The Fearful Feral Dog Task Force (FFDTF) was formed in July 2020 to help the fearful and feral dogs in shelters and rescues in New Mexico and beyond. The task force will help dogs by educating people about the rehabilitation and training homeless fearful and feral dogs require through collaboration and outreach.
Want to learn how to help Fearful and Feral Dogs?
Check out the FFDTF Online Learning Course! https://rescuedogsresponsibly.uscreen.io
FFDTF’s vision is to form a network of foster homes, shelters, shelter staff, rescues, rescue volunteers, and dog trainers and other interested parties that are trained to rehabilitate and help fearful and feral dogs. This network will assist to rehabilitate fearful and feral dogs so that they may be placed in adoptive homes. Based in New Mexico, where the fearful and feral dog population is high, the long term vision of FFDTF is to expand outside of New Mexico to other locations in the United States so we may collaborate with people and organizations to get the fearful and feral dogs the help they need. FFDTF also would like to partner with rescues in other states to find homes for the fearful feral dogs.
FFDTF will supply a training program where a person or organization may become an official FFDTF rehabilitator and/or organization.
WORKSHOP! Fearful/Feral Dogs with Nelson Hodges
This two(2) day workshop will cover the means, methods and understandings of rehabilitating severe case dogs. By combining two subjects together, the attendee is better able to see the RBBM System in its application throughout canine behavioral issues in general. This workshop will focus on the root causes of behavioral issues and address those through techniques, intelligence and applications. A study of the way dogs think and how they see the world is vital to understanding the problems. This course will help attendees to understand and plan a pathway to rehabilitate each dog for its own unique issues. We will cover how to recognize causes, plan lessons and work sessions, work with the dog in the moment, proper response levels and communications, transference to the foster, shelter staff/volunteer, and how to reach and inspire them to carry out the long term plans for themselves and the dog.
Location: Animal Welfare Coalition. Las Vegas New Mexico
March 30 & 31, 2021
Sign up here: https://www.chrinstitute.com/sign-up/fearful-feral
KEY PLAYERS
When formed, FFDTF is a collaboration of Julie Hart from Rescue Dogs Responsibly, a 501c3 non-profit, Animal Welfare Coalition of Northeastern New Mexico (AWC), a rural shelter with a high population of fearful and feral dogs, and Canine Human Relationship Institute, founded by Nelson Hodges, a dog trainer and rehabilitator specializing in fearful dogs. Together these groups will host workshops, lessons, and learning opportunities, plus oversee the rehabilitation of fearful and feral dogs in the New Mexico shelter and rescue systems. FFDTF is hoping to expand this network.
BACKGROUND
Julie Hart assisted AWC with a large hoarding case in 2019, after rehabilitating rescued dogs for ten years. The dogs from the hoarding case were on the spectrum of slightly fearful to completely feral. During this case, Julie realized the great need for knowledge in fearful and feral dog rehabilitation. She called in a mentor, Nelson Hodges for advice. Nelson held a workshop at AWC in Las Vegas, New Mexico to teach others about helping the hoarding case dogs. While all the dogs from the hoarding case have found homes, there is a constant influx of fearful or feral dogs into shelters that need help. The people and organizations involved will share knowledge to others to help the many fearful and feral dogs via online courses and in-person workshops.
Want to learn how to help Fearful and Feral Dogs?
Check out the FFDTF Online Learning Course! https://rescuedogsresponsibly.uscreen.io
FFDTF’s vision is to form a network of foster homes, shelters, shelter staff, rescues, rescue volunteers, and dog trainers and other interested parties that are trained to rehabilitate and help fearful and feral dogs. This network will assist to rehabilitate fearful and feral dogs so that they may be placed in adoptive homes. Based in New Mexico, where the fearful and feral dog population is high, the long term vision of FFDTF is to expand outside of New Mexico to other locations in the United States so we may collaborate with people and organizations to get the fearful and feral dogs the help they need. FFDTF also would like to partner with rescues in other states to find homes for the fearful feral dogs.
FFDTF will supply a training program where a person or organization may become an official FFDTF rehabilitator and/or organization.
WORKSHOP! Fearful/Feral Dogs with Nelson Hodges
This two(2) day workshop will cover the means, methods and understandings of rehabilitating severe case dogs. By combining two subjects together, the attendee is better able to see the RBBM System in its application throughout canine behavioral issues in general. This workshop will focus on the root causes of behavioral issues and address those through techniques, intelligence and applications. A study of the way dogs think and how they see the world is vital to understanding the problems. This course will help attendees to understand and plan a pathway to rehabilitate each dog for its own unique issues. We will cover how to recognize causes, plan lessons and work sessions, work with the dog in the moment, proper response levels and communications, transference to the foster, shelter staff/volunteer, and how to reach and inspire them to carry out the long term plans for themselves and the dog.
Location: Animal Welfare Coalition. Las Vegas New Mexico
March 30 & 31, 2021
Sign up here: https://www.chrinstitute.com/sign-up/fearful-feral
KEY PLAYERS
When formed, FFDTF is a collaboration of Julie Hart from Rescue Dogs Responsibly, a 501c3 non-profit, Animal Welfare Coalition of Northeastern New Mexico (AWC), a rural shelter with a high population of fearful and feral dogs, and Canine Human Relationship Institute, founded by Nelson Hodges, a dog trainer and rehabilitator specializing in fearful dogs. Together these groups will host workshops, lessons, and learning opportunities, plus oversee the rehabilitation of fearful and feral dogs in the New Mexico shelter and rescue systems. FFDTF is hoping to expand this network.
BACKGROUND
Julie Hart assisted AWC with a large hoarding case in 2019, after rehabilitating rescued dogs for ten years. The dogs from the hoarding case were on the spectrum of slightly fearful to completely feral. During this case, Julie realized the great need for knowledge in fearful and feral dog rehabilitation. She called in a mentor, Nelson Hodges for advice. Nelson held a workshop at AWC in Las Vegas, New Mexico to teach others about helping the hoarding case dogs. While all the dogs from the hoarding case have found homes, there is a constant influx of fearful or feral dogs into shelters that need help. The people and organizations involved will share knowledge to others to help the many fearful and feral dogs via online courses and in-person workshops.