Prey Drive - What Does that Really Mean?
With Ken McCort
Predation is a normal behavior in canids and has been modified primarily through selective breeding and secondarily through training and behavior modification. Understanding the roots of this foraging strategy and how it can interfere with good pet dog behavior is useful and often necessary to help clients and dogs live together in harmony.
Learning Objectives:
1) Attendees will be taught to understand motor patterns in canids.
2) From there to learn different breed types and their motor patterns within the full sequence.
3) Then to understanding the onset of predation and what can be done to modify it.
4) And finally to differentiate "drives" into ethologically correct categories.
Presenter Information:
Ken has been a professional trainer and behavior consultant since 1986. In his career he has worked with dogs, cat, parrots (and other birds), equines (several types), wolves, coyotes, foxes, a marmoset, a manatee and several other species. Working with Animal Assisted Activity and Therapy programs, Ken is a member and sits on national committees for the Delta Society's Pet Partner program. The Doggie Brigade, a program at Children's Hospital in Akron, OH in 1992, has grown to 80+ teams with Ken's continuing help and advice. He has worked to implement programs in other facilities as well. As a lecturer and presenter, Ken has travelled all over the US, and has been to Japan and Taiwan many times since 2004. Wolf Park, a research facility in Battle Ground, IN that houses wolves, coyotes, foxes and bison, has used Ken over the past 18 years for training help, presentations and seminars. He has helped to conduct cognittive research for several leading ethologist and behaviorist.
CONTINUING EDUCATION UNITS (CEUs)
- CCPDT: 1.5 CEUs
- IAABC: 1.5 CEUs
- KPA: 1.5 CEUs
- IACP: 1.5 CEUs
- CAWA: 1.5 CEUs
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CONTACT INFORMATION
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