Dominance Behavior in Dogs and Wolves

Speaker: Monty Sloan

Description:  Monty Sloan, trainer and handler from the beginning at Wolf Park, discusses “Dominance Theory” and how it applies differently to dogs and wolves.  Also addressed is the relevance of “dominance” in captive and wild wolf packs, and in groups of dogs, including the differences between dominance and leadership. Monty’s lectures are RICH in photography and real experiences with wolves and observing behavior in both wolves and dogs. Knowing the differences between dominance and leadership in your actions with your dogs will help you be a better trainer and have a safer and closer relationship with your dog. Dogs also have both dominant and leader positions in groups with each other. Being able to observe your dog in a group such as at a dog park or in your own home and understanding what behavior he is exhibiting will also keep your dog safe and increase the positive appropriate relationships in the dog group.

Excerpt-

Dominance behavior in dogs is  often confused with aggression

Aggression is often the RESULT of a dominance interaction, especially in a captive wolf pack, but aggression is not in and of itself dominance.  Aggression does not need to be dominance related and is not a necessary component of a dominance interaction.

Recorded: March, 2011

Cost: $25.00

CEU’s Available:
2 IAABC CEU’s
2 CCPDT CEU’s (2 CBCC-KA or 2 CPDT-KA)
2 ABCDT-L2 CEU’s
2 NADOI CEU’s
2 PPAB/PPG

Professional Member Discounts

Members of APDT, CCPDT, IAABC, ABCDT-L2 or NADOI receive over 25% off. All Lecture Series Webinars are only $18.00 each. You must email me for the Code for your discount: cheryl@e-trainingfordogs.com (Please also include your CPDT or CBCC Certificant number in the email if you are a CCPDT Certificant).

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Evolution of Dogs

Speaker: Charlie Berger, DVM

Description:  Dr Berger discusses the evolution of dogs, their relationship to wolves, and the association of dogs with humans from pre-historic times to the present. Participants will have increased knowledge of the origin of all canids, how they began their association with humans, and how humans have influenced the evolution of dogs in general, and dog breeds specifically, in recent times. Learn the different physiology and behavioral changes that result from selecting for certain characteristics from simple “tameness” to size, coat, color, and function (breed or group).

Excerpt:
Morphological, Physiological  and Behavioral Changes resulting from selecting for tameness

• Dwarfed and giant animals
• Coat color changes: piebald
• Wavy and curly, long and short coats
• Tail changes: curled and short (reduction in vertebrae)
• Floppy ears (not found in any wild animal except elephants)
• Loss of season rhythms of reproduction: wild fox once/year; domestic fox = twice/year and sexually mature one month earlier, with longer breeding season
• Shorter legs
• Underbites and overbites in dentition
• Smaller brains
• Broader skulls relative to length
• Higher serotonin levels (lack of aggression, flight response, less stressed)
• Whining and barking

Recorded: January, 2011

Cost: $25.00

CEU’s Available:
2 IAABC CEU’s
2 CCPDT CEU’s (2 CBCC-KA or 2 CPDT-KA)
2 ABCDT-L2 CEU’s
2 NADOI CEU’s
2 PPAB/PPG

Professional Member Discounts

Members of APDT, CCPDT, IAABC, ABCDT-L2 or NADOI receive over 25% off. All Lecture Series Webinars are only $18.00 each. You must email me for the Code for your discount: cheryl@e-trainingfordogs.com (Please also include your CPDT or CBCC Certificant number in the email if you are a CCPDT Certificant).

IAABC members, Click HERE to apply your discount.
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Dog Play Turns Aggressive?

Speaker: Sue Alexander CPT-KSA, CBCC-KA, CDBC

Description:  The emphasis in this lecture is on the nature of canine play and how to assess behavioral cues in order to prevent play escalating into a dangerous fight. Students learn how to recognize behavioral cues that t indicate that play is escalating and might evolve into a dangerous fight. Learn what to do when dog plays turns aggressive in this informative and easy to understand webinar.

