It’s just as easy though to get rid of treats altogether and I’m going to show you how to do that, right now.

Ian here with Simpawtico Dog Training and before we get into how to phase out treats, please make sure you’re subscribed so you never miss any of our videos.

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And don’t forget to check the description below for notes, links, and resources about the stuff we talked about.

Now food is a great way to get a dog into training.

A food motivated dog is very easy to train very quickly, even when teaching difficult behaviour or overcoming behavior problems.

What ends up happening in most cases though is that we don’t start phasing the treat out early enough and so we’re stuck using it.

Then the dog won’t perform unless we have food.

We have to keep upping the ante to get them to do something, moving from simple lures to increasingly valuable food items.

Even then sometimes a dog simply decides that it’s just not worth it and then you don’t have any leverage.

We need to short-circuit this whole model and replace it with something better.

From here on out you will move through four stages as you free yourself from relying on food to get your dpg to perform: remove lures, reduce rewards, replace rewards, and the ultimate fourth step, remove rewards.

Let’s take a look at these and see how they work.

Stage 1: remove lures a lure is used to cause a behavior after 10 to 15 repetitions the behavior is happening fairly reliably and we don’t need it anymore.

Upon hearing the verbal request your dog has learned to anticipate the hand motion that signals the behavior.

They’re doing it faster and happier.

At this point get that food out of your hand and into your pocket.

Now when you practice a behavior, signal big like you have the food in your hand.

Your dog performs the behavior, and then you reward them with food from your pocket.

At this point your dog learns that they don’t need to see the food.

If they respond correctly food rewards will still magically appear.

From now on you can practice with empty hands.

Incidentally this is the fastest stage.

You can empty your hands within the first day of teaching something new in most cases.

Now you’re ready for stage 2: reducing the number of rewards.

The key phrase here is “more for less.

” We start expecting more work out of one reward.

We want longer stays, faster recalls, perfect heels and better performance overall.

Here’s an example.

In group classes we teach the positions sit, lay down, and stand.

Then we practice the transitions by doing the routine sit, down, sit, stand, down, stand.

Initially we lure train these and we may reward every step: sit-treat, down-treat, sit-treat, stand-treat, and so on.

That’s six pieces of food for the whole routine.

Within the next couple of classes though we should be doing the whole routine with an empty hand and one reward at the end.

Not only did we remove the lure but we’ve reduced the number of rewards in this example from 6 to 1.

The big takeaway in this step is that we want performance to keep improving no matter what.

Don’t be in too big of a hurry to reward everything.

This is a commission based payment program now; treat every food reward like it’s a paycheck that they have to work for.

Always be refining the criteria too.

Raise the bar as they get better.

Only reward your dog immediately following responses that are prompt, precise, and polite.

Above-average responses get a little training treat.

Great effort gets a big liver treat.

And half-assed effort gets diddly-squat! Your dog will learn that even though you have food they won’t get a reward every time.

More importantly to even be eligible for a food reward in the first place their performance needs to be above average.

Remember, better responses get better rewards.

If you dig technical jargon this is called a “differential reward schedule.

” This will have the effect of distilling mediocre behavior over time down to pretty great behavior.

And honestly the number one success factor here is repetition.

Now we’re ready for stage 3: replace food rewards.

At this stage we need to get the food out of our pockets and reward the dog with other things like praise, petting, toys, games, and activities.

Life rewards like these can become strong motivators to a happy dog.

For example, when you’re walking your dog you could stop periodically and have them sit.

As a reward say, “Great! Let’s go!” In this case the walk continues, which is the reward.

No food required.

Around your house, in the yard, or at the dog park call your dog and ask them to sit every minute or so and as a reward say, “Good job! Go play!” In this example, play resumes, which is the reward.

No food required.

When playing tug or fetch, behaviors like take it, leave it, and drop it are implicit because they’re part of the game, and the game itself is a fun reward.

Again, no food required.

I teach all of my students to treat their voice as their number one training tool and their hands as the number two training tool.

That is to say that praise and touch can be powerful rewards and can substitute for food very easily.

My Touch Tactics video has some great strategies for using petting as a potent life reward.

I’ll link to that video in the description for this one.

The point here is that your dog learns that food isn’t necessary.

Correct responses and great performance produce all sorts of other amazing rewards.

Now you could stop here.

You’re free of food, life is grand.

But some of you will want to push onwards to the final step: removing ALL external rewards.

