Canis-seminar i Oslo 11.-12. august 2010

Opplev tre av verdens fremste hundeinstruktører på samme seminar!

  • Ken Ramirez
  • Kathy Sdao
  • Michele Pouliot

Velkommen til to dager tettpakket med nyttig informasjon for seriøse hundetrenere!

OBS: Canis arrangerer også samme seminar med Ken, Kathy og Michele i Holbæk (Danmark) 14.-15. august.

Informasjon om seminaret

Sted:

  • Oslo Kongressenter (på Youngstorget)

Dato/Tid:

  • 11.-12. august (onsdag og torsdag), kl. 0900-1810 (registrering fra onsdag kl 0830).

Kursavgift:

  • Kr. 2500,- (Lunch begge dager + kaffe/te/frukt/kaker i pausene er inkludert i prisen).

Målgruppe:

Seminaret passer for de aller fleste hundeeiere eller andre som er interessert i trening av dyr. Alle tre foredragsholdere er meget engasjerende og dyktige til å legge fram vanskelig teori på en enkel måte. Både erfarne og nybegynnere bør derfor ha stort utbytte av seminaret.

OBS:

  • Deltakerne kan IKKE ha med hunder inn i salen. La hunden være hjemme (og tren den med ny inspirasjon når du kommer hjem!)
  • Seminaret vil foregå på engelsk.
  • Deltakere som kommer utenbys fra må selv sørge for overnatting.

Salg av bøker

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Program

Onsdag 11. august

0900-1010: Ken Ramirez: Concept Training

There are many advanced tasks that we ask and expect of our animals.  Most of these tasks require a set of basic skills and some very similar approaches. Ken will cover the basics of all types of concept training and touch briefly on modifier cues, matching to sample, mimicry, and adduction. This seminar will be an overview of the broad topic of concept training.

1030-1140: Michele Pouliot: Clean Training ("Cure the Lure")

Training for competition requires conditioning a dog to work well without food rewards. Although a performance may only last 3 to 10 minutes, working without motivators can be very challenging for most dogs. Does your dog work just fine for you while you have food or toys, then either lessens enthusiasm or quits working when you don't have them? Using lures to initially motivate the dog and train new behaviors is common and very effective. The ongoing use of lures will create roadblocks to reaching performance level responses without those lures.  Food and toy rewards are only effective in developing competitive performance routines when handled in specific ways during training. Michele will present "clean training" techniques that ensure intentional lures are effective tools and will prevent unintentional lures from hindering performing without motivators. 

1200-1310: Kathy Sdao: The consequence of mixing consequences: Reinforcers and punishers don’t mix

We tend to view certain events and stimuli as reinforcers for dogs, while judging other events and stimuli as punishers. Beyond this, we tend to assume that these reinforcing or punishing qualities are immutable, inherent in the nature of the event. But actually it is relatively easy to change the affective meaning of events, and trainers often do this inadvertently. This means that their supposed reinforcers (e.g., food) can be perceived by the animal as punishing. In a similar way, supposed punishers (e.g., leash corrections) can be changed into actual reinforcers. We’ll explore how this happens and how to prevent it.

1310-1400: LUNCH

1400-1510: Ken Ramirez: Recipe for Becoming a Top Trainer

As trainers we take classes and read books and learn about many concepts.  But how does a trainer put it all together?  There are many recipes for mixing training concepts into a cohesive program. Ken has organized and established many training programs and teaches many trainers how to be trainers. This seminar will focus on Ken's recipe for teaching new trainers and putting all the skills together.  This is only one "recipe" but should help the attendee look at the logic and method behind Ken's successful approach.

1530-1640: Michele Pouliot: The Leash - The forgotten tool

The ability to use the leash and light lines as communication tools in training many behaviors is a great asset. In the modern world of dog training, most dogs are trained off leash. Michele trains a dog to yield to collar and body cues in order to use these as additional communication tools.  Once a dog knows how to yield to collar and body cues, many behaviors can be easily trained. Michele will present on the benefits of training "leash cue response" training for canine freestyle and many other dog sports.  For example, leash cue response provides an easy and quick method of teaching advanced moves such as side passing and pivoting around the handler with the dog facing away.

1700-1810: Kathy Sdao: A critical look at "Nothing in Life is Free" protocols

One core concept of modern dog training is that "nothing in life is free" (NILIF). Also referred to as "learning to earn", "benign boot camp", "deference protocols" or "leadership training", it requires the dog to perform a behavior requested by the owner before obtaining anything the dog wants. This view borrows from traditional, dominance-based dog training paradigms. It is infinitely more humane than methods relying on physical force and control, but still invokes ideas of human supremacy, rank and deprivation. While many of the actual behavior-modification techniques recommended to owners based on NILIF protocols may be appropriate and effective, this particular explanation, or "back story", may be unnecessary.

Torsdag 12. august

0900-1010: Kathy Sdao: So many choices – for trainers and for dogs

Dog training is an activity designed to elicit, modify and control the behaviors of dogs. It requires cognitive skill as well as physical skill and it obliges trainers to make seemingly endless choices about methods, tools and priorities. From the initial choice of how to "get" the desired dog-behavior to occur, to later decisions about how to integrate the learned behavior into the dog’s daily repertoire, the trainer must consider practicality, expediency and the dog’s emotional welfare. Our dogs, too, make behavioral choices continuously throughout the day. Ideally, trainers focus their efforts on influencing the dogs’ likelihood of making “correct” choices, based on the preferences of the owners.

