BEFORE YOU START

• Clicker training basics 

• When to socialize your dog

• Welcoming home your new dog

• Training high drive/working line dogs

• Training deaf dogs

• The Unintended Consequences of Shock Collars

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BASIC SKILLS

• First game to play with your new puppy

• Sit

• Stay

• Capturing eye contact/focus

• Leave it

• Building attention

• Crate training

• Cooperative fetch with your dog

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BUILDING CALMNESS

• Teaching self-control with food

• Mat training

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SHAPING BEHAVIOR

• Shaping "up-down"

• Lumping and splitting criteria

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TRAINING RECALL

• Teaching Come when called

• Part One of 4

• Part Two of 4

• Part Three of 4

• Part Four of 4

• Play the "GOTCHYA!" game

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LOOSE-LEASH WALKING

• Making sense of loose leash walking

• Teaching your puppy to not pull on-leash

• Loose-leash walking

• Back up into "Heel"

• Leash biting

• How to stop leash biting

• Getting used to the harness

• Heel and pivoting turns​

• Using a head harness

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ADDITIONAL RESEARCH + EDUCATION

• Different sensitive periods in different breeds

• Canine brain maturation

• Teaching conceptual thinking

• Brain plasticity and behavior

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ENRICHMENT

• What is enrichment?

• Enrichment toys and why we love them

• Keeping dogs entertained indoors