Camp TOC is organized into five traditional types of camp activities (sports, theater, outdoor living, art and bonding), and each week, we offer you activities under each of those categories. In case it’s helpful to see the camp activities sorted into more traditional dog training buckets, here’s a list of what you and your dog will learn by the end of camp:
Recall (how to get your dog to come when called)
How & why to capture offered attention
Condition recall cue as a starting point
Pattern games to build reinforcement history
Hide & seek recall
Use movement away from your dog to draw them into you
Introducing distractions to your recall work – indoors and then outdoors
Build attention & engagement
Pattern games
Introducing a big variety of real world distractions in a way that your dog chooses to voluntarily orient to you (we walk you through a number of different examples)
Dog photography & videography (+ optional journaling)
Shooting & editing great photos of your dog on your phone
Shooting & editing videos on your phone
Journaling activity about the self compassion we can learn through our dogs
Tricks
Paw targets
Close cabinet doors
Teach your dog to wrap their arm around an object like a side hug
Teach your dog to wave hello
Teach your dog to run around you and then out after a tossed toy
Teach your dog to lie down and shift their weight on the side of one hip on cue
Directed retrieve (how to go get something you point to and bring it back to you)
Other:
Frisbee
Decompression & relationship building walks
Using functional reinforcers and putting them on cue including: go sniff, go chase, go say hi, go play, get it/take it
Personal play
Settling outside
As a reminder, you retain access to Camp TOC even after our live run is over, so there is no need to get through everything. You can pick out just a few activities each week and come back to the rest later (or you can try to hit everything!).