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Thriving with, not just surviving with, your teenager dog
Join us with Certified Professional Dog Trainers Katherine Anselm and Coleman Fish as we spend an evening talking all about teenagers! Adolescence is a challenging time for pups and their humans, your perfect puppy stops listening as well, they are more easily distracted, they --gasp-- have OPINIONS!
Your training isn't necessarily the problem, it's just biology of being a teenager. Getting through this period is often less about training and more about management. If you can get through without new bad habits from forming, all that puppy training generally comes back as they get through this developmental stage and they go back to those good behaviors!
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WHO: Pet Parents, Dog Trainers, Vet Professionals, Pet Care Professionals
WHAT: A 2hr Seminar on management strategies for thriving with teenagers
WHERE: Success Just Clicks Dog Training -- 1924 Spring Garden Ave, Pittsburgh 15212
WHEN: Monday March 24 7pm
HOW (much): $25 Non-Members, FREE for AMPP members
CCPDT CEUS: 2.5 for CPDT
Katherine Anselm, CPDT-KA and Coleman Fish, CPDT-KA are bringing you a seminar on how to make it through your pup's teenage developmental period with as little drama as possible. They are cute little puppies who listen well, focus on you, and have decent manners and then suddenly they become teenagers and all bets are off.
All of the training you have done seems to have gone out the window and your well behaved puppy seems gone forever. We will work on introducing management strategies, management training skills, and other tools to help you not only survive those teenage years but thrive!
Key Topics:
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Learn about adolescence in general
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Skills to train your puppy/teen to be able to get through the struggles of teenaged pups.
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Strategies for handling common teenaged drama like difficulty settling in the home, overexcitement and difficulty settling with guests, overexcitement while walking in the world, hyper-fixation on people/dogs on walks, difficulty settling in new places, and general 'naughtiness' like getting into things, a resurgence of chewing, etc.
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Management tools available to help mitigate and prevent issues in the first place
Katherine Anselm CPDT-KA, AMPP Certified Professional. She has a particular interest in teenaged drama after learning a lot about living successfully with teenagers by having a VERY challenging teenaged pup herself. Her pup forced her to think outside the box and try new things to be successful because the normal 'teenage interventions' just weren't enough for this more intense herding dog.
Coleman Fish CPDT-KA, CVT, AMPP Certified Professional. Like many professional trainers, she became interested in the field because of her own tricky teenaged dog. She had to learn a lot very quickly about high arousal teenagers with poor decision making skills and being a breed that biting and tugging things is just the best game ever.