Shaping Canine Fitness

Improve your training skills and dog's physical condition at the same time!

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Lisa Longo

The problem solving guide to your pet’s behavior

An easily accessible science related course for pet owners

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This course is particularly suitable for dog owners who have a problem with reactivity / aggression / fears on a leash, outdoors. Reactivity is one of the most difficult behavior to manage because it involves great emotions in dogs and humans. The triggers mainly discussed in this course are congeners and humans. However, each lesson will be applicable for all external environment's stimuli (preys, unknown objects or vehicles, for example). During the six-week course, you will: ✴ understand what is call reactivity ✴ decode canine body language ✴ manage the environment to promote good behavior ✴ learn new behaviors through play ✴ change your dog's emotional responses ✴ give decision-making power to your dog Beyond all your new knowledge and skills, the confidence gained during this course will allow you to take a deep breath. Prerequisites: you must have taken the course "The problem solving guide to your pet's behavior" as a premium or auditor

Facing the environment

Helping reactive, aggressive & fearful dogs

Lisa Longo

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Prerequisite: This course builds on the foundations from the "Shaping Canine Fitness" course. Participants with dogs MUST therefore have followed "Shaping Canine Fitness" at least as an auditor to be able to follow the Strengthening class.

Description

The objective of this class is to learn how to build a realistic, balanced and well-adapted weekly strengthening program for your dog. We will see how the muscle works, how to change the exercises according to the dog's progress, how to choose exercises that complement each other and how to recognize or design a strengthening exercise yourself. This course is intended for dogs aged 9-10 months minimum without any musculoskeletal concerns. It is strongly recommended that your dog has been examined by an osteopath within 3 months of the course.

Equipment

To take this course, you will need at least:

a non-slip floor
a platform* the size of your dog's down
a platform* the size of your dog's sit
5 cavaletti
a flat proprioception cushion (inflatable disc type)
a stable support of height between the hock and the elbow of your dog (type IKEA step stool for example)

Have additional equipment such as Fitbone, Klimb, pods, peanuts, etc. is a plus but not mandatory. The exercises are designed to inspire you to use what you already have in your home such as dog beds, sofa cushions, bricks, boards, etc. *you can make the platforms yourself by following this tutorial. Make a very simple platform without velcro.

Syllabus

Week 1

BEFORE YOU BEGIN - A few safety reminders
Welcome
Equipment needed for the course
Theory: Canine Fitness Terminology
Theory: Muscle Anatomy and Muscle Building
Theory: Warm up and cool down
Quiz: Warm-up
Theory: Spotting Signs of Fatigue
Progression: determine the number of repetitions, sets and frequency
Data collection - Initial assessment
Homework for week 1

Week 2

Theory: Maslow's Pyramid of Canine Fitness
Theory: Choice of equipment heights according to age
Progress: Change the height of equipment
Quizz: Change the height of equipment
Food delivery pattern: Dish
Theory: Movement plans
Quizz: Movement plans
Theory: Complementary Anatomy Vocabulary
Practice: Muscle strengthening exercises (1/5)
Homework for week 2

Week 3

Theory: Which muscles are working?
Progress: Change the type of equipment
Progress: What's different about balance boards?
Food delivery pattern: Table service
Practice: Muscle strengthening exercises (2/5)
Homework for week 3

Week 4

Theory: create a realistic program
Theory: The phenomenon of compensation
Progression: Combine two exercises
Practice: Muscle strengthening exercises (3/5)
Homework for week 4

Week 5

Theory: circuit training
Progress: fast vs slow
Food delivery pattern: introduction to the COAS
Practice: Muscle strengthening exercises (4/5)
Homework for week 5

Week 6

Theory: recognize and analyze a strengthening exercise
Progression: other ways to increase load
Theory: Plyometrics
Practice: Muscle strengthening exercises (5/5)
Homework for week 6
Thank you!

Canine Fitness: Strengthening

How to build a realistic, balanced and well-adapted weekly strengthening program for your dog

Camille Nguyen

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In this class, we will work specifically to have third parties perform care such as the veterinarian, osteopath or groomer. It is intended for people who have completed Level 1 and who want to translate the techniques learned to the care done by professionals (the foundations of cooperative care will not be re-explained, your dog must master consent behaviors before entering this class). Veterinary visits are often anxious times for our dogs and for us as well. Knowing that your dog is going to be stressed at the clinic prompts many pet owners to postpone care. The objectives of this class will be to make these visits more enjoyable for our dogs so that their emotional well-being is also taken into account in the care, not just their physical well-being. Among other things, we will discuss how:

Make clinic visits enjoyable.
Prepare your dog in case of hospitalization.
Generalize your co-operative care skills in other environments.
Prepare for the most common veterinary care.
Working with a third party.
Work in collaboration with your clinic.

