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6 Weeks to Dream Walks: Step-By-Step Leash Training Program (DIGITAL VERSION)
6 Weeks to Dream Walks: Step-By-Step Leash Training Program (DIGITAL VERSION)
4.95 / 5.0
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Struggling with leash training?
This comprehensive program will teach you my 6-week process to dream dog walks.
Regardless of whether you have a new puppy OR an older dog with a long history of pulling on leash, this program is for you.
Rather than just giving you a bunch of random leash training tips that you need to stitch together yourself, I wanted to create a step-by-step learning process for you. The training is broken down into easy-to-follow weekly assignments. There is also a checklist at the end of each week, so you’ll know if your dog is ready to progress.
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What's included?
72-page PDF and linked video tutorials. Program covers all necessary skills for enjoyable, tension-free walks. I recognize that everyone learns differently, so each step of this hybrid program is explained in text, photos, and linked video demonstrations. Upon purchase you will receive an email with a downloadable link to a PDF version of guide.
Expectations:
This program won’t give you an overnight fix, but it can solve your leash struggles. If you can commit to 30-60 minutes of daily training for 6 weeks, I can transform your walks. I like to joke that most dogs’ leash skills are currently at a kindergarten level (at best), while the guardian is expecting university status. No wonder both you and your dog are frustrated! This training program will show you how to sequentially teach all necessary skills for enjoyable walks.
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Linda's review of "6 Weeks to Dream Walks"
The Most Comprehensive Guide to Positively Training Polite Leash Walking Available! As a professional trainer and behaviour consultant, helping my clients achieve pleasant leash walks with their dogs is a bread-and-butter part of my job. Walking in a straight line at our incredibly slow human speed is actually a very unnatural and difficult skill for our dogs to learn, with many pieces that must be learned and then integrated. It takes dedicated time and lots of practice for dog and human to be able to move together as a team. Stephanie's course is the clearest, most concise and practical guide I have ever seen. She has deconstructed the individual skills that need to be learned and mastered and laid them out in step-by-step fashion, accompanied by beautiful video tutorials that demonstrate them clearly. The course carefully builds upon foundational skills systematically and each week's checklist ensures that dog and handler are ready before proceeding to the next level. Her writing style and examples are engaging and easy to understand. Not everyone has access to or can afford lessons with a private trainer. This course is priced so reasonably it will be accessible to everyone. I am absolutely impressed with this course and will be recommending it to all my clients. If I could give it 10 stars I would!
Stephanie's step by step instructions are detailed and backed up by excellent linked videos to give a visual perspective, which is so critical. My dog Dixie and I are working through the steps slowly but in just a week, I'm happy to report progress which relieves the mounting frustration I've been experiencing. I can tell a lot of work went into making this tutorial so for $19.99 it's a bargain! Along with all Stephanie's other YouTube dog training videos, I've seen no better online resource for dog training than Happy Hounds. Grateful to Happy Hounds!
Understanding the concept and method is one thing...implementing it is so much harder with my 3 times rehomed cavoodle! The heel Training at home is not possible as I live in a very small unit and yard which is opposite a very busy holiday park where there are kids and dogs coming and going constantly. I have to put Oliver in the car and drive to an area where it is not so busy. I am having more luck with the walking on a long leash and he is responding well to that. His recall is very good as he loves treats of all kinds. I will continue to train heel when and where possible. Only been 2 weeks so doing OK so far. Very much enjoying all your excellent help. I envy you in the snow whilst here in Australia I am sweltering in the sun...avoiding snakes!
Even though we are just completing the second week of the program, "6 Weeks to Dream Walks," I am seeing huge improvements! One of our problems was that my dog completely ignored me on walks. She is now checking in, thanks to the recall game and the "up and down" game. We are taking this slowly, following the program step by step. I just love how logically each piece builds on the next one. Thank you for making this available at such a reasonable price!
Completely worth it!
If you search Google or YouTube for dog training, you'll find two distinct camps who both hold very opposite beliefs. There is the one camp that promotes prong collars, slip-leashes and the methodologies are restraint, control and submission.
Then the other camp is the All-Positive group who use treats and their methodologies are luring and repetitive conditioning-style training (fun and games included).
Our Golden Retriever (Ollie) is almost 2 years old now. As a pup he was super-stubborn, very headstrong and super high energy. His walks were a challenge from Day 1. However, he is super intelligent.
Being new to dog training I headed to YouTube (like everyone probably does). Due to Ollie's overpowering nature I was attracted to the first camp - the prong collar gang.
We also took Ollie to two different dog schools and he always learned quickly. But walks were still an arm-wrenching experience. I even suffered knee pain for many months due to his pulling.
Ollie learned basic obedience instantly. He is very smart. But still his leash control was out of non-existant.
In the last three to four weeks I wondered if I had joined the wrong camp. I mean, surely if the sharp tugs on the leash hadn't worked in almost two years, then surely things had to change.
In our favour, we have a super-smart dog who loves to learn things.
I bought the course: 6 Weeks to Dream Walks Step-By-Step Leash Training Program, by Happy Hounds Dog Training.
That was 1 week ago.
So, I am now at the end of our Week 1 of training.
Ollie is in his element! I have never seen him so happy and engaged on our walks!
Ollie never looked at me once on any of our previous walks but he is already becoming more engaged and he is checking-in with me frequently. Often, I only need to show him something once and he "gets it" immediately.
It's only week one, so I am not talking about miracles here, but Ollie is definitely improving.
If I had started this course when he was a pup then I am sure that by now he would be a pure joy on every walk.
I will definitely be completing the 6-week program and I am looking forward to it very much.
If I could suggest a Part 2 course then I would love to suggest a course entitled: "Beyond The Leash" which covers off-leash training. If you do it, then sign me up!