Assuming you’ve got the first three steps in the bag, and you continue with your practice, it will eventually no longer be necessary to reward your dog to reinforce behavior you want from them.

You could of course always reward your dog if you choose to, and they’ll love you for it.

But the point being that rewards are not necessary to guarantee good behavior.

Each correct response becomes its own reward.

This is just like when we go on a hike, or ride horses, or read a book, or play sports.

External rewards aren’t necessary; getting to do it is the reward.

This is the pinnacle of practice: getting to the point in our relationship that doing the things we ask is our dog’s favorite hobby.

It makes them happy to see us happy and their lives are richer for it.

So are ours for that matter.

Let’s recap these stages: Remove Lures.

Get the food out of your hand and into your pocket.

Reduce rewards.

Start expecting more quality work for fewer rewards.

Replace rewards.

Get the food out of your pocket now and use life rewards.

Remove rewards.

Correct behavior is a reward unto itself.

It’s worth noting that each stage doesn’t have a razor fine beginning and end.

They kind of bleed into each other.

For example you could start reducing rewards before you remove the lure.

You could start cultivating life rewards before you get rid of food rewards.

There’s a strategy and an eye for the finish line, of course, but if you patiently follow these steps and you stand by it and follow through, you will be free of hostage negotiations with your dog.

So good luck and please let me know how it goes for you in the comments.

In the next video I’ll show you how to use reward scaling to ramp up performance in those early stages, and it’s a perfect companion to this video.

Don’t forget to give us a thumbs up if you learned something useful.

And as always keep learning, keep practicing and I will see you next time.

Thanks for watching!.

Now this is just like when we go on a hike, or ride a horse, or ride a book.

ride a book!

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The Best Homemade Dog Training Treats

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Over 500 dogs a week comeinto our training facility for dog obedience lessons.

If you want a dog who’s super motivated, and focused in working forfood, just like these guys, this is the go-to recipe.

I’m Ken Steepe, and welcomeback to McCann Dogs.

If this is your first time on the channel and you consider your dog a family member, then you’re gonna wannahit that subscribe button.

We post new videos every single week to help you spend some quality time with your four legged family member.

So let’s talk about the ingredients in this dog treat recipe.

It’s really simple, just afew ingredients, and they are, one cup of flour, one can of tuna, one egg, and a quarter cup of cheese.

And we’re gonna talk aboutthe cheese in a minute, because there’s somethingyou can do with the cheese that’ll make it even moreenticing for your dog.

But let’s get started.

First up let’s add our onecup of flower to the mix.

And then we’re gonnaadd our one can of tuna.

Now, truth be told, I hate tuna.

Training Treats For Dogs

I hate the way tuna smells, Ihate the consistency of tuna.

However the dogs love it.

We all know how keentheir sense of smell is, and I think that’s part ofthe allure of these treats, is the stinky smelling tuna is something that thedogs really really like, and something they really enjoy.

But we’re just gonna breakup that tuna, and we’re actually gonnaadd the water as well.

And in goes our egg.

Let’s see if we can do this without leaving any ofthe shell inside the mix.

No, I actually did apretty good job I think.

And finally, in goes ourquarter cup of cheese.

Now, we were just talking a moment ago about how keen a dogs sense of smell is, so choose something like a medium, or this is actually old cheese, so it’s much smellier,a little bit stronger.

And your dogs gonna likeit a little bit more.

They’re at least gonnabe a little bit more interested in the treat.

Especially if you’ve got a picky dog, the smellier the stuff, thesmellier the ingredients, the more likely you are to have a dog who loves these treats.

Now some of my cheese gratingwas a little bit messy, so I’m gonna have to clean up what’s left, I didn’t get all of it in the bowl.

But next up were gonnamix this all together.

Our treats are now pretty thoroughly mixed and this is the point where we’re gonna put the treats into apan to go into the oven.

Now, if you had an eight by eight pan, this ones a little bit bigger than that, but if you had an eight by eight pan this recipes gonna fitexactly into that size.

But generally if I go abouthalf the width of this pan, it’s usually pretty closeto being the right amount.

But I’ll show you reallyquickly, what we’re gonna do is we’re gonna take our ingredientsout, take our mixture out.

We’re just gonna place it into the pan, and we’re gonna platenit out a little bit.

(techno music) I think that’s pretty good.

Now, I don’t know whetheryou guys can see this at home but it’s.

