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The most important part of any building is the foundation. The same is true with your dog! This video shows you how to build a solid foundation under your dog using real-life training sessions with several dogs of all ages. You’ll see the step-by-step process of teaching obedience, reading body language, using timing and praise, and raising a dog that is easy to live with, and has the skill sets needed for whatever your end goal is, whether that be a duck dog, shed dog, bird dog, tracking dog, or just a great family dog!

What You'll Learn:

• What a “foundation” really is and why it matters
• The essential tools you need to train your dog
• How to use corrections and praise to communicate to your dog
• Incremental training, and how to build on each session
• Teaching your dog to Sit and Stay
• Heel training, both on and off lead
• How to read your dog's body language
• Recall ("here") and how to make it stick
• Timing, feel, and balance with your dog

Ch. 1 & 2: Introduction to Foundation Work

Why foundation is the key to everything you’ll do with your dog and how this video breaks it down step by step.

Ch. 3: Positives & Negatives

Understanding reward, correction, timing, and how dogs learn from both.

Ch. 3: Tools for Training

A look at the simple tools Jeremy uses and how each one helps you communicate clearly, and accomplish goals. It's a lot easier to frame a house with a hammer instead of a wrench... and it's a lot easier to train a dog with the correct tools.

Ch. 4: Incremental Training

Building on each one of your training sessions, both when they go well and when they go poorly. 

Ch. 5 - 9: Sit and Stay training

Building on what you started in the Puppy Training video, we reinforce "sit", transition that to "stay", and advance habits with multiple dogs and drills.

Ch. 10: How Much is Too Much

Understand how much pressure is too much, and how much praise is too much. Dog Training is all about balance, and that scale is constantly changing and different for every dog.

Ch. 11 - 22: Heel Training

Heel training is maybe the most important foundational skill for any hunting dog. Heel is where so much happens, and without solid heel, you cannot do more advanced drills down the road. Jeremy uses multiple dogs at different levels to show you where you start, different drills to advance, and walk you through training your dog to heel on lead.

Ch. 23: Off-Lead Heel

Our ultimate goal is to have a dog that heels off-lead. This is how you transition from on-lead heel to off-lead heel.

Ch. 24: Reading your Dog's Body Language

Dogs don't speak to us with words, they speak to us with their body language. Learning to read your dog's body language and understand what they are telling you is essential in your dog training.

Ch. 24 - 27: Recall on Command

Building on what you started in your puppy training, this is how you reinforce recall to have a dog that comes to you every time you call them.

Ch. 28 & 29: Feel, Timing, and Balance

Combining it all to understand how you put these foundational dog training skills together and make training a part of you and your dog's life.

Who This Video Is For:

Anyone ready to take their dog from puppy basics into true obedience. Perfect for those wanting a controllable family dog or preparing a future hunting, tracking, or shed dog. This is the foundation that every dog needs.

No matter your goals, a solid foundation is essential for any dog's future.