Session 3 of the Seminar Blind Deaf and Amazing - on living with and training deaf, blind and deaf blind dogs.
Session lead: Jenisa Myers, USA
Session is about 1.5 hours long You'll receive the link to recording of the full session including presentation, videos, discussion, questions and answers. You'll be able to watch and refer back to the session as many times as you'd like.
Session 3 covers:
- Jenisa and Jedi - introductions and our journey together. Our achievements with Jedi so far
- Training a deaf dog for high level competitions- where do I start?- Communication, markers
- Touch conditioning
- Developing focus
- Motivation
- Other key components of your foundation training for future competitive success
- Recall and working off the leash with a deaf dog
- Advanced tricks with a deaf dog
- Competing with a deaf dog
- Where you can compete
- Practical considerations and adjustments you need to make to help your dog to succeed
- Communicating with your dog in a competition environment
- Other practical tips
Training and running a mixed dog team - deaf and normal hearing- what works for us.
- Other resources that we found useful
Session 3: Training a deaf dog to compete at the top level
Jenisa is a very highly regarded professional dog trainer. Jenisa also competes with her deaf dog Jedi at a high level in obedience, dog diving, agility and tricks. Jedi has a number of titles including International Trick Dog Champion. Jedi is a double merle border collie who was born deaf. In addition to Jedi Jenisa has another dog and has a lot of experience in running a mixed dog team (dog with normal hearing and deaf dog working together
