Evening lecture with Thomas Baumann

Employment for the family dog
Increasing the quality of life for dogs through the individual and targeted use of motivating employment models

Choosing the right employment model is
undoubtedly one of the core elements of a harmonious human-dog relationship.
Whether education, training, therapy or just a happy togetherness, without a goal-oriented occupation the life of a dog can ultimately only be dull and dull. However, employment models do not always HAVE to be. Not every family dog ​​NEEDS an additional occupation when living together with its people. And
if it is a meaningful occupation, then it should be adapted to the individual abilities and needs
of the four-legged friend.
If our family dogs are „imposed“ with a certain employment model, this circumstance can even reduce the quality of life of a dog. Many four-legged friends are repeatedly pushed pointlessly by exaggerated prey or object games and in individual cases are
driven to the point of mental and organic illnesses. Ball junkies are „produced“ who, in the end, can certainly be
compared to alcoholics. Undosed play and prey work is therefore one of the
most common, stress-related „disease-causing“ of our four-legged social partners.
But even with an exaggerated „treat motivation“ many dog ​​owners and dog trainers cause damage without realizing it. Especially when the social interaction
This makes it irrelevant for the dog and it only „works“ if the return service is sufficiently rewarded with treats.
Humans as living automatic feeders have characterized the human-dog relationship more and more in recent years.
Lecture and seminar on the topics of capacity utilization and employment create clear transparency on these problems and, of course, show ways of simply making things better.

TOPICS
➢ Social forms of motivation
➢ Bonding and relationships
➢ Prey- and object-related forms of motivation
➢ Food-related forms of motivation
➢ Lunging training – the five advantages
➢ Hand-feeding as an employment
model ➢ Feed bag – construction without prey
stimuli ➢ Target search ZOS / object
search ➢ Solitaire employment model

Speaker: The behavior expert Thomas Baumann  is the author of several specialist books and has specialized in dealing with difficult dogs for many years. His passion belongs to analytical complexes that relate both to the dog’s conflict behavior and to the respective human-dog relationship. Together with his wife Ina, Thomas Baaumann founded the animal welfare organization Dogworld Foundation