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10 Days to Happy Handling

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10 Days to Happy Handling

Name: 10 Days to Happy Handling
Brand: Absolute Dogs
SKU: MC-HAPPY-HANDLING
Price: 27.0 GBP
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Does your dog struggle with being touched, handled, or examined? Happy handling doesn’t

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How it works

Each lesson introduces a foundation skill that supports calm, cooperative handling.

Learn simple, games-based exercises that develop stillness, focus, confidence, duration, and communication - the skills your dog needs before handling begins.

By the end of the 10 days your dog will have the essential foundations in place, ready to progress to more advanced handling and real-life care scenarios.

Benefits

How will you and your dog benefit from this course?

Build strong foundations - learn the core skills that support consent-based care.
Prepare your dog for future handling - set your dog up for success before introducing touch, equipment, or procedures.
Support choice and communication - help your dog learn to stay engaged, opt in, or pause when needed.
Create a calmer, more confident dog - build emotional resilience and optimism around human interaction.
Make Cooperative Care easier - strong foundations mean fewer struggles later on.

What you get

Lifetime Access

Build slowly, revisit often, progress when ready
10 Core Foundation Lessons + 4 Bonus Lessons

To help you build strong foundations and clarity of communication
A Clear Learning Pathway

This course is the foundation layer for the full Cooperative Care course
Foundation Games with Purpose

Every exercise has a future role in handling and care

Course Snippets

Inside 10 Days to Happy Handling You'll Learn:

The foundation behaviours that underpin cooperative care
How to build stillness and duration without pressure
How to develop focus and confidence before adding handling
How dogs communicate comfort and discomfort through choice
Why these exercises matter - even when they don’t yet look like “handling”
Bonus confidence-building games to support sensitive or worried dogs

10 Days to Happy Handling Frequently Asked Questions

10 Days to Happy Handling is perfect for any dog owner who wants handling to feel calmer, kinder, and more like teamwork. Everyday care - things like checking paws, removing a thorn, dealing with ticks, trimming nails, taking a temperature, or supporting your dog during veterinary care - can quickly become stressful or even traumatic if your dog isn’t comfortable being handled. With the right foundations in place, those same situations can become manageable, predictable, and far less emotionally charged for everyone involved. This course is designed to lay those foundations. The learning is ideal for every dog owner and every dog - puppies, adult dogs, rescues, senior dogs, and dogs who find touch, handling, or human movement difficult. It’s also the perfect starting point if you’re new to cooperative care. It can be used on its own, but it’s designed as the foundation layer for our full Cooperative Care course. Think of it as laying the ground before building the house.

The full Cooperative Care course builds on these foundations, adding handling, equipment, tools, context changes (vet, groomer), and troubleshooting.

Anyone new to cooperative care or consent-based training - or anyone who wants to strengthen their dog’s foundations before progressing.

We strongly recommend starting here. Dogs with solid foundations progress faster, more confidently, and with less stress.

Lessons range from 2–10 minutes, and the exercises are designed to be practised in short, manageable sessions. You don’t need long training blocks - small, consistent sessions woven into daily life are where the real progress happens.

Over the 10 days, you’ll begin building clearer communication and stronger teamwork with your dog. You’ll see your dog becoming more able to stay engaged, make choices, and communicate comfort or uncertainty during foundation handling exercises. While every dog progresses at their own pace, this course lays the groundwork for a more cooperative relationship - one that prepares you both to move confidently into more advanced Cooperative Care.

No prior training is needed, although you will find lots of additional games and foundational learning which perfectly complement the learning inside Games Club (and this course is included as part of our Games Club membership). Whether you’re completely new to dog training or highly experienced, the lessons are broken down step by step and designed to be clear, practical, and accessible.

You’ll get 21 days FREE access to our exclusive community, where you can ask questions, get feedback, and connect with other puppy owners on the same journey. Plus, you’ll have the option to join our Games Club - your go-to space for ongoing learning and progress.

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