Join Kiki Yablon, Mary Hunter, MS, Dr. Keira Moore, Dr. Mindy Waite, Hannah McGee, Maia Nahele Owen, Debbie Jacobs, Eileen Anderson, and Laura Monaco Torelli for a weekend exploring practical applications of behavior analysis with animal learners. Attend remotely or in person.

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Check out The New York Times' Serial podcast series The Good Whale. Analyze the training plan for release. Where did it fail? Yes, many have strong feelings about orcas in captivity. The experiment to release this one has been done and its lessons shouldn't go to waste.

My beautiful Windsprite Stellaluna, who was taught better because of the work of animal training icon Karen Pryor, author of Don't Shoot the Dog and founder of Karen Pryor Academy, who passed recently. Training is teaching and teaching is about the individual in front of you. Skinner set the rules.

We will hold our Dog Trainers' Retreat on Aggression and Reactivity with Emily Lewis, CDBC, and Casey Matthews, KPA-CT May 30, 31 and June 1. How to Train Animals With Challenging Behaviors with Debbie Jacobs, CPDT-KA, RBT will take place June 28 and 29.

Left to right: Emily, Casey and Debbie.

The sheep of Lemon's Hope Sanctuary left to right: Hope, Gina and Louis. Note how Louis looks like Mark Zuckerberg. He's much friendlier, though.

New resident, Diablo. Rainy day makes for messy gray, but he's a serious cutie. He's getting to know long-time resident, Angel.

Inaugural sanctuary animal, Lemon the goat, scratching her head. Having been attacked by a dog, she is permanently disabled with a fused knee joint. She gets around well and has a prosthetic for occasional use.

Slowly introducing the animals of my Lemon's Hope Sanctuary. These long faces are seniors Henri, 25-ish, and Chance, 30.

Mini horse Angel says, "Hello, you gotta treat?" #minihorse

Most beautiful pup, Stellaluna.

Introducing one of my dogs, Winnie. #dogs