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• "But My Dog Isn't Food-Motivated." Presented by Kathy Sdao

  • Start
    Saturday, July 01, 2017
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    2:00 PM (EDT)
  • End
    Friday, July 01, 2022
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    3:00 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    Recorded Webinar
  • Registered
    31 registrants

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  Presented by Kathy Sdao
  

  CEUs: PPAB 1, CCPDT 1, IAABC 1

  
  

  But my dog isn't food motivated!. When clients say this in an initial interview, my response is “not yet.” Eating is an operant behavior. Therefore, we can increase its probability and intensity and lower its latency through structured training procedures. While this might seem laughable if you have a ravenous Rottweiler or always-hungry hound, situations abound which require skilled intervention: a senior dog whose appetite is fading; a wary dog who has learned to distrust treats; a little dog who is fussy about meals; or a dog whose health is threatened by conditioned anorexia. While various medical conditions (requiring veterinary expertise) may create finicky eaters, so can unwise behavioral practices. We’ll review several common mistakes and provide alternatives.

  
  

  About The Presenter

  
  

  Kathy Sdao is an applied animal behaviorist who has spent 30 years as a full-time animal trainer, initially with marine mammals and currently with dogs and their people. As a graduate student at the University of Hawaii, she received a Master’s as part of a research team which trained dolphins to solve complex cognitive puzzles. She was then hired by the United States Navy to train dolphins for open-ocean tasks. Next, Sdao worked as a marine-mammal trainer at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma, Washington. After leaving the zoo world, she and a colleague created Tacoma’s first dog day care facility where she began teaching clicker training classes for dog owners. For the past 17 years, Sdao has owned Bright Spot Dog Training in Tacoma. Services include consulting with families about their challenging dogs, teaching private lessons, and mentoring professional trainers who want to maximize the power of positive reinforcement training. Sdao is an original faculty member for Karen Pryor’s ClickerExpos and has taught at 29 of these popular conferences since 2003. She also has traveled extensively educating students about the science of animal training. Her first book, Plenty in Life Is Free: Reflections on Dogs, Training and Finding Grace, was published in 2012. 

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• Tackle Your Teaching Presented by Veronica Boutelle

  • Start
    Monday, July 03, 2017
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    2:00 PM (EDT)
  • End
    Sunday, July 03, 2022
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    3:00 PM (EDT)
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    Recorded Webinar
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    4 registrants

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  Presented by Veronica Boutelle of dog*tec
  

  CEUs: PPAB 1, CCPDT 1, IAABC 1

  
  

  Either you’ve been thinking about teaching classes but you’re a little nervous, or you’ve been teaching classes quite a while and you enjoy it. Your students love you and your evaluations are great. But there’s still a challenge or two you’d like to face down. Maybe it’s a classroom management quandary—How to handle the students who insist on talking all through class, including while you’re instructing. Or the ones who seem to do their own thing no matter what instructions you give, or how many times you give them. Or the parents who aren’t able to manage their children while training their dog, or even the students who aren’t able to manage their dogs. Maybe you want a way to more actively engage students in your classes—to get more discussion flowing, or see them start to work proactively with their dogs and make needed training adjustments without waiting for your feedback. Maybe it’s finding easier, smoother ways to handle the widely varied skill and experience levels of your human and canine students. With over 20 years of experience teaching dog training classes, training trainers and teachers, and developing curriculum and instructional strategies, Veronica will help you develop new approaches to tackle your teaching challenges and set your students up for success.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Understand and be able to use curriculum and instructional strategies that work for learners at all levels simultaneously
    
  • Understand and be able to use various classroom management strategies to keep students focused and on task
    
  • Understand and be able to use scaffolding, an instructional strategy designed to teach independent decision making for real-life training success
    
  • Understand the relationship between curriculum choices and classroom management issues
    

  About The Presenter

  
  

  
  

