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In chains! Backchaining from A-Z

Become an expert in backchaining

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

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

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Trust is a construct. However, the way we interpret and experience this construct is fundamental to our lives, our relationships, and our ability to learn. We all know the sting and disorientation when someone betrays our trust, when our expectations or needs are not met, when we feel unsafe or unsure of what is about to happen, when we feel judged, penalized, or a loss of control over outcomes. Although the laws of learning never change, gone are the days when training an animal is merely about the narrow suppression or construction of behavior. At the core of this exciting teaching and learning revolution, modern trainers are asking questions about trust. “What does trust look like for the animal I am working with?” “What is the measure of that trust?” “Can trust be measured?” “Under what conditions do I see trust occur?” Above all, what every enlightened practitioner wants to know is: “How can I build a strong trust account with the animals in my care?” And, “How can I repair trust when I’m forced to take a withdrawal?” In this course, we will take a deep dive into what it means to “operationalize” trust in our day to day lives with our dogs (or any species with whom we spend our time). We will be asking lots of questions, putting aside our human assumptions, and doing our best to listen to what the animals tell us trust means to them. COURSE OUTLINE: Premiums will be invited to pick topics that resonate most powerfully for them. In the interests of unhurried learning, I will also offer a Trust Code Pt. 2 for further study if there is enough interest. Areas for Exploration:

Defining trust: what does it look like?
Taking a trust baseline
The ABCs of trust
Building trust with antecedents
Filling your dog’s emotional cup
Reinforcement patterns that invite YES
Portable safe spaces
Power of daily rituals
Happy husbandry stations
Working with extinction: “not now” and S-delta cues
From commands to cues to questions
Ask and answer communication for maximum trust
Expanding degrees of freedom in training
Play and possession
Stimulus control on toy cues for clarity and safety
Even in Australia: getting through the hard stuff and how to repair trust afterwards

Trust Code Pt. 1

“Go to people for opinions. Go to animals for answers.” -Alexandra Kurland

Sarah Owings

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Self-study course! Auditors only! (No premium spots in this course)

Positive reinforcement training is about setting up for success and making sure desired behaviors are followed by reinforcers, which strengthen the behavior in the future. In this course you get to join the Swedish duo Eva and Emelie as they zoom in on the small but important details that make up a training session, from one reward to the next. What happens right after each reward? What happens within your reward procedure? And why does it matter? In "Seamlessness - from one reward to the next" you will learn learn how to work deliberately with small but significant details, paying attention to all the parts of the training loop and using them to create seamless training sessions. The material in this course will help you develop your own training sessions further. Your planning will get better, your training will become smoother, and both you and your learner will enjoy the process even more than before! Course syllabus: Week 1 Lesson 1 - Introduction to the course Lesson 2 - The underpinnings Lesson 3 - From one reward to the next - overview Week 2 Lesson 4 - Training session fundamentals Lesson 5 - The reward ends Week 3 Lesson 6 - Criteria Lesson 7 - Mark Week 4 Lesson 8 - The reward appears Lesson 9 - Take the reward Lesson 10 - During the reward Week 5 Lesson 11 - The reward ends (again) Lesson 12 - Criteria not met Week 6 Lesson 13 - Putting behavior together Lesson 14 - Flowcharting your training session Lesson 15 - Summarizing seamlessness This is a 6 week self-study course. New lessons will be presented each week (a total of 15 lessons) and you will have continued access to the material after the course finishes. We have so much material we wish to share with you on this topic - in this course, we put it together in a comprehensive yet extensive form. Our goal is to provide you with a lot of information and ideas from which you can extrapolate the aspects you currently wish to work with in your own training. The course is auditors only, allowing you to digest the material at your own pace and consider how it relates to your own training. There will be follow-up courses with practical training and feedback from us, we just wish to have everyone on the same page first... There are so many aspects to consider - it literally takes us six weeks to get from one reward to the next!

