Greeting Manners Practice
Investment in Greeting Manners Practice
$150
Additional Group Practice Meet-Ups
$20/ thirty minutes
This program includes:
🐾 Discovery Call
🐾 a 30 minute video
🐾 a 60 minute private training session
AND
🐾 four 30 minute group practice walks
Sometimes you might find you have a dog that doesn’t really like other dogs… or children, or people… or people with hats… or people who are loud.
It can be really embarrassing and isolating to have a dog that barks at other beings (I know, I have one of those too!)
You get a dog and dream of taking long walks on the beach or on the trails with them, but it’s so stressful not knowing if you’re going to see someone, or a dog, or something else that makes them react.
Will your dog bark at them?
Lunge?
Snarl?
Pull you down to the ground?
Luckily, I’ve had some experience working with these kinds of dogs… my own dog Kitchi is a “frustrated greeter” and she’s a big part of why I became a dog trainer!
Kitchi and I had an amazing trainer, Nice Dog, Scarlett, who helped give us the opportunity to practice seeing her triggers in a safe, pre-planned environment.
And now I get to share these skills with you!
Greeting Manners is a 3 part approach:
1. Making your dog more comfortable
2. Making those around you more comfortable
3. Practicing responsible ownership
Greeting Manners contains 3 parts:
- The video.
You will receive email containing a link to a 30 minute video about Petiquette, presented by Nice Dog, Scarlett. (Why am I using someone else’s content? As Scarlett said “No need to reinvent the wheel” when she gave me permission to use her already established program that I have renamed Greeting Manners for my own use).
This video gives an explanation of what we will be doing, why we do it this way, and what you’ll need to get started. - A private training session.
We will have a one hour private training session in your home, where we will practice the mini games and dis-engagement techniques you saw in the video from step 1. - Carefully planned group practice sessions.
These practice sessions are crucial to having success as they give an opportunity to practice what you’ve learned in a real-world scenario, but carefully organized to keep your dog under threshold and with constant communication among all participants.
We will be walking outdoors in public areas.
All the human members of the family are welcome to participate at no extra fee.
We will use positive reinforcement and lots of space to keep your dog below threshold while your dog learns about polite greetings and personal space. We use a comprehensive desensitization and counter-conditioning protocol, elements of Engage and Disengage, and Leslie McDevitt’s Control Unleashed games, to help your dog learn that when new people, dogs, bikes, cars, etc are around, good things happen!
You’ll learn how to:
🐾 keep people from approaching your dog
🐾 put distance between you and your dog’s triggers, and
🐾 let people know that your dog is in training, and needs more space.
You will have some homework, things to read, videos to watch, and practice to do at home as the work you put in will directly correlate with the success you have with changing your dogs emotional response to their triggers.
During our staged group meetings, we will communicate through walkie-talkies (that I will provide for you) so that we can all communicate with each other without getting too close, and I can give you real time feedback as I observe each team of dogs and humans.
There will be a max of 3 dogs per session.
**In the case of bad weather, outdoor walks will be rescheduled.