Webinars

Webinar Presentations

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Webinars will run approximately 1-2 hours including presentation and questions.

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Deb Jones, PhD - Shaping Bold Nosework Dogs: The Foundation

Date: Thursday, September 24, 2020

Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).

Fee: $19.95 - Registration required PRIOR to scheduled presentation time.

When you are developing and nurturing a dog for performance events, there is so much more than simply teaching the required skills. You dog may be a nose work rockstar when all conditions are perfect; but struggle with environmental sensitivities and challenges.

Join Deb for the first part of this webinar double-header addressing ways to increase your nosework dog’s comfort levels and confidence in new and challenging environments. Deb Jones and Stacy Barnett are teaming up for a new class to provide you with a comprehensive approach to building and nurturing boldness in your dog during searches. These webinars are a sneak peek at their ideas and approaches.

In the foundation webinar Deb will discuss and demonstrate how you can use shaping to help your concerned or hesitant dog become relaxed and confident in a variety of new environments. Deb will also discuss “reading” your dog so that you can make the best decisions about when to push forward and when to make things easier. This will include considering ways to set up familiar settings so that they can offer more challenge without being overwhelming.

Your training is not complete until you have evaluated and addressed your dog’s comfort and confidence in the environment. Join Deb and Stacy to learn more about this process!

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Stacy Barnett - Shaping Bold Nosework Dogs: The Application

Date: Thursday, September 24, 2020

Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).

Fee: $19.95 - Registration required PRIOR to scheduled presentation time.

Some bold nosework dogs are born and some are made! This is the second part of a double-header webinar designed to develop your dog into that nosework rockstar that he can be.

Stacy Barnett and Deb Jones are teaming up for a class that will provide you with a comprehensive approach to building and nurturing boldness in your dog during searches. This webinar event will give you a taste of the approach and help you to sample and try out what it means to build your dog up. Earlier in the day, Deb will be presenting some approaches that will prepare your dog by working on developing supportive behaviors.

In this webinar, Stacy will cover elements that you need to know to put your new shiny behaviors into practice during a search. Stacy will present a framework to start easy and build your dog in a way that your dog’s motivation shines through.

HOW you apply these skills can be the key to success. Stacy will discuss the flow of (1) establishing comfort and positive feelings, (2) adding odor in a simple context, (3) upping the ante without upping it too much, and (4) build desire. We will take an example and watch how we can put this into practice!

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Shade Whitesel - Are You Ready to Work?

Date: Thursday, October 1, 2020

Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).

Fee: $19.95 - Registration required PRIOR to scheduled presentation time.

You’ve worked hard! On line classes, in person classes, you and your dog LOVE to learn things. It’s fun and Fido has a wagging tail and bright eyes looking only at you. In the house. In your front yard. And you start thinking trialing thoughts so you can show off your brilliant dog and fun training.

Off “home base”, it’s a different story! You find yourself shoving the treat under your dog’s nose, making kissy noises, calling, begging, (maybe even shouting and perhaps that leash gets tight every once in a while-different webinar!) All those distracting smells, those interesting people, those fascinating dogs! How are you going to be able to practice your dog’s skills in the local park, let alone do a run through of the skills at a trial with no treats, a judge looming over you and trial nerves?

Well, I can’t help about the looming judge, and the sequencing behaviors without reinforcement is another webinar entirely, but what helps to calm my trial nerves down is having a dog that is ready to work, looking me in the eyes with the absolute same focus that I see at home.

Come join me in this webinar as I go over some protocols/rituals that I teach my dog. This allows me to ask the questions in any location/environment.

Can you hear your words? Can you offer focus? Do you know what “sport/event” we are doing?

Dog too excited, stressing up? Sniffing, stressing down? Got you covered.

See you soon!

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Ellen Lindell, VMD, DACVB - All in the family: Interdog aggression inside the home

Date: Thursday, October 1, 2020

Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).

Fee: $19.95 - Registration required PRIOR to scheduled presentation time.

Let’s face it—many of us have more than one dog. We enjoy our dogs so much, yet they don’t always enjoy each other. Just witnessing a physical altercation between dogs can be traumatic. Why does this happen? Do the dogs simply dislike each other? Or is there more to it than that?

Accurate assessment is not always easy but it is essential. This webinar will teach you tips that will help you evaluate the relationship between your own dogs. Once the reason for conflict is clear, a personalized treatment and management plan can be designed.

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Julie Flanery - For the Love of Heeling: 5 Simple Changes to Make Heeling Fun for Your Dog

Date: Thursday, October 8, 2020

Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).

Fee: $19.95 - Registration required PRIOR to scheduled presentation time.

Have you ever seen those dogs that seem to love heelwork? Wish you had one? You can! By implementing these 5 simple strategies you can increase your dog’s enthusiasm, confidence and yes! Love of heeling! Learn how to implement changes in your heelwork training that will have your dog begging for more!

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Leslie McDevitt - Silence is Golden

Date: Thursday, October 8, 2020

Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).

Fee: $19.95 - Registration required PRIOR to scheduled presentation time.

Have you had it with your dogs barking .....when they want stuff? When they have FOMO in class or a trial? When they see something exciting? When they just feel Extra? Leslie will give you a simple program to help your dog get calm and quiet.

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