Animal Training Academy: Making Ripples

Belinda Young Bio Belinda stepped into the world of animal training in early 2010, while working as a veterinary nurse and being tasked with running puppy pre-school classes. In the same year, she was fortunate enough to attend a parrot conference and learn about applied behaviour analysis and learning theory from the likes of Dr Susan Friedman, Nic Bishop, and Jim McKendry. That was all it took t...

Stuart Hoffman lives in Newmarket Canada with his wife Maria and their seven-year-old lab Dani (Danielle). Over the last 10 years Stuart has worked with Labrador Rescue Adoption Services as a trainer and interviewer. He provides training to both fosters and adopters encountering behaviour issues. In addition, he writes articles for the Rescue's magazine, hoping to give a voice to the labs that pas...

After humble beginnings with Bob Bailey's chicken camps, Scotti Harvey has spent the last 15 years as a committed educator of applied animal behavior and learning science. Scotti is a graduate of the Karen Pryor Academy, a Certified Separation Anxiety Trainer, a Puppy Start Right Instructor and Fear Free Trainer, a City and Guilds Scent Detection Dog Handler, UKCSD Scent Instructor and the founder...

Brianne Zanella Bio Brianne Zanella is a Program Animal Specialist at the Oregon Zoo in Portland, OR. She engages with thousands of zoo visitors each year, curating experiences that foster curiosity for nature and wildlife.  As a Program Animal Specialist working with ambassador animals in a zoo setting, Brianne uses training in various ways. She strives to be creative and considerate about traini...

Lucy graduated from Massey University in 2015 with a Bachelor of Veterinary Science. She spent six years practising as a mixed-animal veterinarian, working with everything from sheep and cattle to cats and dogs. Not long after graduating, she went to a clinic on positive reinforcement in horses and started incorporating R+ with her horses and animals. This spread to consuming every piece of inform...

Marie Koenen – Bio Marie is 58 (!!) years old, single and lives with her two lovely dogs in a small farm house just outside Malmö (3rd biggest city of Sweden). Marie is a dog trainer, behavior analyst, scent detection trainer and works part time with the above in her own facilities.  She is  also working on searching for bed-bugs, slugs and planning for Sniff to  become a scent detection dog in th...

1:25 - Shelley Introduces JR Henderson and his feline friends! 3:20 - JR Thanks Shelley for having him on the podcast today. 4:00 - Shelley asks JR to talk about his life beyond training and how it links across to his animal training world. 1015 - Shelley asks JR if there is an example where he has become more musical with his cues to help the animal to discriminate what is taught. 14:25 - Shelley...

1:20 – Shelly introduces Lee Stone detailing her journey through from behavioural training with dogs to working with parrots 3:35 – Shelley asks Lee to talk about her life experiences outside of training and how they have impacted her animal training life. 6:00 – Shelley and Lee discuss some specific strategies that she shares with her clients to help them with looking after their animals. 8:30 –...

4:45 – Kiki explains how she began on her path to animal training. 11:45 – Shelley asks more about the online Masters program that Kiki chose to complete and her experience. 18:25 – Kiki shares a recent training related challenge and what she learned from it.  35:55 – Kiki shares another training experience with which she was particularly proud of counter conditioning a behaviour using a slightly...

3:30 – Shelly asks Josephine to share her education and work background and how it lead her to the animal training community. 16:40 – Shelley highlights that Josephine mentioned PORTL and asks her to explain a little more about what it is. 19:00 – Shelley asks Josephine to speak more on how she began on her path to working in the conservation world. 22:47 – Josephine shares the differences in the...

2:55 - Shelly asks Ryan his first question and asks him about his life outside of the animal training world and how it has influenced his work and vice versa. 9:50 - Ryan discusses the four books that have greatly influenced his world and including his daily life and his animal training career. How to win Friends and Influence People. Crucial Conversations Growth Mindset First things First 22:18 -...