this is caesar 9-1-1
caesar's first 9-1-1 call comes from
elisa whose mother's out-of-control lab
buddy
barks so incessantly that he terrorizes
everyone in the family
hello lisa hi nice to meet you the
classic question how can i help
well my mom's dog needs help and i think
my mom needs help also
okay he's very nervous he barks at
everything
my mom's lived here three and a half
years and he's still a maniac when i
walk in the door
hey bud
he's kind of going crazy the whole time
he barks incessantly what does mom do
tries to calm him it's okay it's okay
stop barking it's okay
he goes in circles and sticks right by
her
well she told me recently but he's like
a small child
you know so she wants to comfort him i
said well if i walked into my house and
my child
started screaming at me and yelling at
me i wouldn't comfort him he would get
in trouble
so what else that he does what else did
he do you know my son who is
almost 10 he's scared to come over all
right mason come on in
and he's trying so hard to get over it
but then he walks in and buddy's barking
like crazy
and so he doesn't want to come over and
i'm not really comfortable leaving him
yeah and he said he's afraid that he
buddy is protecting grandma
and will eventually you know like lash
out and mason say that yes
he's protecting his grandma if cesar
doesn't get involved now
and help it would be a sacrifice of time
between
her and mason and a sacrifice of really
being able to bond with mason
now when it's important when he's young
that makes me sad
so as grandma feels that her grandson
can get near her dog makes her sad
but what can i do there's a lot of
things she can do it is a sad story
and you know what was the the state of
mind of grandma
how come grandma is not controlling the
situation
to the point that her grandkid and her
beloved dog can't be in one place
that to me is mind-blowing hey baby hi
mom
cesar asks elisa to introduce him to her
son mason
so we can hear how he feels about buddy
hi mr caesar how are you man good to
meet you mason nice to meet you too
good to be here so how can i help you
with this dog what does he do to you
every time i come in buddies just starts
barking so bad it just scares me
he's basically really scared trying to
protect himself right
oh that's good how do you know that
because he always backs away when it
comes
to good observation i'm just used to it
because he does it every single time i
come in
i'm ready man i want to take that stress
away caesar alisa and mason head to
grandma's house
so he can observe buddy's behavior when
they come to visit
ready spaghetti yes free spaghetti
that's a good one
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quiet quiet oh great
look let me show you let me show you
quiet let me get in
here double tension
don't put tension there you go relax
everybody
my name is leslie wenke i have a yellow
lab
i found buddy on a website and when his
picture
came up that was it i was in love
i was getting buddy for a reason i
didn't realize at the time
my husband wasn't well and there was a
part of me
that understood the ends with sneer so
to speak
if you've lost some someone who you've
been with for a long time you understand
that that pain runs very deep
it can be debilitating and just having
buddy there
just help me through it
since my husband has passed i've had to
sell my house and my daughter had
suggested that i come out to california
hi grandma hey guys and this way i could
uh be near her and her family and get to
know my grandson
betty i'll be right down let me put him
upstairs
i think right now mason loves his
grandma but she's got this crazy dog
buddy seems to be afraid of just about
everything
i have neighbors that have pit bulls
and buddy would see them and start
barking and
i'm afraid one day he might pull me down
it's kind of scary for me
but to a child something that loud
with teeth showing and spit flying is
terrifying
come on in you know he won't hurt you
come on
oh come on in here you want me to hold a
hand yeah
my grandson won't even come into the
house
because he's afraid of buddy no no no
it's okay come here come here
you don't have to you don't have to
and if mason can't come to my house
i can't give mason happy grandma
memories
it's okay mason will be 10 next month
and it won't be long after that where
it's going to be very
uncool to hang out or sleep over
grandma's house
so it's very important that
i get help for me and for buddy
his comfort zone is so small
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i want him to have a quality of life
that i'm sure he doesn't have now it's
all right buddy
[Music]
i don't know what i'll do if i don't get
the help
i just know that we'll be missing out on
so much
my family and buddy
