Meet Camille Lina, the owner of Shake It Off Dog Training, based in Yountville. Lina describes herself as a “fear-free, positive reinforcement-based dog trainer,” certified by the Karen Pryor Academy ... Vivi Myslik Jorgensen (VivaPaws LLC), a resident of Saint George, recently graduated with distinction from Karen Pryor Academy and has been named a Certified Training Partner.

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Vivi Myslik Jorgensen is ... IN “DON’T SHOOT THE DOG”, her seminal behavioural-training book of 1984, Karen Pryor recalled a dolphin researcher telling her that “nobody should be allowed to have a baby until they have first been ... Renowned animal trainer Karen Pryor of Karen Pryor Clickertraining and the Karen Pryor Academy will present "Reaching the Animal Mind without Losing Yours," during a special event at the Oregon Zoo. A ...

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She was so successful at training dolphins that she began applying the same techniques to other creatures, including dogs — and humans. By Penelope Green Karen Pryor once taught a hermit crab to ring ... In her new book, Reaching the Animal Mind ($25, Scribner), Karen Pryor offers a lively, wide-ranging overview of the use of operant conditioning for training, well, nearly any animal you can think of. Karen Pryor is a behavioral biologist, a pioneering dolphin trainer, and an authority on applied operant conditioning—the art and science of changing behavior with positive reinforcement. Her book, ...

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Oregonian: Animal trainer Karen Pryor to speak at the Oregon Zoo on Jan. 26