Two owners/two dogs Dec 2024 training journey

A place to learn a new language, the Koehler Method of Dog Training, which is an entire language of communication between owner(s) and their dog. Let the journey begin..

FOUNDATION Course Curriculum

FOUNDATION Course Curriculum Outline

FOUNDATION Course Equipment List

FOUNDATION Course Equipment List

HOMEWORK Week 5: Return to your Dog

Return to your Dog

Sit/Stay and footwork

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AnonymousJanuary 22, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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FOUNDATION Course Instructor, Hobby Instructors & Demo Teams

Meet Jessi Wyatt: Lead Instructor
Meet Mary, Advanced Graduate Student, Hobby Instructor and her Molly (recovering from surgery) and new puppy, Ellie
Meet Kat, Advanced Graduate Student and Hobby Instructor and her dog, Niko!
Meet Trina, Advanced Graduate Student and Hobby Instructor and wee wittle Zoey!
Meet Kellie, Advanced Graduate Student/Demo Team and Piper
Meet Gayle & Olive - Demo Team extraordinaire

FOUNDATION Course Articles AKA "Why KMODT Works"

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

Tech Savvy (ecollar)

Tech Savvy - Lesson 1, the Random Recall
Tech Savvy: Understanding 'pressure' and how it translates to the ecollar use correctly
Tech Savvy: Prior to Week 1 - Teach "Touch"
Ecollar - before you begin
Tech Savvy - Understanding WHY the ecollar can save a dogs life. True story of Pree

Sept 2025: The lessons to train Remi for field hunting

9-4-2025 Training Remi on being able to do the upcoming field hunting

HOMEWORK Week 10: The FINAL FC Week!!

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: The pieces form into a BN pattern

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

HOMEWORK Week 8: Dog learns Reliability

HOMEWORK Week 7-8: The Sit Walkabout
Week 8: The Relaxation Walk
Week 8: How to work a dog in 10 minutes (and have a VERY tired dog)

HOMEWORK Week 7: Dog learns Accountability

Week 7: Increasing distance on formal Recall
Week 7 and forward - Using the TC for the flaring or lagging dog off-leash only
HOMEWORK Week 7: Intro to light lines..BE CAREFUL
WRITTEN (AND VIDEO) HOMEWORK Week 7: Dog learns Acceptance *updated 2025*
HOMEWORK Week 7-8: The Sit Walkabout
Week 7-8, The "Heads-Up" command

HOMEWORK Week 6: Dog learns Accountability

HOMEWORK Week 6: The Active Sit
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: The Finish
HOMEWORK Week 5: Fixing slow starts (Lagging) and working dog briskly
HOMEWORK Week 5: Return to your Dog
HOMEWORK Week 5 - How to fix a 'flared' Sit using left hand turn mechanics
HOMEWORK Week 5: Proofing the Stand/Stays
HOMEWORK Week 5: How to get a stranger to do an 'EXAM' correctly
HOMEWORK Week 5: Continued Sit/Stays and Diminishing circles
FC Week 5: The diagonal forward step for a wide, lagging or slow dog
HOMEWORK Week 5: Using poles to weave as you strengthen heeling position
WRITTEN HOMEWORK Week 5: Dog learns Patience and Resignation

HOMEWORK Cliff Notes Week 4 AKA "Hell Week"

Week 4 Cliff Notes: Recall to SSIF
Week 4 Cliff Notes The Recall to SSIF
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 Heeling review and "Place" extended
Week 4 Cliff Notes Figure 8
Week 4 Cliff Notes Overview

HOMEWORK Week 4: Dog learns Subordination

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: Stand/Stay Circles
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: Footwork = steps to help your dog heel well
HOMEWORK Week 4: How to fix beginner heeling position errors
HOMEWORK Week 4: The Left About Turn - oh so fun!
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?
WRITTEN HOMEWORK Week 4: (AKA Hell Week)

HOMEWORK Week 3 Cliff Notes

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

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* NEW HW section

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

HOMEWORK Week 2: Dog learns Responsibility

HOMEWORK Week 2: The Right Turn
HOMEWORK Week 2: Halt mechanics to get the AS (Auto Sit)
Week 2, Days 1/2 & Days 3/4 "Training with Fido"
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

