Foundation of Laser Directionals for Building Searches

In this course, we will train the dog to go to the laser dot and start searching for a human target.

We start the training in a state of low arousal to avoid getting issues with the dogs making sounds or acquiring other non-desirable behaviors. 

4 min 43 sec.

In this course, the dog does not have to learn new behaviors.

It has to learn to apply already learned behaviors in new contexts. The course format is a progression plan showing the steps/subgoals you should achieve and in which order to achieve them and does not give detailed instructions on how to reach the subgoals.

Exactly how to reach the subgoals will more effectively be determined by you who knows how the dog has been trained previously. Many of the steps/subgoals in this course are big enough for you to have to use "successive approximation" in order to have control over what the dog is learning.

Focus for all training sessions should be on what the dog learns, not testing what the dog knows.

4 min 19 sec.