Introductions

• Basic Behavior Foundation
• The Medical Connection to Behavior
• Pharmaceutical Intervention

Discussion & Solutions for Selected Problems

• Barking: Types; Use of Positive Interrupt; Redirecting; Teaching "Quiet Please"
• Digging: Management; Reinforcing the "Dig Box"; Teaching "Go Dig"
• Jumping up: Removing all reinforcements; reinforcing alternatives
• Hard Mouth: Teaching bite inhibition, managing hard mouth behavior
• Escaping: Management techniques.
• Leash Pulling/Leash Grabbing: Variable click & treat to focus on handler not environment; short intense play time to defuse excess energy.

More Problem Behaviors (PBOTA) & Solutions

• Housetraining: Dealing with not-normal house soiling behaviors
• Predatory Behavior: counter conditioning to modify "fun-chase" association; teach operant response to interrupt chase, use of Premack
• Crating Woes: Modifying fear of crates, inappropriate use of crates, crate-soiling
• Canine Obsessive Compulsive Disorders (OCD's): Causes and types of OCD's; Modification programs; Pharmaceutical intervention.
• Fears, Anxieties, Phobias: Diagnoses, prevention, desensitization & counter conditioning, operant conditioning

Selected Case Histories (from forms filled out in advance by seminar attendees); Plus Q & A.

Opening Overview of Aggression; Modification Choices;

• Operant/Classical
• CAT (Constructional Aggression Treatment)
• CC&D (Counter Conditioning & Desensitization)
• BAT (Behavior Adjustment Training)

Role of Stress in Aggressive Behaviors; Strategies for Stressors:

• Eliminate
• Medical Evaluation
• Prevent exposure
• Counter conditioning/operant conditioning

• Fear Based: scrupulous management of environment for dog's security during modification / perhaps always.
• Idiopathic: ("rage"--unknown origin): rare and rarely treatable.
• Interdog: Based on social hierarchies; teaching operant response to cues for deference; classical conditioning re: good things happen with other dogs.

Classifications of Aggression & Modification / Management Options (continued)

• Maternal: Pups can learn by observing mother's aggressions.
• Play: From rough-housing with dogs or humans; close supervision; when to interrupt escalation; matching of play styles.
• Possession: Manage environment; remove all triggers; 10 point multi-week exercises for food and all desirables-the "Trade Game"
• Predatory: (see Day 1: 1 to 2:30pm session).

Framework for a Typical Client Consult & Consult Follow-up: Selected Case Histories (from forms filled out in advance by seminar attendees); Plus Q & A.

PAT MILLER, a past President of APDT, has been training dogs for more than 35 years. She was a humane officer at the Marin Humane Society in California for 20 years and most recently trains as a CPDT and behavior consultant at her Peaceable Paws Dog and Puppy Training Center in Maryland, home to her acclaimed Intern Academies.

Pat writes for, and is Training Editor, of The Whole Dog Journal and contributes to Your Dog (published by Tufts University Veterinary School). Her first dog training book, The Power of Positive Dog Training (Howell Book House, 2001) has been on Amazon.com's "Top 10 Dog Training Books" list since January of 2002. Her other books are: Positive Perspectives, Positive Perspectives 2, Play With Your Dog, and last Fall's: "Do Over Dogs-Give Your Dog a Second Chance for a First Class Life".

DOG ETIQUETTE
We will not be permitted to have dogs in the meeting room.

PEOPLE ETIQUETTE
During the lectures, please turn off all cell phone and pager audio alerts. Please take all private conversations outside while the speakers are presenting.

BABIES
The presence of a baby is likely to be distracting to other participants, so we ask that you refrain from bringing any babies or very young children into the lecture hall.

VIDEOTAPING
No videotaping or audiotaping is permitted.

BOOKS & TOYS, ETC. FOR SALE
A selection of books, videos and toys will be available for sale.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE
Thursday, June 7, 2012

REFUND POLICY
A full refund (excluding food orders) will be issued if requested before Wednesday, June 6. No refunds or credits issued after 12:00 pm on Friday, June 8. All refunds must be requested by email or phone. There are no exceptions to this policy.

PARKING
There will be ample parking near the seminar location.

Directions to the Olympia Campus

From I-5 North or South:

Take exit 104, onto Highway 101. Take the first exit (Crosby Boulevard) to the right. From the exit ramp, make a left turn onto Crosby Blvd.. You will cross over Highway 101, pass through one stoplight and come to the intersection of Crosby Blvd. and Mottman Road. Make a right turn onto Mottman Road and look for the next left turn, the entrance to the college. Parking can be found going either left or right at the entrance. A daily parking meter at the entrance dispenses $2.00 all day parking passes.

From Highway 101 from Shelton, Aberdeen:

Take the AutoMall, Crosby Blvd.exit off Highway 101. From the exit ramp, make a left turn onto Crosby Blvd. Take a right turn at the stoplight onto Mottman Road and look for the next left turn, the entrance to the college. Parking can be found going either left or right at the entrance. A daily parking meter at the entrance dispenses $2.00 all day parking passes.