Speaker 1:
We are back. This is the Make Your Dog Epic podcast. I’m JT Lawson. I am the owner of the Tulsa Dog Training or Dog Training Tulsa location. Make Your Dog Epic location, Tulsa.
Carter:
Is it Dog Training Tulsa or Tulsa Dog Training?
Speaker 1:
Well, one, you broke the rules. I haven’t introduced you yet.
Carter:
I’m Carter.
Speaker 1:
No one knew you were here and then you just came in. I’m joined here today with Carter, who also…
Carter:
I already introduced myself.
Speaker 1:
…has a dog. You have a dog?
Carter:
Yes.
Speaker 1:
We’ve talked about him before in this.
Carter:
We’ve talked about him before. Yeah. He’s notorious or famous. Not sure which one.
Speaker 1:
Tulo.
Carter:
Yeah. T-U-L-O.
Speaker 1:
Nice. And we are going to talk about a situation that just happened recently at your house because it happens with a lot of people. And because your dog is not trained.
Carter:
Not true.
Speaker 1:
Your dog is not trained. Correct?
Carter:
He’s trained.
Speaker 1:
So his dog has trained him.
Carter:
It’s an alternative dog training program.
Speaker 1:
So goal…
Carter:
Where they don’t behave as good. But it’s a very specific Tulsa dog training program.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, it would be a Tulsa dog training program, but it’s one that… It’s like reverse dog training.
Carter:
Yeah, it’s cute because he’s not well trained.
Speaker 1:
What’s good is bad. And what’s bad is good.
Carter:
You get it.
Speaker 1:
Yeah.
Carter:
Reverse psychology.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, that’s good. So at Make Your Dog Epic, we do not do that. We do not do this reverse psychology dog training that Carter has done with his dog. We, at our first lesson…
Carter:
That was home training.
Speaker 1:
On our first lesson, we offer the first lesson for 50 cents. That way you can try it before you buy it and you can make sure that we’re a good fit for you and that you actually like our methods and how we train. And we will then come up with a plan to get your dog to your goals, because every dog is different and everyone’s goals are different. So we want to get your dog to your goals. And we have either private one-on-one lessons where it’s half dog training, half human training. In Carter’s case to human is much harder to train than the dog.
Carter:
This is not true.
Speaker 1:
And then we have dog boarding school where you can send your dog to us and at the end, the dog knows everything, but we just have to make sure that we transfer everything to you and that the owner understands everything.
Carter:
You mentioned human training. Am I eligible for the boarding school so I can play with dogs all day?
Speaker 1:
You are not. You would be kicked out and you can’t have a job either because you’d be fired.
Carter:
That’s valid.
Speaker 1:
For your reverse psychology dog training. And then we also, no matter what you do, you get a money back guarantee and you get group class forever.
But today we’re talking about resource guarding and so this is Aggressive Dog Training, Tulsa or some people say Tulsa Aggressive Dog Training. What do you say?
Carter:
I say just like you, I say Aggressive Tulsa Dog Training, but sometimes I mix it up and I do say Tulsa Aggressive Dog Training.
Speaker 1:
That’s fair. Well, and we’re going to talk about your dog because my dog is trained. So I have two, both of them are trained. One is Achilles. He’s a two-year-old Belgian Malinois. And my other dog is Riley. She’s a four-year-old German Shepherd Lab mix and she resource guards and we have gotten a lot better at it. And because I got her from a shelter when she was already three years old and she had already learned all those behaviors.
Carter:
My dog is alternatively trained as I like to call it.
Speaker 1:
Yes.
Carter:
And he’s a Great Dane mix. He’s 20 pounds and he’s a Great Dane mix.
Speaker 1:
He is not. He is…
Carter:
That’s what they told me.
Speaker 1:
12 pounds. And he is…
Carter:
He’s 18 pounds. He’s been lifting.
