Show Transcript
Speaker 1:
We are back with the Make Your Dog Epic podcast. Today we are talking about training dogs in Tulsa or Tulsa dog training or dog training Tulsa or Tulsa dog training, some would say. That’s what we talk about. And then I’m joined here with Avery, who you guys have your own podcast called the Flyover Conservatives. Is that right?
Avery:
We do have our own podcast, yeah.
Speaker 1:
And then you have a dog?
Avery:
I do have a dog.
Speaker 1:
What kind?
Avery:
I have a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, and he’s a six month old puppy. Super cute, but very playful, likes to get in everything to destroy everything that I own. We are in that stage.
Speaker 1:
And you guys have 18 dogs in the house?
Avery:
Pretty much, yeah. Between our team we have four dogs, of which three of them are in our studio at all times.
Speaker 1:
And what kind of dogs are the other ones?
Avery:
We have a Doberman Pincher, Reagan, and then we have another Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.
Speaker 1:
And then are they trained? Have you trained them?
Avery:
Reagan is very well-trained. The Doberman has been very intentional. The Cavaliers… because they’re so small, they tend to run the roost a little bit more.
Speaker 1:
Gotcha, gotcha. We’re talking about aggressive… or not aggressive dog training, we’re just talking about Tulsa dog training or dog training Tulsa, some would call it, here at the Make You Dog Epic podcast. And what questions do you have? Because… and I’ll come back to you, but there’s basically… we do our first lesson for 50 cents, and that way people can ask any question they want of us. We’ll answer all of them. We’ll come out, we’ll go over the different types of training where we fall, talk to you about our one-on-one lessons, our dog boarding schools, and then our group class that you get no matter what and our money back guarantee. And we’re going to make sure that we’re a good fit for you and you’re a good fit for us. And we want to get your dog to your goals dog different and everyone’s goals are different. And that is at makeyourdogepic.com. If you want more information, makeyourdogepic.com. You can fill out a form and we’ll get in contact with you. But Avery, what questions do you have about dog training?
Avery:
The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Charlie, he is six months old and very much into everything. He likes to chew on stuff. When he does something I don’t want him to do, eat a book or something on the ground or eat moss out of my plants or stuff like that, what is the best way to… I say, “No,” but then obviously he continues doing it. What’s the best form punishment?
Speaker 1:
Basically what you want to do… If you trained with us, we would teach the dog, off, in a way… And basically what we do is we teach, off, it means move away physically and mentally, but not that you’re in trouble. Which is key. Because I don’t want… What’s your dog’s name again?
Avery:
Charlie.
Speaker 1:
Charlie. I don’t want Charlie to think books are bad or shoes are bad or mom’s pissed. It’s just, “Hey buddy, that’s not acceptable. We can’t chew up books.” And so in the meantime, before training with us, you can take the whatever it is away and give him something that is allowed to be chewed on, but I would not add a treat with it. The reason being is because then you’re technically rewarding for the bad behavior. Then he learns, “Hey, every time I come over and chew on this book, mom comes and brings me a treat.”
And so you’re not associating it the way you think you are because a lot of people do that and they’re like, “Here’s a good thing, here’s a treat.” Now they’re going to associate it with good. But dogs see in pictures. The dog’s picture is chew on a book, then mom comes, gives me a toy and a treat. And so now you’re rewarding that. But you also don’t want to yell at the dog because the dog doesn’t understand why you’re upset.
Let’s take a mailman for instance, because a lot of people deal with this. We’re talking about Tulsa dog training or dog training Tulsa, some would call it. And what happens is the mailman comes, the dog barks and the mailman leaves. In the dog’s head, they just saved everyone. They’re part of the Avengers, the mailman left because of them, and they’re just rocking it.
And then what happens is that goes on and on and on, and it just is win after win after win. And then it just keeps getting worse and worse. And people typically do one of two ways, either they do positive or negative. Positive would be, in the toy situation, where the mailman comes, dog barks, we distract the dog, we stand in front of it, then we get the dog’s attention on us, then we give that dog a treat. But what happens is now the dog’s like, “Oh, wait a second…”
Avery:
I bark.