Empowered dogs : Cooperative husbandry at the vet

Make vet visits more enjoyable for our dogs

Iris Castaing

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This course’s focus is the first part of the retrieve exercise in obedience trial, we will work on the grab, hold and movement with the dumbbell. Before we go into details, accessories, first exercise, we need to go through the rulebook. Rulebook for FCI obedience consists of guidelines and point systems for each exercise. We will analyze what needs to do to score 10/10 for retrieve exercise in class 1. For the upcoming six weeks I want us to focus on:

Shaping “calm” and “strong” grab and hold behavior.
by calm I mean: one movement of grabbing and closing mouth on an object. What we don’t want is: chewing, correcting the grip of the dumbbell in mouth (rolling with tongue).
by strong, I mean: with the strength that makes it impossible for a handler to move dumbbell while the dog is holding it.
Shaping grab from variety of dumbbell positions: - our hand - both our hands - nose height - ground height but with handler holding it - on the floor
Building distance
Variation in handler position
Adding movement to grab and hold behavior (final behavior heel set-up)
Object generalization
Delivery and release to hand
Adjusting correct reinforcement protocol for your dog and retrieve behavior [embed]https://youtu.be/jcPeT8EfYMQ[/embed]

Hold me tight!

First step to formal retrieve

Agnieszka Janarek

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Are you looking for something incredibly cool and skilful to add to the breadth of training you already do with your animals? Or do you fancy the joy of figuring out the puzzle of communicating an abstract concept to your non-verbal learner and give them the tools to show you how they see the world? Or do you care for an animal who currently has limited mobility due to age or injury and you’re wondering how you can still keep them mentally engaged? Or do you perhaps have an animal who finds the world sometimes overwhelming and you’re looking for predictable and well-rehearsed games you can play with the fingers on your hands to immediately give them a known world to enter and work within? If any of the above resonated with you, then concept training might just be the right thing for you. This course builds upon Foundations to Concept Training. The goal of the course is to enable you to teach the concept of size discrimination to your animal training partner to enable them to tell apart bigger from smaller and full from empty. We will systematically generalise the skill so that they can apply this concept to any set of objects or patterns in the future. We will cover:

what is concept training
what makes something a concept
the pros and cons of different setups and indications*
the handler as a cue
cue transfer protocol
teaching opposite concepts in pairs
ranking relevance of prompts
ading out prompts
systematic introduction of novel objects

Premium students have the benefit of instructor coaching with an animal of their choice. The course will likely be easiest with dogs but please do get in touch with me to work with another species. *This course will only cover teaching a concept. It will not cover the foundation behaviours that are mandatory before we can teach a concept. These foundation behaviours are stationing, offering engagement to the handler and an indication of your choice under stimulus control working with a prompt on at least two objects. Therefore Premium students are required to send me a video before they register for this course to demonstrate a few repetitions of two-choice discrimination following your prompt with the animal indicating using any consistent behaviour of your choice. See prerequisite demo video below for some examples of what that might look like. Although it is not mandatory to take the Foundations to Concept Training course if the prerequisites can otherwise be demonstrated, those who would like to learn the prerequisites are recommended to take the foundations course first. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGoJWHOXNVQ&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2-cvwUxp_bmoJWVEAzCVMv84w9fFUXnNe4E0W9DOEJoPON0U8ASi8pDfY

Concept Training

Teach size and quantity discrimination

Vidhyalakshmi Karthikeyan

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Concepts are defined by a set of common attributes that characterise that concept which can be applied to novel situations or objects to recognise that specific concept in the future.

