AWC Rundown: Neil Ellis & Anastasia Egorova – Agility World Championships 2024

In this really fascinating episode, Neil Ellis sits down with Anastasia Egorova to talk all things Agility World Championships 2024. Fresh from his recent judging experiences, Neil dives into what makes this year's event stand out, from the challenging course designs to the exceptional teams competing on the global stage.

• Behind the Scenes Insight: Neil shares his perspective on the planning and execution of world-class courses. Including that run off run with Iwona Golab and Dalton Meredith. As well as why so many tied runs happened this year.
• Handling Under Pressure: Anastasia and Neil discuss strategies for navigating high-pressure environments and how to prepare mentally and physically.
• Trends in Agility:  Trends in dog agility, including evolving course styles, handling techniques, lines and training approaches.

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Michele Ellertson, a true pioneer in the world of canine scent work, will be visiting New South Wales and Queensland this August for a series of exclusive scent work training clinics.

In today’s episode, Michele sits down with our own Peta Clarke to discuss all things scent work, with a focus on the exciting topics she will be covering during her visit. From building effective training plans to mastering the art of dog-driven searching, Michele’s clinics promise to offer invaluable insights and hands-on training opportunities.

While QLD is fully booked, you can still register for NSW, held at Mount Murray Farm, the home of Canine Ed, from August 23 to August 26, 2024:

Friday, August 23:
Building An Effective Scent Work Training Plan For Dog Owners
- Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm 

Saturday, August 24:
The Dog Driven Container & The Dog Driven Vehicle
- Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm  

Sunday, August 25:
Morning Session: Games for Maintenance 
- Time: 8:30am - 12:00pm 

Afternoon Session: Hides in Three Planes - One of Michele's favourites!
- Time: 1:00pm - 4:30pm 

Monday, August 26:
Morning Session: Leading Vs Dog Driven Searching
- Time: 8:30am - 12:00pm   

Afternoon Session: Teamwork/Leash Handling - Half Day 
- Time: 1:00pm - 4:30pm   

Each session is meticulously crafted to cover different aspects of scent work training, ensuring a comprehensive and enriching learning experience.

Registration:
To register for the clinic, please complete the attached form. Spaces are limited, so we encourage you to register early to secure your spot. Preference will be given to auditors booking for the full day, as we will cap auditing spots at a maximum of 10 to allow for optimal viewing access. LINK TO FORM

For any questions or further assistance, please email us at [email protected].

We look forward to welcoming you and your dog to this fantastic training opportunity. Happy training, and stay tuned for more insightful conversations with Peta Clarke and Michele Ellertson!

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Sharon has been a professional animal trainer for over 30 years; she has been both a presenter and trainer in a range of animal shows, and currently operates a dog training and behaviour consulting business based in Newcastle, Australia.

Intent on really understanding animals better, Sharon completed a Bachelor of Applied Science, a Graduate Diploma (Captive Vertebrate Management – wildlife and exotics) and a Master of Animal Science. Sharon is currently completing a PhD in Veterinary Pharmacology. Sharon is a fully certified behaviour consultant with the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants (IAABC) in both dogs (CDBC) and horses (CHBC), and is a certified professional dog trainer - CPDT-KA. Sharon is also a faculty member of Fenzi Dog Sports Academy (USA). You can see what she has on offer by visiting Fenzi Here

Sharon guest lectures to post graduate veterinarians and behaviourists at several universities and organisations on the topics of animal behaviour, training, species-specific cognition, welfare, and psychological trauma in animals.

Nowadays Sharon’s core focus is working with dogs with significant behavioural issues (e.g. aggression, reactivity, sensitivity, psychopathologies), as well as helping people reach their training and competition goals with their sensitive and/or atypical dog.

In all cases, Sharon’s primary aim is to help the humans to understand the underlying cause for their dog’s behaviour, and to use both management and behaviour modifying training, to achieve a better outcome for both the dog and their human/s.

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Dr Matt Muir is an Intergrative Clinician and Director at All Natural Vet Care in Russell Lea in Sydney's Inner West.  Matt graduated with Honours in Veterinary Medicine at Charles Sturt in Wagga Wagga and hails from the Riverina of NSW. 

In this episode, Matt returns to discuss the pros and cons of Spaying and Neutering. 

Matt harnesses the best of both worlds to bring the best options to preventative health for his clients and their Guardians. After graduation, Matt continued to study Traditional Chinese Medicine along with Chinese Food Medicine and Western Herbal Medicine. Matt uses various therapies in his consultations, including massage and TTouch.

To get in touch with Dr Matt Muir Click Here

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Dr Matt Muir is an Intergrative Clinician and Director at All Natural Vet Care in Russell Lea in Sydney's Inner West.  Matt studied Veterinary Medicine at Charles Sturt in Wagga Wagga and hails from the Riverina of NSW. 

In our conversation we discuss his ability to harness the best of both worlds to bring the best options to preventative health for his clients and their Guardians. After graduation, Matt continued to study Traditional Chinese Medicine along with Chinese Food Medicine and Western Herbal Medicine.

Matt uses various therapies in his consultations, including massage and TTouch. 

