Description of Seminar/Conference
	Instructors, trainers and pet owners want compliance. They want their dog to respond to commands accurately and quickly. People often attribute a dog’s failures to do this to dominance, stupidity or stubbornness. It’s more likely that these mistakes result from confusion (or insufficient motivation); the dog doesn’t know what the trainer wants because the cues are unfamiliar, inconsistent or unclear! Understanding the basic science of "cueing" will help you improve the process by which you choose, add, change and maintain cues. You will be able to minimize the amount of static in the signals you send your dog, providing a clearer channel of communication. An understanding of behavioral cues will also pave the way for the creation of conceptual cues that go beyond eliciting simple movements. This hands-on workshop combines lecture, video examples and several exercises with your dog. It will walk you through the steps to build strong meaningful cues whether you are a pet-dog instructor, competition- or working-dog trainer or an owner who wants a more reliable and responsive dog. Day 1 Welcome & Intro What a cue can do Is “cue” just a nicer way to say “command”? Exercise 1: Cue discrimination test “Good enough” syndrome Maximizing clarity: Cue types, salience, distinctiveness Exercise 2: “Prove It” game Clever Hans: the full story Changing cues using classical conditioning Exercise 3: Cues shift Adding cues: Prompt fading vs. temporal conditioning Day 2 Exercise 4: Get a Cue, Part One Exercise 5: Get a Cue, Part Two Trumping Cues; Concept Cues; Keep-going signals Adduction Exercise 6: Cues Fuse Cueing adducted behaviors Questions & Wrap up Dates: 6/21/2014 and 6/22/2014 Time: Check in 8am Seminar from 9-5 pm Location: Oakland Classroom at the EBSPCA Oakland Campus, 8323 Baldwin Street, 94621 Price: $220 for seminar (45 spots available) / $250 for handler and dog (6 spots available) This seminar is approved by the Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers for: 8 CEUs for trainers and 8 CEUs for behavior consultants. The East Bay SPCA has reserved a block of rooms (double beds) at the Oakland Hilton for the night of June 21, 2014. If you are interested in reserving one of these rooms at a discounted rate, please email training@eastbayspca.org no later than May 15, 2014. To register, please visit http://eastbayspca.org/proseminars or call James Dress at 510-563-4628.

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