Collectively, we have worked in this industry for 70  years. Throughout our journeys, we have catalogued everything we felt we needed to know to help our clients and their pets stay safe. This program covers topics ranging from Communication and Social Behavior to Dog Bite Thresholds and Inhibition, as well as Assessing Dog Bites and Motivational Conflict.

All behaviors that dogs exhibit are designed either to access pleasurable situations and desirable objects or to avoid and escape unpleasant situations and undesirable objects. (Note: this is based on what each dog considers to be pleasant or unpleasant, not the human.

It is essential to be aware that the canine and human opinions may differ in any given situation!) A dog’s communication systems are highly ritualized and have evolved explicitly to avoid or mitigate conflict. This has enabled dogs, as a species, to be very successful in terms of their numbers, variety, and adaptability. Things, however, can go awry when we humans misread the signals dogs send us, leaving them helpless to effectively communicate their feelings to us, no matter how hard they try.

We cannot know or understand what dogs think and vice versa. What we can do, though, is understand their body language, observe them carefully as we interact with them, and then respond appropriately.

The Program includes 17 lessons on these important topics

Who Is This Program For?

This program is designed for anyone who works around or with dogs. The program prepares you to stay safe and provides the resources to help educate others on how to advocate for the importance of Dog Bite Prevention. Pet care professionals, Dog training and behavior professionals, community workers, home-based service companies and their employees. This program is for you

Learning to talk dog will:

• Help to enhance the relationship you have with your dog and the dogs you come into contact with daily. 
• Have an immediate impact on the way you meet and greet dogs in public.
• Help you effectively communicate with dogs, keeping both humans and canines safe.
• Help you reliably predict a dog’s future behavior given a set of conditions, and by understanding its communication, you can avoid being bitten and better educate others on bite prevention.
• Understand whether the training you are embarking on is reinforcing or punishing to the dog by effectively reading their body language and gaining a deeper understanding of their emotional state.
• Help enrich the lives of dogs by making them feel safer and more empowered through the application of consent testing.
• Open dogs up to a new world. Speaking Dog helps them feel more empowered, it enriches their lives, and can make them feel safer.
• Recognize that, like people, dogs’ personalities range from being social butterflies to wallflowers.

Join a program that has proven to be highly successful in the past, with hundreds of professionals participating and thoroughly enjoying it.