How Do You Train That?

Topic: Meet your hosts, Kat and Becca.

Links mentioned in the show:

* The 2006 AKC National Obedeience Invitational Semi Finals – Fourth Place Run

Smokin Bullet Jebediah Blue UDX, “Jeb”, a Bluetick Coonhound

trained by Paula McCollum.

* The Karen Pryor Academy: https://karenpryoracademy.com/

* Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers (CCPDT): http://www.ccpdt.org/

Guests:

Kat Camplin, CPDT-KA, KPA-CTP

Kat Camplin, is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer (CPDT-KA,) a Karen Pryor Academy Certified Training Partner (KPA-CTP,) and a Certified Canine Good Citizen Evaluator. She has served on the Board of Directors of a local obedience club, with 2 terms as President. Kat is an avid advocate for creating fun activities for dogs and their families to do together to shape positive relationships. She stays abreast of the latest research and training techniques and continuing education by attending workshops and seminars.

A native of California, Kat has 30 years of experience in many dog training styles. She started as an apprentice to a “Dog Trainer to the Stars” before moving on to competitive Obedience training. She volunteered her training services at a local dog rescue for 8 years, which allowed her to work with many dog personalities. Kat is an active member of several dog training clubs and competes in Rally and Obedience. She has also dabbled in Tracking and Nosework and loves hiking and traveling with her dogs.

 

Becca Hintz, KPA-CTP

Rebecca Hintz has competed at World Shows and throughout Europe with her Parson Russell Terrier, Vixon. After a viscous attack by 2 large breed dogs, Vixon developed fear and anxiety that presented as reactive behavior. Becca fell in love with helping dogs like Vixon and donates behavior work to her local open intake shelter, SPCA and several rescues. She is once again active in the show world with her 11 year old daughter and is enjoying the wonderful training adventure with a new Russell Terrier in the house although her rescue mastiff is never one to sit out a training session.

Becca was disabled at 25 in a car accident and has a passion for helping those with disabilities. She is an ADA advocate and trains a limited number of service dog’s with their owners. Pet dog training began when Becca retired from competing with her first pregnancy. She loves working with families to create relationship focused partnerships between dogs and their owners. Parrots, horses, cats and reptiles have all been part of Becca’s rescue and training life. Studio work is also a joy and she works with multiple species on set. Future plans include the continuing membership in the Karen Pryor Academy with a strong pursuit of continued education to both fulfill her KPA CTP certification requirements and her passion for knowledge to help the dogs and other species she loves to train. She is also a member of IAABC, is a CGC evaluator, and is a member of her local kennel club where she teaches confirmation. Becca lives with her husband, son, daughter, 2 dogs, 2 indoor cats, several barn feral cats, a ball python, a parakeet, and 3 horses on the farm. Life is not boring!

 

Topic: The do’s and dont’s of puppy socialization.

Guests:

Jamie Hulan,CPDT-KA is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer, Accredited District Area Pet Training Instructor/Professional, Premier Member APDT (Association of Professional Dog Trainers), AKC Approved Evaluator for S.T.A.R. Puppy, CGC, Community Canine and Urban CGC, a Supporting Member IAABC, a Certificate recipient as Off leash play Instructor-Evaluator, amember of “The Dog Guru’s-Knowing Dogs” program, a Certificate recipient for First aid and CPR from PetTech, a Certified Evaluator for Therapy Pets Unlimited, and a Supporting Member of Golden State, Second chance & Northern California: German Shepherd Rescue.

 

Transcription

Intro: You’re listening to how do you train that? The place were advice and encouragement for people interested in learning. More about positive reinforcement training, you can interact with us on our Facebook page. How do you train that leave some questions and comments, and we will put those topics into our feature podcast, so put your feet up and let’s get started.

Kat: Welcome everybody. I am Kat Camplin.

Becca: Hello. This is Becca Hintz.

Kat: And we are here with Jamie who Lynn is human, Hugh, Lynn,

Jamie: Hugh, Lynn.

Kat: Hi, Jamie. I. We are here to talk about puppy, socialization, all things puppy. So Jamie wanted to start with a getting a little bit of information about yourself.

Jamie: Okay. I started training somewhere around the against mid seventies. It was my first dog tried to get into a class down the street at one of the local trainers. And she taught me a lot about dogs and training and then I found out a lot of the stuff that she told me somewhere around the late eighties was actually wrong and then I found Dr Ian Dunbar. And Dr Dunbar changed my life, and he switched me over from being a old yanking crank kind of trainer to positive reinforcement. And then I got my independent certification in 2010 finally when I could afford it and took the test became CPDT-KA through the. See CPT certification council, and then I became a member of IAABC the association professional dog trainers. I’m supporting member of ADC, I’ve been on FOX forty news. If you times once with my dog Argo the wonder dog and couple times by myself. I work for a large pet store is where I work at now. And I have a lot of fun. And it’s it’s one of those things that it’s makes me very glad when I see people understand their dogs better and have better relationship with them than when I used to experience back way back in the day.

