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UTILITY DUCK SEARCH

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Purpose: To help you prepare your hunting dog for the NAVHDA Utility Search for Duck component and to teach your dog to search for a wounded duck in water using his nose and expanding the search area to locate the duck.

Course Information: Welcome to the Utility Duck Search course designed to help you prepare your dog for the NAVHDA utilitiy duck search! I hope you find this a valuable learning experience. As we progress, we will explore a variety of issues and experiences related to training your hunting dog to be ready for the NAVHDA Search for Duck portion of the Utility and Utility Preparatory test. When testing in Utility (and hunting) it is always desirable that your dog, when sent (“fetch”), enter the water and go straight out in front of you, cross the water while looking and scenting, and search for the downed bird in the water, cover and possibly the shore once he reaches the other side. As always, this is only ONE method to train a hunting dog and there are many others that may work just as well.

Prerequisites: Fetch training completed.

What you can expect to learn from this course:

  • Understanding the NAVHDA Utility and Utility Prep Search for the Duck (Judge’s perspective)
  • Importance of dog fetching without something being “thrown”
  • Dog learns to search in water and cover in water
  • Dog learns expand his search in water and cover in water
  • Dog learns to cross water to search across the lake
  • Dog learns to enter water straight away and go out to search
  • Dog learns to track a duck in water
  • How to find a NAVHDA test and enter your dog in a NAVHDA Utility test.

Instructor: Cheryl Aguiar

Course Length: 6 one-hour sessions

Course Fee –

For Credit OnDemand: $70

 

Student Information:

Access to this course will expire in 2 months.

You must also read and agree to the E-Training for Dogs, Inc. Standard Terms and Conditions prior to taking a course: Click HERE to read these. You will be asked when you register if you have read them and will not be allowed to take the course if you do not agree to the terms.

NAVHDA Affiliation Disclaimer:
Please note that this course is not affiliated with nor endorsed by the North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association (NAVHDA).  To prevent any conflicts of interest in both the presentation of this material and the NAVHDA, the content has not been reviewed or approved by, nor does it represent the opinions or views of, NAVHDA International.

NATURAL ABILITY TRACKING

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Purpose: To teach you to train your dog to track wounded game in all conditions and to help you and your dog be prepared for the NAVHDA Natural Ability Tracking component.

Course Information: This course is for those that feel they and/or their dog need extra help learning to concentrate and cooperate on a track. As always, this is only ONE method to train and there are many others that may work just as well.

Prerequisites: 4 months to 16 months (actually any age, but must be under 16 months to be qualified to Prize in a NAVHDA Natural Ability test).

What you can expect to learn from this course:

  • Understanding NAVHDA Natural Ability Tracking
  • Laying a Track
  • Dog learns something is “out there.”
  • Dog learns to use nose and concentrate on track
  • Importance of wind
  • Importance of training in varying cover
  • Importance of training corners
  • Importance of training roads or paths
  • Dog learns the difference between “Track” and “Search”
  • How to find a test, enter and run your dog in a NAVHDA Natural Ability test.
  • The NAVHDA Natural Ability Tracking Training course focuses on scenting theories, training techniques, starting a dog on a track, laying a track, equipment used, types of fields to train in, expectations of judging a track in a NAVHDA NA test, and step-by-step instruction to get your dog ready for the Natural Ability test in NAVHDA and the hunting field.

Instructor: Cheryl Asmus

Course Length: 6 one-hour sessions

Course Fee –

For Credit OnDemand: $70

 

Student Information:

Access to this course will expire in 2 months.

You must also read and agree to the E-Training for Dogs, Inc. Standard Terms and Conditions prior to taking a course: Click HERE to read these. You will be asked when you register if you have read them and will not be allowed to take the course if you do not agree to the terms.

NAVHDA Affiliation Disclaimer:
Please note that this course is not affiliated with nor endorsed by the North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association (NAVHDA).  To prevent any conflicts of interest in both the presentation of this material and the NAVHDA, the content has not been reviewed or approved by, nor does it represent the opinions or views of, NAVHDA International.

HERDING DOGS – BUILDING THE FOUNDATION and BASIC SKILL BUILDING

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herding dog trainingHerding Dog Training – The Positive way!

