What is trainasheddog.com?

Program membership at trainasheddog.com will equip you with the skills, knowledge, and community support needed to train and handle a confident shed dog that will be ready to perform in the field, and at shed dog trials. Community membership grants access to a library of comprehensive shed dog training videos that facilitate training, maintaining, and improving your shed dog and handling skills. Membership includes a private community forum and regular live video calls where program members can converse, pose questions, and support each other in their training journey with Canadian Antler Dogs' input. The live video calls are led by Canadian Antler Dogs and are recorded to remain in the program for later viewing.

Our program and community caters to both beginners and seasoned shed dog enthusiasts. Whether you are just starting out, striving to improve, or looking for new drills to add to your arsenal!

If you want to teach your dog to shed hunt, look no further!

Overview of Trainasheddog.com

When logged into the program, the sequential training videos are located under "Products" and divided into two categories:

Shed Dog Training Guide and Drills

This section is comprised of 31 lessons ranging from basic foundational shed dog training to intermediate/advanced drills. This section is designed to build confidence using a gradual approach and methodical methods of teaching. The purpose of the drills and videos are to instill and maintain confidence in your dog as it relates to hunting for, finding, and retrieving antlers. The comprehensive drills will help you achieve reliability in a variety of domains such as basic hunt command, visual recognition, scent recognition, hunting away from the handler, ranging, hunting in cover, quartering, finding and retrieving antlers in various conditions and distances. Our comprehensive training videos will help you work on specific skillsets, and address common issues/frequently asked questions.

The lessons contain a short written overview of the objective, as well as what is required to complete the exercise. In the video lessons, you will find a more detailed explanation of the purpose and expectation of the exercise, an explanation of how to implement the lesson demonstrated with visual aids, and a demonstration with a dog(s).

Example of Format:

Competitive Shed Dog Training Drills and Resources

This section will prepare you and your dog for shed trials. We recommend that your dog performs the previous lessons reliably before beginning this section. A common mistake is beginning tests/trials before the dog is ready, which can result in a loss of confidence, bad habits, and subpar results.

We like to take our time and use our systematic teaching approach prior to engaging in trials to ensure that the dog is confident, and understands what is required of them. In this section you will find lessons to assist you in the following:

• Overview of a shed trial/test (Working and Champion)

• Prepare your dog for shed trials using a gradual approach of teaching with comprehensive and confidence building drills

• Implement training drills to maintain skills and increase performance in trials

• Prevent common handler mistakes in tests/trials

  

Community Forum

Members have access to a private discussion forum to liaise and discuss various topics such as training, trials and wild shed hunting.

Community Calls and Recordings

Canadian Antler Dogs holds Zoom calls for members to discuss various topics, answer questions, talk shed dog training and shed hunting. Access to the calls are included in the membership and the calls are recorded and remain in the program for members to re-visit or view at a later time.

PDF Field Training Guide

Canadian Antler Dogs developed a PDF field guide that members can download for free on their devices. The guide contains condensed written lesson explanation, and live links to the program videos. The field guide facilitates access to the lessons and drills, and acts as a quick reference when out in the field training.

Our community membership and shed dog training program is the only one of it's kind The program is easy to navigate, and designed for the "do it yourselfers" looking for a complete shed dog training guide and support system, at an affordable price.

Click below to join today and receive $30 off your membership.

About the Author Ben Leger was faced with challenges due to the lack of available resources when training his first shed dog in 2012, and later on, when training for competitions and trials. Ben Leger developed this training program/community to fill the void and provide an affordable training option for shed dog enthusiasts. Ben is a UKC Elite Shed Dog Series Judge and has successfully trained numerous dogs for wild shed hunting and shed dog trials. Ben has assisted numerous handlers and dogs reach shed hunting success and a variety of competition goals such as titles, wins, and podiums, through implementation of his training program, performance enhancing drills, and handler coaching.