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Crucial Concepts in Dog Behavior & Training
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Crucial Concepts in Dog Behavior & Training

Learn cutting edge and common sense concepts that make dog training incredibly easy and effective
Created byIan Dunbar
Last updated 5/2017
English

What you'll learn

  • Train a dog to motivated and reliable when off-leash, distracted, and/or at a distance, all without the continued need for any training aid.
  • Understand the five reward-based training techniques.
  • Reduce and eventually eliminate reliance upon training tools like leashes, collars, halters, harnesses and especially food as a lure and reward.
  • Motivate your dog using life rewards, interactive games and other behaviors and activities that your dog enjoys.
  • Quantify your dogs learning and use differential reinforcement to increase speed and precision.
  • Correct misbehavior using non-aversive punishments such as: Specific Redirection (SR), the DogCon system and Repetitive Reinstruction until Compliance & Repeat for immediate response following a single command (RRC&R).
  • Empower secondary reinforcers (e.g. kibble) with huge amounts of value.
  • Use Differential Classical Conditioning (DCC) to train dogs to enjoy the presence of specific stimuli without inadvertently reinforcing reactivity.
  • Use the Jolly Routine to eliminate dog reactivity and aggression.
  • Use the most powerful tool in dog training: your voice!

Course content

2 sections28 lectures5h 36m total length
  • Introduction15:23
  • Video 213:04
  • Video 311:58
  • Video 413:06
  • Video 513:48
  • Video 612:41
  • Video 718:40
  • Video 815:39
  • Video 913:24
  • Video 1014:00
  • Video 1111:48
  • Video 1214:04
  • Video 1310:10
  • Video 1413:38
  • Video 1511:40
  • Video 1614:19
  • Video 1714:03
  • Video 1812:58
  • Video 1916:23
  • Video 2012:30
  • Video 2115:49
  • Video 2213:07
  • Video 2315:55
  • Video 2415:19
  • Lecture Notes2:23
  • Congratulations on Completing this Course0:23

Requirements

  • It's helpful to have a dog that you can train using the concepts presented in this seminar.

Description

This online seminar consists of six hours of video lecture by renowned animal behaviorist and dog trainer, Dr. Ian Dunbar. It has been approved for 6 continued education credits by the IAABC & NADOI (CCPDT credits have been applied for).

This course contains a collection of concepts that range from common sense to cutting edge. The one thing they have in common is that they are all crucial for developing a solid understanding of dog training and behavior. This course is perfect for anyone that wants to understand how to raise a well-trained companion dog, or anyone that is interested in learning more about how to better train their current dog.

Much of the seminar deals with motivating your dog by making training into an enjoyable activity that functions as it's own reward, thereby eliminating the continued reliance on training tools and food lures.

Of course, dogs don't always do what we want, so much of this seminar also focuses on how to correct misbehavior. By redirecting our dogs to appropriate behaviors we not only stop them from misbehaving, we also ensure that they are doing the right thing, all without pain or fear.

Almost every dog will, at some point, develop a phobia or reactivity problem so it's also crucial that dog owners and trainers understand how to quickly and easily address these issues. Differential Classical Conditioning, the Jolly Routine and the use of Secondary Reinforcers can quickly resolve these problems.

Finally, Dr. Dunbar will explain an idea that should be common sense, but is becoming increasingly cutting edge in today's world of overly clinical and mechanical dog training. He will show you how to turn your voice into the most powerful tool in dog training.

Who this course is for:

  • This course is ideal for anyone interested in how dogs learn and how best to train them. It is well suited for dog owners, dog trainers and other dog professionals.