I love working with puppies. Every week, when I start my puppy kindergarten class the same thought crosses my mind: I’m getting paid for this? I don’t just love working with puppies, I also love working with families with their new puppies. It’s a special time, and being a part of it is a privilege….
Author Archives: Eric Goebelbecker
Pet Play Therapy: Using Animals to Help Children
Pet Play Therapy is a way to use pets to help children deal with various emotional and behavioral problems. This week’s guest defines pet play therapy this way: “the integrated use of animals in the context of play therapy, in which appropriately-trained therapists and animals engage with children and families primarily in play interventions aimed…
Children and Dogs Are Safe Together with Jen Shryock
This week in the Cafe, Jen Shryock, the founder of Dogs and Storks has stopped in to discuss keeping children and dogs safe together, and tells us about her new project The Dog and Baby Connection. Jen Shryock – our guest Jen is a Certified Dog Behavior Consultant who has been training and fostering dogs…
Teaching Children to Stay Safe Around Dogs
Joan Orr of Doggone Safe joins the us in the cafe this week to discuss Doggone Safe’s Be a Tree program, their educational courses for parents and professionals, and of course, their exciting International Bite Prevention Challenge for 2011. This year Doggone Safe is challenging its members and Be a Tree presenters to teach 50,000…
Interview with Marjie Alonso, President of IAABC
Welcome to the first episode of Animal Cafe! This week I spoke to Marjie Alonso, the President and Executive Director of the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants (IAABC). We spoke about the IAABC, of which I am both a member and a Board member, and about our upcoming conference, which has a fantastic line…