  Veronica Boutelle, MA Ed, CTC

  Veronica is the founder of dog*tec, the dog pro industry’s leading business consultancy, through which she has been helping dog trainers help dogs since 2003. She is the author of How to Run a Dog Business: Putting Your Career Where Your Heart Is and the co-author of Minding Your Dog Business: A Practical Guide to Business Success for Dog Professionals, and writes on business topics for many dog training industry journals, including a regular column for PPG’s Barks from the Guild. Veronica is a sought-after speaker at conferences and dog training schools across the country and internationally. She has recently spoken to positive reinforcement trainers at conferences and seminars in countries as diverse as Chile, Australia, Spain, New Zealand, and the UK, as well as at our own PPG Summit in Florida.

  As former Director of Behavior & Training at the San Francisco SPCA, and as a dog training business owner before that, Veronica understands what it means to be a dog trainer first hand—the daily worries about everything from client compliance to financial security, the unique challenges of a “flexible” schedule that requires evenings and weekends, and the struggle to balance clients and training with the minutiae of running a business—and to balance all of that with a rich non-work life. Her background as a trainer, her business expertise, and her work as an educator put Veronica in a unique position to help professional dog trainers learn to become as skilled in business as they are as trainers—and that means more dogs’ lives touched by positive training.

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• Feline Foraging Toys: How to Implement, Motivate, and Stage the Difficulty Level Presented by Ingrid Johnson

  • Start
    Monday, July 31, 2017
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    4:00 PM (EDT)
  • End
    Monday, July 31, 2023
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    5:00 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    Recorded Webinar
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    2 registrants

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  Presented by Ingrid Johnson
  

  CEUs: PPAB 1, CCPDT 1, IAABC 1

  
  

  This lecture will discuss the importance of encouraging indoor cats to work for their food, motivating cats to learn how to forage, staging the difficulty level of the objects offered and how to set clients up for success feeding this way. The benefits of this type of feeding style bring out the hunting instincts of our pampered predators and introduce much needed enrichment into their lives. We will specifically discuss implementing this feeding strategy in a multi-cat household, as a weight loss program, and as a tool to keep young cats busy and working their mind and body! You will even learn how to make some food puzzles at home!

  
  

  Objectives

  • Why should cats forage?
    
  • Dietary needs and feeding style
    
  • Getting started
    
  • Motivating cats to forage
    
  • Staging the difficulty level
    
  • Integrating into practice

  About The Presenter

  
  

  Ingrid Johnson is a Certified Cat Behavior Consultant (CCBC) through The International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants (IAABC). She is currently employed at Paws Whiskers and Claws, a feline only veterinary hospital and has been working exclusively with cats since 1999.

  Ingrid also owns and operates Fundamentally Feline, providing in home and phone consultations for clients experiencing behavior challenges with their cat(s). In addition to behavior consultations, Ingrid publishes educational blog content, manages Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages, hand makes her own line of feline foraging toys, scratching posts and scratch pads, and litter boxes.

  Ingrid co-authored Food puzzles for cats: Feeding for physical and emotional wellbeing, published in the Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery (JFMS) in the fall of 2016, and has since been lecturing on the topic including at the AAFP 2016 Fall conference as well as ACVC.

  Ingrid’s home, cats, and environmental enrichment expertise has been featured on Animal Planet’s Cats101 show. She has filmed for WebMD and created a series of educational How-To videos of her own. You may view these on Fundamentally Feline’s website and You Tube channel. She is proudly Co-Director of Paw Project-Georgia, working towards ending the cruel practice of de-clawing cats.

  Cat Fancy magazine’s 2008 “Home Issue” showcased her feline friendly accommodations and the aesthetically pleasing ways you can provide for your cats innate basic needs while still having a home the humans can enjoy.

  Ingrid shares her home with husband Jake and six cats.

