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Welcome to the Epic World of Dog Training. I am JT Lawson. I am the lead trainer at Make Your Dog Epic. I also own the Oklahoma locations for Make Your Dog Epic, where we turn your canine companions into truly epic dogs. Get ready for your daily doses of wisdom as we tackle your questions and unleash the secrets to mastering dog training. As always, our goal is to gain obedience, but never ethics into the dog’s personality. Can I have a kiss?
Oh, good job. Can I have a kiss? Come on, thank you. Yes, yes, yes, and yes! Welcome back to the Make Your Dog Epic Podcast. I’m here with JT Lawson, the man, the myth, the legend who runs the Oklahoma locations.
JT, I understand you’re working today. You’re at the Broken Arrow Rooster Day event. I’m going to pull up images of Rooster Day. Can you tell me how is Rooster Day going so far? Was it Rooster Day? Was it Rooster Days?
Tell us, what do you know about the Rooster Day festivals here? Oh, it’s great. So far, it’s been a lot of energy, a lot of fun. It started Thursday. Yesterday was Friday. Today is Saturday.
And tomorrow is Sunday. And it’s going all of those days. So it’s great. There’s lots of people there. They’re having fun. I haven’t seen the actual rooster,
so I feel like I’ve been bamboozled. But it’s a lot of fun. Are you in the main area where you see this kind of thing, where you see Ferris wheels and carnival games? Where are you guys located? No, we’re not in there.
We’re in the auditorium, so we’re in the gym, and that is at Central Park Community Center. Well, let’s look at this real quick here, because our listeners, they can tell if they’re being manipulated, and all I know is our listeners, they know that you were at Rooster Days, and you have yet to see a rooster. And so the critical thinkers who are listening to this show, they’re thinking to themselves, really?
Is it possible that this is actually happening right now, that you’re at a Rooster Day festival and there are no roosters? So we’re going to go ahead and pull up the map. Let me do this. I’m going to go pull up the address of my old business back in the day, because for some reason this is going to be the most effective way to get to Broken Arrow.
Let me, give me one second here. Typing it in. Folks, we’re going to go check it out. We’re going to go to Street View and we’ll see if JT can point out to us where he’s located. Maybe the Make Your Dog Epic team isn’t even at the Rooster Days. Maybe you guys are at a different city at the wrong date and maybe there’s Roosters
somewhere else. But let’s go ahead. So we’re going to head downtown Broken Arrow. So I’m going to go over here. Ooh, going downtown. I’m going to drop in the man.
I’m dropping in the man. This is the man right here. And then this is downtown Broken Arrow for the Rooster Day Festival and there’s not an enormous flock of roosters. Are you here in the Performing Arts Center? Nope, keep going farther that way. Farther that way?
And right there, dropping the man. Dropping the man right there at the community center? Dropping the man at the community center, yep. Okay, are you sure you’re in Broken Arrow? There should be a flocks of roosters running around. That’s what I thought too. And I got there and I was absolutely bamboozled.
There’s Ferris wheels and a lot of different rides and carnival games, but no roosters. So you’re in this building right here. Yeah, we’re in that building. We’re on the far side. And now they have in the back of the parking lot, they have Ferris wheels and carnival games.
Does it still echo like a boss in that gym? Oh yeah. Does that gym echo like you wouldn’t believe? That’s the gym I played at all my life growing up. Really? Yeah. Does it echo like a boss? Starting like at eighth grade until senior year of high school. I was there every single day. That gym, if I remember right, it sounds like you’re inside like some sort of
cavern when you’re in some sort of cave when you talk. Is it echoing like crazy in there? That one echoes decently. The one you might be thinking of is a copy jim and that wasn’t broken also okay nothing echoes like a ball that thing is that’s where we played our high school games are you doing that’s is while well whatever no ever played in the first half their because they’re in here yeah it’s like
the walls are right next to the sideline so if you could ship go out of bounds i don’t have a balance once the same of all and because the walls right there i got a concussion Because there’s no… I’m like a foot out of bounds and I hit my head on the wall.
