Control Unleashed Reactive To Relaxed

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I bought it to learn thoroughly about LAT technique that has been mentioned in so many reactive dog topics, but in addition, have learned much more. Haven't finished reading yet, but implementing what I have learned, we almost manage passing other dogs without barking. As with the previous books it does suffer very slightly from the descriptions of procedures being (despite the author's best intentions) a bit opaque and hard to be sure you're following correctly. Leslie has served in many capacities (including president and obedience training director ) at Y2K9’s Dog Sports Club.

The new concepts and techniques will support you in teaching your dog life skills and coping skills so that he is comfortable in the world, building relationships, empowering your dog, and creating a two-way system of communication between you and your dog. McDevitt gives step-by-step instructions on how to teach these, which include doggie zen, leave it, the whiplash turn, targeting, and going to place. We are also starting our classes completely differently now with "passive attention" time and I feel that my dog is stepping into his class with being more concentrated and attentive. She explains in detail how to use parallel racing, giving advice on working with motion-triggered dogs and training a reactive dog to watch other dogs in motion. I also wish it would get going faster, there's lots of talk about the author's ideas being great and working well but you keep thinking yes, where are the ideas.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. We are slowly working ourselves through the CU program and I hope that the exercises will continue to help (me and) my dog to be able to cope with the world around him. She specializes in creating operant counterconditioning procedures to empower working, performance, and pet dogs to feel safe and comfortable so they can function confidently in stressful environments. She then talks us through the first CU exercises, which involve letting your dog off lead in a confined area and gauging his response. His answer helps you adjust your training plan or change the environment until you get a different answer.

that after achieving 10 titles, reading a thousand training books, dvds, training under a myriad of trainers etc. So, finding this program helped me see how to help my reactive dog and owner read, communicate, and bond better, so trust could surface. I love this book so much, it's changing how I relate to my dogs and I think it's going to overall improve their wellbeing so much. McDevitt also shows us parallel games, which gives the dog a task to focus on while working near other dogs. Rather than being bound to a world where people are taught to think of training as nothing more than cue-and-response, the Control Unleashed® program boldly takes us even further into the realm of conversational training—a style of interaction where both the handler and dog can cue each other to perform a behavior and give feedback, and where the dog takes the driver's seat and directs his counterconditioning process.In this classic book, Dog Behaviour Consultant Leslie McDevitt provides us with a programme to help ‘dogs with issues’ learn how to relax, focus and work reliability off lead in a distracting, stimulating or stressful environment. Not all dogs learn the same way and learning different options of communicating will help strengthen the bond and focus between you and your dog. With all the baggage my dog has got - I love him dearly for who he is and the exercises are just starting to make his life a lot easier then before. She uses many of the principles professional dog trainers are all familiar with in CU: Learning to read your dog’s signs of stress; Conditioning a relaxation response so the dog can think; Working with dogs prior to reaching a threshold of arousal; Finding the point at which each dog can work and learn; Reframing the picture so the dog sees what has been anxiety provoking as safe; and Using the Premack Principle to create attention and focus on the owner.

Thankfully there is a book that walks both instructors and dog owners through creative, positive, science-based methods for transforming dogs in an anxious, excitable state into one that is calm and in which they are able to focus and learn. Many of us inwardly cringe on that first night of class when a reactive dog comes through the door barking, lunging and displaying other behavior indicative of a dog that is out of control. Whether you’re training a challenging dog on your own, an instructor trying to figure out how to help dogs in your classes, or an instructor who wants to design a special program just for stressed out dogs, this book is for you. In her third book, Control Unleashed: Reactive to Relaxed , Leslie McDevitt discusses her exciting new additions to the Control Unleashed® training program, as well as new perspectives and revisions of the foundation behaviors and core games. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Letting the dog make choices and actively participate not only gives the dog control over his own learning, but it also establishes trust and fosters a spirit of communication. This book will show you how to ask your dog yes/no questions rather than give commands; for example, you will ask the dog if the conditions he is in will help or hinder his ability to learn the most functional way to behave for that circumstance. So, definitely a must-have for any aficionados of the CU systm (and I really think everyone would benefit from these books, to one degree or another).