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• How to House Train Your Puppy Presented by Alexandra Santos

  • Start
    Tuesday, October 30, 2018
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    1:00 PM (EDT)
  • End
    Monday, October 30, 2023
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    2:30 PM (EDT)
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    Recorded Webinar
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  Presented by Alexandra Santos
  

  CEUs: PPAB 1.5, IAABC 1.5

  This presentation is aimed mainly at dog owners, people working in shelters, novice trainers, and other professionals interested in learning how to housetrain a young puppy, or dog rescued from a shelter or situation of confinement.

  The following topics will be explored in detail: physical causes of inappropriate elimination, behavioral causes of inappropriate elimination, times when your puppy is likely to need to urinate or defecate, dogs rescued from shelters or other situations of confinement,eliminating is intrinsically reinforcing, management at home, training program, fading out reinforcers.

  In this webinar attendees will learn to speed up the house training process by:

  1 - Using appropriate cleaning products while avoiding the ones that actually attract the puppy.

  2 - Correct placing and use of puppy training pads.

  3 - Using a hierarchy of reinforcers

  4 - When, where and how to reinforce.

  Attendees will also learn about the most common physical and behavioral causes of inappropriate elimination.They will gain awareness of the fact that elimination is intrinsically reinforcing and why. They will learn about management at home, what to do with puppies who "don't seem to get it!", and when and how to stop delivering reinforcement.

  
  

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  Alexandra Santos

  Alexandra Santos is a professional canine behavior consultant and trainer, with formal education through The Animal Care College in the U.K. where she graduated with honors for the Diploma of Advanced Canine Psychology, and through The Companion Animal Sciences Institute where she graduated with distinction for the Diploma of Advanced Dog Training.

  She is the author of the books “Puppy Problems” and “Puppy and Dog Care” and has also authored and co-authored several articles for the Journal of Applied Companion Animal Behavior and for the International Institute for Applied Companion Animal Behavior. Alexandra lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal, has been a lecturer at several seminars on positive reinforcement-based training, regularly presents webinars for the Pet Professional Guild, is a professor at Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias and provides individual coaching for dogs and their people..

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• Free-ranging Bali dogs: Behaviour, Lifestyle, Personality and Preservation. Presented by Marco Adda

  • Start
    Monday, May 13, 2019
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    1:00 PM (EDT)
  • End
    Thursday, May 13, 2021
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    2:00 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    Recorded Webinar
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    2 registrants

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  CEUs: PPAB 1

  
  

  
  

  Free-ranging dogs are one of the most widely distributed carnivores in the world, yet scientists are only just beginning to study their behavior. They represent a critical field of observation where human-dog interaction can reveal essential understanding about society, human and dog behavior. 

  The knowledge gained in this intermediate level presentation can be applied by dog trainers and other pet professionals in homes, shelters and other contexts. Some of the information that will be shared is also essential learning for dog parents, for those who interact with dogs at any level, and for all those who travel in areas where free-ranging dogs are present.

  
  

  Learning Objectives

  • What/Where are free-ranging dogs
  • Bali Dogs: an overview
  • Behaviour-Life Style-Personality: Free-ranging dogs shifts in/via human perception
  • Ecology and canines
  • Professionals and Dog Parents: how to apply what you learn in this webinar in your work and life
  • Rabies: the best practices for people visiting exposed areas

  
  

  About your presenter

  
  

  
  Marco Adda is a freelance canids researcher, with a core interest in companion dogs, free-ranging dogs and wolves. Passionate in Animal Behaviour (Ethology), the main focus on Anthrozoology and Human-Animal Interaction/conflict across times and cultures, Marco is a Professional Dog Trainer and Dog Behaviour Consultant, an educator about animals and society, an animal advocate and rescuer. Member of the International Society of Anthrozoology, the Animal Behaviour Society, Accredited Dognition Trainer and founder of Portugal Focus Animal Help, he also runs an online programme about Wolves.

  With complementary interests in education, anthropology, social work, bodywork, theatre, human development, team building and nutrition, Marco has collaborated with universities in Rome, Paris, Novi Sad, Serbia, Budapest, Kuala Lumpur, Melbourne, Hobart and others institutions and organisations around the globe.

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