Course Details
I can’t even begin to guess how many times I’ve been told, or more often it’s that I’ve overheard, that obedience is boring. It’s not motivating. It's predictable. It’s too uptight.
And its true. Obedience CAN be all those things. But it doesn’t have to be.
Obedience can be intense, it can be fast, it can joyful.
In this presentation, we will look at using a few different games that you can insert into most training exercises to turn your work from drilling into an exciting event. We will talk about a few different moves that you can use in the teaching phases to help your dog better understand what you want and reduce frustration while learning. And for the advanced dog, we will discuss how to have flow and creativity in your training plans to keep things from becoming stale!
About the Instructor:
Laura Waudby (she/her) trains and competes in obedience, rally, and agility. She was halfway to her OTCH with her UDX corgi, Lance, before his unexpected early retirement. She also has championship titles in USDAA and UKI agility. Laura was previously a service dog trainer for 10 years in a variety of roles from directly training the dogs for their specific jobs, to helping the puppy raisers and clients with how to train their dogs.
Due to the special behavior needs of her duck tolling retriever, Vito, Laura developed a strong interest in learning how to create motivation and confidence in dogs that struggle, either through genetics or through less than ideal training, to make it into the competition ring.
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