CCPDT Continuing Education Units Available

2 Credits available for CPDT, and 2 available for CBCC.   If you only have the CPDT, the CBCC credits are credited to you, for a total of 4 credits. 

Course curriculum

    1. Welcome to The One Hour Down Stay Deconstructed For Behaviour Professionals

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    2. Meet Your Instructor Sue Alexander

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    3. How Do I Use Thinkific

    4. Registration Conditions

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    5. The Down Stay Facebook Group

    1. Everyone Wants to Get Started Right Away!

    2. Why One Hour Down Stay?

    3. Applying The One Hour Down Stay to Real LIfe

    4. Ten Times You Can Apply The One Hour Down Stay

    1. Introduction to Your First One Hour Down Stay

    2. The Down Stay Deconstructeed

    3. The One Hour Down Stay Instructor's Cheat Sheet

    4. The One Hour Down Stay Student Cheat Sheet

    5. A Note About Working With Naive and Reluctant Dogs

    6. The Role of Arousal in the Down Stay

    7. Arousal Chart

    8. Understanding The Arousal Chart With Video Examples

    9. Onward!

    10. What Is Next?

    1. Your Turn!

    2. Deconstructing Down Stay Quiz

    1. Continuing Education Form

About this course

  • $7.99
  • 22 lessons
  • 1 hour of video content
  • Three dogs lying on a blue floor, with other dogs in the background
  • Two Bernese Mountain Dogs lying on a path alongside a river
  • A retriver in a red backpack is lying on a bench with a lake in the background

A Simple Straightforward Way To Help your Students To Teach Their Dogs To Lie Down, Chill Out and Relax

Learn how to help you students to master the skill that will help their dogs to better cope with the world, and your students to have a better relationship with their dogs!

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FAQ

  • I am not a professional dog trainer yet. Can I take this course?

    Absolutely! This course does not require that you have any special understanding of training in order to use the method.

  • I have been a professional trainer for many years. Will I get anything out of this course?

    Yes! If nothing else, you will find a new way to explain choice based down stay training to your students. This is a simple method however, it is very powerful. This course goes into the nitty gritty details and it will allow you to discuss the benefits of this type of choice based down stay with clients and colleagues alike.

  • Can this method be used with puppies, older dogs or dogs with mobility needs?

    Yes! I have used this method with puppies as young as seven weeks, and as old as 13 years, and with my own dog when he was recovering from knee surgery. This is a very safe method.

  • Do you use force with this method?

    No! This method is based on teaching the dog that they can feel safe on a tether and that lying down pays very well. This feeling of safety and confidence allows dogs to work towards a reliable down stay, off tether, in high distraction situations.

  • Will dogs learn boundaries using this method?

    Yes they will! This method is taught using a tether so that the dog can learn that the only consequence to breaking the down is that the food will stop. In this method we do not abandon dogs who are concerned enough to stand up during a down stay.

  • Is this method suitable for anxious or aggressive dogs?

    Yes! In fact this protocol was originally developed to help dogs in my behaviour program. Over the past thirty years, thousands of dogs have benefitted from this method, learning to tolerate and even enjoy things that may have previously been a problem.