Click to Calm: Healing the Aggressive Dog Workshop
Instructor: Emma Parsons
August 16 &17, 2008 from 9:00 am to 5:00pm
THSD Training Center located at 4925 Bell Springs Road Dripping Springs, TX 78620 (Map)
Lunch will be provided. Please feel free to bring your own chairs.
Emma's workshops are brilliant experiences, offering you help with your reactive or aggressive dog.
- Desensitize your dog to approaching stranger dogs
- Allow you to grab your dog's collar without him snapping
- Have your dog perform canine calming signals, instead of aggressive displays, on cue
- Have your dog turn and give you eye contact whenever another dog approaches, or you tighten up on the leash
- Use your own body language when under stress as a cue for your dog to remain calm
- And many more creative and effective uses of managing behavior through clicker training!
This workshop consists of a variety of learning techniques - including lecture, video, case study, and demonstration - to help you understand and retain this important information and skills needed to work with your dog at home.
Day One (Saturday)
- Introduction
- Clicker Training 101
i) Discussion of Methodology
ii) How it is used in Treating Aggressive Behavior
iii) Unique Benefits - Clicker Home Management
i) Repairing the Dog/Handler Relationship
ii) Leadership Without Confrontation - Laying the Groundwork - Foundation Behaviors
- Process of Clicking with an Aggressive Dog - Create a thinking dog instead of a reactionary one
- Managing Dog-to-Dog Interactions
- Creativity
Day Two (Sunday)
- Teaching a Reactive Dog Class
- Dog-to-People Aggression
- Core Management Plan
- Managing Specific Aggressive Behaviors - Behavior Modification Plan
- The Emotional Involvement of the Human at the End of the Leash
- Changing the Emotional Associations
- Training Journal
- Support Group Wrap Up
Note: Only dogs being used in the seminar will be permitted in the building during the seminar. We will need 6 – 8 dogs with “issues” and 1 - 2 calm dogs for the seminar. Please email Melinda at Melinda@servicedogs.org for the paperwork that will need to be filled out to determine if your dog is a good candidate. Emma will choose which dogs will be used for the seminar.