McCann Dogs 40th Anniversary Dog Training Special!



I have something very exciting to share with you, because it’s a special edition of the train station tonight, hello, I’m kel mccann – and this is ken steve. I guess well, maybe not you guys in the room, but you at home about dog training, puppy, nipping uh, jumping up solving your dog walking problems, but tonight’s show is a little bit different and I’m very excited to change the format up a bit. So without further ado, let’s welcome out deb and marty mccann. Now we have a series of questions that we’re going to ask them um that we’ve come up with we’ve, actually gotten a lot of the questions from some of the posts we’ve put out over the last few weeks, things that people are interested to know um and Uh, to be perfectly honest, I came up with a few questions because I have I know of several stories that I want them to share with everyone, because they’re so great um but uh throughout the live.

If you guys have certain questions that you want to ask, let us know, and somebody will come by and get you a mic um. Of course those of you are watching at home. If you have questions you can post them in the chat we do have our moderators working today we have um aaron, we have robbie, we have kim, we have lexi um dan, the modern or dan. This is cal mccann.

We’re professional dog trainers at mccann dogs, but let me introduce you to the founders of mccann dogs, hello. My name is deb mccann. My husband marty marty started this 40 years ago. Um, you know it just started out, because we wanted to try and find a new way to train dogs, a more modern techniques and and more current.

We decided he decided he didn’t like his job and we decided to start our own business training, dogs and so it began in 1982 and we’ve been on a pretty much a whirlwind journey since that time. So we’re going to start with that now before we oftentimes in our train station, we will uh ask for you, guys at home, are joining us from and um tonight’s a great opportunity to find it where people have come to join us from in in the room. Okay, okay, we’ve got a couple people more than an hour away. Now, in the chat on the live stream, I want you guys to drop where you’re joining the train station from we love to find out and oftentimes.

My geography in high school was terrible, but it’s exciting for me to find these things out. To have people that have traveled in to hang out with us here tonight for the live episode of the train station. Now we kale’s created some really a great list of questions, but for those of you at home we will be answering some dog training questions, but we’re going to keep it at the end. going to keep the train on the road versus mccann, and now it’s mccann versus mccann versus mccann.

Okay, we’re going to start off with uh asking about how you guys, um, initially got involved in dog training in the first place, because before the business started like how did you become involved in the interest of dog training right from the beginning, like even prior to Even wanting to have a business well um, I was going to college and living on my own in the bottom of a house and my boyfriend at the time, um decided that I should have a roommate, so he got me a narrative. No, that wasn’t him okay um, so he got me an airedale terrier and a puppy and um marty was an avid reader of uh of books about dogs, he’s crazy about dogs. So between his reading and um, my dog doing puppy training um. Ultimately, we went to the hamilton dog obedience club.

I think she was born in june of 75 and we started classes in january of 76 and I started training my dog and the ride home. I’m training my dog, you get your own, so we started training with the hamilton dog obedience club and we did you know very well. We went on to teach classes there and, as we were traveling around at obedience trials, we found there were all kinds of new and modern ways to train and we wanted to use those with our own dogs and it always didn’t uh hamilton obedience. I don’t know ontario for sure, and we wanted to do things a little bit different and in an organization like that change comes to hard.

So we decided that we would start just running some classes in our backyard and eventually decided to go for it and rented a hall and in 1982, formed a business and just with the purpose of uh trying to train our dog in modern ways. You know ways of training dogs. You know dogs were trained on chain callers, which I train my dog. You know on train, callers and, and it was – and we just thought there needed to be a better way, and so we attended seminars and tried to learn about new things.

Um, the use of food in training was was difficult back then people, you know, didn’t think you should be bribing dogs, and you know we uh were finding great success with um with the use of food as a reward in our training and as a tool to Teach we learned that that you needed to use very positive ways when you’re teaching, so that the dog learned what you wanted them to learn without being worried about trying and getting something wrong. We learned that the dog had to do as he was told, and that made us come up with this saying called the best correction is the least the least correction is the best correction provided it gets the job done. You know very little correction, but if that didn’t work, then you had to find something that worked and what we learned that the different things worked for different dogs. Cutter dogs learn different ways.

You know you might have a rottweiler that you trained on a flat, buckle collar and barely did any kind of a correction. We started to develop things that we thought were good, solid foundation, dog training. Well, I got started training dogs when I was about seven years old and um, my father a wandering eye. So my my mom kicked him out when I was four and when he was when I was seven, I would go and visit my father every second week.

So every second week when I went to visit my father, I learned about horses and dogs, so I got an early introduction to it. There was nothing to do at my father’s home, though there was for kids other than horses and dogs, so I read books voraciously, I read all about dogs and when I went my first dog training classes at the hamilton darbians club, when I was about 20, they Said I was a natural, I don’t know that I was a natural. I just had been studying it for more than 10 years, anyways um, so deb and I got an airedale then, when she didn’t want me to train her dog, we got a second one. We were training together and we were training like taught like difficult obedience.

Things with puppies keeper was in airedale and kyla was a border collie, and what I learned was watching allison train and she was quite a natural um. She would teach her dog to do something, and I would take three days to do it with my airedale. You know two steps forward, one step back and we just thought that we needed to have more freedom to explore the type of training that allison was doing and more positive reinforcement, and we weren’t going to be able to do that within the confines of a very Well established club um when we started out in canada dog training, there was no great dog trainers, particularly the americans came up weekend after weekend and they kicked our butt. One would come from georgia one week.

All we did was dogs, dogs, dogs and we attended seminars. We mainly learned from american trainers, and one of the things that makes me most proud is that now canada, because of people like ukl, are some of the best in the world. There is a point uh that you decided to do a whole whack load of things in almost the same year. That was sort of the start of the business and um.

That’s what I would like you to tell the girl, okay, well, uh, that year would be 1982 and in the summer of 1982, many of you probably know marty had open heart surgery.

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