Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

  • 2

    What's all the barking about?

  • 3

    Demanding Dogs: Are we meeting their needs?

    • Are dogs being TOO demanding?

    • Exercise 1.0: Getting Active - What Works for You?

    • Exercise 2.0: Making Time⁠—Fitting Exercise into our Busy Schedule

    • Enrichment 1.0: Giving Your Dog's Brain a Workout

    • Enrichment 2.0: What else can I do?
  • 4

    A New Way to Ask: Teach your dog to finesse you

    • Say please

    • Say please 2.0: Habits and behaviours

    • Say please 3.0: Get specific

    • Say please 4.0: Hand target
  • 5

    Penalty Box: for dogs who bork overly much

    • Penalty box: The one hockey analogy I actually use

    • What is "the Penalty Box" and how should I use them?

    • Caveats to the Penalty Box
  • 6

    Do This Instead: Train a quieter behaviour

    • Training a different thing altogether

    • Training a Sit, Part One

    • Training a Sit, Part Two

    • Training a Down: Part One

    • (Optional) Tunnel Down

    • Training a Down: Part Two

    • Training a Stay: Part One

    • Training a Stay: Part Two

    • Training a Stay: Part Three

    • Getting your STAYCATION on
  • 7

    Thank-you!

    • Congratulations and resources