Beginner Skill Checklist

We recommend you print this list to keep track of what skills you have learned.

Download this resource HERE.

Concepts:

• Positive Reinforcement

• The most common but critical training mistake (A.C.T.)

• Three forms of inadvertent reinforcement (S.E.T.)

• Clicker training

• Manners v. Obedience

• Management

• The Calming Exercise, tethering, and self-soothing

• Defining behaviors and our “mantra”

• Read all articles in “Training Resources”

• Consequences

• How to teach your dog to stop doing something (“no” + spray bottle)

• Staging training scenarios

• Trouble shooting 

• Leadership

• Feeding protocols

• Blocking

• Protocol for difficult dogs

• Nothing In Life is Free (optional)

Manners Exercises: 

• The Calming Exercise

• Greeting people politely

• Impulse control

• Eye contact exercise

• Loose leash walking (LLW)

• Follow-Me turns

• Yield-to-Me turns

• Pressure and release

• Leash handling techniques

• Blocking

• Feeding protocols

Obedience:

• Sit

• Down

• Come

• Stay/implied stays

• Place

• The 3D’s

• Duration

• Distance

• Distractions

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