Hey guys! My name is David Tirpak and I founded Miracle K9 Training in January of 2019. The team and I previously operated for 3 years together out of this location as "Heights Canine", rehabilitating and training dogs before we branched off and formed this company. The goal in starting Miracle K9 Training was to get back to the root of what we love doing. Providing only the highest level of training and information to our clients to help them be able to live the best possible life with their dog.
I am a firm believer that you shouldn't have to be a dog trainer in order to have a dog that behaves as if it were owned by one. Our training programs and philosophies model this view of simplicity, ease of use, and reliability. We have continued to execute on this goal and help our clients to achieve long lasting results time and time again. Contact us today to see how we can help you achieve the same!
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FF SAKE Zak prove it !!!!!
would be nice!
Great video
thanks!
This is a great podcast. I have a better understanding of Dog Daddy's techniques, knowledge and genuine love of the dog. Whenever someone ventures into a very difficult area of training there will be opposition. Staying strong in your commitment matters because results matter!! (126.56)
glad you enjoyed it!
Love your dogs name😂 (I am Vera too)
Even in the reactivity she checked in with you. That was cool to see! Beautiful dog. Great work 😊
we love seeing the improvements made!
That was awesome!🎉
thank you!
Lady was right tbh. He uses it to tell us what to do
yup.
If you have a smart breed like we have, they use the bell for attention reasons as soon as we sit down to eat and not paying attention attention to our Doberman he smacks the bell. You get up he runs to his toys. Consonantly. Bells in my experience are horrible. Had two boxers before didn’t use the bell they were great.
I agree completely with this. you have to be mindful of how you're letting your dog train YOU with the bell!
DD has a lot of compassion and empathy.
@@singingway I think many people have issue with his social media mask he puts on. Can be hard to read who he really is
Love this. Currently stuck in the bribery/ lure stage with our focused heel. Thanks for covering this!
I wouldn't consider a lure/ bribing. youre using it to TEACH something. Once that thing is already TAUGHT if you are needing to lure in order to motivate the dog to do the behavior that they KNOW that would constitute the bribing :)
All people should learn empathy....whether you are a teacher or dog trainer or casher. It is a skill needed that will improve everyone's ability to help someone. I sure appreciate Michelle's, David's and Seamus' empathy as we work with our Moseley.
I think we can all afford to work on that side of things :)
This is exactly how i play with my 3 dogs, this is awesome. The differences in drive even reminds me of my dogs. 1 will die chasing the ball if i dont stop the game, 1 loves the game but will stop when tired, and one doesn't care at all about the ball. Great video.
love to hear it! Every dog is a bit different :)
I think my golden retriever is more likely to hurt me if I ever stop throwing the ball then when I do 😝
@@idkausername4035 LOL we’ll see that
No I literally don't punish them. I'm a pushover I just got lucky and got good dogs
@@randalljames1587 Atleast you’re honest about it! Ha!
Same way with young kids. They only know what you teach them!!!!
@@wareagle1172 truth!
Learning alot great video.
glad you're enjoying!
Love this convo. I play with my American Bulldog very similarly in the back yard daily. We throw a chuck it ball like you used, or a nero ball (retrieve turns to tug when he comes back), and a frisbee. He loves all of them but we only tug with the nero ball. We do have a solid "out" and worked a lot on coming back instead of running off with the toy but at this point I do allow him to parade and do his victory lap within reason. If I call him back, he drops the toy and runs back. Working on getting him to bring it with him but he's very driven with toys and food so I feel like we've got play down quite well overall. Now we have a new puppy who's 10 weeks and he will just drop it any time she remotely tries to get it so that's a new thing
love to hear it! People fail to realize play can be one of the best places to teach your dog a lot of the impulse control exercises they can SERIOUSLY benefit from in their training.
18:47 I remember when I first got my dog, I spent weeks trying to YT my way out of teaching Drop. Non-reinforcement, just stop playing and she'll lose interest, put a flat collar on her and step on the leash so she cannot keep pulling backwards... none of that worked. Maybe I didn't do it correctly, maybe I didn't spend enough time on it... but then, I just put her prong collar on. Drop -> pop pop pop -> she dropped -> Chip! -> started playing again. Rinse and repeat, in one day I was done. To this day, my dog loves playing with me, and she let's go of the ball when told to.
