Why is my dog doing this?

Why is my dog doing this.....

If you ask me this question, you need this workshop

Workshop:

Reading your Dog with Connection 

To Be Honest: We have quite a few clients who could benefit from this workshop. It would be very disappointing if you did not consider attending

This workshop has been developed based on our assessment of clients and their dogs and the behavioral challenges we commonly see in everyday life.

The goal of this workshop is to help owners better understand their dog—what drives them, what motivates them, why certain behaviors occur, and how stress can influence their responses.

Engagement, Connection & Structure

Most clients have very little true engagement with their dog. Day after day, we as trainers see a dog and an owner existing as two separate entities, rather than working together as a team.

If you want your dog to come when called, look to you for guidance, remain connected to you in unfamiliar environments, and learn to function around things that make them nervous or uncomfortable, you first need to build a relationship based on engagement, connection, trust, and structure.

Your dog should not simply live alongside you. The goal is to develop a dog that is an active part of your family and a willing participant in everyday life—a dog that understands how to look to you for direction and trusts you to help them navigate difficult situations.

This seminar will touch on:

Stress Is a Normal Part of Life

Stress is a normal part of life for both dogs and humans. We cannot always avoid uncomfortable, unfamiliar, or challenging situations—and avoiding them does not necessarily teach our dogs how to cope with them.

Instead, we can teach our dogs how to work through appropriate levels of stress, build confidence, recover from stressful situations, and develop healthier responses.

The focus of this class will be helping dogs become more confident, socially appropriate, adaptable, and better equipped to handle real-world situations, while teaching owners how to recognize what their dog is communicating and respond appropriately.

Topics We Will Cover

• Choosing the right motivator for your dog — Food, toys, play, praise, or a combination, and understanding what truly motivates your individual dog.

• Why food can be an important training tool — Understanding how and why we use food, choosing the appropriate type and value of food, and knowing when it can help your dog learn or work through a challenging situation.

• Understanding environmental stressors — Recognizing how unfamiliar surroundings, noises, surfaces, people, animals, movement, and other changes in the environment can affect your dog's behavior.

• Understanding fear-based reactivity — Learning what can cause a dog to react out of fear, insecurity, uncertainty, or lack of confidence rather than simply labeling the behavior as aggression.

• Recognizing avoidance behaviors — Learning to identify the more subtle signs that your dog may be uncomfortable or attempting to escape a situation, including balking on the leash, pulling or running away, yawning, scratching, disengaging, freezing, or shutting down.

• Learning to read your dog under stress — Recognizing changes in body language and behavior so you can identify when your dog is becoming stressed before the behavior escalates.

• Teaching your dog how to come out of stress — Learning when to encourage, redirect, motivate, apply appropriate pressure, give your dog time to process, or change the situation so that your dog learns how to recover rather than simply avoid.

• Building obedience around distractions — Using simple exercises such as sit and down stays to teach your dog to remain engaged, think, and respond to you even when distractions or environmental pressures are present.

The ultimate goal for the handler is to understand not to eliminate every stressful situation from your dog's life. It is to develop a dog that has the confidence, coping skills, and trust in its handler to successfully navigate the world around them.

Friday September 25th

7pm-9pm

$125/per Dog/ Handler

$50 Audit

Pre registration required and pre-payment required:

Venmo: Puppy-Wuppy dt, check

Registration: info@puppy-wuppy.com

--Include, your name, your email, your texting phone, dogs name, age, breed

Location: 999 Willow Grove Street, Hackettstown, NJ