Speaker 1:
Okay, sorry, let me rephrase. He should be 12 pounds, but…
Carter:
Okay, now you’re calling him fat. That’s not good. That’s not good for his psyche. He’s not fat. He is a…
Speaker 1:
He’s big-boned.
Carter:
He’s big-boned.
Speaker 1:
He’s a big bone dog.
Carter:
He’s definitely not fat.
Speaker 1:
Okay, fair. Well, and Tulo is a, I say he’s a Chihuahua mix. You disagree?
Carter:
I’m sticking with Great Dane mix.
Speaker 1:
Okay. Sure. And he resource guards really bad.
Carter:
Or good, depending on how you put it.
Speaker 1:
Really bad. So basically, now we’ve worked with Tulo a little bit, so Tulo will allow Achilles to be around him. He used to just, if dad was around, Tulo would just not let any dog or animal or person around. But now he’s doing better. And I would say you haven’t even worked with him… Some would say at all. Some would say only I’ve worked with him. Some would say that.
Carter:
I pet him.
Speaker 1:
Yeah. So I would say…
Carter:
I stare adoringly into his eyes.
Speaker 1:
He’s had no follow up from the little bit that I’ve worked with him, but he still does… He’s now good enough to where he allows Achilles around. But the other day, Achilles, we were over and Achilles had a bone and Tulo was mining his business. And then he noticed…
Carter:
Well no, Tulo noticed immediately because Achilles saw the bone and was like innocently, “I’m going to go check that out”. And Tulo noticed immediately.
Speaker 1:
And so this Achilles is a Belgian Malinois. Mind you, two years old and he is just, he’s just under 80 pounds. I think he’s like 78 pounds.
Carter:
And then Tulo is a Great Dane mix, just under 20 pounds.
Speaker 1:
Sure. And Tulo just ran up, got pissed. Stole the bone out of Achilles mouth.
Carter:
You’re underselling it. It was so cool what he did.
Speaker 1:
It was not cool. It’s only cool, just so you know, because Achilles just let it happen. No, true. Any other dog that would not have gone over well.
Carter:
Yeah. No, but let me paint the picture.
Speaker 1:
Okay, go ahead.
Carter:
For those of you at home. So Achilles notices, it sees the bone. It’s one of those longer bones to where you could technically have, three dogs could bite it at once. It’s that long. And so Achilles grabs it by the side and then Tulo, the Great Dane mix that he is, gets a running start…
Speaker 1:
Chihuahua.
Carter:
Gets a running start, jumps in the air, one would say almost flying, grabs the bone midair out of Achilles mouth. And Achilles was immediately perplexed. He was like, huh, what just happened?
Speaker 1:
Yes, but you also leaving out the fact that Tulo was pissed during this and he was growling while he was jumping and going to get the bone.
Carter:
Which makes it even cooler.
Speaker 1:
No, it does not. So if your dog struggles with this, the biggest things we need to teach, the commands, because I can’t make Tulo like Achilles chewing on his bone, but I can make him understand that what he did there is unacceptable. Because if he would’ve done it to my other dog, Riley, she would’ve been super upset and would not have let that happen. And that would’ve been an issue.
But, so what we do is we change their obedience. So we can control and manage it. So basically if Tulo was trained by us, basically what you would do in these situations is you would say, once you see Tulo’s mindset switch and he’s like, oh, I need that bone, then it’s off. Off means move away physically and mentally, but not that you’re in trouble, which is key. I don’t want him to think that Achilles is bad or that the bone’s bad or that dad’s pissed. Just, hey, that’s unacceptable. Move away physically and mentally.
Carter:
Safe space.
Speaker 1:
Exactly. And so then it’s off. And then you would use come, and then you would use place and you would place him there. And then he just has to stay there until he chills out. And then you tap him on head and say break. And what this does is, at first it’s a tool that will work immediately. Then immediately you’ll be able to stop Tulo from grabbing bones out of other dog’s mouth, but…
Carter:
Midair.