Geez. Okay, now let’s get back into the dog world here for a second. So people that are coming to this Rooster Day event, a lot of people are coming to the booth, they’re asking you questions about training their dogs. And so I’m going to go through kind of the line item list of the most popular questions people ask.
I’d like to get your reaction to it. So question number one is, what kind of dogs do you work with? People always ask that, you know, what kind of breeds can you work with? Yeah, we work with any breed. Does not matter the breed. We’ve worked with anything from Chihuahuas to Cockapoos to Tibetan Mastiffs, Russian
Bear Dogs, all of it. We do it. Is there any breed you don’t work with? There’s no breed we don’t work with. So we do our first lesson for 50 cents. That way we can come out, we can meet the dog meet you guys
and we want to see the dog and work with it but there’s no breed we do not work with no okay and how long does it take to train a dog people always say well it’s 50 cents for the first lesson but if I hire you guys is it you’re gonna take my dog away from me for 60 days for 90 days how long do you take the dog how long does it take for you to successfully train a dog? Yeah, so we fix 98% of issues in one to three weeks.
Really? Oh yeah, so one to three weeks. And the three week one is if you want some, like my dog, if you want some where it’s super advanced obedience, but if you just want your issues fixed, it’s much shorter.
So you can fix 98% of dog issues, behaviors in one to three weeks. Within one to three weeks, okay. And then what kind of does it cost? You know, you hear people that I know that you do beat anyone’s price, so establish that. So for anybody who’s looking for a dog trainer, you will beat
anyone’s price, but what does it cost on average for you to train a dog? Yeah, so kind of how it works is that first lesson is 50 cents, because I can’t tell you exactly how much it is to train your dog without seeing your dog and figure out your goals, because every dog’s different, everyone’s goals are different. So, but after that, we’ll beat any competitor’s price. And then also, you’re gonna get a money back guarantee
on the training, because we know what we do works. And no matter if you do one-on-one lessons, where it’s half dog training, half human training, or you do boarding school, where you send a dog with us, no matter what, it’s a money back guarantee, group classes included, and you get lifetime phone support.
And so, but range, which everyone always asks, that’s anywhere between $400,000 and $4,000, but we’ll also, one, we’ll beat any competitor’s price. We have scholarship options available. We’ll work something out with you. I truly hardly ever have anyone who can’t afford it. Okay, so item number one, just to be very clear, is you guys will beat anybody’s price.
Two, the first lesson is 50 cents. Three, you can trade pretty much any breed. You can trade pretty much any breed. 98% of the dog issues can be fixed within one to three weeks. What else do people need to know about the offers or the package or the no-brainer offer that you offer your wonderful clients at MakeYourDogEpic.com?
Just that our biggest thing is obedience, but never at the expense of the dog’s personality. All of this stuff that I’m saying is great, it all makes sense, but if we crush your dog’s soul in the process, the whole thing is worthless. Obedience but never at the expense of the personality. Your dog should enjoy training, it should have a fun time, and we should be able to get it to listen without crushing its soul. Are you saying the dogs actually enjoy the
dog training that you provide them? Oh yeah, absolutely. Yeah, dogs enjoy dog training, they enjoy working, they get excited when they see us. You see some of these other trainers in town and around the world, when they come to the house, the dog now is cowering in fear because they don’t want to train. That doesn’t happen with us because we don’t train in those methods that would cause the dog to do that.
Now, let’s talk about events that you’ve been participating in. You’ve got Rooster Day, obviously, Rooster Day. We better get some good video footage on the YouTube channel or we’re not going to believe you actually went there. I have a suspicion that you guys are in a different town at a different event right now and therefore you’re wondering, because if you were at the Rooster Days, as anybody would
know, if you’re at the Broken Arrow Rooster Day, I mean, you would, if anybody out there, please leave your comments. We want to know. There’s a lot of listeners who go to Rooster Days all the time. I’ll tell you why they go there, because they want to see roosters all day. Yeah. And so you’re probably at the wrong town, at the wrong event. But in addition to these events, you also are doing events with the Tulsa Drillers baseball team. You’re updating these, you’re putting out clips
on the Make Your Dog Epic YouTube channel. Tell us what you’re doing with the Tulsa Oilers team here. Yeah, so we do events with the Tulsa Drillers team, we do events with the Tulsa Oilers hockey team, Tulsa Oilers football team. We also did an event the other night with the Savannah Bananas. We do a bunch of different events, but basically we take Achilles and he does bat dog stuff, which means he goes and he fights crime.
