10: Your Dog is BLIND - You're PARALYZED Challenge that EVERYONE Fails

Pretend You're Paralyzed Stuck w a Blind Dog. Doesn't Take Much Skill to Lure Your Dog into a Sit, Down, Heel or Do a Cute Spin While Holding a Juicy Hot Dog Inches Away from its Mouth.  Treat-abusing Dog Trainers Are Livid and Shy Away Zeddicus King's Challenge For a Reason. 
Be Honest. Can You Get Your Dog to Sit, Lay Down WITHOUT Treats, Yelling, or Your Cool Hand Signals? The Only Thing Moving Should Be Your Lips. Don't Move a Muscle or Raise a Finger.  Could the way everyone training their dogs nowadays be all wrong?  I'm not just slicing cake on this episode; I'm cutting through the noise in dog training with a slice of controversy. 
Treats have been the go-to in dog training, but what if we removed them from the equation? Imagine a scenario where your dog can't see your gesture or your cool hand signal. This episode peels back the layers of today's typical dog training techniques, exposing the potential crutch that treats can become. I offer up a guide to achieving the kind of obedience that transcends the need for incentives, focusing instead on the power of your voice and the bond it can create. It's a conversation that's about more than just positive dog training; it's about cultivating a deeper connection with our loyal companions.
By the end of our time together, you'll be rethinking those pocketfuls of treats. I delve into the risks associated with treat-based training, from health implications to the danger of a one-dimensional relationship built on bribery. This episode is an invitation to earn your dog's respect rather than just its affection, setting the stage for a dynamic that's rewarding for both you and your pup – no treats necessary. And while you're waiting for "Dogs Decoded" to return to the shelves, remember that your support is what keeps this channel and the conversation alive. Thanks for tuning in, and let's raise the bar for what it means to truly train our dogs.

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Speaker 1: 0:05

welcome to dog secrets. Dog secrets brought to you by the best-selling author of the book dogs decoded, sedicus the dog prodigy king, the first psychology podcast of its kind without the whisper. Let's do it, let's do it, let's do it, let's do it, let's do it. Huh, you guys will be impressed. Today's my birthday, march 27th, and I'm here with you guys. How about that? Huh, you know it's funny as I saw Joe Rogan. So Joe Rogan actually, not Joe Rogan, um, dana White, joe Rogan actually is our Oprah huh, if you notice, joe Rogan is our Oprah um, but Dana White said that it's funny because he knows these people, these fighters, like man, if I have my own hours, I make, I'm my, I'm my own boss and I make my own schedule. I'll be, you know, taking all this time off and I won't be working as much and I won't be doing that. And Dana White said it best. And it's funny because unless you're self-employed, you will not get this. So I'm blessed, you know, and I've worked very hard to be my own boss, to work. You know the hours I can make. But he said that you will work hours that no boss would dare you to work. And it's true, that's so true. And it's because you don't mind it, you enjoy it. And it's because you don't mind it, you enjoy it. You will work even on Christmas, thanksgiving, new Year's, on your birthday, because you don't mind it, you enjoy it. There's a saying that find you know what you love and you don't have to work a day in your life, and that's so true. That's so true.

Speaker 1: 2:00

All right, guys, if you're wondering what happened with the book, the book Amazon messed up on something really big. So inside of the book, guys, the pages should have been cut color. So I have the pictures in there and they printed it black and white. And when I got on their asses, they're like oh, ok, well, we have to redo the whole book and it has to be new ISBN number, everything Like what, like, just over that, like okay, I guess that's the rules. So be patient. I guess it will be another two or three weeks in case you guys are wondering, but I appreciate all the love and support from all of you guys.

Speaker 1: 2:37

All right, so this is a good episode, really controversial, and my book is very controversial. Guys, my book, it will be one of those books that is totally a game changer in the world of dog psychology, dog training. It's a more dog psychology book and it's more. You'll see things to your dog's eyes. You'll see things to your you know eyes, your method, your assumptions, your mindset. You'll see things from the, your training method. You know, then, the trainer that you work with or you've been working with, or from the book that you've been trying to train the dog, or videos, whatever. However, you've been doing it right and you're gonna see it also from the dog training industry and I said, to my knowledge, no book covered all those in this detail. Like I really really did my best to make sure, guys, that it will impress you. It's very, very thought provoking book, very thorough. Like I said, I didn't just write it in a few days or a few weeks or a few months. Years, years of hard work and all that All right.