Speaker 1:
Right?
Carter:
Don’t forget that point. Midair.
Speaker 1:
I know you’re proud of it, but it’s really not a good thing.
Carter:
It was cool. It’s not a good thing, but it was so cool.
Speaker 1:
And what you do is once you do that over and over and over, because dog see in pictures, that picture starts to be changed. So Tulo starts to understand, hey, when I feel like this and I want to get pissed and I want to go grab that bone, I understand that I can’t and that I just need to chill out and I need to leave it. And so I can’t promise I can ever make Tulo like that, but we can promise that we can control and manage it. And so if you’re interested in us coming out, and we’ll work with your dog in front of you and show you how we do this, and we’ll bring our own personal dogs. So if your dog struggles with any sort of aggression in Tulsa or Tulsa Aggressive Dog Training, any of that stuff, we’ll come out and we’ll help. And you’ll just go to MakeYourDogEpic.com and you’ll fill that out. That’s MakeYourDogEpic.com. Or you can give us a call and we’ll get back to you. Carter, do you have any last words?
Carter:
Yeah, and I think that is important you mentioned you bring your own dogs too, because it’s so much of what some dog trainers do is in a vacuum to where it’s like you could get a dog to behave, but it’s like, can you get that behavior replicated in front of other dogs? And that’s really made a difference with Mr. Tulo, where he’s doing it around Achilles. Like learning around other dogs.
Speaker 1:
Yes. And so the big thing, if you’re interested in us coming out, you’ll text us at 918-550-5557. That’s 918-550-5557, or go to MakeYourDogEpic.com. And as we like to say on the show, we’ll talk to you in five minutes.
Speaker 3:
Is your dog and furry friend holding you hostage? Will your dog not stop pulling on its leash and eating your sausage?
Speaker 6:
Who wrote that?
Speaker 3:
Well, I don’t mean to brag, but I actually wrote it and…
Speaker 6:
Wow.
Speaker 3:
It rhymes. 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 6:
It’s so good.
Speaker 3:
The dog that would never listen was now all ears.
Speaker 6:
It’s so good. I just want to cry.
Speaker 3:
Pull yourself together, man. And if you too 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. Again, your first lesson is always just 50 cents at MakeYourDogEpic.com. 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 focus-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 6:
Wow, man. Carl. You are a talented vocal artist.
Speaker 3:
Well, well.
Speaker 6:
I just, you can sense your, I can feel the passion. It’s contagious.
Speaker 3:
Well, my friend, I am passionate about the product.
I once went 60 days without sleeping.
Speaker 6:
Really.
Speaker 3:
My wife’s wedding dress got eaten and my neighbor Pam was bitten by my dog. And…
Speaker 6:
Oh man.
Speaker 3:
My quality of life was an all time low. I actually didn’t have, I didn’t invite people over to my home for months because of the new dog. And I always smelled like urine.
Speaker 6:
You do still smell a little bit like dog urine.
Speaker 3:
Well, I made my dog epic. I was hostage. And that’s where the passion comes from. You’ve got to believe in your product and you’ve got to project from the diaphragm.
Speaker 6:
The diaphragm.
Speaker 3:
You’ve got to bend your knees.
Speaker 6:
Bend the knees, the knees.
Speaker 3:
Drink ginger.
Speaker 6:
Drink the ginger.
Speaker 3:
You’ve got to ingest apple cider vinegar.
Speaker 6:
Apple cider, I can do that.
Speaker 3:
With a dog bone. You want chew on the dog bone before them.
Speaker 6:
Hard passes, not going to.
Speaker 3:
Recording so that you can emulate the dog. And you should listen to Atomic Dog.
Speaker 6:
I can do that.
Speaker 3:
But you’re not a dog. But you want to just chew on the bone, get the oversized bone, not the regular sized bone.
Speaker 6:
Hard pass. Not going to chew on the bone.