Basic Dog Obedience

100% updated in 2018

Skill Level: Beginner

Length: 6 Modules

Access Period: Unlimited

Price: $65.00

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About

Basic Dog Obedience

with Ed Frawley

141 Videos

8 Hours

 

 An Overview of Basic Dog Obedience

What is our content? How is it organized?

 

This course has been 36 years in the making. While I produced my first VHS obedience video in 1982, I never stopped thinking about how I could make it better.

 

Over the years I redid it again and again, right up to this 2018 version. The fact is, I have continued to add material since the course was originally released.  A recent example was when I added the following line as the opening to my segment on "walking on a loose leash":

 

"The most important part of applying pressure is not knowing how much pressure to apply,

but rather knowing the exact moment to release the pressure."

 

In 1993, we saw the introduction of reward-based dog training (marker training). Since then, that system has been tweaked and improved to the point it is today. Marker training is simple but it is not easy. Explaining this training system to new (and even experienced) dog trainers is what this course is about. 

 

We are going to show how our training sessions look more like playing games with our dogs than the old formal training classes.  Unlike the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, today's goal is to build engagement so our dog looks forward to the next training session to continue their learning. 

 

In our course, you will learn a communication system that tells the dog to understand exactly when they are doing something correctly and exactly when they need to try again because they didn't quite get it right. Our system produces dogs that want to do what we ask rather than feeling forced to perform. 

 

This Basic Obedience course has 6 modules. Each module is divided into a number of segments. The course outline is:

 

Module 1    
  Segment 1 Ed Frawley's Resume 
  Segment 2 Our Terminology
  Segment 3 Understanding Management
  Segment 4  The Basics of House Breaking
  Segment 5 Becoming a Balanced Dog Trainer
  Segment 6 Why train with Food? How to fade using Food.
  Segment 7 How to split Exercises into Small Parts 
  Segment 8 Theory of Corrections
  Segment 9 Build Your Dog's Training Plan
  Segment 10 Training Equipment for the Course
     
Module 2    
  Segment 1 What is Reward based Training - Marker Training
  Segment 2 How to Deliver a Food Reward
  Segment 3 How to Start Training - Charge the Mark
  Segment 4 Why Engagement is So Important
  Segment 5 Putting Engagement on Cue
     
Module 3    
  Segment 1 Gestures / Lures / Adding the Command
  Segment 2 Training the Sit
  Segment 3 Train the Down
  Segment 4 Adding Duration to the Sit and Down
  Segment 5 What a Good Training Session Looks Like
  Segment 6 Why the Stay is also an intermediate Command
     
Module 4    
  Segment 1 Walk on a Loose Leash
  Segment 2 Training the Yuck or Leave-It 
     
Module 5    
  Segment 1 The Recall Is Your Most Important Command
  Segment 2 Rules of the Recall
  Segment 3 Restrained Recalls
  Segment 4 Food Toss Recall
  Segment 5 Long Line Recalls
  Segment 6 Hide and Seek Games Build Drive
     
Module 6    
  Segment 1 Our Intermediate Online Course
  Segment 2 Leerburg's Recommended Advanced DVD's 
  Segment 3 Dog Sports - Are They For You?
     

 

There are many advantages to utilizing an online course over watching a DVD. The course contains far more information than the time constraints of DVDs. It is also far easier for a student to review topics in a course than in a DVD. One only needs to try and review a specific topic in the middle of a DVD. Spending time going fast forward and rewinding takes so much time. Finding a topic in a well-laid out course takes seconds.

 

 

 

A Short History on Ed Frawley

& Leerburg

 

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 I was born in 1947 and have been training dogs seriously since I started high school. I have been producing and selling dog training video tapes since 1982. 

 

When I was young, I wanted to be a veterinarian. I worked for a vet during college and went to my first dog training Schutzhund (IGP/IPO) seminar in 1974. I decided I like training more than the thought of being a vet.

 

I have competed in AKC obedience and Schutzhund (IPG/IPO). I was an AKC sheep herding judge and a K9 handler on our Sheriff's department for 10 years. I also bred working bloodline German Shepherds for over 35 years.