Examples of concepts that we can teach our dogs include:

modifier cues that add information to other known cues, e.g. fetch the bigger ball, touch the object on the right, walk under the chair, station on the left mat
match to sample, e.g. touch the object that is identical to the object I show, fetch the object that is the same shape as this object, indicate if the object I show is present in the set of objects in front of you
quantity recognition, e.g. touch the card that shows the correct number that corresponds to the number of objects in front of you
cue adduction to dynamically sequence previously taught cues, e.g. first spin right, then go through the tunnel, then leap up on the stool
imitation, e.g. copy the behaviour I demonstrate
combinations of concepts, e.g. touch the card that shows how many of this item is present in this mixed set

There are frameworks and methods to systematically teach each of these concepts to our learners. However, we first want to have the foundations in place to then make it easy to layer the discriminative aspects on top for each concept in the future. The foundation required is primarily mechanical and communicative - the animal must be able to station, observe and clearly indicate an item cued by the handler in the presence of multiple choices. The handler must also be aware of their own movements including their base position, consistently setting up the choices, explicitly cueing an indication and clicking/marking and rewarding when the dog correctly responds to that cue. This course will provide the required instruction and guide the handler to teach their dog each of these foundational mechanical components before teaching concepts work. Successful completion of the course will enable each team to then progress to further courses on teaching specific concepts to their dog. Goals of this course:

To prepare each team for concepts work by focusing on the mechanical components of concept training
To create a fluent, automatic and clean loop for both the handler and the dog
To break down that clean sequence for the dog into three key components - default stationing, default observation of the handler and a fluent indication on verbal or gesture cue - and then string together a clean sequence of those components from default stationing to an indication when cued.
To provide each team with the required instruction, videos and guidance during the course to practice until fluent after the course

Please watch the demo video to determine if you already have the skills covered in this course. If you wish to film a short snippet of you and your dog demonstrating the sequence shown and email it to me, I am happy to guide you on whether or not the course would help you further. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVyJLlyAOQA&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0JwhtWWWcZ0p8fWlv1qy5OVWgwQbS8IekdCv0IJZJ6EpTQvdIaJ8V_ljw[/embed]

The Foundations of Concept Training

Building up the mechanics that underpin concept training

Vidhyalakshmi Karthikeyan

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If you want to improve your training skills and your dog's physical condition at the same time, this course is for you!

Whether you're a beginner in canine fitness or you've been training for a while, increase your dog's repertoire by teaching fundamental behaviors with positive reinforcement techniques. In this course, you'll get each week theory and exercises on:

important fitness foundations
training basic gym movements
shaping clean targeting behaviors
essential clicker and training notions
how to deliver food to promote clear communication

Having fitness and proprioception equipment for this course is not compulsory but greatly appreciated. You will need at least stable and solid objects safe enough for you dog to put weight on (such as planks, bricks or mats).

Syllabus

Week 1 - Welcome! Week 1 - Fitness foundations - Skeleton, joints, and alignment Week 1 - Training - The ABCs Week 1 - Targeting - Stare Week 1 - Food delivery - Luring Week 1 - Gym - Twist/spin & figure 8 Week 2 - Fitness foundations - Movement vocabulary Week 2 - Training - Markers Week 2 - Food delivery - Laziness is the key Week 2 - Targeting - Front & four feet Week 2 - Gym - Hip pivot Week 3 - Fitness foundations - Function of main muscle groups Week 3 - Training - Loopy training Week 3 - Food delivery - Let's go get it Week 3 - Targeting - Hind feet Week 3 - Gym - Shoulder pivot & backing up Week 4 - Fitness foundations - Equipment Week 4 - Training - Adding a cue Week 4 - Targeting - Nose & chin Week 4 - Gym - Rock back sit Week 4 - Food delivery - Drills without the dog Week 5 - Fitness foundations - Duration & number of reps Week 5 - Training - Stimulus control Week 5 - Targeting - Front paw lift Week 5 - Food delivery - Plan the Cs Week 5 - Gym - Push up & Tucked Sit Week 6 - Fitness foundations - How to build a program? Week 6 - Training - To fade or not to fade? Week 6 - Targeting - Hind paw lift Week 6 - Food delivery - Bucket Game Week 6 - Gym - Weight shifts & Kick Back Stand Week 6 - Thank you!

Shaping Canine Fitness

Improve your training skills and dog's physical condition at the same time!

Camille Nguyen

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This course is designed to create the necessary building blocks for effective communication between you and your dog. It will teach you how to train your dog a repertoire of core behaviours, as well as the skills in how to then effectively apply and progress them. On completion you will have strong, solid base to progress your training from.

