How We Manage Dogs in Our Home by Ed Frawley

A Road Map to Success

Skill Level: Beginner

Length: 8 Modules

Access Period: Unlimited

Price: $10.00 $7.50

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About

How to Live With or Manage Your Dogs

with Ed Frawley

69 Videos

3 hours, 41 minutes

 

We've set the price for this online course at just $10.00, significantly lower than its usual value. Our motivation for this pricing strategy is to introduce more people to the extensive benefits of Leerburg's online dog training courses. We believe that once people are exposed to the wealth of information we offer, they'll appreciate its value. Between us, Cindy and I bring over a century of expertise to the table. At 76 years old, I've been creating dog training videos since 1982. Meanwhile, Cindy has nearly 40 years of experience in various roles, including being a Vet Tech, a dog groomer, and a nationally recognized competitive dog trainer in Schutzhund (IGP).

 

Unfortunately, too many really nice dogs are given up to shelters every day because the owners simply didn't know how to manage and live with their dogs. 

 

Learning to live with dogs is a lifelong process. I was born in 1947 and have never stopped living and learning how to interact with our house dogs.  The most important thing I have learned is that managing dogs and obedience training dogs are two distinctly different skills.

 

The reason we chose to produce this course was because of the many emails we get concerning behavioral problems. Most problems are a result of the mistakes made in how people choose to live with their dogs.

 

The average person buying or adopting a dog thinks that taking the dog to a 6 or 8 week obedience class is going to teach that dog to be a calm, friendly, submissive member of their family.  Unfortunately, that is just not the case. Dogs that go to obedience classes leave those classes with the same behavioral problems they had when they started. 

 

In this course you will learn how Cindy and I bring totally untrained dogs into our home and through proper management, our new dog learns how we expect them to live with us.   We don't need to do this through corrections or compulsion, we simply control their freedom and teach them that freedom is earned.

 

At this time we live with 4 house dogs: chihuahua, a Border Terrier, German Shepherd, and a Shih Tzu. One of these dogs (the chihuahua) has never been off leash and our German Shepherd is always managed when in our home when the littles are loose.

 

We have a very safe happy household. 

 

 If you have a new dog or a dog with behavioral problems, you are going to benefit from the information we share. Do not get me wrong, this is not the only training you will need for your dog, but it will get you started on the right foot and it's never too late to restart. 

 

You have more to learn than your dog. Most people simply don't know what they don't know.

 

We will teach you how to get and maintain control of your dog (or dogs) when inside your home (outside is a different scenario). We will also show you ways to further your education.

 

Students walk away from this course with a road map to accomplish the same things Cindy and I take for granted.

 


 

 

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Course Content:

 

Module 1  Management in the Home  
  Segment 1 What management means and why it is so important
  Segment 2 Tools of management
  Segment 3 How to use ex-pens at home and work
  Segment 4 Dog crates in our home and work
  Segment 5 Leashes in the home
  Segment 6 Dog beds and baby gaits in the home
  Segment 7  Managing dog kennels and dog yards
  Segment 8 Managing dog and house guests
  Segment 9  Working dogs Vs family companions
  Segment 10 The only easy day was yesterday
  Segment 11 Our feeding ritual
  Segment 12 Dogs are creatures of Routine
     
Module 2 Managing Dogs on Walks  
  Segment 1 What walks are a daily part of our management
  Segment 2 Meeting people or bikes
  Segment 3 Meeting on-leash walks
  Segment 4 Meeting off-leash dogs
  Segment 5 Dog parks & ff leash walks
     
Module 3 Bringing Your New Dog Home  
  Segment 1 Adding a puppy to a home with an adult dog
  Segment 2 Managing multiple adult dogs in the home
  Segment 3 My significant other has 2 dogs - I have never owned a dog
     
Module 4 Managing dogs and cats  
  Segment 1 Adding a puppy to a home with cats
     
Module 5 Managing dogs, kids and dog toys  
  Segment 1 Dogs and babies
  Segment 2 Dogs and children
  Segment 3 Managing your dog toys
     
Module 6 Vehicles and Vet visits  
  Segment 1 Managing dogs in our vehicles
  Segment 2 Managing Your dog at the vet
     
Module 7 Ask Cindy  
  Segment 1 Customer emails
     
Module 8    
  Segment 1 Reward Based Training
  Segment 2 Training a new puppy
  Segment 3 I want to train my new Service dog
  Segment 4 Competition Obedience
  Segment 5 Biting dog sports
  Segment 6 S&R / Police K9 Training
  Segment 7 Nosework
  Segment 8 I want to be a professional dog trainer
  Segment 9 Certificate of completion
     

 

We feel that once you have seen the quality of information in our course and how easy it is to go back and review material you will want to take other courses.

