We Work for Treats
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    let's reel-in your dogs leash reactivity together

    Reel In Leash Reactivity Course 250$ CAD

    • Learn.. "why is your dog reactive?"
    • How to stop your reactive dog lunging and barking...
    • Loose Leash Walking + Wrangling Skills
    • Tons of Extra Resources to help navigate any individual struggles.

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    Who is this course for?

    Dog owners struggling with lunging, barking, spinning, growling, freezing (and so on) at: 


    • Dogs
    • People
    • Skateboarders and Cars
    • Prey (wild life)
    • Things that go BOO!


    ... when their dog is on leash!

    What's Included

    What's Included

    • Why is my dog upset? Course Content (value FREE)
    • My Fearful Dog - Ultimate Support Guide Course Content (value 100$)
    • Tension to Connection - Guide to Loose Leash Walking Course Content  (value 100$)
    • EXCLUSIVE: Specialized Leash Reactivity Training Plans and Guides only available in the Reel-In Leash Reactivity Course (value 300$)
    • Workbook to Personalize Your Journey (value 100$)

     
    VALUE: 600$ of Dog Training Content for ONLY 250$ CAD 


    Content Details:

    • Over 200 Minutes of Video Content in the core course material 
    • Growing Extra Resource material currently at 45 Minutes of Video Content 
    • Each chapter has various teaching offerings, from text guides, video and downloadable handouts

    Course Curriculum

    Course Curriculum

    Reel-In Leash Reactivity

    Starting Point for Leash Reactivity

    • Learn the foundations of the course flow 
    • Triage Training Approach specific to Leash Reactivity - Manage, Diagnose, Train
    • Building a foundational knowledge of what is reactivity, why it happens and how we move forward from here.
    • Exclusive  Leash Reactivity Content
    • Chapter content details: text support, video (6:19) and downloadable handout


    Management for Success

    • What is Management and its Function
    • Goals of Management
    • Solutions specific to Leash Reactivity - exclusive content
    • Management for dogs experiencing Fear and Aggression 
    • Chapter content details: text support, two videos (total 5:31) and downloadable handout


    Harness and Equipment

    • Muzzle, Harness, Leash and Treats - tips and tricks of suggested equipment to best support your management protocol and move forward with the training in the course
    • Chapter content details: text support and video (4:19)


    Why is my dog upset?

    • Function of a Fearful Dogs Behaviour - how does it serve them
    • How Triage Training is Implemented
    • Chapter content details: text support, two videos (total 14:36) and downloadable handout


    Not-Upset but Unmet Needs

    • The Why's of a dog that is exhibiting undesirable behaviours'
    • Chapter content details: text support (video coming soon, and additional enrichment ideas for leash reactive dogs)


    Diagnostics

    • The ABC's of Learning to better understand your dogs reactivity
    • How to Conduct a Functional Analysis
    • Why can aggression worsen
    • Body Language Literacy
    • Chapter content details: text support, two videos (total 9:19) and body literacy pdf file


    Why is my Dog Reactive?

    • Function of Leash Reactivity specifically - how does your dogs reactivity serve them - exclusive content
    • We dive into some insight of typical reasons dogs are reactive... It's all so normal (hint!)
    • Chapter content details: text support, video (4:29) and downloadable handout


    How Dogs Learn

    • The bread and butter on the principles to Learning Theory. We get a little geeky here!
    • What is Operant Conditioning and Counter-Conditioning and how these procedures are applied in dog training
    • Chapter content details: text support, video (6:42) and two downloadable handouts


    Desensitization and Counter-Conditioning

    • What is Systematic Desensitization
    • The core principles of utilizing Counter-Conditioning when helping dogs that have Fear and Aggression
    • How we apply both Systematic Desensitization and Counter-Conditioning to Leash Reactivity - exclusive content 
    • Chapter content details: text support, two videos (total 7:09) and downloadable handout


    Opportunistic Counter-Conditioning

    • Counter-Conditioning is so much more than throwing food. We dive into all the important rules here. 
    • How to actually execute this in Real Life with some great real life moment videos with various dogs - exclusive content
    • Chapter content details: text support, four videos (total 21:50) and downloadable handout


    Training an Alternate Behaviour

    • Why trainers may choose to train an alternate behaviour and their benefits
    • How training alternate behaviours can benefit dogs with Fear and Aggression
    • How we are going to do both with a well tailored plan, teaching our dog Watch Me - exclusive content
    • Chapter content details: text support, three videos (total 11:54) 


    Yes and Feed

    • What is Clicker Training
    • How we use Marker Words in Reactivity - exclusive content
    • How to Charge your Clicker (or Marker Word)
    • Chapter content details: text support, video (2:27) and downloadable handout


    Finding Reinforceable Moments

    • Exclusive content on how to Capture behaviour with our dogs on walk, and how this can best combat reactivity - with real life example video content
    • Chapter content details: text support, video (3:41) 


    Leash Wrangling

    • Proactive stance education on how to best hold the leash to reduce tension on the leash
    • Building new skills for dog owners to have in moments their dogs trigger is spotted
    • A training plan for owners on how to leash lock, and re-leash lock to adjust your leash length, along with other leash holding techniques and support
    • Chapter content details: text support, seven videos (total 8:13) and downloadable handout


    Why Leash Skills are Important

    • Starting Point for Loose Leash Walking guide
    • Why having a loose leash when walking a reactive dog is so important - exclusive content
    • Chapter content details: text support, video (3:17) and downloadable handout


    Eye Contact and Heel Exercise

    • Building your dogs reinforcement zone
    • Exercises on how to teach your dog heel, and eye contact on walks - drills to do at home and how to then take those skills on walks
    • Tips and Real Life reactive dog examples - exclusive content
    • Chapter content details: text support, five videos (17:40) 


