Concepts are defined by a set of common attributes that characterise that concept which can be applied to novel situations or objects to recognise that specific concept in the future.
Examples of concepts that we can teach our dogs include:
There are frameworks and methods to systematically teach each of these concepts to our learners. However, we first want to have the foundations in place to then make it easy to layer the discriminative aspects on top for each concept in the future.
The foundation required is primarily mechanical and communicative – the animal must be able to station, observe and clearly indicate an item cued by the handler in the presence of multiple choices. The handler must also be aware of their own movements including their base position, consistently setting up the choices, explicitly cueing an indication and clicking/marking and rewarding when the dog correctly responds to that cue.
This course will provide the required instruction and guide the handler to teach their dog each of these foundational mechanical components before teaching concepts work. Successful completion of the course will enable each team to then progress to further courses on teaching specific concepts to their dog.
Goals of this course:
Please watch the demo video to determine if you already have the skills covered in this course. If you wish to film a short snippet of you and your dog demonstrating the sequence shown and email it to me, I am happy to guide you on whether or not the course would help you further.
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Excellent course. I went on to take the Concepts course and found that the foundations set here made the transition to that course a smooth progression.
I appreciated that there was a real focus on figuring out what would work best for you and your dog rather than offering a cookie cutter approach.
Highly recommend.
this course will stretch your imagination and that of your animal. Vidhya will acompany you through this journey with calm, patient, detailled and thoughtful responses and will give you any help you need to make progress and let you and your learner be successfull.
Keep in mind that you might need to rummage through your collection of odd bits and pieces, though :-)
Such a fascinating subject and this course primed us perfectly to await the next stage in the game. The pace was just right, very clear instructions and videos and such detailed feedback...I loved the process and so did Pie...she got positively dizzy when the spotty mat came out ? Thanks so much to our brilliant trainer Vidhyalakshmi, such a calm,kind, patient girl ❤️