What Are Life Skills?
What are Life Skills ?
A lot of other trainers focus on sit, stay, down, obedience work. They certainly have a place, don't get me wrong !
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But, there is more to dog ownership than teaching those common behaviours ! We want our dogs to have life skills to be able to navigate our complex world.
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What are some example life skills ?
Recall
Loose lead walking
Vet visits
Car travel
Cooperative care
Disengagement from distractions and neutrality
Household manners
Visitors
Confidence
And much more !!!
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Why does Wise K9 feel these are important ?
Dogs and owners need to learn these life skills.
Let's walk through an example topic: You may think you don't need to work on vet visits, you've got a happy-go-lucky, healthy adolescent, who loved the vets !
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But, then perhaps you have a visit where your dog has a very sore paw and you and your dog didn't have the skills to help them in the situation.
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Your dog's sore paw caused them to be more reluctant with the vet, they even snapped at the vet because they were sore.
In the situation your dog needed a muzzle popping on for safety, your dog became even more stressed and now your dog doesn't like to see the vet.
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Whereas, if you went to a class on vet visit and Co-operative care, you would have learnt skills on how to do muzzle training, strategies on cooperative care to let them lead the care, and also strategies if they have a stressful time at the vets.
Making the whole experience better.
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How does the class work ?
Classes at 60 mins (£12 per session), pay as you go.
The topics change routinely, some topics are just 1 session of learning, some are larger sessions and span a few weeks.
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You simply sign up for the sessions you are interested in.
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Where to find the topics?
These are advertised on the Wise K9 Facebook page, under events.
Hope to see you at a session soon !