The Belgian Malinois Who Couldn't Be Touched: Day 21 Breakthrough | Life at the Ranch Ep. 6

Well, in the first video, when we first met this guy, so red zone means they're beyond what they normally know. Normal fear or normal aggression. There is a life and death situation. And his case was more him, you know, getting hurt. If people get close, people will get hurt. But mainly, mainly this guy was just beyond fearful, like terrified. So we have to bring them from we have to bring him from this place of being terrified. Bring him a little closer to a little bit of fear. Lower the fear. And then until he gets get very a little bit insecure. And then we bring him back to his true self, which is his calm surrender self. Look, I show you that I'm going to show you his calm surrender. And then I'm going to send him to copy. You're lucky. Now he comes in. Is it is a typical back of the pack guy who's learning, you know, to be calm, surrender when people call him. Now, as you can see, I can bring him in. Look, I'm going to reward now. Look, so now he sees, OK. Caesar makes me go from come surrender to happy go lucky. And that's it. That's all I want. But he just, you know, whoever had him in the beginning didn't know how to nurture his calm surrender, didn't know how to, you know, take advantage of his happy go lucky moments. I took the ball. Yeah, it takes a while. Yeah, he's he's very sensitive. He's, you know, Chewy can take advantage of him because Chewy is a middle of the pack. See, he he's doing it like 90% better. This is just him becoming more comfortable with giving the human his trust. Right. When a dog is come surrender to you is giving you his trust, his respect. Come surrender. I trust you. I respect you. So he's becoming more comfortable just practicing something so natural. Someone, someone, some human broke the trust. So at the moment, we break the trust from a back of the pack dog. They come surrender, goes away and turns into fear. Good boy, Tommy. Good boy. Good boy, Tommy. Tommy is the best back of the pack ever. This guy is like this is the way this guy is. These guys are so back of the pack. Very, very gentle. Very, very attentive. Very, very trusting. I mean, the back of the pack is, without a doubt, the easiest dog in the pack. But at the same time, the most sensitive. That's what they end up suffering from fear. When the human doesn't have the right energy, when the human doesn't follow the right philosophy, when the human doesn't do the right actions, and then they pay the consequence and become very afraid. The front of the pack is going to pay the consequence and become very, very, very strong, you know, very forward, very, very aggressive, very dominant, very territorial. The middle of the pack, if you don't do things right, they're just going to become extremely excited. They're going to get in trouble. They're going to steal food. They're going to they're going to go into other people's home without being invited, not to harm, but they're being disrespectful by being excited. You see, so each one has the side effect when we humans don't do the right energy, the right philosophy and the right actions. Now, when we do the right energy, right philosophy, right actions, this is the outcome. We can rehabilitate, but we should do prevention so eventually we don't have to rehabilitate, right? That should be the goal of every human on this planet. How do we prevent fight flight avoidance? Not how we train a dog. Now, what kind of technique is better? Now, what kind of tool is better? No, no, no. Just learn about prevention. See, that's what the calm surrender is so important, because when you want something in return, you need to have some kind of memory in their brain where whatever sound you do, like some people will say, leave it out, drop it. To expect that the dog understand what the word means or what the sentence means. I don't think it's smart, right? But to expect that a dog understand a sound to send them to calm surrender is more realistic. So a simple shh should send the dog to calm surrender. Look. This is very important, right? Because if a child has a ball and if I'm in where you guys are, if I do shh, if I do shh, they know to become surrender in front of the ball. Not sit, stay, none of that. They just know not to touch, right? So when they know not to touch, immediately the brain goes into respectful mode, right? They're respecting. And so if the dog is respecting, what is the body doing? The body is calm. What is the mind doing? The body is, the mind is open minded. That's surrender, right? Surrender to shh, shh. Excited. Correction. They can't touch it. I'm not teasing them. I'm just teaching them for safety purposes, because a lot of kids come here and they grab a ball and my dogs need to need to know that they can't touch it all the time. Now, what is the reward behind? Or what should I do when a dog, a group of dogs? This is not just one dog doing that. It's a group of dogs doing the same thing at the same time. So this is this is what you do. You pay them for waiting. You pay them from being calm. You pay them for being respectful. See, I'm paying for three things. For wait with patience, for being calm. Just breathe calmly and to be open to do it as long as I I need them to I need them to do it. Right. Patience, calm. Surrender. Wait, so the activity is the reward, like throwing the ball. The activity is the waiting. Right. Remember, God rewards you because you waited, because you were calm, because you were confident. That's what you get to reward. Here we go again with that with that. Calm surrender. So you can. Come here Tommy, Tommy. See look, I can easily come. Hey, this guy is learning. So here here is a perfect teaching right there. Not because the ball bounce. Not because the ball moves. They have to wait for a special moment. So then they learn. OK, when is Cesar going to release it right now? He's saying not to touch it. All right. Let's practice not to touch it, everybody. And then I don't know when Cesar is going to say it. And that's when I surprised them. Right. So then the fun is not in the running. The fun is like, how do I'm going or where do I'm going to throw it? Right. Because I can