I’ve spread out the recipe until it’s about a quarter inch thick, maybe just a little bit thicker.

And now we’re actuallygonna put it in the oven.

Now we’re actually gonna bake this twice, but the first time we bake this we’re gonna put it in at 350, but it’s only gonna goin for about 20 minutes.

(techno music) Okay, so our treats havespent 20 minutes in the oven, and I’ve just taken then out and the whole house smells like tuna.

But what we need to do now is actually we’re gonna separatethe treats from the pan, and we’re just gonna turn the treats over.

We’re gonna turn the beginningof theses tuna treats over onto a baking sheet.

And we’re actually going to cut them up into the appropriate sizes of treat.

The last thing you wannado is have great big treats that you’re treating yourtoy poodle with, for example, if we were using hippy shake,or your small breed dogs.

You don’t wanna have great big treats.

Maybe half the size of your thumbnail is sort of a good rule of thumb.

We actually have avideo about using treats and moving away from usingfood in your training.

And I’ll post a card to itabove me here somewhere, so that you guys can have an idea of you aren’t gonna be dependent on using food in your training, or using food to train a trick, but it’s a really great way to start.

So let’s get into cutting these treats.

Now it’s really helpful to have something like a pizza cutter.

You definitely don’t need to use one, but it’s going to make cutting your treats just a little bit easier anda little bit more precise.

So, have a look at the size that I’m gonna be making these treats.

We’re gonna put ourtreats back into the tray, and we’re gonna put thesetreats back into the oven.

And this time we’re gonnaput the treats in at 275 for 40-60 minutes.

And you’re gonna wanna check in on them after the 40 minute mark.

(organ music) Now about 50 minutes minutes have elapsed since we put our treatsback into the oven.

And I’ve been checking on them frequently since about the 40 minute mark.

And they look to me likethey’re just about ready to go.

Yeah, they look pretty good, they look like they’re ready to go.

Now what we’re going todo is pour these out, and we’re gonna break them up so that they’re just little tiny treats.

The really great thingabout these treats is that once we’ve cooled themto room temperature, we can start using them right away.

But they’ll last, if wekeep them refrigerated, they’ll last approximately a week, and we can use them any time.

Something that I like to do is separate them into training portions.

So I might put a handful, let’s say, of treats into a Ziploc bag,and then I put it in the oven, or put it in the refrigerator, and each time I wanna train my dog I can take that little section or that little pouch of treats out, and I’ve got a perfect amount if I’m waiting for my coffee to be ready.

Or in the afternoon if I’vegot a couple of minutes and I wanna work on something with my dog, I can use that portion of treats.

The other thing is, ifI wanna train to trick, I can take a couple ofthose little bags out, and teach my dog to dosomething really cool like how to teach a dogto do the best buds trick, like, I’ll post a link above, but teach them how todo that best buds trick.

And these really really high value treats are a great way to make sure that you’re successful with that.

So I hope you have funmaking these treats.

And I know our littleborder collie Beeline really really likes them.

Now if this is your firsttime of the channel, make sure you hit that subscribe button.

We publish new videos every single week to help you spend somequality time with your dog.

See that video over there, that’s one of our tricktraining playlists, and you can use yourbrand new treats recipe to teach your dog a really cool trick.

On that note, I’m Ken, happy training.

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Train Your Dog to NOT PULL on Walks – Loose Leash Walking

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Remember that your dog is a dog, he doesn’t come prewired to know “not to pull on leash”. A dog is restrained ALL day, confined to a house or yard, finally when the dog is outside, they get excited! Be patient, don’t expect perfection right away, use humane training tools that can make your life easier and reward good behaviour. Loose leash walking isn’t a difficult behaviour to teach, it’s difficult for owners because it takes time to train.

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Set Up A Playroom To Help Potty Train Your New Pup Or Dog

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Steps to setting up a playroom:

Pick a corner in a family room or kitchen, preferably one with an easy-to-clean floor, and gate it off. The best room is one that isn’t isolated from the rest of the house since you’ll want your dog to continue to be exposed to household bustle.
Stock it well with a crate or dog bed and at least two food-stuffed chew toys. Some people also like setting up place to potty, or indoor toilet, when they know they’ll be out for a while. Put your dog in her playroom.
Gradually increase the time you keep her in the room.
Practice putting her in the room by herself at least once a day for a week, or until she’s comfortable staying alone.