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Online Dog Obedience Training
Welcome to MyDogTrainer.com online dog training! On this page you'll find links to the comprehensive online dog obedience training materials currently available by subscription to enrolled members with an assigned login and password.
The online dog behavior training tutorials teach you how to:
- Read your dog and understand its behaviors.
- Teach your dog how to learn.
- Apply positive operant conditioning strategies to create and keep focus.
- Communicate clearly and consistently with proficient dog training commands.
- Maintain appropriate body presence and positioning.
- Properly use the dog training collar and leash for effective handling.
- Use well-timed praise and reward to accelerate behavioral modification and learning.
- Pre-empt and resolve behavioral problems with focused dog obedience training and skills development.
- Incrementally develop your dog's obedience skills by increasing distance, duration, and distraction.
- Know when and how to apply appropriate correction.
- Continue your team's dog obedience training plan to bring you and your dog to more advanced levels of skills-based
performance.
- Have a reliably obedient dog at home and out in public in the "real world," anywhere and any time.
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Current subscribers enjoy full access to the MyDogTrainer library of dog training and behavior tutorials, articles and dog training tips. Please use your assigned MyDogTrainer login and password to access the online dog training tutorials.
Not yet subscribed? Please see our convenient online subscription service to enroll for your Distance Learning telephone consultation and supplemental access to all of the MyDogTrainer online dog training tutorials, articles and related materials.
If you are already a training student at NorthWest K9 Dog Training School, please use your current login and password to access the MyDogTrainer.com online dog obedience training course lessons.
Online Dog Training Course Lessons
The Online Dog Training course lessons are available to students enrolled in the Distance Learning dog training program or in a course of dog obedience training lessons at NorthWest K9. Please click on any lesson link and enter your assigned login and password when prompted.
I : Dog Training Basics
- Introduction to your at-home handler training program that will assist you in refining your handling, leash management, and teaching/training techniques before you introduce your dog into the team training equation.
- Setting Your Dog Up for Success illustrates how to take personal responsibility for making it possible for your dog to succeed each and every time. This is the art of setting your dog up for success.
- The Leadership Practice covers the key components to establishing your position as respected team leader through the practice of setting boundaries and granting privileges.
- Learning Aids are regularly employed in our early teaching and training, and then extinguished over time.
- Luring can be an effective learning aid for behavioral shaping in the early stages of teaching obedience fundamentals.
- Training and Behavioral Progression compares training and handling strategies and the results when setting your dog up to succeed vs. setting your dog up to fail.
II : Handler Training
- The Obedient Handler summarizes how we create the dog's reliable and consistent obedience with our own reliable and consistent command presence.
- My Name is Trouble discusses the pitfalls of indiscriminate name calling.
- Putting a Stay on "Stay" on the misguided use of the "Stay" command.
- Standard Training Commands: Definitions and Applications
- Let's Go! could be the most important command you ever teach your pup.
- Verbal Do's and Don't's summarizes the components of successful verbal communications with your dog while in the early phases of teaching and training, including when and when not to verbally communicate with our dog.
- Leash Management summarizes the critical leash management techniques and strategies that empower you to successfully teach your dog consistent and reliable obedience.
- Marking and Operant Conditioning details how to quickly and effectively communicate to your dog the behaviors you want, and correctly reward and reinforce those behaviors. details the critical components of successfully marking correct behaviors to first shape and then teach and advance your dog's obedience with duration, distance, and distraction.
- Reward reviews the importance of well-timed and accurate rewards to build enthusiastic and highly-focused foundation obedience training.
- Making a Break: Anatomy of the Obedience Release Command details how to ensure that the "Break!" command is an explicit release from the prior obedience command, and that it is a significant reward in and of itself.
- Pause: The Art of Doing Nothing reveals how doing nothing at all can be one of the most effective dog training skills you'll ever learn and apply.
- Learning the Sit teaches you how to conduct your formal Sit and demonstrate the behaviors your dog can easily model.
- Learning the Heel teaches you how to consistently Heel and set your dog up to successfully mirror your behaviors.
- The Sit / Heel Drill combines your newly learned formal Sit and formal Heel with a variety of techniques and strategies to consistently maintain your Heel while you Mark, Reward, and Release.
III : Teaching Your Dog
- Teaching Your Dog introduces the concept of first teaching the dog how to learn in a very different way, building the foundation for our formal dog training activities.
- Micromanagement ensures that we create countless opportunities during all the day-to-day interactions for the dog to succeed in behaving appropriately, subsequently providing us with the opportunity to continually reward those desired behaviors. The dog increasingly learns that performing the desired behaviors on command reaps the biggest rewards.
- Once is Never Enough -- Or is It? discusses when repeating a command is an acceptable training strategy, and when it's not.
- Crate Training discusses why crate training should be at the forefront of training your puppy or dog, and shares helpful tips for selecting and using the best crate for you and your dog. You'll also learn how to introduce and refine the "Crate" and "Come Out" commands and associated behaviors with illustrated step-by-step instructions for introducing the fundamental crate training commands, positively reinforcing the associated behaviors, and making a successful transition from luring the dog into the crate to rewarding the dog after it obediently enters the crate.
IV : Obedience Training
- Obedience Training introduction to the formal obedience training phase of dog training.
- Black Tie or Casual? Teaching Formal and Informal Obedience discusses why and when we might teach one command for a more formal, stylized obedience, and another command for informal, less rigorous behaviors.
- The 3 D's discusses adding Distance, Duration, and Distraction to your training.
- Teaching the 5-second sit demonstrates how to sequentially mark to extend the sit for one-second intervals up to five uninterrupted seconds, and then illustrates how to extinguish the extraneous marks.
- Never Leave "Leave it!" Alone discusses how to successfully teach, train, and reinforce the "Leave it!" command.
- When and How to Make a Correction discusses the appropriate timing, sequence, and strategies for an effective correction.
- Managing the Reactive Dog shares the strategies for redirecting reactive behaviors; includes Behavioral Management Checklist.
- Two Squeakies is a fun, motivational retrieve and "out" building exercise.
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