Staff Training
Increase your adoption rates, decrease your return rate, and euthanasia rate by training your staff how to appropriately test each dog that comes into your facility. Have more information on your available dogs than just your basics. Your staff will learn how to tests dogs social skill, play skills, behavior and personality. They will learn how to fix unwanted behavior to increase the chance of a dog getting adopted and they will learn how to deal with frightened and aggressive dogs and know how to distinguish between the two.
Seminars
Frightened and Aggressive Dogs
Teach your staff how to deal with frightened or aggressive dogs and how to distinguish between the two. Learn how to use calming signals to communicate and to help them adjust to their new situation.
Teaching Good Manner Prior to Adoption
Your staff can learn how to deal with those little annoyances that keep some dogs from being adopted. They don’t have to be a dog trainer; they just need to learn how to appropriately interact with the dogs.
How to “Sell” a Dog
Teach your staff how to be more involved in the adopters decision making process. Learn how to match a dog to the appropriate owner. Learn when it is appropriate to allow adopters to leave without a dog.
Understand Calming Signals
Teach your staff how to read and use calming signals to help calm down nervous, frightened, or aggressive dogs. A must-have class for anyone who deals with dogs on a regular basis.