| People often
ask what exactly we do during home lessons.
Hopefully, this page will help you to have a clear understanding about
what you can expect.
We
want potential clients to know exactly what we do and what they can expect from
our business and dog training program.
THE FIRST LESSON (2 to 3
hours)
PROBLEM SOLVING
- All non-obedience problems such as jumping up, digging, chewing, chasing
cats, barking and housetraining are addresed. Most non-obedience dog problems
can be controlled in the first lesson. It doesn't take weeks or months to
control most problems.
DOG PSYCHOLOGY - We explain not just that the dog's
owner needs to be the leader, but we explain exactly how to do that, and how to
understand a dog's behavior from a dog's perspective. We get the people to change their behavior to influence their
dog.
Unlike most
behaviorists, we disagree that there is going to be much problem solving
without obedience. If the dog won't "Down" and "Stay" it is not submissive; if
the dog will not walk behind you "Heel" it is not subordinate.
Academics is important, but either you have
your dog under control and it responds to you or it
doesn't.
COMMANDS - We
generally teach the following commmands during the first lesson. We make sure
that the dog does the commands for the people, make sure the people know how to
make the dog better, and practice while we are at the house. Then we come back
in a few weeks and show you more new things to work on.
Special issues
facing multiple-animal households are addressed.
Sit
Sit is excelent for picture day but
not much else. It is like a sprinter position for dogs because the often
"Sit" first before chasing squirrels because they can push off with their back
legs. However sitting is critical because if the dog will not sit or goes limp
and will not stay seated up it indicate a defiance problem which need to be
addressed.
Down
"Down" is the doggie tranquilizer. It is the command that gets
dogs to be calm and under control and allows for long "Stays." If your dog will
not go down for you, it is not submitting to you.
Well-adjusted, happy and content to obey.
Blackie the Cat and her 7 dogs on "Down-Stay."
Heel
"Heel" is when you walk and the dog's front paws are
behind your feet. Heel is for walking from Point A to Point B. There is no
marking, sniffing or checking things out on Heel. When you get to where you
want your dog to sniff then you would switch to "loose-leash walking" where the
dog is in front of you but not pulling on the
leash.
Most dog trainers pass off "loose-leash walking" as
"Heel." If the dog won't walk with its feet behind your's, it is not going
subordinate. Also, if you want your dog to follow you off-leash, then you must
get the dog on "Heel."
"Heel" is a subordinate state of mind while walking
or greeting people or animals. If your dog is in front of you and won't get
back behind you you are not your dog's leader. We will show you how to stay in
front even if people come to your door or you run into loose dogs on a
walk.
Henry and Leo the Bernese Mountain Dogs heeling
off-leash for Carla.
The dogs everyone dreams of
owning.
Perimeter Training
Perimeter training is
where you teach the dog not to cross a line unless you release the dog to do
so. Perimeter training is not "Stay." It is 'do-not-cross
the-line-ever-unless-I-say-so.' It is the same if you do not want your dog to
run out the front door, side gate, jump in the car, jump out of the car, or
cross your property line. Once your dog knows this command, you could take him
camping and make a circle with a rope and have an instant yard where the dog
will not cross the line unless released.
THE 2nd LESSON (About 2
hours)
Stay
We almost always get dogs to
"Stay"" 20 minutes to an hour the same day as the second lesson for the
owners--even with people throwing tennis balls, ringing the door bell and with
kids screaming and running back and forth.
What you get when you hire a
dog trainer is someone to teach you techniques and to teach YOU to be a dog
trainer. What we teach is effective, gets results right away, and works in
real-life. These are all actual pictures of clients and dogs taken during their
second lesson with us.
Working At A Distance
Whether you are doing
Sit, Down, Stay or Come on a rope, it is a mind game and the dog forgets that
the rope is on and they just learn that even if the people are far away the dog
must obey commands the owner gives.
Come-When-Called
With most dog trainers
all bets are off if the dog is not on a leash. How can you say that the dog is
trained or that you are a dog trainer if the dog will not listen or "Come" if
there is no leash?
There
is no time to run back in the house and get the treats before your dog's head
gets run over by a car. Your dog needs to come to you because you say
so--this is what we teach and what makes us different than most other dog
trainers. Our primary training method is Dog Psychology™.
THE 3rd LESSON (1 to 3
hours)
By the third lesson
most dogs are walking Off-Leash and will "Stay" from far away and run back to
the owners when released.
We have these things
called "Jealously Guarded Secrets" which we sell and that we don't want our
competitors to know about so we cannot show you everything we do on this web
page.
The pictures below are
typical third lesson dogs and owners.
Sadie the Rottweiler
"Heeling" without a leash on the third lesson.
Sadie on "Stay" at
100 yards during her third lesson.
Stand-Stay
"Stand-Stay"
is what you want if you want to totally impress your friends and family
members. Most dog trainers have no idea how to teach this and can't even get
their own dogs to do this command. We usually teach this command during the
third lesson.
THE 4th LESSON (1 to 3
hours)
Usually on the fourth
lesson we talk about how bad the dog was and how good he or she is now. Often
we do intensive distraction proofing and or discuss what it will take to follow
through.
If handling the dog
with other dogs present is still a challenge, we deal with real-life
distraction proofing. We get awesome results with even the most stubborn,
aggressive and dominant dogs. What we do is really simple and it works great
too.
We are proud of what
we do and the results we get with clients.
We are confident that when you
consider our program and meet us that you won't want other dog
trainers.
 You probably don't need to send your dog
away or spend thousands on dog training. Call us and be much, much
happier.
Let us show you how to have the
dog you always dreamed of.
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