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Masters of Odor Pt. 2: Advanced Concepts

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

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 artistry is what dogs have evolved on this Earth to do.

In this class we will be expanding on explorations begun in Master’s of Odor Pt. 1. In addition to single hide searches, we will invite our dogs to teach us what happens to the odor picture in more advanced puzzles as well, such as convergence, thermals, pooling, hides at different heights, and inaccessibles.

Pre-requisites: I am most familiar with NACSW essential oils as target odor, but if your dog is trained to a different scent, we can usually make it work. All levels welcome, but you will get the most out of this course if your dog has a strong reinforcement history already in place for hunting something specific. Food can work as well as scent, but on searches where the hide is inaccessible by containment, such as in a box or cabinet, your dog will need a non-destructive way to tell you where the food is, instead of just going for it.

Note: You do not need to be a graduate of Pt. 1 to enjoy Pt. 2, but if you or your dog is brand new to scent detection, Pt. 1 is recommended.

Sign up here for Masters of Odor Pt.1: https://tromplo.com/course/masters-of-odor-pt-1-4/

Required:

Basic odor kit (including a minimum of 3 scent vessels, such as tins, tubes or straws)
Smelly, high value food to search for (e.g. dried fish, beef lung, fresh chicken, or tuna)
High value food or toy reinforcement
Access to a variety of search areas–both interior and exterior
Video camera
Misc. items of furniture–tables, chairs, etc
Exercise pen, large cardboard boxes, three colanders, junction boxes, or bowls

Course Outline / Possible Explorations

(Each team will be encouraged to adjust search parameters based on the dog’s experience level and / or the human’s curiosity. Participants can pick one search theme per week or try multiple.)

WK 1: Review of Pt. 1 Principles

Index of terms–expanded to include more advanced topics
Basics of handling odor and how to set hides
Preserving confidence and enthusiasm
Becoming an odor scientist
Painting the odor picture / reading dog body language
Assessment: what is your dog’s current skill-level with multi-hide searches, elevation, inaccessibles, etc?
Bonus lessons:
- Clarifying search cues and “Find Another”
- Practicing search cues in multi-hide searches using food

WK2: Scent Plumes and Accessible Converging Hides

Single hides vs. multiple–how does putting out additional hides change the overall picture?
Recognizing convergence before the dog solves it
Tips to make multi-hide searches more errorless
Multi-hide searches with separate scent plumes
Multi-hide searches with overlapping scent plumes

WK3: Scent Plumes and Inaccessible Hides

Inaccessible by containment
Inaccessible by reach
Inaccessible by height
Where’s that backdoor? — Persistence games to balance inaccessible work

WK4: Convergence + Air Movement

Convergence due to wind vs. convergence in still air
Convergence due to channeling or pooling
Convergence due to swirling

WK 5: Odor + Temperature

Sun vs. shade experiments with 1, 2, or 3 hides
Multi-hide searches in dry weather vs. damp
Convergence puzzles due to thermals

WK6: Fun with Combos

high/low
Inaccessible and accessible in the same search
Mirrored hides in different elements
Hides on different planes vs. on the same plane
Elevation vs. ground hides–can you see the difference?

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Sarah Owings

Brave Learning 101

"Advanced training is just basic training....done very very well." --Ken Ramirez

This class is for anyone that has ever felt overwhelmed trying to teach something using positive reinforcement. You know you want your learner to do X Y Z, but have no idea where to start, or how to stay on track once you do get started. You aspire to this mythical thing called “errorless learning,” only to end up disheartened and demotivated when training sessions don’t go as planned. “Be a splitter, not a lumper.” Maintain a high rate of reinforcement.” “Only say a cue once.”

There are so many rules and opinions about what good training is. It can sometimes be paralyzing.

In Brave Learning 101, we are going to have fun unpacking a few of these “rules.” Is it possible to achieve meaningful and effective communication with our learners without throwing all the babies out with the bathwater? In place of rigid, recipe-driven training, we are going to explore a more progressive approach where the primary principle at play is performance–feedback—revision.

Premium teams will be encouraged to pick one or two simple behaviors to explore for the full six weeks. With “learning to learn” as the primary goal, it doesn’t really matter what the actual behavior is, or even how far along people get. I will help each person plan and reflect back on sessions, following a simple planning rubric. All participants will need to do is be brave, take the leap, and allow their learners to lead the way from there.

Prerequisites: a willingness to be brave and share your learning with others. All levels welcome. Before registering at premium level, please take a moment to reflect on time commitments. This class will be extra amazing if everyone is able to stay fully engaged in their projects for the full six weeks.

