Welcome to the Instructor’s Guide for Beyond the Back Yard: Train Your Dog to Listen Anytime, Anywhere!, a book about the Fenzi Distraction Training Method. This guide is designed to assist professional dog trainers who wish to implement the principles introduced in Beyond the Back Yard in a group class setting. This guide is a complementary program to supplement the book. It does NOT offer the same set of exercises. There is no requirement that you purchase the book in order to use this guide, nor is there a requirement that your students purchase the book. However, the recommended homework for each class is based on the book, so if you choose not to use the book, then you will need to create your own homework program.
Although Beyond the Back Yard and this Instructor’s Guide can be used independently of one another, students who work through the book at home while also attending a class outlined here will be a good deal further ahead than a person who does only one or the other.