What is your dog’s favorite time of the day? For my dogs, it’s mealtime! If I had my dogs rank their favorite things on a scale of 1-10, I’m sure eating would be a 15.
Reaching the Animal Mind
Karen Pryor Featured in WebMD Magazine
By KPCT on 08/06/2013The July/August issue of WebMD Magazine features pet training advice from Karen Pryor.
From Pipe Dream to Positive: Lindsay Wood's Impact in Animal Welfare
By Julie Gordon on 04/02/2013Editor's Note:
Lindsay Wood, Karen Pryor Academy (KPA) Certified Training Partner (CTP) and the newest member of the KPA faculty, once thought her lifelong desire for a career working with animals was nothing more than a pipe dream. Fortunately for both Lindsay and the animals in her care at the Humane Society of Boulder Valley, Lindsay's pipe dream is now a reality. Since 2007, Lindsay has served as the Director of Animal Training and Behavior for the Humane Society of Boulder Valley. She developed and implemented the Humane Society's comprehensive behavior modification program created to rehabilitate dogs with specific concerns, including food guarding, fearful behavior, body-handling sensitivities, separation anxiety, and dog-dog aggression. As a result, adoption and retention rates have increased at the Humane Society, and many dogs that might have been euthanized have been re-homed successfully.
Karen Pryor Featured in The Whole Dog Journal
By KPCT on 03/04/2013The March 2013 issue of The Whole Dog Journal features an in-depth article about Karen Pryor.
Stay Until Released
By Helix Fairweather on 12/01/2012Stationary behavior: What are we really looking for?
Recently, I watched a man working on duration of a behavior—his dog's front feet, stationary, on a target. Watching his training session, I did not see anything out of the ordinary. But there was a problem. The trainer said he had achieved 5-7 seconds of duration, yet when the class instructor asked for a demonstration, he could only demonstrate the barest fraction of a second of standing still on the target.
