Karen and Cosmos Go to School, May 2024

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3-31-2021 Ace and Jessi. Week 1 in ridiculously HIGH distractions

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karenandcosmoslearntogetherJune 5, 2024 at 11:27 AM
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HHPR

8-13-24 The morning of Karen's Goodbye Party
8-9-2-24 HHPR @ ACC from 4 different angles
8-8-2024 HHPR at CV, The Moving Sit
8-7-24 HHPR @ ACC
8-5-24 Tech Savvy with Kellie/Piper
8-1-2024 HHPR Recalls @ Annabella Baseball Fields
7-30-2024 HHPR videos. Stays and drama with Jax doing Down
7-19-24 Flagpoles 'Follow the Leader' & stairs!!!
7-18-2024 HHPR at CV
7-17-2024 HHPR @ Monroe Stage
7-16-24 HHPR @ CV
7-10-24 HHPR @ MSS - WHEW!
7-3-24 HHPR @ MSS
7-2-24 HHPR @ CV
6-25-24 HHPR @ CV

FOUNDATION Course Graduates Introductions

Welcome from Jessi/Ace, Lulu, Link & Nova too!
Welcome Karen, from Mary/Molly
Welcome Karen! From Trina/Zoey

FOUNDATION Course Articles

Week 6: Why it works like 'magic' by Deb Kidwell
"KMODT Week 5: Why it works' by Deb Kidwell
"Hell Week" AKA Week 4 - Why it works by Deb Kidwell
KMODT Week 3 – Why It Works by Deb Kidwell
FC Week 2 article, 'Why it Works' by Deb Kidwell
Intro to ILL and LL (Lesson 1). " Why the KMODT works so well". Excellent article by Deb Kidwell (student, breeder of Labs and a PhD in Military History)
Lesson 1: Understanding the 4 canine drives and use of Distractions by Deb Kidwell

FOUNDATION Course Glossary

FC Week 4 Glossary
FC Week 3 Glossary
FC Week 2 Glossary
FOUNDATION Course Glossary of New Terms, Intro and Lesson 1

Class Emails

HOMEWORK Week 10: The Novice run-thru & graduation from FC

Week 10: A Novice trial with my students' dog, Ghost
Examples of Week 10 EXAMs (your homework is the same as the EXAM)
HOMEWORK Week 10: Polishing the SSIF and Finish
HOMEWORK Week 9 & 10: A visual "L" shaped heeling pattern. A visual Figure 8.
8-5-24 FC Week 10 class videos

Week 9 BN HOMEWORK & EXAM

HOMEWORK Week 9: The BN pieces demo & practice with Maggie
HOMEWORK Week 9 & 10: A visual "L" shaped heeling pattern. A visual Figure 8.
HOMEWORK Week 9: Increasing speed on Recall
HOMEWORK Week 9: Beginner Novice exercises + BN EXAM (preview of Week 9 material)

HOMEWORK Week 8: Dog learns Reliability

Week 7-8, The "Heads-Up" command
HOMEWORK Week 8: Walk Away Stays
HOMEWORK Week 8: How to work a dog in less than 10 minutes (and have a VERY tired dog)
HOMEWORK Week 7-8: The Sit Walkabout
Week 8: The Relaxation Walk

HOMEWORK Week 7: Dog learns Acceptance

Week 7: Increasing distance on formal Recall
HOMEWORK Week 7-8: The Sit Walkabout
HOMEWORK Week 7: Intro to light lines..BE CAREFUL
WRITTEN (AND VIDEO) HOMEWORK Week 7: Dog learns Acceptance *updated 2024*

HOMEWORK Week 6: Dog learns Accountability

HOMEWORK Week 6: The Active Sit
Week 6 - The TC work session with Kristin/Zeke 1st time
HOMEWORK Week 6 - Copper & Boaz's first experiences with TC
HOMEWORK Week 6: The sheer MAGIC of TC
HOMEWORK Week 6: Understanding the psychology of TC - true story how TC work saved Moxie's life
Week 6: The all-important and vastly misunderstood, rarely understood, phenomenal 'magic' of TC
WRITTEN HOMEWORK Week 6: Dog learns to to accountable no matter what

HOMEWORK Week 5: Cliff Notes

Week 5 Cliff Notes: Return to Your Dog
Week 4 -5 Cliff Notes Sit/Stay EXPANDED
Week 5 Overview Cliff Notes

