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Herding dog in the city!

Herding dog's problems - how to solve them?

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1 August 2022

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Herding dog in the city!

Herding dog's problems - how to solve them?

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1 September 2022

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Herding dog in the city!

Herding dog's problems - how to solve them?

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1 November 2022

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Freakishly fluent behaviors!

This course is dedicated to getting the highest level of fluency in our behaviors.

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1 November 2022

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Freakishly fluent behaviors!

This course is dedicated to getting the highest level of fluency in our behaviors.

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1 September 2022

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Anna Bartosik

Puppy kindergarten – From puppy to best friend!

Create a strong relationship so you will be able to call your dog your best friend that you always wanted!

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1 July 2022

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Keep distance

Working far apart!

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1 November 2022

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Masters of Odor Pt. 1

“Your dog is Yoda….You are Luke.” — Leah Gangelhoff

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1 September 2022

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Reviews

Sonja Grassmugg

April 24, 2022

Trainer’s Toolbox

100% recommend this course!! - I took Trainer's Toolbox as a premium student with my cat, Percy. (We already had some prior clicker-training experience and audited the Attention Please course a couple of months before this). I can’t overstate how very informative and helpful this whole course and Agnieszka’s personal feedback were. I’m extremely grateful for all the support she provided for each challenge that we faced during this course. It has truly made a huge positive impact on our training and definitely set us up for success in the next steps of our learning process. I really look forward to taking more classes with Agnieszka in the future!

Sonja Grassmugg

March 15, 2022

Confidence building games for your shy or reactive dog

I took this course as a Premium student with my cat (with prior permission from Jessica), and I highly recommend it! We really enjoyed trying out and working on as many of the suggested exercises as we could in the six weeks, and we'll definitely continue to work on them and try out more in the future. I found Jessica’s feedback very helpful, and I’m grateful that she welcomed my feline student into her class and was so happy to work with us!

Leslie Miller

March 15, 2022

Empowered dogs: Cooperative husbandry training *PART 1*

This is a fantastic course on co-operative care. I learned so much and got some new inspiration for my dog. The videos are great and the information is presented in easy to follow steps.

Marion Terrée

March 1, 2022

Puppy kindergarten – From puppy to best friend!

This puppy kindergarten course is a nice one for trainers as well ! As a young trainer, I decided to take this class to enlarge my toolbox with puppies and take inspiration from some lessons. The class is so well constructed, and even if it's a label, I found Anna radiant in her videos with her big smile ! (And I also loved her dog-patterned rain coat but maybe this comment is off topic ! :D)

Allison Pearce

February 23, 2022

Attention Please

This course changed my thinking on a lot of things, including past advice I'd gotten from other R+ trainers. It made me much more aware of the way I interact with my dog, even when we're not training. Some of the big takeaways for me were: eating is an operant behavior, to watch out for extinction, and to let my dog say "no" to training sessions rather than working harder and harder for his attention. However, my dog is a bit unusual when it comes to food reinforcers, and we're still at square 1 with focus when we go outside. It's going to take a while to see this class pay off during our walks and outings, but I'm hopeful. Agnieszka was very patient with us and helped tailor the class to where we were.

Maree Neave

February 21, 2022

The Conditional Cat: Cat Herding 101

Working with a different species can be somewhat daunting but this course has given me the confidence, insight and direction I needed moving forward with training my cat.

J.R. Included so much content in the course, breaking behaviour down into bite sized achievable pieces. Inspiring training videos and amazing feedback in the Facebook group make this course truly awesome.

I look forward to more courses and learning with J.R. Henderson in the future.

Sonja Grassmugg

February 19, 2022

Attention Please

I audited “Attention Please” with my cat Percy as our first-ever Tromplo course, and we loved it! Both Percy and I really enjoyed following along with the exercises on our own, while I also learned a lot from the individual feedback that the premium students received. I’ve been doing clicker training and R+ with Percy for a while already, but this course really helped to significantly improve our foundations, which in turn improved all our training. Even though the target audience of this course seems to be predominantly dogs (/dog-parents), I can wholeheartedly recommend this course for cats (/cat-parents) too, regardless of prior R+ training experience!

Tovn

February 17, 2022

Puppy kindergarten – From puppy to best friend!

Getting a puppy is exciting and overwhelming. Anna does an wonderful job breaking out basic behaviors, things to build on later and things to help survive puppyhood with your sanity mostly intact. It’s the sexy life skills that I appreciate the most and helping set up ways for the puppy and parent to be eager to learn together successfully. “Learning to settle” for the win! It’s a way for the puppy to see a way to reinforcement and an opportunity for me to catch my breath and be ready for the next round.

Thank you Anna for setting up a thorough yet manageable lesson plan and feedback on places to tweak or explore. Much like providing some structure for a puppy, having the guidelines gave me helpful and predictive structure as well.

Alice Hengst

February 16, 2022

The Conditional Cat: Cat Herding 101

Wow, this class went by way too fast! J.R.Henderson has packed so much information and training ideas into this course that it is going to keep me busy for a few more months!!

Even though I haven't worked on some of the lessons yet, I totally enjoyed watching the training videos. I really learned a lot from watching J.R.'s technique and especially the pace and rhythm of the training. The chin target behavior with his cat is amazing!

It was a delight being part of this great group of humans and their cats. In this 6 weeks I did more cat training than I have ever done in all my years of living with cats. It was really fun to try the new behaviors. I'll definitely be continuing to work with all my cats and hope to share more videos of them in the future!

Tendai

February 15, 2022

Trainer’s Toolbox

This course was more than I could have hoped for, it is packed with both practical and theoretical knowledge. Agnieszka is an excellent teacher and I am particularly impressed by her errorless way of teaching which makes everything so easy to understand. Trainer's toolbox really is a toolbox with tools that will help you as a trainer. I think the lesson where we practiced our skills as clicker trainer where brilliant so easy to follow and they made a world of difference in my training. I highly recommend this course.

Nickie Yeung

December 19, 2021

Management and training for reactive dogs

This course has helped me understand different levels of reactivity my dog has that can be caused by a certain trigger, and the different management / training skills to apply in those circumstances. Linlin really takes the time to ensure her students make progress during the course and provides valuable feedback on videos and questions shared throughout. Super happy with the results in my dog! It's been a real transformation after 6 short weeks.

Tendai

November 11, 2021

Attention Please

This course is absolutely awesome and I had a great learning experience. Former question marks has been answered and it helped me understand some of the geekier details of foundation training. It is an in-depth foundation course and Agnieszka is a very good teacher who makes the material easily accessible and creates a safe place to learn. I highly recommend tis course.

Alamelu Sankaranarayanan

April 13, 2021

Attention Please

Everyone will agree that attention is one of the most important components in a communication channel between two individuals, irrespective of species, or task. Funnily enough, it is also the skill that we tend to gloss over, because there are so many other *shiny* things that seem more important to work on. I think a big reason for this is that the concept of attention has a certain je ne sais quois, and it is hard/intimidating to motivate yourself to work towards a vague goal.

What I loved about this class how is thoughtfully Agnieszka has planned it, starting with helping you define exactly what "attention" means for your individual goals and then outline skills that can serve as building blocks to get to your definition of attention. There is a wonderful balance of these exercises and cleverly inserted theories of learning that help you make better choices for your team in terms of planning for efficiency, clarity and setting up for success. You have the option to go as deep or wide with your skills, and her excellent and pointed feedback helped me iron out some wrinkles that I was struggling with for a while, or did not even realize I would hit :) My newly adolescent dog loved going everywhere and trying the basic exercises, and by starting with this simple ask of attention and nothing else, training has started becoming something he looks forward to! Im really glad I took this class with him, and think it is a fantastic place to spend some time with your team mate, irrespective of where you are in your training journey.

