Thinking of adding dog playgroups in your shelter? Or just understanding dog play to better counsel adopters? Interested in enrichment, dog behavior, issues in welfare, self-care and more?
Help is here!
This is an Academy-quality course on dog play and playgroups, behavior evaluations and modification, relevant research and more for people in sheltering and rescue.
For $219, you get 16 hours of instruction from the very best in the business.
Jean is the founder and director of The Academy for Dog Trainers and has long been a trailblazer in the world of dog training. Her groundbreaking book “The Culture Clash” was named the No. 1 dog training and behavior book by The Association of Pet Dog Trainers. She is the go-to trainer for other trainers looking for guidance or case support and spent six years handling only aggression cases referred by other trainers. She continues to take “last chance” cases involving Chow Chows with aggression issues. She has worked in both an open-admission, high-volume shelter and in a limited admission shelter setting.
Experts in their respective fields lecture in this course on topics ranging from how breed labeling affects adopter perceptions, compassion fatigue in our vicarious trauma-heavy field, enrichment, and how conformation in dogs affects welfare to why humans are drawn to punishment and research on and how to support dogs of the homeless.
The course gives you a thorough understanding of how to improve the welfare of the dogs in your care. You will learn to run play groups; increase enrichment; reduce anxiety and separation anxiety; understand the implications of breed-specific legislation; and learn to how to modify common behavior problems, including food guarding, to help make adoptions easier.
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