Welcome, Program Overview & Professional Use
Welcome to DogNostics and to this essential pet professional training resource!
We’re delighted to have you here.
The DogNostics 10 Steps to an Amazing Response to Name – Professional Toolkit is designed to give you a clear, structured, and practical framework for teaching a reliable, positive response to name.
Whether you’re working with puppies, adolescent dogs, or adult learners, this toolkit supports you in developing a response to name that is reliable, enthusiastic, and emotionally meaningful.
You’ll learn how to create strong engagement and clear communication from the very first step - laying foundations that carry through to recall, focus, and everyday training success. All guidance is rooted in modern, force-free practice, with an emphasis on emotional safety, clarity, and long-term learning rather than compliance.
Most importantly, this is a skills-based professional resource. The strategies, games, and teaching frameworks you’ll explore are designed to be used confidently with clients, integrated into existing programs, and adapted to a wide range of dogs and learning histories.
Beyond skill development, this toolkit is also designed to support you professionally and commercially.
All planning, structuring, and resource development has already been done for you - making it easy to integrate this material into your existing services or launch it as a standalone private or group offering. You’ll have everything you need to confidently teach, deliver, and support a complete response-to-name program without starting from scratch.
The content is fully adaptable across teaching formats and learning environments, allowing you to expand your service offerings, streamline your workflow, and present a polished, professional experience to clients. You’ll also be supported with ready-to-use promotional materials to help you communicate the value of this program clearly and attractively!
In this invaluable skills-based program, we provide a DogNostics’ Pet Dog Solution that combines the art, craft, and science, of training an enthusiastic response to name!
You will...
- Explore the meaning of name response.
- Learn how to condition a positive emotional response to a dog’s name so it becomes ‘music to their ears’!
- Master the ten steps to optimal name response via step-by-step instructional videos.
- Learn games and activities that can be used to proof and generalize an incredible response to name!
- Watch a total of over 2 hours of video files!
- Access numerous client handouts, a full 6-class curriculum, a 21-page client e-book, and class marketing resources!
- Discover how you can incorporate your newfound knowledge, and the material presented, into your business and even increase your business revenue!
Your Program Content Includes:
How to Use the Train-Test-Train Method (Pdf Handout)
Two Prerequisite Training Games (E-Learning Videos)
- GAME #1 - The Thousand Dollar Name Game.
- GAME #2 - Let’s Go Operant Name Game.
Your 10-Step Training Plan Video Files
- STEP 1 – The Games Begin!
- STEP 2 – Building Focus on You!
- STEP 3 – Introduce Your Dog’s Name!
- STEP 4 – Promoting a Turn Towards You!
- STEP 5 – Introducing Distance!
- STEP 6 – Increase the Distance of the Treat Toss!
- STEP 7 – Call the Dog Before He/she Looks!
- STEP 8 – Delay the Click!
- STEP 9 – Treat & Run!
- STEP 10 – Treat Scatter Game!
Individual Written Instructions for Each Game (12 x Pdf Files)
How to Train a Positive Interrupter (Supplementary Lesson – E-Learning Video File).
DogNostics’ Do’s & Don’ts of Name Response (5-Page Pdf Client Handout)
6 Additional Games! (6 x Video Demonstrations & Pdf Client Handouts with step-by-step instructions).
DogNostics’ 10 Steps to an Amazing Response to Name Pet Dog Guardian E-Book (21-page Pdf with Step-by-Step Instructions for Each Game!)
Full Six-Class Curriculum!
Editable Client Graduation Certificate!
We have also included some wonderful marketing resources for you!
- 2 Social Media Graphics
- 1 x Editable Class Flyer - You can insert the date, time, & location of your class, and where to register e.g., your website, email address, or phone number
Please listen to the overview provided below!
Welcome to DogNostics and to this essential pet professional training resource!