Virtual Dog Training
With a Professional Dog Trainer
Virtual dog training with Ronny LeJeune provides a unique teaching experience to dog owners and dog training professionals throughout the United States and world. This program is designed to outfit the dog owner with the skills needed to train their dog and improve their handling skills.
What behaviors are taught during virtual dog training lessons?
A personalized training program is created for every dog to accomplish the goals set by the pet parents. The dog trainer can teach and strengthen a variety of obedience skills, tricks, and performance sports for dogs of all ages and breeds:
Obedience & Real Life Skills
Recall: Come When Called
Skills taught include nose touch, automatic check-ins, traditional and emergency recall.
Loose Leash Walking
Skills taught include door manners and walking alongside the human around distractions.
Obedience & Tricks
Skills include all behaviors to pass each Canine Good Citizen Levels and Trick Dog Titles.
Cooperative Care
Skills include muzzle training, nail trims, bathing, brushing for coat maintenance, and veterinary exam prep.
House Manners
Skills include potty training, crate training, greeting guests, settle on a mat, and impulse control.
Canine Performance & Sports
Scent Detection: Nosework
Skills include odor imprinting, developing search drive, and advanced searching for AKC, UKC, and NACSW.
Footstep Tracking
Skills include track laying, article indications, track endurance, and precision tracking.
Cooperative Toy Skills
Skills include informal retrieves and tub without conflict to develop reinforcement procedures.
Reinforcement Procedures
Skills include developing food and toy drive concurrently for various reinforcement procedures.
Retrieves & Happy Holds
Skills include holding objects, steadiness, and a formal retrieve.
Individual instruction provided during virtual lessons provides pet parents with the skills needed to achieve the desired behaviors to improve relationship and accomplish their goals.
What do I receive from virtual private lessons?
Virtual dog training lessons are designed to their dog owner how to train their dog. Therefore, the dog trainer works individually with the pet parent to provide the following valuable service features:
Initial Phone Consultation
A phone consultation is completed before all virtual dog training lessons. The consultation is intended to discuss the pet owner's training goals, schedule all virtual lessons, and provide management techniques to improve the dog's current behavior in the home.
Eight 30 Minute Training Lessons
All virtual lessons are held on Zoom Video Conferencing every other week and are recorded. A copy of every virtual lesson is provided after the lesson is complete.
Video Analysis
The client is provided the opportunity to submit video footage of their homework assignment to receive feedback on how to progress the skills further.
Printable Lesson Plans
The dog trainer provides a PDF of the skills covered in each lesson which includes notes about each behavior.
Learning Resources
The dog trainer provides learning and reference materials to support the pet parents in maintaining their dog's behaviors.
Virtual Dog Training Private Lesson Pricing
Optimal Canine’s Virtual Dog Training Lessons are available to dog owners in the United States and the world. All virtual dog training services are provided between Monday and Thursday from 12:00pm to 6:00pm; and Sunday from 10:00am to 6:00pm Central Time. Fridays and Saturdays are not available.
How does the virtual lessons work?
All virtual lessons are held on Zoom Video Conferencing software and is required to be installed on the dog owner’s phone or laptop. Ronny provides dog training instruction by demonstrating the skills with recorded video content during the virtual lesson. The demonstration is intended to provide the dog’s owner with the steps to teach their dog the desired behaviors. Homework is provided to the dog owner based on the demonstration provided.
Therefore, the dog owner develops the skills needed to teach their dog the skills needed to achieve their goals.
What are the requirements for virtual dog training lessons?
There are no major requirements for the Virtual Dog Training Program.
Behavior cases require a Behavior Modification program. Resource guarding, leash reactivity, fear, anxiety, dog-aggression, and intra-household aggression is accepted in the Behavior Modification program. Hybrid Behavior Modification is suitable for dog owners in and around the Lafayette, LA region whereas Virtual Behavior Modification is suitable for dog owners throughout the US.
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