Two Introductory Herding Dog Training Courses now combined:
Herding Dogs I-Building the Foundation
Herding Dogs II-Basic Skill Building

Purpose:
Herding I-To teach you the building blocks of raising your herding puppy or dog to be your willing partner before you introduce them to stock; and
Herding II-to solidly establish the basic herding dog training skills, calm stock handling and to develop a working partnership between you and your dog.

Course Infomation:
Herding I-This herding dog training course will focus on providing you and your dog with the necessary tools for becoming working partners. Raising your pup or dog to develop a strong and mutually respectful relationship with you will become the foundation for all your future training. This course teaches you to teach your dog basic life skills, which are necessary before you actually start your dog on stock. Herding breed dogs with their handlers who are interested in a positive method for learning and teaching their dogs shepherding skills, for fun, for competition or for farm chores will find this course fits their needs. You will learn and practice skills designed to shape your dog’s natural herding abilities while you also learn how to read stock.ny age may participate in this course. (This series of herding courses is not for ‘herd-tending’ breeds that guard and protect livestock.)
Herding II– This course will teach you how to begin working together with your dog to handle livestock. Your dog’s natural instincts for herding will be developed, while teaching your dog to look to you for guidance. You will learn the basic herding skills and how to teach them to your dog. You will be handling your dog on a long line, using clear communication, body language and a clicker or voice to affirm your dog’s successful attempts of the lesson at hand.

What you can expect to learn from these courses:

Herding I –

  • The role of genetics in training a herding dog
  • Establishing a working partnership with your dog
  • How to effectively communicate with your dog in a positive way
  • A brief, yet solid overview of the foundation life skills required for a shepherd’s partner and how to teach them
  • What you will need next to start your dog on sheep or ducks

Herding II-

  • Understand the interaction of dog and sheep, and their response to one another.
  • Learn the basic herding skills and verbal cues: what they mean and how to use them. (That’ll do, Stop, Stay, Flanks – Come Bye and Away to Me, Steady, Lift)
  • Teach your dog to look to you for leadership thru exercises off stock.
  • Learn how to teach your dog flanking basics off stock.
  • Understand and practice the principles of good handling.
  • Introduce your dog to stock and teach the basic skills using a long line.
  • Learn how to develop mindful, keen and workman-like behavior in your dog.
  • Nurture a strong partnership between you and your dog.

CEU Status:

Herding I and II
CCPDT-10 CPDT-KA CEU’s
IAABC-10 CEUs
ABCDT-L2 – 10 CEUs

Instructor: Kathy Kawalec

Course Length:
Herding I – Four one-hour sessions.
Herding II- Six one-hour sessions.

Course Fee (Includes Herding I and Herding II) – $160.00 USD

Student Information:

Access to this course will expire in 6 months.

You must also read and agree to the E-Training for Dogs, Inc. Standard Terms and Conditions prior to taking a course: Click HERE to read these. You will be asked when you register if you have read them and will not be allowed to take the course if you do not agree to the terms.

Athletic Performance Fitness Strategies: How to Condition an Athletic Performance Dog

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Conditioning the performance dogConditioning the Performance Dog

Purpose: Two-fold: (1) to recognize the unique needs of your performance dog as an elite athlete and develop a conditioning program which will lead to a long, productive career – not just a good run, and (2) to achieve the greater goal of providing your Performance dog with a more comfortable, energetic retirement.

Instructor: Racine Hyatt, CCFT CCM

Course Information: The emphasis is on conditioning the performance dog, for both competition and service dogs, and will focus on the many factors which may reduce the risk and/or severity of injuries for dogs dealing with the multi-stresses of working lives. This course focus is multi-faceted.  You will learn how to not only take your dog’s physical fitness to a new level, the Conditioning program will create variety {which is the key to maintaining mental sharpness for any working dog} and result in tapering {a technique which will keep the dog’s performance at its peak by avoiding undue stress and preventing staleness}.

Pre-requisites: There are two prerequisites for this course –

  1. Students must have completed the e-Training course in Canine Anatomy and Physiology or have successfully tested out from it (see details on the test out option on the Canine Anatomy and Physiology Course page)
  2. A student must have a minimum Intermediate level of achievement in dog sports, or 1 year previous work experience with a service/working/sport dog.

