Will has been training dogs for over 30 years. With his first Retriever, he learned from hunters around him and through books available, using the widely accepted methods of e-collars, choke chains and other aversive training techniques. In 2013, Will’s wife, Andrea, took her new puppy to a local training class and came home with a clicker. Convinced she had been sold a container of snake oil at the county fair, Will went on an educational journey to prove how ineffective clicker training is. The more he tried to prove her wrong, the more he realized that positive reinforcement was more in line with how he wanted to train his own dogs. To this day, she reminds him that he was the one who was indeed wrong. This journey of discovery eventually led him to the Karen Pryor Academy, from which he graduated with distinction as a Karen Pryor Academy Certified Training Partner (KPA CTP). Whether teaching classes or giving seminars, Will combines humor and science to explain to his audience that his goal is not to train dogs, but to teach people how to communicate with their dogs for a strong, mutually understanding relationship.
Will and Andrea live in Northwest Montana and own Columbia Mountain Canine Center. They have four grown children who, for the most part, have forgiven them for all the times they were deliberately embarrassing. They have far too many dogs living in their house to be considered sane, but it keeps all the kids from moving back in. Will is also the founder and director of K9 Partners for America’s Warriors (K9 PAWS), a non-profit organization providing service dogs to veterans.
The seminar will be held at the Idaho Falls Activity Center, which is located at 1575 N Skyline Dr, Idaho Falls, ID 83402
OBEDIENCE TO ODOR SEMINAR
WHAT IS IT AND HOW DO WE GET IT?
February 9 & 10, 2019 8:30-3:30
- Get Ready, Get Set, Slow Down To Go Fast
- Where have we been and where are we going on this sniffing journey
- Classical Conditioning to Odor
- Teach your dog to LOVE LOVE LOVE odor
- Shaping Fluency To Odor
- What does Fluency look like in Scent Detection
- Odor at a distance
- Generalizing Odor
- Dog will learn to indicate on visible odor targets
- Vertical Odor
- Dog will learn to indicate on odor targets placed vertically
- Discriminations
TOTAL RECALL
February 9, 2019 3:30-5:00
Does your dog come when called, or only when she wants to? Does she have trouble coming away from distractions such as other dogs or something on the ground? Does she come part way and then kindly invite you to chase her?
This seminar will break down the behavior chain of recall, give you a step by step guide to each step of the recall chain so that you can be reasonably assured your dog will be like Arnold when she says, “I’ll Be Back!”
WALK THIS WAY
LOOSE LEASH WALKING SEMINAR
February 10, 2019 3:30-5:00
Are you tired of being pulled like a water skier while walking your pup?
Would you like to no longer use a prong collar, e-collar or choke chain to get your dog to walk respectfully with you?
What is Loose Leash Walking?
More fun and relaxed than the stricter “heel“ position, loose leash walking is useful when you are giving your dog permission to sniff, explore and relieve himself as long as he stays with you and doesn’t put tension on the leash. The goal is to have a dog that will walk nicely on your side, slightly in front of or slightly in back of you.
I will show you a proven step by step plan to teach your dog how to walk on a loose leash that we use to teach our service dogs.