Seamlessness – from one reward to the next

Zooming in on the details of a great training session

Eva and Emelie

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This is the continuation of the course Off cue- off control vol. 1 This is suitable for everyone who has started working with "off cue" behavior, and wants to keep practicing the skills, to get even better. In this extension of the topic, e we will continue to work with breaking down all the things you would like your learner to able to do, into single behaviors. We focus on developing multiple of the skills you and your learner need, to teach them exactly what you dream off. This time, we will take them a bit further, and practice getting more fluency. We will also look at other variations of the behaviors, than we did in the first course. We will also still have all the content from vol.1 for you to brush up on. That being said, vol 2 is for you, if you have already taken vol 1, or already have experience in structuring your sessions like this. We do this, as always, by shaping and capturing behaviors, and we work with them off cue, to make sure we get the exact behavior. We will in this vol. 2 put a bit extra focus on setting the environment up for the behavior to happen. The focus of this course is to get the learner started on offering behaviors. We will try to build a big repetoire of behaviors, so that our learners get creative and become an very active part of our training. If you want to start all the behaviors this course covers, there is going to be quite a lot of work – so be prepared for that. The behaviors we will cover and work more with, in this course are:

Focus
Targeting
Sit
Backing
Heel position
Recall
Heeling
Down
Stand
Stay
Doggie-zen
Hold it
Release
Bark
Jump
Search

Under each behavior box, there are several behaviors. We will go through a few of them, and you are always free to chose which behaviors you would like to focus on. We will also discuss the topics of:

Off cue
Fluency
Doggie-zen
Cues

This course focus will be working without treats in hand and helping as little as possible, without leaving your animal frustrated. We give the learner the highest rage of choice we can, and teach the learner to actively take part in the training. I cant wait to get to learn with you :-)

Off cue – off control? Vol 2!

Developing skills you and your learner need, to train exactly what you dream off.

Catja B. Pedersen

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This course is dedicated to making you an expert in backchaining. You will leave this course with a desire to back chain everything you can, and have gotten very comfortable with splitting everything into behaviors to perfect. Some sessions are dedicated to the topic of cues, where we will look deep at, why some cues are like shooting an arrow, and others are more like pushing a car, up hill. We will also discuss the topic of off cue behaviors, having fluency, and very good stimulus control. Backchaining is one of those things, that be, and seem very simple. But only when you dive a bit deeper into the subject and start realizing what it actually is that happens, and how every single thing we do in the process effects the chain, we will get the full advantages of using it. We will:

go through the pros and cons of backchaining
Briefly touch base on forward chaining - but we are not going to spend a lot of time on that
Have lessons on off cue behaviors, and if thats a good thing to have
Go through the process of adding cues to already fluent behaviors
Make the cue a green light for performing the behavior.
Dissect the cues, if there are learning history that gives slower responses
Find out what is brutally exposed, when we're backchaining.
Figure what the glue is, that make chains so strong
Dive into the double effect of each behavior (R+ for previous cue AND green light to the next)
Exercise backchaining in everything we do
Discuss the optional response to a mistake in a chain
Go through the testing phase
Discuss the difficult job that is, being the handler
Practice without dogs too

This course is most suited for teams that already have good solid fluency behavior and also at least 3 reliable cues, that has been learned with positive reinforcement. You can participate if you want to work with fun chains that you can use around your house, with tricks or with competition exercises. The most important thing is, that youre willing to spend 6 weeks of your life, learning about backchaining.

In chains! Backchaining from A-Z

Become an expert in backchaining

Catja B. Pedersen

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You struggle to groom your dog without having him mouth the brush ? You can't cut his nails ? Your dog is running away as soon as you pronounce "shower" ? Your dog stresses out so much at the clinic or at the groomer that he trembles, shuts down or tries to escape ? You have to care for your dog and it's complicated to do it alone at home ? Your dog doesn't like to put the collar, harness, muzzle or cone ? You want your dog to be stressfree and cooperate with him in all sorts of care procedures ? You want to improve the communication with your dog, develop a trusting relationship and give him more choice opportunities and control on his life ? If you see yourself in one of this situations, this class is made for you ! Cooperative husbandry training aims to teach animal to assist in their own care. It's an ethical and pratical choice. It is used in most of zoological parcs to care for wild animals avoiding restrain, anesthesia and reducing stress. Husbandry training is part of daily enrichment programs. Through this training we give the animal the skills and the opportunities to give his consent. Giving them choice and control over their environnement improves their general welfare. If we can draw blood from a girafe or an orca without using force...why not do the same with our pets ? Empowering our dogs in their own care not only make it easier, but also enrich our life together. Some of the topics covered in this course :

Understanding and using science basics in husbandry training.
Teaching consent positions.
Empowerment : Understanding importance of choice and control.
Behavior, consequences and functions : how to use them to converse with animals.
Teaching your dog the consent concept.
How to train your dog through various daily procedures such as : handling, grooming, bathing, nails care, ears and eyes care, teeth brushing, muzzle training...
What to do when our dog is not ready and you have to do it. Consequences.

