• Separation Problems
    • Attachment types (1960s-1970s – research with children)
      • Secure attached – healthy
      • Insecure attached – over attached
      • Insecure avoidant – avoid contact
      • Insecure ambivalent – conflicted
      • Insecure disorganised – different types of attachment
    • Work on secure attached relationship
  • Agression to owner
    • Trust
    • Safety
    • Punitive techniques
    • Inconsistency
    • Not reading body language (both ways)
    • Lack of dialogue
  • Reactivity
    • Owner providing feeling of safety?
    • What decisions is the owner making
    • How is the owner helping dog make right choice
    • Risk of relationship being disrupted by reactivity
  • Training problems
    • Recall
      • Owner not interactive
      • Owner needs to be more exciting
      • Need to provide reason to come back
      • Is dog focussing and listening?
    • Jumping up
      • Inconsistency
      • Different reactions
      • Reinforcing jumping up
      • No reaction – frustration
      • Ignore?  Why does the dog feel the need to jump up?
  • Other problems
    • Issues in multi dog households
    • Owner doesn’t bond with dog
      • Personality clash
      • Ghost of previous dog
    • Responds better to one person than another
      • Punitive and strict – what are the consequences?
      • Consistency in training
  • What can we do?
    • More dog training
    • More details
    • Inexperienced training
      • Frustration
      • Lack of motivation
      • A chore
      • Lack of focus
      • Over excitement
  • How to train for relationship building
    • Rewards = something your dog likes (dog chooses)
    • Appropriate/changeable rewards
  • What does your dog want?
    • 3 types of rewards
      • Food
      • Toys
      • Praise
        • Access to things that they want
    • Test
      • 3 types of food
        • Soft
        • Dry
        • Moist
      • In fist, dog sniffs, dog eats
        • 3 times with each one
        • Mix up (was hands in between)
        • What gets best reaction?
  • Training style
    • Intuitive
      • Read dog well
      • Train when you and dog feel like it
      • No set structures or plans
      • Don’t train something your dog doesn’t enjoy
      • Lots of tricks but may be unfinished
      • Gut feelings rather than planned
    • Methodical
      • Step by step plan
      • Clear end goal
      • Work specifically on one thing
      • Specific times set aside for training
      • Fewer behaviours but higher standards
      • List pros and cons
    • Good to be on both sides of the spectrum
  • Communication style
    • What does dog do when it wants something
    • What does dog do when it doesn’t want to do something
    • What do they do went scared
    • What do they do when happy
  • Choices
    • Walk
      • Follow the dog
    • Eat
      • Food platters
    • Grooming
      • Bucket game
    • Play
      • Types of toys and games
    • Sleep
      • More beds
    • Alone time
    • Access to us
    • Who they interact with
    • Flexibility within boundaries
    • Wrong choices?
      • Why are they making the wrong choice?
        • Personality
        • Learned behaviour
        • Genetics
        • Early life experience
    • Right choices?
      • Give more choice
      • Teach MEB
      • Reinforce
      • Management
      • Set up for success
      • Relationship
  • Improve relationship
    • Training
    • Enrichment
    • Exploration
    • Understanding body language
    • Observation
    • Reduce punishment
    • Dog sports
  • Recap
    • Where does your relationship effect problem areas
    • What motivates your dog
    • What training style suits your dog
    • Improve training skills to more training more enjoyable
    • Increase choices