This is a bonus episode: A recording of a live Q and A.

Join Annie Grossman for a live Q and A most Thursdays on Instagram @schoolforthedogs.

Get alerted about the next one or ask a question in advance at http://schoolforthedogs.com/qanda.

She also sometimes goes live to answer questions on Clubhouse. Find her there: @anniegrossman. 

Here, Annie answers three questions: 

@gussiethehussie asks: "How do you vet the trainers you hire? What sort of continuing ed do they get?"

@artielepup asks: "Why is my dog suddenly so reactive" 

@roxyriddler asks: "My pup is no longer interested in recall unless she sees a treat! Help!"

Mentioned in this episode:

School For The Dogs' Professional Courses

Association For Professional Dog Trainers 

Certification Council For Professional Dog Trainers 

Tawzer 

Clicker Expo

ClickerTraining.com

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Partial Transcript:

Annie:

Hi.  This is a bonus Q and A episode. I try and go live every Thursday afternoon on the School for the Dog's Instagram account, which is simply @SchoolfortheDogs. If you would like to ask a question in advance or be notified when I am going to go live, you can go to SchoolfortheDogs.com/qanda. I also periodically answer questions on Clubhouse. You can find me there @AnnieGrossman.

GussietheHussie says: how do you get the trainers you hire? What sort of continued education do they get?

Very good questions. So, a few years ago, we started our professional program training people up to become professional dog trainers. And I think that's Sophie. Hey, Sophie.  And part of the reason we did that was because we had trouble finding trainers that we felt like we wanted to work with.  It's really hard to find good dog trainers out there. And I'm happy to share some tips on how to find some good dog trainers.

But before I do, I should plug that we are putting our professional program largely online. And what's extra exciting about that is a lot of the content is actually totally free because we want there to be more educated good dog trainers out there.  We wanted to take away as many of the barriers as possible. So we are just on the brink of launching the full suite of courses, but the first two first two are up and you can get them schoolforthedogs.com/courses.

The completely free open-source one which contains most of our professional course online content written content is called Born to Behave. You can find it there, you can sign up there. And there's like a tier one professional course which is the same content as Born to Behave. But you do get a certificate at the end, if you do all the parts and do the quizzes.

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