EAST LIVERPOOL — Dog house owners who wish to be taught to the right way to right widespread canine behaviors, acquire management of their canine, assist their canine overcome anxiousness or concern, determine what their canine is saying by physique language or be taught to foster a wholesome relationship with their canine can do this on the What’s Your Dog Actually Saying workshop to be held Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to five:30 p.m. on the Tri-State Coon Hunters Club situated at 2601 Irish Ridge Highway.
These thinking about attending the workshop performed by Robert Williams, canine conduct specialist and grasp canine coach, might want to register by contacting Mary Ann Manning, occasion organizer, at 740-296-3544.
The cost of the workshop is $25 per person with a home made lunch available for a further $5.
The workshop will take place in two segments — a morning phase which might be presentation and dialogue format and a day phase the place canine house owners can convey their dogs for a hands-on workshop the place they will get individual help with particular behaviors. Owners might want to present proof their dogs have had their rabies and bordatella vaccines. Phone pictures of proof of vaccines might be accepted.
Williams, a graduate of College of North Carolina Pembroke, acquired his begin in canine coaching as a K9 police officer, a position he held for 15 years, coaching police dogs because the lead K9 officer for the Southern Pines, North Carolina Police Division.
He has since retired from that position however continues to coach K9s and pets because the proprietor of JAS Okay-9 in Southern Pines.
Williams has traveled worldwide coaching K9s and pets. He has educated dogs in Czechoslovakia, Poland and Austria. He has educated all through the US and has educated the FBI’s (Federal Bureau of Investigations) HRT Groups Okay-9 Unit.
Along with being a grasp coach, Williams can be a canine conduct specialist who has studied why the canine is doing what he’s doing and why the canine displays sure behaviors, Manning mentioned. Williams can instruct the proprietor on what they will do to get the canine to cease doing these behaviors by optimistic reinforcement.
When Williams works with dogs, he focuses on the idea of controlling the result which suggests the proprietor controls what the canine is doing and controls the canine so there’s a optimistic final result, Manning mentioned. It’s mainly in search of the optimistic final result.
Members within the workshop might be introduced with a wide range of instruments to make use of so pet house owners can get began on issues like getting the canine to give attention to the proprietor in order that the canine isn’t distracted, they usually can hold him centered on coaching.
Manning additionally famous that when a pet proprietor trains with Williams, he helps with the canine and demonstrates, however the proprietor is the one who does the precise coaching.
Williams famous that the workshop just isn’t solely helpful to pet house owners but additionally to shelters, pet rescue volunteers, groomers, veterinary employees and anybody else who encounters dogs with conduct points.
“I typically get requested for help from animal shelter employees as a result of a canine that’s not imply or aggressive has bitten or exhibited different undesirable conduct,” Williams mentioned. “Having an understanding of why that canine is behaving in that method is essential to correcting the conduct and in the end, adopting the canine efficiently.”
Williams, a local of Clarksburg, W.Va., is licensed by the AKC, Animal Conduct Course, the Catch Dog Coaching Program and is a grasp coach by K2 Options in North Carolina.
He owns six Belgian Malinois dogs who’re educated to guard and cuddle his youngsters and household.
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