Can any one explain how I can I become a helper? Do I attend dvg helper seminars or is there a course or school? And are any located onthe east coast? Thanx in advance
Two small points I'd raise based on my own experience:
1) I think the best thing you can do is to seek out experienced helpers who have caught a lot of dogs, hang out with them without interfering in their work, and get them to show you the ropes when opportunities present themselves. That seems to be the way most helpers have picked up the craft. Part of this too is, of course, your own homework--paying very careful attention to dogs and the reaction of dogs to different scenarios. The most graceful and athletic helper in the world is useless if he doesn't know how to read a dog.
2) Make sure that you are in shape yourself, and get checked out by a doctor. I effectively terminated my own helper career prematurely because I neglected a back injury I had sustained by skiing. Catching dogs only made it worse. Finally the docs gave me the bad news--surgery for you, and no more helper work. Get any nagging aches and pains checked out NOW. Good helpers have to be in good shape.
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I sell a number of videos on training helpers. TRAINING THE NEW HELPER and TRAINING THE TRIAL HELPER are technical tapes. They teach you the mechanics of the various catches and drives.
The thing is that a good helper is a training helper and that requires the ability to read dogs and understand drives and dog training. These are skills that come with experience. You can read about this on my web site at http://leerburg.com/vidolist.htm
In my opinion a good helper needs to be a very experience dog trainer. He needs to study dog training in depth. He needs to understand puppies, understand young adults, understand pack drive, understand fight or flight, understand drives in detail and then he needs to interpret what he has learned and apply it in a split second in front of a dog. You cannot learn all this in a seminar or a video. You can use seminars and video as your base of knowldege but it has to be balanced with experience.
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