What a student can expect to learn from this course:

  • Structural evaluation of a dog as it relates to performance
  • Be able to identify areas of weakness and create a “Problem List”
  • Identify the five important physical attributes for the performance dog
  • The steps to develop a Conditioning program
  • How to evaluate structure in relation to Performance
  • Basic understanding of sport related injury, recovery and prevention
  • Intensity / Duration / Frequency: the importance of each & how to use them
  • Balance and proprioception: the keys to achieve optimal performance and enhanced wellness
  • Strength vs. Endurance – how to combine them successfully
  • Fitness Program development *templates provided
  • Skills that will enhance abilities to raise and train each dog better than the last
  • Students are required to turn in written and video homework.

For those of you looking to “taste” this course before registering for the comprehensive version the Instructor has created an Introductory one hour webinar.  Click here to view details on this the Introduction to Conditioning the Performance Dog webinar.

CEUs:
CCPDT – 12 CEUs
IAABC – 12 CEUs
ABCDT-L2 – 12 CEUs

Course Length: Eight (8) 90 minute sessions.
For Credit: Student must complete course within 4 months of registration.
For Audit: Access to the “For Audit” course will expire in 2 months.

Course Fee –

For Credit: $285 USD

For Audit: $100 USD

Student Information:

You must also read and agree to the E-Training for Dogs, Inc. Standard Terms and Conditions prior to taking a course: Click HERE to read these. You will be asked when you register if you have read them and will not be allowed to take the course if you do not agree to the terms.

Canine Fitness Program

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This 3-part program will provide the student with the information necessary to manage and supplement a dog’s over-all wellness from puppy to athlete to senior dog. Each course may be taken separately or as a combination. Each course is priced separately but if taken as an entire program (all three courses) there is a savings of $120 (See bottom of page).

Part I
All-Fit Dog-How to Improve Fitness for Over-all Wellness
Purpose:  This is the foundation course and this program will provide the student with the information and skills they need to manage a dog’s unique and ever changing fitness needs {from puppy hood, as a young adult and a Senior} in order to improve overall health, prevent illness & injury and enhance the dog’s ability to recover when crisis happens.

Course Information: The All-Fit Dog program uses a broad, general and inclusive fitness model to enhance overall elements of health using only functional movement exercises and activities as these are mechanically sound and safe for all dogs at all ages. The techniques which achieve optimal fitness in the elite canine athlete will enhance fitness in all dogs – the needs of each dog differ by degree not kind, so we scale exercise volume and intensity NOT requirements.

Pre-requisites: Canine Anatomy & Physiology is recommended
Required Text: DogWorks Fun-damental Exercise Workbook

What the student can expect to experience during this course:

  • Anatomy and the 10 Elements of Health
  • To identify the Essential Functional Attributes for dogs
  • Ability to discuss the consequences of health and well being when fundamental structural traits are weak
  • Gait assessment
  •  Exercisea to enhance Endurance, Strength, Flexibility and Body Awareness
  • An enlightened appreciation of fitness as a measure of health
  • Exercises for function & performance – not to isolate and build (specific) muscle
  • Structural evaluation as it relates to function and injury potential
  • Proprioception – the key to optimal fitness
  • Nutritional considerations – diet is the molecular foundation for fitness & health
  • All-Fit Puppies {recommendations to avoid early onset injuries before 18 months}
  • Vital Fit for Life Senior Dogs – The Keys to Slowing the Clock
  • Skills that will enhance the students’ ability to raise each dog better than the last…

For those of you looking to “taste” this course before registering for the comprehensive version the Instructor has created an Introductory one hour webinar.  Click here to view details on this the Introduction to All Fit Dog webinar.

Instructor: Racine Hyatt,  CCFt, CCM

Course Length: Eight (8) 90 minute sessions.
For Credit: Student must complete course within 4 months of registration.
For Audit: Access to the “For Audit” course will expire in 2 months.

Course Fee –

For Credit: $285.00

 For Audit: $100.00

 

Part II- All-Fit Puppy-How to Support Each Stage of a Puppy’s Development
Purpose: 8 lesson webinar where you learn how puppies grow, what their nutritional and exercise needs are to enhance body awareness, self-confidence and to support each stage of your puppy’s development.

