Webinar Presentations
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Webinars will run approximately 1-2 hours including presentation and questions.
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Shade Whitesel - Problem Solving Advanced Toy Skills
Date: Thursday, July 30th
Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Still having challenges with creating toy play skills as reinforcement for sport skills? I’ve got you! In this webinar I go over common issues that I’m not able to cover in detail in the regular 6 week toy class, along with a couple advanced skills that are from my advanced toy class that I no longer offer. Check to see if any of these topics intrigue you:
- Chase game-striking cleanly
- Tugging- regripping on toys, clothes
- Tugging-biting you instead of toy
- Feet on the toy during tugging
- Dropping toy early and far away
- Toy on ground challenges, like picking up all the toys!
- Difficulty dropping/outing/delivering toy to hand
- Challenges switching toys in tugging and chase game
- Shaping behaviors within the toy game
- Exciting.Thing.Over.There.
- Breed specific behaviors within the toy game
- Teaching Take a break I’m super excited to problem solve with 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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Irith Bloom - I'm Afraid I Don't Know How to Help! Addressing Fearful Behavior
Date: Thursday, July 30th
Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Do you have a fraidy cat, dog, horse, parrot, or other animal in your life? It can be heartbreaking, frustrating, annoying, and even embarrassing to deal with fearful behavior. Whether the animal in your life only acts fearful in limited situations or seems to find the whole world threatening, sometimes it’s hard to know where to start and what to do. Join Irith Bloom to learn how to reduce fearful behavior, including…
• Why fearful behavior happens
• When fear is OK (and when it’s not)
• Tools and techniques for addressing fearful behavior in the moment
• Interventions that improve the animal’s ability to deal with strange and scary situations
The ultimate goal? A more confident, resilient animal who has the cognitive flexibility to deal with whatever the world throws at them.
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This previously run webinar is being updated and re-recorded.
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Julie Flanery - It's Okay to Play with your Food
Date: Thursday, August 6th
Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Do you have a dog that just isn’t that much into toys? Maybe you’ve tried the whole “tug with your dog!” approach and it’s just not working. Or maybe your dog becomes easily over-aroused with toys, and you find yourself managing arousal more than training skills. Are you using food as a reward but progress seems slow and mundane? Or do you hear yourself saying “My dog just isn’t all that food motivated”. In this presentation, Julie will share with you a variety of food games and activities that will not only provide ways to make your food reinforcers more valuable and effective but also add more focus, fun, and joy to your training relationship as well as in everyday activities outside of training!
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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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Ashley Escobar - Prepare to Perform: Customizing Warmups & Cool Downs for Explosive Dog Sports
Date: Thursday, August 6th
Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Your dog is an athlete. Every training session and every run asks them to accelerate, jump, turn, and decelerate at high speed ... but are they truly prepared for those demands? Designed specifically for explosive dog sports, this webinar combines canine biomechanics, conditioning, movement preparation, and body awareness to help you build simple warm-up and cool-down routines that take just minutes but can have a lasting impact on movement quality and performance. You'll learn practical exercises that require no special equipment and can be used before every training session or competition to prepare the body, and support recovery.
You'll learn: ✔ Intentional movement preparation for canine athletes ✔ Warm-up exercises that activate mobility, stability, and body awareness ✔ Simple cool-down routines that encourage recovery and relaxation ✔ Practical exercises you can start using immediately
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Deb Jones, PhD - 101 Things to do With a Chin Rest
Date: Thursday, August 13th
Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
There are so many skills we want to teach our dogs, but some are much more important than others. The chin rest is in my top 5, mainly because it is so versatile and such an important foundation for many other behaviors.
No matter what your dog sport or activity, the chin rest will be a useful tool. The chin rest helps us establish a tactile connection with our dogs. This can be very useful in chaotic dog sport settings as well as in real-life situations where we want our dogs to focus on us rather than something in the environment.
For obedience, a chin rest can be used to encourage a calm dumbbell hold. It can help steady your dog for training an obedience stand for exam. In Rally it can be used to assist training a back up or lateral move. In agility it can steady your dog for measuring and keep them focused as you go in and out of the ring. There are a huge number of tricks that use a chin rest such as putting your head down to 'take a nap', taking a selfie position (chin rest on your shoulder), and putting your head on a chair or table.
My personal favorites, of course, are all the cooperative care based uses. I use the chin rest for vet exams, for working on eyes & ears, to steady my dog for injections, to get stillness while brushing & doing tick checks, and to examine the mouth & teeth, just to name a few. A solid chin rest is invaluable to my care work with my dogs.
This webinar will lead you through the steps to train a basic chin rest and address all the variations. In addition to the single handed chin rest we have a double handed one, a muzzle wrap, a sandwich, and a rest on external objects. You'll be thankful over and over that you've trained a strong solid chin rest behavior. I use mine pretty much every single day, even if it's just to offer my open palm for my dog to come in for petting.
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Suzanne Clothier - If Aliens Abducted You, Would Your Dog Still Know How to Be Right?
Date: Thursday, August 13th
Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Every handler has said it, usually with some frustration: "I don't understand, he KNOWS this!"
The dog who heels beautifully in practice drifts wider and then wanders off partway through a trial. The sit that is instant at home needs a second ask in a busy store.
So does the dog actually know it, or have we mistaken a behavior that works under ideal conditions for a skill the dog genuinely owns?
This webinar takes that question seriously, starting from a thought experiment: if aliens abducted you mid-walk, would your dog still have what they need? Not because you cued them, not because you were managing the moment, but because the skill lives in the dog whether or not you are there to run the show. That is the difference between a behavior a dog can produce and a skill a dog can actually use.
Suzanne will walk you through a skill continuum, from Managed through Supported, Developing, Reliable, and Fluent, that lets you place any skill honestly and see exactly what is missing. We will look at why dogs fall apart when the system around a behavior changes, draw on the research into behavioral fluency, and work through how to build skills deliberately, in thin slices, so they hold up under stress, over time, and in unfamiliar places.
You will leave able to tell the difference between "done it before" and "knows it," with a fair, practical way to figure out what your dog needs to learn next.
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