Set the Tone for Everything That Follows on Stock
Starting on Stock
How you introduce your dog to stock shapes every session after it. This course walks you through a quiet, progressive approach — from pole confidence and small pen mechanics to square flanks, balance, and stops in the arena. Access to stock required.
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A Thoughtful, Progressive Approach to Your Dog’s First Stock Sessions
Your dog’s first sessions on stock set the tone for everything that follows. This course gives you a progressive, step-by-step approach — from building pole confidence to square flanks, finding balance, and reliable stops exactly where and when you ask. You’ll learn how to read and apply pressure fairly, shape behaviors before naming them, and move from small pen work to the arena with your dog confident and engaged.
Progressive Small Pen Work
Start in a controlled space where you can shape correct behaviors without chasing, rushing, or over-pressuring your dog.
Pressure That’s Fair
Learn exactly where, when, and how much pressure to apply with your pole — and when to release it so your dog stays confident.
Finding Balance & Stops
Teach your dog to find balance on their own and stop where and when you ask — not four steps later.
From Pen to Arena
Every skill builds toward putting it all together in a larger space with square flanks, rating, and fence-line control.
What’s Inside
A step-by-step progression from your dog’s first stock exposure to putting it all together in the arena.
Key Concepts & Pole Confidence
Selecting appropriate stock, building your dog’s comfort with the pole, and understanding what an instinct test looks like.
Pressure, Flow & Small Pen Work
How to apply pole pressure at the nose, shoulder, and hip for different responses. Creating flow and introducing fence work in a small pen.
Balance, Stops & Corner to Corner
Finding balance on their own, stops where you need them, and building the diagonal line from corner to corner.
Larger Areas & The Arena
Moving all the pieces into bigger spaces and putting it together with square flanks, rating, fence-line work, and managing the draw.
12 Video Lessons | Progressive Pen-to-Arena Format | Multiple Breed Demonstrations
Why This Course Exists
Getting your dog on stock for the first time is exciting — but it’s also where a lot of mistakes get made. Dogs work too tight, handlers apply pressure in the wrong spot, and bad habits get named before the right behavior is ever shaped.
This course slows it down. Dawna and Megan walk you through every step, from the first time your dog sees stock in a small pen to putting all the pieces together in the arena. You’ll know exactly how to set your dog up so the work stays calm, correct, and confident — because what you build here is what you’ll carry forward into everything else.
Start Your Dog Right
What You Get
12 Step-by-Step Video Lessons
Real demonstrations with multiple dogs and breeds, showing exactly what each stage looks like from small pen to arena.
Lifetime Access
Work at your own pace. Come back to any lesson whenever you need to reinforce or tighten up a skill.
PSR Student Community
Ask questions, share progress, and get support from other handlers on the same path.
Want Access to Every Course?
The PSR Membership gives you all-access to every course in our catalog — plus exclusive bonuses like Real Talk and Next Steps. Starting at $40/month or $459/year.
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Every session on stock builds on the one before it. Start with the right mechanics, the right pressure, and the right mindset — and carry that forward into everything else.
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