How to Fix Bad Behaviors in Dogs

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Ryan William with Expert Village; I am going to teach you submit the dog, how to properly show your dog that you are the pack leader and is submissive to you. If he does something, he misbehaves, he bites somebody, or something like that, the most severe form of punishment for a dog would not be to hit them or kick them...you should never do that to a dog. It would actually be to put them on their back because that's what happens to them in the wild. A pack leader would take the dog, grab him by the neck, and put him on the ground. What you do is you sit your dog down, lay him down, and roll him over onto his back. It's not going to be this easy the first time; the first time he's going to struggle. The first time I had to submit him for not listening to me, it took about 10 minutes to get him to this position. I was sweating, huffing, and puffing, but if you start the process, you have to finish it. Anytime you start something with a dog you must finish it, and make them do what you want them to do. So what you do is you get them on their side like this, and you'll use your hand like it was a mouth for the dog, and place it on his neck. I'm not pushing hard; it's just solid pressure, but it's not hurting the dog in any way. Then I will keep him there until he stays in that position even when I remove my hand. When I remove my hand, if he gets up like that, I put him back. Eventually, after about five or ten minutes, you should be able to stand up and he'll stay there. If he gets up, you put him back. You should be able to leave the room, and he'll stay there until you decide it's ok for him to get up. As soon as you give him two or three minutes on the floor, and as soon as you let him come up, let him know it's ok to get up. That's the most fearful punishment I use with my dogs. If they do something I don't want, like they get in a fight or something like that, then I put them both down and make them submit to me."