Training & Behavior · Dogs
The Novelty Sound and Surface Library
Bulletproofing Pups Against Everyday Oddities
Manhole covers, hair dryers, umbrellas, skateboards — the modern world is a haunted house to a puppy. 12 modules on neophobia, the progressive surface library, the cheese-trail protocol, the sound map and startle-recovery rate, whisper-volume audio desensitization, dead vacuums first, grates and bridges, the urban bench, weather, costume parades, and bouncing back from a real scare.
About this course
Neophobia — fear of the unfamiliar — kept wild canines alive, and it makes a modern puppy flinch at a manhole cover, freeze at a hair dryer, and lose its mind at a man in a raincoat. This course builds a library of 'that's boring' one entry at a time. You'll curate surfaces from carpet to slick tile to grates and guide the puppy across them with a trail of cheese (never a tight leash), map the sounds of your house and your street, learn that the measure of resilience isn't whether a puppy startles but how fast it recovers, run the whisper-volume audio protocol, introduce the vacuum dead before it ever roars, sit on the urban bench while the city goes by, play in leaf piles, hold costume parades in the kitchen — and know exactly what to do in the five seconds after a real scare.
What you'll learn
- Neophobia and why the modern home overwhelms unprepared puppies
- The progressive surface library and the cheese-trail protocol — never drag a puppy across anything
- The sound map, the startle-recovery rate, and the low-volume audio escalation over weeks
- Appliances introduced static first, then distant and brief, with a rain of food
- Grates, manhole covers and bridges; the urban bench strategy for sirens, buses and skateboards
- Weather and leaf piles, the visual novelty vault (umbrellas, costumes, brooms), and the rapid-fire reset after an unplanned scare
Course outline (12 modules)
Quiz & Certificate
Knowledge quiz
After completing all lessons, take a short quiz to test your understanding.
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$9.99 · Lifetime access · 12 lessons