Live Q&A Call for Questions! & Live Special Topics: Training Impulse Control and Calmness (Patreon)

Q&A Live: Monday 05/22/23 @4:00pm ET (link below)

Special Topics Live: Teaching Impulse Control, Calmness and Neutrality (Inner Circle, Elite, Top Fan): Thursday 05/25/23 @9:30 am ET (link in separate post)

PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDAR! :)

Reminder that our livestreams are via Zoom and I will post the YouTube replay link after the event with a brief summary of the topics covered. You can always go back and watch past livestreams even if you can't be there live. Participants will be muted so please put follow-up questions that pop up during the Zoom in the chat box. Reminder that questions should be related to the topic I am currently covering. If I forget to turn closed captioning on, please remind me!

Those members who are at the "Crew" ($6/month) level or above are able to submit one question per month with their membership.

The cut-off for submitting questions is 2 days prior to the Zoom (Saturday May 20th) so that I have time to prepare. Please limit questions to 1 per person so I have time to answer them within the hour. Questions should be general enough that I don't need to know your specific dog/behavior to answer the question (this also allows everyone to benefit from the question). If you're looking for more specific feedback on your dog, be sure to join the Elite or Top Fan membership level for video review of your training.

The Special Topics livestream this month is going to be on Impulse Control, Calmness and Neutrality. I'll be combining a bunch of Patron requests to discuss impulse control and creating calmness around distractions.

We will touch on training for settling, as well as building a dog that ignores things in their environment, along with games to help train a dog to focus on you when distractions are present, as well as how you need to set your dog up to be successful at different stages in your dog’s life. (Video of Whip displaying neutral calm behavior during Clicker Expo 2018 with loads of people and dogs walking by. She is 1.5 years old in the video).

This special topics will focus a lot on settling and neutrality in stationary positions. I do have plans for further special topics on building neutrality while moving. Some of the games and exercises we discuss will also lend themselves to neutrality while moving, but we're starting with settling because if your dog isn't able to ignore distractions while stationary, they will generally have a hard time doing it while moving. Building settling and neutrality starts at home so many of the things we discuss you'll be able to start right today!

To access this special topics livestream, a link will appear on the feed for Inner Circle and Elite members later today. If this interests you, you can upgrade your membership at any time, and as always, you can watch any past livestream replays, both special topics and Q&A.

Back to the Live Q&A: Please post your questions for the March 20th livestream below in the comments!

See you next week!

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