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How Playing With Your Dog Strengthens Bonds | Talking Dog EP: 2 with Dr. Amy Cook | What About Bunny
Talking Dog – What About Bunny
The Play Way is Amy’s method of helping shy and fearful dogs overcome these issues to live a happier, less-stressed life. Rather than focusing on food, as many do when working with these dogs, Amy has established a more nuanced rehabilitation process that revolves around play. She believes play is a much more reliable method of judging a dog’s true behavioral thresholds, while being equally effective at changing the dog’s conditioned emotional response to particular stimuli…
[Episode 134] Amy Cook, PhD – ‘The Play Way’
Animal Training Academy
Ryan asks Amy to take us back to when she started with training with positive reinforcement. 9:30 – Ryan and Amy discuss her PhD further and the questions that were raised through her PhD and how her research resulted in studying and researching studies involving children. 15:40 – Amy explains that the approach at UC Berkeley was focused around cognition rather than psychology and asking cognitive questions rather than focussing on ethology and behaviour.
The Play Way – Yappy Hour With Dr. Amy Cook
Paws & Reward Podcast
In Episode 41, Marissa is joined by Dr. Amy Cook as they discuss the best ways to play with our dogs. As many listeners might know, Amy is the creator of the Play Way, a wonderful framework used to help pet parents drop in, connect, and play with their dogs. One might think they don’t need help learning how to play with their dog, but trust me, you most likely do!.
Real dogs, Real training
Drinking From The Toilet
In this conversation we talked about: The importance of having empathy with your learner Considerations when working with humans as learners The importance of putting emotional state first, whether working with people or dogs (or both!) A number of other stream-of-consciousness dog training topics (as you do…)
E249: Amy Cook, PhD – “3 Ways to Change”
Fenzi Dog Sport Podcast
Amy teaches three different classes, each with a very different approach — in this episode we talk about the what and why of each.
Managing Reactivity with Dr Amy Cook
CogDog Radio
Amy Cook, PhD is a dog behavior consultant extraordinaire and she sat down to chat with Sarah about the importance of planned, trained, and rehearsed management strategies for navigating the world with reactive dogs.
The Play Way – Yappy Hour With Dr. Amy Cook
Dogaritaville
Dogaritaville is excited to present the Yappy Hour, where we unleash and unwind with other dog professionals! This week’s guest is Dr. Amy Cook, a professional dog trainer and applied animal behaviorist in Oakland, CA. Amy is the creator of The Play Way, a revolutionary system that helps dogs and their owners work through fear and reactivity.
E217: Amy Cook – Living and Loving a Reactive Dog
Fenzi Dog Sport Podcast
Going deep in this episode on management vs. training, her approach to treating reactivity, and what to do while you work on it.
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E217: Amy Cook – Living and Loving a Reactive Dog
Fenzi Dog Sport Podcast
Going deep in this episode on management vs. training, her approach to treating reactivity, and what to do while you work on it.
Conversation with Amy Cook
Drinking From The Toilet
This week we spend some time hanging out with Amy Cook, PhD. Amy is a fast-talking, tap-dancing, ultra-cool dog geek who teaches with me at the Fenzi Dog Sports Academy. Amy has been training dogs for over 20 years. She earned a PhD in Psychology from UC Berkeley. Her research focused on the dog-human relationship and its effect on the problem-solving strategies dogs employ.
Episode 230: Noise Sensitivity in the Agility Dog with Amy Cook – Part 1
Bad Dog Agility
Amy Cook joins Sarah and Esteban to talk about noise sensitivity in agility dogs. Dr. Cook earned her PhD in Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley and has been training dogs and dog trainers for 25 years. Part 1 of 2.
Episode 231: Noise Sensitivity in the Agility Dog with Amy Cook – Part 2
Bad Dog Agility
Dr. Amy Cook joins Sarah and Esteban to talk about noise sensitivity in agility dogs. Dr. Cook earned her PhD in Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley and has been training dogs and dog trainers for 25 years. Part 2 of 2.
E183: Amy Cook – “Teaching Your Dog How to Feel”
Fenzi Dog Sport Podcast
Amy and Melissa talk about what it means to have a well adjusted dog — plus handling situations where maybe your dog isn’t acting particularly well-adjusted.
E107: R+2.0 with Amy Cook, PhD., Sarah Stremming, and Shade Whitesel
Fenzi Dog Sport Podcast
What’s the future of positive training? We brought on Amy, Sarah, and Shade to talk about it and share their experiences with R+2.0.
E90: Amy Cook – “Dogs with Noise Sensitivity”
Fenzi Dog Sport Podcast
Dr. Amy Cook, PhD., joins Melissa to talk about dogs with noise sensitivity. What can you do about it? Is it treatable? We talk about all that and more!
E62: Amy Cook – “Thresholds and Therapy vs. Management”
Fenzi Dog Sport Podcast
Amy Cook: Thresholds [makes “doom music” sounds] …
Melissa Breau: Threshold is definitely a word that gets thrown around a lot when it comes to reactivity. Do you mind sharing a little bit about what it typically means?
Amy Cook: It’s great that we open with that, because of course you want to open with a definition, it makes sense, except that that very thing is a huge can of worms. It takes a lot of time to unpack it all fully, and I’ll be doing a webinar on this in June. I think it’s just after camp, I think it’s June 7 or so, where I’m really going to go into depth about all the stuff you need to know about it.
E44: Amy Cook – “Think, Plan, Do: Planning Your Training”
Fenzi Dog Sport Podcast
Melissa Breau: I have to agree with that. I definitely look at their pictures, cute puppy pix. I know that you’re probably most known at FDSA for something that I mentioned in the intro, your reactive dog classes that use your play-based approach to treating reactivity. But I want to focus on your Science of Training class today because I know it’s coming up. So to start us out, do you want to share a basic summary of what the class covers and what it’s all about?
Amy Cook: Yeah, sure. I love this class. This one is so fun to teach. It was first conceived of in concert with Denise’s The Art of Training class. We wanted to throw in The Science of Training to get people all on the same page about what the fundamentals are, but also how to get these mechanics in your body, how to get these details really solid before you go ahead and deviate from them and experiment and try to do different things that are outside of those experiences.
What my class is really focusing on is tightening trainer technique and finding these little areas that I think we don’t spend the time on, that we neglect, either because we’re not sure if they’re important, or we’re maybe not so good at them, and we practice the things we’re good at a lot. So I want to make sure we get right down to them and really understand them.
[Episode 134] Amy Cook, PhD – ‘The Play Way’
Animal Training Academy
Ryan asks Amy to take us back to when she started with training with positive reinforcement. 9:30 – Ryan and Amy discuss her PhD further and the questions that were raised through her PhD and how her research resulted in studying and researching studies involving children. 15:40 – Amy explains that the approach at UC Berkeley was focused around cognition rather than psychology and asking cognitive questions rather than focussing on ethology and behaviour.