Socializing My Giant Puppy For The First Time…

all right guys this video is going to be as unpredictable as any other video we’ve ever done I have no idea what’s going to happen and neither do you guys this is my 5-month-old bable puppy Burley this is the very first time we’re bringing him out in a social environment I get a lot of questions on what is proper socialization and today we’re going to go over just that he is by nature one of the most protective dogs on the planet he is unbelievably protective and loyal and hesitant to see a people but once he does he’s super friendly so you’re going to see him be suspicious you’re probably going to see him be reactive you’re going to see him be lovely but I’m going to go through what is appropriate and what is not and this is the most ridiculous breed I’ve ever worked with in general they are so funny they are so stron headed but at the same time super submissive so it’s going to be a fun video and I hope that it’s going to be helpful for you guys on how to actually socialize your dog in a positive way because socialization for most people is let your dog go to daycare let your dog go to the dog park nope that’s not the case so let’s get into the video see you guys are going to find three different interactions typically when you’re out with your dog the first one is going to be a neutral pass when you see another dog or you see another person that’s it neutral you walk by nothing happens the second is going to be an unwanted pass where another dog or another person comes up into your dog space how do you handle that safely and the third is going to be a proper introduction can I pet your dog or can our dogs meet and we’re going to go over all three of those things and how to handle those safely in this video oh that’s so big scary yeah so at this point this is where food doesn’t matter so your food motivation in these situations is not going to matter because this is outweighing the food motivation so you might as well just put your food away you can still use verbal positive reinforcement but in this situation you just have to be patient and help them get over this but this is confidence building this is why we’re doing this video specifically with this weirdo here come on bubba Come on Come on B come on you can do it good job buddy come on you could do it good boy good now our food might come back out come on good job buddy come on good boy yes good job so just doing things to build confidence with him new things for him really up up up up up up up up yes good boy good how you doing good thanks who’s this this is Bley would he like to be on our wall of yeah I think so so cute thank you now you see the dog goof you might be staring at her too buddy God he’s such a good looking dog thank you man what kind of dog is it horrible really want to say hi interested so that was a really good interaction to see that gentleman was really interested in him and he was not interested in him so it’s just interesting it’s more information for me it’s like why does he not care about certain people right but he also going back to our training which you guys have seen in the earlier videos even when we were in that store when they were trying to get his attention he was focused on me which was great so those are things that we worked on in the beginning and now he’s starting to implement those things when that guy came up to say hi he looked at me and then when he saw that big um I think standard poodle I don’t think he really saw him until the end but it was still a really good neutral pass but we’re going to see if we can get some more neutral passes uh that are a little bit more straightforward where he actually sees the dog but that was interesting [Music] so that was a pretty good neutral pass he was interested again he hasn’t seen a lot of dogs I’ve brought him to my facility a couple times but he’s just now seeing new dogs for the first time outside and again the reason why I waited so long is because he’s very emotionally immature so he doesn’t really know what to do with other dogs and I wanted to wait till he got a little bit of handling on him um he knows was healed just a little bit but also I’ve been really busy so um there was no rush really cuz he’s still a little baby in his head even though he’s huge so socialization is what you guys are seeing I’m not putting obedience on him I’m just letting him experience new experience I’m building confidence over this scary hose I’m building confidence in security around these ducks he’s inquisitive he’s looking the more he sees the more confident he’s going to be so he sees the ducklings he sees the Ducks he hears them he smells them these are all new things for him so I’m not putting him into a heal I’m not telling them to leave it the only time that I would be assertive with him and tell him to leave it is if he was maybe reactive inappropriately but right now I’m letting him be a dog I’m working on developing his Security in new places and we’re also working in kind of seeing his temperament because as he matures and as he grows and as he goes to new places his temperament is going to change and evolve as a maturing dog so that’s really important for you guys to understand you may be seeing this dog pull me and not really be obedient but I’m not expecting any of that the obedience is already worked on but that will come later right now I’m working on socialization active socialization that is beneficial for him and I’m also working on his temperament just seeing where he’s at because I really don’t know because we haven’t brought him out too much and so far he’s doing pretty good so great experience there and I’m paying him for neutrality so again a lot of people think socialization is let’s go play with that dog let’s go play with this dog that’s not it socialization is you walking into a coffee shop putting your laptop down and drinking coffee and working around a bunch of other people you’re being social but you’re not standing face to face with somebody and talking to them and with dogs that’s all they need they just need exposure playing with dogs and being playful and being social are two separate things all I really care about for this dog is just being constructively social neutral out with dogs suspicious of dogs and that’s it so that was really good just passing the dog it’s all I want to see I’m not going to be the type of person that’s going to tell people they can’t touch him cuz I don’t really care if they do because he’s not he’s great with people and I want him to be social the training and the interactions he’s going to have with people at my house is going to be a little bit different than out in public cuz out in public I do want him if there’s somebody forward with him and and talking in high pitch I do want him to take that into consideration of like a friendly greeting now people who are going to be suspicious like you guys saw in in the earlier video wherever we