What is the best strategy for being prepared

• Option 1 - Live like everything has already gone wrong
   
  • Move to an off grid farm and become a Neo Pioneer
  • Invite others to join you
• Option 2 -  Live the life you want and have contingencies if things go wrong
   
  • Consider your most likely and most dangerous threats
  • Make plans to deal with each in your planning process
  • Take necessary actions now to be prepared to implement your plans

Dealing with a Home Invasion for the normal family

• What are your planning parameters?
   
  • What are you willing to do?
  • What are your assets? Guns, physical security, dogs
  • What are your lifestyle restrictions?
• How can you incorporate these into your plans?
   
  • Using guns, combative, dogs, etc
• Additional assets to consider
   
  • Communications: phones, radios, verbal
  • Dogs, alternate weapons, deterrence
  • Putting this all together
• Running through some scenarios

Tracking Introduction and Theory

• The mindset of Tracking and why it is important.
• Introducing Tracking
  • Lost Handler Drills
  • Mastering the 4 Basic Problems
    • Meandering Tracks
    • 90 Degree Turns
    • Out & Backs
    • Converging Scent
  • Progression in Each Problem
    • Known Tracks
    • Known Start and End points
    • Known Start Point Only

Willing to lose everything to be true to your convictions

• What are you willing to die for? Why having conviction is important
• Passion is being willing to suffer for a thing
   
  • Many claim to be passionate about something, but stop as soon as it becomes uncomfortable
• Why do you believe what you believe?
   
  • Did you grow up in a church? Or with parents who hated the church?
  • Did you have a trauma that caused an emotion rejection of a belief early on?
  • What does this have to do with dog training?

The Philosophy of Positivity and Why that is a lie (E!)

• The three philosophies (IG reply) - You all suck, Fuck You
   
  • Positivity
  • Negativity
  • Reality
• Accepting reality for what it is
   
  • Self development
  • Relationships
  • Your Dog
• Why reality is the only philosophy that can make you happy
   
  • There is a natural order
  • Lies are relational entropy
  • Living a lie will always destroy a portion of your life
• ACCEPT OTHERS, YOU’RE NO BETTER. TRY TO BE THE BEST VERSION OF YOU.

There are no Freedoms but what you take

• Difference between a Right and Freedom
   
  • Rights are what you should be able to do
  • Freedom is doing the thing you should be able to do
  • “Are you allowed to do that?” vs. “Who is going to stop me?”
• Understanding Your Rights
   
  • Bill of Rights are good but there are many more
  • Rights come with responsibilities
• Exercising Your Freedom
   
  • If you do not exercise your freedom you don’t have it
  • Government, Family, Society tries to rob you of your Freedoms, and you must constantly fight to keep them
  • Thinking outside the box
• THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX - Ask “How can I?” Stop thinking, “I can’t.”

Food Aggression and Doing Feeding Drills

• What is the feeding drill?
• Purpose of feeding drills
   
  • Establishing control around food
  • Safeguarding children interfering with dog’s food
  • Ensuring dog aggression around food is minimized
• Purpose of these drills
   
  • Children messing with dogs food while they’re eating
  • Another dog approaching while your dog is feeding
  • Needing to handle your dog while they’re feeding

Papers Please!! Why I will never register my dogs with the AKC or other kennel clubs

• What does it mean to have registration papers on a dog?
   
  • You have to trust the people doing the breeding
  • They allow line breeding, but only within a specific breed
  • They continue to change the breed description to match what their breeding practices create, rather than change practices to make the actual breed.
• Breed creation history
   
  • All breeds were created for a purpose
  • All breeds were created from other breeds
  • Original breeds should be reintroduced into the lines to maintain the breed’s strength, health and mental capabilities

Starting your dog on scent detection

• Building interest
   
  • Always have scent
• Transitioning to a search
   
• Developing difficulty

Training Expectations and When to Stop for the Day

• Dogs thrive off of praise and success
   
  • Communication and the One Direction One Correction Concept
  • Find and do things the dog is good at in between introducing something new
  • At the completion of a difficult task (old or new) give the dog a lot of praise
• Dogs build apprehension in failure and stress
   
  • The longer a dog is under stress the more negative association the dog will have with the new task
  • Don’t expect too much too fast from your dog
•  Overcoming apprehension to stress through training success
   
  • Always end on a positive note (successful completion)
  • Praise Praise Praise