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Helping Fearful Dogs
Many dog owners, shelter/rescue workers, trainers, and other canine professionals find anxiety, fears, and phobias to be among the most challenging behaviors to treat. This information-packed workshop combines lecture, photographs, and extensive video footage to explore the art of working with fearful dogs, with some overlap into fear-based aggression. Topics include:
- Causes and prevention
- How fear manifests
- Recognized and lesser-known stress signals
- How to work with fearful dogs in the home
- Suggestions for group classes
- A Firm Foundation program on which dogs can build confidence
- Skills owners should know
- Skills to teach dogs
- What training equipment is (and is not!) appropriate
Interactive exercises include participation in
solving a fear-related case history. You will also learn how specific
complementary therapies and products can make your treatment plans even more
successful.
Whether you are a professional or non-professional, you will leave
with a better understanding of shy, anxious, and fearful dogs, and plenty of new
techniques and ideas you can try out immediately.
Altenative Approaches to Healing Canine Health & Behavior
Most of us are familiar with treating canine health issues
through traditional veterinary medicine, and behavior problems via training and
behavior modification. But there are other useful modalities that can be
amazingly useful when used in conjunction with those treatments.
Why limit the
good you can do for dogs? Come and learn about some fascinating alternative
approaches to healing canine health and behavior.
The morning session begins
with an informative overview of how vibrational, energy-based healing methods
work. We'll then focus on specific ways in which flower essences can affect
dogs. For example, did you know that the Bach Flower Essence Beech can help
dogs who are intolerant of other dogs, or that the Masters Essence Grape is
excellent for dogs who have been abandoned or abused?
You'll receive extensive
handouts, hear about research studies, and participate in a group exercise that
will teach you how to choose the proper flower essences to address specific
behavior issues. After a brief, intriguing segment on how music can help dogs
to relax and heal, it's on to healing with color. The color spectrum consists of
a variety of wavelengths, and each color has a specific effect on both dogs and
people. You will discover which colors energize, which calm, and which can heal
various ailments. You will also learn how to apply them with your dog.
The
afternoon is dedicated to the emerging field of hands-on energy healing. You
will learn simple, effective techniques to rebalance a dog's energy and to clear
blockages. A dog whose energies are in balance will experience improved health
and display better behavior. You will see, through video segments of hands-on
healing sessions with dogs, the effects that are possible with this type of
treatment. In the extensive experiential portion that follows, you will be
taught to sense and move energy--no previous experience is necessary! Through
practice with fellow attendees, you will learn practical applications for
working with your own dogs and others. You'll learn how energy healing can calm
dogs in a variety of situations, and how it can help with health issues, as well
as behavior issues such as fear and aggression.
Even those who are deeply
skeptical have come away from this seminar with a new respect for what these
healing modalities can accomplish, and many have successfully used them to help
their dogs. Taking an alternative approach to helping dogs can literally be a
life-changing experience!
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