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  Title Enhancing Relationships for Better Performance and From Maddening to Maturity: Understanding and Helping the Adolescent dog.
  Speaker Suzanne Clothier
  Date(s) 9/21/2013- 9/22/2013
  Location Redmond, Oregon
  Fee $250.00 before August 1st after that fee is $300.00
  CEUs 12 CEU's for CPDT
  Host Organization Friends for life dog training
  Website www.friendsforlifedogtraining.com
  Contact Person Dennis Fehling
  Contact Email friendsforlifedogtraining@gmail.com
  Contact Phone 541-350-2869

  Description of Seminar/Conference
  
 

Day One:

If that amazing feeling of connection with your dog seems to come and go, if you wish things could be just a bit smoother between you and your dog, if you’re wondering why your dog’s performance varies, if you’d like to know WHY he’s doing this or that, this is the seminar for you. Dogs do not learn or perform in a vacuum, but within the context of a relationship with their handler, as well as the broader context of other influences.

Participants will learn to see the dog. Handlers benefit from a deeper, nuanced understanding of how the dog perceives his world, what interests or bores him, how physical limits may be performing at his best, how to respond to a dog who tells you this is boring! And more.

Emphasis is placed on understanding the dog’s behavior as a response to environment, intrinsic, extrinsic and social stimuli. Understanding the dog within the context of this complex blend of information helps handlers work to modify and adapt their handling and goals for enhanced relationships and better performance.

Participants will learn how their own movement, orientation, tension, breathing and use of equipment can help or hinder the relationship and performance they want from their dog. For instructors & trainers, the practical applications plus the specifics of observing handler, dogs and their interactions helps to provide better coaching to bring out the best each dog/handler team can achieve.

Help yourself and/or your students and their dogs to better performance and relationships with the effective, sensible and humane Relationship Centered Training (RCT) techniques.

This is a day filled with AHA! moments, and one that will change how you see dogs and their handlers.

Day Two:

From Maddening to Maturity: understanding and helping the adolescent dog.
Do you wonder where your once wonderful puppy went? And why has he
turned into a sometimes maddening, unpredictable, maybe even out of
control adolescent? Relax you’re not alone. More than a few puppy class stars have gone on to be champion buttheads as teenagers!

For many dog owners, the 18-24 month period of adolescence is problematic. Even with a great start in puppyhood, many dogs hit adolescence and become frustrating, unruly, and simply maddening in some ways. While puzzling to many owners, this is a natural but poorly understood stage of development.

Did you know that adolescence begins around 20 weeks of age?

  • That a year old dog is roughly the equivalent of a 14 year human?
  • That adulthood in the dog begins at 2-4 years of age?
  • That the most annoying teenage dogs are usually geniuses?

The Relationship Centered Training (RCT) approach to adolescents focuses on three areas of the teenage dog’s life:

  • Relationship with handler
  • Social life (other people, dogs & animals)
  • Life skills (self control, basic manners, coping skills)

For each area, we will explore ways to assess each dog’s strengths and limits, how the handler can support the dog, what skills need to be developed, and how to recognize problems that must be addressed.

This seminar will address RCT keys: communication and commitment.

  • The handler’s role as the teenage dog’s guide to life
  • Balancing the relationship
  • Age appropriate responsibility
  • Cooperation as a lifestyle
  • Permission and parameters
  • Potholes, loopholes and missing bricks in the dog’s skill sets
  • Self control, handling arousal, dealing with distractions and attractions
  • Polite behavior with others (people and dogs)

All are important aspects of growing up into a well behaved adult. Learn how to guide your teenage dog to maturity using effective and humane RCT techniques such as Really Real Relaxation, Go Say Hi, Auto-Check-in, Puppy Politeness Poker and more.

When you understand your adolescent dog better, you can settle into
the work and joys of helping them grow into a wonderful adult dog. The kind of adult dog that makes people say, Oh, I wish I had a dog just like that! While you smile and wonder if they knew him as a teenager.

 

 

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