Thanks Agnieszka!

JHoney

March 16, 2021

Empowered dogs: Cooperative husbandry training

I wish I had found this course a year ago, but I am so happy I found it now! This course is amazing and has literally been life changing for my dog and I! For the first time I not only feel hope, but confident that I will be able to groom my dog and that she will want to participate. I have learned so much in this past 6 weeks and I have so many things I can work on with my dog. All of the training plans and videos Iris provided throughout the course have been very easy to understand and follow along to. I love training with my dog and I love to see that she is enjoying the process as well. She has never been this calm during any kind of grooming before and now she will lay down in her relaxed position and let me brush her, even her belly! She has NEVER done this before. We are making great strides and it is thanks to this course! I highly recommend it and I think it's a skill set any dog owner should have. If there is a next level to this course I will definitely sign up for it. Thank you so much Iris and Tromplo!

arianna tomassoli

March 14, 2021

Shape me up!

This course is really important for me. I thought I was doing many things correctly but I discovered I wasn’t. The most important things I learned are how to describe the behavior I want to teach (we never do this. How can we teach a behavior if we don’t have in mind how it looks like? How can our dog learn it?), analyze it and divide it into small pieces. And this is really the key to shape behaviors. I really learned how to set my dog up to success. Agnieszka is an amazing teacher, her lessons are clear and so useful. I highly recommend this course even if you think you are a great trainer!

miravso

November 19, 2020

Masters of Odor Pt. 1

The first thing I did when I finished this course was to enrol in the next available course given by Sarah!!

I did not know very much what to expect by this course, but I was impressed by the amount of information available about Odour. I had so much fun with my dog and Sarah's feedback. What an amazing teacher and Human Being. Sarah will make sure that you don't feel bad about yourself for what went wrong in a session, but to look at it as precious information you can work on for next session. You know that feeling your dogs have when they know the treat moment is approaching?? That's me in the morning opening my email and checking for Sarah's feedback. :) she conditioned me very well!

Get ready for a lot of prep work, a lot of information, it is important to have access to different locations and places where you can set up the different odour scenarios. Think in advance if you have access to different and safe outdoor spaces, take into account the weather and light conditions for your videos. Having a proper "GoPro" camera or someone to help you with recording is super helpful.

Don't even think twice, just enrol and enjoy this amazing class where your dog will have fun and teach you so much!

Sofia & Suzy/ Premium Students

Carolmilner

November 11, 2020

Nosework Stage 1

This is the second course I've done that has been taught by Agnieszka and I enjoyed this one as much as R+ course. Agnieszka is an exceptional tutor demonstrating enviable patience and teaching skills and brilliant problem solving solutions! I always wanted to do nosework with Odie and I loved that the course was broken up into perfect bite size chunks with excellent video demonstrations. We got way further than I was expecting with the content, despite me really learning what works for my boy (thanks to great advice from Agnieszka!), and it has given me lots of work to do to ensure I've got fluent behaviours before we go on to Nosework Stage 2. As with my previous Tromplo course it's made me think so much about the way I train and ensuring I set my dog up for success even if that means 30 second training sessions to prevent "away with the faeries" moments! Thank you so much Aga, me and Odie had a blast! I hope we'll see you soon for Nosework Stage 2 :-)

Ambersusi

August 20, 2020

Preparation for Frisbee part one

I loved this course. Me and my dog got so much out if it! Mikolaj is brilliant at explaining the why's and how's of toy training. I can't wait for Part 2!!!

STWinkler

June 27, 2020

The Foundations of Concept Training

Excellent course. I went on to take the Concepts course and found that the foundations set here made the transition to that course a smooth progression.
I appreciated that there was a real focus on figuring out what would work best for you and your dog rather than offering a cookie cutter approach.
Highly recommend.

Heather Gillihan

May 12, 2020

In chains! Backchaining from A-Z

I absolutely cannot say enough about this course, and our instructor, Catja! This was my very first experience with Tromplo, but it definitely will not be my last! First, let me address the course itself: "In chains! Backchaining from A-Z" was phenomenal! Let me say though, that it is not for the faint of heart. It takes time each week to work on the homework, as you must create, practice, video, and upload your chains and assignments. It was not overwhelming, or too much, by any stretch, but it did take dedication. I often found myself checking the site multiple times on days that a new lesson was coming out, as I was excited to get started! Not only did we learn about the PROCESS of backchaining, but also the rationale behind why it is often the superior method to achieve the results and reliability we so often crave. I also learned the importance of REAL fluency in a behavior, and why it must be achieved prior to including it in a chain. Often, I THOUGHT a behavior was fluent, but putting it into a chain showed me that the individual behavior still needed work. This was extremely eye-opening for me.

Now for our "instructor extraordinaire": Catja, is beyond words. I am a dog trainer by profession, and originally was just looking for something fun to do with my dog during the COVID down time. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but Catja blew me away from day 1! Let me give you an example: I was having trouble getting my Cavalier King Charles Spaniel to take and hold a dumbbell from my hand. I have trained other dogs to retrieve, but was having difficulty with this dog. I uploaded a video for Catja to see, and I was floored by her insight! Within 5 minutes of applying her comments and suggestions on my video, my dog was willingly taking the dumbbell from my hand and holding it for several seconds before I asked for the release. And that was BEFORE we began the chaining work. Catja is thorough in her explanations, details, demos, and assignments, and even more so when replying to the videos we submit. She is patient, kind, and encouraging with her comments and suggestions, and her thoughtful manner makes you want to work harder to get results. I will definitely be back to Tromplo, and... if I'm being honest... will first look for courses taught by Catja!

Hallie.beth

February 2, 2020

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

I cannot recommend this course enough. Sarah is a thoughtful, organized teacher and dedicates so much time to providing information and feedback. I took the course with a GSP pup I was training for a client family. Through this training, Mellie was able to go to her home with the foundation of stimulus control and I was able to give her family games and training to continue the process. I loved being able to watch other people’s videos and see feedback, learn from the other students taking the course, and develop my ideas and training methods.

As a service dog trainer, stimulus control (what I was calling self-control and impulse control before) is the foundation for our training. Because of this course, I was able to refine and improve the methods I already had in place to give clear, consistent communication to the dogs and clients I work with. This course is absolutely wonderful for any dog trainer or owner that wants to learn more about dog behavior and providing clear information regarding stimulus control.

Michelle

January 15, 2020

Attention Please

Great course. My dog and I have struggled with focus and motivation and have "read all the books" but couldn't crack the code on our own.

At the end of the course I have a dog, that is happy to start work and has even started to initiate it himself when out and about.

Course material breaks it all down in manageable steps and that plus instructur feedback has given us a foundation and tools to move forward.

STWinkler

December 19, 2019

Control Is An Illusion Pt. 2

Highly recommend this course! In fact, I can't imagine any reason for anyone not to want to take it!

CII Part 1 was very lecture dense with a lot of exercises to work on. CII Part 2 is completely different - very light on lectures with heavy focus on Sarah working with each Premium student to fashion training plans using the CII principles to meet their specific goals. Mastery of all of the skills from CII was not necessary. Sarah guided each Premium student through how to apply the relevant skills. I think most if not all Premium students found their goals evolve under Sarah's guidance. She gave amazing, detailed, insightful feedback.