A second level course will be focusing on training the dog to third party care such as the vet, the groomer, the osteopath. [embed]https://vimeo.com/327729460/7b15244ecc[/embed]

Empowered dogs: Cooperative husbandry training

Empowering our dogs in their own care.

Iris Castaing

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The art of making a cue reliable is not the easiest task we have. Often, adding the cue is something we do in a rush, as we just want to get the response as fast as we can. Adding the cue, and making sure we have good stimulus control, is absolutely not the sexy side of dog training, and it does not make good videos to show our fellow trainers. Basically, if we do it right, it is kind of a long process and nothing super exiting happens while we do it. Unless.. We actually manage to see it for what it is,- an investing in that behavior we have used so much time to teach. An investment, that we can get the interest from, as soon as we have taught he cue really well. So let´s bring the excitement back to the boring part, that adding a cue often can look like. Often the dog will take the cue from the reinforcement history, rather than paying attention to what we say, and that ends up with us saying 1 verbal cue, and the dog doing a completely different behavior. That is absolute normal and it makes perfect sense, as the behavior that has most recently been reinforced, is the the behavior that is most likely to happen again. Try cueing spin, spin, spin, sit, spin. It is very likely that the dog will just spin again when you say sit, if you haven't proofed your cue in every way possible. Many learners respond well to certain cues, in certain context, while they then look completely clueless in others. A very reliable "sit" cue can be tested to its breaking point, if we suddenly decide to say the cue in another context than usual. Although the response to "sit" is very reliable in front of handler and on the left side, the dog can seem completely confused, if we cue "sit" when it is on our right side, or 10 meters in front of us. Or even worse, behind us! In this course, we will go through all the steps, from having the behavior offered off cue, to having a perfectly reliable cue, in all the situations we need it. We will work on proofing the cue, so that the dog will know the cue in every context. We will dive deep into the 5 steps of adding a cue and making sure, that the cue, and only that specific cue, is what prompts the behavior. The goal is to make every cue have the effect off green light. We want our learner to respond, the same way we do, when we get to a green light. We will discuss latency, how to structure a cue, how to chose a good cue and most important, when to add the cue. This course is for you, if you want perfectly reliable cues, and are willing to put in the effort to get it.

Curiosity of cues

Dive deep into the 5 steps of adding a cue

Catja B. Pedersen

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This is a course for you, if you want to work with your dog on getting a large behaviors repertoire, and rely on as little helping tools as possible. In this course we will work with breaking down all the things you would like your learner to able to do, into single behaviors. We focus on developing multiple of the skills you and your learner need, to teach them exactly what you dream off. We do this by shaping and capturing behaviors, and we work with them off cue, to make sure we get the exact behavior. The focus of this course is to get the learner started on offering behaviors. We will try to build a big repetoire of behaviors, so that our learners get creative and become an very active part of our training. If you want to start all the behaviors this course covers, there is going to be quite a lot of work - so be prepared for that. The behaviors we will cover in this course are:

Focus
Targeting
Sit
Backing
Heel position
Recall
Heeling
Down
Stand
Stay
Doggie-zen
Hold it
Release
Bark
Jump
Search

Off cue
Fluency
Doggie-zen
Cues

Pocket it! This course focus will be working without treats in hand and helping as little as possible, without leaving your animal frusrated. We give the learner the highest rage of choice we can, and teach the learner to actively take part in the training. This will be part 1, where you get introduced to all of the behaviors, and then select 1 to work with from every box. In vol. 2, we will work more on fluency and adding variations to the behaviors. This course is suitable for you, if you would like your dog to offer you more behaviors and like to shape them in the direction you want. If you already have all the above behaviors off cue, part 2 would be a suitable option for you.

Off cue – off control? Vol 1!

Developing skills you and your learner need, to train exactly what you dream off.

