Learning how to build your dog's confidence is going to grow your relationship in a whole new way. There are three main rules when it comes to building your dog's confidence and you need to know them if you are going to be successful in your dog training. Confidence is Built Through Successful Repetition It is harder to fix than it is to build Confidence is relative If you can understand these three rules your dog will become bulletproof (not actually but pretty close) Do you want to train with Matador Canine? Try our 14 Day Free Trial with the link below https://www.matadork9.com/14daytrial  #dogtraining #matadorcanine.   00:00:01:02 - 00:00:21:13Michael AccettaHey, guys. Welcome to today's episode. The topic is going to be about building your dog's confidence. We're going to go over the three rules of building your dog's components. And once you understand those, you're going be able to take your anxious, nervous all-over place scatterbrain kind of dog and have them be a hero. I want to tell you two quick stories before we jump into those three rules. 00:00:21:14 - 00:00:43:17Michael AccettaNo. The first story, actually, I was gonna say number one, but the first story is about a dog, a train named Sky. And we called her Sky because her eyes were wide open all the time and had these beautiful blue eyes and her eyes were open because she was terrified. And that's a sign of a nervous dog. Dogs that have big, wide-open eyes, they're nervous, they're tense. 00:00:43:17 - 00:01:03:09Michael AccettaEverything's pulled back. Sometimes it looks like they're smiling because they're actually pulling their cheeks back, and their ears go back. Everything's, like, all tense and tight. We want to help a dog relax. But this dog Sky we ended up working with for maybe two or three months and the program we had in place was all about building up her confidence. 00:01:04:07 - 00:01:25:10Michael AccettaIt was everything we did. We didn't do obedience. We didn't do manners. We didn't do walking unleash. The sole purpose of the training was to build their confidence. In about two to three months, this dog was then able to focus on obedience and engagement, and manners. And other skills and tricks and all those things. Some people will say obedience is going to boost your dog's confidence, and that is absolutely correct. 00:01:26:02 - 00:01:43:03Michael AccettaManners can boost your dog's confidence and we're going to actually go over why that happens and how that works. But I want you to understand that if your dog is nervous, your sole purpose right now, just like with Sky, your sole purpose should be to build their confidence first if you do not have any confidence in your dog. 00:01:43:07 - 00:02:05:27Michael AccettaYour dog doesn't have any confidence. You can't do the fun things that you want to get to do. The second story I want to tell you is about a Dogo Argentino. This is a story I recently heard about that fought off a puma. A feline, a giant feline in the mountains of the woods, wherever they were. A family had gone out, you know, picking food, going on a hike, something like that. 00:02:07:06 - 00:02:33:13Michael AccettaAnd their dog followed them and a puma went to attack the dad and the two little girls, and the dog intervened. The dog won this dog. Argentina won the fight against a puma. A nervous dog cannot do that. A nervous dog cannot think clearly enough in order to enter into that situation, think critically, and react responsibly. Right. It just can't do it and everything. 00:02:33:13 - 00:02:56:02Michael AccettaIt would run away. A nervous dog is going to flight. They're going to run. They're going to flee. They're going to get out of this situation. A confident dog will stand their ground fight, and defend its territory, just like human beings. A confident individual is going to puff up their chest and stand for what they or believe in. And a coward, a nervous, anxious person might run away in those