Working Canine Club's Foundations Course
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Foundations Course
Working Canine Club's
Three-Pronged Approach
If you're wanting to train an assistance puppy either for yourself or another you're going to need support along the way. That's why Working Canine Club created a three-pronged approach to help individuals train highly skilled and successful assistance dogs.
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To be successful, an assistance dog not only needs to know how to perform commands, but they also need the conditioning to manage the stressors of working long hours and being out in public.
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Not only are we wanting you to have the best dog ever, we know it's important to you to understand the why behind the training you do. By having a solid working in why your dog is doing what they're doing, you'll be able to problem-solve hurdles throughout the training process.
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Background/Theory
These lessons will help you understand how to encourage or discourage behaviors in a variety of ways, depending on the context. Certain types of praise will work better at home vs a crowded area, and certain dogs respond more to

some types than others (eg. the one who gets overly excited about treats or the one who couldn't care less).
The video lessons will also discuss naming commands and setting expectations for outings- something that should be done from the beginning.
Goal: To give you the resources to work with your dog in any setting and have a variety of tools to train with.
Conditioning Behavior
These videos will help you cultivate your dog's way of being in different scenarios. In other words, maybe in the vast fenced field, your dog learns that running wild and free is fitting, but in the library, it is expected that they hang out calmly. This is similar to the way that we have been socialized as humans- for better or worse, our cities are structured in a particular way, and in certain places, we are required to follow standards set by others.
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