Catja B. Pedersen

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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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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 designed to create the necessary building blocks for effective communication between you and your dog. It will teach you how to train your canine companion a repertoire of core behaviours. Along with the skills of how to then effectively apply and progress them. On completion of working through the exercises and lessons you will have a strong, solid base to progress you and your learners 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. These foundation behaviours form the basis of a successful training future. Also, are required to be solid in order to accomplishing desired results. You will learn how to apply behaviour theory in a practical manner through positive reinforcement methods to build a stock of functional behaviours. Use this course as the first stage of your training journey, or a review of your current situation to reinforce the foundations you have already began. Plus, you will learn the ability to review and improve on the work you carry out with your canine companion.

Course Content

Everyone and their dog will benefit from participating in this course. Over the 6 weeks you will be learning how to teach ethically the following useful exercises:

Training Mechanics - practical and theoretical information on assessment and development of trainer skills, to facilitate improvement and progression.
Attention - This is the required essential foundation behaviour to enable your learner to choose to engage and work with you.
Touch - one of the most useful foundation behaviours, as it provides the basis for so many targeting behaviours.
Mat/Bed/Crate - an extremely useful targeting and stationing exercise.
Down - this behaviour will enable you to be able to station your canine companion in a comfortable position.
Settle - a fantastic life skill of how to rest and physically relax on cue.
Follow me - working as a team, moving together in unison.
Recall - teach your dog to return to you reliably when cued.
Drop - a potentially life saving behaviour, helping our dogs to eject objects from their mouth.
Feed retreat - train your canine companion to comfortably retreat from a situation.

Essential Foundation Behaviours

Essential Skills for dog and handler

Natashya Sheppard

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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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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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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.

Toy play foundation behaviors

Foundation behaviors for toy play and future dogfrisbee performance

Mikolaj Synowiec

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The arrival of a new baby is a huge lifestyle change for humans....and also for the dogs we live with. In the UK behavioural problems related to the addition of a new baby to a family is one of the top 3 reasons that dogs are surrendered for rehoming.

But some preparation and simple training before the baby's birth can prevent problems arising and set everyone in the family – human and canine – up for success.

Over the course of 6 weeks we'll discuss a range of issues including –

Body language: how to become more dog observant and understand the signs that your dog is becoming stressed
Lifestyle changes: what is likely to change for your dog and how can you make these transitions easier
Baby Incompatible Behaviours: are there things that are acceptable now but won't be acceptable with a baby in the home?
(Baby) Proofing Behaviours: to create rock solid behaviours under new conditions
Supervision: what it is and what it isn't
New Things: familiarising your dog with new sounds, scents, equipment etc
Homecoming & First Meetings: what to do and what not to do

The course will include practical exercises and assignments each week.

This course is for you if you are an expectant parent (or grandparent) with a dog, or are living with dogs & young babies or are a professional trainer working with family dogs.

Preparation in advance – more success, less stress!

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Preparing Your Dog For Life With Your Baby

Preparation in advance – more success, less stress!

Aileen Stevenson

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What is clicker training? How does it work? How do I do it? What can I teach using it? If you want to know the answers to these questions this course is for you! “Click & Treat!” is a comprehensive introduction to clicker training – a fast, fun, effective way to communicate clearly with animals. No prior knowledge is needed…. all you need is a learner (of any species!), a clicker & some treats! In this course, which combines theory with practice, you will learn:

What clicker training is & how it works
An introduction to how dogs learn
How to use a clicker effectively
What makes a good reward
How to get the behaviour you want – capturing, targeting, shaping & luring
Adding a cue
Strengthening behaviours

Clicker training is a powerful way to communicate with our animals. Join us to find out more. https://youtu.be/r5SxIG2QPLY

Click and Treat

Clicker training is a powerful way to communicate with our animals.

