Please join us for an amazing weekend with Dr Amy Cook! The Play Way is Amy Cook’s method of helping shy and fearful dogs overcome these issues to live a happier, less-stressed life. Rather than focusing mainly on food, as many do when working with these dogs, Amy has established a more nuanced rehabilitation process that revolves around personal, social play. She believes play is a much more reliable method of judging a dog’s true behavioral thresholds, while being equally effective at supporting a dog to make emotional change. Play is both an indicator of stress and an intervention for stress! In this seminar you will learn: -How to identify stress in dogs -About threshold management -How to read a dog so you know what to do when -About relaxed play, and its important role in the rehabilitation of stress & anxiety -Personal play, food or toys: which one should you use and when? -How to help a dog "Look and Dismiss" and take challenges in stride. Whether your pup is being reactive on leash, fearful in the world, or you are struggling with a dog who performs great during training but shuts down at trials, this seminar can provide unique skills and a different approach to traditional food-driven counter conditioning protocols. Who is Dr. Amy Cook: Dr. Cook is an International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants (IAABC) Certified Dog Behavior Consultant, a longstanding professional member of the Association of Professional Dog Trainers (APDT), and was one of the first trainers nationally to become a Certified Professional Dog Trainer through independent evaluation. Dr. Cook received her Ph.D. in Psychology from UC Berkeley, with her research focusing on the dog-human relationship and its effect on the problem solving strategies dogs employ. Dr. Cook is the founder and creator of the Play Way and a popular instructor for the online school, The Fenzi Dog Sports Academy. She has been training dogs for over 30 years, and has specialized in the rehabilitation of shy and fearful dogs for over 20 years. To learn more about Dr. Cook visit her website: http://www.playwaydogs.com Saturday is LECTURE ONLY Sunday is lecture and WORKING with up to 8 working teams WORKING DOGS There are 8 working spots available for some one on one time working with Amy on Sunday (Saturday is lecture only). Each dog/handler team will have 2 short working sessions with Amy. Working spots for this seminar are appropriate for socially confident dogs (for humans to learn the hands on skills of relaxed play) and dogs with general fear/anxiety, performance/ring stress, or over-arousal. We CANNOT accept dogs with aggression towards people or dogs as working teams. Dogs must be able to function well in a seminar environment with many other people watching and dogs in the environment. They also must be able to handle the lengthy down time (including crating onsite). They can’t be overly reactive or shut down, and have to be able to be in the presence of strangers and other dogs.

Sponsor:Wisconsin Humane Society
Speaker(s):Dr Amy Cook

Contact: Natalie Zielinski
 Email: nzielinski@wihumane.org
 Phone: 414-431-6114
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