I’m just kidding. What he does is he goes and grabs a bat and then he brings it back to us. We do a little trick at the end. Fans love it. We’re often told that he’s the most fun part of the baseball game. So, you, so again, you work with the Tulsa Oilers hockey team, the Tulsa Drillers baseball
team. Tell us about the Savannah Bananas. Who are these people? Do you have footage? Can you prove that you were actually there? Or maybe you were at Rooster Days when you thought you were
with the Savannah Bananas. Oh yeah, we are uploading footage next week of the game of the Savannah Bananas. We got a lot of footage from that. It’s awesome. If they go watch the playback, because they live stream their games, so if you type in Savannah Bananas, we will be there at the game.
And this is like a comedy baseball team, or how would you describe who the Savannah Bannas are? As oh yeah, click their logo. I’ll go right. Yeah, that one. OK, but I would describe them as the Harlem Globetrotters of baseball. Are they good?
Yeah, they’re they’re super good. So they’re not only funny, entertaining the whole time, but they also have this guy hit a line drive out to left field and the guy’s going back and he stops, does a back flip, catches a ball, walking back. Oh, it was sick. I was like, okay, these guys are really good as well as being really funny. And what I actually I’ll brag on the Savannah bananas a lot because they were all, uh, very, um, great with the kids. Like they’re having kids participate throughout the whole game. They had dads come
out where they did a dad dance off. So they picked four dads from the crowd and they pull them out and they’re doing a dance off and they’re interacting with the kids. It was awesome. So the Savannah Bananas are kind of a big deal and you guys participated in the game. What was your role in the game? Yeah, so basically just the first four innings while they’re hitting and while they’re playing,
Achilles is getting a bat for the Savannah Bananas. So they’re all decked out in yellow. So I got Achilles a yellow bandana. The next time we’ll do it, I’ll find a banana suit or something for him to be in so he can do it. But yeah, it was great. So we’re grabbing a bat coming back and we’ll have that footage and stuff up next week.
Okay, so just to be clear, events that are going on right now make your dog epic. You got one, you got Rooster Days. If you are in fact at the right event, I have suspicions, but you got Rooster Days going on. You got the Savannah Bananas event that you just did. Those videos are going up on the YouTube channel.
You have the Tulsa Drillers games that you’re doing. The final question I want to ask you on today’s show is hiring. People are looking for jobs right now. A lot of people are looking for a career change, looking for a unique opportunity. Somebody will listen to this show and they think to themselves, I’d like to come work with you at MakeYourDogEpic.com.
Are you hiring at MakeYourDogEpic.com and what kind of people are you looking to hire at Make Your Dog Epic, also dog training? Yeah, so we’re just looking. We are hiring. We’re always hiring because we’re growing fast. So you can go to our website, Make Your Dog Epic.
You can click the Now Hiring button. And then we are hiring. So you just fill out your form and we will get in contact with you. We’ll bring you in for an interview. And then we are just hiring high character people who are coachable, who show up on time because dependability is the best ability.
And you don’t have to have any dog training experience. So you don’t have to have any experience at all. We will train you. You’ll be trained as you go and it’ll be awesome. We’ll turn you in some great dog trainers. So again folks, if you’re out there today and you’re looking to become a dog trainer, just go to MakeYourDogEpic.com and you can apply to see if you have what it takes there. Also, if you’re looking for
a dog training service that you can trust, go to MakeYourDogEpic.com. MakeYourDogEpic.com. You can schedule your first dog training lesson for just 50 cents. And again, the way that works, it’s 50 cents for the first lesson.
