Workshops
Workshops are available for veterinary clinics, massage therapists, doggy daycare and training centers, rescue groups and animal shelters. Call or email Alana to schedule a workshop or seminar.
Dog Training & Behavior Workshops
Must Love Dogs: Understand Dog Body Language
Understand how dogs communicate. Learn simple verbal and nonverbal communication techniques to enhance the relationship with your dog. Explore how body language, eye contact, and touch can influence that relationship.
Problem Prevention And Socialization: How To Avoid Headaches with Your Dog
Learn how to prevent problems from developing when you have a new dog or puppy. Understand how your dog learns and methods to humanely prevent jumping, chewing, barking, and other behaviors that cause humans stress. Proper ways to socialize dogs to humans and other dogs will also be addressed. This is a great workshop for new dog owners or for those who are working in the field of animal protection or rescue.
Canine Learning For The Dog Owner
This workshop addresses how dogs learn and understand, and the best ways to teach them. Understand canine body language and how dogs communicate and relate to other dogs. Learn how to prevent problems, such as jumping, play biting, excessive chewing, barking, fear and aggression, and how to remedy these problems if they occur.
Canine Learning For Rescue and Shelter Workers
This workshop is for shelter workers and those involved in rescue work and adoptions. Learn how to acclimate dogs to other dogs in the shelter or foster environment. Ways to environmentally enrich the shelter settingwill be addressed. How dogs learn, understand, and communicate will be discussed in relation to the shelter setting. How to improve dogs experiences with being passed around and exposed to many environments an people, as well as training approaches volunteers can take when interacting with dogs to make them more adoptable will be discussed.
Behavior Modification Techniques For Difficult To Handle Dogs
Learn how to modify behavior in difficult to handle dogs; dogs who ar over-reactive, can't settle down, require a lot of "discipline," or who are lungey and reactive to other dogs. Understand how dogs learn so you can use and implement the best methods and techniques to remedy problems stemming from fear, aggression, or anxiety.
Children and Dogs
Parents can learn how to acclimate children to dogs and vice versa: teach children how to prevent getting bitten, and learn how to positively introduce infants and children to dogs, and dogs to children. This workshop is for people who work with children, who have infants or are expecting, or who have children under 10 years old.
Understanding and Resolving Canine Aggression Problems
We have all met or been exposed to dogs who are seemingly aggressive or reactive, whether they bark at other dogs, lunge at people, or growl when stressed. Learn how dogs respond to stressful situations. Understand how to remedy problems that stem from fear, anxiety, and aggression, and how to work with dogs when they are stressed or anxious. Aggression relating to multi-dog households, fear of people, and leash-lunging will be discussed.
Minimizing Conflict In Multi-Dog Households
Learn how to minimize conflict in a multi-dog household! All dogs have issues and dogs who live with other dogs can have many. Though having more than one dog can be a blessing, fights or problems can ensue over sharing toys, food bowls, and receiving owner attention and affection. Learn how to prevent problems from occurring, and understand how to teach dogs to live together so you can have a stress-free home! This is a good workshop for those who foster dogs, have more than one dog, or who are contemplating getting another dog or adopting a new canine family member.
Cat Behavior Workshops
Must Love Cats: Understand Cat Body Language and How Your Cat Communicates
Understand how cats communicate with humans and with each other. Learn simple verbal and nonverbal communication techniques to enhance the relationship with your cat. Explore how body language, eye contact, and touch can influence that relationship.
Problem Prevention And Socialization: How to Avoid Headaches with Your Cat
Learn how to prevent problems from developing when you have a new cat or kitten. Understand how your cat learns and humane methods to use to make a smooth transition for your kitty in his or her new home. Prevent litter box problems, scratching, play biting and other behaviors that can be stressful for humans. This is a good workshop for new cat owners, those who are thinking of getting a cat, and for those who work in the field of animal protection or rescue.
Feline Learning For the Cat Owner
This workshop addresses how cats communicate, learn and understand. Learn their body language and understand how they learn from humans and communicate with them. Incorporate play into their lives, learn proper ways to socialize them to other family members (both two-legged and four-legged), and prevent them from furniture scratching, and if young, from playing too roughly.
Minimizing Conflict In Multi-Cat Households
Learn how to prevent or eliminate conflict in a multi-cat household! Cats who live with other cats can have many issues. Litter box problems, hiding, and anxiety can present themselves when there is more than one cat in the household. Since all animals need companions, it is important to prevent problems from occurring and to understand how to remedy problems if they do occur. This workshop is great for those who have more than one cat, are considering adopting one, for those who rescue cats, and for shelter workers.
Feline Learning For Rescue and Shelter Workers
This workshop is for shelter workers and those involved in rescue work and adoptions. Learn how to acclimate cats to a shelter environment. If fostering, learn how to introduce cats to other cats, and how to provide an appropriate environment for them to prevent behavior problems. Ways to environmentally enrich the shelter setting will be discussed. Learn simple behavior modification techniques so that cats can have a more positive experience in the shelter, and, if they are timid, can become more adoptable.
General Animal Behavior Workshops
Making The Veterinary Hospital Behaviorally Friendly For Animals
This workshop is for animal health care practitioners and veterinary staff. There are many things that can be done to minimize stress and make animals more comfortable in a hospital setting or while being examined. Learn management techniques to minimize fear, and ways to keep animals calm in a hospital practice.
Environmental Enrichment for Shelter Animals: Making The Shelter Behaviorally Friendly For Animals
This workshop is for shelter staff, volunteers, and for those involved in rescue work and adoptions. Learn ways to enrich the shelter environment to reduce stress and make animals more comfortable. Understand how dogs and cats learn, and communicate with people, in relation to their experiences at the shelter. Training approaches and behavior modification techniques volunteers can practice when interacting with dogs and cats to make them more adoptable will be presented.
Understanding The Psychology Of Aggressive and Fearful Animals
We have all met or been exposed to a dog or cat who is seemingly fearful, aggressive or reactive. Learn how animals cope with stress. Understand simple behavior modification techniques you can apply to work with these animals to help them to overcome their fears and anxieties.
Massage Workshops
Dog and Cat guardians, animal health care professionals, and massage therapists are encouraged to take a massage workshop to learn effective animal massage therapy techniques.
Massage Your Dog
Learn specific strokes and a basic sequence to massage your dog. Understand the difference between stimulating and relaxing touch, and learn techniques for massaging areas of the head, neck, upper spine, legs, hips and torso. Proper massage sequences and basic techniques will be demonstrated to you as you apply them to your own dog. All dogs are different and each requires special care and attention.
Learn to Massage Your Cat
Learn specific strokes and a basic sequence to massage your cat. Understand the difference between stimulating and relaxing touch and learn techniques for massaging areas of the face, head, neck, upper spine, legs, hips and torso. Proper massage sequences and basic techniques will be demonstrated to you. All cats are different and each requires special care and attention. Learn how to read your kitty's body language so you can give your cat a good massage and teach your kitty to love touch.
The Benefits of Massage in Acclimating Animals to Touch
Learn how massage can benefit animals by getting them accustomed to positive forms of therapeutic touch. This workshop is very helpful for rescue workers and animal health practitioners, as well as animal trainers, behaviorists, and owners of timid, reactive, or fearful animals. Understand and interpret dog or cat body language to ascertain whether or not your dog or cat likes your manner and method of touching. Types of strokes and techniques most animals enjoy will be demonstrated
