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Mission Control: How to train the high-drive dog

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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 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: 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. Melissa Breau: I'm excited to talk about all this stuff. To start us out, can you share a little bit about you, your current pets, what you're working on with them?

Jane Ardern: My big thing is really getting people to understand that they're teaching the dog a skill, often rather than behaviors, especially when you have dogs who are excitable in high arousal. For me, it's not just about having a behavior and putting it on cue. It's about the skill for the animal to be able to perform those behaviors and for them to be reliable. 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. The science dropped into the book is awesome, relevant, and so well translated from science talk to normal human language. I have some serious writing skill envy there. It's enough for those who are more experienced to take a cool thing away to go and research, and for those who are less experienced to still digest the simpler level of a paragraph but a seed for something more advanced will have been planted.

But do you sometimes wish you could reign in some of that enthusiasm and produce the results that you both deserve? Working gundogs, for me, when I have my dogs sat waiting to be sent for a retrieve or sat waiting to be cast out to hunt is no different than a dog waiting in the start line of agility, because they're actually waiting to do a job. If you have frustration or over-arousal in that anticipatory behavior, then normally the performance is poor. So, for me, everything is about "Can your dog manage itself while it's waiting to do something exciting." Again, I always think, when people are training, release cues are a cool and popular things that people do. But the webinar is delving into the emotional state and being aware of, when we release dogs from specific behaviors, about reinforcement and association, and if we want relaxation, are we creating relaxation or are we creating anticipation. So understanding where reinforcement should sit if we want relaxation and where reinforcement should sit if we want anticipation, and giving the dogs some clarity around behaviors we train and how we release them, so we create the right associations. Melissa Breau: That's a long time in the dog world. When you first got started, were you a positive trainer? Do you consider yourself one now? What got you started down that path?

I find with the Spaniels that they are bred to be intense. They're bred to be persistent, they're bred to not quit, they're bred to work through pain. All those things, especially in pet homes — and I work a lot with working dogs in pet homes — is those desirable traits of a working dog can really create a lot of problems for people who don't understand them and don't understand why they behave like they behave. These dogs are designed to work in drive, teaching them to be calm and relaxed is highly beneficial in day-to-day life situations, but for work it is counterproductive. We will look at the differences. 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.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).

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? I started a journey, I think, looking for a cure for aggression, and here I am, still looking for one. Obviously, trying to work with his behavior problems really sparked my interest just in dog behavior and dog training, and it went from there. 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.I ended up going to the library, and I got a book out of the library. It was the only dog-training book in there. It was by a guy called John Holmes, and it was just called The Obedient Dog. I popped down to the pet shop and I got myself a choke chain, as recommended in the book, and off I went and trained my dog. I then moved on to training with an ex-police-dog handler. So really interesting in that I could have been a positive trainer from day one, but I didn't. I went down the traditional route originally, and that worked for me at the time. She obtained her A1 Assessors award and V1 Verifier award and for 10 years was successfully involved in writing, developing, delivering and assessing a range of courses and qualifications to 14-19-year olds and adult learners. Jane is the Kennel Club Accredited Instructor Scheme Dog Trainer of the Year 2015 a prestigious award presented to her at Crufts 2016 in March 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.

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." This book is perfect for owners and trainers alike. Those who need more advanced stuff will find it in the writing, and those who need to simply follow steps and start have that offered up on a plate with solid reasoning to help them understand the why behind the what when they're ready for it.Jane has a BSc (Hons) in Canine Behaviour and Training from Hull University, an Advanced Diploma in the Practical Aspects of Companion Animal Behaviour and Training and CAP2 In 2012 Jane graduated with an honours degree in canine behaviour and training from Hull University, achieving the highest grade ever given in the advanced instructing module. She was invited to return to the university to teach on the foundation degree course, and went on to study for a level 3 award in education and training. She was also given recognised teacher status up to level 6 in canine related subjects. Jane has lectured for COAPE, the internationally course provider for animal behaviourists. Mission Control is essential reading for trainers and handlers in all sporting disciplines, and for those who simply want to get the best from their companion dogs.

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