Aileen Stevenson

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Target sticks, target mats, sticky-notes, hand target, chin target, shoulder target.. The list is long. Have you ever been thinking about how you can get the maximum result, out of working with targets in your sessions? Then this is the course for you. One of the most important things, when working with targets and target behaviors, is to have a plan. Awareness is key and enables you to make the most out of every single repetition, where you are using the help of the target. Targets, in most cases, are helping to teach a new behavior, to add duration in behaviors, to teach directions or to be able to groom/care for your animal in the most respectful way, while you are both still kept safe. Some of the specific targets and ways of using targeting, that we will learn about in this course, is:

Directional targets - send aways etc.
Position targets - position changes - locked front legs or hind legs
Platforms - accuracy in positions
Duration targets - keeping absolutely still with duration
Husbandry targets - Targeting with distractions
Bodypart targets - shoulder, chin, nose, hind leg. Which of the dog's body parts, touches you, and where?
Target mats - to get the dog to a specific place/direction
Target sticks - Moving the dog around, close to the handler
Hand target - An important part of the release and a perfect reset behavior
Target transfer - Teaching the dog to close cabinets, turn off the light, or whatever behavior you would like
Sticky notes - The easiest tool to fade

Apart from learning about that, we will also talk about some of the pitfalls and great advices, when working with targets.

Successful fading of the target - when and how
When is the target a final cue or part of the final behavior
When is targets a good idea
The ideal time to present a target
What does it look like
Careful criteria setting and why it is especially important

This course is suitable for everyone that is interested in using target as a help in their training and minimize the food lures. For premium participants, it is recommended that your dog has tried some of the target variations before. The big goal in this course is to be able to smoothly evaluate the session as it plays out, and have the skills to fade the target in the fastest way, without risking a breakdown of the behavior. I can´t wait to target those target talks! Catja x

Targeting targets!

Target extravaganza

Catja B. Pedersen

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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, individual, amateur, or professional working with animals, willing to learn more about behavior analysis. 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!

The problem solving guide to your pet’s behavior

An easily accessible science related course for pet owners

Lisa Longo

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Welcome to Positive Puppy Preschool. The course is aimed at the new puppy owner and is about the early learning for your puppy, from 8 – 16 weeks that forms a crucial part of the socialisation period. For those of you who have had dogs before, you may notice some changes in the early learning encouraged for young puppies. These changes have been developed through research by several prominent universities and uses applied behaviour analysis (ABA) to underpin the learning.

What to expect

Six weekly lessons with written information and video(s)
Homework tasks both written, online and videoed practical training
Daily feedback (6 days per week) for Premium Members

What is covered

Socialisation & habituation
Introduction to the science of learning
The mechanics of clicker training
Capturing, shaping & luring
Adding cues
Introduction to canine body language
Exploring the environment
Handling with consent
Creative feeding
Puppy play
Planning effective training sessions
Foundation training
- Settle
- Managing puppy mouthing
- Walking on a lead
- Coming back when called
- Leave
- Drop/give up items
- Four paws on the floor (an alternative to jumping up)

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Positive Puppy Preschool

Early learning for your puppy, from 8 – 16 weeks

Karen Backhouse

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$111.62

What to expect

Six weekly lessons with written information and video(s)
Homework tasks both written, online and videoed practical training
Daily feedback (6 days per week) for Premium Members

What is covered

Socialisation & habituation
Introduction to the science of learning
The mechanics of clicker training
Capturing, shaping & luring
Adding cues
Introduction to canine body language
Exploring the environment
Handling with consent
Creative feeding
Puppy play
Planning effective training sessions
Foundation training
- Settle
- Managing puppy mouthing
- Walking on a lead
- Coming back when called
- Leave
- Drop/give up items
- Four paws on the floor (an alternative to jumping up)

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Positive Puppy Preschool

Early learning for your puppy, from 8 – 16 weeks

Karen Backhouse

from

$111.62

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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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18 February 2019

Welcome to Tromplo World!

Welcome to Tromplo World! We are happy to see you here! Tromplo is an online training platform dedicated to animal training. We are a group of trainers dedicated to animal’s welfare. We want to share our knowledge and experience with you, to help you become the best teacher for your animal. We come from different […]

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Welcome to Tromplo World!

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Five things you can look into to improve your training session!

Training animals is not magic. It is science-based knowledge combined with hours of practical training. There are a few essential factors that we tend to forget. These things can either help us or mess up our...

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A key to a successful toy play with your dog

Introduction There is plenty of information about tugging. Strategies, move from right to left, back off, let your dog pull you, keep your hand low. If you put in some effort and time, you will find what to do...

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How to choose a good dog trainer

Time for training! But how to choose a good trainer? More and more dog handlers decide to start training. When the decision to “go to training” is made, there is still a very important issue of choo...

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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