Observe your dog to find out what activities and materials she likes to (and can safely) interact with and use these to strengthen your recall.
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Donna Hill has a degree in zoology and a teaching degree. She has 20 years experience in adult and child education and enjoyed teaching people how to observe animals in nature as a nature interpreter, field biologist and train-the-trainer for presentation skills and now applies her knowledge and skills to help people and their dogs. She helps people with disabilities to train their own service dogs and has experience working with autistic and developmentally delayed teens. She uses plain English to explain what you are doing and why and also provides analogies you can relate to. She was also a Girl Guide and earned the highest honor as well as worked in the Tourism industry as a information counselor. She loves to share key information with people!
Visit her blog at Online Clicker Training Tutorials & Coaching.
Check out her two Youtube channels supernaturalbc2009 and supernatural 2008 to see if you like her style of teaching. Her motto is "Yard by Yard, Life is hard. Inch by Inch, It's a Cinch!" Break everything down into it's simplest parts and it's achievable!
Don't forget to visit her FB group Observation Skills for Training Dogs.
Related articles:
Shaping A Dog's Recall: Check In
Shaping A Dog's Recall: Movement Towards You
Shaping A Dog's Recall: Distractions
Saturday, 16 June 2012
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