Course themes:

Principles over recipes
The power of learner-driven teaching
Performance–Feedback–Revision
Training in “Three Acts”
The Brave Learning Rubric for planning and assessment
How to hone in on meaningful goals for each training session
What is “errorless learning” really?
How to find the right starting point (and what to do if you’re wrong)
How to let antecedents work for you, not against you
How to avoid “cue pile ups”
How to identify when prerequisites are missing for something you are trying to teach
How to capitalize on previously learned repertoires
How to tell if your marker signals are effective
How to isolate cues within a context (aka “stimulus control”)
How to build resilience into your behaviors right from the start
How to develop reinforcement strategies that suit your learner’s needs in the moment
Knowing when to follow the rules and when it is okay to break them

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Asti Budicahyani

Kitty Kindergarten: Help your kitten meet the world

Learn basic training skills, behavior problem solving and prevention.

Did you know that cats go through a sensitive period? This period is important for introducing cats to the human world so they don’t see it as a scary place. This is also called the Socialization Period. Cat’s socialization period happens around 3-7 weeks old up to 14 weeks old. During this time, a startled kitten recovers more quickly than older cats. Once this window of socialization is closed, fear of new things becomes the norm. So, set your kitten up for success by starting early!

Because the socialization period of cats is very early, many cats are thought to be aloof and mysterious whereas they most often are under-socialized and misunderstood by the time they are ready for adoption or purchase (~2-3 months old).

This course is suitable for kittens aged 7 weeks old up to 14 weeks old. If you are a foster care of orphaned kittens or a cat shelter attendant, you will learn how to help your kittens be more socialized and more adoptable. If you are a breeder, you have the responsibility of properly socializing your kittens before they are ready to be separated from the mother cat and into the hands of the new owners. If you are an owner of older kittens, you will still find this course useful for training and bonding, and for cat behavior knowledge.

What we will do in this course.

· Discuss the importance of socialization and how to socialize kittens during this sensitive period as well as feline body language to help you read your kitten’s response during socialization

· Learn how to condition your kitten to gentle handling and body manipulation using positive association that will help with grooming and some veterinary procedures

· Learn how to trim your cat’s claws without using stressful restraint

· Prevent pet carrier or crate stress for car rides or vet visit by training ahead

· Learn how to prevent stress in future vet visits by always making a visit fun and positive for the kitten

· Discuss common behavior problems in kittens and ways to prevent them

· Learn to analyze common behavior issues using applied behavior analysis

· Learn basic training skills that can help you bond with your kitten and increase their level of responsiveness to cues

Skills we will cover:

· Clicker training

· Targeting

· Stationing/place training

· Name recognition

· Recall

· Crate or pet carrier

· Gentle and positive handling

· Intro to walking on a harness

In this course, we will learn basic training skills, behavior problem solving and prevention. This kitten class is designed to help with socialization, address normal kitten behaviors, and prevent the development of behavior problems. This course is not designed to treat serious behavior problems (such as aggression, anxiety, or extreme fear or phobias).

Weekly breakdown of skills and lecture topic:

Week 1: Clicker training & name recognition, kitten socialization

Week 2: Targeting & recall, preventing litter box issue

Week 3: Stationing & pet carrier training, preventing destructive scratching

Week 4: Gentle and positive handling, proper playtime

Week 5: Cat harness conditioning, positive nail trim

Week 6: Leash walking

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Masaru Fujii

Mat and crate training foundations

All the fundamentals of training can be learned in mat training

Mat training is one of the most important behaviors that can be taught. It’s very useful in many situations when people and dogs live in the same space.

Placement and size of the mat, your position, location of the treats, the timing of cues and markers, and other factors can create many variations of mat training. But don’t be scared, I will guide you through this process step by step!

This mat training course will provide you with ideas on how to incorporate mat training into your daily life in a natural way so that both you and your dog can live stress-free and secure lives.

Think about these questions:

Do you want your dog to stay on the mat while you vacuum?
Do you want your dog to stay on the mat when you have guests or a delivery guy bring you a package?
Do you want the dog to stay on the mat while you prepare the dog’s food?
Do you want the dog to stay on the mat while you eat your dinner at the table?
Do you want the dog to stay on the mat while you work at your desk?

If you have said YES! at least once while reading the questions above, you have to register for the course 😀

I will also share with you the “Most Common Mistakes” people tend to make when mat training, so you can learn in the shortest amount of time possible.

Here are the skills and concepts that will be taught in the course:

➡️Antecedent Arrangements – prevention is better than cure

➡️3Ds-Distance, Distraction, and Duration

➡️Understanding operant conditioning and classical conditioning

➡️Going to the mat on cue

➡️Replace it with a context cue

➡️Stay on the mat until the release cue

➡️Stay calm and settle on the mat

➡️Generalize to both – inside and outside the house

➡️Generalize to crate training – very useful during traveling (safety!) or in the animal hospital

If your dog knows mat training very well, you can get a peaceful family visit without jumping or have tea with your dog at a cafe!

