11: Pinch/Prong Collar MISTAKES - U R A SH!TTY ALPHA - Signs of Poor Leadership w Your Dog

Exposing the stupid designs posing as pinch collars. You are a sh!tty alpha. Sorry. And I'll prove it to you. Watch the video clip below as Zeddicus King shows you exactly how to fit your prong collar based on your dog's size.:

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Our Dog Prodigy reveals essential dog training tips with a focus on the controversial yet effective use of pinch collars. You'll discover how these collars can mimic natural dog behavior when chosen and fitted correctly, making training more intuitive and less stressful for both you and your dog. Plus, learn why traditional harnesses and retractable leashes might be doing more harm than good when it comes to maintaining control.

We also tackle the often misunderstood concept of alpha behavior and why it's crucial for effective dog training. Zeddicus shares practical insights on recognizing signs of disrespect, such as incessant barking and ignoring commands, and offers actionable strategies for establishing your authority. From consistent rule enforcement to outsmarting your dog's stubbornness, this episode is packed with valuable advice to help you become the leader your dog needs. Don't forget to check out the resources linked in the episode, including Zeddicus’ book "Dogs Decoded," available on Amazon. Tune in for a comprehensive guide to achieving harmony and better communication with your furry friend.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:05

Welcome to Dog Secrets. Dog Secrets, brought to you by the best-selling author of the book Dogs Decoded, zedekus 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. Hey, everyone, thank you for tuning in. This is your host, zadikus the Dog Prodigy King. I apologize, I've been missing for a while. I know you. You probably wondering what happened to this guy. I've been busy. I've been busy with life, you know, with a lot of things, but this episode will be a good one. So on the link. By the way, the book is now available, guys. I appreciate you, guys, patience. You can get it on amazon as Dogs Decoded Dog Psychology from the Future, and it's one of those books, guys, that is like. To my knowledge, no book really covered these four, five elements. You'll see things from your dog's point of view. You'll see things from your point of view. You'll see things from your training methods point of view. You'll see things from the trainer's point of view. You'll see things from your training methods point of view. You'll see things from the trainers point of view their limitations, expectations, craziness and you'll see things from the dog training industries point of view and to my knowledge to this day, no, no book covered all those elements. No, they always cover one or two, but not everything. So the other thing, guys, is you're gonna see in the link is I'm gonna have a video clip of what I'm gonna talk about today, which is the pinch collar mainly. So the pinch collar guys. A lot of people make a mistake about that and they buy the wrong one, wrong size, and they don't know what it does. So I'm gonna talk to you about that and again, the link for the book and the video clip, the youtube clip. You actually see me talking and showing you different, uh, pinch colors, which is garbage, which is not how to size it, how to fit it. Again, nobody to explain it like that, nobody, because there's a lot of pinch colors out there that they're not really pinch colors, they're're not pinch callers, they're like scratching collar, poking collar, like annoying collar, but they're not pinching. So when you see the video, it will make more sense, right? You know like, oh, okay, this is what he's talking about. I see, all right. So I'm gonna start with this.

Speaker 1: 2:41

Guys, how do you think dogs correct each other? How do dogs correct each other? I know, um, you may say, okay, they bark at each other, they snap at each other, they growl at each other, they paw each other, right? Uh, what else they bite each other? Right? Where do they bite each other? They could bite each other in the face, you know, and the nose on the back, but ultimately it always goes to the same spot it's the neck. Exactly, most of you guessed it. It's the neck. So dogs, when they correct each other, guys, they go for the neck. And here's why one is the dive dog can't get him back, so it's kind of like a headlock. So the dog is corrected and, uh, in a way that it makes sense to the dog.

Speaker 1: 3:33

The other reason this makes sense to dogs is they remember how the mom carried them from back of the neck. The dog like oh, I remember when I was a little puppy, my mom carried me like this, you know, from one location to another. That's how it is with cats too, you know. So it's really important that you have to communicate with a dog and a dog's point of view. Okay, so this is a fact. This is not my opinion. That's how dogs correct each other. That's not in my opinion. That's how dogs correct each other.

Speaker 1: 4:08

Now I know purely positive trainers, or you know treat abusing trainers. They'll say, well, you can't be a dog, we're not animals. Well, we gotta think like a dog. I know we're not animals. That's why I'm not asking you to bite the dog back, I'm not asking you to slam the dog. Okay, those are just what our dog would do. I'm just saying, you know you get a, consider using a pinch car, because it works from a dog's point of view.

