Science-based animal training education
Animal training without guesswork
Tromplo teaches you how to observe behavior, design clearer learning, and decide what to change when training stops progressing. Begin with one real session, choose the bottleneck you can actually observe, and follow the learning path that fits it.
For professional trainers, animal professionals, and serious caregivers. Dog-training examples, principles that travel across species.
Your path, your pace
Start with the size of decision you need
Not every question needs six weeks of study. Begin by locating the problem in one real session, or go directly to the complete learning system that fits the bottleneck you can observe.
The 5-Minute Training Session Audit
Use one short, unedited session to separate six bottlenecks that can look like the same training problem. Find the earliest observable break before changing the whole plan.
Start the free interactive AuditSix-week Tromplo courses
Build a reusable system for participation, behavior construction, reinforcement, cue control, socialization, specialist skills, or complete trainer development.
Find the right course or bundle
Registration open through 14 August
Shape Me Up! – Errorless Shaping
Stop asking the learner to fill gaps left by the training plan. Learn to define behavior, arrange useful starting conditions, build component skills, select observable criteria, plan reinforcement delivery, and redesign the session when the learner’s behavior says something is missing.
- Six-week course
- Auditor/self-study edition
- One year of access
US$139Registration closes 14 August 2026.
Enroll in Shape Me UpSave 20% with a coherent pair
Two products, one connected next step
These are not arbitrary discount piles. Each pair follows one learning problem across two connected systems. Open the explanation and both full descriptions before you add the pair.
Participation & Choice
Attention Please + Let Me Want It!
Why these two?
Build a reliable way to enter and return to training, then clarify readiness, choice, and when “not yet” means not yet.
Read the Attention Please descriptionRead the Let Me Want It! description
September 1 and November 1, 2026
Build Behavior
Shape Me Up! + Trainer’s Toolbox
Why these two?
Use Shape Me Up for behavior construction and error-minimizing shaping; use Trainer’s Toolbox for the wider system of mechanics, teaching methods, cue control, fluency, chains, and troubleshooting.
Read the Shape Me Up descriptionRead the Trainer’s Toolbox description
Available together through 14 August 2026
Real-Life Readiness
Take Them Everywhere? + Why Your Dog Won’t Eat When It Matters
Why these two?
Plan environmental learning beyond exposure, then examine whether food and reinforcement delivery function in the conditions where training matters.
Read the Take Them Everywhere? descriptionRead the recorded webinar description
Course September 1, 2026 + recorded webinar
Three books, three different jobs
Essential reading for thoughtful trainers
Choose an available behavior book that replaces labels with better questions, an available practical foundation for planning training, or see the shaping specialist manual now in development.
Your Dog Is Not Stubborn
A 179-page illustrated manual and workbook that moves from labels to observable questions, cautious working hypotheses, and more precise training decisions.
See inside and get the ebook
Animal Trainer’s Comprehensive Handbook
A 77-page practical foundation in focus, engagement, training loops, environment, and structured sessions.
View the Handbook
Errorless Shaping
A forthcoming book about designing shaping for clarity, agency, confidence, and durable learning.
Explore the complete Shape Me Up courseBegin with the first thing you can observe
If several parts of the session seem to be failing at once, begin with one short clip and locate the earliest observable break. If you already know the system you need, go directly to its full description.