Speaker 1: 3:45

So I'm sure the title of this episode caught your attention Blind Dog, paralyzed Owner. That gets attention right. So you'll know why I'm talking, why I named it like this, and I will dare you to challenge yourself and challenge your dog and you'll see what I'm talking about. Dare you to challenge yourself and challenge your dog and you'll see what I'm talking about. So if you notice, guys, every dog dog training book, every dog training website, every dog training video, instagram, tiktok they all using treats. You see, like the dogs like glued to the owner, like they're like inches away from the dog's nose, and they make the dog sit, they make it lay down, they make it do like a little spin, they bring it down the side, they make it heel. So heel could be two things right. One is heel, like walking next to you and glued next to your left side, and that one is falling in heel position. That's like you make the dog sit on your left side. You know, ready to heel. So that's the term.

Speaker 1: 4:46

In case some of you guys don't know that, I'm sure most of you know what I'm talking about. If you're listening to this, you're most likely a dog owner, or you would like to be a dog owner or a dog trainer. But most dog trainers don't listen to me and there's a joke that the only way you can get two dog trainers talk to one another is talk shit about the third one's method. Yeah, so my method is diverse, guys. I will give you the information, I will give you the pros and cons of each method, each tool. Then I will let you decide.

Speaker 1: 5:16

Now, people that hire me, I will have to make my recommendation right. I'm the expert, I'm the professional here, not you guys. I've been doing this 30 years, not you guys. I've been doing this for this long and with this, thousands and thousands of year dogs, not you guys. But it's funny, some people still challenge you and just still doubt it. It's like, okay, you do you, let's see what happens. You know, let me see. You know how you can pull it off.

Speaker 1: 5:44

So these dogs, guys that you see that they're responding marvelously to their owner and making the dog is glued to their fingers. So you know, the dog's doing it like a trick because like, okay, I know, if I take my eyes off mommy or daddy, I'm not gonna get a treat and this looks impressive. But I will be far more impressed if they can do this off leash, if they can do this in front of a guest, stranger, right visitor, if they can do that in front of a squirrel, in front of a cat, in front of a jogger, from a distance around distractions. So all these guys are a form of no or very little distraction, all these, these things you see. So the dog looks very trained, but remember, there's a trained dog, you know. And then there's a trained dog that listens to you no matter what, everywhere, every time.

Speaker 1: 6:33

So in this episode, guys, I'm going to go over all the flaws of using treats and when you should use it, you know. To use it to your advantage, you're smart about it. To use it to your advantage, you're smart about it. So I want you to do this. So pretend, god forbid, you're paralyzed, okay, and pretend, god forbid, that your dog is blind. Again, your dog is blind, you're paralyzed.

Speaker 1: 6:58

I want you to tell your dog, like, sit, like six, seven times in a row, watch. So why paralyzed, guys? Guys, so you don't, you can't do a hand gesture, only thing that's moving are your lips. So you cannot snap your finger. You cannot, you know, tilt your head down. You cannot, um, uh, follow your dog with your head like you know how, like some of you get up in front of the dog and show the dog your face, like, okay, the dog has to see my face or has to see my hand gesture, otherwise the dog will not listen and the dog, you know, is blind. You know, I tell my clients pretend the dog has a blindfold on, so you cannot throw a hand gesture. You cannot rely on that.

Speaker 1: 7:43

I want you to tell your dog sit. Like seven times, you'll see, first few guys, the dog will look at you, look in the air, lick its lips, look at your pocket, you know, maybe jump on you a little bit, sniff your hand or sniff the air. This is a dog, guys that you know, in a way saying what's in it for me? Where's the treat? Where's the treat? You know what's in it for me. And those of you who always snap your finger, always rely on hand gestures. You'll see that the dog's not going to listen. So this exercise forces you and your dog to make sure the dog listens to you, not really watch you or your hand signal, but listen, listen, response to you, no matter what.

Speaker 1: 8:25

So if the dog's at the end of the leash or across the room or across the yard, when you say sit, the dog should do it. When you say down, the dog should do it. Now, down gets even harder. Why? Because the dog's like well, I don't see you slapping the floor, I don't see you bending down, I don't see you touching the floor. You always do that. You always bend over, you always bend down, you always kind of. You know, grab me by the collar, you give me like a nudge or a push. You always make me sit, then lay down. Then that's wrong. The dog can lay down from standing, you know he can go straight to down, sit down.

