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A specialty course is designed for serious trainers. The topics available are very broad. The goal is to take your current training skills – in virtually any application – and elevate them well beyond your current ability. We do that by stripping away conventional limitations. We rethink the process and lay out the task from the bottom up. Search and Rescue or detection? We add aversive control for failure. We teach the dog to report on reality so that you can reward or punish false positives and negatives. The dog will know its job and be passionate about it. Agility?
Learn ‘directed movements’ well beyond anything used elsewhere. Aggression? Fear-driven behaviors? Neurological disorders? Dealing with difficult clients? How to actually teach this stuff to people without dog backgrounds? Service dogs, agility dogs. Dogs that ingest inedible objects. Aggression or violent resistance to restraint.
Learn ‘directed movements’ well beyond anything used elsewhere. Aggression? Fear-driven behaviors? Neurological disorders? Dealing with difficult clients? How to actually teach this stuff to people without dog backgrounds? Service dogs, agility dogs. Dogs that ingest inedible objects. Aggression or violent resistance to restraint.
This is a green dog. The handler owns restaurants - she is not a trainer. This video shows you not only what can be achieved rapidly with clicker training, but what can be achieved with novices. My training style elevates competence rapidly and smoothly. If you are an instructor, this kind of training goes a long way to get your clients to excel at whatever you teach.
Fearful & Aggressive
30 minute fix
This dog had bitten five people. Same MO, every time - threaten them and then rush forward to bite when their back was turned. My answer was simple - pair clicker with treats, first. Then pair "NO" with a bonk. In this case, the 'bonker' was a loose piece of terry cloth - you can see it in the video. Then negative reinforcement in the form of putting him on a leash and pulling him toward me in stages -something I learned in shelters, decades ago. Then - off leash and go back to clicks and treats. I say it's a 30 minute fix because in that time I brought him to a point where he didn't have to be handled in any special fashion.
Car Chaser to Passive Watcher
To bring this dog to work, she had to be taught to now chase the bosses scooter - violently.
Raliegh (She was named after where she was rescued) is a Pit that had her hip shattered chasing a truck. Her new owner was second-in-command of Barkleigh Productions who publish Groomer to Groomer and put on expos for groomers all over the country.
The founder of Barkleigh was Sally Liddick. She used a scooter. Raleigh decided she made a good target. I was presenting at a groom-expo and fixed it on the spot.
The founder of Barkleigh was Sally Liddick. She used a scooter. Raleigh decided she made a good target. I was presenting at a groom-expo and fixed it on the spot.
Directed Movements
Vallen's exceptional performance
I teach directed movements in an unorthodox, greatly improved way. The dog is taught to go in one of five directions - far more funtional than left vs right. Vallen demonstrates two things in this video - the number three means 'go straight ahead'. When he does, he does not look back at his handler - he stays focused on his front. A search dog may actually have a visual target selected that by looking away he may lose.