I took it at Premium and was amazed at how much I was able to accomplish in 6 weeks. I also followed the other Premium threads and learned an incredible amount from them as well.

CII skills and concepts are very powerful tools applicable in a wide range of situations and Part 2 helps flesh that out. Sarah is an incredible teacher. The class is the perfect combination of important subject matter and excellent instruction.

Jennifer Will

December 15, 2019

Off cue – off control? Vol 1!

Just superb Catja thank you so much! Working through the course has totally changed my way of thinking about cues. I would have added them previously long before we became fluent so seeing how this works so well has been eye opening and I haven’t missed the cues one bit in the process. We’ve become fascinated by Hold and Heel both of which would have been on my ‘ I might train this one day if there’s nothing else appealing to train’ ( in other words I WONT be training those!!) Already looking forward to refining both in Part 11 course ?
You are a very kind trainer always finding something encouraging to say even when we made an arse of things and coming up with great ideas when we needed to think outside the box .It’s been a super fun journey and there’s no doubt that Pie has enjoyed it just as much as me!
5 stars for sure!!!

agrybicka

December 12, 2019

Behavior Analysis & Modification

This was my first Premium course that I took on Tromplo and it was an absolutely amazing experience. It was such a pleasure to work with Lisa as a teacher! Lisa is so patient and she always reinforces her students during solving homework.

The material of this course is essential not only if you want to modify your own pet's behaviour but also if you plan to work with clients and their dogs in the future. I've learnt how to operationalize behaviours and effectively analyse their antecedents and function to come up with and implement an appropriate a modification plan.

I absolutely loved homeworks which included not only discussions about my dog behaviour but also analyzing videos which was challenging but not too hard as Lisa was always there if I needed help.

To sum it all up, I highly recommend this course for everyone who ever wants to work on "undesirable" (from our point of view) behaviours - either those of their own pets or client's.

arianna tomassoli

August 11, 2019

Trainer’s Toolbox

This is one of the best course I've ever attended. It gives you an insight into all the amazing tools a trainer has to teach with passion and quality. What I love the most is the presence of videos that explain what it's written inside the lesson, they really make everything clear! I found some teaching methods that were not in "my toolbox" and I thought that maybe they were not suitable for me and my dog... I was wrong. I just had to go out of my comfort zone and follow Agnieszka's guidelines! Agnieszka is an amazing trainer, what a pleasure to watch her videos!! She is really supportive, she helps you but, at the same time, she gives you the chance to develop your potentials. She is a real pro, I love the fact that she incorporates science in her lessons, it is indicative of her professionalism. Having said that, let me tell you the only problem you have to face... you can get addicted to this course!! :)))

casixt

June 15, 2019

Shaping Canine Fitness

This was a course I decided to do more because I felt that it was a side of my dog training knowledge I wanted to improve and because it is so nice to have an alternative to get a fit dog without always taking a walk in the rain when autumn comes... BUT I was happily surprised by how much fun me and my dog had and how much information that was included and how much this newfound knowledge has improved my observational skills when reviewing my own training. It was a perfect mix of anatomy, lessons in movement, what an impact different targets, reinforcement strategies, the pace of a movement has and of course lots of training videos with exercises for an allround doggie workout =) Camille is an excellent trainer, I learnt a lot and she is very commited and gives practical advice and she is so calm and clear when working her own dogs, very inspiring indeed =D I am looking forward towards the sequel to this course!

Wendy Webster

June 13, 2019

Empowered dogs: Cooperative husbandry training

I loved this course. I had started some husbandry training before but the material in this course took it to a whole new level. I am so pleased and grateful to have been taught how to have a conversation with my dog.

Iris is extremely helpful and even devised some really successful extra training to help with getting my dog to feel more comfortable in a bike basket. She made new videos to demonstrate how to apply the exercises.

This course has improved how I relate to my dog on a daily basis. I couldn’t recommend it more highly.

casixt

May 16, 2019

R+

Wow! I mean seriously wow! This is the second course I take with Tromplo and there will hopefully be many more to come :D Who even knew there was just so much to learn and to consider to make your training sessions as successful as possible and thus also more enjoyable and less frustrating for both you and your dog?!
I found both the written lectures and the videos highly informative and it was easy to implement at home and with every feedback I got for the videos I sent in my understanding and my skills as a trainer have increased. Not only that, but it was a pleasure all along and the homework sometimes was very thought provoking.
The site is very well structured and userfriendly, feedback is fast and always meticulous, with suggestions for your next session, so no matter your level you will improve.
I believe that most dog owners would benefit from this course and since you can do it anywhere anytime as long as you have an internetconnection it really is superconvenient =)

Rachel Blackmer

May 15, 2019

Freakishly fluent

Freakishly fluent is an **amazing** course. I came into the course as a good trainer with a lot of functional skills. I came out the other side with Ninja skills and a lot of tools to help me analyze and understand my training sessions in a way that had our training improving in leaps and bounds in the course of 6 weeks. The Freakishly Fluent toolbox has deeply improved my training efficiency and effectiveness.

Catja is patient, clear, supportive, and gives timely feedback that results in conversations that increase my understanding even more. Most importantly she's able and willing to help me work with the behaviors from my sport. Thank you, Catja!

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A reliable recall is one of the most important safety behaviors we can teach the dogs in our lives, and in emergency situations. When we need our recall to work, we really need it to work!

Course will help you if you have a new puppy in your life and want to get off on the right paw with your recall training. But also adolescent dog who seems to have recently forgotten you exist and an older dog who used to have a great recall, but isn’t always quite so responsive these days, this class will be great for you.

Do you wish your dog would come back when you called?
Does your dog come back most of the time, but not quite all the time, and often not when it really matters?
Do you wish your dog would stay closer to you and not run off in the first place?
Does your dog run back to you when you call, but then immediately take off again?

We will cover a ton of fun information to help you and the dogs in your lives build a stronger connection while focusing on building recall behaviors and other behaviors to keep you and your dog connected and in close proximity to one another.

Skills and concepts we will focus on include;

➡ Assessing motivation

➡ How an understanding of classical conditioning, operant conditioning, the matching law, and the Premack principle can help us build strong recalls

➡ Teaching automatic check ins

➡ Beginning at the end - back chain your recall

➡ Emergency recall vs every day recall

➡ Walk with me recall (using Leslie McDevitt’s 1-2-3 from Control ➡ UnleashedTM)

➡ From inside to outside and beyond, games to build fluency

Join me on this course and build reliable recall!

Fast and curious – build a reliable recall!

Teach your dog most important safety behavior!

Shelly Wood

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Sometimes when you have a puppy and you want to share a sport with him, you wonder what you could teach him until his growth is complete and you can start learning the sport itself.

This course is for all those who plan to start a dog sport without age limit ! Whether you have a puppy or an adult dog, this course will cover different skills useful in many canine sports.

The goal is for you to be able to evolve peacefully in the dog sport environment and start your sport journey with certain basics that will make it easier once the dog is old enough to learn the sport of your choice specific skills.

Among other things, we will discuss :

The development of the relationship,
The management of wait periods and rests,
Transport modes (outside or on the field),
Engagement,
Play,
Reinforcement patterns useful in dog sports,
Target and focus training
Implementing choice during training sessions...

So many skills that will be useful to you and your companion during your sport adventures.

Everything you need to start off on the right paw!

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Canine sports foundations

Evolve peacefully in the dog sport environment and start your sport journey!