 

When I started going to professional dog training seminars (back in 1974), I was blown away by the amount of good information that could be learned from reputable dog trainers. These were people who didn't have secrets, they were professionals who wanted to help people become better dog trainers.

 

That's when I decided these were the kind of people I wanted to learn from. As the years passed, I became addicted to learning as much as I could about dogs and training. I also decided that I enjoyed passing on good information to new trainers who were just starting out.

 

I was first introduced to the internet in October 1994 by a good family friend named Joe Brown. Joe was the chief information officer (CIO) for the University of Wisconsin - Stout. I can still remember that Saturday morning when Joe came to our house and insisted I come down to his office at the university. He had something to show me called " the Internet". 

At the time, I was a K-9 handler on our Sheriff's Department. Joe showed me how we could go into a library in Australia and read articles on training police service dogs. This blew my mind. I was instantly hooked. This was before Google, Yahoo, or Internet Explorer.

 

I went home and tried to find a college student that knew HTML computer code. The Internet was so new there were none at our university, so I bought books and taught myself. Within 4 months, I had my first little dog training website up. 

 

Once on the Internet, I started writing articles and expanding Leerburg.com. Today if we were to print Leerburg.com it would be over 20,000 pages.  Leerburg has between 12,000 and 30,000 unique visitors every day and over 1,200 training videos (most of which are free).  

 

I sincerely hope that I can justify your trust by sharing what I have learned. With luck you will learn from the many mistakes I have made in the past 50 years. 

 

- Ed Frawley

 

 

 

My Philosophy on Dog Training

 

8 min 28 sec

 

TARGET AUDIENCE

The course is designed for 3 types of people: new dog owners who have never trained a dog before, dog owners who have owned a dog but never taken formal lessons, and dog owners who have taken formal classes by unqualified instructors but are now frustrated with the results.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

None

Course Outline

Testimonials

"I thought this course was excellent. I am hoping for more to come. I don’t know what to tell you on how to improve but I can say videos are the easiest way for me to learn so I appreciated all of them. And I did practice on my dog after watching some of them. Thank you again I Loved the course and am hoping for more. Thank you very much for the opportunity to take this and to learn from your knowledge."

- Shantelle

"I have learned so much from your online classes! I thought I was going to prepare for a new puppy...wow was I in denial! I learned that my pack of little darlings were disrespectful , rude and out of control. Luckily the breeder I am working with to purchase an American Bulldog from understood I may have to wait until next year's breeding to get my pack under control. He felt the additional training would help us select a better match. Again, thank you to you and your wife. "

- Joy Hutsenpiller on 03/22/2016

"Phenomenal course, I run a dog sports (Agility, disc, scenting and obedience) club and I am now going to have every one of my instructors take this course. It was easy to understand and is BY FAR the most reliable course I've come across. "

- Monica Wall on 05/11/2017

FAQ

Training a dog and training a human are two different skill sets.

 

 The reason for this is simple. Dogs do not learn like humans learn. Dogs are visual learners. From the time they are puppies, they learn to read their owner's body language, even though they don't understand a word their owner is saying.

 

Just because a person can train a dog to do very complex behaviors does not mean that the same person can teach another human how to train a dog to do the same complex behaviors.

 

 This course allows new dog trainers the ability to learn from a professional dog trainer (Ed Frawley) who has spent his entire career (since 1982) teaching people how to train their dogs.  

 

The advantage of Ed's online course is it has 8 hours of video that is organized in a very logical order. You can review the outline below in the course description.

Students can move through the course at their own speed. If they want to quickly skim through the content they can, if they want to spend a week on each module they can, but they always have the option to come back and quickly review the course content. The structure of Leerburgs' online courses allows this.

 

This is one of the reasons Ed constantly tells potential students that the online course is far better than taking a local obedience course in which students come for a one hour class once a week. They listen to a lecture, work their dog for 10 minutes, go home and then can only remember about 40% of what the instructor said. 

 

 

What's the difference between this course, the DVD, and the stream?

 

DVD:  3 hours 5 minutes (physical copy)

Stream:  3 hours 5 minutes, lifetime access, stream from anywhere

Online Course:  141 videos (478 minutes), additional text content, lifetime access, stream from anywhere

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