Training for unwanted hunting behavior in a triad: Communication, Motivation & Attention

Reducing unwanted hunting behavior, making it regulatable and controllable through desired behavior – why is that so difficult? Signals from the human world must be meaningful to be heard in the dog world, but how do we achieve that? Building behavioral signals usually comes easily to both human and dog. But how does the team develop a training history where the dog's brain makes decisions in favor of the human world at the training goal, because the motivational state is right even under "wild" training conditions? Meaningful stimuli attract attention, meaningless ones are filtered out – it's attention grabbers that we need in training!

Anja Fiedler explains:
• how we create meaningful signals,
• what form and function communicative signals should have,
• why in the end it's all a matter of motivation,
• what makes for a motivating training story in a "wild" neighborhood,
• how humans can attract attention in the dog's brain, and
• what attention is all about.

The Speaker
Anja Fiedler is the head of the dog training school "dogable – what (hunting) dogs want". With her diverse seminar program, she travels throughout Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
More about the author: http://www.dogable.de/node/5

Accreditation as Further Training
The webinar is recognized by the veterinary chambers of Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony as 2.5 hours of further training; our certificate of attendance must be submitted for this. https://www.kosmos.de/teilnahmebestaetigung

Photo credit: Anna Auerbach/ Kosmos