Iris Castaing

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Cats have long mystified and mesmerized humanity, inspiring poets and artists alike, while invading Internet memes and finding a place in the hearts and homes amongst all countries. Cats have often been considered aloof and unpredictable, walking their own path and daring to, “look at a king.“ But like all other organisms, felines are also subject to the laws of behavior science and as such, yes, even cats can be, ‘trained,‘ or ‘conditioned,’ in much the same way that they train and condition us to get up out of bed before our alarms blare by kneading our bellies, licking our noses and maybe even nibbling our fingers. This is why the Cat Herding 101 course was created! Conditioning is always happening and cats like every other organism are not immune to it. There is no secret code word to begin exploring the magically fascinating world of cat training, aka, ‘cat herding.’ All it takes is one’s interest, plus a desire and effort to explore and learn…in a phrase, with the curiosity of a cat!

But why would we wish to train a cat? Because cat training is an amazing for:

enhance your relationship with your cat and increase the ‘trust account’, allowing the learner increased choice and control to access functional reinforcement
it allows an outlet for enrichment including mental and physical stimulation for both the trainer and learner alike
helps you to minimize or more adequately construct and shape new behaviors to replace 'unwanted', or aversive behavioral patterns
increase your overall mechanical and conceptual skill regarding applied behavioral technologies through working with your cat

J.R. Henderson & his clowder (Condie, Durga & Poe) invite you on an incredible voyage of behavioral discovery!

Explore many aspects of behavioral techniques that can be applied to all aspects of cat herding 101 to set both you and your cat up for success. As Dr. Susan Friedman reminds us, “behavior is a study of one,” and keeping this in mind with a species evolutionary-based approach, J. R. & his clowder will guide you on a journey of behavioral discovery regarding cat herding. You will explore all aspects regarding cat herding, from building upon foundational principles and behaviors to creating behavioral momentum and bringing an element of ‘loopiness,’ to your training sessions. You will also explore more intermediate training principles and behaviors such as basic cooperative care and maybe even a pattern game or two thrown into the mix. J.R. & his clowder will cover a tad of everything to get any and everyone inspired and set up for success regarding cat herding 101.

Cat Herding 101 will cover:

foundational principles, including equipment needed to begin cat herding, the antecedents of training setup and arrangement, preference testing, reviewing the concepts of pairing the marker/bridge (respondent conditioning), constructing behavior via capturing, luring and shaping, along with principles of errorless and graded training approaches
you will be able to demonstrate foundational behaviors including, ‘targeting’ and ‘stationing’ which many of our other behaviors and arrangements will be predicated upon
building behavioral momentum through the concepts of ‘training in loops,’ reinforcer delivery, a review on stimulus control and an overview on prompts, cues and prompt fading
you will be able to demonstrate intermediate level behavioral responses including: ‘sit,’ ‘down,’ ‘high five,’ and jump ‘up’
the basics of cooperative care will be covered including beginning tactile work and various objects being contacted to the body including stethoscopes, capped needles or similar substitutes and other objects of veterinary care, along with reviewing carrier training and also an overview of keeping medium and long-haired cats’ coats brushed which can at times be a challenge of endurance and wriggling for both cats and guardians alike
discussing and demonstrating the use of pattern games with cats
a detailed discussion and exploration of continued building of behavioral momentum over duration, distance and distraction.

Lesson 1: Foundational principles Lesson 2: Foundational behaviors Lesson 3: Building behavioral momentum Lesson 4: Intermediate feline behaviors Lesson 5: Basic cooperative care concepts Lesson 6: Pattern games and further inspirations in behavioral construction

J.R. & his clowder look forward to continuing the cat chat and celebrating life in the meow with you in Cat Herding 101!

The Conditional Cat: Cat Herding 101

Enhance your relationship with your cat, increase the ‘trust account’ and shape new behaviors to replace "unwanted"!

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But why would we wish to train a cat? Because cat training is an amazing for:

enhance your relationship with your cat and increase the ‘trust account’, allowing the learner increased choice and control to access functional reinforcement
it allows an outlet for enrichment including mental and physical stimulation for both the trainer and learner alike
helps you to minimize or more adequately construct and shape new behaviors to replace 'unwanted', or aversive behavioral patterns
increase your overall mechanical and conceptual skill regarding applied behavioral technologies through working with your cat

J.R. Henderson & his clowder (Condie, Durga & Poe) invite you on an incredible voyage of behavioral discovery!

Cat Herding 101 will cover:

foundational principles, including equipment needed to begin cat herding, the antecedents of training setup and arrangement, preference testing, reviewing the concepts of pairing the marker/bridge (respondent conditioning), constructing behavior via capturing, luring and shaping, along with principles of errorless and graded training approaches
you will be able to demonstrate foundational behaviors including, ‘targeting’ and ‘stationing’ which many of our other behaviors and arrangements will be predicated upon
building behavioral momentum through the concepts of ‘training in loops,’ reinforcer delivery, a review on stimulus control and an overview on prompts, cues and prompt fading
you will be able to demonstrate intermediate level behavioral responses including: ‘sit,’ ‘down,’ ‘high five,’ and jump ‘up’
the basics of cooperative care will be covered including beginning tactile work and various objects being contacted to the body including stethoscopes, capped needles or similar substitutes and other objects of veterinary care, along with reviewing carrier training and also an overview of keeping medium and long-haired cats’ coats brushed which can at times be a challenge of endurance and wriggling for both cats and guardians alike
discussing and demonstrating the use of pattern games with cats
a detailed discussion and exploration of continued building of behavioral momentum over duration, distance and distraction.

J.R. & his clowder look forward to continuing the cat chat and celebrating life in the meow with you in Cat Herding 101!

The Conditional Cat: Cat Herding 101

Enhance your relationship with your cat, increase the ‘trust account’ and shape new behaviors to replace "unwanted"!

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But why would we wish to train a cat? Because cat training is an amazing for:

enhance your relationship with your cat and increase the ‘trust account’, allowing the learner increased choice and control to access functional reinforcement
it allows an outlet for enrichment including mental and physical stimulation for both the trainer and learner alike
helps you to minimize or more adequately construct and shape new behaviors to replace 'unwanted', or aversive behavioral patterns
increase your overall mechanical and conceptual skill regarding applied behavioral technologies through working with your cat

J.R. Henderson & his clowder (Condie, Durga & Poe) invite you on an incredible voyage of behavioral discovery!

Cat Herding 101 will cover:

foundational principles, including equipment needed to begin cat herding, the antecedents of training setup and arrangement, preference testing, reviewing the concepts of pairing the marker/bridge (respondent conditioning), constructing behavior via capturing, luring and shaping, along with principles of errorless and graded training approaches
you will be able to demonstrate foundational behaviors including, ‘targeting’ and ‘stationing’ which many of our other behaviors and arrangements will be predicated upon
building behavioral momentum through the concepts of ‘training in loops,’ reinforcer delivery, a review on stimulus control and an overview on prompts, cues and prompt fading
you will be able to demonstrate intermediate level behavioral responses including: ‘sit,’ ‘down,’ ‘high five,’ and jump ‘up’
the basics of cooperative care will be covered including beginning tactile work and various objects being contacted to the body including stethoscopes, capped needles or similar substitutes and other objects of veterinary care, along with reviewing carrier training and also an overview of keeping medium and long-haired cats’ coats brushed which can at times be a challenge of endurance and wriggling for both cats and guardians alike
discussing and demonstrating the use of pattern games with cats
a detailed discussion and exploration of continued building of behavioral momentum over duration, distance and distraction.

