"I want to do that, NOW!"

If dogs could speak in a human language, some of them would be screaming these words in frustration.

It can be annoying to have a dog demanding access to toys or food. Rushed greetings can lead to fighting with other dogs and even just pulling toward other dogs or people can be hard for the handler to manage.

The ideal dog for this course should exhibit frustration toward people, dogs, or some other specific thing. You can also be working on prevention of frustration with a younger dog. This course is NOT for resource guarding -- just an overly large interest to go get to something or do something.

  • Address frustration in a way that meets the dog's needs and yours.

  • Training set-ups using BAT for frustration issues.

  • Training skills that improve patience.

  • Prerequisite: knowledge of Behavior Adjustment Training via BAT 101, BAT 2.0 book, or equivalent.

  • Format: Videos & Text with 6-12 self-paced weeks of practice.

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Bark Bark PULL Bark Bark

Learn how to get your dog on the same team and reduce excitement to encourage better choices.

  • What's the Antidote to Frustration?

    Empowerment, having effective and healthy ways to meet needs, is the opposite of frustration.

    By "healthy," I mean behavior that doesn't conflict with others (including people) also meeting their needs.

  • Who is This For?

    The how-to portion will be accessible to 'regular' dog lovers and the additional dog-geek discussions are meant for professional dog trainers and dog enthusiasts.

    This course assumes some understanding of the BAT leash skills as a prerequisite. IAABC 6 CEUs, 6 CCPDT CEUs

  • Practice Exercises

    For each section, you'll get a set of exercises to do with the dog(s) in your care. All training is done at your own pace. The courses is meant to take 6-12 weeks.

    Share questions or updates in our Facebook group.

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Another great course.

Janet Whittingham

Excellent course for reviewing and gaining more ideas. I feel everyone works their own way and have ways of working. These courses are very good, as personal...

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Excellent course for reviewing and gaining more ideas. I feel everyone works their own way and have ways of working. These courses are very good, as personally their is always some new ideas, ways of working or little considerations, ways of looking at things, that provoke further thought regarding my work around dogs. Very enjoyable.

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Helpful for Trainers

Lisa Hunt

Such a great course, lots of information. It really gets you thinking. I would highly recommend it to my other dog trainer colleagues.

Such a great course, lots of information. It really gets you thinking. I would highly recommend it to my other dog trainer colleagues.

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Very useful, practical, and tangibly helpful

Michelle Fratus

For my dog and me, this course made a big difference in that the exercises were very doable, and I saw marked improvement in my understanding of my dog and h...

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For my dog and me, this course made a big difference in that the exercises were very doable, and I saw marked improvement in my understanding of my dog and his behavior.

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Excellent course!

Marion Heggie

I really enjoyed this course. It has some excellent information regarding how to help work with dogs who have frustration issues.

I really enjoyed this course. It has some excellent information regarding how to help work with dogs who have frustration issues.

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Really enjoyed this course

Julia Moss

This course filled in a few bits I wasn't 100% clear about. I personally find video clips (particularly ones where some things didn't go to plan) with thorou...

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This course filled in a few bits I wasn't 100% clear about. I personally find video clips (particularly ones where some things didn't go to plan) with thorough explanations added the most helpful way to really understand how to put learned information into practice.

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wow

Catie Louwers

This course is really so full with information and things to do, I'll have to reread some sections!

This course is really so full with information and things to do, I'll have to reread some sections!

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Love it

Jade William Ritzon Hewison

Helpful

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Very interesting!

Typhaine Lecoq

Very interesting course that teaches useful training skills. I'm sure it will help many dogs (and their owners) better cope with frustration. Many thanks!

Very interesting course that teaches useful training skills. I'm sure it will help many dogs (and their owners) better cope with frustration. Many thanks!

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Lots of fabulous information!

Megan Moss

A great start to the course, easy to digest & lots of wonderful information

A great start to the course, easy to digest & lots of wonderful information

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Barking Mad

Nicole Corby

Always a pleasure to hear Grisha how she calmly and kindly explains everything. Thank you!

Always a pleasure to hear Grisha how she calmly and kindly explains everything. Thank you!

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Techniques for frustration

michelle black

Brilliant information so much to take in but so enjyable

Brilliant information so much to take in but so enjyable

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What's Included in this Course?

Select Section 1 for some sample lessons

  • 1

    Getting Started

    • Welcome! School Overview

    • How to View This Course

    • Syllabus: What You'll Learn
  • 2

    Section 1: What is Frustration?

  • 3

    Section 2: Reducing Overexcitement

    • Exercise & the Brain: Are You Making It Better or Worse?

    • Other Tips to Reduce Arousal

    • Training: Conditioned Relaxation

    • Training: Sudden Environmental Change as an On Switch

    • Pause to Practice
  • 4

    Section 3: Control is a Basic Need

    • Science on Control as a Reinforcer

    • More Please Signal to Give Dogs Control Over Stressors

    • Premack Principle Overview: the "Relativity Theory of Reinforcement"

    • Training: Hand Targeting

    • Training: Mark & Move and Other Survival Skills

    • Pause to Practice
  • 5

    Section 4: Meeting Needs

    • Using the Premack Principle Wisely

    • What Are Your Dog's Unmet Needs?

    • How Needs Lead to Problems

    • Training: On/Off Switch with the Premack Principle

    • Training: Speed Training for Loose Leash Walking

    • Pause to Practice
  • 6

    Section 5: BAT & Frustration

    • BAT Set-Up Refresher

    • I Use More Mark and Move with Frustration

    • BAT Set-Ups for Frustration

    • History of BAT and Frustration

    • Silky Leash Method for Loose Leash Walking

    • Pause to Practice
  • 7

    Section 6: Predictability & Consistency

    • Why Predictability and Consistency are Important

    • What Do You Want?

    • How to Add Predictability to Your Dog's Life

    • Pause to Practice
  • 8

    What's Next?

    • Next Steps

Instructor

Dog Trainer, Author, Singer-Songwriter

Grisha Stewart MA, CPDT-KA, KPACTP

I'm a collaborative dog trainer, author, international presenter, singer-songwriter, and keynote speaker of European ancestry (best guess based on DNA and some genealogy is Scotland, "England & Northwestern Europe," Wales, "Germanic Europe," Ireland, and Norway). I've been helping people and dogs professionally since 2003. My passion projects are grief tending, community singing, and woodturning.

I'm fascinated by animal behavior (including humans), somatic awareness, spirituality, psychology. My work is directed at wholehearted living for all beings, including dogs with a history of aggression, frustration, or fear as well as puppies and my other favorite species: humans.

My Behavior Adjustment Training (BAT 2.0 book and BAT 3.0) is used worldwide to help dogs gain confidence and social skills. Well over 200,000 people have learned about BAT so far.

Diane Redding and I co-host a podcast called The Lesson is Love.

As an outgoing introvert, I refresh my batteries by singing, expressing grief in community, and savoring life with my husband (Tom), Labrador (Joey), cat (Garbanzo aka "Adventure Kitty" and "Baby Panther"), and Little Brown Dog (Zuki). I identify as a queer (pansexual), neurodiverse, middle age, white, raised in poverty and now of middle class, and US citizen, spiritual non-Christian leaning toward neo-Druid (but raised in Christian culture). My pronouns are she/her. I am still wrestling with living on the stolen river watershed of the Siuslaw people, who are part of the CTCLUSI.

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