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Hi I'm Alex Lato, M.Sc. Animal Science, Dog Trainer & Author 📖 🐕 Discover my clear dog training frameworks for companion and performance dogs.

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Learning Hub Q&A nr 1
hey guys this is the recording of the last night's q&a. we cover couple of topics like news and what is coming to this community, importance and essence of impulse control, biting hands and communication during play, general confidence training and bit of fear reactivity.
Learning Hub Q&A nr 1
LIVE Tonight! 🚨⚠️
See you guys at 6.30 tonight. ,You can still post your questions. Ps. I have webinar for you "Play in Reactivity Training' :)
Street heeling 1st session.
Hey Team - in this video I show recorded the first session of everyday heelwork (this is NOT focus heelwork we have in the course HH -even though there are some similarities) Even though later on I want my dog to walk with the head down looking at the environment I start with the dog looking at me (face). Reason? dogs are learning placement shoulder-leg on the left much faster as they are much more focused. Also keeping this level of focus (dog looking at our face constantly) is simply not sustainable as dogs cannot walk like that on long distances. Therefore as I progress I allow my dog to look wherever they want and look at me only if I say their name. Teaching dog to switch back and forth look wherever you like - look at me has some practical advantages especially with reactive dogs at early stages of their training or easily distracted dogs. When I walk past the trigger eye contact with the trigger eg. other dog is much more confrontational. I can simply ask my dog hey look at me, your safe with me, you don't have to deal with that. Similar thing we do in our human world - we don't make deep eye contact with other people walking past. Then if someone is staring at us ( that make at least me bit uncomfortable) we often look away or look at the phone to avoid confrontation. With my dogs I want the to look at me and get my support when walking past triggers before they are ready to just ignore them. I will also do that with my perfectly friendly and social dogs- when walking past distractions I will often ask them to look at me so they are less tempted :) Let me know if you have any questions! ps. I have spaniel for residential training now- one of the goals is to teach street heeling. I'm tempted to document that. Shall I?
Street heeling 1st session.
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@Sere Tonelli yess motivation, communication (understanding) and consistency as foundations of successful dog training!
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Hi Rachel, great questions! 1) I (almost) always give 2 week challenge to my clients- feed 100% on walks on exercises that are our priority. anyone can do 2 weeks. If they don';t want to do it it is like asking personal trainer for 6 pack but keeping eating donuts every day... I usually don't work with owners that they don't want to reward a dog or build reward history or they don't want to play... worth to mention that food is not the only one reinforcer we can use. But it is very convenient - we can do a lot of reps in shorter amount of time, easy to use even by unskilled handlers (easier than eg. toy play or social reward that has real value). Then of course there are ways to get it without using single piece of food or play. I just don't train this way. After saying it I don't take any food, barely ever the toys on my regular walks with my dogs. But they have huuuge history of being rewarded and habits - eg. on pavements we dog walking to heel or we walk past distractions this way. So they offer that behaviour even though I rarely reward with food. 2) Those owners didn't mind the jumping but I would adjust if they did. Here the dog wasn't that familiar with me and it was rather on sensitive side so I let him to do it on reasonable level. In PWP we break down social play and in one example I had a gsd that owners didn't like the jumping so I adjusted to that. Hope that helps!
Ask me a question🚨 Next Live Q&A! Tuesday (07.04) at 6.30 pm (London time).
Hey Team, thank you for joining this group especially Premium and Vip Membership. Next Tuesday (07.04) at 6.00-6.30 pm (London time) I will do live Q&A for ALL tiers of membership including free. If you have any questions about anything please post them in the comments section or ask them live. ps. depending on interest I may include short webinar for you 🤓 Ps. Live will be recorded and available to watch later if you cannot make the date/time and you want ask me something. Let me know if you are coming 🤩
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@Petra Oltheten yes no problem :)
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@Karen Johnston sorry to see that but i get it 4 am is brutal. We will record the live as always so if you have any questions I will answer them and will be availalble in the recording :)
Announcement 🚨
Hey Team, Play with Purpose Pro and Heelwork for Dummies (soon Heelwork Hackers) is now available here in the classroom for Premium and Vip members. In Premium membership you get access to the course and any future content that will be added including case studies etc. I will be also doing live Q&A's for Premium Members. However if you prefer my direct coaching Vip membership is for you. You will be added to private coaching group where I will give you my feedback to your videos, tailor strategies to you and your dog, answer your questions during regular Q&A's and you can also learn from other coaching members. ⚠️Now all memberships are discounted and if you sign up now you will secure discount forever! If you have any questions let me know please!
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@Samantha Preece more than happy to - good weather is included in training 😂
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@Tina Walker great!!!
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