Ways You Could Be Sabotaging Your Training Sessions

By Tammy L Hein

Are you struggling to train your dog?

This book can help!

Written by a certified Dog Trainer this book is designed to offer general dog training troubleshooting. The intent is to identify and address things you might unknowingly be doing that can sabotage your best training efforts and hinder your beloved companion's pr

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tammys Training Canine Services
• Release date: Feb 19, 2021
• ISBN: 9781777516116

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Tammy L. Hein

Ways You Could Be Sabatoging Your Training Sessions

and How To Fix Them!

Copyright © 2021 by Tammy L. Hein

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Contents

Chapter 1

About This Book

Chapter 2

What Is Clicker Training?

Chapter 3

Body language isn’t consistent with verbal cues.

Chapter 4

Subconsciously inconsistent

Chapter 5

Rewards don’t motivate your dog.

Chapter 6

Advancing too quickly.

Chapter 7

Pushing to frustration.

Chapter 8

Manage the environment

Chapter 9

Conclusion

About the Author

Chapter 1

About This Book

In this book, I have outlined a few ways you could be accidentally sabotaging your training sessions. These are small, subtle things that I have noticed happen most commonly over the past decade. I have either seen this happen with one of my clients or experienced these in my training.

We go through each point and break them down. This enables us to see training sessions just a little differently. I include my experiences throughout my life that may help you understand each point. We try to put ourselves in our dog’s paws. This allows us to see solutions we otherwise may miss.

I have seen these mistakes occur many times. I know I have made these same mistakes. When I look back on my life, I can see where I could have changed the outcome of some training sessions. Times where I failed to look at the training session through my dog’s eyes. It helps to look at these situations from their perspective to enable us to find alternative solutions.

Many times I get told My dog’s not trainable, or, He’s too stupid to learn new things. A very famous saying is, You can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Most often people will blame their dog’s breed for not catching onto something.

My dog is a Pug so he can’t do agility. Huskies can’t learn to come when called. Sometimes it’s a location. My dog only listens to me in class. or My dog only listens at home.

I could go on and on about misconceptions in dog training. Most of these I have seen get debunked. I have seen pugs play agility and get titles from participating in the sport. I have taught classes where the Husky in the group had