Speaker 1:
Exactly. If I bark, then they leave and then mom brings me a treat. Or the other form is negative. Negative would be yelling at them. Dad voice, prong collar, choke collar, shock collar, newspaper, squirt bottle, fly swatter.
Avery:
Little Bark Buddies where it makes a high pitched sound that they bark. Something like that.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, any of that stuff. What happens is the dog sees in the picture. The dog thinks every time the mailman comes by, “Mom gets pissed. And I get lit up on this collar.” If we’re using a shock collar. Or, “Every time this mailman comes by, mom beats me with this newspaper,” whatever it is. And so now what do you think the dog’s reaction’s going to be, when that happens, over and over.
Avery:
Over and over and over again?
Speaker 1:
Yeah.
Avery:
They’re going to get your attention, I’m assuming.
Speaker 1:
Yeah. What happens is they start seeing that picture that they get beat every time the mailman comes. Then you have one or two reactions. Either one, it gets worse. Because now the dog’s like, “Mom beats me every time the mailman comes, so I have to bark louder, faster, stronger so that mailman doesn’t get to the door, because then I’m safe.” It either gets worse. Or what happens is the dog listens, but at the expense of their personality. That’s a big thing with Tulsa dog training or dog training Tulsa, some would call it, is that when you don’t want obedience at the expense of personality. At Make Your Dog Epic that’s one of our number one goals. Because if I can get your dog to listen, but it ruins their soul, would that be worth it to you?
Avery:
No. His soul is so sweet. Don’t beat that out of him.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, exactly. And so what other questions do you have about dog training?
Avery:
With Charlie, during the day we have our podcast and all the dogs go to their kennels during the show. We have it down our studio. It’s a really large kennel and he does really well in it. But over the last week or so he started regressing into barking in the middle of a show. My initial thing is that I hate taking him out of there because I feel like it rewards him and he has another kennel upstairs, it’s really small, and so all day wouldn’t be great. And so I take him out there and put him in there, but I still feel like it’s rewarding his barking. The fact he barks and then he gets taken out and held by me. It would be a great response of, he can’t bark during the show… maybe some training in a kennel or something along those lines of what to do.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, and this is where we would need to teach him… This would be the same thing, off. We would need to teach him off because it means move away physically, mentally, but not that you’re in trouble. Because you’re right. What’s happening is if he barks once, even if it’s just… and you do it just once. If he starts barking and you’re like, “Ah, just let him out real quick in a rush and we got to record the show,” or whatever. He’s like, “Huh ho.”
Avery:
Yes.
Speaker 1:
“Every time I bark I get out of the cage.”
Avery:
It was a quick regression. He was like, “This is awesome.”
Speaker 1:
Yeah, it happens. They learn fast. The good news about smart dogs… there’s good and bad news. The good news is, your dog’s smart. The bad news is, your dog’s smart. Anything good or bad a dog will learn fast. And so we would need to teach the dog the command off. That’s move away physically and mentally, but not since you’re in trouble. And it’s tough to explain without actually working with your dog. But that’s why we offer that first lesson for 50 cents so people can come out and we’ll work with your dog in front of you.
Avery:
That is a great deal.
Speaker 1:
And that way you can try it before you buy it and you can see if we’re a good fit. The big things are we’ll come out, makeyourdogepic.com and we’ll talk to you about Tulsa dog training or dog training Tulsa, some would call it. And we would talk to you about boarding school. That’s where you send your dog to us. And it’s anywhere from one to three weeks, just depending on your goals. Or one-on-one lessons, that’s where it’s half human training, half dog training. Avery, which part of that do you think is harder? The human training or the dog training?
Avery:
I would probably initially thought the dog training, but watching my dad with the Doberman, it is definitely the human training. A lot harder.
Speaker 1:
And so we do that and then no matter what you do with us, you get group class forever. You get two free classes a week forever. Because I want to be there for you for the rest of dog’s life. Not just, “Hey, it’s been two weeks. Here’s fluffy may the odds be ever in your favor. Hopefully it works.”
Avery:
“It’s all good now.”
Speaker 1:
And then also with us, we offer a money back guarantee. I don’t know if you know this, Avery, in the dog training world, but there’s no governing body over dog training. Anyone can be a dog trainer.
