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Irith Bloom - There Goes the Neighborhood! Addressing Fence Fighting
Date: Thursday, November 5th
Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
You let your dogs out the back door just to hear rage-barking moments later. Fence fighting – meaning two dogs barking at each other with a barrier between them – is loud, embarrassing (for us), and annoying (to us and our neighbors). Worse yet, fence fighting isn’t always limited to fences. It can happen on either side of an ex-pen indoors, when one dog is in a crate at a trial, in the middle of a walk, and even at your front window!
If you would like to see less fence fighting, you’ve come to the right place! In this webinar, Irith will provide management and training tips to help reduce fence fighting. She’ll talk about strategies you can use at home, as well as techniques that work well on the road. Wherever the fence fighting is happening, this webinar will give you solutions you can start using right away… and the neighbors may even thank you!
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Karen Deeds - Dopamine Dive: Using Box Feeding for Behavior and Beyond
Date: Thursday, November 5th
Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that influences pleasure, motivation, attention, mood and learning. It is part of the brain’s reward system that motivates an individual to seek out pleasurable experiences repeatedly.
We can use increased dopamine levels in our dogs to help with the counter conditioning process in a variety of environments and situations. Dopamine can influence emotional balance and help to reduce stress and anxiety.
So, how can we easily create more dopamine in the dog’s brain? EATING!
When we put eating into a structured process, we can harness the influence of dopamine to help your dog make a positive association to novel environments and situations. The “dopamine box” or box feeding is popular in the bite sport community and is used to build confidence, desensitize to sounds, develop duration as a concept, for scent work, tracking, and to develop working under pressure.
As with many concepts coming from the competition world, I find this is another one that has applications in the behavior world as well.
For starters, box feeding can create a visual cue that carries a positive conditioned emotional response. Not only is there classical counter conditioning going on, but it can also move into the operant realm and be used to create a ‘start button’ to empower the dog by giving them agency to start the process of desensitization and counter conditioning.
By modifying the box to accommodate for visual awareness, we can use this concept for various types of fear and reactivity issues, including environment, dog, people, and handling, not just for sound sensitivities! Different levels of commitment to the box will allow us to use it for counter conditioning all the way to use as an incompatible behavior to replace unwanted behavior in specific situations.
This process can be used to help dogs acclimate to a novel environment, to curb their enthusiasm for over greeting people or jumping on them, for creating a positive emotional response to the presence of people or dogs they may be worried about or reactive towards and can be a tool to help with a variety of other situations. It can also be used for arousal modulation between situations or training that create over-arousal such as sport activities, over threshold moments, or a fearful event.
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Christina Young - Building A Learner: 5 Priorities for Performance Puppies
Date: Thursday, November 12th
Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Whether your puppy is destined for sport, adventure, or simply life as your best friend, early learning matters.
Regardless of your goals, before the tricks, titles, and skills, there are a handful of foundations that can make everything else easier and more fun.
In this webinar, Ill share my five priorities that can help shape a puppy who is thoughtful, resilient, engaged, knows how to regulate arousal, and is ready to learn.
If you have a puppy now, are planning for a puppy soon, or are simply curious about the foundations that matter most, this webinar will give you a lots to think about!
The goal isn't just to raise a dog who can perform—it's to raise a dog who we love to train and love to living with.
Follow along with my puppy, Runa, and the priorities I'm focusing on as she develops into a future Search and Rescue and sport dog, and my all around best friend.
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Ashley Escobar and Jennifer Henion - THE REGULATED RETRIEVER
Date: Thursday, November 12th
Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
A practical webinar for building focus, control, and thoughtful movement from the truck to the line.
A successful retrieve starts long before your dog gets to the line.
For many retrievers, excitement begins the moment the truck door opens and continues to build through the walk to the holding blinds, the wait, and the approach to the line. By the time it's time to mark, that excitement can make it difficult for the dog to think, listen, and work as a team with the handler.
The Regulated Retriever looks at how we can train the entire process, not just the behavior we see at the line.
During this one-hour webinar, we'll work through the retriever's journey from getting out of the vehicle, moving toward the working area, progressing through holding blinds, approaching the line, marking and being sent for the retrieve.
You'll learn how to recognize when your dog is beginning to lose regulation, how to use predictable routines and pattern games to help your dog stay organized, and how to build transitions that don't continually add more excitement.
We'll also take regulation beyond traditional training exercises by incorporating purposeful fitness and movement.
You'll see how slow cavaletti work, controlled weight shifts, backing exercises, and deliberate movement can encourage body awareness and thoughtful movement without simply trying to tire your dog out.
Most importantly, we'll show you where these exercises fit into actual retriever training from the truck and first holding blind all the way to final preparation for the line.
The goal isn't to take the drive out of your retriever.
It's to help your dog arrive at the line ready to mark, ready to think, and ready to work.
From the vehicle. Through the blinds. To the line. Retrieve. Recover. Repeat.
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There will be no Webinars on Thursday, November 19th. FDSA Annual Webinar Event info coming soon!
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