Training With Kayce

Episode 60: Amahl and The night visitors trilogy

Three TRUE stories about animals performing with the opera, "Amahl and the Night Visitors", at the Kennedy Center!  Here is a photo of my monkey, myself and my trusty assistant, around the same time as this performance occurred (Note the wardrobe!):    https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2964962081323&set=a.2964961761315  

New Year’s brings fireworks; ALL days can bring thunder. Teach your animals to cope with traumatizing noise

Even if you ban fireworks, there is still thunder, gunshots, airbrakes... and more. Get ahead of the game and teach your animals how to cope with these potentially traumatizing events.

Homework and Histories May Not Matter

Trainers often express frustration when clients fail to complete homework assignments in dog training sessions. Is it necessary and effective to assign homework and take detailed histories from clients?

Julie Alexander, your pets and their hormones

I was amazed to learn more about how hormones interact to affect ourselves and our pets.  Join Julie Alexander and I as we discuss this important, but complex, topic.

Is Operant Conditioning a conscious process?

Kayce explores whether operant conditioning is a conscious process. Operant conditioning is a method that teaches animals to change their behavior in order to control their environment. There is a debate surrounding whether this type of conditioning is conscious. 

The New Age of Training

Natural behavior, resilience, health, and the dog's needs are influencing and even directing the way we teach and care for dogs. This is a good thing and I am happy to be seeing this. The philosophy of SATS has always been one of mutuality: mutual respect, responsibility and benefit. So glad to see a maturation away from tool ideology and toward the documented and studied needs of the dogs.

How did we teach pigs to cooperate in voluntary blood draw from the vena cava???

Dedicated professionals in this swine research unit wanted to change the way pigs perceived blood draw procedures - and so they did.  Amazing video from an amazing crew.  All animals can benefit from learning to cooperate in their own care.

Vets and Pets

Have you heard of 'Fear Free at the vet's? It's great! This is better. Go for it. Listen in and get started today.

Training Plan for a Dog’s Best Life

Most dogs can be great colleagues, companions and collaborators - with the proper support and education. But that support and education is not encompassed in an obedience class. An obedience class can be a great experience for both dog and owner, but it is not the solution to a behavioral problem. So what is? Join me to explore an easy way to develop the best of dogs.

Ivy Starns, Michelle Martiya, and Kayce confer on Swaggers

Swaggers is a thoughtful, methodical horse who is very selective on how, and with whom, he engages. We confer on ways we take him forward more quickly. Since this recording, Ivy has made substantial progress in being able to touch Swaggers.
 
Swagger before: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1?ui=2&ik=7eb7cd293d&attid=0.1&permmsgid=msg-f:1777865908641260868&th=18ac3f9fd6d6e544&view=att&disp=safe&realattid=18ac3f9707c74577e2a1 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tV3rEotKlCTbzSUlsJSXFZjTIrfLvjhT/view?usp=drive_web https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UK4JK7QIwAs10rDxUBpSKIYmEP8XAb5C/view?usp=drive_web
 
 
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