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Hi I'm Alex Lato, M.Sc. Animal Science, Dog Trainer & Author 📖 🐕 Discover my clear dog training frameworks for companion and performance dogs.

Play with Purpose - The Lab: formula that turns play into a powerful training tool for focus, confidence relationship and emotional regulation.

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Quick Announcement 🚨
🤩 First of all - Welcome New Members! I'm super happy our community is growing! 🎾 Just quick reminder - you can still join PWP Challenge and get benefits of community, live Q&A's and my mentorship on play formula that builds motivation, confidence, relationship and emotional regulation. I'm really loving this this challenge and the community there is absolutely amazing! link here: https://www.skool.com/play-with-purpose-the-lab/about 🤓 Couple of you asked when there will be free webinar- it is coming and will be on 'Can play help your reactive dog?' is that something you would be interested in? let me know in the comments! 🥋 we have now belt system to reward the most active members! Skool is measuring your activity- the more you post/comment, like the higher score you get. You can see it on Leaderboards tab. the most active members will get free/discounted memberships, merch, mentorship/private calls etc.
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Need your opinion?
What is the most important skill in dog training? If over the next 30 days you could acquire one dog-training skill as a superpower, which one would you choose? ps. If you think I missed one, comment it.
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@Petra Oltheten very interesting! tell us more about that
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my pick is between motivation and emotional influence... as @Samantha Preece said those are very connected. with absolute motivation for the reinforcer I use that is stronger than anything I can reward alternative behaviour to any unwanted one, can distract or redirect even if my communication is not great.. i feels like it would override if timing and consistency are not great. Practically speaking hands on when I train motivated dog everything is sooooo much easier. However emotions are driving behaviours - desired ones and those that are getting us in trouble. But practically speaking unless we have a magic wand we need some motivation to influence emotions. Working on emotions alone is hard. Feelings and emotions are complicated and usually it takes a lot of time, effort, consistency and management to influence them. On top of that I believe that we are overestimating how well we know how our dogs feel. Only the dog knows what the dog feels. Behaviours are black and white. So if I had to choose one superpower I would go with emotional influence as I feel that would allow me being not great in other areas.
Play with Purpose- 5 Week Implementation Lab🐕🧪 Starts 25.10
Hey Team, I’m opening the second edition of Play with Purpose — this time as The Lab. This is a live, coached environment where we break down play and motivation and remove the guesswork. 📦 What’s included - 🧩 Core course – Play With Purpose: Step-by-step framework to build engagement, confidence, motivation, relationship and focus in high arousal - 👥 Community: learn with other like minded dog owners and trainers - 🎯 5 week of my direct coaching - 📲 Weekly live Q&A (your questions answered) - 🎁 Bonuses (Luring Mastery, Powering Recall with Play, Retrieve Anything Guide) - Ps. Grads of PWP will have priority for Heelwork Hackers once is up. 🐕 Who This Is For - 🧠 Dog trainers - 🏆 Sport & working dog handlers - 🔥 Ambitious dog owners and all of us that are using rewards in training :) 💰 Pricing (clear and honest) Most “challenges” charge around £100 for one week. This is five weeks, live, with coaching. Early access price: £97 total (129 USD) • Now only available inside this community • Limited to first cohort • Price will go up later If you’re in, don’t wait. Click here: https://www.skool.com/play-with-purpose-the-lab/about?ref=7f1c744ba01a4ce68aae9b8cda9235c6 I will see you inside!
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Apologies for confusion @Petra Oltheten I accidentally removed the comment. I will dm you shortly.
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@Lynne Willmott @Samantha Preece yes - once the PWP The Lab is up and competed I will grant you an access to the course material for free. Unless you are interested in coaching/feedback (like during the first edition then let me know :) )
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Hi All, I am in Australia and currently it's darn hot. It's difficult to get out and train but we had a cool change yesterday so I got to do a bit with my mad red head Shine. We are way out of practice but it was good to do a bit yesterday. We have mainly been swimming together each day in our 40 deg temps and then chilling out inside together.
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Hi Karen, great to have you here! and I'm bit jealous of the weather ;) here is cold and wet 🙃 I always always dreamed to visit Australia
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