Issue 16 | May 2020
Training to Keep Cats Safe in Cars
Veterinarians must do the impossible to preserve the physical and emotional health of their patients. Advising owners on how to transport their pets in a vehicle is essential, since it...
Case Study: “Remy” – Aversion to Towels
Behavior complaints: Human-directed aggression while being toweled off. Client reports that Remy runs at the sight of the towel. When her owner has held Remy by the collar to towel...
Reinforce This!
Video examples of delivering reinforcement to different species, from dogs to genets, porcupines to lorikeets
Boo! Training a Bear 2019
Readers were introduced to Boo, a male grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horriblis), in the Winter 2018 and Winter 2019 issues of the IAABC Foundation Journal. Born in 2002, Boo weighs...
Experiencing Natural Encounters, Inc. as a Professional Animal Trainer
I applied to the Natural Encounters Inc. (NEI) professional animal training course in April. I spent the rest of the year eagerly anticipating the course. I figured January was a...
Experiences from CICA 2020
With great enthusiasm, I traveled to Mexico City to participate in CICA 2020. I arrived two days earlier to meet my IAABC Mexico colleagues and to finally get to know...
Socially Conscious Sheltering
The concept of socially conscious sheltering (SCS) as an approach to sheltering was developed in Colorado by shelter leaders Apryl Steele, DVM, Jan McHugh-Smith, Lisa Pederson, and Judy Calhoun. Three...
Coping with Quarantine at a Shelter
Every shelter likely experiences some sort of disease uptick during certain times of year. At MCACC East, we are no different. In May 2019, staff and volunteers noticed an increase...
Petting and Stroking Parrots
Many of our clients have been told not to pet their parrots. Don’t touch your bird here, don’t touch your bird there…but of course they (and we!) still want to,...
Chronic Pain, the Brain, and Behavior
Pain, simply defined, is an aversive sensory experience. In general, it can be broadly categorized as either nociceptive or neuropathic. Nociceptive pain is caused by a noxious stimulus, associated with...
Should Play Be Part of a Puppy Kindergarten Class?
Early puppy socialization classes can have the most beneficial effect on the future success of a dog’s life. Good classes teach owners how to better understand their puppy, while introducing...
Tossing Food in Service Dog Training
There is a huge variety in service dog tasks, and there are some core skills every service dog should possess. For example, they should all be able to be in...
Working with Penny, a Fearful Horse
I have been working with dogs and their humans for over 20 years. In the last two to three years I have been practicing the use of training with applied...
When Academic Life Meets Dog Life
Having a desire for balance between life and work is something that most people can easily relate to. Being in academics can be challenging in and of itself. Add in...
Beyond the Gate
Have you done cat reintroductions for clients, where everything was going fine until they removed the gate? Perhaps a cat chased the other one once the gate was removed. Or...
Zoos: Time Saving Through Training
There’s a conundrum when it comes to the training and behavior management of animals in zoos: Training may be considered important for the management of animals but is often viewed...
Kids and Shelter Dogs Teach Each Other
As a professional working in animal behavior and training, I have always enjoyed the partnership of human and non-human animal, and what a better way to embrace that than to...
The Welfare of Pet Hedgehogs
Although hedgehogs have been domesticated for a significant period of time (dating back to B.C. times), they remain for the most part the solitary, relatively unsocial creatures that they are...
Behind the Scenes with Chaser, the “World’s Smartest Dog”
In a world where human beings claim to be the superior thinking creature, some of us are convinced that dogs, our lifetime partners, possess cognitive capabilities far more sophisticated than...
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