References:

Gut microbiome structure and adrenocortical activity in dogs with aggressive and phobic behavioral disorders

The Role of the Canine Gut Microbiome and Metbolome in Health and Gastrointestinal Disease

Connecting dysbiosis, bile-acid dysmetabolism and gut inflammation in inflammatory bowel diseases

Prevalence of Canine Obesity-Related Metabolic Dysfunction, and Relationship with Owner Obesity in an Obesogenic Region of Spain

https://www.nature.com/articles/nrmicro.2017.44

Anticancer effects of the microbiome and its products

Elevated serum neurotensin and CRH levels in Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders and tail-chasing in Bull Terriers with a phenotype similar to Autism

 

The Effect of Early Diet on Canine Atopic Dermatitis (CAD) in Three High-Risk Breeds

Gut Microbiota: Implications in Parkinson's disease

To contact Dr Matt Muir

 

 

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This podcast was recorded on February 4th 2021, since that time the beautiful Cassie has left this life and I struggled a little with the delay in editing and loading this podcast. I hope you enjoy this one, it is really special to me and I want to thank Lori for giving me the time to talk about her work, our love of seeing dogs chill, and of course, the incredible Cassie, she certainly has been a dog that has given my goals and backed choices I've made for my dogs. 

If you haven't heard of Lori Stevens (CPDT-KA, SAMP, CPBC, CCFT), where have you been? All jokes aside, Lori is a professional dog trainer, an animal behaviour consultant, a canine fitness trainer, an animal massage practitioner, and a senior Tellington TTouch® Training practitioner.

Lori continually studies the interactions among animal behaviour, movement, learning, fitness, and health. She uses intimidation-free, scientific, and innovative methods, in an educational environment, to improve the behavior, performance, health, and fitness of animals. Lori gives workshops, presents at conferences (e.g. Clicker Expo), teaches online courses, and gives webinars.

Cassie

Lori gets joy from teaching others how to help their dogs thrive–whether for competition or daily life. Periodically, Lori also coaches for courses taught by Ken Ramirez at “The Ranch”.  She has three DVDs produced by Tawzer Dog Videos and is the creator of the Balance Harness®. In addition, Lori teaches online classes.

You can contact Lori here: [email protected]

Lori also teaches through Fenzi Academy, Behaviorworks with Dr Susan Friedman, and of course, Karen Pryor Academy

 

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In this podcast, Lisa Wright chats to Bex Tasker and Karin Stillberg. This is our first for Mount Murray Farm, we talk about sheep, alpacas, chickens, dogs and horses. With the philosophy of Reward Based Training in mind, I also wanted to share this one with all of the Canine Ed Family as well. My big take away with our conversation in this podcast is to do what is manageable. We often can't make the experiences of our animals purely positive but we can aim for the least invasive, minimally aversive scenarios. We talk about putting work into the 'Trust Bank'.

Bex Tasker lives on a small farm in Western Bay of Plenty, New Zealand with her animals and young family, and travel around my beautiful country and overseas to deliver clinics and lessons to horses and their passionate and dedicated humans.  As well as the "real life" teaching, she has a thriving online membership community, and runs regular coaching intensives with students from all over the world.  In early 2019 Bex partnered with her good friend and experienced youth worker Brooke Friend to establish a successful youth programme, focused around ethical horse training, life skills and mental health.    Bex first learned about science-based animal training in 2001 and quickly became obsessed with learning everything she could about the science and the art of training and behaviour, and particularly the use of positive reinforcement (clicker training) with dogs and horses.  Bex feels fortunate enough to learn in person from some of the world's best positive reinforcement trainers, including the incredible Dr Suan Friedman, Ken Ramirez, Dr Bob Bailey, Kay Laurence, Shawn Karrasch, Mary Concannon, Steve White and Peta Clarke.  Bex also reads extensively and continuously on the topic, both published books as well as various online groups and sites. It's been almost 20 years now and the learning never stops!

Karin Stillberg moved to New Zealand with her partner from Sweden, it is here her love and work with sheep has grown. Her Instagram account, Carrots and Compassion is full of footage of her work with sheep, which while brilliant for the sheep, also has incredible benefits for those of us who would like to put less stress on our animals, and also less stressful for us as well.  

Karin's clicker training journey started more than a decade ago and she

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We caught up with Tracy Sklenar as she was on the road to the first Agility Workshop in a while due to the pandemic. It was a fun chat about Flyball, Agility, pandemic life, and all the bits in between. Tracy Sklenar has been training dogs and competing in dog agility for over 20 years, and is perhaps the only handler in the world who has won medals in international Finals as a coach for 2 different countries AND as a handler with her own dog in both team and individual events.

Tracy is on the faculty of Agility University (www.agility-u.com) and Agility MasterClass (www.agilitymasterclass.com), and also travels extensively to teach seminars and compete. Her “Feet Forward” approach to handling and emphasis on connection and reinforcement have helped handlers excel at every level and with every type of dog!

 

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It is always a joy to chat with Peta and this was a lot of fun, we covered a lot of ground, not all relating to training, but then again, they were. From training fish, to nose work, Applied Behaviour Analysis, Animal Welfare, surviving the pandemic and being kind to ourselves alongside the future directions in learning with our learners!

Peta Clarke says 'As humans, it is easy to forget that other animals can have a very different sensory experience of the world. Just as our sense of sight has evolved to be the primary way we get information from our immediate world, many other mammals have developed olfaction, or smell, as their primary sense. Understanding this is the first step to understanding the animals we work with on their terms. One of the most exciting things that have happened for me as a trainer over the past four years has been my growth in understanding of the incredible world of scent for dogs.'

 

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