Kat: Yes. I always sort of had a question about the term “crossover” because it’s not like you step over the line. It’s a process.

Becca: Exactly.

Kat: It’s it’s not like you’re going the ladies at the end of the tunnel in you, just go. There are so many things along the way I clicker trained, most of the competitive, obedient stuff except healing. Because I didn’t know how to do it without the pop, and I did that for a long time. Like, my dog was completely clicker trained on the retrieve and scent articles and all that stuff. But I was still using a choke chain. So it is a long process.

Jamie: And you figured it out. Did you figure it out?

Kat: I did. You know, and it’s a way of seeing right? So as a correction, trainers or balanced trainers were sorta geared towards looking for what the dog is done wrong and waiting for that to happen so that we can correct it instead of preventing it from the beginning actually seeing the good that happens before the bad happens.

Jamie: Yes.

Kat: So it’s much more. A way of seeing than away training. And for me. The hardest part was getting rid of this pop muscles. Like it took forever to not feel that pressure on a leash and pop back.

Topic: Using capturing to build dog and animal behaviors.

Guests:

Nan Arthur is the author of Chill Out Fido! How To Calm Your Dog, a KPA faculty member and the owner of Beacon of Hope Dog Behavior and Training Services in San Diego, CA. Nan has 23 years of experience and works with dog professionals, shelter employees and volunteers, and pet dog owners and has developed volunteer training programs and lectures for many local shelters, ensuring that the dogs not only receive environmental enrichment, but positive training to help improve the adoptability of the dogs. Nan holds memberships in PPG, and APDT, IAABC, KPACTP, studies Improvisational techniques and also a certified DogSafe First Aid Instructor and an instructor with DogTec’s Dog Walking Academy.

 

 

 

Cassie Pestana is a certified professional dog trainer through the Karen Pryor Academy and Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers. Prior to working with dogs, Cassie had the opportunity to research the behavior of a variety of species, including rats, African Wild Dogs, elephants and vervet monkeys, while completing her bachelor’s degree in Biology from Brown University. After graduating, Cassie decided to pursue dog training as a career and worked with a several different types of trainers and methods. Her heart naturally settled on a force-free practice of primarily positive reinforcement, which aligned perfectly with her knowledge of learning theory and animal behavior. In 2017 Cassie opened Cassie’s Dog Training in Orange County, CA with the goal of enhancing communication and understanding between owners and their dogs. Since then she has worked with hundreds of dogs and puppies both in the home and in group class settings. It is her goal to one day open her own training facility in order to further spread the knowledge of force-free training methods.

 

Show Transcript:

Intro: You’re listening to how do you train that the place for advice and encouragement for people interested in learning more about positive reinforcement training. You can interact with us on our Facebook page, How Do You Train That?, leave some questions and comments, and we will put those topics into our feature podcasts. So put your feet up and let’s get started.

Kat: And we’ve got Nan and Cassie. So today we’re talking about using capturing. And I think we’re gonna need to define what capturing is. So, Nan, can you maybe give me a definition of what capturing is?

Nan: Sure. I think that the easiest way to explain it is to be able to capture, in a moment in time, with some sort of a marker. We typically use clippers that says that the dog has done a behavior we like in. That’s usually when we’re capturing innate behaviors dogs do anyway. So like sit and down and looking up at you. Those are really easy things to capture and then pretty soon once you’ve done it enough times with reps and the reinforcement history gets stronger than you add accu- to it like sit or down and the dog will be able to perform in a very short period of time in terms of that behavior with the cue that you’ve added to it has that. How’s that?

Kat: That’s great. Cassie? Would you like to add anything to that definition?

Cassie: No. I think that that definition was great. It’s just marking that behavior the second happens behaviors they already do that we don’t really think to reinforce, but there’s not much kick-starting it. There’s not a cue when you’re first starting out.

Kat: Right. So the the behavior is basically fully formed as it will eventually be. We’re not shaping. We’re not building. It’s just the dog does this thing. And we’re capturing this thing is that. Is that right?

Topic: Understanding thresholds and triggers in dogs.

