Courses
From Growly Dog to Confident Dog
From Growly Dog to Confident Dog
Become the confident handler your dog needs you to be!
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Course Introduction
Welcome! Start here
A Guide to your Community
Your Growly Dog in Lockdown!
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Module 1 - What is "reactivity"?
Session 1 What is a Growly Dog?
Session 2 What can contribute to the growliness?
Session 3: Two amazing games!
Session 4: The Focus Game
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Module 2 What caused it?
Session 1 Puppyhood, breed or type
Session 2 Medical, personal history, habits
Session 3 Fight or flight; tunnels
Session 4 Stress
Session 5 Diet; other dogs!
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Module 3 What can I do?
Session 1 Change; Choice Training
Session 2 More change; taking pressure off the dog
Session 3 Dog Body Language; bites
Session 4 Key Lead Skills; opposition reflex
Session 5 Health aspects; neutering
Session 6 Health aspects; medication, therapies
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Module 4 Training
Session 1 Training basics; equipment
Session 2 Rewards; play
Session 3 Confidence building; impulse control
Session 4 Confidence building; distance; triggers
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Module 5 Key Lead Skills
Introduction to the next few modules
Session 1 Key Lead Skills
Session 2 Key Lead Skill no.1
Session 3 Key Lead Skill no.2
Session 4 Key Lead Skill no.3
Session 5 Key Lead Skill no.4
Session 6 Key Lead Skill no.5
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Module 6 Choice Training
Session 1 Why Choice Training?
Session 2 Science section
Session 3 Choice Training: 1 Catch your dog doing something right
Session 4 Choice Training: 2 Marker training
Session 5 Choice Training: 3 Rewards; homework sessions
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Module 7 Pattern Games
Session 1 Choice Training: 4 Pattern Games
Session 2 Lesson 3: The Focus Game
Session 3 Lesson 4: The Name Game
Session 4 Lesson 5: The Sit Game
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Module 8 Relaxation and Walk Management
Session 1 Four Essentials for safe walks 1. Impulse Control
Session 2 Four Essentials for safe walks 2. Emergency measures
Session 3 Four Essentials for safe walks 3. Safety
Session 4 Four Essentials for safe walks 4. Emergency Turn (Key Lead Skill no.6)
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Module 9 - More Relaxation and lots more Walk Management
Session 1 Relax, de-stress, sleep, meds
Session 2 Distance revisited
Session 3 Managing walks: car, lead-walking, personal space
Session 4 Incoming Dog!
Session 5 Where are we going with this?
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Module 10 First Big Technique: Counterconditioning and Desensitisation
Introduction
Session 1 What is it?
Session 2 Touch, sound, puppy socialisation
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Module 11 Second Big Technique: Look at That
Session 1 Look at That - What is it?
Session 2 How to teach Look at That
Session 3 Taking it on the road. Listen to That. LAT magic!
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Module 12 Third Big Technique: Behavior Adjustment Training (BAT)
Session 1 What is it?
Session 2 Effective BAT essentials; where to BAT
Session 3 Your first BAT session
Session 4 Analyse your first BAT session; troubleshooting
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Module 13 More BATting
Session 1 Parallel walking; set-ups vs spontaneous BAT
Session 2 Some more tricks of the trade
Session 3 Troubleshooting
Session 4 More BAT variants
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Module 14 More specific BAT variants
Session 1 Other fears: Fear of people
Session 2 Fear of traffic
Session 3 Troubleshooting
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Module 15 What do I do when?
Session 1 Which technique to choose; troubleshooting
Conclusion
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Resources and Downloads
Your Mantra
Rewards - what works best?
Equipment guide
Rules of Tug
Resources
Key Lead skills pdf
All Action Steps
All maxims
Free Bonus Books
A Guide to your Community
Car fear protocol
In their words