Mission Control: How to train the high-drive dog

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Understanding the importance of teaching people in her role Jane went on to study a City and Guilds Award in Education and Training, Emotional Intelligence Coaching and Mindful Coaching. Jane Ardern: When I did my previous webinar, I think there was quite a few questions on me talking about teaching different release cues for the dog. That's where this came from.

Throughout Helen’s career she has always been involved in the teaching, training and assessment of learners. This began as a Regional Trainer, and then progressing to a teacher/trainer in a Further Education College where she developed her skills and knowledge and successfully achieved a Certificate in Education in Business. That’s great! A motivated dog is fun to work with, and clearly enjoys the challenges you are setting. But do you sometimes wish you could rein in some of that enthusiasm and produce the results that you both deserve? I ended up going to a traditional trainer, and we had a conversation about what I would and wouldn't do with my dog. I said to him, "But I need some help. I need someone who understands these dogs that can help and support me." He supported me really well, and he was great, because I said to him, "I don't want you to get hold of my dog. I don't want you to do anything horrible to my dog." We worked together, we had lots of conversations, and we worked through a lot of the problems, which was great. Jane owns Wagga-Wuffins Canine College. Jane has been training dogs for over 20 years and has been working full time as a professional for over 10 years Melissa Breau: Like the difference between a start line stay for agility and "Go to your mat and lay there while we eat dinner" type of thing.

Jane owns WaggaWuffins Canine College, which provides puppy, pet dog and gundog training. She provides online support through a membership community for other enthusiasts and professionals, is the creator of Smart Pup, a puppy training subscription box and author of the book Mission Control – How to Train the High Drive Dog. Jane is a member of the Professional Speaking Association (PSA) and has spoken at many seminars and events. I am currently working with my three youngest, which is Letti, who's 13 months, Pebbles, who is 18 months, and Huey, who is 3. I'm currently working with the three dogs, training them to be working gundogs so they can go out and work in the field. Jane is a member of the Coape Association of Pet Behaviourists and Trainers (CAPBT), The Association of Pet Dog Trainers (APDT UK) Membership no. 1058 and a Registered Animal Trainer with the Animal Training and Behaviour Council (ATBC) By using a progressive series of interactive games she shows you how you can teach your dog to control his impulses and make ‘good’ choices that he will find rewarding. Melissa Breau: Interesting. I'm not as familiar with that research, the idea of humans rewiring the brain. It's super-interesting that there's a period of time there. It would be really fascinating to do a study with dogs on that type of thing.

Melissa Breau: Absolutely. I can totally see that. How do you work around that or work with that? How do you approach training a dog that's like that, using positive reinforcement techniques to minimize some of those hard things and maximize the good parts, and help them learn how to fit into our world and still meet their needs? Do you know what I mean?A webinar covering arousal, impulse control and frustration tolerance in high drive dogs. Understanding their genetics and why they do what they do. Looking at both the science and the practical application using positive reinforcement training to develop an effective toolbox of rewards, working on brain games that build the right neural networks and good habits. Developing self control skills for the real world. Melissa Breau: Awesome. You mentioned before we started recording — when you say you're out training them, you mean literally you're on a training getaway this week, right?

Jane Ardern: My first dog that I got when I grew up and left home was a St. Bernard-cross-Rottweiler. He was about 8 months old when I got him, and he had lots of behavioral issues. Aggression was a huge problem with him. He was great with other dogs, but he was really not very good with people. He also had quite severe hip dysplasia. I find the topic of self control is a little bit blurry in the dog training world, there's Its Yer Choice and people who hate that. There's dogs laying down with lines of treats around them and people who hate that. There's people training using other animals to teach self control in a realistic setting and people who hate that. Personally my experience with it has felt a little damned if you do damned if you don't. This book takes all of that away. I didn't realise how many self control exercises there were between the exercises I generally did and the first stages. If you're struggling to break self control training down this book is perfect.

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Jane Ardern: Everybody, really, because the teaching varies from, if we think about anticipation for a pet dog could be just sitting and waiting before it's going through a doorway, versus taking the dog to the pub and you wanting it to relax, and moving right across to your sport dogs. I was approached by the publishing company and asked to write a book. Originally they asked me to write a book on motivation, and it was like, "Well, my dogs now are motivated about everything, all the time." So we had a discussion. I was doing a course at the time called "Controlling Crazy Canines," which was about mostly impulse control, and prey drive as well. So we made an agreement that I would write the book around those things, because that was what I was working with. I was quite dubious at first, because I'm dyslexic, on whether I would be able to write a book, but I thought, "Let's just go for it." Chapter Nine: AUTONOMY CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES Teaching ‘leave it’; Teaching the ‘take it’ mind-set.

Melissa Breau: Which ties in really nicely with what I was going to ask you next, which is, what is your current training philosophy? How would you describe how you approach training these days?

But do you sometimes wish you could reign in some of that enthusiasm and produce the results that you both deserve? This webinar is to help owners of both pet and competition dogs get the best out of them, both in general day-to-day life and in competition and sports. That’s great! A motivated dog is fun to work with, and clearly enjoys the challenges you are setting. Chapter Seven: RELATIONSHIP BUILDING What we want versus what the dog wants; Why relationships break down (Abandonment; Frustration and over-arousal); Providing emotional support; Games for relationship building (Informal retrieve; Playing tuggy).