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If you are feeling tense and fighting the dog, the dog will be tense and defend itself harder. Feel if your energy is up in your shoulders and if so, bring your energy to your center near your navel. Even if it is struggling to escape or defend itself, stay calm and have a kind heart. The crazier the dog gets, the calmer you should be. The dog’s response is often quite amazing.Īs you are holding the animal, watch your Self as you watch the dog. I even teach people to pet the dog in these situations – as you maintain the physical restraint. Sometimes they look up at me like “who is this guy?”. And when that dog relaxes, it will find me relaxed. Even with physical restraint, the most intense struggling is typically brief unless you are continuous adding pressure, stress and threat. I am the first human, so what message do I wish to convey? I would like it to feel kindness. Around the world I have handled hundreds of street/jungle/beach dogs who have never been touched by a human. I hope we get away from that common attitude. What do you wish to say to that dog? Many dog catchers want to tell the SOB who is in charge. Think of physical restraint as a way to communicate to the dog. Maybe you need to examine a surgical wound after sterilizing it or giving it antibiotics, or moving it into another pen without a crate. Think of using it as a strategy to kindly move the animal into a position you need to do your work. It should be combined with heart-felt compassion. And physical restraint should not be the same as fighting the animal. Physical restraint should not be just physical. Compassionate animal handling is not only the right thing to do, it makes our work safer and easier! You are sending a message to the dog that you are it’s opponent and wishing to create a fight. People have a habit of shaking the dogs head as if to get a better grip.
#Snappy snare leash skin#
If you do, you will gather his neck skin which can choke him.
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Do not let your fingers point to his neck. Keep the ears deep in the notch against your thumb to get the most control. Stretch your fingers of each hand toward the corner of the mouth (be careful not to get bit) and curl your fingers to gather up the skin of his cheeks. Each ear of the dog should be in the notch of your thumb and the thumbs are parallel on the top of the dogs head pointing forward.
#Snappy snare leash full#
The full scruff is a two-handed hold on the dog’s head. Also read my previous blog entry about the Energy of Conflict.
#Snappy snare leash how to#
Many people do not think much about how to do a proper scruff and can compromise the safety of the dog and the handler. To safely control the dog you must control the head. (DO NOT HANDLE ANY DOG UNLESS YOU FEEL IT IS SAFE TO DO SO.) These types of restraint include: the scruff, lateral restraint, and hobbling. Dog handlers should be confident in applying several types in order to be versatile in successfully and humanely capturing dogs. Even when the dog is struggling in your hands, be calm and give compassion. Good physical restraint requires a calm dominance. It also gives us versatility for what we can do when the dog is in hand. When we get confident to safely and humanely handle dogs with our hands, it gives us options to first try softer capture methods such as catching with a leash when it is safe to do so. This is unlike cats which require equipment, equipment, equipment! Physical restraint is a valuable tool for the dog handler.
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The body structure and behavior of the dog allows us to physically restrain them with our hands. They were great at it! But they only recognized one kind of dog – in their eyes every dog was the same and they never attempted to use softer methods for capturing the friendlier dogs. In India, I once trained some great young men who were dog catchers for a spay/neuter program who had never touched a dog! They had only caught and transported street dogs with nets. Around the world, feral or street dogs are often handled strictly with equipment such as snare poles or nets.