Guests:

Rebekah Piedad grew up as an animal lover and succeeded in convincing her parents that they should have a wolf as a pet. She trained her Eastern Timber Wolf to sit and down and to perform a variety of silly pet tricks. Eventually, she moved to a little farmhouse in the middle of the country, and stray pit bulls kept showing up at her door. She found joy in helping them to become good family dogs and then finding them homes. She started her own business as a dog walker and pet sitter and simultaneously joined the Board of Directors of the Humane Society of Stanislaus County. She began getting referrals through clients and the HSUS for training jobs and so pursued a career in dog training, which led to acquiring certification through the Karen Pryor Academy. Since then, she’s worked with thousands of people and their pet dogs in all things pet related with emphasis on extreme behaviors, fear and aggression.

 

Topic: Training a deaf dog.

Guests:

Terrie Hayward

has has written several behavior and training articles for Bark’s Magazine, Grooming Business, Deaf Dogs Rock, and KPA. She is the author of the pocket guide to working with deaf dogs titled, “A Deaf Dog Joins the Family, Training, Education, and Communication for a Smooth Transition, co-authored, “Grooming Without Stress: Safer, Quicker, Happier” and is excited about the the soon to be available training manual “your dog would want you to use” entitled, “Your 10 Minute a Day Dog.”

Terrie owns PAW, LLC and regularly travels the globe to hone her training skills with a diverse group of animals and people.

Terrie’s blog post (including videos) about how to get started working with a deaf dog: https://positiveanimalwellness.com/adopting-a-deaf-dog/

Terrie’s book: http://www.amazon.com/Deaf-Dog-Joins-Family-Communication/dp/1507578261

Deaf dogs behavior & training Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/476267116092674/

Topic: Using shaping to build dog and animal behaviors.

Guests:

Ben Bennink is the owner of Good Doggy Saratoga in Mechanicville, NY. Ben has been a Certified Professional Dog Trainer since 2012 and a Certified Dog Behavior Consultant since 2018. These certifications require demonstrated expertise in the field and dedication to continued education. He is also a professional premium member of the Association of Professional Dog Trainers (APDT) and volunteers on the APDT’s Education Committee, Membership Task Force, and Legislative Task Force. He is committed to excellence in training and utilizes the most up-to-date methods in the industry to provide clients with convenient and effective solutions to create a more harmonious home with their dogs.

 

 

 

Noa Szefler (pronounced SHEF-ler), began training dogs at a boarding kennel at age 14. In 2000, she joined Canine Companions for Independence, where she became a Certified Service Dog Instructor, trained lots of dogs, created and taught various group training classes and weekend seminars and managed the CCI Northeast Regional Puppy Program for several years.

After crossing over to force free training in 2007, Noa and her family moved to Israel, where she founded an academy for dog behavior consultants and was one of the first 3 people in the country to teach about science-based and reward-based training and behavior modification for dogs.

In 2014 Noa gave a TED Talk about dog training and the dominance myth, and has recently started writing a book about dog training and behavior for the Israeli crowd.

Today Noa lives near Richmond VA and operates Liberty Dog Training, where she continues to teach trainers and to help behaviorally challenged dogs and their families to live in harmony and joy.

Topic: Understanding generalization in building dog and animal behaviors.

Guests:

Nan Arthur is the author of Chill Out Fido! How To Calm Your Dog, a KPA faculty member and the owner of Beacon of Hope Dog Behavior and Training Services in San Diego, CA. Nan has 23 years of experience and works with dog professionals, shelter employees and volunteers, and pet dog owners and has developed volunteer training programs and lectures for many local shelters, ensuring that the dogs not only receive environmental enrichment, but positive training to help improve the adoptability of the dogs. Nan holds memberships in PPG, and APDT, IAABC, KPACTP, studies Improvisational techniques and also a certified DogSafe First Aid Instructor and an instructor with DogTec’s Dog Walking Academy.

 

 

 

Cassie Pestana is a certified professional dog trainer through the Karen Pryor Academy and Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers. Prior to working with dogs, Cassie had the opportunity to research the behavior of a variety of species, including rats, African Wild Dogs, elephants and vervet monkeys, while completing her bachelor’s degree in Biology from Brown University. After graduating, Cassie decided to pursue dog training as a career and worked with a several different types of trainers and methods. Her heart naturally settled on a force-free practice of primarily positive reinforcement, which aligned perfectly with her knowledge of learning theory and animal behavior. In 2017 Cassie opened Cassie’s Dog Training in Orange County, CA with the goal of enhancing communication and understanding between owners and their dogs. Since then she has worked with hundreds of dogs and puppies both in the home and in group class settings. It is her goal to one day open her own training facility in order to further spread the knowledge of force-free training methods.