Webinar Presentations
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Webinars will run approximately 1-2 hours including presentation and questions.
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Michele Pouliot - Introduction to Platform Training: STEP UP to Platform Power
Date: Thursday, September 12, 2019
Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 - Registration required PRIOR to scheduled presentation time.
Have you heard of platform training, but never used it? Maybe you have used platforms some, but didn’t fully apply the tool? Having difficulty getting dogs to mount a narrow position platform?
In this webinar, Michele Pouliot will demonstrate how to effectively introduce foundation platform skills that will provide powerful tools for many aspects of training with your dogs. In 2010, Michele originated a detailed system for using raised platforms to train a variety of behaviors. After 9 years of experiences with hundreds of dogs, she has enhanced her methods of first introducing dogs to raised platforms. Learn how to best establish foundation platform skills with your dog and reap the benefits those skills will provide for many training scenarios.
Have a new puppy or dog you are training? Do you teach others how to train their dogs? This is the webinar for you!
Deb Jones, PhD - Developing Strong Focus: Beyond Eye Contact & Attention
Date: Thursday, September 12, 2019
Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 - Registration required PRIOR to scheduled presentation time.
People often think that they have trained their dogs to focus, when in reality they have trained their dogs to give eye contact in very specific and limited situations. This is not focus! We want so much more than that in building a strong working relationship with our dogs! Focus should be at the center of everything we do.
This webinar will address numerous ways to consider and apply the concept of focus in your training and day to day life. It will build on the basic ideas in the Get Focused and Focused Games classes. Some of the topic areas that I will discuss include:
- Understanding and recognizing the different types of focus (handler, task, internal, external)
- Starting puppies with focus friendly techniques from the very beginning
- Recognizing focus opportunities in day to day life
- Incorporating focus into training sessions
- Focus in public places and at trials
- Focus failure & what to do about it
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Nancy Tucker - Help Your Dog Overcome Fear with Desensitization and Counter-conditioning
Date: Thursday, September 19, 2019
Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 - Registration required PRIOR to scheduled presentation time.
Learn what these techniques are, and how to use them to address your dog’s fear of something. This webinar will also shed a light on these questions:
- How operant learning fits into the equation (Are we just changing feelings or are we changing behaviours too?)
- To click or not to click – Is using a marker necessary?
- Sequence of events and Timing– Learn how to make sure things happen in the proper order to be effective
- How long does it take to help a dog overcome his fear?
- How can I tell if it’s working?
This webinar is ideal for trainers and dog owners. The techniques discussed in this webinar are useful to address any fears ranging from the fear of the vacuum cleaner to being afraid of strangers, vet visits, nail trimming, and car rides.
Amy Cook, PhD - Raising a Well-Adjusted Dog
Date: Thursday, September 19, 2019
Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 - Registration required PRIOR to scheduled presentation time.
You’ve just gotten a puppy or adopted a new adult dog and you’ve made so many plans about how it’s going to go! You want to try all the activities, be able to take them everywhere, and to have everyone in the family get along seamlessly! But sometimes you get lost in how to create the dog you want, making sure you lay a good emotional and behavioral foundation that supports their mental health and growth.
Just what building blocks do you need to make sure your dog can be a well-adjusted pet? In this webinar we’ll take a high-level view of challenges like handling environmental overstimulation, navigating social situations to keep them healthy, how to provide structure and predictability they can lean on, and when to set limits. We’ll go over many of the challenges of raising a dog and give you a roadmap to think through preventing problems and meeting their needs.
What does a mentally healthy dog need? Come talk about it with me!
Michael Shikashio - Close Encounters of the Unwanted Kind
Date: Thursday, September 26, 2019
Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 - Registration required PRIOR to scheduled presentation time.
Join Michael Shikashio CDBC as he showcases a variety of defensive handling techniques for:
- What to do when off-leash dogs approach or attack your on-leash dog
- Handling a dog who has issues with people or other dogs in tight spaces such as city environments, apartment buildings, or vet’s offices
- Managing sudden moments when distance from people or other dogs cannot be controlled
So pull up your computer, popcorn, and leash and learn how to keep your dog and yourself safe!
Grisha Stewart - Intro to BAT 2.0 for Aggression, Fear, and Frustration
Date: Thursday, September 26, 2019
Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 - Registration required PRIOR to scheduled presentation time.
Does your dog bark, growl, even bite dogs or other people? Or are you a trainer considering adding BAT 2.0 to your toolbox? In this webinar, you will learn about the latest version of Behavior Adjustment Training, a technique to help dogs become more comfortable and less reactive.
This webinar will teach you enough about BAT to know whether you want to work with a local trainer using BAT with your dog. Also appropriate for professional trainers looking to get a detailed overview of BAT.
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