Teaching Your Dog To Social Walk

8 Steps Easy

About this course

Many working dogs are now also pet dogs, as such, they also need to be taught the life skills to help them be great pets alongside their working skills. One of the most important things to teach a working dog is when to work and when not to.

Self-employed hunting is one of the most challenging things to deal with, teaching your dog to Social Walk means that you can maintain your hunting and working skills but also teach your dog when it is appropriate to be hunting and when it is not. This means that you can all enjoy going out for a walk safe in the knowledge that you are not undermining your working skills.

Join us for this superb masterclass with Leanne Smith where she teaches us how to train your working dog to relax whilst out for a walk, rather than hunt.

Course Structure

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Introduction to Masterclass

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Step 1 - Explaining Social Walking Part 1

Why Social Walking is a good life skill to teach your dogs
How to reward the dog’s choice to self interrupt investigating the environment
How a dog learns to automatically come back and stay with you when you stop walking.

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Step 2 - Explaining Social Walking Part 2

Your dog learns to keep track of you
When to mark your dog’s choice to looks at you and check in
When to add acue to this behaviour
Cue response is improved due to your dog being more connected to you

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Step 3 - The contrast between Hunting behaviour and Social walking behaviour

Erik is much more active, his behaviour changes and becomes more intense when given his hunting cue
Ragnar does not range when given his hunting cue
Types of rewards that can be used

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Step 4 - How to start teaching your adult dog to social walk part 1

Choosing the environment
Your dogs behaviour
Marking behaviour
How to train
Training whilst walking

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Step 5 - How to start teaching your adult dog to social walk part 2

Connection
Environment Changes
Problem Solving
Recap of learning points
Adaptation of this technique to your dog’s personality

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Step 6 – Your Feedback Could Win You A LWDG Poloshirt!

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Certificate Of Achievement PLUS SPECIAL OFFER FROM LEANNE!

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Masterclass Provided By

Ladies Working Dog Group

Leanne Smith runs Dogs R Dogs, based in Silverton Devon. She has been a professional dog trainer for the last 15years, specialising in Positive Gundog Training for the last 10 years. She works her Working Cockers on local shoots in the beating team and recently passed the Kennel Club Working Gundog Certificate on Game with her young dog Ragnar. Leanne holds the COAPE Advanced Diploma in Practical Aspects of Companion Animal Behaviour and Training. Leanne is an affiliate member of the COAPE Association, a member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers and a registered Instructor for The Gundog Club.