Training Principles: Foundations for Life with Your Dog

Name: Training Principles: Foundations for Life with Your Dog - C2H Online
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Price: 44.10 USD
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$44.10

This course gives you the essential tools and strategies to support your dog’s emotional development and guide their behaviour in real-life situations — at home and out in the world.

Designed for owners who want to understand how their dog is learning, this course helps you step in early, guide emotions, and prevent unwanted habits from forming — especially during adolescence, when learning is happening fast.

You’ll learn how to:

Use classical conditioning to shape positive emotional responses.
Grab attention instantly and redirect undesirable behaviours.
Calm emotions with simple scatter games and distraction techniques.
Introduce everyday phrases that help your dog understand your world.
Train using methods like luring, shaping, and capturing without creating frustration.
Handle things “when they go wrong” in a way that protects your dog’s confidence

Categories: C2H Online Courses, Behaviour Brand: Click2Heel

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Most owners dream of having a dog they can take anywhere – to a café, into town, on countryside walks, or to visit friends. But getting there isn’t about teaching more commands. It’s about helping your dog form the right emotional responses to the world around them.

Dogs are learning all the time, whether we intend them to or not. During adolescence in particular, new environments, routines, and experiences can quickly shape emotions that later show up as over-arousal, frustration, or avoidance. Without guidance, those emotional responses can become habits that are difficult to undo.

This course helps you understand what your dog is learning in those everyday moments – and gives you practical tools to guide them calmly and clearly, rather than reacting after problems have already formed.

You’ll see how simple but powerful tools are used in real-life situations, both at home and out and about. You’ll learn how to redirect attention, change emotional responses, and prevent unwanted behaviours from being rehearsed – all while keeping your dog feeling safe, supported, and engaged.

By the end of the course, you’ll understand how to communicate more clearly and consistently so your dog feels secure, balanced, and ready to learn. These principles aren’t just for puppies or adolescence – they’re tools for life, supporting your dog through new experiences at any age.

And remember – meeting your dog’s needs isn’t just about food, exercise, or cuddles. Mental stimulation is high on the list. Dogs thrive on novelty, problem-solving, and engagement. If you’re not actively guiding that learning, the environment will. This course gives you the foundations to step in, guide your dog’s emotions, and prevent unwanted habits from taking hold.

When you’re ready to take the next step, the companion course From Foundations to Fluency: Building Reliable Behaviours for Confident, Happy Dogs will help you raise criteria, proof behaviours, and give your dog the right challenges to keep learning and thriving.