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
Choose the smallest learning route that answers the question
Not every question needs a full course system. Begin with one real session, choose one bounded skill, or study the connected system behind a bigger training problem.
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 AuditOne bounded training question
Choose evidence triage, duration, or applied behavior analysis foundations. Each focused course includes complete lessons, tools, cases, graphics, and assessments.
Compare the focused coursesBuild or troubleshoot the complete process
Use a full-system course when the work spans observation, behavior construction, reinforcement, cue control, fluency, or functional troubleshooting.
See the full-system routes
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 UpFocused self-study · US$69 each
One clear job, complete enough to use
Choose the course that matches the decision in front of you. Each is date-free Auditor study with written lessons, cases, practical tools, visuals, and two assessment forms.
Evidence triage
What Changed First?
Separate observation from interpretation, locate the first visible change, compare the closest alternatives, and decide what information would change your next step.
See What Changed First?
Duration without accidental change
Duration by Design
Define what should last, map the whole training loop, use the deliberate dirty-loop reset, select a duration procedure, and raise time without raising everything.
See Duration by Design
Geeky, functional, trainer-readable
Behavior Geek
Learn to use behavior, measurement, contingencies, stimulus functions, motivating operations, shaping, functional hypotheses, and constructional thinking accurately.
See Behavior GeekFull-system self-study · US$139 each
Trainer’s Toolbox is now two complete routes
Part 1 builds an observable acquisition plan. Part 2 begins with acquired behavior and develops strength, cue control, fluency, chains, fading, and evidence-linked troubleshooting.
Part 1 · Observe, define, and teach
Build one testable acquisition plan
Move from camera-test observation and measurement through teaching arrangements, prompting, shaping, handler mechanics, and one bounded first-session test.
See Toolbox Part 1
Part 2 · Strengthen, cue, and troubleshoot
Find the first divergence before changing the plan
Strengthen acquired behavior through criteria, schedules, fluency, cue packages, generalization, chains, fading, function hypotheses, and controlled one-variable tests.
See Toolbox Part 2Save 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.