And so I ended up with this little dog who was just wanting to do things all the time, so I struggled with her being able to settle to switch off.

WaggaWuffins is family run and provides the highest standards of professional service when it comes to training your pet dog. So really the webinar is looking into the difference between a working dog ready for action, doing waiting but ready for action, and a dog relaxing, because a lot of the working dogs struggle with the relaxation aspect in life. As I got into dog training, it drove me into being very aware and making the effort that the teaching people, understanding how to communicate and support and help people, is so important if you want to get your dog training method across to people. Obviously, trying to work with his behavior problems really sparked my interest just in dog behavior and dog training, and it went from there.with Jane Arden's incredible wealth of knowledge and expertise its like Jane Arden is there with you talking and guiding you through every word, step and excersie. So I left that lesson and never went back — not really, I suppose, because of the training, but just because I had an unpleasant experience. And also looking a little bit into shaping behavior, capturing and rewarding so the dog has options, because again, especially with a young dog, you can't just go, "Hey, relax," and they can just change their neurochemistry and fall asleep.

But you can get a good idea of … if you take a Spaniel into an environment, the environment is going to trigger probably scent-type behavior patterns, where the dog's head is going to be down on the ground, where if you have a herding breed, for example, they're going to be visually scanning the environment. Please note: APBC and SPEAKERS CANNOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY TECHNICAL FAILING IN THE RESULTING RECORDING. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Jane has lectured for COAPE, the internationally course provider for animal behaviourists, delivering their Level 5 OfQual practical modules.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I didn't realise how many self control exercises there were between the exercises I generally did and the first stages. What we do with these dogs, certainly what I do with my working dogs, is I'm developing cognitive skills, and that takes time. The exercises or games in the book are designed to not get your dog over excited but to enable calm learning.