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News November 2008
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November in England conjurors up grey, drizzle, fog, cold evenings. Yep, we’re right on target!
My Winter will be brightened with Flinky Babes. Winter pups are somewhat outside my usual preference for summer pups, but I really wanted lovely Quincy’s genes under the Genabacab umbrella, but he is now rising 12 years old, so time was not on our side. Now that, for me, the BEST Christmas. No space for trees or other paraphernalia!
Hope to see a few of you at the last Multi Sport event for this year: Sunday Nov 30th level 1 & 2 in the morning, Level 3 & 4 in the afternoon and the first Tracking Options with Alyson.
Kay
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Christmas Gifts you REALLY want ..
“learning lasts a lifetime”
The only type of “crunch” my dogs know about is the biscuit variety, “credit” means nothing to them - thank goodness. There’s nothing like viewing life from the dogs’ perspective to blow away the financial stresses.
10% OFF Courses & workshops
Book on line for Courses & workshops before December 24th and get 10% off. If you are buying the gift for someone else, please remember to let us know their name and contact details - but of course you can buy the gift for yourself ...... !
NEW Book from Kay Laurence
Training through Reinforcement: In Every Day and Every Way
This will be published early 2009 with an accompanying DVD.
Reinforcement is a fascinating topic that threads through all interaction with our dogs. Our conscious and unconscious reinforcement strengthens or weakens behaviour. By understanding and recognising reinforcement patterns we can teach with ease, remove a lot of stress from communication and lift our relationship to a level of joy.
To me it affects our lives in so many ways - from going through the garden gate to settling down in the lounge in the evenings. From teaching calmness in the company of other dogs to walking on sunshine heelwork. It is more than worthy of a Kay Laurence Book - it needs a DVD to illustrate as well.
You can order a pre-publish copy with £5 off the Book and £5 off the DVD. Book price after 1 Jan 2009: £24, buy now at £19. DVD price after 1 Jan 2009: £20, buy now at £15 (inc VAT for EU countries).
The DVD is not intended as a stand alone DVD, but as an illustration of the processes and strategies covered in the book.
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New Virtual Courses:
K-Class available from 1 Dec
This is an open format class with Kay Laurence, where you “drop in” at any time. Your fee covers a six week period, where you can:
- ask advice on specific training issues that need solutions & ideas
- seek understanding of a training process
- broaden your learning base
- train under supervision, with regular virtual feedback
- ideas for your own classes
This course is ideal if you would like to teach a new behaviour but would benefit from developing a step by step plan and supervision through the training. £75 (inc VAT) for six weeks.
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The Inside Track on Reinforcement
Starting January 9th 2009
A 12 week course with Kay Laurence covering a range of aspects of reinforcement: walking on a loose lead, returning with the toy, learning self control, managing arousal. This course will look at several different applications of reinforcement principles, from clicker training to toy training, including everyday applications in our interaction with dogs.
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Micro Shaping
Starting April 3rd 2009
The aim of micro shaping is to maintain a 90-100% reinforcement rate on every behaviour through every step of the increasing criteria. This is as close as we can practically get to error-free learning.
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Teaching Moderator Cues
Starting July 3rd 2009
Moderator cues are the “adverbs” we use to describe more specific functions of the behaviour. Instead of “paw”, a moderator of “left” would indicate more information. “Left” can then be used to moderate a variety of other activities - fetch the “left” toy, turn to your “left” etc. We can moderate higher or lower, faster or slower.
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Wagging towards 2009
We have published the key dates for next year. Lots of the favourite regular courses and workshops and some new four day week courses and holidays:
PRINT your own copy of the diary: WagMoreDiary2009
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Evening Classes
These will be stopping for December and January. If the driveway has not already challenged you enough a light layer of snow makes it even more hazardous. But we can’t be without classes for too long so all evening classes start again Feb 2nd.
We do have gas for heating, but the price has certainly re-designed our classes to the more active type that can be enjoyed in outdoor clothing!
Evening Classes from February 2009:
Monday:
7 - 9pm. K9 Multi Sports*
Tuesday:
6.30 - 7.30pm Puppies*
7.30 - 8.30pm Junior*
Wednesday:
6.30-7.30 Introducing Wag Agility*
7.30-9pm Wag-Agility Class*
* drop in class, pay per evening.
Thursday:
7 - 9.30pm CAP2 required
Feb 5 - Mar 19 ErrorFreeLess learning
Apr 2 - May 7 Reliability to Cue
May 21 - Jun 25 Building for Perfection
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Mabel, now 12 years old, who insisted we did it “her way”.
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We are dog people, providing teaching, training and education in many formats.
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From puppy class to advanced workshops with all varieties of dog training in between.
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We offer a rich curriculum through classes, workshops, seminars and courses.
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We produce books and DVDs devoted to dog training.
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We shop for the very best stuff your dog can enjoy - toys, games, leads, gear, jumps, jackets AND we only recommend stuff we use ourselves.
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We are qualified in teaching and training. Run courses for other trainers and instructors. We teach our Wag More methods across the world.
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We lead the way in innovative and effective teaching for all types of dogs learning all types of skills.
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