Staff Training

Increase your adoption rates, decrease your return rate, and euthanasia rate by training your staff how to appropriately test each dog that comes into your facility. Have more information on your available dogs than just your basics. Your staff will learn how to tests dogs social skill, play skills, behavior and personality. They will learn how to fix unwanted behavior to increase the chances of a dog getting adopted.

Workshops

Fosters/Rescues

For up to 10 foster parents or staff members. 2-hour class to deal with behavior issues that are commonly seen with rescue dogs. Learn how to introduce a foster dog into your established pack as well as becoming the leader of your diversified pack. Email for more information.

Shelters/Animal Control

Presentation with hands-on work to help your employees or volunteers learn appropriate behaviors around the shelter dogs. This will help your shelter dogs learn some important manners to increase their chances of adoption!

Volunteers

An intense workshop/seminar on teaching your volunteers the importance of dog training. Let us set up your volunteer program by hosting an orientation, set up training programs, protocols, training logs and more! Your volunteers are the most important resource for your facility! Volunteers can do so much more than help with fundraisers, cleaning and walking the dogs! Email us for more information!

Seminars

Suffering from Anxiety or Shyness

Learn how to take away the human emotions that tend to make these dogs worse and to help them overcome their issues so dogs up for adoption can be more adoptable and more successful in their adoptive homes.

Teaching Good Manners Prior to Adoption

Your staff can learn how to deal with those little annoyances that keep some dogs from being adopted. They don’t have to be a dog trainer; they just need to learn how to appropriately interact with the dogs.

How to “Sell” a Dog

Teach your staff how to be more involved in the adopters decision making process. Learn how to match a dog to the appropriate owner. Learn when it is appropriate to allow adopters to leave without a dog.

Understanding Dog Language

Teach your staff how to read and use calming signals to help calm down nervous, frightened, or aggressive dogs. A must-have class for anyone who deals with dogs on a regular basis.

Whether you are a dog owner, a shelter employee, work at a veterinarian’s office, a meter reader, or have friends or family with dogs, you’ll benefit from a seminar. Learn why your dog acts the way he does around other dogs, and more. Check the calendar page for upcoming dates or EMAIL to host your own! CLICK HERE for testimonials.

Be Safe, Be Responsible: Understanding Dog-Dog & Dog-Human Communication

Don’t miss your chance to learn what all the cool people are learning about how to communicate with dogs everywhere!  Have you ever wanted to learn another language?  Well now you can!  That’s right – you too can learn how to SPEAK DOG!!

• Why is it so darn hard to take a picture of my dog’s face??
• Isn’t that cute?  Spot is jealous of us hugging!
• Is my dog calming or warning??
• What on earth IS a calming signal anyway??
• OMG my dog’s hackles are up – what do I do???!!!
• There’s a Pit Bull in that group of dogs!  Is that safe??

…and more…

• Thursday, January 27th
• Thursday, February 3rd
• Thursday, March 3rd

Understanding the Dynamics of Play & Interaction

Help your dog become a better dog!  If you want your dog to be the best dog he or she can possibly be, then you need to learn about how they communicate and INTERACT.  It’s not as scary or mysterious as you think.  Become one of the educated and help us teach the world around us about their dogs!

• Everytime we go to the dog park my dog fights!
• Why does that dog keep humping my dog?
• OH NO! That dog’s hackles are up!
• My little dog doesn’t like other dogs!
• Why are all of those dogs chasing my dog?
• Why does my dog pin every dog he meets? The Pug and Great Dane CAN co-exist!

…and more…

• Thursday, February 10th

 

Curing Canine Anxiety

Does your dog get nervous when you leave him home alone? Or does he pee in the floor when someone talks to him? Does your dog get fearful when it thunders or does he cower when someone new walks into the house? Does your dog freak out when seeing another dog? Anxiety is an all too common issue I see in dogs. Many owners dealing with the anxiety tend to make it worse or tend to only treat the symptom which is the anxiety itself. My seminar will get down to the root of the problem and teach you how to deal with it. Most anxiety cases can be dealt with without the use of drugs and only using behavior modification. Your dog will be a happier and more relaxed part of the family after using my program.

• No scheduled dates at this time

When Love Isn’t Enough

Fostering and rescuing dogs can be an expensive adventure, both on your wallet and your emotions. Learn how to give back to these dogs the life that was once stolen from them and help them to become the dog that they were intended to become. Great seminar for anyone that works with rescues, shelters or in animal control. CLICK HERE to read what others are saying about this one-of-a-kind seminar!

Friday, January 28th

Friday, February 11th

Maximizing Results for the Search & Rescue K9 Handler
Instructor: Bruce Walstad

Crime Scene Preservation
Instructor: Stacy Elder

Beginner Cadaver Class-Land Only
Instructor: Nikki Ivey

Intermediate & Advanced Cadaver Class-Land Only
Instructor: Nikki Ivey

K9 First Aid/CPCR Class
Instructor: Gina Chandler, LVMT

Child Abductions
Instructor: Bruce Walstad

Beginning Area Search, Scent Discrimination
Instructor: Nikki Ivey

Final Response for Live & HRD(Cadaver)
Instructor: Nikki Ivey

Search & Rescue Boot Camp
Instructor: Nikki Ivey

Scent Specific Area Search Boot Camp
Instructor: Nikki Ivey

Human Remains Detection Boot Camp
Instructor: Nikki Ivey