How do you become a better animal trainer?
Here’s four quick tips (discussed in more detail here):
- learn from many teachers
- learn from many individual animals
- learn from several animal species
- keep an open mind
Another useful approach is to acquire overall good trainer habits. And in the video below (chapter 12 from the final module of my online course Advanced Animal Training) I discuss what I think are 30 such useful trainer habits.
Not that the concepts are that terribly advanced, frankly – most of them are very useful to beginner trainers too! Continue reading “Good Trainer Habits”