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Coming April 23/24 2005 ... Steve White
- Tired of your dog ignoring your commands to sit or come or get off the furniture?
- Is your teen-age dog driving you nuts with his lack of concentration?
- Need help in understanding what motivates your dog to do any of the things he does?
- Having problems getting your dog to reliably perform the same obedience or agility routine during training classes or practice sessions?
- Want to be able to learn how to teach your dog the sport of Tracking in a concrete jungle?
The Standard Schnauzer Club of Northern California is proud to be bringing Steve White, an active police officer and canine instructor from the State of Washington and a dynamic public speaker, to the San Francisco Bay Area in the spring of 2005 for a Two-Day workshop. Day One to concentrate on the Basics of Positive Training Methods and getting your family companion or performance dog to see eye-to-eye with you, teaching you how to teach your canine pal, and building the foundation to train complex behaviors such as the dumbbell retrieve, in incremental steps. Day Two is devoted to teaching tracking and scent discrimination.
Specifics on cost and dates are pending and will be posted as soon as they are finalized.
Steve White Biography
With over 20 years of law enforcement police canine training, Steve White is a recognized expert in the State of Washington courts and else where in the United States, on Canine Police Training and dog behavior matters. He is an accredited Master Trainer in the State of Washington for Police Canine training and has instructed at the National K9 Academy for Law Enforcement and has instructed police canine agencies throughout the United States. He was invited to participate in the United States Defense Research Project, Plume Tracing Symposium.
The original force-based methods of training police canines troubled Steve and he began a quest to find another method to effectively train working canines. His search brought him into zoos and aquatic animal parks where trainers were getting amazing results with methods that are commonly known as "positive reinforcement". Steve realized that the positive reinforcement methods worked well across all species of animals and began to adopt this training regime back at the State of Washington Canine training facilities. The results were instantaneous with the dogs and their handlers and the levels that the dogs could achieve in their training grew by leaps and bounds in shorter periods of time than in the old days of "jerk and puke" training methods.
He is a regular guest lecturer for Karen Pryor (Don't Shoot the Dog) and Gary Wilkes' seminars and expos and has trained many of today's Certified Pet Dog Trainers with his knowledge
Steve has taken his training and experience and has applied them in the areas of Basic Canine Behavior Modification (designed to help the owner and trainer in the concepts of positive training); Canine Behavior Problems (dealing with aggression and other problems of highly reactive dogs); and Scent Work (tracking and scent discrimination).
Contact: Rene A. Nunzir for further information in late 2004