Okay guys, we're going to go nice and quiet for our
Harry to come in. So just nice and still.
Nice pink collar, Harry!
Yeah, he says I have no problem with that. Tell us a bit about Harry.
Excuse me, I don't know a lot about Harry's background.
I can tell you though he has been with us for a couple of months.
He had come in and we discovered that he was good with other dogs since when we
get populated we have to double up so we put
him with another dog, went very well. that dog got adopted and Harry kind of
went into a little bit of a depression, as we read it,
by himself so that's when he was matched up with Morgan
and they have been housemates.
He's about two and a half to three.
Do you know where he was rescued from? He came and I believe he came from New
York City Animal Care Control,
which is where one of the, more of our adult dogs come up. When we're dealing with the
South, Southern shelters, that's a little bit
more puppy or younger dogs.
When we met Morgan and Harry together, he was jumping around
all over the place and Morgan was in closed down mode.
When I just went to see them outside every time I tried to pay him attention,
Morgan came flying in.
Me, me, me, me. Really lovely to feel that outside and
I'm and also Morgan didn't want to leave here did she?
She kept on trying to hang herself coming back up the stairs, which was
quite touching, about three or four times wasn't it?
To like throwing herself into the room bless her. I brought her in the very
first time to work with her this morning, she wouldn't knew that we had to do the
ramp and we had to do a couple trips back and then she came in the door
this time it's like, hey look! So she's still here and she will
come in a minute, so really nice we're just giving him a
bit of time, we've heard a little bit about his story
and we're going to see if we can start working with him.
So I'm just going to start quietly first because we don't know
how much present moment it's going to affect him straight away. We did do a
little bit of work, it was quite intense though wasn't it? So
I'm not going to ask him to sit yet, I'm just going to get present. He's a little
bit stressed because it is hot. He was hot outside.
So two responses that you can see there. One is that as soon as I even think
about getting present, there's a yawn. He comes close to me, I wait, I get
present again, his panting gets more and he almost
throws up.
So I'm going to think about him and just gently regard him.
So his thinking levels. I would say his,
well he's very curious about everything. He was a little bit nervous
about coming in, I would say he's on about a seven.
There's not much listening on the lead and I doubt,
Harry, sit, lad.
Okay it's quite a lot of present moment. I've come out of that
and just let that have its effect.
Harry, sit.
So either one of two things. Doesn't really know sit command
or his thinking's too high.
I've been never in a room with 40 people! Yeah, his thinking is too high.
I'd say he knows it one on one.
Lovely so another little response and it's always much better to go slower,
than straight in there too fast and you can tell his thinking levels
because when he pulls on the lead, he's really pulling so there's not a,
that's not a listening state. It's a question with his role, so when the dog
comes over I notice that he's looking away, what do we want the, or
would be over, but what do we want the person to do? Like
the owner of the dog?
Right now, nothing
because we're in a non-reactive state so any,
if I started to do this I've gone into emotional relationship now
and that's not what we're after. When we were first hearing his story I was
stroking him and we're in emotional relationship but now
I want to take it further, I want to take it into that spiritual so everyone has
to be non-reactive. There is no engagement on a thinking
level, it's all about non-thought.
So he comes out of it to start sniffing and pulling.
So he's exploring everything, I'm saying be peaceful and he's I've got to
explore everything. He's actually, when we met him before, was
much higher level of thinking physically but he's still very high thinking at
the moment. It's just he's expressing it slightly
different when he came in and went slightly overwhelming.
And I would imagine he's smelling Morgan on the floor and the guys that he knows.
Yep she was here, she was here and just there.
And I have to wait for all of this to happen so this is his expression
at the moment. There's the breathing, there's the licking and it's back to me. I
I can get present again.
There's the release, nice and gentle.
So he's come out, he's going to do the same expression probably.
Go and sniff everywhere, look around, half hang himself.
Come on in.
Come, just come in normally, yep.
So I'm gonna again wait for him to go for this thing. Last time he had to sniff
around and hang himself a bit on the, he had the
panting first like he's expressing now. We've done that
about three or four times so we'll see if that behaviours, yeah,
it's still there.
Sniffing around, gonna sniff where his girl's been,
hanging himself and I'm going to wait for him to come
back to me.
And while he's doing this are you doing the regard? Yep, I'm thinking about him.
I certainly wouldn't be present now because it would just make him do it
more but when he's stopped and is with me
then I can.
Okay, so a change in his feeling now so just very subtly isn't it? I haven't
been able to ask him on a sit command. I can feel some tiredness coming in
him now, no doubt, I mean he's quite a highly
strong little thinker this and I would say that his thoughts are
very repetitive. So I'm sure that his process that we
see here shows a lot about his character and
it shows a lot that he doesn't listen when he's over excited and he
would be quite hard work on that level if he
got too excited on a lead because he'll pull you all over the place
but it's just his level of thinking but I can feel a shift that's happened
and those little bits of present moment have had an effect and this is this
lovely, relationship building. There is no rush.
There cannot be a rush when building relationship
and it's so funny because a lot of training will try and achieve something
without the relationship and you've missed the whole point.
So before anything happens on that level well we must
build relationship first. So he had a way for coming down, he's come up a bit again.
Is he going to do his normal pattern? No he's come straight to me, I'm going to
get present again.
And this is another dog that's very aware of movement
and sound. He's apprehensive about people in the room.
There's no question to me about that but you can see what's happening, he's going
into this sort of,
yeah, into this, he related to that mode.
I wonder if he's calm enough?
Harry, Harry, Harry. Sit, love, sit.
Close.
Now I will never raise my voice for a sit command
but when I'm asking sit, I'm imagining him sitting
and when you're finally connected to a dog
and tuned to a dog, you don't need to say sit, you don't even need to use your body,
you can just imagine it. And I know that he knew what I was
asking. He's gone a bit into his mode of
sniffing again and that's fine,
I'll wait for him to come back out of that.
And now I'm going to get present again. I think we can all get present with him.
So you're looking at a spot next to him where you can see him, I'll tell you when
to come out and regard him.
You can stay present.
And now come out.
There's that behaviour again. I'm gonna go sniffing
and each level that we do here, we're just letting him be himself. Peace,
patience and persistence. Peace is a present moment.
Patience is allowing him to do his normal behaviour
even if that was aggressive as long as we're safe
and persistence is allowing him to come back and then we start again.
He's back, there's a bit of panting going on but I think we can get present.
Looking at the spot.
And then stop.
That's nice, Harry. Sit, love.
We can get present again.
And then out. So he's going to find it very hard
to have enough tension in his body to stay standing.
Was that my prediction or observation?
You could feel he could hardly stay standing anymore.
Beautiful.
We can get present again.