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FAQ

Can you learn animal training online? Is this really possible?

YES! Not only is it possible, but also it is one of the most effective and efficient ways to learn. You start training in the best possible environment for your dog or cat - at your home. Online animal training courses allows us to adjust the criteria individually for each learner.

What do our students think about online animal learning?

„An easy access to work, learn and train with "aggressive" or "anxious" dog. This is the most important thing for me, and I could not appreciate it more right now. I can imagine that even if you go to the seminar with a "normal" dog, you can meet theirs or your limitations - sickness, being tired, just having a "bad day." With online learning, you can choose your own time to train. Also, I think online learning gives opportunities to share more of the better quality knowledge at the same price as seminars. There is no necessity to use mental shortcuts, labels, or generalization because everyone has more time to process the knowledge.”

- Agnieszka Rybicka

„Having access to world-class instructors to learn new perspectives and techniques and being able to engage with an amazing global community in a more affordable and planet-friendly format.”

- Amy Suess Loup

„Online format typically facilitates training plans =Think Plan Do Review training. I can prepare and plan my training environment for my dog for each session. This is not as easy in an in-person seminar or class setting.”

- Amy Suess Loup

„for the same price than a weekend seminar (without transports fees), you have the same amount of knowledge, but a longer time to process (need that to have questions but also to work my dog) and a way longer feedback from the instructors. And you can have access to instructors who live very far away, and you'd never have an opportunity to work with (or with some huge expenses)”

- Pauline Vidal-Boubals

Our six weeks of online courses allow you to work with one of the best instructors in the world, all from the comfort of your home. There are two levels of participation: Premium and Auditor.

Animal training courses - what our students receive?

24/7 access to course materials, including lectures, video tutorials, and homework. You don't have to be present at a particular time of day. You can access materials in the most comfortable time for you! Time zones don't matter!
Access to TROMPLO: Students group on Facebook. Our supportive community from all around the globe!
Certificate of Attendance. You can brag about complexing our classes!
Lifetime access to course materials. You can always go back to your class, reread the lessons, watch the videos.

In addition to that Premium Spot gives you:

You can submit 12 minutes of videos each week for instructor evaluation! Record a video at the most convenient time for you, then publish it for the review! You can submit videos daily, allowing our team to give you helpful feedback for the next training session.
Personalized feedback from the instructor - you can ask as many questions as you wish! Our instructors answer daily, six days per week!

All these features make online animal training one of the best options for your animal training journey.

Select a level of your experience

Level 1

Skills covered on level 1:

Basic learning & training theories and mechanics (also application of).
Foundation behaviors
Forms of communication
Introduction to how dogs learn
Introduction to canine body language
Basic mechanical skills
Basic structure of the session
Introduction to foundation life skills
ABC
Data collection
Observation skills
Basics of behavior change

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Lisa Longo

Facing the environment

Helping reactive, aggressive & fearful dogs

This course is particularly suitable for dog owners who have a problem with reactivity / aggression / fears on a leash, outdoors.

Reactivity is one of the most difficult behavior to manage because it involves great emotions in dogs and humans.

The triggers mainly discussed in this course are congeners and humans. However, each lesson will be applicable for all external environment’s stimuli (preys, unknown objects or vehicles, for example).

During the six-week course, you will:

✴ understand what is call reactivity
✴ decode canine body language
✴ manage the environment to promote good behavior
✴ learn new behaviors through play
✴ change your dog’s emotional responses
✴ give decision-making power to your dog

Beyond all your new knowledge and skills, the confidence gained during this course will allow you to take a deep breath.

Prerequisites: you must have taken the course “The problem solving guide to your pet’s behavior” as a premium or auditor

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Camille Nguyen

Shaping Canine Fitness

Improve your training skills and dog's physical condition at the same time!

If you want to improve your training skills and your dog’s physical condition at the same time, this course is for you!