Essential Foundation Behaviours is suitable for dogs of any age, stage and can be an important refresher to assist overcoming any training glitches you may encounter. We will cover:

Training Mechanics and handler practical skills
Attention
Touch
Stationing upon a mat or bed/within a crate
Down
Settle
Follow me
Recall
Drop
Retreat

Essential Foundation Behaviours

Essential Skills for dog and handler

Natashya Sheppard

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[embed]https://vimeo.com/349247466[/embed] In this class we are going to be asking lots of questions such as: what do we really mean when we talk about impulse control? Are impulses things trainers really can control? Are animals, and in particular, dogs, even capable of the executive functioning required to understand delayed gratification the way humans can? Is this even a fair expectation to ask of them? When an animal succeeds in resisting a temptation, what is really going on behaviorally in terms of the science--not just commonly held views on how dogs should behave? What learning principles underlie the training protocols we often use to get impulse control? And, are there better ways to achieve the important goal of an animal that is safe and calm around potentially exciting stimuli like food reinforcers, squirrels, toys, etc?

In this class we will also focus on practical teaching strategies that avoid some of the frustration and emotional conflict that potentially come along with learning via negative punishment and extinction. Some exercises /topics may include:

How to build trust in the reinforcement process
How to identify and meet your learner's needs before placing contingencies on behavior
How to teach helpful defaults for stability around exciting things
Release Cues
Back-chained Zen Bowl
Leave it without the “Leave it.”
Motivating Operations
Distractions as non-relevant stimuli, or the "fade in protocol" (Credit: Kay Laurence)
Stimulus control (waiting for cues, listening for cues) without extinction

Control Is An Illusion: Rethinking How We Teach for “Impulse Control”

What do we really mean when we talk about impulse control?

Sarah Owings

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Dogs' olfactory abilities amaze us and what they manage to do with their noses is truly astounding. Nosework is a sport that uses most natural, amazing dog’s abilities and develops them into perfection. Nosework is one of the greatest dog sports, making its way to the top most popular canine activities. Inspired by working detection dogs searching for narcotics, explosives, nosework makes it available for everyone. Dogs are searching for essential oils hidden in vehicles, interiors, water, exteriors, and containers and they love it! “No limitations” This sport is for everyone! It is a perfect activity for old, retired, or disabled dogs who want to stay in shape but can’t be physically challenged. Aggressive dogs are welcome too! Pure breed, crossbreed, old, young, slow, fast - it doesn’t matter what type your dog is! During the course we focus on:

what is nosework; rules reading
classically conditioning odors
building solid alert behavior using clicker training
introducing discrimination between hot and cold objects
introducing various odor holders
introducing cardboard boxes
generalization

Course syllabus: Week 1: Lesson 1 – Welcome and Introductions Lesson 2 – What is nosework? Lesson 3 – Nosework International and methods we use Lesson 4 – Samples preparation and handling odor Lesson 5 – Cocktail or not to cocktail? Lesson 6 - Classical conditioning of odor Lesson 7 - Hand touch Week 2: Lesson 8 – Tic-tac! Lesson 9 – Precision Lesson 10 – Duration Week 3: Lesson 11 – Cue for alert behavior Lesson 12 – Handler's movement Week 4: Lesson 13 – Competing stimulus Lesson 14 – Various holders Week 5: Lesson 15 – Location of the holder - variations Lesson 16 - Discrimination Week 6: Lesson 17 – New locations Lesson 18 - New locations Lesson 19 - Cue for the search There are 3 more nosework course stages. [s3mm type="video" files="videoplayback.mp4" /]

Nosework Stage 1

From first session to ORTs preparation

Agnieszka Janarek

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This course will dive deeper into the topic of shaping behaviors for beginners and advanced students. We started this journey during "Shaping inside out" Webinar, and now we are going to geek out into six weeks of practical work.

The course will cover:

what is shaping,
extinction,
resurgence,
how to shape errorlessly,
step by step guidelines for a training session
planning
antecedent arrangement
backchaining application in shaping
cues in shaping
dealing with errors
multiple practical exercises
shaping with objects
shaping without objects

If you took the "Shaping inside out" Webinar - you would receive a 15% discount for this course!

Shape me up!

Shaping behaviors inside out!

Agnieszka Janarek

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Obedience; distance control exercise, position changes with front anchored. Position changes are one of my favorite exercises from the obedience ring. Starting in class 1 all the way to Elite class (class 3) there is always something we can focus on when doing position changes. This exercise is a perfect combination of precision and speed which equals fluency! Distance control is also a perfect exercise for behavior/precision nerd like myself! There is a lot of focus on those micro-movements, tiny weight shifts that change the whole process of learning. The course will cover: ✔️ front anchored positions - sit from stand - sit from down - stand from down - stand from sit - down from sit - down from stand ✔️ building precision in each movement ✔️ adding distance ✔️ adding cues ✔️ adding duration ✔️ trial variations Rear anchored positions will be covered in different courses. Prerequisites: - clicker training foundations. [embed]https://youtu.be/26I2LZl7TKU[/embed]

Distance control – front anchored positions!

