00:00Hey guys, this is Jen Green and Stryker from Tail Waggers Academy and we are doing Ask the
00:06Trainer for the John DiBella Dog Walk and one of the big questions that we get a lot is how do I
00:12get my dog to stop pulling to start sniffing things? Whether it's grass, mulch, trees, shrubs,
00:20doesn't matter. We want to get our dogs to earn things but not necessarily take them when they
00:27please. So for Stryker who is a super sniffer, he loves to sniff the grass. I actually put this on
00:35cue meaning I'll let you know when you can go sniff things just don't pull me towards it. Doesn't
00:42matter to me how much he's sniffing I just don't want him pulling. He's about six months old now
00:47he's definitely going to be getting bigger and I don't want him pulling as a puppy but I sure don't
00:54want him pulling as an adult to get to things. So I'm going to ask Stryker to get into position.
01:00His word for that is to heal up. So I'm going to ask him to do that. Stryker, heal up. Good job.
01:07And if he is and don't be afraid to give as much verbal praise as you want. Verbal praise is free
01:15but they sure do love it and I definitely love giving it. So he's walking nicely right after this
01:24give him a nice reward to go sniff it out. I'm going to point to where I want him to sniff.
01:31Stryker, go sniff. Good job. Let's go. Giving him a let's go meaning we're going to continue to walk.
01:42He's definitely giving nice eye contact again. Great job. I'm going to do it again. Stryker, good boy. Go sniff.
01:56Good job. So he got a nice reward for that. He loves to sniff guys so this is really
02:03an awesome reward for him. Come on buddy. Good job. So we're going to be coming up to a curb which is
02:13another thing that I want to talk about. Curbs can mean a lot of different things. It can mean traffic
02:20is coming and a lot of busyness in in the streets. So I don't like my dogs going ahead of me in the
02:27street. I want them to learn how to when I stop walking if I come to a stop I expect my dogs to go
02:35into a sit and wait for me to start walking again. This goes for when I'm trying to pick up cleaning up
02:41after them actually after they've gone to the bathroom on their walks. So we're going to come
02:46up to the curb again. Stryker, take a break. Good boy. We're going to come up to the curb right at the curb
02:55there. I stop walking. I expect him to go into a sit. Now right here is where you could reward them
03:01with food if you want to. In all honesty I want to reward Stryker with another life reward because
03:07it's not all about food for him and me actually. I want him to start earning things that he loves
03:14in addition to food which in this case is to start walking again. You ready? Take a break.
03:20I'm going to give him one more go sniff. Good job buddy. Give him more verbal praise.
03:30Go sniff.
03:36Good job. All right guys let's get walking.
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