Speaker 1: 9:01

This is where you'll notice like, oh my God, he's not kidding, the dog's not going to do it. The dog's going to do it, maybe once or twice. Maybe he'll do it three, four times. Then they'll walk away like screw you, man, where's the treat? Do you even know what you're doing? So a lot of you think that if the dog's not looking at you, not looking at your hand signal, hand gesture the dog is not capable of, the dog will not be responsive, and you're incorrect, you're wrong about that. So that's the thing is, you get to remember the exercises. You're paralyzed, your dog is blind, so don't even move a finger and you know you'll see like the dog may sit once or twice or three times and then you'll see it will get slower. It will not do it. You know you're going to get louder and then you'll see it will get slower. It will not do it. You know you're going to get louder. You may have to like walk, standing, like walk away, so the dog follows you. So the dog like maybe, said one time, two times, like you want to stand up again so you can make him sit again. This is very funny exercise, but you'll see like, oh, my God, he's not kidding.

Speaker 1: 10:05

So the flaw of other methods based on uh, they're abusing treats guys. I call it treat abusing dog trainers. You want to use treats smartly. Don't abuse it. Be natural use, rely on dog psychology, on your skills, on your not on hot dog, chicken, pepperoni, sausage. I tell people you want to rely on leadership psychology technique and that's it, not hot dog, chicken and pepperoni. Leadership psychology technique is really natural guys. It's practical, okay, okay, you gotta make sure that you can pull it off anywhere anytime.

Speaker 1: 10:52

A lot of these trainers that you see these dogs listening to them and that they you see the dog like toy, doesn't take the the eyes off the owner, like you walk him and the dog's constantly looking at their face. That's because sometimes some of these trainers even hold the treat in their mouth. Why else would the dog look at them like that? They know how the owner looks like. So a lot of these dogs guys are doing a drill, like exercise, like a routine that's been rehearsed and rehearsed hundreds of times. These dogs will not do it in front of another dog, in front of a cat, in front of a squirrel, in front of a jogger. You know lawnmower, and if that dog's doing it, can your dog do it.

Speaker 1: 11:35

Remember a method has to work for every dog, every owner, right? That's the ultimate goal, right? All right, so here I want you to think about this, guys, would you? So they say that you get to use treats and then, after a while, stop. You know using treats and the dog should listen to you. That's good.

Speaker 1: 11:52

Well, you're getting paid, right when you work, you know you're getting paid right. You get your put. Uh, you get your paycheck or whatever. Whether you get paid every two weeks or monthly, you put in the hours first. Now imagine if they gave you the check. You didn't have to. They're like okay, well, we trust you. Here's the check, just put in a 40-hour week.

Speaker 1: 12:14

The dog is the same way, guys, the dog has to listen to you. Then you can surprise it with treats. So if your dog has to see and smell the treat, guys, every time, before you're giving a command, you're bribing the dog. I repeat before you're giving a command, you're bribing the dog. I repeat if your dog has to see or smell or take the treat before a command, you're bribing. You're bribing, that's it. You're bribing the dog. You don't want to call it that because it sounds awful, all right, so more so.

Speaker 1: 12:42

Here are the three reasons, guys, that it helps, it justifies, using treats. Okay, one is to gain the dog's confidence back. If the dog's very shy, very timid, very, very scared, shivering, shaking, hiding or even a little bit aggressive or unpredictable, use treats to gain the dog's trust and confidence back. Next one you're using treats to do, you know, cute tricks. Tricks and treats usually go hand in hand. Almost every trick, guys, has been used, uh been performed with a trick or a toy. Either the dog loves a ball or like a rope toy again, it's a trick, okay.

Speaker 1: 13:28

The next one is to prepare your dog for obedience competitions. Obedience competitions, guys, that's like olympic of obedience. So does that apply to you? Now think about it all. Are all these three uh reasons apply to you? Is your dog shy and timid and aggressive toward you that you have to use treats in order to gain his trust and confidence? I don't think so. Are you really that crazy about tricks? You don't. To teach your dog all these bunch of tricks? I don't think so.

Speaker 1: 14:00

You rely, you care more about manners, more you want your dog to shut up when you tell it to, not to jump up on you all the time, not to nip at you all the time, not to lose his shit when he sees another dog that dog reactivity right on leash. You want it to come to you when you call it, no matter what, you want it to stay, no matter what. You don't care about roll over, play dead, bang. You know the dog plays dead. You don't care about those things. And you definitely don't care about obedience competitions.

Speaker 1: 14:30

That's when it's perfection, guys. The dog has to sit and sit straight. They can't even sit sideways. When the dog lays down, they have to lay down perfectly. They can't be sideways. They can't have a paw sticking out. That's perfection.

Speaker 1: 14:45

Do any of these apply to you guys? No, they do not. So I want you to really think about this. You get to use treats smartly, guys, not over every stupid thing. All right.

