Training With Kayce

Episode 82: Two traits of top trainers

Do you have what it takes to excell in training?  Kayce explores two of the most important traits of excellent trainers today, and discusses what it takes to build and polish these skills.

Episode 81: Enforcing Behaviors

In this episode Kayce talks about enforcing behaviors.

Episode 80: Global training plans

If you build it, they will come to learn.  Many professionals that work with companion animals are hired to solve problems by owners who are overcome with behavior challenges and just want relief.  Here is where taking a page from professional exotic animal trainers can change your business.  With exotics, we must oversee the lifelong education of animals to support their best lives, and their most effective ambassadorship.  Making longterm plans, we then commence to work our plans, systematically.  Spoiler alert:  it is so good for the animals and it is a blast for us.  If you are prepared with full-life training plans for your client animals, and just ease the animals along during their problem behavior training sessions, many owners will LOVE training, and want to continue..  Please listen in to hear more.

Episode 79: Mental Mapping

If you train by rote rehearsal, this video gives another option, and why you might want to take this option.  Welcome to a world of engaged and thinking animals - great partners in training.

Episode 78: Stories of Gunnar the Good

Gunnar, a male Grey Seal, lived to be 38 years old, breaking the longevity record for male grey seals.  He was an amazing animal, working with the US Navy for his first six years.  Here are two of his stories.

Episode 77: 6 steps --＞ training videos

6 steps to making a training video - or better yet, a habit of making training videos.  Change your training and your professional life, by building a habit of building your professional training portfolio.

Episode 76: Cat X-Ray Training

In this episode producer Joseph and Kayce look at and decipher a video of a cat and Xray training that happened. Here is the link to the cat training video:    https://youtu.be/6KiD5Tue6DQ

Episode 75: Kayce Cover presents the importance of keeping it real

In this episode Kayce talks about the importance of keeping it real.

Episode 74: Coming to Terms with Terminology_ Reinforcer & Diminisher

Why do we say reinforcer, and not reward, in Operant Conditioning?  Shouldn't we also say DIMINISHER instead of PUNISHER???  Kayce thinks so, and thinks you should help her to change this in our industry.

Episode 73: Coming to Terms with terminology All about bridges

In this episode Kayce talks about terminology and bridges