Seminar # 1:   Teaching Shelter Dogs Self control Skills

This seminar is designed for teaching staff and volunteers how to best work with shelter dogs. Become a NO BARK Zone! Help your dogs become more adoptable effectively using staff and volunteers

30+pg manual included. Click here for more information.

Seminar #2

<Specifically for shelters> (who already have behavior program and are doing Evaluations)

Letting Temperament Evaluations Determine Training Objectives - Using a well designed temperament evaluation for shelter dogs is only the first step in creating successful adoptions for life What is a Training Plan:

How dogs learn - theory. Foundation for shelter dogs is establishing reinforcement relationship.

"How to get reinforced behavior" - Discuss while demonstrating with a shelter dog using modeling, shaping, capturing, targeting, management, & room set up Temperament evaluation - what do we really want to accomplish?

Training manual included. Click here for more information.

Seminar #3

Changing People Changing Dogs (working with reactive dogs for trainers)

Working with reactive dogs for trainers and folks who want to help their dogs change their emotional view of Scary stimulus .

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Seminar #4

For the general Public and those who just want to have some fun with their dogs!

The Nose Knows: Scent Games For Your Dog

They are fun, engage your dog’s mind, provide exercise, and create training opportunities.

Description:

Have you noticed that dogs live by their nose? A dog's sense of smell is more powerful than we can possibly imagine. They can easily detect the presence of one drop of blood in a 55-gallon drum of water. All this talent needs a positive outlet. So instead of nagging at your dog to stop sniffing, here’s a chance to learn how to have fun letting your dog be led around by his nose!!

Scent work is easy for the dog. Training your dog to play scent games means figuring out how to “tell” your dog which odor gets rewarded. This seminar will introduce you to a number of great nose games and show you how to teach your dog the rules. We’ll use operant conditioning techniques to “mark” the right odor and then reinforce it with food or play.

Everyone will find themselves in awe of what their dog can learn to do with his nose and both you and your dog will have lots of fun learning these scent games!

Seminar #5

Fun and Games: Play Training
Play and games develop trust and self control between the handler and the dog

Play training is a way to show and teach your dog the games that you and your dog can play together.  Enjoy discovering these games. Have fun and have an open mind and heart.  Don’t start with expectations about what your dog likes.  Learn from your dog by using your “superior” intelligence to watch what interests your dog when playing by itself. Then we'll make up games from what you have learned by watching your dog.  This play together will help develop “ATTENTION” to you which is your dog’s belief that all things worth doing involve you!  If your dog has fun with you then obedience behaviors will flow out of his commitment to the bond you have formed.  The depth and quality of this bond is at the heart of your canine / human friendship; it will only be as rich and fulfilling as the time you have committed to having fun TOGETHER.

 Many dog breeds have instinctual drives that make them interested in play that surrounds chasing, scenting and agility. Workshop will focus on each of the areas.

Games may have a goal but they have no titles, no placements, no ribbons. Games might even involve a little fun competition - but it is competition of the moment. Playing games with your dog is really good for your relationship. Dogs are social creatures and playing is an important element in developing “interspecies” skills.  Playing games is a fundamental way of "modeling" real life. You can teach a dog good self control skills by playing games that make following your rules fun. Don't believe me? Think about kids and how much they enjoy "Follow the leader" and "Simon Says" Think about all the games kids play that involve following (or failing to follow) directions. Kids learn from this and so do dogs. And handled properly the learning is a very positive experience creating a learning environment with out either knowing they are being taught.

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