I'm SO with you on that. With younger dogs they can pick it up very very fast that way, but i'll tell ya.... I had this pittie i was working with one time that i held that tug DEAD for like 25 minutes for and it just kept thrashing and thrashing. It was just completely unrealistic to teach it that way. One ecollar correction and it fixed it in a second haha. I tend to lean more towards that way with my clients at this stage.
I did the same thing with my wl gsd puppy. I was reading about how to play tug of war more effectively and the best way is to have only ONE tug toy, so they don't turn everything into tug of war. I realized I'd been turning fetch, chase, hide and seek, and all kinds of other games into tug of war simply because my pup didn't want to give up her toys. And she LOVES tug. Next to chasing a flirt pole, tug of war is her favorite game. I put her prong collar on her, we played a game of tug of war with the ONE tug toy I chose, she learned to drop it after one pop of the prong. I then proceeded to teach her fetch again, with correction from the prong, and now she will drop/out the ball. She still loves "keep away" with all her toys, so sometimes I let her enjoy that too, as long as she eventually gives me the toys back when it's time 😊.
Oi, the new podie is out! (with an Aussie accent)
Oi!!
My neighbor loves her blissful ignorance, she can't even take her dog out of her car when other dogs are nearby. I tried empathy, I even offered to help her problem solve her dog's issues and it fell on deaf ears. So, f_ck empathy, she, her dog or another person and dog will have to get injured or she gets sued before she pulls her hear out of her perpetually dark place before she takes what I told her seriously.
Empathy only applies when they ask for help :)
@@MiracleK9Training Nah, you can see the person is having a hard time with their dog and with empathy offer help or a training tip to make things go better for at least the dog. The Tale of Two Dogs For example, this guy was yelling at his dog a sweet white Huskey/shepherd (I think her name was "get over here goddam it") mix for not coming to him (I wouldn't come to him either in that moment, but we've all been there), it was a hot day, he was frustrated and angry as he told how stubborn she was, etc. I saw a sweet dog that needed a different style of communication and engagement. I calmly explained that huskies needed more repetitions to get the command to stick, the next time I saw them things were much better. I mean who would have thought of using food rewards for recall, right? Lol. Now my neighbor is lazy, stubborn and yes willfully ignorant (prong collars are abuse but uses an ecollar, no hypocrisy there) They'll walk the dog (a sweet black and white boxer, he's huge and reactive) around all stiff armed on a tight leash, sometimes at a heel, no wonder it's leash/dog reactive, you can see the pent-up tension. She's the type that will listen to you half-assed, agree whole heartedly then it's crickets🦗🦗🦗🦗. Her two main issues are such a simple fix, but if you saw her trainwreck of a kid, you'd understand the whole picture. Her partner's a smart guy but laments "it's her dog", I respond but it's making your life hell. He bought a house, so they'll be moving I can't wait. She's the type to pee on your boots and tell you it's rain. 🙄
@@cherylmillard2067 if that’s how you wanna do it go for it. In my experience it’s generally the last thing people want most of the time. I look at it like going up to an overweight person and offering it unsolicited advice on how to be more healthy.
@@MiracleK9Training That's why I gave two scenarios. The first person now has a better relationship with his dog, before I stepped in, he was yelling (I heard him in the house and came out) and running after his dog, even after he had caught her, he was still yelling and jerking her lead. After I got him calmed down, and without chastising him I said I'd been there too and here's how to fix it. Had I been a judgmental asshole in my delivery, he would have likely told me to f-off and shut down any further communication. The opportunity would have been lost. Mostly I do it for the dog, if it also makes the human's relationship with his dog better, that's a win too. What would you have done, let him continue to yell at his dog and yank her leash? The second person has been my neighbor for approx. 10 years.
@@cherylmillard2067 yes, I would have allowed him to do whatever he wanted with his dog. You’ll make yourself crazy trying to worry about everyone doing things wrong with their dog that aren’t looking for help. I’m happy it worked out in one of your situations but unsolicited advice / help isn’t coming from me.
If you were trying to build drive in a dog, you would want to end the play session while they are in that aroused state? No?
@@justinbajcar5941 ending the session while they still want more is absolutely another factor that is essential to building drive
Amen!
