Clicker training was a revelation for me. When I was living in France (where I spent 30 years of my life) and first came across the couple of videos that were on the market in the US, almost 15 years…
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Dog training revolution in French speaking countries
Tagged with: Animal training, Catherine Collignon, Cesar Millan, Dog, France, Ian Dunbar, Jennifer Cattet, reward based training, Smart Animal
Posted in Dog behavior, Dog training, Educational, Positive Animal Training
Posted in Dog behavior, Dog training, Educational, Positive Animal Training
Dogs in prison affect profound changes in their trainer
Trusting that incarcerated men and women in medium to high security prisons could care for and train dogs at the highest level certainly may not seem, at first, like a wise thing to do. In the past 10 years, however,…
Tagged with: Animal training, Dog, France, Jennifer Cattet, Prison, SMART, Training
Posted in Dog behavior, Dog training, Educational, Positive Animal Training
Posted in Dog behavior, Dog training, Educational, Positive Animal Training
Paris: a city of dog lovers
Besides in bark parks, our dogs in the US must be leashed at all times and kept out of most public places. When I moved back to the US about 10 years ago, after spending most of my life in…
Tagged with: Dog, France, Jennifer Cattet, Leash, Paris, Pet, Smart Animal
Posted in Dog behavior, Educational, Positive Animal Training
Posted in Dog behavior, Educational, Positive Animal Training
You can’t lie to your dog!
Of all mammals, dogs have evolved into super human readers! Scientific studies reveal that they even exceed our closest relatives, the Chimpanzees, when it comes to understanding our communication signals. In other words, during the domestication process, dogs have developed…
Tagged with: Chimpanzee, Dog, dog cognition, Ethology, Human, Interpersonal relationship, Jennifer Cattet, SMART
Posted in Dog behavior, Dog training, Educational, Positive Animal Training, science
Posted in Dog behavior, Dog training, Educational, Positive Animal Training, science
Man’s Best Friend
We have shared our lives with man’s best friend for as long as 100,000 years now and quite naturally have developed a sense of familiarity, of closeness and understanding of one another. Many have speculated that because our social lifestyles…
Tagged with: Animal training, DNA, dog brain scans, dog cognition, domestication, Ethology, Gray wolf, Jennifer Cattet, Neuroimaging, Pets, SMART, Technology
Posted in Dog behavior, Educational, Positive Animal Training, Resource
Posted in Dog behavior, Educational, Positive Animal Training, Resource
What’s this blog about?
Smart Animal Training Systems was started by Wes Anderson, engineer and dog expert, to support the world of positive animal training through the use of smart technologies. Because I’m a scientist and behaviorist, Wes asked me to write for this…
Tagged with: Animal training, Behaviorism, clicker training, Dog, Pet, reward based training, Technology, Training
Posted in Dog behavior, Educational, Positive Animal Training, Technology
Posted in Dog behavior, Educational, Positive Animal Training, Technology
My journey towards becoming a dog trainer & behaviorist…
Apache was a gorgeous Belgian Shepherd Groenendael. He was my very first dog that I had bought when I was 18 from a backyard breeder. At 8 weeks old, Apache had many behavior issues such as resource guarding. I was…
Tagged with: Dog, dog cognition, Ethology, horse, Jean Piaget, Jennifer Cattet, Konrad Lorenz, Nikolaas Tinbergen, SMART, University of Geneva
Posted in Dog behavior, Educational, Positive Animal Training
Posted in Dog behavior, Educational, Positive Animal Training