Basic Dog Obedience Stream
On Sept 18, 2018, Ed Frawley released a new Basic Dog Obedience DVD, Streaming Video On Demand, and Leerburg Online Course. This was not just an updated version of the original video produced back in 1982 or the many updates since. This DVD and course have 100% new content.
Over the past 30 years, dog training has gone through a number of new exciting evolutions. Those changes are all covered in our new DVD. You can review a detailed outline of the DVD below.
Today, we use reward-based training (marker training) to turn training sessions into games in which our dogs learn new behaviors (I.E. Sit, Down, Come, Walk on a Loose Leash). Our goal is to have a dog that looks forward to the next training session, rather than dread training.
We are balanced dog trainers. This means we train new behaviors motivationally with high-value rewards. In Basic Obedience, we use food rewards. In later training, we use food or toy rewards.
Our goal is for our dogs to generalizing a behavior. This means they understand the command in different situations and locations. But we also realize that every dog will eventually be placed in an environment where the distractions they face in the new environment are more interesting to the dog than our high value reward.
At that point, our dog may need a correction. How much of a correction depends on the age of the dog, the temperament of the dog, the environment we have placed the dog in and what the dog has chosen not to do. There is an entire segment in out course title “The theory of corrections in dog training”. In this segment, you will learn that the purpose of a correction is not to punish a dog for bad behavior, but rather to get a behavior change. We almost always recommend new trainers error on the side of helping their dogs and not correcting their dog.
We use high-value food rewards in our system. We will explain how to determine your dogs’ preference for rewards, we will teach you how to deliver a food reward without getting our fingers pinched and we will explain (in detail) how to fade using food rewards during training.
We will teach you when and how to start using marker training. We demonstrate with 9 week old puppies and 9 year old rescue dogs. You will learn what engagement is, why it is the key to our training program, and how to put engagement on cue.
We want our dogs to become fluent in the basic commands of sit, down, walk on a loose leash and the foundation of the basic recall. We will teach how to add duration to sit and down commands. You will learn what restrained recall games are, along with other games than build your foundation for a recall. We want our dogs to spit out things it picks up on our walks. There is a segment in our video where we show you how to teach the YUCK or LEAVE-IT command.
Our Basic Obedience DVD is exactly what the title implies. There is a ton of information that covers the basic foundation of dog training. Our next DVD in the series is titled "Intermediate Dog Training." In the DVD, we take what you have learned in Basic Obedience and expand the training into more complicated behaviors.
What will our DVD teach you?
- How to develop a basis for simple obedience
- How to gain control of an unexpected situation with your dog
- When to and not to correct your dog
- How to effectively organize a training session
- How to time your praises (rewards)
OUTLINE
- Chapter 1: Your Foundation
- Ed Frawley's Resume to Teach
- Understanding Good Management
- We must become a Balanced Dog Trainer
- Why we train with Food? How to stop using Food
- How we split Exercises into Small Parts for Training
- Theory of Corrections
- Build Your Dog's Training Plan
- Chapter 2: Reward-Based Training
- What is Reward based Training - Marker Training
- How we Deliver a Food Reward
- How we Start Training - Charge the Mark
- Why Engagement is So Important
- Putting Engagement on Cue
- Chapter 3: Lures/Gestures & Training the Sit and Down
- Gestures / Lures / Adding the Command
- Training the Sit
- Train the Down
- Adding Duration to the Sit and Down
- What a good Training Session Looks Like
- Why the Stay is also an intermediate Command
- Chapter 4: Training Loose Leash Walking
- Walk on a Loose Leash
- Training the Yuck or Leave-It
- Chapter 5: The Basic Recall
- The Recall is your most Important Command
- Rules of the Recall
- Restrained Recalls
- Food Toss Recall
- Long Line Recalls
- Chapter 6: Where to go From Here
- Our Intermediate Online Course - Your Next Step
- Leerburg's Recommended Advanced DVD's
- Dog Sports - Are they for you?
Comments
Working on my 2nd dog, a GSD, with this program. My last dog, Malinois, was amazing after a few hundred hours of work using this method. Hoping it is even better the 2nd round as I have learned more.
It taught me so much! Everyone check out my dogs instagram @yourstruly_unpredictable I have a few very disobedient dogs, because of this one of my dogs was hit by a car and we've got a fundraiser going on right now but... this course is extremely detailed and I can insure you that this course isn't a scam.
You'll see my before and after in at least 3-6 months on instagram.
This was a great explanation and video glossary of training basics and principles for operant conditioning.
The only missing thing that could have easily been provided were examples of dog training plans (reps, duration etc).
I understand with limited time in the video, we can't assume everything would be covered but all in all, this was fantastic and I recommend it to everyone who is embarking upon the endeavor of dog training.
Cheers
Make a plan and follow it.
I enjoy your dogs. I also really like the tree idea for jumpy dogs. I work with a lot of women who buy these giant dogs for protection and they like to jump on them and everyone else. Even a very small person can use this technique effectively. It also limits the chances of redirected aggression. Hope you don't mind if I use it.
Thank you,
Motley and Jeau
Motley dog dog training
Broomfield/Boulder CO
Great job Ed!!
All dog owners should have his DVDs. Our family bought Pack Structure, Basic Obedience, Puppy 8 Weeks to..., How to raise a Working Puppy... they are full of great information and wisdom.
Thanks Ed and Staff!
Dr Valentin