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Why I Don’t Use The Word “No” With My Dogs And What I Teach Instead

I’m sharing why I don’t use the word “no” in dog training and what I teach instead to create understanding and connection. Through clear communication and thoughtful reinforcement, we can help our dogs feel confident and know exactly what we DO want. Transcript: I got a question in, somebody said, “Susan do you believe there's a place in dog training for the word ‘no’?” Now, I'm not going to say what is right or wrong. I will just share with you. I did a little experiment. When I read this question, I turned on my iPhone and I faced it at the dogs who were sitting near me as I read this question and I tested their response. “What do you guys think when I yell ‘no’?” or “I point my finger at you and yell ‘no’?” Check it out. The response is their ears stay up high up on their head, they wag their tail, they're like, “We don't understand what you're saying, but usually when you pay attention to us something amazing is about to happen.” So, it's clear I don't use the word ‘no’ with my dogs. And I'm not saying that I'm right or somebody else is wrong. So, if my dogs were into something they shouldn't be, let me just think, Tater Salad would be the most classic example. Tater Salad likes to pee on my flowers, and I don't like him to pee on my flowers. So, what do I do? Two things. I call his name. If I'm calling your name I'm saying, ‘I need you to orient to me. Stop what you're doing in orient to me.’ And so that's what my dogs know. ‘Stop what you're doing and orient to me.’ Now, is that a reinforcement? Yes, it is. But that's where being present for what your training life is like with your dog comes into play. So, when I'm saying your name and saying, “I don't like what you're doing, so stop what you're doing and orient to me.” and then I'm going to give you, you know, either “come here” or “get away from that”, or “let's go on and do something else”. I'm also taking a mental note. “Is that something that you want to spend some time in training?” Tater Salad came to us when he was 15 months old. And I swear, even though he's neutered, he's got some testicles hiding somewhere in his body because oh my gosh, he is so driven to mark everywhere. And he is, I mean, he's neutered and so is Swagger, but he is far more interested when my females come into season than Swagger is who's actually been used to breed bitches. So, I don't know what's going on with Tater. But I know he loves to mark. And so, do I want to train him to not mark on my flowers or do I want to manage it? And so, what I do, I know along the side of my house is where he likes to mark. So, when I take him out for a walk, I walk with him on my left. There's a big, big evergreen tree, where I call it the pee tree and he can pee on the pee tree. And so, by walking on my left I don't have to tell him to stay away from my flowers. I'm just managing it. Could I train him to not be in my flowers? Sure. But I'd much rather be training weave poles or agility or even how to be a cool family pet inside the house. It's just not that important to me. Plus, my dogs are never outside without us. First thing in the morning, maybe they go out for a quick pee and come back in but again that's not happening around where he could be peeing on my flowers. So why I don't use the word ‘no’, I believe the word ‘no’ is saying ‘you should know better’. And if we truly believe that our dogs are doing the best they can with the information we've given them in the environment we're asking them to you know, be in, then ‘no’ it's just such a judgment. It's like, “yeah, you're wrong”. And are they really wrong or did we set them up to make a choice that we didn't like? If we set them up to make a choice that we don't like, does that make them wrong? Or possibly it's us that's wrong. And so that's why I don't use the word ‘no’. However, what I do have is an amazing what I call ‘head whip reaction’ to your name. I don't care where you are, I don't care what you're doing, if I say your name, stop and turn because it could save your life. And so that's what's truly important. And if I find I'm saying your name and inappropriately reinforcing you for doing something I don't like, let's say my dogs were jumping on the table to look at what's up there every night. I said, you know, “Tater”, don't keep saying that every night, because you are rewarding him by saying his name for him getting up on there. Say the name and then be present to, “Is this something that I have to train?” Just be more aware of how your everyday life, your everyday interactions with your dogs can help you or hurt you, because it's all dog training. And no matter if you think you're training or not, you are training. You just might not be doing it intentionally. P.S. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel so you get notifications of new videos!