Speaker 1: 14:55

So now more flaws of using treats. These are really really serious flaws. And then you're like my God, I never looked at it that way. It's very annoying and not practical. You can't always have treats with you all the time. It's very it gets annoying Like my God, where's the treat? He doesn't like this treat, you know? Oh, what else we got? So it's not practical. It's not natural, guys. It's not natural to bribe the dog all the time. They get sick, they get explosive diarrhea, all these things, even your favorite treats, guys.

Speaker 1: 15:26

Stop working, usually around dogs, around guests or from a distance. Remember your dog has to listen to you across the yard, across the room, across the field, when it bolts out the front door, when it sees a jogger, a kid, a cat, a squirrel, your treat will not work, guys. From a distance it will not. You will spoil your dog more, guys. So spoiled dogs naturally turn on people, turn on dogs and even on you. So the more you give the dog treats, guys, the more you're spoiling your dog. The more the dog's spoiled, the more unpredictable they become.

Speaker 1: 16:04

Next one, your dog will kind of sniff the air and look at the you know your hand and will know like okay, I will listen, based on the treat that you have. What kind of treat you have If it's that dry, lame biscuit that's been collecting dust on the shelf in that jar? Yeah, I'm not gonna do it. But if it smells something yummy, tasty, soft, I don't always have it yeah, then I'll listen. So dogs are not dumb guys. They're very smart, you know. You want to outsmart the dog. We cannot outrun them. You can't catch the dog. You got to outsmart the dog.

Speaker 1: 16:39

When you use treats, guys, you definitely get the dog's love, but not respect. The dog will love you. You need both. The dog needs to love you and respect you. Respect is more important than love, guys. Again, respect, not fear guys. Respect, that's it. Don't twist my words. Respect the next flaw of using treats.

Speaker 1: 17:07

These books, these dog training videos, these dog training classes they ask you to starve the poor dog before you make it obey commands. The poor dog, they say don't feed it. Don't feed it that they come, you know, with yummy treats. You want the training to be fun. The poor dog like dying, you know. So is that real life, guys? Is your dog always starving when your face around other dogs, around guests, around people, around kids, and you always have hot dogs with you all the time? Is that practical? No, it's not. It's not. You don't have patch of hot dogs with you 24 7, right, you're unknowingly making your dog bossy, feistyisty and demanding. So these are the dogs guys that you know. Again, they become bossy and feisty because you're relying on treats.

Speaker 1: 17:49

Treats and technique are totally different, guys. When you use treats for everything, you're cheating. There's no technique. Even kids can do that. Give the dog treats left and right. There's no technique. There isn't. It doesn't take much skill, guys, to use treats all the time for everything. It really doesn't.

Speaker 1: 18:08

Really, you will train your dog guys, unknowingly, to always look at hand signals, hand gesture guys. Hand signals are very overrated now. Benefit of hand signal is when your dog goes deaf, right from old age. If you lost your voice, um, if you're somewhere loud, right, um. Other than that, guys, your dog is constantly looking at your hand gesture, hand signal. You know your trees. Are you holding a treat? So your dog should listen to you. So the only thing should be moving is your lips. That's it. That's how you know for sure the dog listen to you.

Speaker 1: 18:45

And whenever I get clients, guys, and almost every client that I get, they've been using treats. How can you not, guys? Every book, every training video, every they all say use treats. Now I know you may say well, how are you different than they are now? How can they all be wrong? They're wrong.

Speaker 1: 19:02

Remember, majority doesn't always mean right. The majority of people, guys, are not health conscious. The majority of people are not driven. The majority of people are not kind. The majority of people are um I mean, I can go on and on and on they don't have common. So don't go by majority, guys. Majority of people are not always correct. There isn't, there aren't really. Majority of people are not good with their money, with their saving. So I mean, majority of people don't empathize. Empathy is a great quality guys. You get always seen from that person's point of view. Empathize Empathy is a great quality guys. You can always see it from that person's point of view. So don't go by majority. Don't go by majority. It doesn't mean jack shit.

Speaker 1: 19:54

All right, okay, moving on, the other thing guys you'll see is like your dog will get sick from all these different treats. It could get, you know, overweight, they could have diarrhea, it could. Again, you'll be like, okay, I don't think he likes that treat. No, what else should I use? You know, you're going to see that the dog's poop is all mushy and all that. So not a good good call.

Speaker 1: 20:16

Another thing that happens when you use treats, guys the dogs start begging at the table because they got a taste of different treats and some of these are human food. Some of you end up using hot dogs, some of you using end up using cheese. So the dog dogs guys smell first through. I mean taste something, through smell. So if something smells really good to them, that most likely will also taste very good to them. So when you're cooking guys, you're eating, you know at the table, these dogs guys, that you've been using treats all the time.

