COMING ATTRACTIONS FOR 2010


The Humane Society of Missouri proudly presents


Alternative Approaches to Healing
Canine Health and Behavior


a Nicole Wilde seminar based upon her new book

Energy Healing for Dogs"Energy Healing for Dogs "

Most of us are familiar with treating canine health issues through traditional veterinary medicine, and behavior problems via training and behavior modification. But there are other useful modalities that can be amazingly useful when used in conjunction with those treatments.


Why limit the good you can do for dogs? Come and learn about some fascinating alternative approaches to healing canine health and behavior.
 

 

 

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Thanks to all of you who attended the September 22, 2009

Karen Pryor presentation

Guest Speaker


Karen Pryor, author of Don’t Shoot the Dog and
Reaching the Animal Mind


September 22, 2009  from 7:30 – 9 pm

Karen Pryor

Karen Pryor is an author with an international reputation in the fields of marine mammal biology and behavioral psychology. Through her work with dolphins in the 1960s, she pioneered modern, force-free animal training methods, and became an authority on applied operant conditioning - the art and science of changing behavior with positive reinforcement. Zoo and animal trainers will recognize her as the author of Don’t Shoot the Dog, a classic book on animal training. She is the founder and CEO of Karen Pryor Clicker Training.                                   

                                                                   

Reaching the Animal Mind

Karen will be here to speak about her new book, Reaching the Animal Mind. She shares the results of her quest to find out from leading neuroscientists why clicker training works and shares her personal experiences training and communicating with a wide variety of species. There will be a book signing for her new book which will be available for  purchase at the event.

                                      

Where: The event will be held in The Living World at the Saint Louis Zoo and will benefit both the Saint Louis Zoo and the Humane Society of Missouri.