Webinar Presentations
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Webinars will run approximately 1-2 hours including presentation and questions.
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Irith Bloom - Strangers Keep Out!
Date: Thursday, October 22nd
Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Having strangers in the home can be hard for some dogs. Maybe they pace, whine, bark, and generally make a nuisance of themselves until the “stranger” is gone. Or maybe they just hide. Either way, it’s stressful and embarrassing! Do you worry that Aunt Maureen will get bitten and you’ll never hear the end of it? Do you get judgy looks from friends whose dogs love all visitors? Have you given up on ever being able to hire a pet sitter? In this presentation, Irith Bloom will take you through strategies for helping dogs cope better with visitors. She’ll share creative options for helping your dog make friends, go over a variety of management options, and introduce training routines you can practice with helpful friends and neighbors. Ready to get your social life back? Join Irith at this webinar!
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Crystal Wing - Play is a Behavior: Understanding and Leveraging Your Dog's Natural Instincts
Date: Thursday, October 22nd
Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Discover how to make play sessions more engaging and enjoyable for your dog by understanding their natural instincts! Join me for an insightful hour of video demonstrations and discussion where I delve into the predatory motor pattern and how selective breeding influences your dog's play behavior.
In this session, you will learn:
- The components of the predatory motor pattern and how they manifest in different breeds.
- Techniques to identify your dog's play preferences and tailor activities to their natural inclinations.
- How to use a variety of toys, including a toy hierarchy and flirt poles, to maximize engagement and enjoyment.
- Step-by-step methods to teach grip development for dogs that bite handles or are unsure how to interact with toys.
- Practical strategies to integrate play into your training routines, enhancing both fun and learning for your dog.
Whether you're a dog trainer, enthusiast, or owner, I will provide you with knowledge and tools to make play a vital part of your dog's life. Learn how to create meaningful play experiences that cater to your dog's unique personality and instincts.
Don't miss out on this opportunity to enhance your approach to play and strengthen the bond with your dog.
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Shade Whitesel - Plan A to Plan B to Plan C: What to do when High Arousal Happens
Date: Thursday, October 29th
Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Bark bark, whine, whine, stalky sticky prey freezing. Did you have any of those behaviors when you trained last? What about when you went to a new place? Or trialed? I mean, my puppy comes out of the crate screaming in anticipation about all the fun things he gets!
I don’t know about you, but I look at other dogs heeling happily around without vocalization with envy! I’ve got German Shepherds and that means heeling without sounds coming out of lips is a thing of beauty. Something all we GSD owners strive for and rarely attain. That means that on my 8th GSD, I am basically an EXPERT on high arousal.
In this presentation, we’ll go through what high arousal looks like and what behaviors are attached to that label. Then we’ll cover some steps on how to help your dog come back to their brain, how to get less vocalization and stalky prey behaviors and what to do about it!
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This previously ran during the ZZ008 High Drive Dogs Conference in July 2023. Please check your Course and Workshop Library to prevent a duplicate purchase.
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Erin Lynes - Energizing Elders With Enrichment
Date: Thursday, October 29th
Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Enrichment is defined as: "Meeting all of an animal's needs as closely as possible to how they would be met in the wild, in order to empower them to engage in species-typical behaviors in healthy and appropriate ways."
But what exactly are typical behaviors in aging dogs? And how do we adapt to suit their changing needs? This may be especially important to consider for dogs who are nearing or entering retirement from dog sports or other more boisterous activities. How do you keep them moving, happy and engaged if one of their favorite ways to exercise or train is no longer a good option?
You've probably heard about or tried puzzle feeding, or food dispensing toys already. These are some of the most easy and popular enrichment methods to help your dog's eating become more species-appropriate, as well as providing some interesting cognitive challenges (mental stimulation) as well! But food puzzles and toys are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to enrichment. It's not ALL about food! Physical enrichment, sensory enrichment, agency- these all improve our dog's natural expression of behaviors. We can also improve our dog's quality of life with some adaptations to their environment and care- and these adaptations often improve their interest and curiosity, or willingness to engage or exercise- and so they count as enrichment too.
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This previously ran during the ZZ014 - Loving and Living With Senior Dogs Conference in Sept 2024. Please check your Course and Workshop Library to prevent a duplicate purchase.
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Irith Bloom - There Goes the Neighborhood! Addressing Fence Fighting
Date: Thursday, November 5th
Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
You’re having a pleasant walk when a dog behind a fence starts barking… and then all heck breaks loose (where “heck” equals “your dog barking back as if their life depended on it”). Fence fighting – meaning two dogs barking at each other with a barrier between them – is loud, embarrassing (for us), and annoying (to us and our neighbors). Worse yet, fence fighting isn’t always limited to fences. It can happen on either side of an ex-pen indoors, when one dog is in a crate at a trial, and even at your front window!
If you would like to see less fence fighting, you’ve come to the right place! In this webinar, Irith will provide management and training tips to help reduce fence fighting. She’ll talk about strategies you can use at home, as well as techniques that work well on the road. Wherever the fence fighting is happening, this webinar will give you solutions you can start using right away… and the neighbors may even thank you!
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Karen Deeds - Dopamine Dive: Using Box Feeding for Behavior and Beyond
Date: Thursday, November 5th
Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that influences pleasure, motivation, attention, mood and learning. It is part of the brain’s reward system that motivates an individual to seek out pleasurable experiences repeatedly.
We can use increased dopamine levels in our dogs to help with the counter conditioning process in a variety of environments and situations. Dopamine can influence emotional balance and help to reduce stress and anxiety.
So, how can we easily create more dopamine in the dog’s brain? EATING!
When we put eating into a structured process, we can harness the influence of dopamine to help your dog make a positive association to novel environments and situations. The “dopamine box” or box feeding is popular in the bite sport community and is used to build confidence, desensitize to sounds, develop duration as a concept, for scent work, tracking, and to develop working under pressure.
As with many concepts coming from the competition world, I find this is another one that has applications in the behavior world as well.
For starters, box feeding can create a visual cue that carries a positive conditioned emotional response. Not only is there classical counter conditioning going on, but it can also move into the operant realm and be used to create a ‘start button’ to empower the dog by giving them agency to start the process of desensitization and counter conditioning.
By modifying the box to accommodate for visual awareness, we can use this concept for various types of fear and reactivity issues, including environment, dog, people, and handling, not just for sound sensitivities! Different levels of commitment to the box will allow us to use it for counter conditioning all the way to use as an incompatible behavior to replace unwanted behavior in specific situations.
This process can be used to help dogs acclimate to a novel environment, to curb their enthusiasm for over greeting people or jumping on them, for creating a positive emotional response to the presence of people or dogs they may be worried about or reactive towards and can be a tool to help with a variety of other situations. It can also be used for arousal modulation between situations or training that create over-arousal such as sport activities, over threshold moments, or a fearful event.
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