@@vikingdogmanship 💪
Like your approaches. I sometimes just exhaust my dogs, let them run in intervals fast & slow, then I call out a few commands. In that way, my goal is to bring them into a similar mindset as in a prey frenzy, without a toy. I either reinforce with small pieces of food or per vocal encouragement. Also, when you start off playing at certain areas, your dog will expect that every time you get there. So I like to just go there without playing in between to mix it up.
@@i_k9 obviously one of the biggest reasons people play these games with their dogs is to burn off some steam. Just like to make sure there is some control sprinkled in to not let them get too off the rails. Also, yes, you have to be very very careful not to too strongly condition in a frenzied association with a particular place. I used to example of in the house in this episode.
They make 60k and it’s a part time thing for them???
@@Padronous part time meaning they still have full time jobs. But they are easily putting in “full time” hours
What's the solution?
@@bnellaniyah training. There ain’t no simple solution from a KZread video. You need to work with a skilled trainer who has done it before
All of us who know dogs understand that unwanted behaviors can be thwarted immediately . Just go see Gellman , he will tell you exactly what to do , and it works . I have also heard David speak about this .
absolutely the truth.
Got ya beat on training started at 10yrs old and by the time I was 13 I was wearing a bite suit training in Plymouth michigan with a very well known trainer at the time, Chuck Art. I'm now 59 😅😅😅 Happy belated Birthday!!! I love your training thoughts, and your opinions on other trainers. Your fair and make alot of sense in what you say.
glad you enjoy the content and honored you chose to listen to us!
I think my dogs listen to my breathing and know I’m awake
can definitely be a cue
My biggest problems is getting enough in the door But also I’m limited to only in homes right now
I know you guys address this topic regularly, but I think a whole episode on dogs and babies and small children - pitfalls, best recommendations, things that could be a very bad idea which most people wouldn’t think of, etc. - would be awesome!
Was literally just thinking about this as I had a conversation with a client a few hours ago about the same topic haha.
Meant to be haha!
This! I found my voice with our boy, for our boy Dash.
@@patriciafuenzalida2112 great work!
While I agree on some of your points , I also have watched Beckman for over a year. I can count maybe 10 times Prince has ever needed to correct a dog, Most were not corrected this quickly though. I haven’t seen any other trainer get dogs with other dogs so quickly. I feel like his commentary helps people understand dog body language more also.
i'm simply reacting to this video in particular which basically highlights prince needing to correct dogs. I'm not speaking for EVERYTHING about beckman. glad some of the points resonated though.
Poor James.
:)
I could not agree more. My dog Blue really upsets my daughter all the time........ Only cause she kicks her in the face ! Lol. It is not nice when you see a kid flinch around around a dog!
yup, we have very little tolerance for stuff like that.
So i saw on one of your podcasts that if the dog tries to run away from a correction, you turn the level up until they comply with the command and you dont let them run. I gave her a sit command, she didnt comply, i ended going up on the levels and she tried to go into avoidance, which she does with higher levels sometimes. I kept at it, eventually increasing until it was high. She ran around the roomz ran into her kennel, was yelping, foaming it at the mouth, i kept at it for a few minutes. She just continued to shut down. I eventually put on a leash and forced her into a sit just so that i could stop having to correct her. Is it wrong to use the leash if she is flipping out? Should i have kept going with the correction? She took food like 2 minutes after so i guess she wasnt that stressed.
Also do you mark with no, give a tap then repeat the command and repeat that as needed or do you hold down until they comply
She was conditioned to the ecollar she responds appropriately to lower levels
I would like to make it VERY VERY clear that the circumstance is what dictates how we handle situations. If you're running into that much of a fight of the dog going into avoidance and trying to get away from you you likely are moving way too quickly through steps where you should be giving help and showing them how to be successful and escape or avoid whatever sensation it is that you're providing.
@@MiracleK9Training she's been trained by a trainer on the ecollar, she's one for months. She knows how to respond to lower - moderate levels though she'll sometimes move away a bit but then go back into position. The trainer mostly used lower levels though so maybe she just doesn't know what to do with a higher level?
She once did use a higher level and the dog didn't have the same reaction at all. She came back like she was asked to.
Well , I would not think that he has been damaged . Dogs need to know there is a strong leader for them to look to .
what do you mean "has been damaged"?