throw this way, I can throw this way. They don't know. So the fun becomes and figuring out and being connected to me. Right. Reading me. So so they can go get the ball before we put the leash. Let's do something refreshing, because right now they're hot. Right. Right now they're hot. So if we put the leash, we put in the leash when the dog is hot. They don't want to they don't want to wear a leash when they're hot. It's fast. It happens to us. Come on. I'm going to do something refreshing before we put the leash on. Oh, I also have another idea. We can put the leash in the water. Yeah, and then I can reward with the ball. That's a good combination. All right. That's great, because he normally goes in the water. Right. But right now, I guess he doesn't feel like it. So we can definitely encourage him to go in the water and at the same time present that the leash is to help him refresh. Right. Because I remember when we met him. Yeah. Look, look, I'm going to reward with this. All right, this guy. Look, you see, you start putting the pieces together, right? You start putting the pieces together. So even if you didn't if you didn't go too smooth in the pool and that's, you know, it's a dog in the front. So he's very respectful. This guy is very, very respectful. So he doesn't he doesn't like to push dogs. He's he's I'm glad because you don't want this guy thinking that he can just move everybody out of the way. You just used like three different tools here. The pool, the pool, the leash and the ball. And you I'm the most important tool, right? Because I can ruin it as well. Right. I can ruin that. I can definitely not know when to give the when to give the the reward. Right. My timing is perfect. My the reason why I'm doing it. Right. I challenge him, you know, before he went into the pool. Now this guy just gets in the way. Yeah, he gets in the way. Yeah, he he goes in the water now by himself. If you notice, remember, he used to. Yeah, now he goes. Look, look, look at him. Wow. Look at him. That's all on his own. Oh, yeah. Look, and then he got out. So now he holds his ball. He you know, he's he's he's definitely celebrating. Now I'm going to ask him a little bit more than just one one one time going up and down. Look, look, look, look. So now I ask for two laps. Right. Now he isn't OK. So if I follow Caesar for two laps, then three laps, then four laps, then five laps. So then you always keep a stretching, stretching the the capabilities. The more they feel that you can challenge them and help them drain the physical energy, help them figure it out with their mind, you know, to have that strong will, right, strong will. I can do this. I can do this. I can do this. The more you fix the self-esteem. Right. And of course, you're going to be attached to that experience because you were there. You were there. You were the coach. You were the person who challenged them. You were the person who were patient. You were the person who were calm, confident, love, creative. All the components that are required to live a life or to rehabilitate a life. Right. Because there is the same components to live a life. You need patience, calm, comfort, love and joy to rehabilitate your life. You need patience, confidence, confidence, confidence, love and joy. Let's continue giving. All right. Everybody is very much into giving the dogs. Me too. But I like to give them my best energy, my best knowledge and my best actions. Remember, fearful dogs don't really take food. So when they start taking food, it's a big deal, right? It's a big deal when they start taking food. Tito still doesn't like to eat in front of people. As soon as you give you a little bit more space, he definitely eat. But obviously his body looks amazing. It's fit. It looks, you know, healthy. But look at the distance versus the dogs that are 100% trust. Look how close they are versus a dog that is learning to trust. So everything that I have done so far, Peter, is for this moment of putting the leash on. Right. Because all the activities are a leash, right? So in a way, I'm tiding the dog to to me. Connection, communication, relationship. So I like to do a lot of invisible leashes, right? A lot of invisible experience of a leash, because ultimately I want them to follow me off leash, ultimately, because eventually, remember, I want them to come and wear the leash like a gold medal. And so for that, you need a little bit of a leash or a toy where the dog is happy, go lucky, and then he comes in. See, and he has to weigh his turn. Yeah. So, Peter, positive reinforcement should mean we give in something to a dog when he's peaceful, he's calm, he's open minded, he's happy, go lucky. Sometimes when he's calm, confident, he's doing a calm, confident activity, and then we give something extra, right? Positive reinforcement is also the you find places where they can practice this, right? Like, for example, taking a dog to the beach. Some dogs, like 1% of the dogs might feel a little bit uncertain, but most dogs are going to be very, very happy about it. Most dogs are going to be very, very happy about it, right? Because there's so many smells, because the ocean, because, you know, the sand is so many great things that a beach has in immediately. That is a positive reinforcement. You're reinforcing that a dog needs to be in different scenarios of Mother Nature. We're going to Yellowstone. It's the same thing. So you are reinforcing a necessity, right? To be with Mother Nature. So when you give a dog food, what you want to reinforce is trust. What you want to reinforce is respect. Food is a love language. So you're reinforcing trust, respect with a love language. That's why we always say trust, respect, love. So you can reinforce trust, respect. So you can reinforce connection, communication. So you can reinforce rules, boundaries, limitations. So you can reinforce good state of mind. And of course, you know, most of the time people want to reinforce a behavior like I'm going to reinforce this. All right, let's do the leash. But I do want to make sure, Peter, that people know that we did many, many, many, many things before we put a physical leash because the ball is one thing. The pool is another thing. Nose, you