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Creating Amazing Puppies through Life Skills and Movement!
Do You ...
Not know where to start with your puppy?
Wish you could ask a professional questions about training?
Want to teach your puppy how to learn and use their body, improve confidence, and create a strong bond?
Whatever your sport, starting as a team improves your success rate!
Learn activities and training exercises that set your puppy up for success. The Self Guided Puppy Potential course aims to build a strong bond between you and your puppy to help your puppy gain confidence.
Why take this Self Guided course?
This Self Guided course will prepare your puppy for all the extraordinary things that we ask of our dogs. By teaching your pup about their body, about being touched, about offering well trained behavior when it is cued, you will be teaching your pup a language and way to use their body that lasts a life time.
What's Included?
SELF-PACED COURSE
As soon as you sign up, you have access to all the lessons.
This way, you can pick and choose which exercises to work on.
Start Date
Class will begin right after you enroll. This class is always open so some students will be ahead of you and some will be behind you.
Format
Each class is broken into lessons, with one or more exercises within each lesson - access to material for as long as BLCC exists
The school reserves the right to modify, update or remove this class at any time.
Advantages of the Self Guided Online Course
✔ Convenience of online learning
✔ More time to learn the material than traditional in person class format
✔ Work at your own pace in the convenience of your own home
✔ Access to material for as long as BLCC exists
What level are the exercises?
This course will have beginner to puppy level exercises. This Self Guided course will focus specifically on everything puppy, foundation behaviors, movement, surface training, cooperative care, and more!
Suggested Pre-requisites
A basic understanding of clicker training and target training is helpful but not required.
Possible Equipment –
a varitey of things will be used, but you can likely substitute with things you already have around your house. Equipment suggustions will be made and you are invited to substitute for what you have available.
FitPaws equipment can be purchased HERE. Klimb is offering a discount as well. Information to get the discount will be available upon enrolling.
▸ Platforms
▸ 2x4s
▸Variety of surfaces
▸Variety of balance equipment
▸Step 360
▸And More!
Training Methods -
A variety of training methods can be used to obtain the proper movement, position, or posture - shaping, luring, capturing, targeting and molding. These will be discussed and demonstrated in the video tutorials and through video review but every tiny step will not be demonstrated.
Disclaimer: Some information in this class may overlap or appear in other classes due to the foundation needed for many behaviors, tricks and fitness exercises. In addition, there are overlapping skills needed for many different performance activities so you may see exercises that are the same but packaged up differently toward a slightly different goal.
Bobbie Lyons, CSCC, CCFT, KPA CTP
Lead Instructor and Program Director - Certified Canine Strength and Conditioning Coach Program
Certified Canine Fitness Trainer
Karen Pryor Academy Faculty
Bobbie owns and operates Pawsitive Performance LLC which offers dog training, fitness training, and trick training around the globe. Bobbie is the lead instructor and program director for the Certified Canine Strength and Conditioning Coach program that is offered through North Carolina State University and North Carolina State University Veterinary Medicine. She was also a part of the TEAM that contributed knowledge and experience to design the CCFT II Live Lab and was a course instructor for the program. Bobbie completed the certification program for Canine Fitness through the Companion Animal Sciences Institute and she is a Certified Training Partner with Karen Pryor Academy.
Bobbie has 4 awesome dogs that train a variety of skills for agility, fitness training, trick training, tugging, and dock diving. Bobbie enjoys the training process and strives to communicate in the best way she can to help her dogs and clients dogs understand the task at hand. She starts every training session with this question "how can I set the dog up for success and give the dog the best information to successfully complete the behavior".
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