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While dog play is a great outlet for stressed shelter dogs,
a quality play group program can provide so much more!
Learn how to develop a
shelter play group program that focuses on training, expanded behavioral
assessment and increased adoptability for the dogs in your care.
This seminar
includes lecture, audience interaction and extensive video to cover the
following information:
- A plan for starting a play group program -
- What you'll
need
- How to get everyone on board
- Scheduling and staffing
- Choosing play
partners -
- Who to put into play group
- Various methods for dog/dog evaluations
- Protecting everyone
- Knowing when to take a chance.
- Managing play groups -
- Controlling arousal
- Allowing for canine communication
- Preventing conflict
- Ending a fight.
- Expanding initial behavioral assessments -
- What you can and
can't learn about behavior outside of play group by observing behavior in a play
group.
- Using play time as training time -
- How to maximize training
opportunities and increase adoptability
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