Speaker 1: 4:30

The second fact after the dog jaw, the second strongest part of their body is their neck. I repeat after the jaw, the second spot strongest part of the body is their neck. Look how dogs pull on us. They drag you. They pull you even if they're on a regular collar. They'll hack and gag, but they'll keep on pulling you and dragging you. And it's even worse if you put them on a harness. So if you look around guys, almost every dog that's out of control, that acts up. When they see other dogs, people, they lose it, they charge, they lunge, they bark or they or they whimper, they whine. They just want to pull and play with our dog. Pay attention almost all of them are on a harness. Almost all these dog guys are on a harness.

Speaker 1: 5:17

Almost all these owners have the dogs on a on a retractable leash. That's not garbage. If they don't have it on retractable leash, that's another garbage. If they don't have it on a retractable leash, they have it on a stretchy leash. You do not want your leash to stretch. It should not be stretching. Guys, when you pull a dog, when you hold onto the dog, you want the dog to stop right there. You don't wanna give him like 10 more inches to get to a person, get to a dog, get to a child, get to a toddler, get to a dog, get to a child, get to a toddler, get to a cat squirrel. So you want the dog to stop instantly. And I think is they have a rolled leash, so it's like a rolled leash. They have a lot of knots on it. Rolled leash is really heavy too, but it's better than stretchable leash. It's better than retractable leash.

Speaker 1: 6:01

Okay, now the pinch collar. Guys, when you buy a pinch collar, if your dog is in, 99% of the dogs fall in this category. If your dog is 20 pounds to 120 pounds, you need the medium size, the medium and large. The medium or the large will do. I repeat, if your dog is 20 to 120 pounds, all you need is the medium or the large. If your dog is over 120 pounds, you need the extra large or the heavy-duty. So the video will explain this more. Guys, you do not want a heavy-duty pinch collar on a like a 40 pound. That's for Mastiff, that's for Great Danes, for Saint Bernard. And you don't want a big ol' pinch collar on a Chihuahua either, and you don't want a really small pinch collar. That's for Chihuahua. And you kept adding links on a Doberman pincher I've seen that too because it gets undone. When you pull on it, the dog takes, takes off.

Speaker 1: 7:05

Your pinch collar, guy, should be all metal. It should not have any plastic on it. I repeat, it should not have any plastic in a device. No plastic mechanism, no, no rubber, no cloth. It should not be. Or you know where you clip it and it's like plastic clip. It should be all made out of steel. Okay, now you will see in a video clip what I'm talking about.

Speaker 1: 7:31

A lot of times you guys get a pinch color and it's not your fault. I would make the same mistake if I wasn't in this field like okay, this looks like a pinch, it looks like prong color, it looks spooky. Those are not gonna pinch, guys, it's just gonna. It's just for look. I don't even know why they made it. Really they're not safe.

Speaker 1: 7:50

They could come undone, you know, because the the cloth part could come undone. It could break from the clip part where it's plastic and you want to have a double hooked. So you want the pinch bar also on a choke cloth collar hooked. So you want the pinch bar also on a choke cloth collar. I repeat, not choke chain, not choke chain and pinch bar. Both of those are steel made out of metal. You want the choke collar to be cloth and in the video you'll see what I'm talking about. And this brand that it's actually Toppaw. Toppaw sells the brand that it's with the choke collar already installed. So that will be a backup, backup feature.

Speaker 1: 8:29

So, guys, you need the pinch bar of your dogs pulling all the time. Or they put the brakes and all sudden, you know the color comes out of their, their head, or they come out of, they can get out of even harnesses. So pinch car works like the minute they pull, they charge, they lunge, they lag, or they put the brakes, the thing pinches them. Okay, now you want to make sure, guys, when you use the pinch collar, after a while you see, the dog will get used to it. They still pull on the pinch collar and that's because you let them pull on the prongs.

Speaker 1: 9:03

You should not do that because the more the dog pulls on the prongs, the tougher it's going to be, and they should always walk on a loose leash. Your dog should walk on a loose leash. Guys, not next to you. I repeat, not next to you Doesn't have to be next to you. We're not aiming for perfection, we're aiming for progress and I mentioned this in my book. You gotta aim for progress, not perfection. So it doesn't matter if your dog's on the right side, left side, the dog has to be on a loose leash. It should be polite walking. Polite dogs don't charge, they don't lunge, they don't make a scene when they see another dog, when they see a jogger, when they see kids on skateboards you know moving cars. They walk on a loose leash, they walk politely, okay, so again, in the description of this book you'll see that.

