Basic Level - 6 Weeks:

     *Cues learned: leave-it/wait, focus, sit, down, drop-it, recall, and loose-leash walk.

     *Main goal by the end of this program level is to take your dog through the first and second learning stages by                     making sure your dog has a basic understanding of the behaviors and can perform them in a distraction-free area on         cue.

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Week 1: Meet the dog and learn their personality, temperament, and what drives/motivates them.

              Pretest: see if the dog already knows any of the behaviors ON CUE already.

              Condition a clicker or verbal marker to let them know the instant they perform the correct behavior. 

              Teach a release cue (release, okay, enough, etc.) to tell them that they no longer have to remain in that behavior.

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Week 2: Teach the initial sit, down, leave-it/wait and focus behaviors without the cue

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Week 3: Pair Week 2 behaviors with a verbal cue.

              Teach the initial drop, recall, and loose-leash walking behaviors without the cue

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Week 4: 

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Week 5: 

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Week 6: Test all 6 cues in a distraction free/minimal distraction area and graduate!

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 pair them to a cue, start fluency: precision, latency and speed.

1. What drives/motivates your dog, condition a clicker or verbal marker, teach a release cue

2. Cues: leave-it/wait, focus, sit, down, drop, recall, LLW/Heel

works on the first and second learning stages

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 Intermediate Level: 8 weeks -

stay, heel, stand, take-it,  fetch.