Course Details
Taking Turns - Build your dog's skill for watching another dog work.
This class guides you on how to make turn-taking easy, clear and rewarding!
For dogs who love to work or play, it's hard to watch another dog take a turn to perform.
But we need that skill in a few ways:
- Field Training - taking both dogs into the field, to save trips to the car.
- Honoring in a Retriever Test - watching another dog run to a retrieve.
- Steady for another dog to flush birds from cover
- Actual hunting in a duck or goose blind with another hunter and their dog.
It's even helpful indoors with arena sports. In fact, we teach it indoors first!
The secret is knowing this - it's not about tamping down arousal or drive. Instead it's about the dog's clarity on what happens next and how to earn the release or reward.
If you struggle with any type of "steadiness" or waiting for a release word, this class is also for you. It all boils down to the same formula.
How it works:
It's not enough to have a great sit cue or "leave it". Dog's will whine, creep forward and even run in when another dog gets to do the fun thing. Especially when the fun thing is running, chasing or catching something, outside.
If you've been trying to fix this problem by hovering - bending over them to say "I'm going to interrupt you if you even move a muscle!" Or hoping that your sit cue will work - That's making it worse, and it's super frustrating when it fails.
Both dogs feel it when we're frustrated and the value of the training session goes down the tubes.
What we do in this class is different. It has 4 parts:
- Learn the choice formula
- Apply the choice formula to Taking Turns in an easy environment
- Create reward placement that works for the end result
- Level up to the field with a strategy
The result - clarity leads to competence and that = CONFIDENCE!
When you teach your dog the formulas in this class for watching other dogs work, you will feel confident in it's power to hold up even in test scenarios.
You will gain an honoring cue that tells the dog what's about to happen, and what to do to earn the reward sequence or another turn to work.
We will never tamp down their drive or desire to work. Instead we'll teach them how to turn on by offering us control. It's an exhilerating feeling to win at this in the field, with truly joyful training techniques.
Teaching Approach:
This class welcomes people from any sport or breed wishing to master turn taking or watching another dog perform. Although, I will be highlighting how this is applied to field dog performance.
Each week you will get a new set of video lessons and brief written instructions.
The lesson videos will be 3-6 minutes long, typically. And they will cover bite sized training skills. Each lesson will build on the previous one and set you up for the next.
When you post your training videos for review, I love to highlight what is going well for you, as well help you level up from where you are!
