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Julie Flanery - It's Okay to Play with your Food
Date: Thursday, August 6th
Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Do you have a dog that just isn’t that much into toys? Maybe you’ve tried the whole “tug with your dog!” approach and it’s just not working. Or maybe your dog becomes easily over-aroused with toys, and you find yourself managing arousal more than training skills. Are you using food as a reward but progress seems slow and mundane? Or do you hear yourself saying “My dog just isn’t all that food motivated”. In this presentation, Julie will share with you a variety of food games and activities that will not only provide ways to make your food reinforcers more valuable and effective but also add more focus, fun, and joy to your training relationship as well as in everyday activities outside of training!
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This webinar previously ran in the Power of Play Conference in July 2024. Please check your Course and Workshop Library to prevent a duplicate purchase.
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Ashley Escobar - Prepare to Perform: Customizing Warmups & Cool Downs for Explosive Dog Sports
Date: Thursday, August 6th
Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Your dog is an athlete. Every training session and every run asks them to accelerate, jump, turn, and decelerate at high speed ... but are they truly prepared for those demands? Designed specifically for explosive dog sports, this webinar combines canine biomechanics, conditioning, movement preparation, and body awareness to help you build simple warm-up and cool-down routines that take just minutes but can have a lasting impact on movement quality and performance. You'll learn practical exercises that require no special equipment and can be used before every training session or competition to prepare the body, and support recovery.
You'll learn: ✔ Intentional movement preparation for canine athletes ✔ Warm-up exercises that activate mobility, stability, and body awareness ✔ Simple cool-down routines that encourage recovery and relaxation ✔ Practical exercises you can start using immediately
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Deb Jones, PhD - 101 Things to do With a Chin Rest
Date: Thursday, August 13th
Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
There are so many skills we want to teach our dogs, but some are much more important than others. The chin rest is in my top 5, mainly because it is so versatile and such an important foundation for many other behaviors.
No matter what your dog sport or activity, the chin rest will be a useful tool. The chin rest helps us establish a tactile connection with our dogs. This can be very useful in chaotic dog sport settings as well as in real-life situations where we want our dogs to focus on us rather than something in the environment.
For obedience, a chin rest can be used to encourage a calm dumbbell hold. It can help steady your dog for training an obedience stand for exam. In Rally it can be used to assist training a back up or lateral move. In agility it can steady your dog for measuring and keep them focused as you go in and out of the ring. There are a huge number of tricks that use a chin rest such as putting your head down to 'take a nap', taking a selfie position (chin rest on your shoulder), and putting your head on a chair or table.
My personal favorites, of course, are all the cooperative care based uses. I use the chin rest for vet exams, for working on eyes & ears, to steady my dog for injections, to get stillness while brushing & doing tick checks, and to examine the mouth & teeth, just to name a few. A solid chin rest is invaluable to my care work with my dogs.
This webinar will lead you through the steps to train a basic chin rest and address all the variations. In addition to the single handed chin rest we have a double handed one, a muzzle wrap, a sandwich, and a rest on external objects. You'll be thankful over and over that you've trained a strong solid chin rest behavior. I use mine pretty much every single day, even if it's just to offer my open palm for my dog to come in for petting.
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Suzanne Clothier - If Aliens Abducted You, Would Your Dog Still Know How to Be Right?
Date: Thursday, August 13th
Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Every handler has said it, usually with some frustration: "I don't understand, he KNOWS this!"
The dog who heels beautifully in practice drifts wider and then wanders off partway through a trial. The sit that is instant at home needs a second ask in a busy store.
So does the dog actually know it, or have we mistaken a behavior that works under ideal conditions for a skill the dog genuinely owns?
This webinar takes that question seriously, starting from a thought experiment: if aliens abducted you mid-walk, would your dog still have what they need? Not because you cued them, not because you were managing the moment, but because the skill lives in the dog whether or not you are there to run the show. That is the difference between a behavior a dog can produce and a skill a dog can actually use.
Suzanne will walk you through a skill continuum, from Managed through Supported, Developing, Reliable, and Fluent, that lets you place any skill honestly and see exactly what is missing. We will look at why dogs fall apart when the system around a behavior changes, draw on the research into behavioral fluency, and work through how to build skills deliberately, in thin slices, so they hold up under stress, over time, and in unfamiliar places.
You will leave able to tell the difference between "done it before" and "knows it," with a fair, practical way to figure out what your dog needs to learn next.
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Shade Whitesel - Connection: How to Build Loose Leash walking
Date: Thursday, August 20th
Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Wouldn’t it be awesome to let your dog out of the crate at the sports venue, have them orientate directly to you with nary a glance around at the busy surroundings and walk perfectly with you to the ring entrance?
Wouldn’t it be awesome to snap the leash onto your dog, exit the front door and go for a nice neighborhood walk, saying hi to the neighbors, passing dogs, cats and bicycles, stopping for your dog to sniff every once in a while?
Instead, your arm and shoulder hurts from the constant pulling, the constant yanking, you keep a death grip on the leash 6 inches from the dog’s collar on the way to the ring, you are embarrassed to exit the driveway, let alone go for a walk around the neighborhood, and you are looking sideways at the prong collars in the pet store aisle every time you go in to buy dog food.
Want some strategies? Want some joint relief? Want the dog to act like they are following you, rather than you following them? I’m not a total miracle worker, but join me for this webinar and I’ll give you some skills to work on that will make walking much more enjoyable, whether that is from Pt A to B in the competition venue or outside in the real world.
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Michele Ellertson - Understanding Your Dog's Story of Odor
Date: Thursday, August 20th
Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
A successful search is about far more than recognizing a final alert. Long before your dog reaches source, they are continuously communicating and sharing information about odor movement, the environment, and the decisions they're making as they work through the problem.
This webinar explores the concept of handling through feel: the ability to interpret and respond to the subtle conversation happening throughout the search. Rather than focusing solely on the end behavior, we'll examine the countless moments that lead up to it. We'll look at changes in intensity, commitment, head carriage, speed, breathing, body position, and the small details that reveal how your dog is processing odor.
When we learn to recognize these conversations our handling changes. We move with intention, provide ideas where they're needed, stay neutral when it's not, and build searches that feel collaborative. The best handlers receive all the information and become better listeners which allows us to be better partners. This allows our dogs to solve increasingly complex odor problems with confidence while we provide the quiet support they need.
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