J.R. & his clowder look forward to continuing the cat chat and celebrating life in the meow with you in Cat Herding 101!

The Conditional Cat: Cat Herding 101

Enhance your relationship with your cat, increase the ‘trust account’ and shape new behaviors to replace "unwanted"!

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$101.37

But why would we wish to train a cat? Because cat training is an amazing for:

enhance your relationship with your cat and increase the ‘trust account’, allowing the learner increased choice and control to access functional reinforcement
it allows an outlet for enrichment including mental and physical stimulation for both the trainer and learner alike
helps you to minimize or more adequately construct and shape new behaviors to replace 'unwanted', or aversive behavioral patterns
increase your overall mechanical and conceptual skill regarding applied behavioral technologies through working with your cat

J.R. Henderson & his clowder (Condie, Durga & Poe) invite you on an incredible voyage of behavioral discovery!

Cat Herding 101 will cover:

foundational principles, including equipment needed to begin cat herding, the antecedents of training setup and arrangement, preference testing, reviewing the concepts of pairing the marker/bridge (respondent conditioning), constructing behavior via capturing, luring and shaping, along with principles of errorless and graded training approaches
you will be able to demonstrate foundational behaviors including, ‘targeting’ and ‘stationing’ which many of our other behaviors and arrangements will be predicated upon
building behavioral momentum through the concepts of ‘training in loops,’ reinforcer delivery, a review on stimulus control and an overview on prompts, cues and prompt fading
you will be able to demonstrate intermediate level behavioral responses including: ‘sit,’ ‘down,’ ‘high five,’ and jump ‘up’
the basics of cooperative care will be covered including beginning tactile work and various objects being contacted to the body including stethoscopes, capped needles or similar substitutes and other objects of veterinary care, along with reviewing carrier training and also an overview of keeping medium and long-haired cats’ coats brushed which can at times be a challenge of endurance and wriggling for both cats and guardians alike
discussing and demonstrating the use of pattern games with cats
a detailed discussion and exploration of continued building of behavioral momentum over duration, distance and distraction.

J.R. & his clowder look forward to continuing the cat chat and celebrating life in the meow with you in Cat Herding 101!

The Conditional Cat: Cat Herding 101

Enhance your relationship with your cat, increase the ‘trust account’ and shape new behaviors to replace "unwanted"!

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Does your dog growl, bark, lunge or show fear when seeing other dogs and people on walks and at home? Do you struggle to keep your dog calm and relaxed when out and about? We can help you with that! Linlin knows everything about management and training for reactive dogs!

When it comes to reactive dog training, handlers have two toolboxes: management and training.

Management, in my understanding, involves the handler making the choice for the dog. It doesn’t actively change the dog’s emotions but management helps to reduce reactive frequency to prevent trigger stacking and rehearsal of the unwanted behavior. Training for reactive dogs, on the other hand, involves the dog making the decisions. As a handler, our job is to make sure the dog makes the right decision. This course focuses on everything you need to know about living with a reactive dog. You will learn useful management skills for real life dog walking to reduce the frequency and intensity of your dog’s reactions, and strategies to help your dog recover after a reaction. You will learn essential training for reactive dogs skills and fun and predictable pattern games to actively change your dog’s feelings towards triggers—dogs, people, sounds, etc. This course will also discuss many reactive dog related topics and how to take care of the other end of leash—because we need to take care of ourselves in order to be good advocates for our reactive dogs. Having a reactive dog can be hard and lonely. But we are in this together! <3

Course outline

Management skills:

Error-less learning wait at door and reorientation at the door
Leash handling
Leash skill: Emergency U-turn
Leash skill: Touch
Leash skill: Switching sides
Leash skill: Changing speed
Leash skill: 1-2-3 (Control Unleashed^TM)
Mat work
Find it
Name game

Training skills:

Look at that (Control Unleashed^TM)
Pattern games for operant counter conditioning

Discussions:

Safe enrichment ideas for reactive dogs
Equipment: collar, harness, leash, and clicker
Self-care as a reactive dog owner
“But my dog is not food motivated!”
What to do when my dog hurts my hand when taking treats?
Putting it together: when to use management and when to use training

https://youtu.be/TYJdpEgScuE

Management and training for reactive dogs

If you have a reactive dog, excited dog, fearful dog, or anxious dog, this course is for you!

Linlin Cao

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Excessive barking, intense staring, circling around? Lunging towards cars, bikes and other moving things and not wanting to stop doing these behaviors? Loads of energy and difficulties to relax? Intelligent and learning new things fast? A herding breed dog can be the best companion you will ever have, but also behave in ways we humans find disruptive. The typical behaviors for herding breeds were very useful when working on the farm but may cause challenges in urban environments. An urge to stop a moving car might even cost a dog's life. Deal with herding dog's problems with Saara!

Herding dog's problems can look like:

Stalking moving things intensively
Freezing to stalk something that is not moving
Lunging towards moving things
Nibbling ankles, shoes and things that go by
Very fast movements
Fast reacting to small changes in environment
Tendency to circle around objects or living things
Tendency to outrun moving things and turn in front of them
Excessive barking
Difficulties to turn away from things
Strong need to control surroundings
Not being able to respond even to familiar cues when executing these behaviors
High arousal when restrained executing these behaviors
Low frustration tolerance

The origin of the breeds lies in the purposeful reinforcing of different aspects of the hunting behavior chain through generations for various purposes where dogs were useful to humans. Herding breeds such as border collies, corgis and heelers have been bred for intense working on herding sheep and other cattle for centuries. Nowadays very few of them actually work on farms, but the genetic behavior models may still be very strong. Fortunately, we have dog-friendly ways to help these amazing breeds to cope with their impulses and redirect them.

In this herding dog's problems solver course we will investigate following:

Why are the herding related behavior models existing and usually very strong
How can we help our herding breed dogs to relax trough enrichment
How to offer opportunities to work and think in a safe context
What kind of skills are important for the dog considering preventing the non-desirable herding
And how to teach them in a dog friendly, consent and reward based manner

This course is suitable for all herding breeds of different ages. If you have a young puppy, it is the best time to teach these skills strong. When you have an adult dog with a history of executing herding behaviors, you need to be prepared for working a long time since the herding behaviors tend to get stronger just by executing or even only starting to do them.

You will learn to:

Understand your dog’s behavior and needs better
Provide enrichment for daily basis to help your dog to feel good and relax
Redirect behavioral needs to more suitable targets
Practices to manage situations where your dog “loses it”
Find working rewards and how to increase their value if needed
Ways to let your dog to use his intelligence and desire to work
Teach variable skills through different exercises for your dog to help him cope with the inner impulses

By training these subjects you will help your dog to feel more relaxed, choose behaviors that are more suitable for the context and prevent over-arousal, possibly dangerous situations from happening. The daily living with your dog will not be so stressful anymore -for both of you. Consent and reward based training and feeling more secure with your dog increases the quality of dog-human relationship.

Your dog may also be able to perform better in group classes and dog sports as he is not constantly searching for opportunities to herd and is thus able to focus on you.

Week 1: Understanding the origin of herding breeds, Enrichment Week 2: Impulse control and flexibility, Wellbeing Week 3: Alternative behaviors 1, management Week 4: Redirecting herding tendencies, Increasing calmness Week 5: Alternative behaviors 2, the importance of being clear Week 6: Desensitizing to movement

Herding dog in the city!

Herding dog's problems - how to solve them?

