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EDUCATION

Discover and improve your dog's friendly and positive training methods through practical and theoretical courses.

Clicker training

Discover your dog's willingness to interact and cooperate with you by reconsidering the notions of obedience, disobedience and hierarchy through the clicker-training method.
 

Niveau 1

01 et 02 mars 2025

Enquête de satisfaction 2024

Overall rating: 100% very satisfied

Score on 12 different points: 97% Very satisfied - 3% satisfied

Theoretical and practical content

Theoretical approach to the Clicker-training method

1st half day

  • What is Clicker-training, why does it work?

  • Clicker-training learning theories,

  • Clicker training from the dog's point of view,

  • The different positive techniques to get the dog to understand what we want from him,

  • Understand the interest of the different values of primary and secondary reinforcements,

  • The rules of Clicker-training,

  • Understanding the proposals,

  • The importance of timing,

  • Placement of verbal and gestural orders or cues.

Practical approach to the Clicker-training method

2nd and 3rd days

  • Initiating dogs to clicker training,

  • Building motivation to work on clicker training,

  • Using the lure in clicker training,

  • Practical exercises,

  • Put yourself in your dog's shoes and get him to suggest,

  • Setting up verbal and gestural cues: knowing how to select them, identifying those that the dog has selected, knowing how to place them.

  • Respond to the problem that each dog present poses to us,

  • Excitement and barking,

  • Motivation and concentration.

For whom?

  • Open to dog owners, professionals and professionals-in-the-making; to anyone wishing to explore their dog's cognitive abilities and to anyone wishing to start using the positive technique of Clicker-training on a solid foundation.

  • Open to all dogs from 4 months; not suitable for dogs with major behavioral problems (aggression, phobia, etc.).

Additional information

The referent trainers

Catherine Collignon and Nicolas Ducasse

Place

Animal Center - Aurimont, Gers (32)

Dates

October 12 and 13, 2024

Duration

2 days - Number of hours: 14h

Schedules

9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Amount in self-financing

300 €

Amount with request for support

350 €

Request for quote or internship agreement

Online registration

30% as a reservation: €90

Limited participation

10 participants - 1 dog/participant

Meals and accommodation

Not included

Camping pitch 15€/person/night

Prerequisites

Coming with a dog

Niveau 2

October 19 and 20, 2024

2024 Satisfaction Survey

Overall rating: 100% very satisfied

Score out of 12 different points: 100% Very satisfied

Theoretical and practical training

Review of the fundamentals of the clicker-training method

1st half day
Re-appropriation of the fundamentals and notions of the Clicker-training method seen in the previous module (level 1)

Practical and theoretical approach to positive shaping techniques and target targets through the clicker-training method

1ère et 2ème journées

  • Techniques positives du façonnage (ou shaping) et des targets cibles

  • Les règles du façonnage pour les chiens débutants et les chiens confirmés

  • Comment les chiens augmentent les critères ?

  • Comprendre l'importance des propositions dans ces deux techniques,

  • Augmenter son timing,

  • Rendre le chien performant et créatif au non-click,

  • Résoudre les problèmes de baisse de motivation, d'absence de propositions, d'excitabilité ou de manque de concentration,

  • Exercices avec les différents targets et cibles.

For whom?

  • Open to dog owners, professionals and future professionals who have completed the Level 1 Initiation course in Clicker training and are able to suggest behaviors to trigger the clicker.

  • Open to all dogs from 4 months; not suitable for dogs with major behavioral problems (aggression, phobia, etc.).

Additional information

The reference trainers

Catherine Collignon and Nicolas Ducasse

Place

Centre Animalin - Aurimont, Gers (32)

Dates

08 et 09 mars 2025

Duration

2 jours - Nombre d'heures : 14h

Schedules

9h30 - 17h30

Montant en auto-financement

300 €

Amount with request for support

350 €

Request for quote or internship agreement

Online registration

30% as a reservation: €90

Limited participation

10 participants - 1 dog/participant

Meals and accommodation

Not included

Camping pitch 15€/person/night

Prerequisites

Venir avec un chien

Walking on a leash

The leash walking technique developed by Catherine Collignon is based on the laws of learning and the point of view of the dog at the other end of the leash.

26 et 27 avril 2025

2024 Satisfaction Survey

Appréciation générale : 100 % de très satisfaits

Note sur 12 points différents : 96 % Très satisfaits - 5 % satisfaits

Theoretical and practical content

Theoretical approach to the
walking on a leash

1st day

  • The origin of the thinking around leash walking and the dog that pulls on the leash: why some recommended techniques do not work or only work on 6 out of 10 dogs? How does a dog learn to pull on a daily basis? What is a reward from the dog's point of view?

  • The laws of learning applied to everyday life

  • Understanding that from both a human and a dog perspective, the social behavior of following is inherent to both the human and canine species.

Practical approach to the
walking on a leash

2nd and 3rd days

  • Understanding the verbal or gestural cues that the dog will rely on and implementing these cues to acquire symbiosis with walking on a leash without pulling

  • Clicker training exercises to optimize learning to walk on a leash in educational rehabilitation, stimulate and reinforce positively at the right time and master negative reinforcement to optimize learning of statics and use of social and taste rewards.

  • Practice walking on a leash, on dogs and humans present, and space management: practice of capture, exercises in social movement, awareness of anchoring, navigation between dogs present and mastery of social invitation to follow.

For whom?

  • Open to all dogs from 4 months old. To all people wishing to go further in the discovery of what dogs learn on a daily basis; wanting to start on a solid foundation learning to walk on a leash or re-educate their dog that pulls on the leash. Not suitable for dogs with major behavioral problems (aggression, phobia, etc.).

Additional information

The reference trainers

Catherine Collignon and Nicolas Ducasse

Place

Animal Center - Aurimont, Gers (32)

Dates

October 26 and 27, 2024

Duration

2 days - Number of hours: 14h

Schedules

9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Amount in self-financing

300 €

Amount with request for support

350 €

Request for quote or internship agreement

Online registration

30% à titre de réservation : 90€

Limited participation

10 participants - 1 dog/participant

Repas et hébergements

Not included

Camping pitch 15€/person/night

Prerequisites

Coming with a dog

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Learning and education in everyday life

Blouwe Dominique (Thursday, March 21, 2024 3:07 PM)

An incredibly rich course at the end of which you feel equipped to understand your dog and succeed in training him. 4 1/2 days of theory, presented in such an educational way (constructed, progressive, interactive) and exciting that you don't see them go by. Whether you are destined for the profession of dog trainer or you are simply a dog owner like me, the teaching is accessible and effective. And, as always, in listening, good humor, kindness, benevolence. Thank you Catherine and Nicolas for being as you are for dogs and for us!

Introduction to clicker training

Stephanie M. (Tuesday, March 12, 2023 3:42 PM)

Very informative course that really gives us the keys to this superb tool that is the clicker. The lessons are varied, the discussions are rich and all in a good mood. I put into practice the lessons of the training on a daily basis and the results are great. My dogs are enthusiastic at the sight of the clicker, I see that they like it and that they don't get tired of it :)

Leash walking management

Anne Lohr (dimanche, 12 novembre 2023 13:29)

Arrive with Beliefs, Observe, Listen, Learn, Analyze, Practice, Question Yourself, and Leave with New Skills (even if you still have to work on a daily basis so that everything falls into place naturally)....
Thank you very much for your kindness, sharing, setting, personalized advice, listening.
See you soon with pleasure.

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