Position changes for precision geeks!

Agnieszka Janarek

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Control Is An Illusion Pt. 2 - Applying Skills & Deepening Understanding Now that you’ve learned to re-frame the concept of impulse control in terms of stimulus control, and have practiced some core skills with your dogs, it’s time to fade-in more complex environmental stimuli and challenges. The goal of this class will be to provide graduates of Pt. 1 with the opportunity to deepen their understanding of stimulus control and errorless teaching. Curriculum will be centered around the development of independent projects, but participants may also opt. to use their coaching time to complete or expand upon exercises from Pt. 1 as well, such as:

Three Act Training Structure with Brave Learning Self-Review
Bread-crumb Trail Teaching Progressions
Clarifying Contexts: When to Offer Behavior and When to Wait for Cues
Zen Bowl Games
Advanced Shopping
Joyous “Wait There” Applied to Real Life
Fade in Protocol

This class will have a lot less reading and step by step guidelines, and a lot more doing it for yourselves! Come prepared to set some actionable goals, to design your own training plans, and to dive headfirst into the cycle of performance—feedback—revision. Let the brave learning begin! NOTE: The prerequisite for Pt. 2 is Control Is An Illusion Pt. 1. Auditors of Pt. 1 are welcome to join if you were able to keep up with the material, and feel like you and you dogs are ready for increased challenges. You can also use Pt. 2 to continue to work on Pt. 1 exercises in a more targeted way. Mastery is not required!

Control Is An Illusion Pt. 2

An opportunity to Deepen Your Understanding of Stimulus Control

Sarah Owings

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This course is very sentimental for me. My dog didn’t tug at all. He didn’t like to take things into his mouth but I really wanted to play Frisbee so we started learning how to tug. At that time I knew very little and our journey was full of frustration. That wasn’t a fun experience for any of us. We were working hard (I’m pretty stubborn so I kept trying) and after a year we managed to bring tugging to the level where I can call that a reinforcement. Was it hard? Definitely… Would it be easier to do if I had known as much as I know now? It would! So what is “Iron Jaws”? It’s a compendium of knowledge which I hope I have known when I started. I know that I am not the only one who struggled with this behavior. It’s harder than most people think and that’s why I wrote this course. The goal is to teach you to tug and give you a clear view on what to do BUT “what” is not enough for me. With a little help of science I will show you why does it work. Tugging is not magic. It’s a behavior like a sit or lie down and shares the same principles of learning. It’s also one of the best ways for creating strong and happy relationship with your dog AND it’s so fun to do! Lessons you can expect can be divided into three major categories:

Basics of learning- We will introduce simple concepts like ABC’s, primary and secondary reinforcer, motivation and operationalising behaviors we want to teach. It will be our scientific core for understanding why we teach the way we do.
Myths- common knowledge and misunderstandings about tugging. We will dig deep into why things happen and we will question what we know.
Tugging- Pure practice and mechanics of the game. How to do it right. Meaning what to do to be safe and have a blast together.

If your dog doesn’t “like” to tug this course is for you!

Iron Jaws

How to teach your dog to love tugging

Mikolaj Synowiec

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Are you a right fit for this course? Is your dog willing to play? Your session might be messy and unorganized but if the willingness for interaction is there it’s definitely enough! If you answered “no” and you want to learn how to teach to enjoy toy play please check out my other course “Iron Jaws”. What will you learn? In short we “teach rewards”. It’s a collection of tug based games that teach a dog all those minor things that we don’t appreciate when they are there but we can get very frustrated when they aren’t. This is a core for the effectiveness of any future toy based training session. Exercises with a dog:

Quality tug- how to do is right? How to make a great reinforcer and strength exercise out of it.
Catch the rat- introduction to chasing. Teaches a dog how to execute effective catch on moving target. How to control its body and judging the distance between him/her and a toy.
Drop – if you teach your dog to drop by grabbing its color you are doing it wrong. You will learn four different dropping games. Your dog will think “how can I make this human monkey to ask me to drop”.
Exchange work- swiftly switching from playing with one toy to another. Imagine cool looking freestyle routine. Would it be equally cool if a dog had no idea when to refocus from one frisbee to another. It’s also often used reinforcement procedure.
Follow me- base for fetch is a dog that wants to come back and share a toy with you. That’s what we are teaching here.
Tossing toys- it’s combined catch a rat with following.

