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[Music] welcome to theory of pets I’m a passionate pet owner with a drive to help others like me uncover the truth about the pet industry and what goes on behind the scenes [Music] hello and thank you for tuning in to theory of pets this week I’m talking about dog training and I have a special guest who is referred to as doggie Dan doggy Dan is known as the online dog trainer he has a very extensive website which I came across and that’s what prompted me to ask him to come on the show today so he has a very extensive website and it’s it’s WWE online dog trainer calm and there’s a link to that on our website as well so if you’re listening to this on YouTube or iTunes so any kind of social media anything like that just click the link jump on our website theory of pets calm you’ll see the link for this interview and you can go ahead in there and it’ll have the online dog trainer comma link so you can just click on it and check it out the thing that I really loved about doggy Dan’s website is that he offers some free courses along with paid course the free courses are an obedience course and a potty training course which are probably the two most common things that dog owners are looking for as far as dog training goes we all want our dog to be potty trained and we all want our dog to know at least the basics of obedience training fairly soon after we bring them home of course dog training takes a lot of time and consistency and perseverance on our part but those are the two things that people tend to focus on immediately our potty training and I’ll be in training so I love that the courses are free what the courses are basically is it’s a collection of videos and it shows him working with dogs and dog owners in real life and gives you examples that you can see in video form of the way is that he uses to train dogs so I won’t give it all away I’ll let you guys listen to the interview and hear more about his dog training method and why it’s been so successful for so many pet parents thanks for coming on and talking to everybody and if you want to just talk a little bit about so your your first website that we’ll talk about I guess is the online dog trainer it’s been so successful so can you tell us a little bit about that and kind of how it started sure yes so for those of you who don’t know me I kind of go by the name of doggie Dan and yeah as a dog behaviorist I found I just couldn’t keep up with demand for the work that I was doing and I was so passionate about helping people not just in my country here in New Zealand but all over the world so basically I put I I paid a cameraman for a long time to video me in my consultations and we stuck them all up into a membership site called the online dog trainer and so you know for those people who don’t live in the country or don’t have the money to pay for a one-on-one service there you can go to that site and watch me and there’s now hundreds of consultations and videos in that site of me working just the same way I do because it’s all in people’s homes it’s actually quite phenomenal that’s where it all started and it’s been many many years now very successfully you’ve now expanded a little bit as well and I’ve seen some of your videos on the online dog trainer and you know where you go into people’s homes and work with them what do you think is the number one thing what do people usually call you up and they say this is the issue that I’m having with my dog can you help I would probably say I mean it is a mix but there’s a lot of aggression stuff out there description to people or grisham with other dogs one of the things with aggression is it’s not something you can ignore so whether your dogs just starting to growl when people come close and the dogs lying on the bed whether the dogs just getting a little bit growling at the park you can’t you can’t ignore it but it generally doesn’t go away and it can be pretty serious stuff so aggression you know if recall recall dog not coming when you call them that’s pretty full on I mean that seriously limits your dog’s happiness factor and your happiness and enjoyment factor of your dog if you can’t let them off the leash and it’s very frustrating let’s face it don’t come back I think it’s probably more frustrating when they come back but won’t let you actually grab them which is another you know the one dance around you you can’t catch me lovely game of you can’t catch me yeah I always think it’s so funny because yeah we humans we love to go on about how huge our brains are and you know we’re so clever we’re so intelligent and I see these dogs jumping around you can’t figure me out how come you can’t catch me you know so there’s recall that’s pulling on the leash issues a lot of pulling in the eat on the leash and a lot of barking yeah there’s two types about I’d say what is the barking well there’s lots of different types but you know you have dogs who just bark because they’re they want something there’s dogs who bark because you know there’s somebody walking past protective but there’s also that barking when the dog is left alone at home and yeah I think that’s probably one of the most misunderstood behavioral issues of all time complete we could do a complete podcast just on that a lot of people don’t don’t realize that you know dog behavior and sometimes there’s other reasons for it certainly but one of the biggest reasons that I always see when people complain about behaviors whether it’s chewing or you know getting into the garbage or barking nuisance barking it’s that being left alone and and