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Herding dog's problems can look like:

Stalking moving things intensively
Freezing to stalk something that is not moving
Lunging towards moving things
Nibbling ankles, shoes and things that go by
Very fast movements
Fast reacting to small changes in environment
Tendency to circle around objects or living things
Tendency to outrun moving things and turn in front of them
Excessive barking
Difficulties to turn away from things
Strong need to control surroundings
Not being able to respond even to familiar cues when executing these behaviors
High arousal when restrained executing these behaviors
Low frustration tolerance

In this herding dog's problems solver course we will investigate following:

Why are the herding related behavior models existing and usually very strong
How can we help our herding breed dogs to relax trough enrichment
How to offer opportunities to work and think in a safe context
What kind of skills are important for the dog considering preventing the non-desirable herding
And how to teach them in a dog friendly, consent and reward based manner

You will learn to:

Understand your dog’s behavior and needs better
Provide enrichment for daily basis to help your dog to feel good and relax
Redirect behavioral needs to more suitable targets
Practices to manage situations where your dog “loses it”
Find working rewards and how to increase their value if needed
Ways to let your dog to use his intelligence and desire to work
Teach variable skills through different exercises for your dog to help him cope with the inner impulses

Your dog may also be able to perform better in group classes and dog sports as he is not constantly searching for opportunities to herd and is thus able to focus on you.

Herding dog in the city!

Herding dog's problems - how to solve them?

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$101.37

Herding dog's problems can look like:

Stalking moving things intensively
Freezing to stalk something that is not moving
Lunging towards moving things
Nibbling ankles, shoes and things that go by
Very fast movements
Fast reacting to small changes in environment
Tendency to circle around objects or living things
Tendency to outrun moving things and turn in front of them
Excessive barking
Difficulties to turn away from things
Strong need to control surroundings
Not being able to respond even to familiar cues when executing these behaviors
High arousal when restrained executing these behaviors
Low frustration tolerance

In this herding dog's problems solver course we will investigate following:

Why are the herding related behavior models existing and usually very strong
How can we help our herding breed dogs to relax trough enrichment
How to offer opportunities to work and think in a safe context
What kind of skills are important for the dog considering preventing the non-desirable herding
And how to teach them in a dog friendly, consent and reward based manner

You will learn to:

Understand your dog’s behavior and needs better
Provide enrichment for daily basis to help your dog to feel good and relax
Redirect behavioral needs to more suitable targets
Practices to manage situations where your dog “loses it”
Find working rewards and how to increase their value if needed
Ways to let your dog to use his intelligence and desire to work
Teach variable skills through different exercises for your dog to help him cope with the inner impulses

Your dog may also be able to perform better in group classes and dog sports as he is not constantly searching for opportunities to herd and is thus able to focus on you.

Herding dog in the city!

Herding dog's problems - how to solve them?

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$101.37

This course is dedicated to getting the highest level of fluency in our behaviors by getting geeky and diving deep into each training session.

How do we do that?

The short answer is: We focus on behavior! Both ours, and our learnes behavior.

We are going to analyze everything in the session, both from the handlers position and timing, to everything the dogs does.

So I will emphasize,- this course is geeky, and it is a good thing, if you are prepared to use quite a lot of time, of practicing using the schedules, and being comfortable with just focusing on behavior.

You will, as a premium participant, be asked to fill out quite a few schedules ad homework, to get comfortable with them.

Analyzing our sessions to this degree can be slightly scary and seem overwhelming in the beginning.

Luckily, as with anything else, the more we practice doing it the right way, the more fluent in behavior we become. And what we leave this course with, is very fine-tuned observation skills, that will help us in the future. Both when we want to improve our own sessions, and also if we are helping someone else. Having practiced your observational skills, takes you a big step towards being a favorite training partner.

In this course, we will work on a few specific behaviors that you would like to have perfected. You can chose some, or I can suggest some. This course is not about teaching as many behaviors as possible - that is the "Off cue- off control" course. Here, we dive much deeper into fewer behaviors. We work with the learner offering the behavior off cue and perfecting it, till we have the behaviors freakishly fluent.

This is a course where there is going to be a significant amount of work, taking data, and reviewing the videos from every session, again and again. We use a lot of benchmarking schedules to track the progress, and you will learn how to take your training to the next level with this tool.

This course covers:

Introduction to what fluency is and how we get it
The science and definitions behind it
Benchmarking schedules on the following topics
- Timing
- Criteria
- Reinforcement
- Off cue behaviors
- Stimulus control
- Chaining
- Training focus
- Mechanical skills

When this course finishes, the goal is for you to have ninja skills in clicker training, and have freakishly fluent behaviors!

Freakishly fluent behaviors!

This course is dedicated to getting the highest level of fluency in our behaviors.

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$101.37

This course is dedicated to getting the highest level of fluency in our behaviors by getting geeky and diving deep into each training session.

How do we do that?

The short answer is: We focus on behavior! Both ours, and our learnes behavior.

We are going to analyze everything in the session, both from the handlers position and timing, to everything the dogs does.

You will, as a premium participant, be asked to fill out quite a few schedules ad homework, to get comfortable with them.

Analyzing our sessions to this degree can be slightly scary and seem overwhelming in the beginning.

This course covers:

Introduction to what fluency is and how we get it
The science and definitions behind it
Benchmarking schedules on the following topics
- Timing
- Criteria
- Reinforcement
- Off cue behaviors
- Stimulus control
- Chaining
- Training focus
- Mechanical skills

When this course finishes, the goal is for you to have ninja skills in clicker training, and have freakishly fluent behaviors!

Freakishly fluent behaviors!

This course is dedicated to getting the highest level of fluency in our behaviors.

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$101.37

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.

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Set your puppy up for success! The number one reason for dogs being handed over to an animal shelter or rehomed is behavioral issues. Those issues start in puppyhood and many of them can be avoided with the right plan and actions. Raising a puppy is filled with a lot of joy and cuteness but also an equal amount of frustration! Even professional dog trainers with the new puppy have days when they question their decision to get one in the first place! The path to raising a puppy is not easy! That’s why it’s best to do it with others who understand you. Join this course with other puppy caregivers to have the community to lean on when things get tough. Learning the best practices now will equip you with everything you need for your pup's future. Set your puppy up for success and create a relaxed life for both of you! Having a dog doesn’t have to be a struggle. Let me help you create a strong relationship so you will be able to call your dog your best friend that you always wanted.

Why would you consider joining the course and setting your puppy up for success?

Starting with your puppy from a get-go will help you avoid any aggressive behaviors from ever developing in your puppy,
You will learn how to avoid separation anxiety which not only saves your furniture from shredding and your neighbors from complaining but also increases your puppy’s wellbeing which often translates to lower vet bills!
Teaching your pup how to navigate through a human world will eliminate the embarrassment of having your puppy behave in an inappropriate way like get spooked and run or bark at things,
Teaching your pup how to greet people and dogs politely will save you from uncomfortable conversations and apologizing for your pup’s behavior,
You will learn how to teach your puppy to 'settle ' which will allow you to take your pup out and about to a cafe or a pub and enjoy uninterrupted time with your friends.

Some of the lessons in the course:

Toilet training
Puppy biting and play with toys
The importance of sleep and teaching settle
Being left alone - first steps to avoid separation anxiety
Body language essentials
Socialization with people and dogs
Puppy play with other puppies and/or dogs
Exposure to life in a household (inanimate object, sounds, etc)
Exposure to life in a human world (cars, traffic, etc)
4 paws on the floor and how to avoid jumping up on people
Handling exercises and vet visits
Enrichment

Puppy kindergarten – From puppy to best friend!