1030-1140: Michele Pouliot: Platform Training

Platforms are a very beneficial tool in training dogs for a variety of behaviors. Animals naturally enjoy platforms and they enable the handler to easily mold specific behaviors. Initially, Michele used platforms to train a few specific behaviors. In the past 3 years, she has continued to expand her use of platforms as training tools and continues to find new ways to use platforms for dozens of behaviors. Foundation positions around the handler can be trained with great precision and many behaviors can advance to performance at distance very quickly. In freestyle, platforms can also serve as effective props that help create entertaining routines. Learn how to use platforms effectively so that they will become a training tool you won’t want to be without.

1200-1310: Ken Ramirez: Problem Solving

Ken has been a training consultant for the majority of his career.  Most consulting jobs require a quick approach to solving a behavioral problem.  In nearly ever problem case, Ken implements a flow chart or problem solving matrix that assists in finding the solution to any problem.  Ken will share this series of questions and this sure-fire technique of solving any behavioral problem

1310-1400: Lunch

1400-1510: Kathy Sdao: What’s that I Fear?

Fear both creates and complicates behavior problems in dogs. Resolution of these problems requires that the consultant understand the basic tenets of desensitization, classical counter-conditioning and differential-reinforcement techniques. We’ll review the scientific terminology, compare operant- & classical-conditioning approaches & list some practical tips.

1530-1640: Michele Pouliot: Training Litters of Puppies

In 2008, Michele clicker trained a litter of puppies, starting at 4 weeks of age. Once a week each puppy had a brief 5 minute session. The results were amazing, so in 2009 Michele repeated the process with a litter she was raising herself. Learn the process and the results of clicker training these 2 litters to nose target and work on platforms from 4 weeks to 8 weeks of age.

1700-1810: Ken Ramirez: Evolution of the Zoo Trainer: A Personal Perspective

As a training professional, Ken's journey began in the 1970’s.  Through the course of his career he has worked with guide dogs, marine mammals, birds of prey, primates, big cats, and eventually went full circle back to dogs. The trajectory of his career has followed and mirrored the changes taking place in the world of professional training.  Ken will use his personal experiences to describe the unique changes he has witnessed in the training profession. This presentation will focus on several of the highlights including husbandry training, remote training, chaining, unique animal applications and much more.

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Ken Ramirez

Ken har jobbet med trening av dyr i over 30 år. Han jobbet på Marinworld i Texas i 9 år. Siden 1989 har han jobbet for Shedd Aquarium der han har hovedansvar for all trening (delfiner, spekkhoggere, hai, reptiler mm). Han er konsulent for en rekke dyreparker rundt om i verden og regnes idag som verdens ledende trener innen dette feltet.

Men Ken har også mye erfaring med trening av hunder. Han har jobbet både med utdanning av førerhunder og redningshunder. Har har vært fast medlem av Karen Pryors ClickerExpo fakultet i flere år, og er en meget etterspurt foredragsholder både blant hundeeiere og andre dyretrenere rundt om i verden.

Ken er forfatter av boken ANIMAL TRAINING: Successful Animal Management Through Positive Reinforcement, som er "bibelen" for alle som jobber med trening av dyr i zoologiske hager.

Ken har mange filmklipp fra sin lange trenerkarriere som alene er verd inngangsbilletten. Du får helt sikkert se mange av dem...

Kathy Sdao

Kathy har jobbet fulltid som dyretrener i over 20 år. Hun startet sin karriere da hun studerte psykologi ved universitetet på Hawaii. Hun var her del av et team som trente delfiner til å løse komplekse kognitive oppgaver. Etter ferdig mastergrad ble hun ansatt av den amerikanske marinen og trente delfiner til å utføre militære oppgaver, ofte frittsvømmende i åpent hav.

Kathys neste arbeidsgiver var Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium i Tacoma. Her trente hun blant annet hval, sjøløver, hvalrosser og isbjørner.

I 1995 startet Kathy et daghjem for hunder. Hun begynte nå også å undervise hundeeiere. Siden 1999 har hun jobbet selvstendig som adferdskonsulent for problemhunder, og holder i tillegg seminarer om klikkertrening over hele verden. Kathy kom tidlig i kontakt med Karen Pryor og er del av Karens ClickerExpo fakultet som reiser rundt i USA.

Kathy fikk mange nye fans i Skandinavia etter Canis-seminaret sammen med Bob Bailey i 2007. Og nå kommer hun tilbake med helt nye forelesninger!

Michele Pouliot

Michele har 35 års erfaring med trening av førerhunder. Hun jobber som utviklingssjef i USAs største førerhundorganisasjon Guide Dogs for the Blind. For 8 år siden revolusjonerte hun hele organisasjonen ved å innføre et utdanningsprogram basert på klikkertrening.

Michele har en fantastisk praktisk erfaring, og har trent ca. 350 (!) hunder i løpet av sin karriere. I tillegg konkurrerer hun i freestyle på internasjonalt nivå med sine private hunder. Michele er også fast foreleser på ClickerExpo.

Michele har mange meget instruktive filmklipp som hun bruker i sine forelesninger. Gled deg til dem!

Nedenfor kan du se Michele i aksjon med hunden Listo.

 

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