General Learning Principles AKA The Daily Grind - conference recording

Erica Feuerbacher, PhD, CAAB, BCBA-D, Virginia Tech University

Teaching animals in our shelter useful skills helps them and our staff. New skills can make that animal’s life better as it accesses more rewards and is hopefully developing desirable behaviors for post-adoption; a dog or cat with more desirable behavior can make our staff’s lives better by the animal being easier to handle each time they need to interact. In every interaction we have with an animal, they are learning something. This means that anyone that interacts with a dog or cat, whether kennel staff, the adoption team, the marketing team, or more can have a positive impact on its behavior, with a little understanding of basic principles and consideration for what the animal is learning from us. In this session, we will review the basics of animal learning and focus on routine examples of how we can easily apply these principles in our daily interactions with shelter animals. This session is especially designed for the non-behavior professional to learn how small changes in our behavior can have big impact for the animals in our care.
This presentation was recorded at the 2022 ASPCA Maddie's Cornell Shelter Medicine Conference

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