Create a strong relationship so you will be able to call your dog your best friend that you always wanted!

Anna Bartosik

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Why would you consider joining the course and setting your puppy up for success?

Starting with your puppy from a get-go will help you avoid any aggressive behaviors from ever developing in your puppy,
You will learn how to avoid separation anxiety which not only saves your furniture from shredding and your neighbors from complaining but also increases your puppy’s wellbeing which often translates to lower vet bills!
Teaching your pup how to navigate through a human world will eliminate the embarrassment of having your puppy behave in an inappropriate way like get spooked and run or bark at things,
Teaching your pup how to greet people and dogs politely will save you from uncomfortable conversations and apologizing for your pup’s behavior,
You will learn how to teach your puppy to 'settle ' which will allow you to take your pup out and about to a cafe or a pub and enjoy uninterrupted time with your friends.

Some of the lessons in the course:

Toilet training
Puppy biting and play with toys
The importance of sleep and teaching settle
Being left alone - first steps to avoid separation anxiety
Body language essentials
Socialization with people and dogs
Puppy play with other puppies and/or dogs
Exposure to life in a household (inanimate object, sounds, etc)
Exposure to life in a human world (cars, traffic, etc)
4 paws on the floor and how to avoid jumping up on people
Handling exercises and vet visits
Enrichment

Puppy kindergarten – From puppy to best friend!

Create a strong relationship so you will be able to call your dog your best friend that you always wanted!

Anna Bartosik

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This course will be the first of the three part heelwork series! Vol 1. focuses on stationary exercises and prerequiste skills. What is the first exercise that comes to your mind when you think about competing in obedience? Let me guess - heelwork? On the other hand, it is also the exercise that most of teams stuggle with and have a hard time breaking it down into teachable units.

If you are just starting, this course will be perfect for you. You will learn foundations for heelwork that will score the maximum number of points. How to teach a dog the correct head position? What should the perfect pivot look like? How to teach it all with errorless progression? You will get the answers in this course!

The course will also benefit teams who already take part in the competition, but would like to improve their results. It doesn't matter if - your dog sits crookedly, pivtos with his butt on the ground or drops his head every 5 seconds - together we will go through this process and build a perfect routine.

Close your eyes and imagine the perfect heelwork you would like to achieve. Can you see it? Good, we will build solid fundaments to achieve this picture within six weeks! There is one condition - you must sign up for this course with me 😄

Week 1:

defining criteria for a perfect heelwork
different rules for different venues
how to break down heelwork into teachable units
food/toy delivery patterns
prerequisite skills: hand touch, paw targeting

Week 2:

prerequisite skills: backing, side movement
head position and focal point
pivots

Week 3:

more pivots,
backing,
back to position

Week 4:

setups
following backward

Week 5:

trot practice
fading out prompts
cues

Week 6:

troubleshooting
putting it all together

There will be limited number of Premium Spots! To take this course as a Premium Member you need to finish Trainer’s Toolbox first (as Premium or Auditor)

Heelwork to heaven vol 1.

Take a first step to get the best heelwork routine ever!

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Learn a training method that will facilitate and accelerate your training achievements. Meet backchaining! You probably don't even know that you've already used backchaining in your training. Or maybe you used it consciously, but you still don't get it right, or while planning your training, you get stuck somewhere and don't know how to carry out the training correctly? Or maybe you do not plan your training at all but just grab treats, call the dog and start the sessions? Bring peace to your training and start achieving your goals with pleasure and without frustration, yours and your students! :) Sounds great, right? Backchaining is one of those things that 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 affects the chain will we get the full advantages of using it. 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 deeply at why some cues are like shooting an arrow, and others are more like pushing a car uphill. We will also discuss the topic of off cue behaviors, having fluency, and excellent stimulus control. 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 that's 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 is a learning history that gives slower responses
Find out what is brutally exposed when we’re backchaining.
Figure what the glue is that makes 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 complex job, that is, being 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 have 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 you're willing to spend six weeks of your life learning about backchaining! Will you join me? I can’t wait to meet you! See you soon at training!

In chains! Backchaining from A-Z

Become expert in backchaining

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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 that's 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 is a learning history that gives slower responses
Find out what is brutally exposed when we’re backchaining.
Figure what the glue is that makes 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 complex job, that is, being handler
Practice without dogs too

In chains! Backchaining from A-Z

Become expert in backchaining

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This is the course for you, if you have very specific behaviors you want to work on, and want to dedicate time to getting it perfect it. Since there, after a lot of the courses, has been requests for one-to-ones, I decided to create this course, as the online version of that. This is your chance to get 6 weeks of feedback on your videos, without it being within in certain limits. The sky is the limit here, and the only criteria for me to help you, is that you are using positive reinforcement. You tell me what behavior your are aiming for, and how it looks, and I will help you get there. Here, there will be information on

off cue behaviors
fluency
cueing
backchaining
doggie-zen

We will not go very deep into many theoretical lessons in this course, as this is mainly for the practical purpose, and therefor this is not a suitable course for most auditors.

WYW – What you wish!

Tailored to your needs!

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Get clean, precise, and fluent behaviors – even at a distance. If you are ever in a situation where you need your dog to do certain behaviors at a distance, this course will help you get there. Even if you are working at longer distances, you can still get your behaviors as perfect as if you were standing right next to your dog. Usually, I focus a lot on the behaviors that are happening close to the handler. In this course, that will be turned a bit around. In these six weeks, we will discuss the following in the lessons:

Which basic skills do we need to get started with distance behaviors?
What equipment do we need – or can have great use of?
How do we teach the dog an “Off cue” stay?
How do we define our criteria, and why is this even more important when we are working at a distance?
How do we get the dog to go to a certain point of distance?
How do we get the desired pace when the dog is running to a certain point?
How can we start and perfect stationary behaviors at a distance – like position changes?
How can we start and perfect speed behaviors at a distance – like picking up the dumbbell?
How can we teach the dog to have precision in behaviors in motion – like down and stand during recall and send away?
How do we make a training plan, take some data, and use this information to get progress?
How do we get fluent behaviors “off cue” when it is at a distance?
How do we choose the best cues for our distance behaviors?
And how do you teach those cues in a way that makes them very reliable?
How can we make the behaviors shine in a back chain?
And how do we use back chaining?
What is the best way to reinforce the behaviors when we are working at a distance?

We will cover the different tools we can use, discuss how to get these behaviors started, and we will go into dept with directional targets and platforms and the fading of these tools. There will be video examples of the behaviors – and how to get there and text lessons explaining the process. We will also have a closed Facebook group for all participants, where we all can discuss these concepts and connect more over this topic. For premium participants, there will be homework with your dog each week, with both set tasks and tasks that you decide on. This course is suitable for all levels. We will work from the level you are at and adjust the criteria so that they are matching you and your dog. I can´t wait to get to work with this fun and awesome topic that always gets the creativity going. Catja

Keep distance

Working far apart!

