Course Title: Curing Canine Anxiety: Dealing with Low Confidence in Dogs
Prerequisites: None
Purpose: This seminar is for owners who have dogs that show signs of canine anxiety like submissive urination, separation anxiety, fears or phobias or nervousness. If your dog isn’t outgoing and social with other humans and dogs, your dog has a canine anxiety problem that stems from a low level of confidence. This course will help you to understand what anxiety is and the root cause. Don’t just fix the symptoms, fix the problem.
Course cost and length:
Live: $75.00 3-sessions meets weekly for 60 minutes
OnDemand: $42.00-One 90 minute session
Live—You will speak to the instructor in an online “classroom” with other students. Choose from the listed times in the Course Registration box above.
OnDemand/Recorded—Watch classes "OnDemand"- at your own pace. Click on "OnDemand/Recorded Session" under "Register for Recorded Class" above.
What you can expect in this Course:
- What canine "anxiety" is and how to deal with it
- Building "confidence" in your dog
- Becoming the "leader of the pack"
- Teaching problem solving skills to your dog
- The importance of dog-dog interactions
- Some bad human habits and what to do instead
Instructor: Nikki Ivey, a professional Dog Behavior Consultant/Trainer, has been working with people and their pets for more than 11 years. Educated as a traditional dog trainer, Nikki used dominating methods such as choke chains and prong collars to demand appropriate behavior from dogs without understanding what motivated them. Training in this manner became increasingly less enjoyable.
At a training seminar by Bob Bailey, Nikki was introduced to operant conditioning, where animals are taught to think for themselves and are rewarded for doing the right thing. By applying this technique, she learned how to teach anything with a brain 
stem, including a chicken!
Nikki began applying this unique style of training and had incredible results. Realizing that dogs do what works, she began to truly understand dogs and learned how to communicate with them more effectively. Nikki now shares her knowledge by teaching owners how to understand, communicate and interact with their dogs to accomplish their goals.
In the last 11+ years, Nikki has trained many families to have better relationships with their dogs, owned and operated a dog day care and training facility, including agility training for 3.5 years, opened a new day care and supervised the day care for a veterinary/boarding facility, founded and supervised two separate K9 search and rescue organizations.
Nikki’s latest services are behavior consultations, training, pre-adoption consultations, dog day care inception, dog day care consultations, staff training, seminars and she is in the process of writing a book on Confidence Issues in dogs as well as putting together a DVD for new dog owners.
You can visit Nikki Ivey’s website at www.dogspeak101.com
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