Canine sports foundations

Sometimes when you have a puppy and you want to share a sport with him, you wonder what you could teach him until his growth is complete and you can start learning the sport itself.

This course is for all those who plan to start a dog sport without age limit ! Whether you have a puppy or an adult dog, this course will cover different skills useful in many canine sports.

The goal is for you to be able to evolve peacefully in the dog sport environment and start your sport journey with certain basics that will make it easier once the dog is old enough to learn the sport of your choice specific skills.

Among other things, we will discuss :

•  The development of the relationship,
•  The management of wait periods and rests,
•  Transport modes (outside or on the field),
•  Engagement,
•  Play,
•  Reinforcement patterns useful in dog sports,
•  Target and focus training
•  Implementing choice during training sessions…

So many skills that will be useful to you and your companion during your sport adventures.

Everything you need to start off on the right paw!

Lessons:

• Week 1 21 Dec 2024
  • Introduction

    Read this before proceeding to the first lesson!…

  • Introduction

    This class is a little different from the usual sport puppy classes. You won’t find a long list of…

  • Training with a marker

    In this class we will teach a certain number of behaviors to our dogs. For some of them we will…

  • Phases and canine sports environment

    In order to prepare our dogs as well as possible for the environment they will be confronted with, we must…

  • Rituals

    We saw in the previous lesson that the daily life of a sporting dog will include several phases.   For…

  • Leisure

    The leisure phase will generally take the form of a stroll. You move around with your dog, he walks, explores…

  • Different type of immobility

    When we move with our dogs in a dog sport environment, there are several types of immobility. The rest, where…

  • The importance of rest

    Rest is an important phase for the well-being of the dog. During this phase the dog can relax his muscles…

  • Engagement and acclimatization

    Engagement is, beyond the common word, a training process widely developed and diffused by Denise Fenzi, talented trainer in dog…

  • Personal play

    “Personal play” is playing with your dog without food or toys. Just with your body, your hands, your voice, your…

• Week 2 21 Dec 2024
  • Traveling with your dog

    If you are involved in a dog sport, you will need to travel with your dog, even if it is…

  • Let’s talk about toys !

    Playing with toys is a subject that comes up extremely often in dog sports. Having a dog who finds…

  • Engagement 2

    This week we are going to explore engagement through play with toys. The principle is the same: after an acclimatization…

  • Transport mode during training

    When we train our dogs there are times when we will have to move around the training area to position…

• Week 3 21 Dec 2024
  • Exit strategy

      In this lesson we will talk about a concept that is close to my heart: that of the exit…

  • Active waiting

    ACTIVE WAITING Now that we have taught our dog to go to the station, we will now teach him…

  • Management of resting time and waiting time

    The management of rest times, as we talked about during the first week, will be very important so that the…

  • Play with food

    Playing with food can have interesting benefits. For dogs who don’t have a “prey drive” motivation, playing with food can…

  • Engagement 3

    This week we are going to explore engagement through play with food. The principle is the same : after an…

• Week 4 21 Dec 2024
  • Out of sight

    As we have seen previously, there is a good chance that you will at one time or another be out…

  • Transport 2

    So we worked on the cookie magnet as the first type of transport in training. There are other modes of…

  • Grabbing the harness with consent

    Being able to hold your dog to the harness can be useful in dog sports.   – It can be…

  • Forward focus

    Forward focus is a good exercise that helps develop focus on the task the dog has to accomplish as well…

  • Learning and playing

    Through play we have the possibility to teach the dog a certain number of skills such as object retrieval, dropping…

• Week 5 21 Dec 2024
  • Being still and preparing for action

    n the different types of immobility, there is the immobility that prepares for action. A representative image would be the…

  • Engagement 4 : “Push”

    Over the past few weeks you have been testing different ways to play with your dog and work on their…

  • Forward focus and target

    After having worked the focus forward on the bowl or the toy we now want to teach the dog to…

• Week 6 21 Dec 2024
  • Shopping

    Shopping is a reinforcement pattern where we will mark and then fetch the reinforcer with the dog, which will be…

  • Useful tricks

    Teaching your dog tricks can be useful on many levels.   The dog learns to learn and the more he…

  • Distractions and proofing

    Now that we’ve made the target interesting, we’ll reintroduce the bowl as a distraction.   The dog will therefore have…

  • Canine sports…like if it was for real

    Once our dog has mastered the different activity phases of canine sports (rest/leisure/engagement and work/active waiting) we can put these…

  • Outro

    Farewell and Keep Moving Forward! Mega Cheers and…

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