know, nose, finding the ball and those type of plants, running for the ball. We already went for a walk. We already went for a run, right? I already offered water. I just gave treats to the dog. Right. And so and and and during the pool time, I challenged Tito to do to do more than one lap. That is a mental challenge. And then I reward with a toy, right? So that's how I'm helping his self-esteem. And today is his last day. Right. Tito belongs to a rescue organization. So we're very mindful, you know, with the rescue organizations because they have a budget to help a dog. I know for sure we take we took Tito from zero to 90 percent. The the the people who are going to be in charge of Tito are just going to have to maintain the all the steps that I have done. Right. So, for example, this step of the leash, putting on the leash, this is a step that they have to learn. Check on your energy. Silence. Blow all the energy out, all your oxygen out or blow it out to find yourself with no no no breath. And then I read, feel the calmness just by breathing. Your mind is clear. Very simple task. Put in the leash on the dog. Never done the obstacle, so it's good. It's third time. Let's do the narrow one. Now, this obstacle courses for for insecure dogs are really good because, number one, they learn to trust your guidance. Right now. Number two, they learn to to trust that you put them in situations where nothing bad is going to happen. So then the mind goes, wow, this guy put me in a place where my self-esteem grew with my connection to trust humans grew. Right. Let's do this one. First time. So this is shut down. This is avoidance. Your silence and your calmness and your confidence is so important when the dog is figuring it out. So all of this thing that he gets out of the the ramp is the moment where he's figuring it out. You can become unsure about what you're doing. You can't give up. You can't get frustrated. Look, it's easier to tell a be peaceful, be calm, be confident, be peaceful, be calm, be confident. But if you talk, if you go, hey, it's OK. Come on, let's go. Let's go. It's OK. It's OK. It's OK. Let's go. Let's go. You're going to interrupt the peace. Look, so then then they learn that the leash helped them have structure, helped them have discipline, helped them have connection, helped them have an experience. But the most important part is that he is is with humans who are not afraid of him, humans who understand what he's going through. But we don't feel sorry for him. So we come up with ways where where he gets better, better every single day. Like I said, this is his third week. God knows he's been doing this for at least at least half a year of his life or one year of his life, right? So it's more repetitions of doing it the wrong way versus repetitions of doing it the right way. So three weeks is is is kind of like a miracle, kind of magical, beautiful. But what do you expect from a dog, right? Dogs live in the moment that that is a truth. Animals don't don't rationalize. So they they're not going to go into. Why do you want me to go through this obstacle course when you know I feel afraid? They just don't. They just practice the moment. I'm hesitating. I don't know. I don't know how to react any other way. And then your job is to make sure with with your energy, your knowledge and your actions and your tools that you help a dog to remove those moments of uncertainty, those moment of confusion, those moment of frustration, those moment of boredom, those moment of fear, aggression, whatever, wherever wrong energy, wrong philosophy, wrong actions the dog is going through. This is avoidance. There's no doubt about it. This is avoiding. It doesn't know yet how to stay as calm as is as he normally is with dogs. Tommy is his is his favorite friend. But at one point, he's not going to live with that. So he has to learn to live with himself. He has to learn to live with others. Right. So right now, him leaving, leaving this platform it will put him in a position where he controlled the last thing he did or he made a decision on the last thing he did, which for a dog that is under rehabilitation is best for them not to make decisions because what's going to happen is they're going to end up following avoidance or fear. Right. They're going to I want to ignore the situation. Well, I want to run away from the situation. So you don't want a dog to ever leave a moment, especially when you were when you were with them, where the dog made a decision from an avoidance point of view or from a fearful point of view. Right. Five flight avoidance. We don't want a dog to to to finish the moment in a fight and a flight or an avoidance. Well, this is what three weeks does. You know, obviously our dedication. Thank you for following his journey. Thank you for sending him all the blessings, all the great wishes. Like I say, he belongs to a rescue organization in Santa Paula. This is a case that is not mine. It's actually Calvin, right? My son, Calvin. And when I saw the cases, I just I just knew, you know, my kids had never done a case this severe. So they're going to they're going to need it not just to bring the dog to the dog psychology center, but that I was going to be part of his or his true rehabilitation. Right. It's coming out with the ways, the protocol, the shelter. People need to need to follow, you know, the activities to understand them well and to create their formula now to create the formula for for Tito. So Tito can finish his rehabilitation. But from when we started three weeks ago to today is is definitely very remarkable. I have to say, I'm used to it because dogs are that remarkable. I I love to to to see them transform. Actually, when I feel bored, frustrated or confused in my life, I go get a dog that I can just help them go away because they inspire me every single time. Right. They help me be creative. They help me practice my belief system. They help me practice my instincts, keep my instincts in the right place. And, you know, the reason why I wanted to come to America and become the best doctor in the world, my passion. Right. So they they have a way to make sure that my four worlds are always happy, healthy, loving and creative.