Speaker 1: 9:50

You know I made a video clip on youtube and you'll know exactly what I'm talking about, which brand I don't work for. Top Paw. Top Paw, I found out it's a PetSmart brand. You know what's funny is PetSmart. They do not recommend shock collar or pinch collar in their training program. Again, they do not recommend the humane and proper use of pinch and shock on their training program, but yet they sell it. They sell shock or different kind of shock or bark colors that zap the dog and the silk pinch cause. The best pinch color, what the best pinch call probably is Herm Springer, but you know, the second best is this one. The reason I like this one better than Herm Springer one is not as expensive and second, it's has a backup. I like that backup because sometimes these links come undone, guys, and all sudden you see the dog takes off on you.

Speaker 1: 10:44

So I always think like this, the dog, it should be impossible for the dog to make any mistake. So whenever you pull on the leash and you've jerked the leash, you pop the leash. You want to hold on to your dog so the dog doesn't jump on someone, doesn't bite someone, doesn't attack a kid. You want the dog to stop immediately and definitely don't want the dog to get loose, right, all right. So do you think you're the alpha? Do you think you're the alpha over your dog? If so, what would you give your leadership? What would you give it, percentage wise, 100% alpha, 80%, 40?, 20? I'll bet you anything. You're not 100%. You might be 100% in charge of your husband, your boyfriend, you know your husband, try it. And no, no, like I say this because most of the time women are in charge. So what's funny is your dog's in charge of you most of the time, but you're not in charge of the dog, but you're in charge of your man, all right. So here's how you know you're not really 100% the leader, guys, and this is in my book too. This chapter is in my book. It's scoring your leadership. Again, you're not 100% the alpha, and I'll prove it to you Again, you're not 100% alpha, and I'll prove it to you.

Speaker 1: 11:57

So whether you have a puppy dog or it's an adult dog big, tiny, like a small breed, nice bully you have to really pay attention to these things. The more you're struggling with these things, the more the dog doesn't take you seriously and the more you're not alpha. You're not, you're not. And here are the examples and scenarios if your dog can jump up on you, on your guests, on glass doors, on counters, on kids, and no matter how much you tell them no off. You always try to restrain them. You always tell them sit, stay. No, you're not in charge 100 guys. You're not in charge, 100% guys, you're not. You notice these things, guys, the most around distractions, around distractions and outdoor setting. That's when you know like, oh man, I'm not in charge, I thought I was Behind closed doors, around no distractions. Anyone can pull it off, right.

Speaker 1: 12:50

If your dog barks non-stop and you cannot shut them up, it could be whimpering, it could be scratching at the door, it could be just throwing a tantrum to get its way and you give up, you give in. Yeah, it's like man, you're not in charge. If your dog has access to you 24-7,. It goes room to room. You don't have no peace Every time you get up. The dog even wakes up from sleep and follows you. You can't stop him. Like you could say, no, stay your dog's. Like no, screw you, I'm going to follow you. You're not in charge 100% guys. If you're not. If your dog constantly play bites at your hands and feet and you can't get him to stop, you know like ow, ow, no, and the dog just doesn't stop. Sorry, not 100% alpha.

Speaker 1: 13:35

When you see that your dog hardly responds to any commands that the dog already knows. Again, your dog already knows these commands like sit, stay, no, leave it. Your dog knows that it's name and you notice that you can't control the dog. You know you have to get physical with your dog, you have to put them outside, you have to put him in the garage, you have to put him in a crate in another room. Again, you're not 100% in charge, guys, when you see, your dog rarely comes to you. He comes to you when he's ready. He'll take a message, but he'll come to you whenever he's ready. Just especially obvious when he's off leash, when he sees another person, a dog, cat, some kids, a squirrel are you the alpha then?

Speaker 1: 14:20

If you're the alpha, why are you running after your dog? Why are you screaming? Why are you cussing him out? If your dog squeezes through those and pushes you out of the way? No, no, respect, no, nothing. You're not the boss. Usually dogs that respect. You. Don't do that. If, if your dog drags you on walks, guys, you may say, oh, he only pulls me first two, three blocks and then he settles down, no, the minute you step out the door the dog should not pull you, it should be just loose leash. Again, you're not the boss, guys. You're not 100% the boss. If he humps you, you're definitely not the boss. If this is rarely sexual, the dog saying you're definitely not the boss. If this is rarely sexual, the dog saying, uh, you're my bitch, you're my bitch, yeah, uh, the guests are my bitch.

Speaker 1: 15:03

Whoever the dog comes, you see even male dogs. You rarely see an erection. If you see an erection, that's worse. But you see female dogs humping you, female dogs humping one another. So if you see that the dog is always humping, humping you, female dogs humping one another. So if you see that the dog is always humping, humping is always sign of dominance. Like I'm running the show here, I'm the boss, you know. So. I think most of you already knew that.