Course Information: This course will focus on puppies from eight weeks up to eighteen months of age. We begin with structural evaluation of your dog as it relates to function – in other words we are evaluating for purpose, not for fancy. This will reveal your puppy’s areas of weakness (i.e. straight shoulders, high neck set, no dewclaws, cow-hocked, sloping croup, etc). Each session will be dedicated to a different region of the dog as we discuss the different stages of development, including growth plate closure and use this information to guide us as we develop a more conscious approach to puppy development instead of destruction.

Prerequisites: None
Required Text: DogWorks Fun-damental Exercise Workbook

What a student can expect to learn from this course:

  • Enlightened appreciation of the puppy
  • How to evaluate structure in relation to function & potential injury
  • Understanding of basic how activity impacts the body
  • Importance of maintaining balance/proprioception during growth spurts to achieve optimal wellness
  • Skills that will enhance abilities to raise and train each dog better than the last

For those of you looking to “taste” this course before registering for the comprehensive version the Instructor has created an Introductory one hour webinar.  Click here to view details on this the “How to Build the Perfect Puppy: Quick – Puppies UN-Puzzled” (60 minute webinar) webinar.

Instructor: Racine Hyatt,  CCFt

Course Length: Eight (8) 90 minute sessions.
For Credit: Student must complete course within 4 months of registration.
For Audit: Access to the “For Audit” course will expire in 2 months.

Course Fee – 

For Credit: $285.00


For Audit: $90.00
 

Part III-Athletic Performance Fitness Strategies: How to Condition an Athletic Performance Dog

Purpose: Two-fold: (1) to recognize the unique needs of your performance dog as an elite athlete and develop a conditioning program which will lead to a long, productive career – not just a good run, and (2) to achieve the greater goal of providing your Performance dog with a more comfortable, energetic retirement.

Course Information: The emphasis is on competition and service dogs, and will focus on the many factors which may reduce the risk and/or severity of injuries for dogs dealing with the multi-stresses of working lives. This course focus is multi-faceted.  You will learn how to not only take your dog’s physical fitness to a new level, the Conditioning program will create variety {which is the key to maintaining mental sharpness for any working dog} and result in tapering {a technique which will keep the dog’s performance at its peak by avoiding undue stress and preventing staleness}.

Pre-requisites: There are two prerequisites for this course –

  1. Students must have completed the e-Training course in Canine Anatomy and Physiology or have successfully tested out from it (see details on the test out option on the Canine Anatomy and Physiology Course page)
  2. A student must have a minimum Intermediate level of achievement in dog sports, or 1 year previous work experience with a service/working/sport dog.
  3. Required Text: DogWorks Fun-damental Exercise Workbook

What a student can expect to learn from this course:

  • Structural evaluation of a dog as it relates to performance
  • Be able to identify areas of weakness and create a “Problem List”
  • Identify the five important physical attributes for the performance dog
  • The steps to develop a Conditioning program
  • How to evaluate structure in relation to Performance
  • Basic understanding of sport related injury, recovery and prevention
  • Intensity / Duration / Frequency: the importance of each & how to use them
  • Balance and proprioception: the keys to achieve optimal performance and enhanced wellness
  • Strength vs. Endurance – how to combine them successfully
  • Fitness Program development *templates provided
  • Skills that will enhance abilities to raise and train each dog better than the last

For those of you looking to “taste” this course before registering for the comprehensive version the Instructor has created an Introductory one hour webinar.  Click here to view details on this the Introduction to Conditioning the Performance Dog webinar.

CEU Status:

This course approved for 12 CEU’s from the IAABC.
This course approved for 0 CBCC-KA, 12 CPDT-KA CEU’s from the CCPDT.

Instructor: Racine Hyatt,  CCFt

Course Length: Eight (8) 90 minute sessions.
For Credit: Student must complete course within 4 months of registration.
For Audit: Access to the “For Audit” course will expire in 2 months.

Course Fee –

For Credit: $285.00


Audit: $100

Canine Fitness Certificate
Purchase all Parts 1-3 -Credit only (savings of $120): $720.00 

Required Text: DogWorks Fun-damental Exercise Workbook

Student Information:

You must also read and agree to the E-Training for Dogs, Inc. Standard Terms and Conditions prior to taking a course: Click HERE to read these. You will be asked when you register if you have read them and will not be allowed to take the course if you do not agree to the terms.

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