put it a guy walked by with the glasses he was more suspicious about so having that balance is really important to me somebody forthcoming to me and saying hi who’s your dog what’s his name can I give him a treat talking to me and then talking to him he finds that very friendly and he’s open to that but the people who are suspicious and standoffish and things like that that’s where he’s going to be more alert and suspicious about which is good so that’s good that his genetics right so I don’t have anything to do with how he thinks which is really important to for you guys to understand he’s a Boral he was born this way his genetics are this way all I can do is really help mold where he goes with it and maybe suppress some of the behaviors in the future like if you had a border Coler that wanted to chase cats you’re suppressing that behavior so there’s another dog right here we’re going to walk by it’s the doodle again so let’s see how he does with this come here Brady wait hold up Grandma’s going to take you beautiful d off come out yeah we’re taking cuz he was so compressed we don’t know yes buddy good nice job and of course I’m paying him for that interaction so again that was more of a neutral is pass like he saw the dog they were both interested in each other but he stood his ground and he did his thing so he may not be the dog that’s like hey let’s play because he’s a little bit more protective and serious especially as he’s matures but he was also the dog that was interested and he wasn’t growling and he wasn’t barking and he wasn’t reactive he was just suspicious and interested in the dog which is neutrality which is what you want so you want your dog to be able to walk past another dog and be interested but not necessarily lunging to go forward not reacting not jumping not flipping and that’s what we’re working on and that’s why I paid him can I yeah sure he’s going to be a big boy no no you just itty bitty you did itty bitty baby that’s a boxer right he’s a b he’s a Mastiff yeah Mas I wanted a South African mastiff good job he don’t Mount her don’t M her look at that oh come on he’s probably still intact you got and she’s pretty is so he showing excellent taste what’s her name this is moonrise what’s his name uh burle Bly Bly Man actually named after a beach in Australia oh okay yeah she she’s named after a camp in the adex not a kids camp but a camp how old is she she’ll be two in June she looks great all right that was perfect for me to see because honestly that’s what we see sometimes with him is he’s pushy um so he’ll he’s not mounting per se but he’s trying to put his head over the female he’s trying to say like hey I’m big and I’m tough and you’re he that’s just their Breed by Nature right so typically you’ll see dogs do that after sexual maturity around the depending on the dog 14-month age and he might be that too but because he’s a bore ball and because he’s like this all the time and he’s like oh right it was really cool to see because she kind of was putting him in she wasn’t correcting him necessarily that you guys could see but if you play that back you’ll see these little jerks that she was doing almost like a like a snake right she was kind of like doing this and almost muzzle punching him then his behavior started to change a little bit he started to becoming more friendly so that was um kind of a hybrid of uh an unwarranted interaction meaning it wasn’t really planned and I didn’t really say it was okay it just happened and what I did is I was playing into the female dog hey how are you sweetheart good and I’m really really just letting him know like hey this is a good interaction don’t be AER jerk and he started to get a little pushy and I just pulled him back I didn’t correct him there’s a significant difference when we use directional pressure on the leash between Direction and a correction so when we’re doing directions I’m pulling when we’re correcting I’m popping I’m saying that is inappropriate when I’m pulling I’m saying hey get out of here I’m physically removing him from the situation but I’m not punishing him for what he’s doing so because she was doing a pretty good job at that so it’s important that in that interaction I was allowing him to be a dog cuz I wanted to see what he was going to do but she was confident enough to handle it without cowering down and being insecure she popped him a couple times with her muzzle and there’s a good interaction so it’s good information for me like I said in the beginning of this video I’m learning so much about him today as you guys are as well in this video and I hope you guys are enjoying this as much as I am oh yeah he’s pretty good he’s just a puppy so he doesn’t really know she’s like 10 oh yeah those are big paws yeah that’s Chachi she’s a tripod yeah I got the smaller of the I got the smaller of the males down leave it um because I didn’t you know because of Health hey leave it so you guys saw a correction there so I corrected him because he was being inappropriate so smaller dog tripod A little vulnerable gave him the business which is perfect cuz that’s what he needs and then he just kept going and then I end I ended that with a correction so that’s going to be the difference between like before where I was allowing him to see the dog and she was handling that okay okay she dealt with that okay it wasn’t stressful for her where with the smaller dog she was like get out of here and then he was like oh yeah I want to play so he that was a very playful thing for him that wasn’t anything outside of that I think he was just being a bossy young dog and then that’s why I corrected so you want to make sure especially with these big pushier dogs that you end these things at this age um appropriately and fairly and that’s exactly what that was I corrected him because he just gave too much so no no oh my goodness why so that was absolutely ideal interaction dog lover comes up can I pet your dog yes you can thank you for asking and he read her energy all over very very lovely very friendly perfect interaction those that is absolutely perfect that’s what you guys are looking for yes good job great interaction saw the dog and that’s what I’m looking for so good good job on his first day we’re going to do if you guys want more videos on his progression like this if you want to see how he’s doing let me know in the comments I hope this video is helpful again socialization is not meeting every dog and every person that we see although it is up to you what is appropriate what is safe what is fair for you and your dog and just remember that you have the ability to say no and you have the ability to pass without dogs meeting obviously obedience helps if you guys want to see more videos of Burley and what he did when he was a puppy puppy click the link right here it’ll take you right to the playlist of him when he was just a wheel baby good job bu [Music] …

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