Control Unleashed Reactive To Relaxed

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Dog owners look to us to keep them safe, ensure an environment conducive to learning and use our special knowledge and skills to handle the out of control dog that threatens to disrupt class. Though the book was targeted to agility instructors, McDevitt offers practical, useable advice for all instructors and the handlers of reactive dogs. In this classic book, Dog Behaviour Consultant Leslie McDevitt provides us with a programme to help ‘dogs with issues’ learn how to relax, focus and work reliability off lead in a distracting, stimulating or stressful environment. Leslie McDevitt, MLA, CDBC, CPDT is a Certified Dog Behaviour Consultant through the Certification Council for Pet Dog Trainers. Not only does this make a lot of intuitive sense to me -- athough I never in a million years would have seen it that way on my own -- I have also found that just keeping those concepts in mind has let me be a lot more effective when taking my "project dog" to exciting or difficult places, and he's responded really really well, although I could not tell you *exactly* what I've done differently.

In addition, McDevitt uses the Premack Principle with a twist, and resolves a conflict that has long troubled me about dog training; the expectation that the handler must train the dog to ignore the environment and offer constant attention. Since 2007, when Control Unleashed: Creating a Focused and Confident Dog was first published, the science—and the art—of Control Unleashed® has been guiding handlers all over the world as they help their "dogs with issues" learn how to relax, focus, and work off-leash reliably in stimulating or stressful situations. Leslie McDevitt’s versatile Control Unleashed program is designed to help “dogs with issues” learn how to relax, focus, and work off-leash reliably in either stimulating or stressful situations.

So, finding this program helped me see how to help my reactive dog and owner read, communicate, and bond better, so trust could surface. She then talks us through the first CU exercises, which involve letting your dog off lead in a confined area and gauging his response. Underlying this expectation is the notion that the owner must be more interesting than anything else in the dog’s environment. In her third book, Control Unleashed: Reactive to Relaxed , Leslie McDevitt discusses her exciting new additions to the Control Unleashed® training program, as well as new perspectives and revisions of the foundation behaviors and core games.

Later I heard this handler "had a little talk with his dogs, behind a trailer before entering a ring. The new concepts and techniques will support you in teaching your dog life skills and coping skills so that he is comfortable in the world, building relationships, empowering your dog, and creating a two-way system of communication between you and your dog. She specializes in creating operant counterconditioning procedures to empower working, performance, and pet dogs to feel safe and comfortable so they can function confidently in stressful environments. Not only does this give the dog control over his own learning, but it also establishes trust and fosters a spirit of communication. Leslie has served in many capacities (including president and obedience training director ) at Y2K9’s Dog Sports Club.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I bought it to learn thoroughly about LAT technique that has been mentioned in so many reactive dog topics, but in addition, have learned much more.