Training Without Conflict® | Dog Training Podcast

In this episode, Ivan Balabanov interviews Veterinarian, animal behaviorist, and dog trainer, Dr. Ian Dunbar.

Dr. Dunbar received his veterinary degree and a Special Honors degree in Physiology & Biochemistry from the Royal Veterinary College (London University) plus a doctorate in animal behavior from the Psychology Department at UC Berkeley, where he researched the development of social hierarchies and aggression in domestic dogs.

He has authored numerous books about puppy/dog behavior and created the SIRIUS® Puppy Training video.

In 1982, Dr. Dunbar designed and taught the world's very first off-leash puppy socialization and training classes -- SIRIUS® Puppy Training. Subsequently, he created and developed the San Francisco SPCA's Animal Behavior Department, the American Kennel Club's Gazette "Behavior" column, which he wrote for seven years, and the K9 GAMES®, which were first held in San Francisco in 1993 and continue as annual events in Japan and France. He hosted the popular UK television series Dogs With Dunbar for five seasons and has appeared on numerous radio and television programs, including the Today Show (US) and Dash Village (Japan).

You can find more information about Dr. Ian Dunbar here:

The Dunbar Academy

Sirius Pup

Here are some links to some of Dr. Dunbar's books:

Dr. Dunbar's Good Little Dog Book

Before and After Getting Your Puppy

How to Teach a New Dog Old Tricks

Ivan Balabanov is a 2-time World Champion dog trainer, Ot Vitosha Malinois breeder, trainer of Premier Protection Dogs and founder of the revolutionary Training Without Conflict™ dog training system.

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In this episode, Ivan interviews Clive D.L. Wynne, the founding director of the Canine Science Collaboratory at Arizona State University. They discuss how scientists and dog trainers need to collaborate for the betterment of the future of dog training.

Clive D.L. Wynne

Born in England, Clive Wynne studied at University College London receiving his Bachelor of Science degree in 1983 and received his Ph. D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1986. He has served on the faculty of the University of Western Australia, and the University of Florida, before arriving at Arizona State University in 2013.

He is the founding director of the Canine Science Collaboratory at Arizona State University. Previously, he was founding director of the Canine Cognition and Behavior Laboratory at the University of Florida, the first lab of its kind in the United States. 

He has written several books such as:

The Mental Lives of Animals (2002) https://amzn.to/338KdGK

Do Animals Think? (2004) https://amzn.to/370lyVJ

Animal Cognition: Evolution, Behavior, and Cognition (2013) https://amzn.to/395L0vN

and his most recent work,

Dog Is Love: How and Why Your Dog Loves You (2020) https://amzn.to/2UNV2t0

His broad interest is in comparative psychology understood to include the evolution, development and progress of the behavior of individuals and groups of nonhuman animals. The behaviors Wynne is interested in range from simple conditioning to complex cognitions.

His approach is behaviorist in his emphasis on parsimonious explanations, cognitive in his interest in rich behaviors, and ethological in his concern to see behavior as a tool in animals’ adaptation to their environments. The specific focus of ongoing research is the behavior of dogs and their wild relatives. In this domain Wynne's group studies the ability of pet dogs to react adaptively to the behaviors of the people they live with; the deployment of applied behavior analytic techniques to the treatment of problem behaviors in dogs; the behaviors of shelter dogs that influence their chances of adoption into human homes, as well as the welfare of shelter dogs; improved methods for training sniffer dogs; the development of test banks for studying cognitive aging in pet dogs; humans as social enrichment for captive canids; among others. 

Wynne has lived and worked in Germany and Australia as well as the United States and gives frequent talks to audiences around the world. The author of several academic books and of more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles that count among the most highly cited studies on dog psychology, he has also published pieces in Psychology Today, New Scientist, and the New York Times, and has appeared in several television documentaries about dog science on National Geographic Explorer, PBS, and the BBC. He currently lives in Tempe, Arizona.

Ivan Balabanov is a 2-time World Champion dog trainer, Ot Vitosha Malinois breeder, trainer of Premier Protection Dogs and founder of the revolutionary Training Without Conflict™ dog training system.

For more information about Ivan Balabanov and information on how to train your dog using the Training Without Conflict™ system, check out:

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In this episode, Ivan Balabanov has a conversation with good friend Dr. Mark Plonsky.

• Retired Professor Emeritus of Experimental Biopsychology (University of Wisconsin)
• Ph.D Experimental Biopsychology, 1984 (University of Albany)
• M.A. General Psychology, 1980 (State University of New York at New Paltz)

At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Plonsky taught important courses on Canine Behavior, the Psychology of Learning, and the Psychology of Motivation and Emotion. He currently operates as a K9 Behavior Consultant and has had a long history of working with many different types of animals from laboratory rats to stumptailed macaques in his studies. 

In addition to his studies, Mark has been involved in dog sports ranging from AKC Obedience, Noseworks, AKC Agility, and Schutzhund/IGP as well as handling a dog that co-starred in the film “Nonames” (2010).

You can find Dr. Plonksy’s articles and studies at https://www4.uwsp.edu/psych/dog/index.htm

Ivan Balabanov is a 2-time World Champion dog trainer, Belgian Malinois breeder, and founder of the revolutionary Training Without Conflict dog training system.  

For more information about Ivan Balabanov and information on how to train your dog using the Training Without Conflict™ system, check out: www.trainingwithoutconflict.com

For information about the TWC Certfication Program: www.twccertification.com

The first guest to join Ivan Balabanov on the TWC Podcast is one of his lifelong heroes, Neuroscientist and Behaviorist John E. R. Staddon.

John E. R. Staddon

- James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University.

- Ph. D in Experimental Psychology from Harvard University 1964

- B.S. University College of London 1960

- Honorary visiting professor at the University of York.

John did his graduate work at the famous Skinner Lab at Harvard in the early 1960s (supervised by Richard Herrnstein, who did his doctoral work with B. F. Skinner) and has devoted his long and distinguished career to the study of the adaptive function and mechanisms of learning. John has done research at MIT, The University of Oxford, York University and many more.

For more information about John E.R. Staddon: https://psychandneuro.duke.edu/people/john-e-r-staddon

In this episode, Ivan and John explore the role of behaviorism in the animal world, dive deep into science and pseudo science research, and discuss the relevancy of B.F. Skinner on modern day dog training.

Ivan Balabanov is a 2-time World Champion dog trainer, Ot Vitosha Malinois breeder, trainer of Premier Protection Dogs and founder of the revolutionary Training Without Conflict™ dog training system.

For more information about Ivan Balabanov and information on how to train your dog using the Training Without Conflict™ system, check out: www.trainingwithoutconflict.com

www.malinois.com

www.premierprotectiondogs.com

For information about the TWC Certfication Program: www.twccertification.com

Check out John E.R. Staddon's books:

Scientific Method

https://amzn.to/2GTz8AX

The New Behaviorism

https://amzn.to/2DRYZbn

Reflections on Adaptive Behavior: Essays in Honor of J.E.R. Staddon (A Bradford Book)

https://amzn.to/3iohxii

Adaptive Dynamics: The Theoretical Analysis of Behavior

https://amzn.to/32mYm2S