I hope you will join this course and enrich your life with your dog through mat training. Register now!

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Amelie Cosperec

Harmony in Multidog Household

"Dogs are a bit like chips... It's hard to have just one!"

“Dogs are a bit like chips… It’s hard to have just one!”

In some families, cohabitation can go very well, but in others, the management of resources, the organization of training sessions, the walks and the harmony between the dogs, are going to be complicated.

In a large family everything will be constantly multiplied: the positive, as well as… The less positive. In fact, who says more dogs, says more challenge!

Fortunately, there are solutions !

This course is designed to give you the tools to make a multi-dog household a peaceful and productive place. Amélie lives with four dogs on a daily basis and regularly takes in guard dogs for several days. She will guide you step by step to (re)create harmony inside and outside your home.

In this course you will learn to:

– Read and supervise canine interactions (conduct an introduction well, know how to interrupt an interaction, do consent tests, etc.)

– Teach behaviors that allow you to deal with everyday situations (food time, transport, walk, training, presence of guests, etc.)

– Set up consistent and fair communication (understand everyone’s needs, one-to-one times, use the starts button, resources management, etc.)

– Become pro-active (prevent : why, when and how, anticipate risky situations, use the right tools)

– Problem solving and managing “contagious” behaviors

– Take into consideration multiple factors before adding a new dog (crucial skills before you add a dog, assessment of your situation)

This course is suitable for people with at least two dogs (from permanent cohabitation to occasional care), as well as people wishing to welcome a new dog soon (puppy, or already an adult dog).

This class is NOT for households where there are dogs that are already aggressive towards each other and must already be managed with gates and doors etc.

Course syllabus:

Week 1 : Are you under the water ?
Multiple dog household : Why it’s hard ?
Learn who are your dogs individually (his needs, his safe space)
Is your dog really ok with… ?
Household logistic
Week 2 : Building healthy relationships
Different rules for different dogs
Routines to maximize enjoyment
Work, chill and play with each dog individually
When to let dogs train each other and when not to
Week 3 : Crucial skills inside
Games with names (individually and group)
Stationning
Wait your turn
Sharing is caring
Love being alone
Guest coming !
Week 4 : Crucial skill outside
Doors manners
Transport
Walking with multiple dog (leash walking and recall)
Free times : calm versus high arousal
Week 5 : Become pro-active !
Interrupting behaviors in a multi-dog household
Manage play time
Recognize “risk times”
Managing “Contagious” Behavior
Common problem solving
Week 6 : Go forward or go back ?
Considerations before adding a new member
Assess compatibility
Protocol for integration
Red flag
Rehome is not giving up

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Shelly Wood

Fast and curious – build a reliable recall!

Teach your dog most important safety behavior!

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!

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J.R Henderson

The Conditional Cat: Cat Herding 101

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

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!

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J.R Henderson

The Conditional Cat: Cat Herding 101

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

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!

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Catja B. Pedersen

Freakishly fluent behaviors!

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

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!

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Catja B. Pedersen

Off cue – off control? Vol 2!

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

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 🙂

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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!

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

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Catja B. Pedersen

Heelwork to heaven vol 1.

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

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)

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Jessica Mann

Confidence building games for your shy or reactive dog

If your dog struggles with reactivity or shyness, or is fearful of people, objects and new environments this course is for you!

What does a confident canine look like? Close your eyes and try and imagine a dog that is bold, confident, sure of himself. Secure in his own paws, knowing that the world is a great place to be a dog: friendly people everywhere, lots of places to sniff and dig and roll around and a bunch of good friends to spend his time with. A dog that runs fast, plays with enthusiasm, and lights up when you suggest you´ll go on adventure together.

Then try and imagine the opposite, a dog lacking in confidence. A dog that finds the world a rather scary and unsure place, where dangers lurk behind every corner and smells, sounds, people and dogs are just too much. A dog that might just want to stay in and cuddle instead of exploring new things.

There are dogs of both kinds, and most dogs are somewhere in between – finding lots of things enjoyable and some things scary. Luckily confidence can be increased and in this course we focus on letting the dogs explore their braveness thru games such as scent work, trick training, problem solving, balance and body awareness and enrichment.

The Canine Confidence course will expand on these subjects and we will dig deeper into all these subjects:

Building trust and make your shy dog training savvy, by giving him a choice in the matter, and ways to say yes and no to training, being able to ask how to take a break and getting him to love training in the process.
Exploring different reinforcers – both treats and toys that you can keep in your pocket and those that are already in the environment.
Using shaping, scent work, problem solving skills, balance games and body awareness to boost confidence.
Building enrichment into your dogs daily routine, giving him an outlet to be a dog without the influence of the human.

