Top 10 ATA FB shared members training videos 2017

FOREWORD

Within the Animal Training Academy (ATA) community, you never know what each day is going to bring. As the founder of ATA, I have the pleasure of witnessing the successes, support, and motivation that the community provides for both myself, other members and the wider community. Well done ATA members you are sensational and should be SUPER proud!

Ryan Cartlidge, ATA founder/director

TEN – Pets @ the table

If you live with a cat of ever have it’s possible you have experienced one that climbs all over the dinner table at undesirable times and jumps on the kitchen bench! In this video from Ayoe Hoff in the UK she beautifully uses station training to teach table manners with her two cats Elvis and Rylee.

Foundational behaviors to the rescue once again…

Or if you have a friend of the feathered variety maybe you will enjoy how ATA member Julian Novoa and Rasta the Alexandrian parrot from Melbourne Australia (at the end of the video) manage dinner time together.

NINE – Targeting by various ATA members

This was a video prepared to advertise an ATA members only LIVE web-class on target training. The video showcases the universality of target training performed by ATA members. Targeting has so many different applications and can be used in so many different situations to achieve so many different goals!

The sky is the limit!

EIGHT – Jojo the Semi-Blind Ringtail possum

You would have seen Jojo featured in the previous video, this it the extended video from Shalon Mead of Melbourne Australia. I wanted to share it again because it requires special accolades as Jojo is actually partially blind. Jojo is a rehabilitated Ringtail possum from Australia and due to her injury, the decision was made not to release her back into the wild.

Vanilla essence was used on the end of this target stick to add an extra piece of information into Jojo’s environment helping her understand what was required and where to stick her nose! This was also eventually used to ask her to voluntarily come out of her nest box and also to be weighed. Can you see her using her nose?

SEVEN – Empowerment training

What earns the click?

The criterion is pretty simple really just do something novel. This great training is done by ATA member Rose-Marie Helle and her Nordic Spitz Hund Flickan in Denmark. Rose reported after starting this training watching Flickan’s confident soar in new settings and surroundings! … An important traiing goal for us all to consider!

SIX – See-saw horsey

To build on the above video and showcase some of the great confidence building training done by ATA members check out Carola Schlanhof and the beautiful Lele the horse practicing their balance on these saw saws in Austria.

FIVE – Tortise Step-ups

How do you move a baby tortoise from location A to location B? Get it to step onto your hand of course!

Watch Linda Brodzik and Dewberry the tortoise (living in Nebraska, USA) in this beautiful demonstration of Choice. A choice is offered to Dewberry by asking if he/she (sex is still undetermined) is ready to be moved around by getting him to climb onto Linda’s hand. SO COOL!

FOUR – Chicken target

This video was the first time trainer Kim Archer, from Brooklands Zoo in New Zealand had target trained an animal from scratch. This video was shared on FB to demonstrate Kim’s awesomeness and the wonderful progress she had made with Snow (Van Gough) the Chicken.

THREE – Group training

In this video, Veronica Gordon from Halls Gap Zoo Australia shows the value in color and shapes to help us train more then one animal at a time… Check out the amazing training she does with these three beautiful Meerkats

TWO – Alpaca Weighing

How do you weigh an Alpaca… with some stationing and targeting obviously?

Just ask Jo Beattie! Here you can watch the sensational work she has done with Ricotta the Alpaca at Brooklands Zoo in New Zealand. GOLD STARS all around for you Jo ! Wonderful training 🙂

ONE – R+ Horseback riding

In an animal training genre steeped in tradition, it’s so beautiful to see the application of our science used with such Beauty! Well done Angelica Hesselius for this wonderful piece of training. This is SO GREAT … below you will watch the edit of one of Angelica’s video’s used to welcome her into the ATA community via FB ?