Avery:
Wow.
Speaker 1:
Tomorrow you could go online and make up 15 dog training certifications and give them all to yourself and there’s no one to tell you you can’t.
Avery:
I’m the best dog trainer in Tulsa.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, you can go online, make super elite dog training, PhD, behavioral sciences masters program, blah, and give it to yourself and then start selling dog training tomorrow. And there’s no one to tell you you can’t.
And so that’s why we offered a money back guarantee because a lot of trainers do that. They’ll go certify themself or they’ll just start training dogs and then they’ll say, “Well, the training might stick.” And it’s basically their excuse to either blame the dog or blame you if the training doesn’t work. And that’s what we’d never ever want to do at makeyourdogepic.com. If you want us to come out, go to makeyourdogepic.com. We’d love to come out, work with your dog. If you have any of these issues, we fix 98% issues in one to three weeks. We’d love to come out. And that is makeyourdogepic.com. And as we like to say, “We’ll talk to you in five minutes.”
Mancar:
Is your dog and furry friend holding you hostage? Will your dog not stop pulling on its leash and eating your sausage?
Speaker 4:
Who wrote that?
Mancar:
Well, I don’t mean to brag, but I actually wrote it and it rhymes.
Speaker 4:
Wow.
Mancar:
People dig it like a dog. You get it? Okay, so I’m just going to keep reading. Will your dog not stop jumping on you or pooping in your house like you’re on the set of Jumanji or living in a zoo? It only took me two weeks to write that line while sitting at the base of a waterfall while gazing upon my epic dog.
The dog that once held me hostage was now my best friend.
Speaker 4:
It’s so good.
Mancar:
The dog that would never listen was now all ears.
Speaker 4:
It’s so good, I just want to cry.
Mancar:
Pull yourself together, man. And if you two want to transform your dog from a furry terrorist into your best friend, what you need to do is schedule your first lesson at makeyourdogepic.com, where your first lesson is always just 50 cents. And with the savings, you can use that to pay the rent. To get your first lesson is always just 50 cents at makeyourdogepic.com.
Speaker 4:
Wow.
Mancar:
Stop the endless barking. Reduce the aggressive behaviors. Prevent dog jumping. Stop your dog from chasing the elderly UPS driver, as he attempts to deliver a package. Stop your dog from biting Pam, your yoga pants wearing neighbor, as she just attempts to speed walk in peace. Stop your dog from eating your wife’s wedding dress and peeing in your closet on top of your Christmas gifts. Stop the madness at makeyourdogepic.com. Experience the revolutionary focused based positive reinforcement training and methodology. Our goal is dog obedience, but never at the expense of dog personality. It’s the same dog, but now it’s all ears.
Speaker 4:
Wow, Mancar you are a talented vocal artist. I can feel the passion. It’s contagious.
Mancar:
Well, my friend, I am passionate about the product. I once went 60 days without sleeping.
Speaker 4:
Really?
Mancar:
My wife’s wedding dress got eaten and my neighbor Pam was bitten by my dog.
Speaker 4:
Oh man.
Mancar:
My quality of life was at an all time low. I actually, I didn’t invite people over to my home for months because of the new dog. And I always smelled like urine.
Speaker 4:
You do still smell a little bit like dog urine.
Mancar:
That’s why I made my dog epic. I was hostage. And that’s where the passion comes from, you got to believe in your product and you’ve got to project from the diaphragm.
Speaker 4:
The diaphragm.
Mancar:
To bend your knees.
Speaker 4:
Bend the knees, bend the knees.
Mancar:
Drink ginger.
Speaker 4:
Drink the ginger.
Mancar:
You’ve got to ingest apple cider vinegar.
Speaker 4:
Apple cider, I can do that.
Mancar:
With a dog bone, you want to chew on the dog bone before the recording so that you can emulate the dog.
Speaker 4:
Hard pass, not going to-
Mancar:
And you should listen to Atomic Dog.
Speaker 4:
I can do that.
Mancar:
But you’re not a dog.
Speaker 4:
Right, I know.
Mancar:
But you want to just chew on the bone… the oversized bone, not the regular sized bone.
Speaker 4:
Hard pass. Not going to chew on the bone.