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What does The Retrieve course cover?

Home » FAQs » What does The Retrieve course cover?

January 6, 2020 by Veronica Sanchez M.Ed. CABC CPDT-KA

This course covers the step by step process of training a controlled service dog retrieve and also numerous strategies to troubleshoot this challenging skill. The course outline:

  1. Introduction
    • Why is the retrieve such an essential task?
    • Components of the retrieve
    • Service dog tasks based on retrieve components
    • Retrieve training process
    • Play retrieve vs. Trained retrieve
  2. Training Take
    • Best materials to begin with
    • Training process
    • Troubleshooting
    • Conditioned Emotional Responses
  3. Training Hold
    • Training process
    • 5 important troubleshooting strategies
  4. Training Carry and Give
    • Training carry
      • Process
      • Troubleshooting strategies for carry
    • Training give
      • Process
      • Troubleshooting strategies for give
      • Training give to another person (transfer items)
  5. Training Pick-Up and Putting it All Together
    • Training pick-up from counter process
    • Training pick-up of vertical items without knocking them over
    • Complex behavior chains
    • Generalization

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