Raising Your Puppy with Michael Ellis

with Michael Ellis

Skill Level: Beginner

Length: 11 Modules

Access Period: Unlimited

Price: $99.00

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Regardless of your ultimate training goals, everything must start with how we raise our puppies. How do we interact with them at a young age while they learn what is appropriate behavior? How do we teach our young dogs how to live in our home? How do we develop the drives needed to train in specific disciplines? In this course, world-renowned dog trainer, Michael Ellis, will teach you exactly how he does just that.

 

This course starts off with how to select and pick your next puppy. From there, we will dive straight into bringing your puppy home, management, and socialization. Michael covers everything including how to set up your home, how to prepare your puppy for veterinary visits, and how to successfully live with a working dog in your home. A common misconception in the dog training world is that working dogs cannot live in your home and still perform at the highest level. Michael will dispel that myth with personal experience and examples. You will also learn how to introduce the home to your dog and separate it from the rest of their formal training regimen.

 

Management and Socialization are probably the two most important aspects of puppy development. By implementing good management techniques, you will create a dog that understands what rules and expectations are expected to be followed. The socialization methods taught in this course are going to teach you how to develop a dog who is confident and able to work in any environment under distractions.

 

By understanding and identifying early developmental periods, you are going to be able to set your puppy up for success by preventing unwanted behavioral issues. This is all done by implementing proper management and socialization routines. However, first you must understand what to look for at specific times within your puppy’s critical developmental periods.

 

You will learn to begin using engagement techniques with your puppy at a very young age. This is going to allow you to develop an adult dog that wants to be with you and wants what you have. During our engagement work, we will begin the first step in our recall training process. This step is the restrained recall. This simple training exercise has countless benefits to our relationship with our dog and the quality of our formal recall later down the road. By the end of the course, Michael will also teach you the next several steps toward training a solid recall command.

 

In the second half of the course, Michael will cover how to begin training behaviors and develop necessary drives. Using operant and classical conditioning, you will learn the basic learning theory behind Michael’s entire training methodology. From there, you will learn how to apply that theory into a marker training system. Michael will teach how to shape 2 basic behaviors using luring. This work will transfer straight into Michael’s core course, The Power of Training Dogs with Food.

 

Developing play drive is an import part of our puppy’s development. When developed properly as a puppy, utilizing play as a reward with our adult dogs has huge benefits to the quality of our training. Not only our ability to use it as high value rewards, but also our ability to keep our dog’s attention through extremely difficult distractions. The play chapter in this DVD is extensive. You will learn food play techniques, toy play techniques, and restrained play techniques. You are also going to learn how each of these techniques play on each other to create a finished product of an adult dog who not only loves to play as a reward, but also understands the rules of play and how to play with their handler. You will learn how to transfer food games into tugging games, how to back chain retrieving behavior from tugging behavior, and how to use restraint to build drive and muscle memory.

 

 

Module 1   Bringing Your Puppy Home
     
  Segment 1 Equipment
  Segment 2 Preparing Your Home for Your New Puppy
  Segment 3 Dog Food vs Dog Treats
  Segment 4 Management
  Segment 5 Socialization
     
Module 2    Critical Development Periods
     
   Segment 1  Development Periods
     
Module 3   Handling Your Puppy
     
  Segment 1 Handling Drills
  Segment 2 Redirection
     
Module 4   Learning Theory
     
  Segment 1 Foundational Marker Training
  Segment 2 Engagement 
     
Module 5   Luring
     
  Segment 1 Teaching the Lure
     
Module 6   Behavior Creation
     
  Segment 1 Foot Targets
  Segment 2 Place Beds
     
Module 7   Play
     
  Segment 1 Food Play
  Segment 2 Toy Play
  Segment 3 Restrained Play
     
Module 8   Environmental Conditioning
     
  Segment 1 Conditioning Drills
     
Module 9   Recall Progression
     
  Segment 1 Restrained Recalls
  Segment 2 Distraction Free Recalls
  Segment 3 Call Aways
     
Module 10   Aversives with Puppies
     
  Segment 1 Aversives
     
Module 11   Where to go From Here
     
  Segment 1 Continue Your Education with Michael
  Segment 2 Equipment Used in this Course
     

TARGET AUDIENCE

New or up and coming puppy owners who are looking to lay a strong foundation with their puppies.

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DVD:  6 hours 55 minutes (physical copy)

Stream:  6 hours 55 minutes, lifetime access, stream from anywhere

Online Course:  76 videos, text content, lifetime access, stream from anywhere on any smart device

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