For Animal Welfare Professionals
ONE-DAY WORKSHOP—TWO GREAT SESSIONS!
David Muriello, CPDT-KA, School Director, CATCH Canine Trainers Academy
Wednesday, January 29 10:30 am-2:30 pm
St. Hubert’s Community Room, 575 Woodland Avenue, Madison
$10 includes lunch, Seating is Limited!
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Part 1- Making Multi-Dog Magic - Instead of Conflict
David will enhance this topic calling upon his experience with the recent integration of a new dog into the family where the resident canine has been 8 years solo in the home. Learn the training exercises and management tips that will enable you to assist adopters and fosters with successfully introducing newcomers into households where one or more dogs already reside.
Part 2- Training for Conversation and Situation
Be Still and Listen to the Dog! Now Teach Her What to Do in THIS Situation.
Done with the word “command” yet? It’s been part of the brand of dog training for decades and it’s taken for granted that basic obedience behaviors are called commands, but what does that imply? Unrealistic expectations for one thing, but it is also dumbing down the dogs. Dogs are much smarter (and more loveable) than a robot to which you give commands in order to get what you want. You can actually talk to dogs about it. David will show you how. This session will explore how conversational training can be more fun for both human and dog, producing the powerful results the trainer wants. Warning – David may not use many cues (modern term formerly known as commands)! Together you’ll look at training for real-life situations instead of that pretend obedience competition in your head that you were probably never planning to attend anyway!
As always when David presents, live demonstrations with dogs in St. Hubert’s shelter are included.
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David Muriello is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer and the founder of CATCH Canine Trainers Academy. CATCH is a national study program for dog lovers who want to get certified in professional training and behavior. CATCH has self-paced courses that can be taken from anywhere in the country and full-week intensive workshops with shelter dogs. Those workshops are run in partnership with St. Hubert's on our Madison campus five times per year.
David is a Cornell University graduate who has had a highly successful dog training career in New York City. He founded and led a multi-location dog training business for Biscuits & Bath, a Manhattan based total wellness center for dogs, now with 13 NYC locations. After leading the dog training team there since 2005, in 2010 David became the Director of Operations, furthering the training and behavior knowledge for the entire business including day care and dog walking services.
David has appeared as a dog expert on ABC-TV’s Rachael Ray Show and in Dog Fancy Magazine. He was also a member of the Education Advisory Group for the APDT (Association of Professional Dog Trainers), the annual emcee for New York City’s Central Park PAWS Best in Park Dog Show, and a national speaker for the PetCo Foundation's wonderful Adoption Options events.
