Seminar Dates
11(Friday)~13(Sunday) May, 2012Time：9:00am-5:00pm (Lunch Break 12:00pm-1:00pm)
Location
4F., No.127, Yanping S. Rd., Zhongzheng Dist., Taipei City 100, TaiwanMain Topics
Day 1 (5/11): Preventing and Resolving Behavior Problems: Housesoiling, Destructive Chewing, Excessive Barking, Home Alone Misbehavior, Separation Anxiety, Hyperactivity.Topics include:
Errorless Housetraining and Chewtoy-Training
Excessive Barking
Owner-Absent Misbehavior
Separation Anxiety
Hyperactivity and Jumping-Up
Day 2 (5/12): Preventing and Resolving Temperament Problems: Biting and Fighting
Topics include:
Reasons why dogs bite — lack of socialization and hence, fear of people
The relative danger of four types of dog based on whether or not they are socialized and whether or not they have well-developed bite-inhibition
Four stages of bite-inhibition training during early development
Assessment of the severity of biting problems based on an objective evaluation of wound pathology
Prevention (Party-Time Socialization) vs. Treatment (Classical Conditioning)
Approach and Proximity — Treat & Retreat, Come Here, Sit & Stay
Hugging and Handling (Restraint and Examination)
“Hot spots” = collar, ears, paws, muzzle, tail, rear end + hugging and “kissy face”.
Valued objects — Delinquent Waiter Routine
Reasons why dogs fight — marginal socialization, lack of representative feedback for appropriate social behavior, i.e., — absence of classical conditioning when the older puppy/young adolescent is friendly, negative classical conditioning when dog acts fearful.
Fight:Bite Ratio — to ascertain whether or not fighting is dangerous. Objective quantification of severity of problem and prognosis for resolution, based on damage done, or more likely, lack thereof:
1.How many times has your dog been involved in a fight?
2.How many fights resulted in the other dog being taken to the veterinarian?
Classical Conditioning and Stimulus-Blocking
1.One-on-One
2.Growl Classes — Flooding? All-or-None Reward Training
Bill Campbell’s Jolly Routine
Day 3 (5/13): Training Puppies and Adult Dogs
Topics Include:
The Pros and Cons of the five most commonly used reward-training techniques: physical prompting, lure/reward training, shaping (clicker training), all-or-none reward training and autoshaping.
All-or-None Reward Training techniques to regain attention and calmness
The principles and process of the three stages of lure/reward training — the quickest and easiest way to teach reliable, off-leash verbal control at a distance, with distractions and without the continued use of training aids.
How to phase out food lures within less than a dozen trials and replace them with hand-signals.
How to use hand-signals to teach the meaning of verbal commands.
How to phase out food rewards
How to turn distractions that normally work against training into high-level life rewards that work for training.
How to use interactive games such as tug and fetch to motivate your dog to the max.
How to convert behavior and training problems into ultra-mega life rewards, i.e., how to use hyperactivity, barking, jumping-up, pulling on leash and (my favorite “problem”), running away, as extremely effective rewards.
How to teach your dog to be internally-motivated so that desirable behaviors are self-reinforced.
How use your (softly-spoken) voice to insist on absolute compliance on demand.
Languages
The speaker will use English. Interpreters: English and Chinese.Pricing
Early birds discount※Three-day seminar NT$5100
※Two-day seminar NT$3600
Early birds discount ends on March 31, 2012.
Group discount (Group discount ends on April 15, 2012.)
※NT$1500/per day
Student discount (Student discount ends on May 8, 2012.)
※NT$1000/per day
NEW!Couple discount (Couple discount ends on May 8, 2012.)
※NT$1800/per day
Original price：NT$2000/per day