Is it bad to let my dog off leash in my front yard? Its not fenced but its a pretty quiet neighborhood, a few people and cars will pass every so often and there is a driveway but she has never tried to go there. I did a lot of long line training there, her recall is good.
depends where you live and what level of control you have over your dog.
@@MiracleK9Training thank you
You can’t fault someone for asking for your qualifications. That’s just good business sense.
more context is needed. There are a lot of undertones in the dog world when it comes to "certifications" due to the political nature of the industry. see the full video for more.
Would you correct a dog for not going in the crate? Assuming they know the crate command very well.
sure would. no different than any other commands.
@@MiracleK9Training thank you. I am adding in more corrections for different things and am second guessing all my decisions lol.
Gentlemen you have yet again opened my mind. I live in the country side in Cornwall UK. It is proper cow grazing country. You are in the inner city. Obviously there are many many parallels in how we train and obviously the way dogs learn is all the same. However there is a skill set that you have with the intensity of triggers that would force you to have to learn how to navigate them in a faster manner. I have the luxury of being able to avoid most things if I need to. But to not be able to leave the front door without hitting a trigger must force that learning process. Which means you would have to be very strict with yourself and very clear with your dogs .
absolutely. every single dog we work with has the variable of "living situation" that plays a massive role in dictating how we work through things.
"we are therapists" for sure. Sometimes we just need to sit and listen to the client, allow them to get out all that stress, worry, frustration and anxiety. Once they have been heard and have released, what might be years of stress, then they pick up the lead and their connection with the dog will immediately be better. If only a little. Sometimes a lot.
listening is the biggest skill dog trainers should develop. if you stop talking you'll almost always be able to read between the lines of what the client is saying and get all the info that you need
@@MiracleK9Training I worked for a charity mentoring young men, between 18-25, who were coming through the judicial system. A lot of the training we did was based around active listening. it is a skill that I put to very good use everyday as a dog trainer!
I like your video and others but I now have a serious problem. I just recently got a recently got a working line GSD. He is almost 5 mos old.. The breeder wanted me to get him in a puppy class to get his puppy title with AKC which I agree with. So I did. And I have been going to this place for years with dog training. Too make a long story short Quinn and I went to the class last night give us this stuff we are to do over the next several weeks. However she started talking about Leadership and you are to train your dog to know you are the alpha . Course I have never heard of this before in this way she was wanting us to do. She proceeded to tell us to put the dogs on there back and hold them til they relax . At that point I was like what the hell are you talking about so I tired to put Quinn on his back and he stated resisting then she came over held him down while he was fighting her and me and finally he stopped . I think i was just in total shock over this and upset. Because dogs learn who the alpha is in the house by training and that Leadership is not even in the puppy star thing to do with AKC. The trainer texted me that evening and told me I have done a great job with Quinn and I have . For 4 mos old he heals well does come fronts in a short distance does well going down and does do a 10 sec sit stay. So my question is how do I handle this? Never have I seen this being done by them.
I would have pulled her off my dog and told her to back the f-ck up, her actions can destroy trust. That is old-school alpha roll stuff which in my humble opinion is unnecessary except on that rare occasion for the very most extreme aggression cases, I have a young female Malinois I'm working with on some aggression issues and even when she was at her very worst (close to Dog Daddy type aggression) I never rolled her. Your dog/s will know you are the head of the pack by your consistent leadership skills, calm demeanor and the fair boundaries you set, not by her outdated crap. I would firmly tell her no, that "My vet disagrees with this technique." and I agree with him and trust his judgement. Don't start with "I'm sorry but My vet disagrees, etc.", be firm and emphatically state your opinion without being apologetic, if she continues quietly tell her "It's not up for discussion." I promise you'll feel so good when you finish, it's indescribable.
if the methods in the classes do not sit well with you your best bet is abandon ship and find someone who's methods DO align with you.
I did send my trainer today about this roll over technique that I had been very upset after the class in what she did with my GSD puppy. I told her that I did research on this manner and talked with a couple of trainers and this technique is not of any value in dog training. Serves no purpose. The cons out way the pros by a long shot . So I told her I did not practice this week on this roll technique which is called the alpha roll and I was not going to do this in class PERIOD. I told her too that I have had GSD all my life and never has this been brought to do. My last two GSD working line were hand fulls but they were very well trained. I also told her to become a good alpha leader it requires a lot of training and more training , playing, socializing your dog. I ty for responding to my question . I did not sugar coat the text I sent her.... just flat out told her NO. Haven't heard from her yet but I will be sending her tonight. ty again.
