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• Learn About Cat-Handling Techniques to Reduce Fear, Anxiety, and Stress Presented by Paula Garber

  • Start
    Wednesday, December 14, 2016
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    12:00 PM
  • End
    Thursday, December 14, 2023
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    1:00 PM
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    Recorded Webinar
  • Registered
    99 registrants

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  Presented by Paula Garber

  CEUs: PPAB 1, CCPDT 1, IAABC 1 

  
  

  In this webinar, you will learn the common causes of fear, anxiety, and stress in cats, as well as the evolutionary, environmental, and social factors that often contribute to these emotions. You will also learn how cats typically express fear, anxiety, and stress and the signs to look for, some of which may be subtle. After gaining an understanding of the potential fallout of using force-based handling techniques, you will learn basic handling techniques to reduce fear, anxiety, and stress in cats that you can begin using immediately, whether you work with cats in a veterinary clinic or a shelter, or in a home setting with your clients’ cats—or even your own cats.

  
  

  Learning Objectives

  • Understand why cats are especially prone to experiencing fear, anxiety, and stress
    
  • Identify signs of fear, anxiety, and stress in cats
    
  • Understand the potential consequences of force-based handling techniques on cats and humans
    
  • Learn basic handling techniques to reduce fear, anxiety, and stress for cats in veterinary clinics, shelters, and at home

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  Paula owns LIFELINE Cat Behavior Solutions in Westchester County, NY. She holds a master of arts degree in education and is a Certified Animal Training and Enrichment Professional and Certified Feline Training and Behavior Specialist through the Animal Behavior Institute. She is also certified in Low Stress Handling (Silver, 2015) through Sophia Yin’s course, Low Stress Handling of Dogs and Cats, and she is pursuing a diploma in Feline Behavior Science and Technology from the Companion Animal Sciences Institute.

  Paula is currently a co-Vice Chair for the Pet Professional Guild’s Cat Committee and a supporting member of the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants. She also serves as an advisor to the board of FurBridge, a non-profit animal rescue and community outreach program. A consummate cat advocate, Paula hosts an annual event for volunteers to build winter shelters for free-roaming cats in her community. She resides in Ossining, New York, with her husband and five rescued cats.

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• Nitty Gritty of Cat Training: Compacted Version! Presented by Jacqueline Munera

  • Start
    Thursday, October 26, 2017
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    12:00 PM
  • End
    Thursday, October 26, 2023
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    1:30 PM
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    Recorded Webinar
  • Registered
    10 registrants

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  Presented by Jacqueline Munera
  

  CEUs: PPAB 1.5, CCPDT 1.5, IAABC 1.5

  
  

  While cats can certainly be trained, many people find them more challenging to work with than dogs. Even professionals that have a solid basis in learning science can struggle when trying to apply that knowledge to training cats. We need to take a cat’s-eye perspective and figure out what they want and need in order to feel comfortable. This session will focus on the real-world nitty gritty of cat training. We will use videos and photos to explore some cat communication signals and behavior that reveal Kitty’s readiness to interact, cover the importance of the relationship between cat and handler, and review how to set-up cat-friendly training sessions. We will also peruse the when, where, and how-to techniques of reinforcement delivery. Attendees are expected to already understand basic operant and respondent principles. This session is excellent for dog trainers and cat behavior consultants that want to learn more about cat training.
  

  
  

  Learning Objectives: After this seminar, attendees should be able to

  • Understand the importance of the relationship between cat and handler
    
  • Recognize cat behavior relevant to a training session (e.g. cut-off signals, displacement behaviors)
    
  • Set-up a cat-friendly learning environment
    
  • Be ready to experiment with ways to deliver reinforcers

  About The Presenter

  
  

  Jacqueline Munera encourages people to push the boundaries of what they think cats are capable of. Jacqueline is a Certified Cat Behavior Consultant and is co-instructor of the Companion Animal Sciences Institute’s Diploma of Feline Behavior program. She has a B.A. in Honors Biological Psychology from New College of Florida, where she pursued studies on animal cognition and behavior, and thesis work on coat color as an indicator of cat personality. Jacqueline presents nationally and internationally on a variety of cat training and behavior topics and has published multiple award winning cat and dog behavior articles.

  Jacqueline and Jazzmanda are also the first human-cat team in the world to pass level 2 of Kay Laurence’s challenging test of clicker training skills, the Competency Assessment Programme (CAP). Visit her site www.PositiveCattitudes.com for videos, article and a positive cattitude adjustment!

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• C.A.T. with CATS – from Fearful to Friendly. Presented by Caroline Crevier-Chabot

  • Start
    Monday, January 13, 2020
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    1:00 PM
  • End
    Monday, January 13, 2025
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    2:30 PM
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    Recorded Webinar
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    58 registrants

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  January 2020 Free Member Webinar

  CEUs: PPAB 1.5

  Fearful shelter cats are numerous in our shelters. If they are not euthanized because of lack of resources, they can spend months in shelters or in foster families with few improvements. While the term feral does not apply to these cats, they do lack the tools to deal with strangers and new places.

  Can we help them gain these tools? Can we change their view of strangers? Can we bring them to a state where their chances of getting adopted and of staying in that home are now good? Join us to think about cats, about the constructional approach and about re-evaluating how we are currently working with fearful cats and why. This presentation will use videos and examples to illustrate the subject.

  Learning Objectives

  • To understand the particularities of cats.
  • To understand what C.A.T. with cats is and why we would want to use it.
  • To geek out on the science of behavior behind it.
  • To get you interested in working with cats!

  
  

  
  

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  Caroline Crevier-Chabot

  
  

  A civil engineer by training, Caroline always loved animals and found in the science of behavior a true passion. After learning about clicker training through canine freestyle back in 2006, she gradually learned more about behavior and eventually moved to the cat side, clicker training her own cats to do things like getting down trees the “proper” cat way (butt first). Through volunteering at two different shelters, she started to reflect on better ways to care for and rehab fearful shelter cats. Caroline has been fostering fearful cats since 2018 and films her training a lot. She hopes sharing these experiences and thoughts will foster more discussion on cats and on better ways to help them.

  
  

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