all that pent-up energy and they’re just bored and it comes out in other ways whatever naughty yeah I mean once we talk about I wanna just maybe opens people’s minds a little bit as to what it actually could be because this is just my opinion but it’s based on working with thousands of dogs these dogs who bark when they’re left alone and in my opinion 95 99 percent of them it has got nothing to do with boredom it is basically a hierarchy issue where if you think of it as a parent and you have a young child and your responsibility is to look after that young child age two or three four years old if that child wanders out of the house up onto the main road where there’s busy cars and it’s your job to be looking after them and you’re set inside the house what do you do and you realize they’ve gone do you sit down and have a cup of tea and read a magazine no you get out of that house and you go and get them imagine what it’s like if you run to the door and it’s locked and the windows are locked you’re shouting come back come back that is where it’s coming from and that is why you can’t solve this problem by just giving the dog a bone because that’s the same as me saying to you don’t worry I know you’re Charles over on the main road very very dangerous and you’re meant to be looking after them but look here’s some cookies have a cookie and a cup of tea relax it’s and this is where unless we actually understand the mind of the dog and learn to think like a dog and stop thinking like a human being where we just assume it’s all boredom you know you a lot of these problems are so much easier to fix than we realize absolutely that’s an interesting perspective you know I used to be a maths teacher and a civil engineer some I’m quite I’m into probability and you know logic I like to go well if this was true then therefore that my question to people is this regarding that issue if your dog is always lying on the ground relaxing for hours and hours and hours and hours and then the second you walk out the door they go nuts you know and they’ve already had a good walk just take out the exercise factor oh that’s better so if you take out the exercise factor so they’ve had a good walk and a good run why if if the dogs been lying on their back and usually lies on their back and relaxes for four five six seven hours why within five minutes of you leaving the house would they suddenly become so bored that they’re running around in circles jumping up at the fence barking their head off it’s not boredom it’s the same reason why if your child wanders up onto the road within 60 seconds you can be absolutely in a desperate terrible stressful state and you know end up through all sorts of things chewing your fingernails shouting you know messing up the house a bit just panicking you know damaging stuff you’d smash a window to get out if your child was in serious danger and that’s why dogs do do some serious damage anyway that was a taster of the sort of stuff I was next question which and now we know a little bit about it but you know every dog trainer has their own style I guess of dog training and yes so speaking of you know the online dog trainer and the courses that you offer on there and things can you talk a little bit about your your style of training yeah look I think my style is quite unique because I think that you know old-style dog training yankin crank style where you force the dog you know we’re going back back a bit here where you had force the dog you would make the dog do what you wanted or you kind of increased the punishment you know whether it was a this device or that device you just made them do it that was all style and then we moved into this very positive let’s not do anything nasty to the dog let’s just use treats which is you know I love positive reinforcement and I like the idea and the concept of using food to train dogs however I think we need to be very careful that we don’t forget the fact that there is also a way of winning the dog’s mind these are still pack animals and there is a very simple powerful way of connecting with your dog so they will listen to you trust you respect you and I mean respect in the most lovely way the same way I’ll respect my children I respect you know my elders I respect people so yeah and it’s it’s that bit which is usually missing and I call that the foundation the foundation the hierarchy of it’s it’s why it’s why if you know what you’re doing you can walk into a pack of dogs and very quickly have those dogs listening to you and and following you you know having having worked with packs of dogs you know again this is you put it into practice if you know what you’re doing you can walk into a pack of dogs and very quickly win that pack of dogs over if you know the tricks the things which really matter to a dog but if you don’t get that bit right you can do all the training in the world and you kind of never get there so that’s my style my style is first of all let’s think like a dog let’s understands what’s super-important to the dog and from there then we can do the training we want and what I found is if you get that foundation right first then sure very often all you need is a little you know you hardly need to raise your voice you just need to ask the dog is on side it’s almost like yep you’re the captain of the ship and you know they’re happy to follow and listen so you just ask your dog no yes sure you can use a little bit of food to train the dog as well but you don’t need to go down that track of using force and and aggression so that’s the and what I find is most people most dog trainers in fact