Courses

This fantastic webinar is all about these situations in medical training where you can’t use any food reinforcers. What you will learn in this webinar: How to train a conditioned reinforcer Important details conditioning a new reinforcer Pre-mack principles Variation in your reinforcer The effect to the animal Your energy Read more…

Cooperative care increases the welfare of the animals we take care off. Allowing the animal to have choices gives us a different dialogue with our learners. Animal training is about working together with our animals and therefore listening to what they have to say is very important which we can’t Read more…

This presentation is done at the BVZS Conference on the 27th and 28th of February. Training animals in the zoo comes with great skillset form the zookeepers that take care of the animals. It is not only the zookeepers that are important. We have to think about the environment as Read more…

Building a proper plan to train this behaviour is as important as the outcome of the behaviour. In this part we help you to build a plan for animals who normally run away from you, animals who do not seem interested or have any another type of history to the Read more…

The emergency recall is an important behaviour for the safety of the animals, staff and visitors. The goal is to call the animals away from anything that might happen in their enclosure.  To reach this goal we have to find a situation more motivation for the animals compared as what Read more…

We want continuous success in our training. Did you know that approximation plans are an important part of the success you will create with your learner? Every behaviour we can slice up in approximations which means that we can build a foundation of building blocks leading to the behaviour. When Read more…

Errorless learning has everything to do with the skillset of the trainer. As trainers we need to prepare what we are going to teach our learners and in which environment we put them in. We are able to work with their motivation and recognise their choices. All of this together Read more…

Do you have a hard time to get your animal to focus? Does you animal walk away often? Do you have that individual who often seems distracted?  A lot of times we see an animal who is not 100% there. There are a lot of things happening in the environment Read more…

This Webinar is about working animals comfortably together. We have a deeper look into what we want and need to be able to have animals accept each other a lot better. We want to teach out animals to be patient with each other but therefore specific skills are needed. Can Read more…

Aversive techniques are used in many different programs. Many cultures rely on aversive methods. These techniques come with their side effects such as apathy, learned helplessness and other insecurities. To be able to give our animals a voice we need to bring reinforcement in place to recognise what the animal Read more…

Cooperative care is an area within training, where we as trainers can drastically increase the welfare of the animals we care for. We will show you what is possible and what is needed to be successful. What are the details you have to think about to start cooperative care? What Read more…

Communication is the big challenge working with our animals. In this Webinar we will teach you about the concept of the marker or the bridge stimulus. There is more to it than you think. How do we maintain a behaviour well using a marker? We will teach you all about Read more…

Conditioning an animal for Cooperative Care isn’t just about reinforcing the animal for doing well. We want to condition the learner to respond differently and be calm in an environment with a variety of distractions. You will learn what is important to think about and how you can maintain such Read more…

Training animals in protective contact requires you to work in a completely choice based environment. These environments empower your animals through the control they have. The skills that the trainer needs are detailed and rely on their creativity. There isn’t much you can do if an animal decides to leave. Read more…