Speaker 1: 20:48

Because the dog's like, what's the big deal? They always give me treats. They give me treats just for being alive. They give me treats just because I'm cute. They give me treats because I'm fluffy. They give me treats, you know, because I come and I sit in front of them, I lick my face, I give a paw, I shake, roll over and they give me treats. So that's how the dog plays you. So you got to be smart about this, guys. All right, and I know you may say like, okay, well, my trainer said the dog eventually will listen to me without treats anywhere anytime. They're lying to you guys. That's a lie. That's a lie.

Speaker 1: 21:26

I'm sure some of you guys train the dog guys back in the day without treats. Without treats, the dog listened to you because you said so. The dog listened to you not because he got his ass kicked, but he said listen to you because you said so. I'm sure you guys give that dog treats once in a while, but if you rely heavily on treats, with everything as a crutch, it falls apart, guys, because it's built. The foundation is built based on bribery, not love, praise, leadership, psychology or technique, but hot dog, chicken, pepperoni, sausage and dry liver yeah, it's just like it. I see it happening all the time because I train and retrain people's dogs all the time. What I mean by that is I train it, you know, to listen, no matter what, what or without treats, and I'm retraining the client to make sure the dog doesn't always have to see them.

Speaker 1: 22:17

They know the dog doesn't have to see your hand gesture, doesn't have to see your face. Don't bend down, follow the dog with your face. Don't say watch me, watch me, watch me, watch me. You know it's a lie when they see the dog has to make eye contact. No. So imagine your dogs guys. You walk in your dog, okay. And then the dog goes to the end of the leash, you're standing behind it. Your dog sees a cat, a squirrel, a jogger. You say sit. Do you want the dog to look at you before it sits, or just sit, I'm sure you mean as long as he sits? Who cares? I don't care if he looks at my hand gesture or my face, as long as he sits.

Speaker 1: 22:59

But most of these books, guys, most of these dog trainers you know on Instagram, tiktok, you know podcasts, books, they also make sure the dog looks at you. And they're wrong, guys, they're wrong. Remember, you want to make sure that the dog listens to you, with or without hand gestures, with or without hand signals. Guys, remember that. That's something. You never thought of it that way, like my God. That's true. You, you never thought of it that way. Like my god, that's true. You know, all of them say I gotta use treats. You know like oh, and then the dog will listen without treats. No, that's not true, not true at all. All right, more, uh, more, um, things that they rely on. What happens, guys, is whenever you use treats. So what I tell my clients is okay, use treats. Okay, so say you made.

Speaker 1: 23:47

The dog said like ten times then at the end of the Training session guys give it treats this way, it's a surprise. It's a surprise. The dog didn't see it on you, didn't smell it on you. The dog didn't see it in your and a pouch or anything like that. The dog didn't smell it on you. The dog didn't sit in your, in a pouch or anything like that. The dog didn't hear the thing from the, uh, the wrap. You know the, the treat, like okay, that treat is going to come out of that. So your dog listened to you because you said so. You know you want to be rational, practical and natural. Rational, practical and natural. Not again, you know steak, pepperoni and sausage. Don't rely on that. So that's the thing is.

Speaker 1: 24:31

I want you guys think about this how you're going to make the dog listen to you and your dog already knows sit. Think about it most like your dog already knows sit. Almost everyone that listens to this podcast knows that the dog knows sit. The dog knows a little bit of stay too. The dog knows a little bit of down. Why down will be more challenging, because the more you make a dog lay down, guys, the more they bow to you, the more it's a sign of respect.

Speaker 1: 24:57

Again, do this without slapping the floor, without bending down, without snapping your finger, without you know, like hand, like nodding your head, and good luck. The dog will be like screw you, it will flip you off, if it could. It's really hard to make a dog lay down without that. Again, do it like five, six times, ten times in a row and then you see, the dog will get slower and slower. I will not even do it. Why some dog won't even look at you guys won't even listen. I don't want to look at you.

Speaker 1: 25:31

But how you get to this guy? Just start with leash, with the leash. And I know, the minute you put the dog on leash, some of you pull on the leash as you say said, yank it. As you say down. Don't do that. That's cheating. Just like those hot dog trainers. You know they're abusing the treat, the dog sitting. You know like the dog sees the hot dog inches away from their mouth, like like two or three inches away, and the dog does the said, they do the down, they make it spin. That's cheating, guys. That's cheating. You want the dog to listen to you, with and without treats? Okay, again, god forbid. You're paralyzed and your dog is blind. You'll see, you'll have fun with this one.

Speaker 1: 26:14

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