Learning how to build up your dog's confidence and your own is vital in order to build your relationship and make it easier on you for everyday life. With confidence in being able to handle your dog, you will make vet visits, traveling, and emergencies less stressful for both you and your dog.  In today's episode, I talk about how you can use the techniques that police dog handlers use to teach their dogs to be confident when carried, manipulated, and handled roughly in extreme situations. You will also learn how to avoid the #1 reason resource guarding happens in young dogs and how to curb body sensitivity for good.  To learn how to make your life easier with your dog click the link below.  https://www.matadork9.com/dailylifeskills   Show Transcript 00;00;01;08 - 00;00;36;25Michael J. AccettaWelcome. My name is Michael Accetta I'm the founder of Matador Canine Brilliance and author of The Dog Training Cheat Codes. You're listening to the Acknowledged Dogs Podcast. Today we're going to be talking about body sensitivity on the podcast, as well as how protection training uses body sensitivity and how you could implement what they do to make it easier for you to handle your dog and manipulate them without the fear of getting beat or causing your dog more stress. 00;00;37;04 - 00;00;56;09Michael J. AccettaSo stay tuned till the end of the episode. We're going to be talking about protection training. But first, you got to understand what body sensitivity is and how we traditionally teach our dog to be comfortable with being handled Now it's a hell of a lot easier to do this with a young dog, with a puppy, and actually a lot of kennels and professional trainers if they're breeding dogs to use for work. 00;00;56;21 - 00;01;14;04Michael J. AccettaService dog police work, military work, that kind of thing. They have systems in place. They actually have procedures written out on what you need to do with a puppy from eight weeks old until they start training week by week up, sometimes day by day. What they're going to do with those puppies to get them used to being handled? 00;01;14;24 - 00;01;36;09Michael J. AccettaThis could include spinning them, flipping them upside down, and holding them on their back for an extended period of time. All of those things are going to get used to being handled and manipulated by human beings so that they don't really care As they get older, they don't mind going to the vet. They don't mind being thrown into a car, they don't mind being picked up for whatever reason, and it makes it a hell of a lot easier for them. 00;01;36;25 - 00;02;02;26Michael J. AccettaThey can take that piece out of the training as an adult ride, the adult learning part. They can take out the body sensitivity part because the dog already knows what's going on. And like, okay, whatever they handle, their feet, their nails, they pick up their legs randomly. They play with their tail. They do very, very simple versions. Veterinarians, exams to make sure that that dog is comfortable and confident whenever it goes somewhere new and gets handled by somebody new. 00;02;04;06 - 00;02;33;04Michael J. AccettaYou have a puppy. You should be doing this with your dog every single day. Every day. Now, that used to be amazing advice and it is still amazing advice. You should be working with your dog every day, but we're going to go over how to teach this appropriately in modern-day terms. The old way to get your dog to be comfortable with being handled was to have your dog eat breakfast and dinner and you're going to touch them while they're eating. 00;02;34;10 - 00;02;51;22Michael J. AccettaI want to talk about this early on in today's episode because it is vital for you to stop doing that if you're doing it, if your new dog owner, if you have a puppy or a young dog and you were told, oh, just touch your dog while they're eating. I'm telling you right now, that is not a good idea and is not a good idea. 00;02;51;22 - 00;03;0