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i was going to ask kind of why it's so important to have thos types of tools in our dog training tool box. And it sounds like a lot of it about, you know, both the handler having an option wen they find themselves in that o crab situation, and the dog kind of understanding the humans reaction and what do look in response to iti. It's a dance, you know. And

and if you're improvising and your dog is under a decent amount of stress, i you're, you're not really at your best. You're trying to come up with something, and your dog might be saying, that's not that familiar to me i'm not entirely sure what you're doing. I think i kind of get it, but i can't really pay attention because my, i'm split focus right now. I'm concerned about that thing the block, or whatever. But when you have a well rehearsed dance move a, your dog can just fall right into that rut and say, oh, i know what youre doing. I'm going to go into that channel. You're doing the same thing we've practised now hundreds of times. A dog is much more likely to be able to follow with you, with your plan. If it' i an incredibly rehearsed plan. It's incredibly familiar, because you know, you're, you're trying to manage a dog who's not really able to manage themselves. If they could just follow a cue, you could say, let's go, and they could just trot along next o you a different direction without worry. You wouldn't be managing. You would. You'd be given a cue, your dog would be following your cue. You'd be well, you know, doing well. We're managing because our dogs are not able to follow cues. In that moment, we're managing because our dog is focused on something ouse and can't give us much back when we are giving cues. So management, to me, is a mind set on the part of the human it says, i need to get this done. I need to move my dog against my dog really giving me a lot of co operation, but i've also got to do this in a way that does not add stress to the situation, that doesn't upset my dog further. I don't need to, you know, pull out something that's really unfamiliar and try to get it done while my dog is unable to pay much attention. Ouknow, if your dog is going to have a lot of trouble focusing and listening and responding to then you need to have very familiar things that you are aware you can get done, and you need to smoothly go so that everything is minimized. And even if your dog isn't able to be co operative, and and you need to move them anyway, yea, with a collar, and you'r in, you're moving, and your dog is, you're struggling, even that has to be done kindly enough and effectively enough that you're not worsening the situation. Ad these, these are things that people need a lot of rehearsal in. They're not the the basic of dog training. And we all know that people need rehearsal ind the basics of dog training too, right? The people need a lot of rehearsal. They're not dog trainers. And so getting people to think that there's two mind sets. One, you're the teacher, and you're cueing things and rewarding things, and you're learning that skill dog owner. And the other is that while your students really can't bring out their best, they can't respond to you welle, they can't do what you're asking, and you still need to move, you still need to go, and i still need you to do that without upsetting your dog, without making th things worse. Well, that's often just a vague picture for people. So i break that down and say, this is how we're going to do thatand we'regon to practise for weeks before you have to worry about figuring it out in real time. I think empowering people a is one of the most important things you can do in dog training, because we you can focus on the skills, you can focus on the marking, you can focus on the reward. But if you don't have a confident human who knows what they're trying to do, and can roll with a change that might come up, you you are not y giving the dogs the clarity that they need to get better. So i really focus on the humans getting good training skills, but also feeling like they can do this, and knowing immediatelyh they can pull out, right from their thought process. I know whatwhat goes here. I'm going to do this next, because the confidence is what gets things done. People tend to freeze when they don't know what to do. And freezing, whith a reactive dog, is going to get more reactivity. So i i really focus on the people and expanding their tool box from training, which is fantastic, to also active management, which is not just making stuff up and getting at a dodge. It is a te whole system that people can learn. And i've, i have honed it down to things that focus on human effectiveness and human confidence so that it gets done, and so that people aren't unsurea human being, unsure is some of the hardest thing to ex ce, both for that person and that dog. And i don't want my students to feel that way. I want them to feel empowered e confident.

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