Welcome to the Absolute Dog Sex and a Squirrel podcast. I'm Lauren Langman. I'm one of the world's leading dog trainers and it's my mission to help owners become their dog's top priority. In each episode, you'll discover how to

gain trust and communicate with your dog like never before, creating unbreakable bonds that make you

the most exciting part of their world. Oh my goodness, it can be tough. We hear you. I'm joined by

the wonderful Sam and Sam and I are talking what to do with naughty but nice dogs. What are our favourite games? What are our favourite things to do and how are we going to work our days with them? So Sam, I'm heading to you. We're going to do a bit of tips tennis. What are our favourite things to train? What are our favourite games to play with naughty but nice dogs? And I'm going to hear it straight away from you. I bet you're going disengagement something.

Go on. What are our favorite things to do? Welcome. Welcome. Well, I feel like I need to say it. I feel like I need to say it before you get in there because it's my favorite. It's my favorite. Yeah, absolutely. Disengagement pattern. Anybody that's been taught by me absolutely has heard of this game. anybody that's watched any of our content with me on it,

really, is probably heard of this game to some extent. What a cool game. And you can get so much out of it. So for me, disengagement pattern, it's really simple for those that maybe don't know

about this game. You're essentially orientating your dog toward a distraction of some sort. It could be really low level. It doesn't have to be anything mega. It could be, I don't know, a flower on the floor. Who knows? It could literally be anything. And then when they turn to you, they're getting more value than they would towards the flower. So let's say I threw one piece of food toward a flower. When they come back to me, I don't have to say anything. I'm waiting for them to come back to me. They're going to get like four, five, six pieces and like loads of fun as well. And like I'm going to be really excited about it. So we're looking at showing our dogs that there's more value toward me than there is out into the environment. Now, if you think about where that can go, oh, man, you could just use it, you could use it for anything. You know, you could use it for distractions out in the, in the, in the, in the environment. You could use it for house guests. You can use it for not picking up chicken off the floor that you've dropped, you know. It's brilliant. And for naughty but nice dogs, particularly, they struggle with disengagement, you know. So for me, this game is massive. And I've got huge success in so many different areas, as well as my own dogs, but also with my students. And I'm a massive advocate for this game for naughty, but nice dog disengagement pattern for the win. What's yours? I love it, I love it. And I love it because I know how much you've demonstrated it. You've shown it. You've shown it in different presentations. And you really live it with your dogs. You really live it with your dogs. Your next one has to be talking about your suitcase, but I'm just going to head you up before I go for the next one. Mine would definitely be tricks. If you haven't already got the

absolute dogs tricks book, head to the store. It's absolute dash dogs.com. And I love tricks with

my dogs. I love tricks. I love seeing the dogs develop. I love seeing their behaviours develop.

I love seeing their mindset grow. I love seeing them get a little bit bigger through playing

tricks. Like they grow in playing tricks. And I wouldn't say I've even got any favorite tricks. I think it depends on the dog. So for some of my dogs, it might be very movement-based tricks. For other dogs, it might be quite still tricks. It would really depend on the individual that I'm working with. Skittles right now, I would say one of her favorites is like chin targeting,

whereas Katie, I would say, is always involving jumping and moving. And I really love how you can

bring out the dog's character. You can help assess their personality, but you can also really

enhance who they are in new environments through them having almost power poses in their tricks.

So I love trick training. I really love trick training. And most of all with trick training,

I also think that I enjoy seeing them just grow from little people right through to as big as it

gets. Like you can turn them into giants.

And I love seeing the enthusiasm you can, like, it can roar. And you might have been working

with a mouse and suddenly you're working with a lion. Like I really enjoy, I really enjoy watching

that. So if you haven't got the tricks book, grab the tricks books. Just a gorgeous book.

Really well put together. Gorgeous, like spiral bound book. Real chunk of a book. If you're in America, the shipping costs us almost as much as the book does. So the company actually makes zero money when we ship it. But I still want people to have it because it's just a great, great book. And gorgeous diagrams, all of it. And if you can't afford a book, then the other thing you can do is head to the Facebook page. Give us a like, give us a share. Definitely let people know about the Facebook page and any of the social media spaces. And we actually do quite a lot of tricks posts on there. So if you look back through, I think there's like 40 tricks posts. So you can look right back through there, their most Tuesdays. So that's really nice as well. So yeah, tricks for the win, Sam,

heading to you and you're going to tell us what

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