oh i'm okay felicia you'll put it all
the way in the top
yes all right don't put it don't put
tension there you go
now this is what happened i want to i
want to walk you through it right so we
put a leash on a dog
right that puts a dog in a different
state of mind why because now the dog
feels that the human has some kind of
control
no don't give affection so if you give
affection you nurture that
when grandma gives affection to body
when he's growling
that just makes him growl more she's
reinforcing the behavior
she doesn't want so she stopped giving
affection and then the dog changes
alisa is right no one can feel
comfortable entering grandma's house
with body in this state it could be just
fear
or him feeling that he has to protect
leslie i need to see more of buddy's
behavior before i can help the situation
let's do it again can we do it again can
we knock on the door again all right
both of you guys together
caesar asks elisa and mason to go back
outside and knock again
but this time caesar will observe from
inside the house
with buddy on a leash to see exactly how
buddy reacts
hey come on
hey sit down
if he goes on the couch yeah what what
he's doing
is the equivalent of him finding a
finding a bed and goes under
now this dog is more afraid than
anything else but he uses the couch to
hide
it's his safe place so when he jump up
there when it was a knock on the door
i knew that he was a fearful dog the axe
out because he's afraid
he's just using it as a hiding place
so i don't mind for him to go on the
couch but i'm gonna tell him when to go
on the couch so here
this is an exercise by the way this is
huge for this guy
to not choose fear look at that
then you can come here come on buddy
very good
so thank you safe so when did they gave
me the couch
when i sit down and relax and wait
buddy has never relaxed when there were
strangers in the room
and stranger to him is anyone
other than me who walks through the
front door can we do it again can we
knock on the door again
do you want me to go out no from there
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hey every time there was a knock buddy
would bark out of fear
when he did that i snapped him out of it
with a correction and he calmed down
and after every knock the dog got calmer
and calmer
and the body was totally relaxed
and then relax having demonstrated how
to keep buddy calm during door knocking
caesar wants leslie to copy his
technique while he knocks
so the the snap or the touch would work
when you touch in that part the brain is
doing this
and then you touch and the brain does
this and it snaps out of it
wow you're ready right just keep it
right there
and then relax the tension let's do it
again
[Music]
don't keep looking at it though he's
right there yeah cause once you
when you keep looking at him you stay
like this
[Music]
caesar has been called by whistleblower
elisa
about her mother's labrador buddy whose
constant barking is driving a wedge
between her son mason
and his grandmother leslie
now caesar wants leslie to learn how to
prevent buddy's aggressive barking
when there is a knock at the door
[Music]
don't keep looking at the he's right
there yeah cause once you
when you keep looking at him you stay
like this leslie just needed to correct
buddy's reaction to the door
but she was staring right at him which
only creates more tension and fear
in body you're missing the point the
more you cater to him
the more you go in the back of the pack
let's do it again
when i look at that face and i see him
so scared
i just want to hug him leslie has to get
this basic exercise right
before we move on to the larger issues
at work here
look one bar let's do it again
that was it that was it
leslie eventually come buddy with the
correction but she's still very
emotional around him
that's a good boy come on her instinct
is to cuddle him when he's afraid
and that has to change what you're
trying to do is to
ask him to calm down he's afraid and i
want to comfort him
so when a human believes by himself the
dog becomes a soul mate
right because the human wants us
homemade yes the human wants somebody to
love and be loved
so the human fulfills his need with a
dog but dog needs calm confident energy
it doesn't need for somebody to feel
sorry for him
he doesn't need that somebody tells him
he's a good boy when he's not a good boy
yeah
yeah oh my god so that's what i wanna
i wanna help you to see i need to show
leslie how to treat her dog
like a dog not like a human and the
number one thing dogs need is leadership
if leslie can do that every time her
grandson comes over she will have a
problem
they say he can't teach an old dog new
tricks it goes for old ladies too
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