Kelli is the manager of Animal Behavior Programs at the SPCA of Texas, a sheltering system in north Texas that includes two shelters, two wellness clinics and a Rescue and Investigations team. She has developed volunteer training and enrichment programs, designs and conducts trainings, evaluates individual animals in order to design life enhancing programs, and oversees the canine aggression intake assessment. Kellie earned BS and MS degrees in Behavior Analysis, and conducted research on canine aggression under the direction of Jesus Rosales-Ruiz at the University of North Texas. The research resulted in the development of the Constructional Aggression Treatment (CAT) procedures which are now used around the world for treating canine aggression. Snider and Rosales-Ruiz have travelled around the US and in Canada and the UK conducting seminars on CAT. A seminar of the procedure is available from Tawzer Dog Videos.

Recorded OnDemand Lecture: Emotions as Learned Behavior

Monty Sloan has been working with captive wolves since 1984 where he got his start as an undergrad student at UC Berkeley.  After several years working with wolves in California and Washington, he joined the staff at Wolf Park in Battle Ground, Indiana, www.wolfpark.org.

Monty is currently the Staff Photographer of Wolf Park.  Aside from photography, Monty is a senior wolf handler at the Park.    Wolf handling, management and care are just a few of his duties.  He also assists in research and lectures at the many behavior seminars on wolves given at Wolf Park.   Monty also gives seminars in Europe on captive wolf care & handling, behavior, comparisons to dogs, wolf ecology and wolf conservation.

Recorded OnDemand Lectures:

• Dominance Behavior in Wolves and Dogs
• Differentiating Between Fearful and Submissive Behavior in Canines
• Connections: The Evolution & Natural History of the Dog and the Human / Dog Relationship
• Chomp: Predatory Behavior in Wolves and Dogs
• Ontological Development of Wolves and Comparisons with Dogs

Bradley Smith is a cognitive ethologist with a specific interest in canine cognition. He has over 5 years experience working with dingoes, and is one of the only researchers in the world specialising in dingo cognition. Bradley’s PhD research involved conducting hands-on non-invasive experiments with a captive population of dingoes, and comparing their behaviour and cognition to both wild canids and domestic dogs. Findings from his research have been published in various peer-reviewed scientific journals (such as Animal Behaviour), and his photographs of wild dingoes have appeared on the cover of various magazines. Bradley currently works as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Central Queensland University (Appleton Institute, Adelaide, Australia), where he continues to study dingoes and the human-animal relationship. He is also the supervisor of research and ethics at the Dingo Discovery and Research Centre, the largest dingo sanctuary in Australia.

Lecture: Dingoes, the ‘missing link’ between wolves and domestic dogs?
(Under the Ethology and Canine Behavior Lecture Series)

Lauren Thielke is a Ph.D. student in Animal Sciences at Oregon State University, where she studies dog behavior and cognition, and human-animal interactions. Her current research includes projects that explore attachment relationships between foster and shelter dogs and their respective caregivers in conjunction with social cognition, welfare measures and adoption outcomes. She is also conducting research on separation anxiety in dogs and dog-dog attachment behavior. She graduated from The University of Wisconsin-Madison with a B.S. in Zoology. She completed her M.S. degree at Oregon State University, where her thesis explored the effects of nasally-administered oxytocin on attachment behavior in pet dogs.

She was the guest speaker for: The Role of Oxytocin in Human-Dog Relationships  and Exploring Canine Attachment Behavior

Patricia is a CPDT-KA (Certified Professional Dog Trainer – Knowledge Assessed), a TTouch Practitioner for Companion Animals, a National Program Educator Emeritus and licensed Evaluator for Pet Partners, and in addition to her work with dogs she is a certified research administrator (CRA).

Patricia’s areas of interests are: dog behavior, animal assisted interventions, and working with visually impaired/blind dogs. She is active with Pet Partners where she volunteers in hospitals, prisons, and schools in and around North Carolina. Patricia serves on the Association of Professional Dog Trainers Foundation Board of Trustees as their treasurer. Patricia volunteers with local rescue organizations including Triangle Beagle Rescue where she has served as a foster home and a former board member. Patricia has over 20 years’ experience at Duke University where she has extensive experience in budget management and grant administration.

Ethology and Canine Behavior lecture, September, 2016:  Canine Assisted Therapy: The Good, the Bad, the Unknown