The perfect foundation training course for your new puppy or rescue dog, or a great refresher for adult dogs in need of a training reboot!
Join this week by week training course with hours of helpful video tutorials, hints, tips, articles and links to other resources. It’s all the fun and training help of a real class, without needing to leave the comfort of your home.
For a full list of the topics covered, you can explore below.
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Lesson 1 - Getting Started With Training
Intro to the Course & Getting Started
- What is Luring?
- How dog’s learn
- Using food for training
- Laying foundations for good behaviour
- Why we use marker words and clickers?
- The importance of a release word
- What luring looks like in practice
- Luring the sit and down position, in detail
- Step 1 – Luring with food
- Step 2 – Training positions using hand signal only
- Step 3 – Training positions by adding a verbal signal to the behaviour
Lesson 2 - Loose Leash: 'Don't Pull!'
- Laying foundations for good practice
- What is Capturing?
- How to build a behaviour and use less food
- Revisiting luring for loose leash
- What are reinforcement zones
- An example of capturing to train the ‘down’ position
- Harness on/off without restraint or struggle
- Foundations for Loose leash in practice using Capturing and Luring!
- Figures of 8, change pace & build your steps
- I stop, you stop!
- Catch up Game!
- Pay attention, chase me game
- Surprise positions on the move
- One Finger Walking
- Tight leash-red light/Loose leash-green light
Lesson 3 - Impulse Control & Handling: Calm gets results
Why is Impulse Control So Important?
- What’s it all about and why does it matter?
Training Games to Improve Your Dog’s Self Control
- Food Manners: food in hand
- Food Manners: Food manners around human food on a plate
- Food Manners: progress to real life scenarios around human food
- Food Manners-Impulse control helps loose leash walking
- Puppy positions help impulse control: sit starts the game
- Puppy positions help impulse control: ‘break’ starts the game
Handling, Examination & Grooming
- Stress free grooming from the start
- Food manners for force-free nail trim & vet exam
- Food manners for force-free mouth exam
- Voluntary handling for drying, grooming, examination
- Building trust for unpleasant medical treatment
Lesson 4 - Control Off Leash: Recall & Wait
Control Off Leash: Principles & Practice for Great Recall
- Control off leash. How to get it right
- How in tune with you is your dog when off leash?
The Premack Principle. What’s Broccoli got to do with it?
- The Premack Principle. Real life application of off leash control
- Training using the Premack Principle. Go sniff, go pee, go explore! Life rewards for a speedy recall
- Training using the Premack Principle. ‘Wait’ freeze what you’re doing, with life reward of ‘saying hi’ to another dog
Training Games for Recall & Wait
- Restrained recalls
- Recall Training Games. Food circuits & Catch up!
- Training ‘Wait’ using guided learning
Lesson 5 - Fun Tricks with Practical Uses
Introduction to the Lesson & Shaping
- Introduction to the lesson. What is Shaping?
- Teaching ‘Into Bed’ using shaping
Foundations for Growing Good Habits
- Foundations for growing good habits over bad
- Feet Up!
- Feet up in Practice. Helpful for lazy owners
- Go Around!
- Play Dead
- Eye Contact
Lesson 6 - Troubleshooting, Communication & Relationship Building
Troubleshooting and Common Puppy Problems
- Link to Socialisation and Habituation page.
- Troubleshooting for the sit/down position
- Common puppy challenges including chewing & biting, house and crate training.
- Stealing & Guarding Objects. How owners can make things worse by their responses
- A game to build trust & encourage swap
Communicating Clearly What you Want from Your Dog
- Can your dog listen when distracted?
- How to help your dog understand you when you speak to them
- How to end a behaviour with ‘Break’
- Real life demonstration of the verbal marker and release word on a dog walk
- Five tips for a better relationship with your dog
Playing it Safe! How to Get the Best from Play
- How to avoid biting through over-stimulation during play
- Training release of the toy while playing tug
- Link to ‘Training Through Play’ page.
Helpful Extras
Crate Training – Getting it right, from the start.
House Training – it’s all about habit!
Socialisation & Habituation – What’s it all about?
Training Through Play – optimise your training using games with your dog.
Your Dog Jumps Up? – a page of training games and tips for good managment
The package includes:
- 5 weeks of interactive training, designed for you to progress at your own speed.
- 7 individual lessons containing hours of video tutorials, hints, tips, articles and links to online resources.
- 3 months access to the online resources.
- Covering the theory and practice of how your dog learns so you understand each other better.
- Including house and crate training, sit and down positions; loose-leash walking; impulse control and good manners; safe handling for grooming and vet visits; recall training; fun and useful tricks, troubleshooting and much more!
All this for £99
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