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Puppy Culture & Avidog

I use both Puppy Culture & Avidog (now the "Transformational Dog Breeding System", by Good Dog), two proven programs to raise my puppies. I have successfully completed the formation for both (see certificates of completion below).  

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Puppy Culture has taken most of the best puppy husbandry practices from over the last 50 years and formalized them into a systematic program. Each protocol is tied to a specific developmental marker so we can do the right thing at the right time for optimal results.

 

Just a few of the Puppy Culture protocols include:

  • Early Neurological Stimulation (ENS) to enhance the development of strong nervous systems;

  • Barrier Challenge to instill problem-solving ability and teach the puppies frustration tolerance;

  • Clicker training to teach the puppy how to learn, how to enjoy learning, and how to seek out learning;

  • Conditioned Emotional Responses to teach positive associations with important puppy skills, such as crate training, grooming, veterinary handling, enjoying the company of humans, and having manners;

  • Manding, which is a way of teaching puppies to offer polite behaviors and asking for attention, instead of jumping, barking, etc;

  • Attention to People to teach a puppy to be confident enough to make eye contact with humans, and to use this as a communication method; 

  • Puppy Parties to teach the puppies to engage confidently with humans and enjoy activities with humans;

  • Resource Guarding Prevention to help prevent the unwanted behavior of puppies or dogs guarding food, toys, people, or other valued items;

  • Puppy obedience, such as sitting, walking on a leash, and waiting at doors;

  • Habituation to and desensitization of loud noises and new experiences.

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​Avidog provides a large scope of education to breeders, from how to have and maintain health dogs, to best breeding practices, to training and raising puppies and properly matching puppies with families. 

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Program include:

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  • Preparing strong and health breeding dogs: Understanding genetics, epigenetic, prenatal nutrition, effects of parental stress, and more;

  • How puppies develop and how to teach skills to puppies;

  • How to reduce behavioral problems;

  • How to evaluate puppies and match them with families;

  • Early neurological stimulation;

  • Adventure box;

  • Early scent introduction.

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More precisely, the 8 modules are as follows:

  1. Selecting Breeding Goals;

  2. Selecting Breeding Stock;

  3. Choosing Breeding Methods;

  4. Raising Your Puppies;

  5. Evaluating Puppies;

  6. Selecting Homes;

  7. Matching Pups to Homes;

  8. Analyzing Results.

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Note : Avidog's program is now available through Gooddog.com as the "Transformational Dog Breeding System". 

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