HOMEWORK Week 5: Dog learns Patience

HOMEWORK Week 5: The Recall with more distance using Front Place Board to shape dog
HOMEWORK Week 5: The Down Correction + showing the sequence of the Down as we progress
HOMEWORK Week 5: Return to your Dog
HOMEWORK Week 5: The Finish
HOMEWORK Week 5 - How to fix a 'flared' Sit using left hand turn mechanics
HOMEWORK Week 5: Fixing slow starts (Lagging) and working dog briskly.
HOMEWORK Week 5: How to get a stranger to do an 'EXAM' correctly
HOMEWORK Week 5: Proofing the Stand/Stays
HOMEWORK Week 5: Continued Sit/Stays and Diminishing circles.
WRITTEN HOMEWORK Week 5: Dog learns Patience and Resignation

HOMEWORK Week 4 AKA "Hell Week" Cliff Notes

Week 4 Cliff Notes: Heeling and Approach by a Stranger
Week 4 Cliff Notes Turn Review and NEW Turn, Left About Turn
Week 4 Cliff Notes The Recall to SSIF
Week 4 Cliff Notes Heeling review and "Place" extended
Week 4 Cliff Notes, Figure 8
Week 4 Cliff Notes Overview

HOMEWORK Week 4 AKA "Hell Week"

HOMEWORK Week 4: Stand/Stay Circles
HOMEWORK Week 4: The DOWN with an aggressive GSD, Pree having a hissie fit meltdown and Boaz 'Down' blooper
HOMEWORK Week 4: Shaping the Downs (25 a day)/ Days 1-3 are done SILENTLY, Days 4-6 add the verbal command, "Down"
HOMEWORK Week 4: Introduction to the Recall (SSIF=Straight Sit in Front)
HOMEWORK Week 4: The Figure 8 taught with straight lines
HOMEWORK Week 4: The Left About Turn - oh so fun!
HOMEWORK Week 4: Footwork = steps to help your dog heel well
HOMEWORK Week 4: How to fix beginner heeling position errors.
HOMEWORK Week 4: Something to read and ponder. In life, there are 4%'rs and the 96%'rs..which are you?
HOMEWORK Week 4: Why is it so hard?

HOMEWORK Week 3 Cliff Notes

Cliff Notes Week 3: Overview
Cliff Notes Week 3: Stand
Cliff Notes Week 3: Stand Photo Sequence
Cliff Notes Week 3: Place
Cliff Notes Week 3: How to regulate the 'J' loop of your leash
Cliff Notes Week 3: Fix for lagging dog & *NEW* Pace changes
Cliff Notes Week 3: Refresher on Halt mechanics to AS & *NEW* Exercise Finish (EF)
Cliff Notes: Week 3: Pace Changes
Cliff Notes Week 3: Pace Changes and Heeling Patterns
Cliff Notes Week 3: Heeling Post Cliff Notes

HOMEWORK Week 3: Dog learns Discipline

HOMEWORK Week 3 - The Stand (done silently Week 3, Days 1-3), Add "Stand" command to Week 3, Days 4-6
HOMEWORK Week 3: Sit/Stay
HOMEWORK Week 3: Leash position makes ALL the difference (Nava as the distraction dog from long, long ago)
HOMEWORK Week 3 #: The magic of the Heeling Post
WRITTEN HOMEWORK Week 3: Dog learns Discipline as Safety Zone shrinks to 12" - 18"

HOMEWORK Week 2: Cliff Notes

Cliff Notes - Week 2: Left Training Turn
Cliff Notes - Week 2 The Right Turn and AS
Cliff Notes - Week 2 Working with 'Fido' to learn the new Halt mechanics to Auto Sit (AS)
Cliff Notes, Week 2 Straight Line Heeling

HOMEWORK Week 2: Dog learns Responsibility

HOMEWORK Week 2, Days 5/6: The KISS hand signal/Sit correction for AS (Auto Sit) + the HW, Week 2, Days 1/2, 3/4, 5/6 3-step Halt to AS & Sit mechanics' review
HOMEWORK Week 2: The Right Turn
HOMEWORK Week 2: Halt mechanics to get the AS (Auto Sit)
HOMEWORK Week 2: The Sit and the 3 turns
HOMEWORK Week 2: Understanding how/why the "Out!" works in the dog world as an Applied Punisher
HOMEWORK: Week 2 = The "OUT!" why it works and how it works. The Sit and the 3 turns

HOMEWORK Week 1 (officially): Dog learns Attention

1-15-24 Week 1 Class, LL in open space. Student Trina/Zoey
7-19-2022 FC Week 1, Day 2 with Ruth (some INSANELY HIGH distractions)
5-19-22 Week 1 Class, LL in open space. Student Mary/Molly
3-31-2021 Ace and Jessi. Week 1 in ridiculously HIGH distractions
HOMEWORK Week 1: Days 5 & 6: HIGH levels of distractions for both LL and QT
HOMEWORK: Week 1, Day 1. Longe Line Lesson with Roxanne handling Jacque. Less than 8 minutes of work for Jacque to rethink his position and be mentally toast.
HOMEWORK: Week 1 Day 3: Boaz LL with planted distractions (med level of distractions)
HOMEWORK: The Cool-Down (done after every training session)
Picture of Correction of 270 left turn
How to have instant control of your dog using the LL (Longe Line)
WRITTEN HOMEWORK Week 1, Days 1-6, The Quiet Time Exercise (Passive Training)
WRITTEN HOMEWORK : Active work = understanding LL & 80/20 rule (active training)