Speaker 1: 15:28

All right, if your dog all of a sudden pees in poofs to get even with you, you're not the boss. You know for a fact the dog's not sick, the dog's fully housebroken and either you were ignoring it or you were out with someone else, or you have company over. All of a sudden, the dog pees on your favorite carpet, poops on your bed. You're not the boss. This is like a hissy fit If you catch him in the middle of peeing and pooping and you yell and scream and not don't. He doesn't even stop, but he keeps peeing like he doesn't even care. You're yelling no, no, stop. The dog doesn't even stop. It keeps peeing and pooping. Do you call yourself the boss there? No, you're not the boss.

Speaker 1: 16:16

These are all in my book, guys. I'm just reading it off. My book Bites your ankles, bites the leash, bouncing back and forth, barking, growling every time you walk him. You know like some dogs have to hold the leash and people say, oh, he's cute, he's walking me. It's not cute to the dog. The dog's letting everyone know that I'm walking mommy. So again, you're not 100 the boss.

Speaker 1: 16:39

If you see your dog all sudden putting, throwing himself on the ground, playing the dead fish game, like you're middle of the walk or whatever, and the dog just throws himself like nope, I don't want to walk. It could be a big dog, a lab, a golden. You know it's like my god, let's go. And you have to carry your dog like a big old, 50, 70 pound dog. All of a sudden you have to carry it. Now go ahead, try that with a bull master. Have a great day in king corso. So you can't do that with a really, really big dog again shows weak leadership, guys, weak leadership.

Speaker 1: 17:11

Mama, your dog sees you as a mommy, a daddy, but you want to be mommy, teacher, the one in charge, not just a mommy, not just a treat giver, right, not just a poop cleaner. So a lot of you guys are really, uh, loving your dog, but the dog shows no respect. The dog has to respect you, not fear. Um, if your dog sits on the highest part of the couch, so if you're sitting in, obviously I'm referring to smaller dog on the highest part of the couch. So if you're sitting in, obviously I'm referring to smaller dog on the couch and the dog's sitting like right by your shoulders, you know, right next to your face, next to your head.

Speaker 1: 17:43

The dog sees himself as equal to you. Yeah, you're not the boss. The same goes on the bed. If the dog sleeps on the bed with you, usually they lose respect for you. They love you yeah, they love you dearly, but no respect Again. All these things, guys, result to respect and leadership.

Speaker 1: 18:01

Equal is from weak leadership and no respect. Right, when there's no consequence, there's no direction, there's no discipline. This is what you're going to get when the dog out of nowhere actually I went over over that fights the down command. So the more of guys a dog fights the down command, the more dominant they are. What I mean by that is don't bend down, don't bend over, don't slap the floor, don't point to the ground. Just stay down and don't worry if the dog sits or not. So you'll see a lot of dogs will sit, but they will not lay down, they'll paw, they'll roll over, they'll show their stomach, like give me a body wrap. So the more you make a dog lay down, guys, the more they see you as the one in charge. And dogs that don't see you as the leader, they don't lay down, they don't. They may do it once or twice then like whatever, they don't do it on a hard floor, they don't do it on a wet grass, they don't do it on mud. The dog like you lay down. You know.

Speaker 1: 19:02

So again, weak leadership, um, if you can get the dog from the collar. So if you grab your dog by the collar and the dog nips at you or bites you, weak leadership, guys. The dog's challenging you like don't you dare put that on or grab me by the collar? Yeah, it's. It's worse if the dog's challenging you, like, don't you dare put that on or grab me by the collar. Yeah, it's worse if the dog really breaks the skin, if you never have a leash on the dog and then you put a collar on it and then you try to put the collar on the leash and the dog tries to snap at you or nip at you.

Speaker 1: 19:30

Okay, so these are the reasons, guys, that you know for a fact. You're not in charge 100%. So the more you work with your dog, the more you you enforce rules, the more you outsmart and out stubborn your dog, the more they'll see as the one in charge. You're not gonna be just mommy, you're gonna be the mommy, the teacher. You want to be that leader, not the alpha dog, guys. We're not dogs, and dogs know that you want to be in charge. You want the dog to know like, look when I say something, I say, say what you mean, mean what you say. That's very important.

Speaker 1: 20:03

All right, guys, we're done. Please again look at the links at the description of this video. The long link takes you to the book and our link takes you to the YouTube that I mentioned about the pinch car. Thank you so much. I appreciate all you guys sticking around, you know, supporting me, sending me nice emails, thanking me. I really appreciate it. I've been getting so many emails worldwide. I really, really appreciate all the love and support. And the book Again. The book is on every format on Amazon Kindle paperback soft cover yeah, soft cover. Everything it's on Amazonle paperback soft cover yeah, soft cover. Everything it's on Amazon dogs decoded. All right. Love and light to everyone.