@@lindamcmanus5807 just so i'm clear.. i'm not saying it isn't of value. i have no idea exactly what was coached or the context of it in their program. i'm just saying if YOU aren't comfortable with it, go find a trainer you ARE comfortable with.
@@MiracleK9Training I don't know why she came up with this idea to do this. I got him into the puppy star from AKC to get his title. The other stuff she talked about that was listed in the AKC puppy title was fine. This roll over idea is not even listed to do. If things don't go well tonight I will be out. I will just resort to on line training because we really don't have good trainers any more in ga.
My sister is terribly allergic to dogs and I own a dog. She and her family came to visit me several months ago, when my pup was much younger, so we just crated my puppy for most of the time. I gave my pup a bath and deep cleaned my house top to bottom and made sure my sister had taken whatever medication she needed, but she could still only be in my home with my dog in the same house for 4 hours before having a significant allergic reaction and needing a rescue inhaler. If she had touched my dog, she would have had an asthma attack on top of all of it. It's no joke. I probably could have mitigated some of it further if I'd also been able to vacuum my puppy, bit she wasn't ready for that at 3 1/2 months old.
Smart man doing smart business moves
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1946... The year after the A-bomb... That was a different time!
couldn't imagine.
Jesus said ..... " Let your yes' be yes' and your No's be No's", even though I'm a Buddhist, I love this example of how to simplify dog training. We are saying"do this, don't do this" to dogs all day long.
@@BlueSkyDogs I like the analogy!
I hear what you are saying and I totally agree with not being confusing. I have always taught a dog to walk at 2 different speeds on the leash. Normal speed for loose lead walking and then I teach them that "slow" means that we slow right down. It takes time and you have to be really clear with what you are expecting from the dog. But it then translates to when we are working off leash later and I want them to slow down, like when we around other people, dogs or livestock. It's always much easier to teach to a collie! Lol
respectfully, I'm not even sure how to begin understanding how you can teach an exact speed to a dog.. dogs should keep pace with you when youre in command, it has nothing to do with the speed and simply to do with they are actively following you. you control the pace with your pace. that feels like a much easier and more black and white expectation you can enforce without any chance of confusion. let the dog be free to do what they want when there are no triggers around (no expectation aside from the things they ARENT allowed to do, in the case of a "loose leash walk" not pulling on the leash) & engage them in a clear expectation when there are things you don't want them to engage in (like a command which specifies a specific thing they need to do)
@@MiracleK9Training I'm pretty sure a dog can understand that they are moving at a speed and that they can slow down. It isn't a definite and clear commands like "come" which has a very specific set of criteria. But they are very capable of understanding the difference between running and walking. We teach horses to move at 4 different speeds, generally, why would you not expect the same from a dog?
@@BlueSkyDogs I understand the concept of moving slower or faster, but not to be able to control exactly what speed it is. With horses if I'm not mistaken they teach them to move not at any particular speed but at specific "gates"? not totally my area of expertise so I can't speak totally on that. and I believe those gates are consistently manned through the reins as opposed to them just independently operating without steady direction. I suppose you can make the argument that you can teach a dog to go into different gates on comand but at that point I get back to my original point of that sounds a HELL of a lot harder and more "grey" than simplifying it to what I'm describing.
@@MiracleK9Training you are right about the horses and it is slightly different but dogs walk, trot, canter and gallop too. If we can teach a dog to run up a hill and stop at the top or jump over a stand collect a dumb bell, without biting it, return to you and sit Infront of you and wait. Why can't we teach the dog to walk on command. We don't always need to control the dogs arousal state but they can be taught to walk instead of run which can help in a lot of instances, such as if lead meeting which the dog should never be running into!
@@BlueSkyDogs i think we are mostly agreeing. You absolutely can teach them to walk on command, but dont you think its much easier to teach that when their is a clear focal point of US to guide the exact pace we want?
Did it hurt ….lol
did what hurt? lol.
Oh, this is so true. This is what I’m doing with my dog, but did you videotape this dog you’re talking about?
not this one.
@@MiracleK9Training darn
It was "plausible" from mythbusters
haha got it!