Dog Training Video

DVD Contents

Here is what is included in this dog training course:

• Introduction
• How to use this method
• Frequently asked question
• Who are the dogs in this video?

This important first piece tells the new student how to use this method and has Frequently Asked Questions to view before starting the lessons. We also introduce you to all 20 dogs used in this DVD!

Week # 1

• Control Position
• Your dog’s name
• Attention exercises (short sample provided at Sample Video page)
• Sit
• Heel Position
• Down
• Relax (full exercise demonstration provided at Sample Video page)
• More about treats in dog training
• Is your dog allowed on the furniture?

We cover control position (getting control of your dog so he is not pulling you). We also teach you how to get your dog’s attention by teaching him to respond better to his name. We then teach you how to get his attention! so you can teach him to sit, lie down and Relax .   We also teach you about “luring” with the “heel” exercise. Our extra focus topics for Week #1 teach you a little more about using food in training and discuss the controversial topic of whether your dog should be allowed on the furniture.

Week # 2

• Introduction to Week #2
• Leave-it (short sample provided on Sample Video page)
• Stay
• Walk without Pulling
• Controlled Greetings
• Walking your dog and the tools that help make that happen
• Your relationship with your dog

After re-introducing you to what exercises you learned the previous week, we begin to get into the “control” aspects of dog training like teaching “stay” and “leave-it”. We show you how to start teaching your dog not to pull on leash and how to keep him from jumping on people. We also discuss humane dog training tools that help IMMEDIATELY with a dog that pulls on a leash. Also, what can you do to improve your relationship between you and your dog?

Week # 3

• Introduction to Week #3
• Fading the lure with the sit
• Fading the lure with the down
• Reinforcing the stay position (short sample provided on Sample Video page)
• Beefing up the leave-it command
• Recall: Getting your dog to come when called!
• Learning more about the down-stay exercise

We teach you how to start fading the use of food to lure behaviors and how to get your dog to stay through distractions. We work more on the Leave-it command and we talk about how to get your dog to come when called EVERY TIME you call him. There is also a feature showing you how to work through a “down-stay” exercise effectively. This exercise is shown with a three and a half month old puppy! 

Week # 4

• Introduction to Week #4
• Walking all the way around your dog in the stay position
• Using toys as a distraction to the stay position
• Stay and recall exercises combined
• Advancing the leave-it command
• Being Pro-active in your dog training

Teaching the Stay and the Leave-it are only effective if you keep proofing the skill. We show you how to make distractions tougher, but how to keep working through them with your dog so he will “stay” no matter what! We also put some of the exercises together to further proof their reliability with your dog.

Week # 5

• Introduction to Week #5
• Advanced attention exercises
• Instant down
• Go to your bed
• Final Discussion

In this last week of dog training, you and your dog have gotten a lot of training practice together. We then teach you how to advance those attention exercises with your dog, how to teach your dog to “go to his bed” when told, and we also teach you how get your dog to lie down using a verbal command only. By this time your dog will have had a lot of training and so you are just raising the criteria on some of the commands he has learned in previous weeks.