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Dr. Laura Donaldson – Part 1: STOP AND SMELL THE PEE MAIL: Sniffing as Slow Thinking and Social Problem-solving
Date: Thursday, July 9th
Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
This multi-part webinar offers a deep dive into the everyday practice of canine sniffing—not organized nose or scent work but rather, the behavior dogs engage in when left to their own devices in the backyard or just walking down the block. Sniffing is critical to canine welfare because is a form of Slow Thinking and social problem-solving in dogs, who navigate the world first and foremost through their noses.
Part One: Sniffing as Slow Thinking and Social Problem-solving
Smelling is the most ancient canid sense and dogs have evolved an olfactory anatomy as well as sniffing behaviors to maximize this. We have all heard about the ability of dogs to scent explosives, drugs, human remains and even biological disease—but sniffing also functions as a central form of cognition for dogs as well as an important mode of social problem-solving. Part One will guide viewers through the canine world of everyday sniffing by looking at the remarkable insights of several recently published scientific studies and considering how sniffing functions as one of dogs' most important forms of Slow Thinking.
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Dr. Laura Donaldson – Part 2: STOP AND SMELL THE PEEMAIL: Everyday Sniffing as Healing from Trauma
Date: Thursday, July 9th
Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
This multi-part webinar offers a deep dive into the everyday practice of canine sniffing—not organized nose or scent work but rather, the behavior dogs engage in when left to their own devices in the backyard or just walking down the block. Sniffing is critical to canine welfare because is a form of Slow Thinking and social problem-solving in dogs, who navigate the world first and foremost through their noses.
Part Two: Everyday Sniffing as Healing from Trauma
Trauma is significantly under-recognized in dogs, partly because canine responses to trauma are often suppressed as “bad” or even “disruptive” behavior. A common feature of traumatic response is that the brain’s executive capacity—the pre-frontal complex enabling subjects to self-regulate—is deactivated. It is here that both the neurobiology and behavior of sniffing provide dogs with a powerful form of healing because sniffing not only helps dogs re-activate their cognitive abilities but also enables a critical experience of embodied balance. Part Two of this multi-part webinar tells the story of how everyday sniffing helped one incredibly special dog recover from more than a decade of overwhelming neglect and stress. In telling this story, Part Two will introduce viewers to a basic framework for thinking about canine trauma and extend the insights from Part One on dogs' everyday sniffing as Slow Thinking and social problem-solving
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Tracey McLennan - Introduction to Prey Drive in Dogs
Date: Thursday, July 16th
Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Prey drive is an instinctive behavior that many dogs have been selectively bred for. It’s a fascinating subject that can also cause difficulties between dogs and humans. In fact, it’s often seen as a behavior problem that needs to be resolved.
Join me for this exciting webinar where we’ll explore prey drive in depth. We’ll cover the following:
- What prey drive is
- How it differs from reactivity, and ways it may link to reactivity.
- The links between prey drive and welfare
- How to create robust management to support your training.
- Ways to work with your dog’s prey drive so that your dog learns to see you as a partner in your adventures together.
Join me in this webinar and start creating a more joyful and connected life with your dog.
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Erin Lynes - A Game Within a Game: Play Based Patterns for Retrieving Sports
Date: Thursday, July 16th
Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Dock Diving, Retriever Hunt Tests, Disc, Shed Antler, Obedience- there are so many sports where retrieving is involved. Whether the retrieve for a particular sport is required to be formal or is less structured, it presents an added challenge when all or part of the game is intrinsically valuable to the dog. For example, a lot of dogs find a retrieve highly reinforcing- or at least the chasing and toy-grabbing parts of the retrieve! They may find the simple presence of a toy very exciting! And some sports include additional elements that have that intrinsic value- like swimming!
So can we help our dogs handle their instincts to chase, grab, or swim, in the context of the sports we want to teach them? Can we teach our dogs to value all parts of the game, not just the parts that they naturally favor? Can we play the games our dogs are hard-wired to enjoy while keeping their brains turned on rather than blowing up with over-arousal? Can this be done in a way that is fun for the dog AND handler?
Indeed we can, and the answer is through play-based patterns!
Play-based patterns allow us to teach rules and structure within the games our dogs are already in love with, in a way that grows the game, rather than interrupting it. In this presentation, you’ll learn how adding variations of play patterns can help your dog anticipate behaviors that are helpful to your sport, grow their understanding of the best way to keep the game flowing, and do it all by increasing the fun factor for both of you!
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This webinar previously ran in The Power of Play Conference in July 2024. Please check your Course and Workshop Library to prevent a duplicate purchase.
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Fanny Gott - Cues as Green Lights – Frustration Free Discrimination Training
Date: Thursday, July 23rd
Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Agility has turned into a sport with high demands for verbal understanding at full speed. Verbal discrimination is an important skill that can seem daunting to train because it often creates conflict and frustration. I will show you a different way to approach verbal discriminations – a training method with fewer errors, less frustration, and more understanding. I will cover how to make verbal cues important to your dog. How to build focus and understanding while keeping the dog confident and calm. This way of training also helps with many other common challenges in agility – startlines, distance work, layering, and focus.
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Denise Fenzi - Can't Touch This! Setting Your "Leave-it" to Auto Pilot
Date: Thursday, July 23rd
Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Imagine this...you're walking along, and suddenly your dog is at your side, staring at you. You look around and you see why....chicken bones on the ground, squirrels playing near the path or that ever-so-tempting pile of horse poop!
A solid "Leave-it" cue is cool but an automatic leave-it is way better!
This webinar is all about just that. Starting with no cue at all, Denise will walk you through the steps of developing a strong leave-it! First you'll teach a traditional cue and next you'll work towards an automatic response to attractive options in the environment. How cool is that?!
Along for the ride is a leave-it for the food refusal exercise found in a variety of dog sports.
Join Denise and find your walks become a lot more relaxing as your dog takes responsibility for leaving stuff where it belongs - in the environment!
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