DISTRACTION!

MARK! TREAT!
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 ...and other dog owning struggles represent
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DISTRACTION!
MARK!
TREAT!
(D.M.T.) This game is your perfect partner in so many
situations and environments that it really makes sense
that you grasp a good understanding of it!
DMT will boost your relationship toolkit
and support you turning your dog training
struggles into strengths. We absolutely
love an “easy win” every time so what
could be more simple and easy to grasp
than simply feeding your dog some tasty
food whenever you see they’ve sensed
something – it doesn’t matter if that’s
positive or negative – you literally just feed
regardless to start … WOW!! Easy right?

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WOULD YOU
LOVE TO:
Build in resilience to Reduce levels of
distractions anxiety or over
happening every excitement when
moment of every day you come across
distractions

Actually change and B uild your dogs

maintain a calm, OPTIMISM and
appropriate CONFIDENCE
emotional response everywhere!

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WHY IS THIS SO
IMPORTANT FOR
YOU AND YOUR
Our dogs are going through every hour
DOG?
of every day making choices and this
is really tiring for them!
Each choice they process, whether it By making most of those choices “none
is a good or bad outcome, adds a little of their business” using DMT you are
to their “bucket” for the day and once reducing their mental workout and
this is near full, even the smallest event allowing them to access their natural
can lead to a disproportionately large calmness. Calm behaviours are always
reactive episode. This quite often makes appropriate and ones that you as an
owners panic or become puzzled as owner will love so let’s get to it!
to why their dog is unpredictable.

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DISTRACTION
This really can be absolutely ANY “event” in the
environment – it could be a person appearing in the
distance, hearing an emergency vehicle siren or even
smelling a neighbours BBQ!
Your dog doesn’t have to “go crazy” at the This stage is sometimes written as
event, just notice it and chances are if you “DISTRACT” as short-hand so take care in
have noticed, they have already clocked not thinking that your goal is to “distract
it on some level. If you are working with your dog” … it’s not at all!
a specific struggle for example unwanted
reactivity or fear of the postman, the thing
which leads to your dog reacting may be
called the trigger.

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MARK
A marker is a word, sound or signal that
a positive event is about to come your dogs way!
In the case of DMT we would always look This is because we want our dogs to
to use a calmly conditioned marker such understand the situation is a calm
as a calm drawn out “niiiiiceeee” or one and doesn’t require getting too
“gooooooood” rather than a more exciting excited over.
“yes” or a clicker.

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TREAT
We would recommend that you use food
for this game as both the mechanics of
the game and the emotional state needed
really pair better with a food reward.
If the presence of food itself gets your
dog excited or they are really not willing
to work for food, you would need to look
at these struggles in more detail before
embarking on DMT fully.
It is important to note that although we
are using food in this game – it would
be taken out of your dog’s daily food
allowance to enable them to stay fit
and healthy.

DITCH THE BOWL eBOOK

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LET’S PLAY: INTRODUCING YOUR DOG TO DMT
HELPS WITH...
✔ Reactivity
✔ Fearful / nervous Adogs

DMT DISTRACTION, MARK, TREAT

✔ Making novelty normal
✔ Calmness

You will need

NIIICE!
Optional
boundary
DOG + FOOD + YOU

2
1
With your dog in front of you (on or off lead) say your
calm marker word e.g. ‘Niiiice’… then feed your dog
Deliver food calmly to your dog

NIIICE!
4 Add a simple distraction…

3
NIIICE!

Repeat step 1 & 2 a few times – make sure there’s a

short moment of time between “NIIICE” and the
delivery of the food
NIIICE! e.g. a leaf blowing or someone walking past.
Mark “NIIICE” & then deliver the food
5
HELPS BOOST…
✔ Confidence
✔ Optimism
The aim at this stage is to pair a calm word with the ✔ Calm
idea that there’s nothing to worry about…
We add more to this game… Concentrate here first.

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PROGRESS TRACKER: DMT DISTRACTION, MARK, TREAT
LEVEL 1 ON OFF LOCATIONS NOTES:
LEASH LEASH
FAMILIAR INDOOR
ENVIRONMENTS - NO DISTRACTIONS

LEVEL 2 ON OFF LOCATIONS NOTES:

LEASH LEASH
FAMILIAR OUTDOOR
ENVIRONMENTS - NO DISTRACTIONS

LEVEL 3 ON OFF LOCATIONS NOTES:

LEASH LEASH
REAL LIFE LOCATIONS
DISTANT DISTRACTIONS

LEVEL 4 ON OFF LOCATIONS NOTES:

LEASH LEASH
REAL LIFE LOCATIONS
CLOSER DISTRACTIONS

LEVEL 5 ON OFF LOCATIONS NOTES:

LEASH LEASH
REAL LIFE LOCATIONS
REAL LIFE DISTRACTIONS

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STAGES
OF DMT
Dogs decide what level they are at.

Level 1:
Dog sees distraction, say “nice”
(mark), and treat REGARDLESS of
behaviour. If the dog won’t take
food, the REWARD in that situation
is REMOVAL from the situation.

Level 2:
Dog sees distraction,
say “nice” (mark),
dog orients back
to you, and treat.

Level 3:
Dog sees distraction, dog
NIIICE!

disengages and orients to you

BEFORE the marker word, say “nice”
(mark), and treat.

Level 4:
Dog sees distraction, they are
aware of the distraction, but
there is no response.

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 DO YOU HAATV..E.
A DOG TH

BARKS AND LUNGES / CHASES ANYTHING THAT MOVES / FINDS IT DIFFICULT TO FOCUS ON YOU OUTSIDE
FINDS IT A CHALLENGE TO COME AWAY FROM OTHER DOGS LIKES THE IDEA OF INVITING THEMSELVES
TO A FAMILY’S PICNIC IN THE PARK WHILE YOU ARE OUT ON A WALK….
What’s happening right now is that your dog is reacting to the environment. By jumping into the
21 Days to Stress Free Walks Course, you will be given the tools to switch up what your dog reacts to...
You RATHER THAN the environment! This is going to TRANSFORM the relationship you have with your dog!

EXPLORE THE COURSE

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