HOMEWORK: The Cool-Down (done after every training session)
Week 1 Day 5: Robert and Sultan doing Day 5/6 distraction levels
4-24 thru 4-25-2020 Redd and Hank working against each other = SUPER HIGH distraction training
3-31-2021 Ace and Jessi. Week 1 in ridiculously HIGH distractions
1-15-24 Trina/Zoey, Week 1 Lesson, LL in open space
HOMEWORK: Week 1 Day 3: Boaz LL with planted distractions (med level of distractions)
7-16-2022 Ruth doing ILL against VERY HIGH distractions
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 (Inverted Longe Line)

HOMEWORK: The Cool-Down (done after every training session)
Picture of Corrective 270 left turn
HOMEWORK: Lesson 1 - Intro to Inverted Longe Line (ILL)
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 Lesson 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: How to correctly put on a chain slip collar

HOMEWORK: Before You Begin

HOMEWORK Due: Before we begin Lesson 1

STUDENT EXAM(s)

3-1-2025 & 3-2-2025 Week 9 EXAM(s). Student Jessica/Izzy & Dustin/Remi
2-21-25/2-22-25 Week 8 EXAMs. Student Jessica/Izzy & Dustin/Remi
2-15-2025 Week 7 EXAMS. Student Jessica/Izzy and Dustin/Remi
2-2-2025 FC Week 6 EXAMS. Student Dustin/Remi
2-1-2025 Week 6 EXAM(s). Student Jessica/Izzy
1-26-2025 FC Week 5 EXAM # 2: String Tests. Students Jessica/Izzy, Dustin/Remi
1-25-2025 FC Week 5 Pop Quizes. Students Jessica/Izzy & Dustin/Remi
1-24-2025 FC Week 5 EXAM # 1: Vickster's Test. Student Dustin/Remi
1-24-2025 Week 5 EXAM # 1, Vickster's Test. Student Jessica/Izzy
1-19-2025 FC Week 4 EXAMS. Student Dustin/Remi
1-18-2025 FC Week 4 EXAMS. Student Jessica/Izzy
1-12-2025 Week 3 EXAM # 2. Students Jessica/Izzy and Dustin/Remi
1-7-2025 FC Week 3 EXAM # 1. Students Jessica/Izzy and Dustin/Remi
2-15-2025 Week 7 EXAMS. Student Jessica/Izzy and Dustin/Remi
1-5-2025 Week 2 (Retake 3). Student Jessica/Izzy & Dustin/Remi
12-14-24 FC Week 1 Exam(s. Students Dustin/Rem & Jessica/Izzyi).

INSTRUCTOR EXAM(s)

Week 8 EXAM
Week 7 EXAM
Week 6 EXAM's
FC Week 5 EXAM # 2: The 2nd most dreaded 'String Test'
Week 5 POP QUIZ....please submit (this is NOT the Week 5 EXAM # 2)
May 12, 2021 My very first FC Week 5 EXAM # 1: Vickster's Test. Student Jessi/Ace
Week 5 EXAM # 1: The Vickster's Test
Week 4 EXAM. Due no later than Sunday noon
Week 3 EXAM # 2: Silence is Golden (NO WORDS OR SOUNDS)
Week 3 EXAM #1: Body Bend Readiness Test
Week 2 EXAM
FC Week 1 EXAM: The Readiness Test

IMPORTANT

*IMPORTANT* How to use YouTube to embed video inside a New Post in a Blog videos
*IMPORTANT* what words to use with your dog
Health RISKS of unnecessary spay/neuter (2 articles written by vets)
Do the Dew(claws)? by Dr. Chris Zink, renowned sport vet specialist and author
BEST DOG FOOD: The ONLY dry food that has NEVER been recalled - Life's Abundance, I am a distributor

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Just for FUN!

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 & Events (loads of history here)

AKC trials and titles with my dogs and my students' dogs
All Stars 2014...Team Applewoods! Sugar is # 2 dog in the country!
Slideshow: Museum of Maritime Pets 9-23-2013 @ Atlantic Marina
Sugar and Roxanne's 7th Leg for AKC UDX title
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

Understanding Your Dog's Genetic Hard-Wiring

Instinct versus Environment conversation
"The Misbehavior of Organisms" by Breland and Breland 1961

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