    Turn and Go for Management

    • Your new alternate behaviour and a tool to help your dog move with you on walks
    • Step by Step guide and tips on how to execute Turn and Goes
    • Chapter content details: text support, ten videos (10:08) and downloadable handout


    Putting it All Together

    • How it all comes together: management protocol, proactive leash wrangling skills, loose leash walking and turn and goes and how they aid in keeping your dog under threshold.
    • Chapter content details: text support (video coming soon, and variety of exercises)


    Watch me Frontloading Exercise

    • Exclusive content - essentially step 0 of the Watch Me plan
    • Chapter content details: video (0:28) and downlodable handout


    Working Through a Training Plan

    • The bible on building training skills like a trainer, and how to execute the following training plan of Watch Me Steps 1-7
    • Chapter content details: video (8:32) and downloadable handout


    Watch Me Steps 1-7 (split up into 3 chapters)

    • Watch Me - Food Distractions Cue Installation - Steps 1-3
    • Watch Me - It's Alive - Steps 4-6
    • Watch Me - moving into real life, but first - Step 7

    Each chapter breaks down each step and tips along the way on how to move through the exercises if your dog is needing additional steps to get it. Exclusive content - chapter content details: videos (total 3:53, 12:53, 1:37 - respectively) and two downloadable handouts 


    Training Reactivity in Real Life

    • How do we take the information from Chapter on Training, and Chapter on Training Watch Me and put them to the test in Real Life, while brining our Leash Wrangling skills along with us?
    • Exclusive Content
    • Chapter content details: text support (video coming soon)


    Desensitization in Practice for Reactivity

    • How do we strategically peal back management? 
    • What if we make a mistake and our dog reacts? 
    • Exclusive Content
    • Chapter content details: text support, video (5:05)


    The Behaviour Modification Plan

    • How do we move through a plan, when implementing Triage Training
    • How we implement our Functional Analysis skills from the Diagnostics chapter
    • Chapter content details: text support, video (7:07)


    Story of a Reactive Dog - Phife

    • Exclusive Content
    • Phife was on Week 3 of the program, and moving into real life... this is what his first walk in real life looked like. 
    • Chapter content details: video (23:13)


    Parameter Building for Reactivity

    • The rules around pealing back management strategically, and what the specific parameters are in reactivity - exclusive content
    • Chapter content details: text support and video (11:05)


    Finding Flexibility Each Day

    • Progress isn't linear, but how do you move from your first walk back in real life, and start applying all the training you have learned in this course
    • Chapter content details: text support and video (3:35)


    Current Additional Chapters (and still growing and adding to this library):

    • Developing a Payment Plan
    • Guide to Bait Prep
    • Shaping for Social
    • Context Cues
    • Charlie Brown's Teacher
    • Motivation
    • Trigger Stacking
    • What is Positive Reinforcement
    • Does Telling my Dog No Work?
    • Hot Take on Harnesses
    • Redirect Bites
    • Beware of Behaviour Chains
    • Come Squirrel Hunting w Me
    • Teaching Heel with a Hand Signal


    Are you ready to Reel In Leash Reactivity now?

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    Meet your Course instructor

    Nicole Barnett CTC, CSAT

    Nicole has been working with dogs since 2011. She started operating a small scale dog walking company, later expanding it to a corporation, employing a small team of fellow dog lovers and dog training enthusiasts.


    Upon her journey with Sparky's Comrade Inc. she became heavily invested in learning more about dog wellness and behaviour. Her journey to become a force free and positive reinforcement trainer started there. She enrolled in The Academy for Dog Trainers in hopes of gaining an in-depth understanding of Applied Behaviour Analysis as well as a foundation of its application to Dog Training... and things snowballed from there:


    Certifications Achieved:


    • CTC - Certified Trainer and Counsellor w/ The Academy for Dog Trainers, 2019
    • CSAT - Certified Separation Anxiety Trainer w/ Malena DeMartini, 2021
    • Living and Learning with Animals w/ Dr. Susan Friedman, 2020
    • Family Paws Parent Educator, 2021 (course completed, no longer an affiliate) 


    Other Seminars and Certifications:


    • Pet First Aid w/ Walks'n'Wags, renewed in 2018
    • Defensive Handling with Aggressive Dogs w/ Michael Shikashio, 2018
    • Canine Nutrition Seminar w/ Wholesome Canine, 2018
    • Lemonade Conference w/ FDSA, 2020, and 2021
    • Geek Week w/ Pet Professional Guild, 2020
    • Fear Free Shelter Certification, 2020


    The basis of Nicole's education and experience is centered around working with dogs who struggle with Separation Anxiety and Fear-Aggression based behaviour problems. She is most passionate about working with dogs that have a bitey-barky way of saying 'no thanks, I'm scared' and those that find being left alone is scary. Her compassion for working so well with clients in these areas of difficulties comes from her own struggles with her dog Peanut. A nearly 10 year old foxy-gremlin who has a lot to say, and packs a lot of punch when she's uncomfortable. Be prepared for some relatable Peanut stories when meeting with Nicole and know you are NOT ALONE!

    want to work 1-on-1 with Nicole?

    Leash Reactivity Course and Coaching - 700$ CAD

    Weekly Coaching Sessions:

    • 1x fifty minute Initial Consult
    • 3x thirty five minute Homework Coach Sessions


    Includes:

    • Course - Reel In Leash Reactivity
    • Functional Assessment on your dog's specific Reactivity
    • Parameter Building Plan for Real Life
    • Real-Time Coaching on Training Exercises and Homework Sheet provided after each session
    • Accountability and Email Support

    Enroll and Book Now

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