Reactivity Coaching Track
This track is designed for people that want to directly take action in their dog's training. In this track, I will be coaching you to be the primary trainer for your dog. Typically, this is the most effective way of training reactivity as you are an important part of the scenario, but it also requires a larger time commitment from you.
In this track, I meet with you in your home for one hour a week over six weeks. During the meeting, I will demonstrate various training tasks, ask what has been working and what needs to be tweaked, and generally coach you to become a more effective trainer. When we are working directly on counter-conditioning and desensitization, I may also bring in fake decoy (stuffed) dogs or real helper dogs during that meeting for a controlled training environment.
After each Weekly Meeting, I send you a custom training plan that lays out your training tasks for the week that you practiced with me during the meeting. Most weeks will require you to work with your dog 4-5 times for 10-20 minutes each.
As your dog's training progresses, some of those sessions likely will need to be away from your home and in places where there will be other dogs.
After the initial six week program, a follow-up meeting is included with the cost of your program. This must be scheduled within six weeks of the end of the program.
An example training plan can be seen here. I do all of the training plans in Google Docs so they can be printed out if you like and so that I can easily link to a tutorial of the training task.
