This course is a hands-on workshop, building on the Advanced Animal Training Techniques (Shaping) course, in which the student implements a basic shaping plan that they have designed. This workshop will help the student develop the following skills: timing, concentration, clicker accuracy and dexterity, relying less on trainer-mediated prompting, planning behavior approximations, identifying target behavior, maintaining suitable energy/enthusiasm, maintaining high rate of reinforcement, setting criteria for next behavior approximation. This course requires access to a companion animal for engaging in training exercises.

Sponsor:Companion Animal Sciences Institute
Speaker(s):**James O’Heare

Contact: James O’Heare
 Web: http://www.CASInstitute.com/