Out-of-Control Dogs
Part 2
Reforming Predatory Drive Issues
Professional Dog Training Education with Peggy Swager
Learn how to address challenging predatory and instinct-driven behaviors, including chasing livestock, attacking chickens, pursuing cats, and unwanted guarding, through proactive training and behavior modification.
Course Overview
Chasing issues, unwanted guarding aggression, killing of other animals are all a result of inbred drives in dogs. The solutions to this issue is not shock collars, punishment, or working to dominate the dog. The solution is to learn how to training these drives in the dog so the dog responds the way we want to those drives, instead of the dog following a primal urge.
This class offers training to solve unwanted drive responses by first understanding what is behind the dog’s drives, the different ways dog can respond to drives, and how professionals have found proactive ways to train drives. The course then talks about proactive training needed for poultry interactions, chasing livestock, and guarding drive that often results in unwanted aggression in dogs. For people who already have an issue with chasing, guarding, or dogs who have killed animals, training to solve these problem, along with case studies and video, are presented.
This class does not use adversive methods, dominance techniques, or shock collars. But instead goes to the root of the drive response and uses behavioral modification.
Prerequisites:
Taking Part 1 of this two part series is required. For those trainers, and for professional dog trainers who haven’t solved a lot of reactivity and aggression issues, it is highly recommended to take Training and Understanding the Reactive & Aggressive Dog in conjunction with this class will help them when working to solve the more difficult cases.
Although this course was created with the professional dog trainer in mind, I am opening it up to the general public to help more advanced dog owners who have some solid training skills find solutions to their unwanted, drive-imitated behavior. The student who will gain the greatest value from this course is the one who has good desensitization and counter-conditioning skills as well a diversity and understanding of the variables of training different dog breeds.
The class is loaded with many training examples, including examples of more challenging dogs to reform.
Required Texts/Manuals:
Reading the book: RESCUE YOUR DOG FROM FEAR: TRIED-AND-TRUE TECHNIQUES TO HELP YOUR DOG FEEL SECURE, prior to taking the class is required.
Webinar Length:
This webinar is 9 sessions. Each session may range from an hour to an hour and a half.
What you can expect to learn from this Course:
How drives impact out-of-control behaviors in dogs. The role of triggers, drive triggers, and instant triggers in drive behaviors. How two different professional trainers have learned how to proactively train specific drive behaviors for herding and guarding dogs for control. Proactive livestock and early poultry training are exampled. Case studies include more challenging reform for retraining drive dog behavior issues including killing of chickens and cats. Techniques learned in Part 1 are also illustrated in some case studies.
Outline of Section Content
- Trigger and Drives
- Professional Training Examples
- Techniques
- Strategies
- First Year = Extra Training
- Livestock Introduction
- Deer, Instant Triggers, and Drive Observations
- Poultry Training
- Cat Training
Cost: $252.00 USD
Instructor: Peggy Swager is a behaviorist with a BS in biology, a minor in education, and many college level psychology courses. One-on-one training from veterinarians working to secure injured animals for treatment. First animal behavior/training article in 1975. First dog article in 1997. Author of a double DWAA nominated – Rescue Your Dog from Fear, Award nominated DVD – Separation Anxiety, a Weekend Technique, Five Star Library Review – Training the Hard to Train, and presenter at APDT Conference in 2016.
Length of time to access this course: Access to this course will be allowed for 12 months.
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