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The Social Confidence Method™️
There are six factors that lead to Social Confidence, which is my method to help you develop and/or regain your dog's ability to successfully socialize around others!
If you would like your dog to be more calm, quiet, happy, and polite around other people (guests, kids, neighbors, strangers) and/or other animals (cats, dogs, livestock, etc), then these six factors are pivotal:
Environment:
The fastest way to improve behavior is to change something about the environment! It's important to choose, create, and train in productive environments, where your dog is capable of learning new skills, without being overwhelmed or overstimulated. We'll methodically advance with our training, step-by-step, and incrementally increase the challenge until we find success in the most challenging of environments.
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Health:
We'll address concerns related to gut health, diet, allergies, supplements, medical history, past trauma, and stress hormones, so that you have the best chance at influencing and improving your dog's behavior. Most dog trainers skip the importance of these health factors, but they greatly influence behavior and overall well-being!
Motivation:
The foundation of behavioral training involves training with food! Therefore, we'll develop and improve your dog's food drive (the desire to *eat* food when *offered* food) so that we can train with food in more challenging and stressful environments. Without "motivation" (ie: food drive), influencing a dog to change behavior is much more difficult. So, finding and building "motivation" is imperative!
Energy:
The dogs who "need dog training" are usually the most energetic or impulsive dogs! Big problems happen when energy is HIGH! So, we'll develop calm behavior by teaching your dog how to relax and lower their baseline energetic levels, so that your dog isn't so aroused or impulsive around stimulating things (ie: neighbors, cats, other dogs, and more)!
Emotions:
Dogs are emotional beings, and their emotions play a huge role in behavior. Anxious, fearful, reactive and/or aggressive dogs have *negative, pessimistic* thoughts and emotions, and we want to *shift and improve* their emotional state! We'll help your dog become emotionally and mentally happy, optimistic, and at-ease in more stressful moments, so that you aren't overwhelmed by resultant barking, growling, or lunging.
Boundaries:
We'll help your dog learn how to approach others in a slower, less-intense, and more polite fashion. This ensures the safety and comfort of other people and other animals during greetings (ie: guest arrival) and direct interactions (ie: dogs meeting other dogs).
Whether your dog experienced an under-socialized past, an unfortunate past, or even if their behavioral tendencies appear to be genetic, we can still improve your dog's social skills! We'll teach your dog how to be more polite and respectful when they greet and directly interact with other people and other animals! These more complex, advanced aspects of training are not commonly taught in traditional obedience-based dog training programs, but my speciality involves teaching social skills to anxious, fearful, reactive and/or aggressive dogs.
Does this process feel aligned with what you need? If so, then keep scrolling! 🙂
Behavioral Training Programs
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Social Dog Mastery™️
This is my most popular program! If your dog does not behave well when it *sees, hears, or directly interacts* with people (guests, kids, family, friends, neighbors, strangers) or other animals (cats, dogs, livestock, etc), then this is the program for you! Social Dog Mastery™️ is a comprehensive, premium program that equips dedicated dog owners with reward- and relaxation-based training techniques to treat their dog's anxious, fearful, reactive, or impulsive behavior in order to develop or regain calm, polite, and appropriate social skills. Help transform your dog from *embarrassing* to *well-behaved.* The COMPLETE Social Confidence Method™️ is ONLY available within Social Dog Mastery™️!
This is only online program that teaches you how to:
✅ Orchestrate safe dog-to-dog introductions and direct interactions
✅ Handle guest arrival and greetings with confidence
✅ Establish respectful personal space etiquette with pushy, rude, or "forward-moving" dogs
✅ Develop your dog's polite and appropriate social skills around other people (kids, family, friends, neighbors, strangers) and/or other animals (cats, other dogs, horses, etc)
Payment plans start at $297!
Additional Mini-Courses
Motivation Matters™️
Is your dog a voracious eater, who stops eating when stressed? Or, is your dog a picky eater, who isn't that food-motivated in the first place? Behavioral training involves training with food, except not all dogs are super food-motivated! Without "motivation" (ie: food drive), your dog will plateau in training -- and that's not helpful! Inside Motivation Matters™️, we'll problem-solve and build your dog's food drive so that we can reliably use food to solve much bigger behavioral problems (for example: when a guest arrives, or when your dog sees another dog outside)! If you try to train your dog with food, but your dog *doesn't always eat*, then this mini-course is for you!
Only $27! ($197 Value!)
Off-Switch System™️
If your dog can be excitable, energetic, impulsive, hyper, or restless at times... or if your dog's energy SPIKES from 0 to 60 in 3 seconds flat in response to noises, vehicles, or other "distractions" near your home... then joining the Off-Switch System™️ mini-course will be a fantastic choice for you! Inside the Off-Switch System™️, I'll teach you one relaxation training technique so that you can help your energetic dog learn how to regulate (lower) their energy, self-soothe, and calm down. This relaxation training technique is considered a foundational technique within our Social Confidence Method™️. Get a *piece of the puzzle* with this jam-packed mini-course, at a very affordable price point!
Only $47! ($395 Value)
Note: If you aren't sure which training option is best for you (even if that means that you're debating between *me* and *another trainer*, then definitely register for my FREE Socialization Masterclass to learn more about your dog's behavior, before you begin ANY training program! This Masterclass is jam-packed with training details, tips, and tricks... it's definitely worth your time!
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