are jumping straight to the training and the problem with that is if your dog doesn’t think that you’re the one who should be dishing out the orders and you haven’t understood the dog code or how to think like a dog your dog could be all over the shops so excited emotional you know over reactive impulsive they’re just doing their own thing and when and when the real danger turns up they’re not looking at you they just kick into gear and do their their thing to protect the house protect the property protect you they do what they want to do they’re not listening and I think you know like you said there’s their soul mate every dog owner does our dog trainer rather does it differently but that’s an interesting way to look at it and kind of look at the other styles of training where you just sort of jump right into it and don’t take any time to and you know how they’re thinking yeah and it’s so powerful you know you know there’s so many little simple things and that’s to be honest what people love most about the online dog trainer people tell me wow I’ve been dog training this dog trainers in there who said I’ve been dog training for years and I didn’t realize this stuff and I’ve put it into place with all my new clients and it’s working so well and it is so simple we’re talking five seconds takes five seconds to do some of these things some of the most powerful things out there and it transforms your dogs it transforms all the training that you do you know because you’re thinking like a dog rather than a human you know can I give you a quick example yes you know somebody said to me the other day that they picked up all you said I said I went to it with somebody and had all these bones lying around their back garden dog bones and I just explained how food is powerful to a dog you give them control over all the food you end up with a far more excited dog who doesn’t listen they’re in charge they’re in control of their own destiny and and if you want to talk about thinking like a dog you see if you put a $30,000 gold crown with rubies at the top of all the spikes on the crown in the guard and it gave it to your dog they wouldn’t care it has no value you know they’d probably use it as a peeing spot but if a human has a gold crown worth $30,000 you know you might well take your photo and pop it on Facebook it’s got huge value of importance however a dirty old stinky rotten Brown to a dog it’s got a huge value way more value than a $30,000 go crown and yet to us it has zero value in fact we think the dogs have lost these bones but I can almost guarantee you all these dogs who’ve got buried bones and bits of pig’s ear or rawhide buried and hidden behind the sofa and in their bed and and we think they’re not valuable or they are super invaluable super valuable so just by controlling the bones picking them up and taking control of them you instantly increase the respect that your dog will have for you because suddenly you become the one controlling that food and when you leave them down all day long forevermore it’s the opposite you end up with a far more excited dog who’s sort of saying hey why should I do what you say why should I listen to you when you shout come to me down at the park so that’s the sort of simple thing I’m talking about when I say think like a dog yeah yeah and so on your website you have the obedience course and then potty training which i think is those are probably the two most common types I guess of training that I’m always asked about people have issues normally I don’t know if I know anybody that’s adopted a puppy as a new pet owner and has not struggled with potty training that’s something that and of course I’ve been a dog owner now for a good many years we’ve had a number of dogs and so I like to call myself potty training XR we’ve got it down to a science now but it’s certainly that’s something that really takes you know experience and you need to really know what you’re doing I think a lot of Pat parents think about adopting a dog and they think they’re gonna train of course they’re gonna train the dog but they don’t put a lot of thought and research into it before getting the dog and then they get the dog and they try to potty train for a few days and they realize it’s not working and that’s when they reach out for help when they’re already into it and you know need need the help right away so that was one of the things that really caught my attention on your site was if you if you want to work with say a trainer in your local area they may not be able to help you right away but if you jump on to the online dog trainer there is information right at your fingertips that’s right cause that whole potty training course free course are put together which is it’s again it’s a concept where you know we went into a guy’s house and lovely guy and her lovely cute little puppy with a you know potty training issue and we went through and it’s a it’s a five five part video course which just goes through all the different stages of indoor-outdoor how to set it up how to prevent accidents what happens when it starts going pear-shaped and you know potty training is a funny one because it really does remind me of the similarities between training a child to go toilet and potty training a dog the similarities I think are just endless even the fact that you know so many of us as parents struggle and and you know some children are so tricky to toilet-trained some puppies are so tricky to tell it toilet-trained other children they’re a piece of cake it happens so quickly at a very young age and other and other puppies they’re real easy so