Animal Training Academy

This post is all about the value of practising your mechanics! Mechanics = all the physical movements you require during a training session…

Training chin rests & cooperative care behaviours Recently we have been having a lot of fun within the Animal Training Academy Membership focusing on chin

Taking your cat for a walk [with Mellisa Millet] A lot of our Animal Training Academy members work towards being able to take their cats

4 ideas for training voluntary ear flushes [with Chirag Patel] Recently we were super lucky to have the fantastic Chirag Patel join us live within

Being authentic on social media Wifey has often told me I must clean my office more while filming training videos with Fibi-dog! I’ve always been

NOTE: This blog post was initially created in 2019, but I wanted to re-share some of the awesomeness from my Cyber Scent experience! – So here are [another] 5 of my favourite training videos of mine [Ryan Cartlidge] and Fibi’s scent work adventure back in 2019.

NOTE: This blog post was initially created in 2019, but I wanted to re-share some of the awesomeness from my Cyber Scent experience! – So here are 5 of my favourite training videos of mine [Ryan Cartlidge] and Fibi’s scent work adventure back in 2019.

[Part 2] – Change your life; by reaching out to other animal trainers… In part one of this blog, we talked about why you might

Can I tell you a secret? [a fun behaviour to train] This week I [ATA’s founder Ryan Cartlidge] thought I would share a fun behaviour

Change your life – by reaching out to other animal trainers… Have you ever felt that you would like to ask another animal trainer for

Open mouth behaviour [on Kikopup’s YouTube channel] Have you trained an open mouth behaviour with your animal/s before? You might want to do this to

Five ideas to help with recall training… I consider a reliable recall a – ‘foundation behaviour’ – and one that allows our dogs more freedom.

[Practical exercise] – Your 2022 animal training goals, Splitting not lumping ? Happy 2022! I feel the start of a new year can offer a

Stuck on what behaviour to train next? Have you ever taken a break from training? And/or struggled to find your mojo regarding what behaviours you

[Animal Training Consults] Ideas for working with your human learners… This story is based on real events * I’ve been recently working with a client/human

Have you considered this loose leash walking approach? Over the years and through many conversations with various trainers we’ve heard lots of different thoughts, ideas,