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Master's of Odor Trailer [embed]https://vimeo.com/447001480[/embed] Whether they are brand new to formal scent detection or highly experienced working dogs, all dogs are masters of odor. From scavenging food, to hunting rabbits, to noticing when a neighboring dog has just come into season, processing the complex world of scent with exquisite accuracy is what dogs have evolved on this Earth to do. In comparison, the human nose is handicapped. We tend to picture odor moving through space in a limited, two-dimensional way. Like Luke Skywalker impatient with Yoda’s cryptic descriptions of the Force, we are sometimes baffled as to why one day our dog makes a beeline straight to source, but then on another day seems to take forever to find a hide directly in front of his face. Because scent-detection is often high stakes or timed with titles on the line, we often set hides with specific training goals in mind, such as teaching the dog not to pass thresholds, or to check every container in a row. However, in this class we will be taking a different approach. Instead of putting out hides to teach our dogs how to be more efficient competitors, we are going to set up single hide searches and let our dogs teach us about odor. Each week we will compare and contrast how different types of hide placements change how the dogs search. Come join me on a fascinating journey into the world of scent, led by the true masters of odor—our dogs! Pre-requisites: I am most familiar with essential oils as target odor, but if your dog is trained to a different scent, we can make it work. All levels welcome, but you will get the most out of this course if your dog has a strong reinforcement history in place for hunting for something specific. Food or toys can work as well as oils, but the dog still needs to understand the game. In this course I will not be covering how to teach an indication behavior, or basic search skills, but I will provide a lot of guidance on how to adapt the exercises so each dog can be successful. Working spots: 10 Course Outline: WK 1: Meet your master, young Jedi.

Defining our terms
Basics of handling odor, how to set hides, and expecting the unexpected
Taking a baseline. What is your dog’s search style and level of commitment to the game?
Preserving confidence and enthusiasm
Becoming an odor scientist

WKS 2-3: Odor + Structure

Painting the odor picture: what do all those body language changes mean?
Containers
Floor Surfaces
Wall surfaces
Clutter Puzzles
Suspended vs. Out in the Open

WKS 3-4: Odor + Air Movement

Upwind vs. downwind
Doors open vs. doors closed
Narrow spaces + wind
Turbulence and eddies
Pooling odor due to air movement

Explorations WKS 5-6: Odor + Temperature

Sun vs. shade
Window vs. wall
Heat source vs. cold
Dry vs. damp

Explorations WK5: Odor + Height

Exterior vs. Interior Elevation
Ground hides vs. high
Odor falling on surfaces

Explorations WK6: Handler’s Choice

Masters of Odor Pt. 1

“Your dog is Yoda….You are Luke.” — Leah Gangelhoff

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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. Sign up now!

Curiosity of cues

Dive deep into the 5 steps of adding a cue

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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.

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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

Off cue – off control? Vol 1!

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

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What is the choice in the animal training world?
Can we teach choice?
What does it look like?

We all say the choice is essential in training, but what do we really mean by that? What does it mean for our dog, cat, or horse?

This course will introduce the concept of choice to you and your animal. We will focus on the scientific approach to the idea but also practical application throughout our work with animals.

Have you considered your dog fragile, delicate, shy, quick to stuck, or quit the work? Do you struggle with your dog's motivation? He is not the working type? Doesn't have enough drive? This course is just for you! We will unpack all the labels, operationalize, and change the environment to influence your learner's behavior. For six weeks of online learning, we will add choice behaviors to start a training session and learn how to monitor it throughout our work.

Behavioral health is a crucial aspect of the life of our animals: the ability to control the environment, the outcomes of our behaviors. We behave to get the result in our world. Can you imagine a life without that possibility? This course focuses on teaching this skill to our animals. We will build a clear communication between you and your animals. Empowering your dog by adding consent behaviors to his repertoire. We will learn to make observations, take data, analyze our training session based on that data and adjust our learning process to help our learner.

During this course, we will focus on:

motivating operations
basics of the science of learning
humane hierarchy by Susan Friedman
antecedent arrangement
play as a form of interaction
consent behavior
choice: the theory behind it
introducing choice (5 stages)
precurrent behaviors
errors and response to them
building a barometer of our dog's engagement in training sessions.

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!

Attention Please is a prerequisite course to join as Premium Student.

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rykFmzojOFY&feature=youtu.be[/embed] Course syllabus: Week 1 Lesson 1 - Welcome and Introductions Lesson 2 - What if I told you it was all behavior? Lesson 3 - Science and Motivation Lesson 4 - Humane Hierarchy Lesson 5 - Antecedant Arrangement Lesson 6 -Acclimation Lesson 7 - Prerequisite Skills Lesson 8 - Choice Lesson 9 - Play - what does it look like? Lesson 10 - The summary of stages Lesson 11 - Introducing the concept of choice, stage 1 Week 2 Lesson 12 - Effectiveness of reinforcement Lesson 13 - Latency Lesson 14 - Choice, stage 2 Lesson 15 - Shaping the animal's consent behavior Week 3 Lesson 16 - Error - the end of the world? Lesson 17 - Introducing work following consent – stage 3 Lesson 18 - TagTeach Week 4 Lesson 19 - Adding more work. Lesson 20 - Increasing the time of interaction - stage 4 Lesson 21 - Clarity Week 5 Lesson 22 - Classical Conditioning Lesson 23 - Building sequences of exercises Lesson 24 - Increasing the challenge Week 6 Lesson 25 - Between reinforcement and antecedent Lesson 26 - Negative reinforcement Lesson 27 - Choice - digging deeper

Let Me Want It

This course focuses on teaching our dogs that they have choices and that their behavior has power!

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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

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[embed]https://vimeo.com/349247466[/embed] In this impulse control 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 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?

Impulse control is often described as a dog making the right “choice” or being able to delay gratification by suppressing some internal or innate desire. The ubiquitous exercise “Leave it,” taught day one in almost every puppy or pet manners class that I’ve ever seen or participated in, is often described as a technique that will “change the way a dog’s mind works.” But just ask yourself this: if the underlying goal of your training plan is to change something inside the animal that you can’t see or define, it may be time to take a closer look. When it comes to behavior, the only things we can really control are context and consequence, the A and the C in the ABC contingency. That’s it. What is really going on inside the animal’s mind is still a bit of a mystery.

In this impulse control 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

This course is our BEST-SELLER! Sarah has helped hundreds of students understand better impulse control. She will be happy to explain it to you too! Join her impulse control class today!

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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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

To take this course as a Premium Member you need to finish Trainer's Toolbox first (as Premium or Auditor) There are 3 more nosework course stages. Nosework stage 2 - getting ready for your first trial! Sign up here: https://tromplo.com/course/nosework-stage-2-7/ [s3mm type="video" files="videoplayback.mp4" /] 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

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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

Nosework Stage 1

From first session to ORTs preparation

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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!

To take this course as a Premium Member you need to finish Trainer's Toolbox first (as Premium or Auditor)

Shape me up!

Shaping behaviors inside out!

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Target sticks, target mats, sticky-notes, hand target, chin target, shoulder target.. The list of targeting training 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

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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

Targeting targets!

Target extravaganza

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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. I 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

This course is a must-have for anyone interested in diving into the 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! To take this course as a Premium Member you need to finish Attention Please first (as Premium or Auditor) [s3mm type="video" files="handler.mp4" /] 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

Trainer’s Toolbox

Foundation course focusing on a scientific approach to animal training.

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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. I will guide you through the foundations of training. Step by step journey for anyone wishing to learn more!

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

Trainer’s Toolbox

Foundation course focusing on a scientific approach to animal training.

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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

Start here - Nosework stage 1: https://tromplo.com/course/nosework-stage-1-12/ https://youtu.be/h4P0nELgnE4 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?

Nosework Stage 2

Getting ready for your first trial!

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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

Before we start teaching our learners complicated behaviors we need to teach them how to learn.

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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

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

Before we start teaching our learners complicated behaviors we need to teach them how to learn.

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