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How To Transform a Trigger Into a Cue

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On our walk today, my dog Smudge got startled by a bicycle that appeared from behind us, only a few feet away. Smudge barked and lunged as the bicyclist sped past. This wasn’t my proudest moment but it was a great indication that I need to do more training. Smudge already has learned that a dog approaching us from the front or the side is a cue for him to bump my fist with his nose, which I immediately follow with a marker (“yes”) and a reinforcer (meatloaf). He used to respond to approaching dogs with emotionally-charged behaviors (e.g., barking lunging). Now, most times, he recognizes this context change as a reinforcement opportunity – a chance to receive food, play & praise. His attitude is more likely to be upbeat rather than upset. So my next step is to set aside time to extend the cue for his “replacement behavior” to include stealthy bicyclists.

Please join me if you’d like to learn the steps necessary to teach your dog to reinterpret upsetting or arousing context changes as good news, a process known as DRI (differential reinforcement of an incompatible behavior). After all, your “reactive” dog is already noticing the many sights, sounds and smells around him -- rather than hoping he’ll eventually ignore them, we can opt to use his sensitivity as a key component in the training.
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Schulungszentrum fĂĽr Tierverhaltenstherapie und Erziehungsberatung TVT e.U. (SzTVT)
Ă–sterreichischer Berufsverband der Hundeerzieher, -trainer und -verhaltensberater (Ă–BdH)
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Kathy Sdao

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Kathy Sdao is an applied animal behaviorist. She’s spent 30 years as a full-time animal trainer, first with marine mammals and now with dogs and their people. As a graduate student at the University of Hawaii in the 1980s, she was part of a research team that trained dolphins to solve complex cognitive puzzles. She received a master’s degree in experimental psychology and was then hired by the United States Navy to train dolphins for applied open-ocean tasks. After that, Kathy spent five years as a marine-mammal trainer at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma Washington. There she expanded her training skills by working with beluga whales, walruses, porpoises, sea lions, seals, otters and polar bears. After leaving the zoo world, Kathy and a colleague created Tacoma’s first dog-daycare facility, Puget Hound Daycare, where Kathy first began teaching clicker-training classes for pet owners.



Since selling Puget Hound in 1998, Kathy has owned and managed Bright Spot Dog Training. Services include consulting with families about their challenging dogs, teaching one-on-one training lessons, and coaching novices and professionals to cross over to positive-reinforcement training. In addition, she has trained animal actors, written for The Clicker Journal and the Seattle Times, consulted with Guide Dogs for the Blind and Susquehanna Service Dogs, served as a subject-matter expert for the Delta Society’s “Service Dog Education System” and taught at the Instructor Training Courses hosted by Dogs of Course. And, in a sillier moment, Kathy appeared as the “Way Cool Scientist” on an episode of the television show Bill Nye the Science Guy. Kathy is proud to be one of the original faculty members for Karen Pryor’s long-running ClickerExpos and has taught at 32 of these popular conferences since 2003.



Kathy has traveled extensively across the United States, Canada and Europe, and to Australia, Israel, Japan and Mexico, educating students about the science of animal training. She’s taught nearly 250 seminars, workshops, conference presentations & webinars, enjoying these opportunities to share her passion for the incredible power of positive-reinforcement training, confirmed over decades of working with dozens of species.



Kathy’s first book, Plenty in Life Is Free: Reflections on Dogs, Training and Finding Grace, was published in 2012 and is available from Dogwise; please see www.dogwise.com/itemdetails.cfm?ID=DTB1246 for details.



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