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AnimalBehaviorist.us Training, Behavior, Presentations, Workshops













Animal Behavior Consultations and Training



Frania Shelley-Grielen is a masters level animal behaviorist, an expert on both cats and dogs, using science based, force free behavior modification and training.


* Puppy and dog training*


* "Board and train" and "walk and train" options for puppies*


* Aggression


* Separation anxiety


* Resource Guarding


* Anxiety/fear/reactivity


* House training/undesirable elimination


* Feral cat socialization


* New cat integration


* Cat/Dog integration


* Pica (eating inedibles)


* More.


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Pet Care Worker
Skills and Handling Seminars/Workshops



Shelters, day cares, veterinary clinics, more. Pet care facilities depend on trained personnel to offer the highest standards of care and handling. Let us offer your staff individualized training by a New York State Education Department licensed Pet Care Technician Teacher tailored to the needs of your facility.


Topics include:


Animal behavior and handling


Anatomy and Breed Recognition


Environmental management


Animal and staff safety and security


Vaccinations and Parasite Control Zoonotic Disease


Nutrition


Detection of Abnormalities


Emergency First Aid


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Making Time for Behavior -Bite Safety/Scratch Prevention for Veterinary Professionals and Schools



Postal workers and veterinary professionals are the most risk at work of being bitten by dogs on their jobs. In the home, children between the ages the ages of 5-9 are the most at risk of being bitten by dogs and 2/3 of children bitten are boys. Bites mostly occur with a dog in the home and not a stray dog. We can change these numbers by learning the safest ways to listen to what cats and dogs are telling us and the best ways to interact with them. Make time for Behavior We offer Bite and Scratch Safety and understanding canine and feline body language programs for youth along with handling and skill development workshops for pet care workers in shelters, day cares, veterinary clinics and more. Frania is a licensed Pet Care Technician Instructor and certified Doggone Safe Bite Safety Educator.


Our Behavior Education programs target your learners at their level, build empathy and help to improve skills for lower stress levels for companion animals and the professionals who work with them.

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Humane Trap Neuter and Release Protocols and Best Practices



The effectiveness of our TNR programs are in the outcomes: stable or diminishing populations and the welfare of the animals affected by our efforts. humane protocols and practices for colony caretakers, animal behavior professionals, students, humane societies, etc. Frania's protocols are informed by conceptual foundations and hands on experience with cat colony care taking in urban settings.


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Compassionate Conservation and Humane Management for Urban Wildlife



We have a choice in how we manage the wildlife in our urban landscape. From Quaker parrots in Brooklyn, Canada geese at our airports and raccoons in New York City parks: here's a look: Parrots /Canada geese / Raccoons


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We Participate in Project Trade



We participate in tRADE - turn in your Shock collars, Choke chains, Prong collars, Scat Mats and Bark Collars for a 10% discount on one sessions and 15% off a training package.


How Would You Like to Trade Your Old Dog Training Equipment for Great Discounts? We want to swap great discounts on our most popular services FOR your choke, prong or shock collars or any other qualifying pet gear. By participating in “Project tRade” you can earn up to 15% off our most popular services simply by giving us old pet gear* you have laying around. It couldn’t be easier!


What is “Project tRade”?


Project tRade is the Pet Professional Guild's (PPG) international advocacy program that promotes the use of force-free pet training equipment by asking pet guardians to swap choke, prong and shock collars (and any other devices that are designed to change behavior through pain or fear). Because we want all pets and their guardians to experience the huge advantages and long-lasting effectiveness of force-free training and pet care, we will give you great discounts on our most popular, effective, fun and pain-free training and pet care services in exchange for your old gear.


Effective, humane animal training and pet care methods are the foundation of any animal’s healthy socialization and training and help prevent behavior problems. Since a wide variety of equipment and tools are commonly used when training pets, the pet-owning public needs to be aware of the potential problems and dangers some equipment may pose. Specifically, the use of collars and leads that are intended to apply constriction, pressure, pain or force around a dog’s neck (such as ‘choke chains’ and ‘prong collars’) should be avoided. Distinguished veterinarians and behaviorists worldwide are joining the discussion and calling for the elimination of such devices from the training efforts of both pet owners and professionals.


What Do the Experts Say?


Respected veterinarian and thyroid expert, Dr. Jean Dodds, recommends against choke or prong collars “as they can easily injure the delicate butterfly-shaped thyroid gland that sits just below the larynx and in front of the trachea. These collars can also injure the salivary glands and salivary lymph nodes on the side of the face underneath both ears.”


Bestselling author and canine behaviorist, Jean Donaldson, says: "These devices (choke and prong collars), when they work, do so to the degree that they hurt. With the advent of modern methods and tools they are irrelevant.”


According to veterinarian and veterinary behaviorist Dr. Soraya V. Juarbe-Diaz: "Using punishment to stop behaviors is not new. Notice I say ‘stop’ rather than ‘teach’ -- I can stop any behavior, but I am more interested in teaching my students, animal or human, to choose the behavior I want them to perform because they can trust me, because I do not hurt them and they are safe with me, and because the outcome is something they enjoy.”


PPG thus encourages all pet owners and pet professionals to embrace modern, scientifically based, training techniques and tools, especially the latest generation of no-pull harnesses which are free of the risks posed by traditional collars and offer far more benefits. So swap your gear and help create a kinder world for you and your pet!


To learn more just visit PetProfessionalGuild.com.


*qualifying pet gear = prong collars, shock collars, pinch collars, choke chains, citronella collars and the like.



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Positive Science Based Behavior and Training
for Cats and Dogs
by a Licensed Masters Level Expert
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