HOMEWORK Lesson 1: Introduction to ILL and QT

HOMEWORK: The Cool-Down (done after every training session)
HOMEWORK: Introduction to Inverted Longe Line (ILL)
Picture of Correction of 270 left turn
HOMEWORK Intro to LL: LL do's and don'ts + videos and pictures
How to have instant control of your dog using the LL (Longe Line)
HOMEWORK: How to correctly put on a chain slip collar.
HOMEWORK Week 1 intro: 16 minutes reviewing Quiet Time, LL and safety equipment.
WRITTEN HOMEWORK Week 1, Days 1-6, The Quiet Time Exercise (Passive Training)
WRITTEN HOMEWORK : Active work = understanding LL & 80/20 rule (active training)

HOMEWORK: Before we meet for our 1st lesson

HOMEWORK Due: Before we begin Lesson 1

Student EXAMS

8-2-24 Walk Away Stays @ 100 yards EXAM. Student Karen/Cosmos
7-31-24 Week 7 EXAM. Student Karen/Cosmos
7-22-24 Week 6 EXAM. Student Karen/Cosmos
7-20-2024 Week 5 EXAM # 2: The String Test. Student Karen/Cosmos
7-19-24 Week 5 Pop Quiz. Student Karen/Cosmos
7-18-2024 Week 5 EXAM # 1, Vickster's Test. Student Karen/Cosmos
6-18-2024 Week 3 EXAM # 2, Silence is Golden (Take 2)
6-16-24 Week 2 EXAM Tunnel of Love. Student Karen/Cosmos
6-6-24 Week 1 EXAM Readiness Test. Student Karen/Cosmos

INSTRUCTOR EXAMS

Week 8 EXAM
Week 7 EXAM
FC Week 6 EXAM(s) - the Effects of TC work
Week 5 EXAM # 2: Redd finally succeeds and passes The String Test (3)
Week 5 EXAM # 2: How to make your string loops (2)
Week 5 EXAM # 2: The String Test (1)
Week 5 POP QUIZ....please submit (this is NOT the Week 5 EXAM # 2)
Week 5 EXAM # 1: The Vickster's Test
Week 4 EXAMs with Leenie, Redd and Boaz
Week 3 EXAM # 2: Silence is Golden (no words or commands spoken at all during this entire EXAM)
Week 3 EXAM # 1: Body Bend Readiness Test
Week 2 EXAM
Week 1 EXAM

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Articles'n'Interviews

NADOI Article # 3: How I choose new students (and why)
Do the Dew(claws)? by Dr. Chris Zink, renowned sport vet specialist and author
Health RISKS of unnecessary spay/neuter (2 articles written by vets)
Posted a fabulous (but old) article, Four Ways to Walk a Dog, by Mike Lenehan. So worth the read.
KMODT video for national publication - 5 of these dogs were feral, street, dogs rescued from market in Kuwait
Roxanne gives a radio interview on Pack Dynamics
Article; It's a Clean Break (or how to keep training no matter what happens)
NADOI Article # 2, Picking the RIGHT Puppy Matters
NADOI Article # 1, "Bend in the Road" Story (how Roxanne became a KMODT dog obedience instructor)

JUST for Fun!

Redd and Ruth's Mannerly Puppy EXAMs @ 16 weeks old
My FAVORITE Puppy Pack run photo -:)
Some advanced jumping: Drago, Iko, Sugar, & Pree
Boaz photos of his socialization journey as a mere puppy
Boaz joins our home June 2017
Pree as a puppy meets Ghost - WHEW!
Saturday sensory overload for 4-month-old Sugar
Sugar as a puppy

AKC Trials and Events

AKC trials and titles with my dogs and my students' dogs
Redd and Ruth's Mannerly Puppy EXAMs @ 16 weeks old
Pree and earning legs for her AKC Senior Hunter title
Boaz and earning legs for his AKC Junior Hunter title
Slideshow: Museum of Maritime Pets 9-23-2013 @ Atlantic Marina
Sugar and Roxanne's 7th Leg for AKC UDX title
All Stars 2014...Team Applewoods! Sugar is # 2 dog in the country!

Understanding Your Dog's Genetic Hard-Wiring

"The Misbehavior of Organisms" by Breland and Breland 1961
Understanding 'Instinctive Drift' and what that means to you, the dog owner.

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