Training Services - Workshop Descriptions

Workshop Descriptions

• Self-Control Games
  - Self-control games include exercises that require the dog to hold a position despite severe distractions and a high arousal level. A food-motivated dog that is asked to sit and hold that position while treats are dropped all around her is demonstrating excellent self-control. A dog that is easily aroused by motion, but can hold a sit while dogs and children are playing close by are showing excellent self-control.
  
• Fun and Games: Play Training
  - Play and games develop trust and self control between the handler and their 4 footed friend.
  - Play training is a way to teach your dog the games that you and your dog can play together. Enjoy discovering these games with your dog. Come have fun with an open mind and heart. Don't start with expectations… This play together will help develop a wonderful relationship between you and your dog. 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 will bring you and your 4 footed friend closer building a life time relationship. This will only be as rich and fulfilling as the time you have committed to having fun TOGETHER.
  
• Scent Games: The Nose Knows:
  - Have you ever noticed that dogs live by their nose? A dog's sense of smell is more powerful then we can possibly imagine. So let's put that powerful nose to good use!
  - Today, people use dogs in a variety of roles due to their superior olfactory ability. Dogs have invaluable roles with search and rescue teams, in identifying contraband, tracking game for hunting, and keeping tabs on endangered species. Recently, dogs have even been trained to identify bladder cancer in humans.
  - We will pair scents to a behavior and object , Plus air scent games
  we will also do some outside tracking footstep to footstep type and trailing games too
  
• Reactive Dogs workshop
  Changing the dog's response to the stimulus will come from:
  - Desensitizing - Self Control - Relaxation - Familiarization - Confidence
  - Program of rewards: a relationship of reinforcement from the handler and increasing and diminishing behavior through high and low level rewards
  
  General training and learning - Communication - Fun and Games - Tricks
  - Management of situations, and for safety and good health
  
  Anticipation - Reading Environments - Avoiding Situations and Practicing bad habits - handling and being handled
  - Managing and self control of the people who influence the dog's behavior, their pack.
  - Developing canine skills
  
  Social skills
  - Learning how to react, how to trust and read other dogs and play Self control skills
  - Relaxation and stress reduction for every day and extreme situation through:
  
  Touch - massage - learned relax - specific exercises - management of the environment
  Lifestyle
  - Targeting to provide a strategy for avoidance with a healthy focus

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