You will receive one exercise per week. On top of that additional lectures covering more specific aspects and topics. “Preparation for Frisbee” series Preparation for Frisbee is a series of four courses that are meant to turn newbie dogfrisbee adept into a team with good foundations that allow them to have fun with flying plastic safely. This course contains references to this sport and how all we do apply to our future play. Remember that Frisbee is just another toy so the foundation for effective interaction and understanding between you and your dog are the key for further success. It’s a first step to getting great at my beloved sport Dogfrisbee! Don’t worry if you are not interested in dogfrisbee. All skills and lessons apply to any toy based training.

Toy play foundation behaviors

Foundation behaviors for toy play and future dogfrisbee performance

Mikolaj Synowiec

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When used strategically, positive reinforcement provides a way to communicate with a learner. In a good relationship communication never stops. By reinforcing we talk to the dog and simultaneously we learn to listen. Understanding the reinforcement process can improve the relationship between humans and dogs. If we have knowledge of the way dogs learn we can build mutual understanding. Since reinforcement fluctuates the value, it is very important to know what is reinforcing for our learner in this particular moment. Because reinforcement is a dynamic process it changes quickly and in one-moment chicken treats are the highest value and the best reinforcement, a few minutes later they become much less important than a ball. If we understand the science behind behavior we are more likely to understand our learners. We will be less prone to label our learners and more willing to communicate with them using appropriate tools. In this course we focus on:

mechanics of positive reinforcement,
delivery protocols,
use of marker cues,
the clarity in the learning cycle, loop
transport and breaks

This is Carol and Sweep's video of before and after this course - look at the change with this stand!!!

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Mechanics of positive reinforcement, delivery protocols and use of marker cues

Agnieszka Janarek

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For dogs, cats, parrots, and all pets owners. This course is open to beginners. Used as a scientific approach to analyze, understand, and modify behavior, applied behavior analysis (ABA) is used to improve (or change) specific behaviors. Applied Behavior Analysis allows us to change the environment in order to change the behavior. Whether you share your life with a pet dog, a parrot, a cat, a pig, an elephant, or a ladybug, the fundamentals of behavior analysis apply to them. This six weeks course is specifically for owners who have a behavior problem with their pet's behavior or any person willing to learn more about behavior analysis. Common behavior problems our students usually work on:

recall from other dogs, humans
resource guarding
jumping on guests/guest greetings
chewing
stealing food
excessive barking / screaming / meowing
toilet training

For several weeks, you will learn how to analyze and understand your pet's behavior, but also how to modify it effectively, while always respecting his well-being. What this course covers :

Labels vs. observable behaviors
Data collection
Classical conditioning
Operant conditioning
Positive reinforcement
Behavior functions
ABC scheme (three-term contingency)
Hierarchy of behavior-change
Behavior modification

Thanks to accessible and easy definitions but also homework and guidance, you will be able to understand the meaning of applied behavior analysis terms, and you will learn how to use it. Premium participants: The homework offered each week during this course will allow you to analyze and modify your pet's behavior "in real-time". To get the most out of these six weeks, you are advised to practice the exercises as soon as they are published. Although all behaviors can be analyzed with the tools and techniques covered during this course, due to their specificities, outdoor reactivity/aggression/phobia, and separation anxiety will not be covered during these six weeks (aggression indoors may be seen during this course). Applied behavior analysis aim should not be to address unwanted behavior, but rather to learn new skills* to live in harmony in one's environment. * for both the animal and the human who shares his life! This course is a prerequisite for acceding the "FACING THE ENVIRONMENT : Helping reactive, aggressive & phobic dogs" class.

The problem solving guide to your pet’s behavior

An easily accessible science related course for pet owners

Lisa Longo

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Training is a skill we need to learn. Teaching animals is not magic, nor common sense. It's a combination of science and practical skills we need to master. Don't worry if you don't know where to start! I have prepared this course for you. It will guide you through the foundations of training. Step by step journey for anyone wishing to learn more!

Too often, we end up in a position of being teacher and learner at the same time, because we hadn't had a chance to work on our mechanics, clicker skills, delivery patterns before we started working with our learners.

This course is a compendium of knowledge and practice for animal trainers. Focusing on the scientific approach to animal training we will cover ABA (applied behavior analysis) principles and how they resonate with what we do with animals, we will cover the mechanics and techniques of teaching behaviors! It's a perfect place to start your training journey, but it is also an appropriate course for more advanced students who want to geek in the depths of thoughtful training. Get ready for discussions, practical exercises, and thorough insight into the animal training world.

