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Welcome to Mic Drop. The podcast where relevancy is irrelevant and we don't give a shit about your feelings.

Alright ladies and gentlemen, this is Mike Ritland with the Mic Drop series.

This is Team Dog 002 where I take questions from the folks that are generous enough to give a shit about what I talk about on social media platforms.

I've got handful of questions that I'm going to go through. I'm going to try to answer a few more, maybe a little shorter answers this time just because there's so many of them.

Without a doubt, keep in mind that there's elements of what you're going to hear me talk about that are a bit repetitive.

But one thing in terms of beating the dead horse that I hope you realize is that the principles are really all the same with all the problems that I see.

There's a lot of consistency with the reason as to why they're happening so keep that in mind.

We're going to jump right into it and we're going to get started off some questions. These are from Twitter.

So this is Mike Perez asks, how do I get my rotted to stop lunging at other dogs or anything while walking him on leash? He's very stubborn.

So the right question is also one that I get a lot of people have issues with walking their dogs on a leash and them being reactive.

So this is one of the things I actually talked a fair bit about in the last podcast and that I talk a lot about with my online training.

The just of it is what you'll see with a lot of these behaviors is you've got to teach him how to walk on a leash and it needs to be in an environment where there's not a bunch of distractions first.

So it's just like anything else where you're learning something in a classroom is that you're not going to go learn quantum physics when you're at a water slide park.

That's what you're trying to do is if you haven't taught him how to walk on a leash properly when there's not a bunch of stuff going on, he's going to have a hard time doing it.

But it needs to be graduated and stair stepped up so you got to get a lot of repetitions of shaping and teaching that desired walking on a leash and mostly paying attention to you, which is really what it boils down to is that you want to reinforce and reward over and over and over your dog paying attention to you.

And in the first three months of the online training, it focuses really, really heavy on that so you're building that foundation. I would recommend going on there again.

It's going to sound like a shameless plug, but that's the case. Like I can explain it to you all day, but to watch the videos and see how it's structured is really what's going to help you out there.

But if you don't want to do that and you just want the nickels worth of free advice, it's teacher dog to start walking on a leash properly when there's nothing else, but you to focus on and get a lot of repetitions to where it becomes kind of a condition behavior second nature type of thing.

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