Crucial Concepts in Dog Behavior & Training

Description

In this course, you will :

• Train a dog to motivated and reliable when off-leash, distracted, and/or at a distance, all without the continued need for any training aid.

• Understand the five reward-based training techniques.

• Reduce and eventually eliminate reliance upon training tools like leashes, collars, halters, harnesses and especially food as a lure and reward.

• Motivate your dog using life rewards, interactive games and other behaviors and activities that your dog enjoys.

• Quantify your dogs learning and use differential reinforcement to increase speed and precision.

• Correct misbehavior using non-aversive punishments such as: Specific Redirection (SR), the DogCon system and Repetitive Reinstruction until Compliance & Repeat for immediate response following a single command (RRC&R).

• Empower secondary reinforcers (e.g. kibble) with huge amounts of value.

• Use Differential Classical Conditioning (DCC) to train dogs to enjoy the presence of specific stimuli without inadvertently reinforcing reactivity.

• Use the Jolly Routine to eliminate dog reactivity and aggression.

• Use the most powerful tool in dog training: your voice!