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Hi, welcome to the Course!

Over the next few weeks you’ll be doing a lot of great work with your dog. You’ll be developing a clearer leadership relationship, learning to communicate more clearly, and teaching your dog some new functional skills.

Before you start watching the lessons, there are a few downloads to take advantage of. You’ll see the steps below to download: the workbook, the reminder cards to take with you on walks and training sessions, and the e-book Starting Out Right, which will give you some tips right away to add structure in daily life during your training process.

Enjoy the course! Let me know how it’s going, I’d love to see some video of your success, and feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions sean@thedogsway.com

All the best,
Sean

Downloadable, Printable Material

Downloadable workbook.

Downloadable reminder cards.

Downloadable booklet on the structure.

Foundational Lessons

Core Lesson Track

Follow along with this main track of lessons doing the homework and achieving the lesson competencies.

If you have a dog between 7 & about 10 months old or you have an overly shy dog
Lesson 2 - sit
SummaryIn Lesson 2 we are going to revisit the sit command!The main point is that the sit must be functional. If the sit or any command can’t be applied to real life, then your dog doesn’t know it on a functional level. In this lesson, the main thing is to get used to the three-part [...]

Supplemental Lessons

To help customize the course plan to your situation

Young or shy dogs
Watch this mini lesson after watching Lesson one if your dog is young or shy
Two or more dogs
Watch this mini lesson after watching Lesson one is you have two or more dogs.

Progression, Application and New Skills

Supplemental Lessons

Please add these supplemental lessons after completing Lesson 10: "Down"

Bonus mini-lesson: bathing your dog
Follow this conditioning process to help your dog enjoy bath time more and make the process easier for both of you.
Bonus min-lesson: brushing your dog
Follow this conditioning process to desensitize your dog to being brushed.
Bonus mini-lesson: nail clipping
Follow this conditioning process to make nail clipping much easier on both of you.