Learning to Interrupt – Controlling Prey-Driven Dogs Around Wildlife

With a colorful bouquet of needs-based rewards and a good breeze of diverse waiting skills, humans and dogs will tackle the next training stage: interrupting unwanted hunting behavior: stopping and recalling from wildlife. Less "wild" competition stimulates the training business, so interrupting also ensures less reinforcement of the precarious puzzle pieces. Waiting beyond expectations forms the training foundation on which we now want to build. In many furred and feathered situations, we have been able to reverse the dog's expectations; in "wild" environments, the dog's brain now expects gratification from the human world. It is easier for our dogs to be recalled or stopped in the presence of fur if we carry these expectations with us in our training baggage. Just as diverse as the rewards and waiting are, so are the training possibilities around interrupting. Here, building up stopping and recalling is on one training sheet, while creating and maintaining the motivation to stop or come even in the heat of the chase is on another: What is worthwhile will be learned!

Anja Fiedler explains,

• when the right time has come to consider interrupting
• which variations of recalling and stopping have proven successful in training practice
• the build-up of the double recall, stop whistle, change of direction, and much more
• why changing attention is our ticket into the dog's world and how we can support it
• the generalization of stopping and recalling in "wild" action
• how, despite generalization, the highest possible motivation is built and maintained.

Note: All three webinars can be used individually. However, depending on your own training and knowledge level, it is recommended to attend all three webinars. A comprehensive explanation of the theory that forms the basis for Anja Fiedler's training can be found in the webinar "Stopping and Recalling Hunting-Motivated Dogs: Hunting Behavior in Hand" Link to the webinar

The other two webinars:
"Learning to Wait – Controlling Hunting-Motivated Dogs with Wildlife" Link to the webinar
"Rewarding According to Needs – Controlling Hunting-Motivated Dogs with Wildlife" Link to the webinar

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

Photo credit: Anna Auerbach/ Kosmos