It’s the fastest turnaround time in Tulsa. They will beat any dog trainer’s price. So anybody out there who’s a dog trainer, Make Your Dog Epic will beat anybody’s price. They will train your dog and help you to improve your dog’s obedience
without changing your dog’s personality. And by booking with MakeYourDogEpic.com, you’re always entered in for a chance to win a dream vacation to Hawaii. So when you schedule your first 50-cent lesson with MakeYourDogEpic.com, you are entered in for a chance to win a dream vacation to Hawaii. JT, I’ll give you the final word.
I know a lot of people here love listening to the Make Your Dog Epic podcast, and they love to stay updated about all the things you’re working on. Any final updates you want to give with the Make Your Dog Epic community? No, just fill out that form. We’ll enter you in for, just for filling out the form, we’ll enter you in for a chance to win a dream vacation to Hawaii, because we’re sending somebody each year to
Hawaii. It’s awesome. And I actually have an idea for that, because we have all the, at these events, we’re having people sign up too, but you sign up here, we have all their names on the sticky notes. So I think at some point we’ll attach them all to the tennis balls, and we’ll let one of our dogs go pick the winner and send them to Hawaii.
Oh, I like that. That’s kind of a fun way to do it. Oh yeah, and we’ll record it, we’ll live stream it, we’ll do whatever, and we’ll announce it and then we’ll send a family to Hawaii. It’s going to be great. Amiki, Amiki Maliki Haka.
What is it? Was it Amiki Maliki Haka? I have no idea. Pass the poi mahalo. Pass the poi mahalo. That much is true.
All right, here we go. We’re going to aim for the boom. Three, two, one, boom. Oh, so Oh,
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Oh Oh, Welcome to the Epic World of Dog Training. I am JT Lawson. I am the lead trainer at Make Your Dog Epic. I also own the Oklahoma locations for Make Your Dog Epic where we turn your canine companions
into truly epic dogs. Get ready for your daily doses of wisdom as we tackle your questions and unleash the secrets to mastering dog training. As always, our goal is to gain obedience, but never add to the extent of the dog’s personality. Can I have a kiss? Oh, good job. Can I have a kiss? Oh, I’m going to try again. Oh, what? One more? No? Okay.
So I’m JT, I’m with Make Your Dog Epic. We are here with Brianna, right? And we are at the One Oak Field with Saucer Drillers. There’s a drone going by, so obviously Achilles cares a lot about the drone. So one of the things I get asked a lot is, is the training transferable? Well, that’s one of the most important things, because we get your dog to listen to us, but
not you, it’s pretty pointless. And then they’re like, well, I’m worried about if it’s too transferable, my dog will listen to other people. Well, if that’s a real worry for you, you can train your dog in a different command, like German or French or whatever you want to do, that’s fine. But it should be transferable, because also if it only listens to the dad in the family
or the mom in the family, but it doesn’t listen to kids or grandparents, then that training is also pointless. So, Brianna has never given Achilles commands, but she’s going to try today. So, I’m not going to help out at all. We’re just going to go impromptu, see how it goes. But basically, this first command is called itch.
I’m just kidding. So, but basically what you’re going to do is, before you give a command, you’re going to say a name, and you’re going to say Achilles heel, and then you’re going to walk with him, and then you’re going to, you can sit him and then down him, and then you’ll shoot him at the end and we’ll do play dead.
So you’re just going to tell him, you’re going to say Achilles heel and you’ll start walking. And so he’s staying right next to the side even though the drone’s going. And then you can tell him sit. Oh good job. And then walk away from him. Yep.
Perfect. And then you’ve seen us do play dead so now you’re going to tell him down. Akeli is down. And then even though he’s focused on the drone, he can look. So that’s another thing with our training also is the note is we don’t, I don’t care if he’s focused on me the whole time.
Because if a dog has to be looking at you to focus on you, it’s kind of pointless because then when he’s chasing a squirrel over there across from the park, he’s not going to be looking at you. So even though he’s not looking, we’re still going to point at him and we’re going to have him play dead. So you’re going to point at him and say, bang.
Bang. Break. Good job. Backpack. Oh, break. Good job.
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