Building on the cleverest repertoire
Our Training Programs
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A 3 x 45 min session bundle packed with key skills for an awesome foundation to support a lifetime of successful learning on top of helping to manage undesirable behaviours you might be experiencing. These unique skills enable guardians to learn how to teach new behaviours and handle most any situation they encounter with confidence.
Total Training Packages
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This is the program for the little puppy that is starting right. Packed with foundation exercises and games to build on connection, confidence, impulse control, repertoire and alternatives for better communication, gaining manners will follow naturally.
Journey Outcome: Watch Me!, Hand Target, Sit, Down, Sit- Stay (foundation), Fetch it, Drop it, Leave it, Go to your mat, 4 on Floor, C/C to handling, Collar Grab, Come when Called, Emergency recall, Equipment fitting, Loose leash walking (foundation)
Trick’s gift bag- Spin, Sit pretty, shake, wave, play sleep (depending on the student)
Guardian Knowledge: Body language overview, Socialization guide, Housetraining Orientation, Puppy Troubleshooting.
As puppy students mature and get more outdoorsy this program can be followed by a tailored one for your pup kid focusing on deepening the previous learning, sharpening and building on skills and repertoire, puppy troubleshooting, leash skills and dog park etiquette.
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This program is to bring your teen dog back on track and help them across the bridge to adulthood. Navigating these months (not years phew!) can be full-on and challenging as the road to social and sexual maturity includes hormones cocktails, brain rewiring, attention shift and risk-taken drive, and it can be potentially bumping and overwhelming either for the guardian as well as for the dog. They sure need us to guide them as the guardian may benefit from some perspective to keep them safe and sound during this journey. This program aims to bring connection and focus tools and reignite the repertoire they need to cross the bridge with fun and safety.
Outcome Journey: Watch Me!, Hand Target, With Me, Sit, Down, Stay, Leave it, Tug, Drop it, Go to your mat (and relax), 4 on Floor, C/C to handling, Collar Grab, Come when Called, Emergency recall, Equipment Assessment and fitting, Loose leash walking, Mechanics skills to tackle reactivity while walking, Turn and go.
Tricks Gift Bag: Spin, Sit pretty, shake, wave, play sleep (depending on the student)
Guardian Knowledge: Body language overview, Leash skills, Leash Reactivity Troubleshooting, Impulse Control, Dog Park Etiquette
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This is an intensive approach to bring mechanics skills to life and build on alternatives around the triggers that may be overwhelming your dog. The goal here is to manage their perception and bring alternatives other than reacting in a way that is uncomfortable either for the dog, the human and everyone involved.
Journey Outcome: Get dog and handler moving situations pretty fluid binding Focus cues to Leash mechanic skills like Watch me, Hand target, Search, With me, Turn and Go; Reinforcing ignoring triggers, including other dogs.
Dogs and Bonds’ Total Training Package backbone, short and intense, is designed to achieve success in your journey outcome. It accommodates the pre-set programs and also allows to customise for specific training goals.
I'm a big day-training enthusiast. I enjoy taking the leash on my hands, training your dog, and delivering the behaviours ready for you to learn and maintain. This way, I can take your dog farther as I use my skills and time efficiently.
There is indeed no quick fix in behaviour, but we usually see quicker progression in behaviour change if the right time and rhythm are employed wisely.
A quick overview of how this package model runs: It kicks off with the initial consultation for assessment and setting the goals. Then, for 3 weeks, on the day-training sessions, I'll conveniently turn up, train your dog’s skills and progress them, wrapping up each week with a transfer session, when I teach you how to operate and maintain the new behaviours. For the guardian, learning maintenance skills is far easier than training from the ground up because the dog already knows his part and the clients are strongly motivated to protect the achievements they’re so delighted to see.
The package also includes 2 follow-up sessions scheduled to ensure long-term success and 4 small group field trip sessions to take the news skills to the road. On top of that, I’ll provide you with relevant guardian knowledge and email support.
What do you get in your Total Training Package:
Ready to experience a behaviour change? Take the first step, book an initial consultation, and we waive the consultation fee from the package when you decide to progress with it.
“A well-behaved pet? One that shows willingness and bright eyes to cooperate with the things that are important to you. The right and fun choice of repertoire brings it up ”— Alida Gerger