Throughout six weeks of online learning, we will cover:

clicker training mechanics
skills for the trainer
errorless learning
chaining
adding stimulus control to behaviors
luring
shaping
structure of training session
concept of fluency
frustration and errors
raising criteria
moulding
concept of loopy training
planning your training session

Course syllabus: Week 1 Lesson 1 - Welcome and Introductions Lesson 2 - Education of choice and science. Lesson 3 - Basic terms Lesson 4 - Behavior and its contingencies Lesson 5 - Consequences Lesson 6 - Marker cues Lesson 7 - Behavior profile Lesson 8 - Luring Week 2 Lesson 9 - Handler’s technique Lesson 10 - Strategies Lesson 11 - Moulding by contact Week 3 Lesson 12 - Shaping Lesson 13 - Cue for shaping - explored Lesson 14 - Outcome versus result. Does it matter? Lesson 15 - Examples of shaping Lesson 16 - Frustration Week 4 Lesson 17 - Handler’s technique - helper Lesson 18 - Moulding by the environment Lesson 19 - Schedules of reinforcement Lesson 20 - Fading out Lesson 21 - Fluency Week 5 Lesson 22 - What about emotions? Lesson 23 - Antecedent Arrangement Lesson 24 - Cues Lesson 25 - Error Lesson 26 - Raising criteria Week 6 Lesson 27 - Structure of the training session Lesson 28 - Behavior chains Lesson 29 - WTF? Lesson 30 - Poisoned cues This course is a must-have for anyone interested in diving into depths of scientific dog training. If you want to be the handler your dog deserves - join me for six weeks of great learning. In this course, you can work with multiple animals within the weekly time frame (twelve minutes of video submission per week). This course is multispecies friendly! You can join with any animal you wish! [s3mm type="video" files="handler.mp4" /]

Trainer’s Toolbox

Foundation course focusing on a scientific approach to animal training.

Agnieszka Janarek

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Building upon skills we covered in stage one, we will continue our preparation for exams. ORTs and first trials. Our primary focus will always be precise and clear training loop and clarity in search criteria. We will start where we left with stage 1 and focus on:

start line routine
introducing search patterns
duration of search behavior
handling
building clarity in cues during search pattern
generalization of locations
task analysis of searches
basics of scent theory
increasing complexity of puzzles
planning your own training

Course syllabus: Week 1 Lesson 1 - Welcome and Introductions Lesson 2 - Baseline Lesson 3 - Chains in nosework Lesson 4 - ABCs of the search Lesson 5 - Start line routine Lesson 6 - Our variables Lesson 7 - Aging Lesson 8 - Introducing search Week 2 Lesson 9 - Introduction to scent theory Lesson 10 - Inaccessible v. accessible Lesson 11 - Introducing exteriors - boxes on the road Lesson 12 - Introducing exteriors - single hides Lesson 13 - Duration of the search Week 3 Lesson 14 - Handler's job Lesson 15 - Vehicles - introduction Lesson 16 - Adding complexity to the search Lesson 17 - Change of behavior Lesson 18 - No visual cues Week 4 Lesson 19 - Vehicles - cold vehicle Lesson 20 - Exterior Progression Lesson 21 - Vehicles - handling Lesson 22 - Cues in nosework Week 5 Lesson 23 - Duration of the search part 2 Lesson 24 - Crazy handler Lesson 25 - Adding complexity to the search part 2 Week 6 Lesson 26 - Reducing the strength of the odor Lesson 27 - Panning Lesson 28 - What if? https://youtu.be/h4P0nELgnE4

Nosework Stage 2

Getting ready for your first trial!

Agnieszka Janarek

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Before we start teaching our learners complicated behaviors and advanced concepts, we need to teach them how to learn. This course focuses on building one of the most important skills our dogs need in training; focus. But hold on a second! What is FOCUS? What does it look like? Is it tangible? How do I know I have it? Throughout six weeks of online learning, we will answer all these questions and much more. We will operationalize attention, define focus contingency. You will learn how to build an errorless training session, how to define your learner's focus, how to measure it and how to add layers to your work. Based on my experience, the majority of time caregivers, handlers experience issues in training, is when they have not taught the attention contingency. Our "focus bubble." We can't teach anything if our animals don't have the necessary skills of how to learn. If your dog looks around, sniffs, doesn't respond on cue, looks at you when should be working at a distance, engages with everything in the environment, but yourself - this course is just perfect for you. Join me for six weeks journey! Learn about:

how to start the training session
how to end the training session
focus behaviors operationalized
clean focus loops from the start
wait for cue behavior
building easy to more complex training scenarios
training loops
backward chaining
antecedent arrangement
trainer's mechanics
multiple exercises for building focus behaviors