Excerpt:

Play Problems
–We tend to think of play going on for hours and hours. Play lasts three to seven minutes
and then should fizzle out into exploratory behaviour, rest or other social behaviour.
-When we encourage play to go on and on and on, we risk that arousal will get higher and
higher and higher.
-Think for a moment about how games occur; we take turns, we rest, we sit out for periods
of time.
-Asking dogs to play on and on and on within a confined area is a recipe for dog fights;
predatory or otherwise..

Cost: $25.00 USD  

CEU’s Available:
2 IAABC CEU’s
2 CCPDT CEU’s (2 CBCC-KA or 2 CPDT-KA)
2 ABCDT-L2 CEU’s
2 NADOI CEU’s
2 PPAB/PPG

Professional Member Discounts

Members of APDT, CCPDT, IAABC, ABCDT-L2 or NADOI receive over 25% off. All Lecture Series Webinars are only $18.00 each. You must email me for the Code for your discount: cheryl@e-trainingfordogs.com (Please also include your CPDT or CBCC Certificant number in the email if you are a CCPDT Certificant).

IAABC members, Click HERE to apply your discount.
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Dog Emotions Speaker: Kellie Snider, MS Description:  This lecture will help improve the ability of participants to accurately observe dogs in real world situations, to understand how dog emotions play a role in learning, and how emotions themselves can be learned behaviors. Join Kellie as she discusses how dog emotions can be learned behavior and how our awareness of the antecedents and consequences that attach to emotional behavior makes us better at training and modifying behavior This webinar will cover:

• Can I train Fido to be less fearful because I know his cortisol levels rise under stress?
• Does understanding Rover’s pedigree help me modify his aggressive responses to specific stimuli in his environment?
• Does confidence in a clear relationship between dogs and grey wolves make me a better trainer?
• Focus on watching dogs in action.
• How do we know a client dog is fearful?
• Because his cortisol levels are increased?
• Because I see him running away and cowering?
• What stimuli start the chain of fearful behaviors?

Recorded: November, 2010
Cost: $25.00

CEU’s Available:
1.75 IAABC CEU’s
2 CCPDT CEU’s (2 CBCC-KA or 2 CPDT-KA)
2 ABCDT-L2 CEU’s
2 NADOI CEU’s
2 PPAB/PPG

Professional Member Discounts

Members of APDT, CCPDT, IAABC, ABCDT-L2 or NADOI receive over 25% off. All Lecture Series Webinars are only $18.00 each. You must email me for the Code for your discount: cheryl@e-trainingfordogs.com (Please also include your CPDT or CBCC Certificant number in the email if you are a CCPDT Certificant).

IAABC members, Click HERE to apply your discount.
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Canine Ethology Course

Speaker- Erich Klinghammer, Ph.D

Description:  This lecture is a short canine ethology course that establishes an understanding of ethology, the history of the field and the contributions ethologists have made to the understanding of the behavior of canines and other species. Ethology is the study of animals in their natural settings or in situations closely resembling their natural settings. This is truly one of my favorite lectures on Canine Ethology. Dr. Klinghammer was one of the GREATS and true canine ethologists of our time. This lecture was possibly one of his last and, though he was ill when he gave it, the professor in him showed no pain or fatigue and the lecture is incredibly engaging and informative. If you take ONE lecture from this series…this should be it. He was an amazing man. Thank you Dr. Klinghammer.

Recorded: October, 2010

Cost: $25.00

CEU’s Available:
2 IAABC CEU’s
1.5 CCPDT CEU’s (1.5 CBCC-KA or 1.5 CPDT-KA)
2 ABCDT-L2 CEU’s
2 NADOI CEU’s
2 PPAB/PPG

Professional Member Discounts

Members of APDT, CCPDT, IAABC, ABCDT-L2 or NADOI receive over 25% off. All Lecture Series Webinars are only $18.00 each. You must email me for the Code for your discount: cheryl@e-trainingfordogs.com (Please also include your CPDT or CBCC Certificant number in the email if you are a CCPDT Certificant).

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