there’s that crossover and there’s so many other crossovers it really makes me smile and it was one of the big reasons for actually writing my book which is called what the dogs taught me about being a parent it’s just one of the areas which i cover off in the book yeah it’s a quite quite funny yeah so and then the other free course that’s on your site is the obedience course which again you know I think same thing happens people they think they’re gonna train their dog but they don’t put a lot of research in before they actually get the dog so you know they’ve got the dog they work on it for whatever a week or so it’s not where and then they need they want help but you know they maybe can’t get it right away so you know you you those two free classes courses that are on your website I think are certainly the ones that are that I am often most often asked about and probably you as well which is why you put them on there but there’s tons of other information as well just obedience and in the potty training courses are the ones that stuck out you know yeah look I’ve tried to put I mean there’s a lot of information and the if you’re looking for you know free blogs and all sorts of stuff about all sorts of yeah whether it’s setting a puppy training or or behavioral issues or barking or aggression there’s a ton of blogs on there however if once you’ve read them if it sort of resonates with you then what I would suggest you do is check out the actual the main the main course and dip your finger in because you know we do have a very very I mean it’s a it’s a trial of the whole thing for three days and you know it’s currently only $1 I’m not sure whether when you go and check it out whether it’s still a dollar hopefully it will always be a dollar but you can check out the whole site for three days for $1 and the amazing thing is the number of people who actually stay on once they’ve tried it because they go wow it’s the real deal and I’ve put everything into that site so one thing I didn’t want to do was to kind of give you a little bit and pretend it’s gonna solve the problem and then try and say well it won’t you need this and then you need this so when you go in the site you know within a day or two a lot of people are saying oh my goodness me I’ve got a different dog and yeah so testimonials and people saying it actually works which is the most beautiful thing in the world I was actually chatting this morning with a an attorney in Florida believe it or not and she was telling me she had found me through the online dog trainer she trained her dog using that method and that’s why she was you know we were connecting about some other legal stuff but yeah beautiful to just to hear how far and wide the the method and the site is actually reaching yeah absolutely I mean it like you said I mean it is so extensive we can’t sit here and list everything that’s on there but I was amazed when I got on and checked it out and you know those free courses I think when when pet owners are looking for help and they might want to check those free courses out you know it kind of gives really nice insight into your method and how you work with people and then you know the videos the types of videos that are on there so you get a really good taste for it I think from those free courses and then of course there’s there’s so much more other than that but those are the ones I think and in pretty much every dog owner can use those as well you may adopt a dog that’s already potty trained but 99% of pet owners are gonna need some kind of obedience training at some point so you know there’s something that everybody could check out and really kind of get a feel for your style of training and how you work with your clients yeah look the other thing I would say about this method is it really truly does prevent behavioral issues so even if you’ve got a young puppy and you think well he’s only four or five months old it’s not such a bad behavioral issue just yet what I’d recommend is prevention is better than cure because if you leave it till your dog is a year old or 18 months you know it can become so much harder and just a little bit of knowledge early on it can just save save you so much stress time worry and everything else yeah I always always advocate for people to you know do your research get all of the information that you need before you take on this responsibility because it’s so much bigger than anybody realizes they think you know I’m gonna get this cute little puppy and we’re gonna find a good puppy food and we’re gonna you know train it no problem and it just when you break down from you know potty training and obedience training kennel training behavioral training it’s it is so much and people just don’t realize the amount of work and dedication that it takes to train your dog to be a well behaved dog in every aspect yeah yeah no good stuff absolutely so um again you know I’m gonna link to your site the online dog trainer but you have a couple of other websites as well well yeah I mean I was really I’ve got the online dog trainer which is the membership site for people around the world who want to you know put together a comprehensive dog or puppy training program the other one is of its my doggy Dan code NZ and that’s just my sort of local dog training site here in New Zealand where I live is the third site is my dog training academy site which is you know dog trainer Academy org and that is for those people who you know have embraced this method so they’ve embraced it so much and fallen in love with it so much they they actually have wanted to become dog