Dr. Haug graduated summa cum laude from Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine in 1993.  She completed a one year internship in small animal medicine and surgery at Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine. In 2002, she completed a Master’s Degree and residency program in animal behavior at Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine.  She ran the Animal Behavior Service at Texas A&M from 2002-2007 and then move to Sugar Land, TX to begin a private referral practice. Dr. Haug speaks frequently across the country at veterinary and animal behavior venues, with an emphasis on canine, feline, and equine behavior. Dr. Haug also has a special interest in neurobiology, behavior modification, and pharmacology. She has published articles in several veterinary journals and is a co-author of a canine behavior book currently in press for the dog owning public.  She is currently the President Elect of the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists and is a long standing member, and past Chair, of the ACVB Examination Committee.  Dr. Haug is also a certified consultant through the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants and a member of the Association of Professional Dog Trainers.

Recorded OnDemand Lecture: Treating Canine Behavior Problems with Medication:  The what, when, why and how

Julie Hecht, MSc, is a canine behavioral researcher and science writer. She manages Alexandra Horowitz’s Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard College in NYC where they have studied topics such as dog olfaction, inter-species play behavior, theory of mind, and anthropomorphisms. While getting her Masters in Applied Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare from the University of Edinburgh, she conducted her Masters research on the dog “guilty look” with the Family Dog Project in Budapest under Márta Gácsi and Ádám Miklósi.

Julie is an Adjunct Professor in the Anthrozoology Masters Program at Canisius College and an Animal Behavior PhD student at the City University of New York. She regularly holds lectures for the general public, trainers and student groups.

In addition to her scholarly articles, Julie is a features writer for The Bark magazine and blogs at Dog Spies for Scientific American and at Do You Believe in Dog?. For more details, visit: www.DogSpies.com * Twitter: @DogSpies

Recorded OnDemand Lectures:

Deep in Thought or Panting Mindlessly? A Scientific Investigation of Anthropomorphism

Exploring Taboos

What Does the Nose Know?

Trish has been a professional in the animal world for over 20 years.   As Director of the Behavior & Training Department at the Marin Humane Society, she built a department known throughout the United States for its quality.  Trish established the Canine Behavior Academy at MHS for new or interested trainers.  She teaches workshops and seminars on behavior, canine management, temperament assessment, and handling difficult dogs, among other topics. In addition, she and her partner own Animal Behavior Associates in Marin County, CA, consulting with and helping dogs and their owners.
Her extensive knowledge of animal behavior, as well as her sense of humor, have made her a popular speaker at such venues as the Association of Pet Dog Trainers (APDT), The Humane Society of the US (HSUS), American Humane Association AHA), and California Animal Care Conferences.   She is a member of the panel that put together the Delta Society’s “Professional Standards for Dog Trainers:  Effective, Humane Principles.”
Trish authored a critically acclaimed book for dog owners, Parenting Your Dog (TFH Publications), as well as “Dogsense,” a manual for dog owners.  She  has written numerous articles about dog and cat behavior for local and national newspapers and magazines.  She also developed the “Canine Calming Cap” to help dogs that are overly anxious or aroused.  The Thundershirt Company is currently marketing the cap.

Recorded OnDemand Lecture: Working with Aggressive Dog Cases

The late Dr. Erich Klinghammer was the founder and director of Wolf Park. He was an ethologist, and began his work with wolves in order to study their behavior. Dr. Klinghammer regarded wolves as sensitive indicators of the well-being of the ecosystem of which they are a part. He established Wolf Park to conduct long term, in-depth studies of wolf behavior. This research augmented ecologists’ field studies of wild wolves. Dr. Klinghammer held a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and was a member of the Animal Behavior Society, the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums and several other professional organizations. Early in his career, Dr. Klinghammer came to Indiana to join the faculty at Purdue University where he taught ethology, applied ethology, animal behavior and psychology. A lifelong interest in dogs led Dr. Klinghammer to breed and train German Shepherd dogs in the past. In his late years, as the Director of Wolf Park in Indiana, Dr. Klinghammer made his home at Wolf Park with his wife Peggy, and participated in some of the daily programs and seminars that took place at the Park. He enjoyed watching generations of visitors come to the Park that were here as children bring their own children to this special place to learn about wolves and nature.

Recorded OnDemand Lecture: Ethology and Its Place in Animal Science

Kurt M. Kotrschal, PhD born 1953 in Linz/Austria, married since 1975, two children. Masters (1978) and PhD (1981) from the University of Salzburg. 1983-1984 PostDoc at the University of Arizona/Tiucson, 1989-1990 Visiting Scientist at the University of Colorado Health Science Center. Since 1990 Professor at the University of Vienna Department of Behavioural Biology, Director of the Konrad Lorenz Research Station (KLF) in Grünau/Austria (www.klf.ac.at), co-founder of the Wolf Science Center (1998; www.wolfscience.at). At the core of present scientific interests are the interaction between ecological conditions and the evolution of social and
cognitive mechanisms in mammals and birds. This work expanded into the area of human-animal relationships and comparative research in wolves and dogs. More than 200 original research papers, book chapters and books.
Austrias Scientist of the year 2010, Science Book of the year 2013. Regular media appearances including a newspaper column on science and society.

Recorded OnDemand lecture: Wolves Dogs and Humans – the Old Triangle: Science and Training at the Wolf Science Center/Austria