On-Demand Webinar
Beyond the Basics: There’s More Than You Know
This 6-hour seminar has been split into three, 2 hour recorded sessions. You will receive a link providing you with unlimited access to the recordings.
As dog training takes the inevitable, and much needed turn toward evidence-based methods the need for more, better and clearer information about how to think about behavior and create plans for changing it has become critically important. In this presentation you will learn the key factors for being a humane and efficient trainer. This presentation is appropriate for anyone interested in how dogs learn, especially professional trainers.
- Our responsibilities as trainers.
- What are the functions of behavior?
- How do animals learn? What is ABA
- Satiation vs habituation vs desensitization vs counter conditioning
- Is it learned helplessness or the response to punishment?
- Types of conditioning and best practices.
- Behavior assessments.
- Strategies for getting behavior.
- Data driven training.
- Designing a training plan.
- Helping pet owners navigate the rapids of life with a behaviorally challenged dog.
*Beneficial for trainers and other pros, shelters, rescues, fosters, and pet parents who want to dig deeper into behavior.
On-Demand Webinar
Fear: Its Impact on Behavior
This 6-hour seminar has been split into three, 2 hour recorded sessions. You will receive a link providing you with unlimited access to the recordings.
What everyone must know in order to work with dogs struggling with fear/anxiety based behavior challenges. This presentation is appropriate for owners, trainers, vets, techs, groomers, shelter staff, kennel staff and rescue groups.
- What fear looks like.
- How fear impacts learning.
- Common myths & misunderstandings.
- How to handle a fearful dog.
- Learning concepts & training techniques.
- Games & activities for fearful dogs.
- Medications, supplements & other calming aids.
- Special focus on working with dogs with few to no social skills for interacting with people.
*Beneficial for trainers and other pros, shelters, rescues, fosters, and pet parents who want to dig deeper into behavior.
Self-Paced Online Course
ABA For Pets
For years trainers have been asking Debbie to produce a course to help them learn how to be better trainers of dogs struggling with extreme behavior challenges. Combining her skills, experience and education as a dog trainer and Registered Behavior Technician, working with children with a variety of skill deficits, she has created a course that will provide you with the foundational knowledge you need to understand how to create effective and ethical interventions.
The course contains video lessons, powerpoint presentations and important research in the field of behavior and learning. Stop wondering how you can help, this course will show you how.
*Beneficial for trainers and other pros, shelters, rescues, fosters, and pet parents who want to dig deeper into behavior.
Recording Of Live-Stream
Challenging Behaviors
This recording includes 5+ hours of video content from a live streamed presentation on fear, aggression and reactivity. You will receive a link providing you with unlimited access to the recording.
This presentation is appropriate for owners, trainers, vets, techs, groomers, shelter staff, kennel staff and rescue groups.
- Foundational information on behavior
- Learning concepts
- How to think about working with a special and at-risk population of dogs.
*Beneficial for trainers and other pros, shelters, rescues, fosters, and pet parents who want to dig deeper into behavior.