Whether you’re a beginner in canine fitness or you’ve been training for a while, increase your dog’s repertoire by teaching fundamental behaviors with positive reinforcement techniques. In this course, you’ll get each week theory and exercises on:

important fitness foundations
training basic gym movements
shaping clean targeting behaviors
essential clicker and training notions
how to deliver food to promote clear communication

Having fitness and proprioception equipment for this course is not compulsory but greatly appreciated. You will need at least stable and solid objects safe enough for you dog to put weight on (such as planks, bricks or mats).

Syllabus

Week 1 – Welcome!
Week 1 – Fitness foundations – Skeleton, joints, and alignment
Week 1 – Training – The ABCs
Week 1 – Targeting – Stare
Week 1 – Food delivery – Luring
Week 1 – Gym – Twist/spin & figure 8

Week 2 – Fitness foundations – Movement vocabulary
Week 2 – Training – Markers
Week 2 – Food delivery – Laziness is the key
Week 2 – Targeting – Front & four feet
Week 2 – Gym – Hip pivot

Week 3 – Fitness foundations – Function of main muscle groups
Week 3 – Training – Loopy training
Week 3 – Food delivery – Let’s go get it
Week 3 – Targeting – Hind feet
Week 3 – Gym – Shoulder pivot & backing up

Week 4 – Fitness foundations – Equipment
Week 4 – Training – Adding a cue
Week 4 – Targeting – Nose & chin
Week 4 – Gym – Rock back sit
Week 4 – Food delivery – Drills without the dog

Week 5 – Fitness foundations – Duration & number of reps
Week 5 – Training – Stimulus control
Week 5 – Targeting – Front paw lift
Week 5 – Food delivery – Plan the Cs
Week 5 – Gym – Push up & Tucked Sit

Week 6 – Fitness foundations – How to build a program?
Week 6 – Training – To fade or not to fade?
Week 6 – Targeting – Hind paw lift
Week 6 – Food delivery – Bucket Game
Week 6 – Gym – Weight shifts & Kick Back Stand
Week 6 – Thank you!

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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

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

There are 3 more nosework course stages.

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Lisa Longo

The problem solving guide to your pet’s behavior

An easily accessible science related course for pet owners

For dogs, cats, parrots, and all pets owners.

This course is open to beginners.

Used as a scientific approach to analyze, understand, and modify behavior, applied behavior analysis (ABA) is used to improve (or change) specific behaviors. Applied Behavior Analysis allows us to change the environment in order to change the behavior.

Whether you share your life with a pet dog, a parrot, a cat, a pig, an elephant, or a ladybug, the fundamentals of behavior analysis apply to them.

This six weeks course is specifically for owners who have a behavior problem with their pet’s behavior or any person willing to learn more about behavior analysis.

Common behavior problems our students usually work on:

recall from other dogs, humans
resource guarding
jumping on guests/guest greetings
chewing
stealing food
excessive barking / screaming / meowing
toilet training

For several weeks, you will learn how to analyze and understand your pet’s behavior, but also how to modify it effectively, while always respecting his well-being.

What this course covers :

Labels vs. observable behaviors
Data collection
Classical conditioning
Operant conditioning
Positive reinforcement
Behavior functions
ABC scheme (three-term contingency)
Hierarchy of behavior-change
Behavior modification

Thanks to accessible and easy definitions but also homework and guidance, you will be able to understand the meaning of applied behavior analysis terms, and you will learn how to use it.

Premium participants: The homework offered each week during this course will allow you to analyze and modify your pet’s behavior “in real-time”. To get the most out of these six weeks, you are advised to practice the exercises as soon as they are published.

Although all behaviors can be analyzed with the tools and techniques covered during this course, due to their specificities, outdoor reactivity/aggression/phobia, and separation anxiety will not be covered during these six weeks (aggression indoors may be seen during this course).

Applied behavior analysis aim should not be to address unwanted behavior, but rather to learn new skills* to live in harmony in one’s environment.

* for both the animal and the human who shares his life!

This course is a prerequisite for acceding the “FACING THE ENVIRONMENT : Helping reactive, aggressive & phobic dogs” class.

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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!

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