 

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Ed Frawley's Philosophy on Dog Training

It's important that dog trainers have confidence in the instructor they choose to listen to. This is why I am including a short video detailing my philosophy of dog training. 

 

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A Short Bio on Ed Frawley

At the bottom of this web page, you can watch or read about my philosophy on dog training. I recommend you take a minute and watch. I say that because it is important the new dog owners respect the source of information they get to help them live with and train their dogs.

 

I have owned dogs my entire life. For the past 50 years training dogs has been my passion. I have been very lucky to have turned my passion into a career.

 

For more than 30 of those 50 years, I bred working bloodline German Shepherds. We had a state-of-the-art breeding facility with dedicated whelping rooms, inside/outside dog runs. We had nine 40 'x 60' dog yards which were separated by 20-foot lanes filled with pine trees. We also had 8 puppy yards that were designed exclusively to managing puppies during and after they were weaned.

 

The biggest thing I learned over the past 50 years is how to live with and manage my dogs and that's exactly what this course is about. We will show you how Cindy and I live with and manage our house dogs.

 

I am sure there are those who do things a little differently which is fine. What we do works for us and is based on our experience.  

 

We hope you can take a few ideas away from this course that will help you manage and live with your dog or dogs.

TARGET AUDIENCE

New dog owners, or those owners with behavioral problems that want to fix or avoid behavioral problems in the home.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

None

Course Outline

Testimonials

"This course covers a broad range of topics as they apply to managing dogs in the home. If you don't think this is interesting topic, you'd be surprised … especially after you start seeing results. Anyone who has a dog; or is considering getting one; owes it to themselves, their family, and their dog, by taking this course. Set yourself (and the dog) up for success by learning the techniques necessary to build a trusting relationship and how to avoid common mistakes. The knowledge you take away just might make all the difference in your sanity (as it did for me) and the success of your relationship moving forward. Great stuff!"

- Robert Y. on 12/07/2015

"This is a great course! I learned a lot of things! I learned how to break up dog fights, what to do with distractions on a walk, the importance of management, introducing a cat and dog, and more! I enjoyed how there were videos to watch and not just stuff to read. I liked how this course covered a lot of topics and was easy to understand! I recommend you take this course!"

- Pearl W on 03/22/2016

"Another great course full of information that everyone can benefit from. The average owner needs to learn this knowledge and trainers can gain much too. I like the idea of the links to subjects which relate to the subject matter being taught. These links provide so much more for anyone whose interested to take this further and delve deeper.

I would recommend this course."

- Andrea Cowen-Richards on 08/18/2016

"Terrific! I've gotten a number of streaming videos and online courses and I love them. I love that the "How we manage our dogs in our home" is free. I'm sad to say that when we first got married and got a dog, we re-homed it because I thought it was the dog (now I know it was because I didn't know anything about managing or training a dog). Now I am learning all I can about managing and training a dog and our dogs (and me) are so much happier now! In fact, today my poodle went to where I keep the training treats and barked because she was asking for a training session! She wags her tail and loves it so much! Thanks!"

- Kristie on 11/15/2018

"If you have multiple dogs in your household, plus cats and kids, then this course is a MUST. Common sense advice from top professionals on the every day management of your pets."

- Louis Digman on 05/14/2020

FAQ

Educating an Dog and Training a Person

are Two Different things

 

Educating a dog and teaching a human require two distinct abilities.

 

The underlying principle is straightforward: dogs don't learn the way humans do. They are visual learners. From 8 weeks of age, they learn by interpreting their owner's body language, despite not understanding their words.

 

Being adept at training a dog to perform intricate behaviors doesn't automatically equip someone to teach another person to do the same with their dog.

 

This course offers budding dog trainers the chance to learn from an experienced professionals, Ed Frawley and his wife - Cindy Rhodes, have dedicated their career to teaching people dog training techniques.

 

One of the key benefits of Ed's online course is its extensive video content, thoughtfully arranged in a coherent sequence. The course outline is available in the description below.

 

Learners have the flexibility to progress through the course at their own pace. They can either quickly skim the material or spend a week on each module, with the freedom to revisit and review the content as much as  needed. This flexible structure is a hallmark of Leerburg's online courses.

 

This adaptability is why Ed frequently advises that his online courses are more effective than attending a local 8 week obedience class. In typical classes, students attend a one-hour session weekly, listen to a lecture, practice briefly with their dog, and then struggle to recall much of what was taught. This online course offers a more comprehensive and accessible learning experience.

 

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

 

DVD:  2 hours 59 minutes (physical copy)

Stream:  2 hours 59 minutes, lifetime access, stream from anywhere

Online Course:  69 videos (221 minutes), additional text content, discussion board,  lifetime access, stream from anywhere

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