Course syllabus: Week 1: Lesson 1 – Welcome and Introductions Lesson 2 – Definition and concept of focus Lesson 3 - Acclimation Lesson 4 - The rules apply both ways Lesson 5 - Outline of the course Lesson 6 - Delivery checkpoint Lesson 7 - Marker cues Lesson 8 - Start of the training session Week 2: Lesson 9 - The end of the training session Lesson 10 - Response to cue Lesson 11 - Don't call your dog Week 3: Lesson 12 - ABCs Lesson 13 - Catch me if you can Week 4: Lesson 14 - Extinction Lesson 15 - Wait for the cue Lesson 16 - Sandwich style Week 5: Lesson 17 - Backward chaining Lesson 18 - Break Lesson 19 - Altogether Week 6: Lesson 17 - Did someone mention competition? Lesson 18 - Competing stimulus - distractions Lesson 19 - The end, or the new beginning? This course is a prerequisite for Let Me Want It.

In this course, you can work with multiple animals within the weekly time frame (twelve minutes of video submission per week).

This course is multispecies friendly! You can join with any animal you wish! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5AXY6MUiYs&feature=youtu.be

Attention Please

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Science!

Training at Tromplo is based on a scientific approach to learning and its application in animal training. We use applied behavior analysis principles to understand why animals behave the way they do. Positive reinforcement is what we do!

Choice!

Because it is empowering! For you and your animal. You choose what you want to learn. Your animal chooses to engage in a learning journey with you.

Always!

Because you never stop learning. That’s why we are always available, from the comfort of your home.

Tromplo is something different, something special. We believe in science and experience, not common knowledge.

You will learn the principles used by the top training professionals in the world, because that’s what your animal deserves. Because we apply science, our work is ethical, effective, practical, reinforcing and brings clarity to your training sessions. Animal training and learning science is our passion!

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Tromplo - animal training platform

Tromplo is an online animal training platform. We teach you and your animal, but we are not just a dog training school. Tromplo offers learning opportunities for all species, humans included. Our students are dogs, cats, horses, goats, pigs, parrots, turtles, hamsters, and human learners.
We offer six weeks online courses, webinars for animal training and a broad range of free content - facebook lives, articles, videos, and our popular podcast - The Dog Real Talk.

Professional trainings for your animal

Tromplo is a place where you will learn up to date, science-based methods in animal training. All our instructors are respected professionals in the field. At Tromplo, we only use positive reinforcement-based protocols, and our team has very high ethical standards.
It doesn't matter if you are new to dog training or if you are already a professional in the community, Tromplo has a lot to offer to everyone. We offer animal video training courses. Whether you seek help with your pet's problem behavior, want to learn dog disc foundation, geek into the science of animal training, learn to use positive reinforcement with your kid, or find out what this clicker training is all about, Tromplo is a perfect place! Tromplo offers thoughtful and thorough education for anyone interested in the science of learning, dog training, pet training!

Animal training online courses

All our animal video training courses are online, last six weeks, and offer two options for attendance. Premium and Auditor. Both give you 24/7 access to course materials, which includes lessons, videos, homework from your instructor.
There is more! You get lifetime access to this content and a certificate of attendance! If you choose Premium Spot - you will have six weeks of daily, personalized feedback from the instructor, and up to 12 minutes weekly video, you can submit for the review! Check out our animal training platform now!

Why would you choose online learning?

As one of our students said, "With online learning, you can choose your own time to train. Also, I think online learning gives opportunities to share more of the better quality knowledge at the same price as seminars. There is no necessity to use mental shortcuts, labels, or generalization because everyone has more time to process the knowledge."

nurtures independent learning,
Flexible access that offers a platform for you to learn, when & where suits you,
easily accessible Tutor support and interaction,
training available at the individual's pace,
provides both sound theory and practical knowledge,
advantages of one on one training (personalized feedback) combined with group training (learning from others),
offers a clear, structured learning pathway,

has the advantages of one on one training (personalized feedback) combined with group training (learning from others),
become part of a supportive, enriching community,
environmentally friendly,
practice on a regular basis,
provides a non-intrusive environment for the learner,
lifetime access to course material

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