A dog that is lacking confidence can:

– have a hard time in everyday life with fear of noises, new things, people, dogs etcetera
– have a hard time solving problems on his own
– show aggressive tendensies towards people or dogs
– get performance anxiety in sports
– can look like he lacks motivation for training when he is really just worried to make a misstake
– be difficult to leave with a dog sitter and also difficult to bring to new places
– can get stress related health issues

So what are the benefits of training these things? A confident dog will often have an easier time with everyday challenges such as meeting new things, people and be braver when meeting new environments. He might also perform better in competitions and formal training sessions since he is less worried about sounds, movement etcetera and has the confidence to run fast, try new things and thoroughly enjoy himself. How great is that?

The course includes:

Build interest in the reward
Are you ready? – Start buttons for training
What about the monster? – how to act when something scary appears
Noice games
Movement is fun!
Balance
Body awareness
Trick training as a confidence booster
Scent work
The importance of enrichment

If your dog struggles with reactivity or shyness, or is fearful of people, objects and new environments it can be hard sometimes to get to formal training sessions or even take your dog on a walk among other dogs or people. By boosting the confidence, and not at all focus on the problem itself, you will give your dog a better chance to have a fun and enjoyable time with you and might also decrease the problematic emotions and behavior in all aspects of life.

This course is for shy and fearful dogs, but also for young dogs that need that extra socialization, old dogs that might have changes in their senses such as eyes and ears and therefore need a boost in confidence but can actually be a boost for everyone.

We will focus on fun games that can be played at home or on walks, and you will learn new and creative ways to help your dog in everyday life.

Lesson 1: foundations

Lesson 2: Tricks for confidence, balance and body awareness

Lesson 3: Noice and movement

Lesson 4: Scent work in different ways

Lesson 5: Brain games and problem solving games

Lesson 6: Enrichment – Netflix for dogs

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Catja B. Pedersen

In chains! Backchaining from A-Z

Become expert in backchaining

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!

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Catja B. Pedersen

WYW – What you wish!

Tailored to your needs!

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.

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Catja B. Pedersen

Keep distance

Working far apart!

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.

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Catja B. Pedersen

Off cue – off control? Vol 1!

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

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

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

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.

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Agnieszka Janarek

Let Me Want It

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

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.

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

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Agnieszka Janarek

Nosework Stage 1

From first session to ORTs preparation

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/

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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Agnieszka Janarek

Nosework Stage 1

From first session to ORTs preparation

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/

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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Agnieszka Janarek

Shape me up!

Shaping behaviors inside out!

Do you know shaping is not some random clicking any interactions with an object or figure it out situation?

Clicking every interaction with an object doesn’t bring you closer to the terminal behavior.

Think about actions that lead to the result. They should build the movement pattern; each should function as a building block for the behavior you want to teach.

Clicking every interaction with an object leads to extinction. So instead of getting closer to your training goal, you move away from it! But don’t worry, in this course you will learn how to avoid extinction during your shaping session.

This course will dive deeper into the topic of shaping behaviors for beginners and advanced students.

How will you know this course is for you?

You get the impression that your dog adds 100 unnecessary behaviors during training, which makes the target behavior a little different than your plan
Your dog quits the shaping session quickly – walks away, sniffs, retreats.
You’re just starting to use shaping in your training and want to learn how to train correctly, errorless from the beginning
You conduct classes with clients and use shaping a lot. However, you would like to offer your customers services of the highest quality and want to broaden your own skills

You are a geek looking for challenges worthy your knowledge and diving into behavior analysis.

We will spend much time on observing and operationalizing! We will look into so many details, and observe micro-movements, in other words, really feeding our inner geeks.

The course will cover:

What is shaping?
Extinction and frustration in training
Loopy training
Resurgence,
How to shape errorlessly?
How to get the behavior?
Step by step guidelines for a training session
Planning
Antecedent arrangement
Backchaining application in shaping
Cues in shaping
Dealing with errors
Shaping with objects
Shaping without objects

It is our job as teachers to make sure that the learning process is transparent. Let me help you understand how you can do this so that you never have a problem with it again!

Register now for flawless shaping sessions, even with your eyes closed!

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

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Catja B. Pedersen

Targeting targets!

Target extravaganza

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!

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Trainer’s Toolbox

Foundation course focusing on a scientific approach to animal training.

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)

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

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Agnieszka Janarek

Trainer’s Toolbox

Foundation course focusing on a scientific approach to animal training.

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)

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

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Nosework Stage 2

Getting ready for your first trial!

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-1-13/

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?

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Agnieszka Janarek

Attention Please

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

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!

from

$92.01

Agnieszka Janarek

Attention Please

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

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!

from

$92.01

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

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

Cat Herding 101 will cover:

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

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

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

Cat Herding 101 will cover:

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

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

Some of the lessons in the course:

A dog that is lacking confidence can:

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