Education

Maintaining a current knowledge and understanding of animal behavior and training techniques is important.

  • 4/2024 Clicker Expo 3 day behavior/training conference in person

  • hundreds of hours of online education- lost track

  • 2022 x2 Virtual Nose Work Camp

  • 2022 Clicker Expo 3 day behavior/training conference in person

  • 4/2021 Virtual K9 Nose work camp

  • 1/2021 Virtual Clicker Expo

  • 2020 Thanksgiving brought us a 4.5 month old severely abused puppy to foster. He was terrified of humans and dogs, pottied in the house and barked, lunged and tried to bite at anyone near him. Behavior cannot be changed in a day or weeks, we will be working with him for many months to a year.

  • - Thanks to Covid we engaged in hundreds of hours of webinars and books.

  • 2020 - 2- K9 Nose Work Virtual Camps

  • 1/20 3 day Clicker Expo updating education in training, behavior and science

  • 11/19 Nose Work training seminar with Christina Bunn

  • 4/19 3 day Aggression and Bite prevention Summit with Dr Lisa Rodasta, Dr Lynn Honeckman and Chirag Patel

  • 1/19 3 day Clicker Expo behavior classes with Chirag Patel, Leslie McDevitt, Sarah Owings, Susan Friedman and others

  • 7/18 NACSW Nose Work continuing education and multiple online courses thruout the year

  • 10/18 Nose Work seminar with Christina Bunn,Proffessional K9 trainer @ Puget Sound Detection Dogs

  • 2/18 Nose Work Handling seminar with Amy Herot, A Founder of K9 Nose Work

  • 11/17 Nose Work container seminar with Christina Bunn , Owner/trainer @Puget Sound Detections Dogs

  • 6/17 Training and auditing with Amy Herot A founder of K9 Nose Work

  • 6/17 Michael Shikashio, Aggression A-Z

  • 6/17 Handling and strategy, Jill Marie O’brien, A founder of K9 Nose Work

  • 2/17 3 day Training with Ron Gaunt a founder of K9 Nose Work.

  • 1/17 3 day Clicker Expo Classes with Emma Parsons, Lindsay Wood Brown, Dr Jes’us Rosales-Ruiz

  • 11/16 2 day Mental Management for Dog Sports, Teah Anders

  • 11/16 2 day Ron Gaunt Coaching NW3 thru Elite

  • 10/16 2 day Amy Herot Vehicles with confidence

  • 6/16 Nose Work Symposium

  • 6/16 4 day Nose Work Camp OR training with Gail McCarthy ,Nancy Reyes, Christina Bunn

  • 2/16 2 day Nose Work Interiors with Confidence, Amy Herot

  • 12/15 Team Work for Nose Work levels 2/3 Penny Scott-Fox

  • 11/15 6 day (assistant) Kathy Cascade TTouch OR

  • 7/15 2 day Exteriors with Confidence, Amy Herot, WA K9 Nose Work

  • 1/23/15 KPA Clicker Expo 3 days OR

  • 11/14 2 day(assistant) Help your Animal Become Calm & Confidant, Kathy Cascade, NC

  • 11/14 6 day Tellington TTouch, Kathy Cascade, NC

  • 9/14 3 day NACSW Instructor Training Course, Carlsbad, CA

  • 9/14 3 day Behavior, Counseling, and Aggresion with John Rogerson

  • 7/14 6 day Tellington TTouch, Robin Hood, Kathy Cascade, Vernon, BC

  • 6/14 2 day NACSW Instructor Training Course, Carlsbad, CA

  • 5/14 Environment, Environment, Trailing Success! For NW3 level, Ron Gaunt, Portland, OR

  • 5/14 Intro to Nose Work, Working Team, Ron Gaunt, Portland, OR

  • 4/14 The Detection Dog, Fred Halfers, Portland, OR

  • 4/14 Identifying Handler Errors and Skill Building Drills, Fred Helfers, Portland, OR

  • 02/14 Stay in Balance Clinic, Bobbie Lyons, Sequim, WA

  • 2/14 2 day NACSW Instructor Training Course, Carlsbad, CA

  • 11/13 6 day Tellington TTouch, Linda Tellington – Jones, OR

  • 9/13 3 day Camp R.E.W.A.R.D Aggressive and Reactive Dogs, Pam Dennison, WA

  • 9/13 6 day Tellington TTouch, Kathy Cascade, CO

  • 7/13 K9 NW Team Work from Foundation to Trial, Amy Herot, WA

  • 5/13 6 day Tellington TTouch, Kathy Cascade, working team, OR

  • 6/13 6 months, Karen Pryor Academy, Terry Ryan, WA

  • 10/13 6 day series, Nose Work Skill Building, Shelley Smith and John Eckhart, OR

  • 11/12 All about Dog to Dog Interactions, Sue Sternberg, OR

  • 11/12 Paw Team Portland, volunteer dog handler Zeuterin Clinic, OR

  • 9/12 Helping Fearful Dogs, Nicole Wilde, WA

  • 8/12 5 day BAT Instructor Training Course for Dog Reactivity, Grisha Stewart, WA

  • 8/12 Chill Out Fido, How to Calm Your Dog, Nan Arthur, working team, WA

  • 7/12 K9 Nose Work Shelter Project, Jill Marie O’Brien, WA

  • 6/12 Assistant “Extinction-A Preliminary Study” by Lisbeth Plant, WA

  • 6/12 2 day Real Solutions to Canine Behavior Problems, Pat Miller, WA

  • 5/12 Assist in creating instructional video’s for Terry Ryan, WA

  • 5/12 5 day Instructor Training Course, Pia Silvani and Sue Sternberg, NY

  • 4/12 Scent Detection Workshop, Don Blair SG K9, WA

  • 1/12 3 day Clicker Expo, Kathy Sdao, Alexandra Kurland, Julie Shaw, OR

  • 11/11 Living with and Training a Fearful Dog, Debbie Jacobs, WA

  • 9/11 Poultry in Motion Chicken Training, Terry Ryan, WA

  • 9/11 Poultry in Motion for Shelter Staff, organized with Terry Ryan, WA

  • 7/11 10 day Coaching People to Train Their Dogs 1 & 2, Terry Ryan, WA

  • 6/11 2 day Deconstructing the Growl, Rethinking Canine Aggression, Dr Sophia Yin and Sarah Kalnajs, WA

  • 5/11 5 day Humane Society of the United States Animal Care Expo, FL

  • 10/10 2 day Bite O Meter and Behavior Workshop, Sue Sternberg, MT

  • 6/10 Adoptions Options Workshop Sue Sternberg, WA

  • 4/08 Compassion Fatigue Workshop, Hillary Hagar, WA

  • 4/08 Learn How Dogs Show Stress, Clarissa Von Rheinhardt, WA

  • 9/07 Equine Cruelty Investigation Training and Hennecke Body Scoring, Hope For Horses Woodinville,