trainers and that’s what that site is so that’s for those people who really you know have been to the online dog trainer they’ve seen what what the method is it resonates with them and then I want I want to take this step and become a dog trainer I want to share this method with people it’s becoming a bigger part of my life to be honest so you know it’s amazing being able to Skype and work with people all around the world and share videos and share complete consultations where it’s almost like you’re in the consult with me because the whole thing is unedited from start to finish it’s quite amazing absolutely we actually have some information on our site too because we’ve had readers and listeners that you know they love dogs and they enjoy training their own dogs and so they want to kind of dip their toes into becoming a dog trainer so I’m gonna go one two all three of your sites and if you know if anybody out there listening either is a dog trainer and would like to learn more or is interested in becoming a dog trainer like you said I’m sure some people just you know when you find a method that really works and you’re really passionate about you want to share that with others as well so if anybody’s interested in that I will have all those links on our theory of pets.com website and our top dog tips calm website as well so people can check those out brilliant we definitely want to have you back next time and maybe talk a little bit more about your book I had mentioned actually before we started recording the interview that I’m ordering it for myself because we’re parents and dog owners so I’m excited to talk to you about that too and you know when you make that correlation between training a dog and teaching your child I think if you’re a parent and a pet owner and you’ve been through that you can totally relate to that there are tons of similarities there and it’s interesting how how you’ve taken that and written a book about it because you know it’s just something that really hits home to me being a mom and a dog owner yeah it’s it’s it’s been a lot of fun sharing the book with people because so many people can relate to it and you know it was picked up by Random House book publishing Random House Penguin Neil and there’s a Kindle version on Amazon however I also made an audible copy so people like listening to books is driving to work or sitting in your car on the tube there is an audible version which I can send you the link to as well so you can download that and just listen to me reading the whole thing but it’s quite funny you know the start of the book is all about me shouting at my son Stanley you know no no my voice gets louder aloud and the story basically finishes with me realizing hang on this is what I’ve always telling my puppy owners not to do you don’t just stand there shouting you know and I started thinking yep there’s so many similarities so I’m actually going to I’ll link to your book as well you know one hour say if anybody wants to check that out but just so everybody knows there will be a podcast coming in the future where we talk more about that if people want to wait for that and I will link to that if they want to check out the book as well sounds great brilliant so that’s a little bit about doggy Dan and his training method again you know it’s been online for many years and it’s been successful for a lot of pet owners the thing that I love the most about the online dog trainer is that you can hop on there check it out check out the free courses do something like obedience training with your dog using these if it works for you great and then you know if you want to dive into it a little bit more and either pay for the full course yourself or maybe jump on to you know his dog trainer Academy site and maybe you know this really is something that you love training dogs and working with people and owners and you want to make it a career or at least a part-time hobby that you have on the weekends or in your free time so there’s tons of information doggy Dan is such a great resource I’m gonna link to all of his sights on our site theory of pets comm so if you’re again on social media or anything just jump right on our website all of that stuff is right there you can click check things out there’s a link to his book there as well and as I mentioned I’m definitely gonna try and get him back so if you guys have any questions for me or for doggie Dan that we can answer in another podcast be sure to jump on to theory of pets comm you can type out your questions and it’ll be sent to me in an email format if you’d like or you can record your questions which is a great way to participate in the podcast and if you choose to record them I may use them in future podcasts especially if I have doggy Dan back and hit play some of your questions and have him answer those for you guys so any questions for me any questions for doggy Dan be sure to get on theory of pets comm and check that out if you guys could also jump on iTunes just really quickly give me a review that helps me reach out to people like doggy Dan show them the podcast what it’s all about show them about our viewers and what they’re interested in and you know if we get some great reviews they’re more likely to come on here and speak so if you guys could take just a second to give me an iTunes review I would appreciate that as well I hope you guys got a lot of great information from doggy Dan I look forward to speaking with him again and I will be back next week with another podcast episode thanks for listening guys …
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