Super-k9.com : Brenda Aloff Seminar - Sept. 19th and 20th in Edmond, OK

BRENDA ALOFF

CEUs for CCPDT: 6 per day
CEUs for IAABC: 6 per day

RESERVE A SPOT TODAY!! DON’T MISS THIS SEMINAR!!

Registration is limited to 50 people!!!

This seminar is for ANYONE involved with dogs!

People only please! There will be dog demos.
Service dogs & Service dogs in training welcome.

Brenda Aloff

Canine Body Language: Learn how to read various signals, sort out the meanings and use Canine Body Language in your everyday interactions with your dog and enhance your training.

Why your dog makes mistakes: Learn about the reasons that you get training errors.

Learn how to place proper structure and apply boundaries in a humane, ethical way to your Positive Reinforcement Training Program.

Emotions & the Training Process: How to Stay Out Of Your Own Way: One of the all time biggest training problems is the trainer – how to communicate most effectively with your dog.

Body Language
Teaching emphasis on:

Body orientation
Silhouette
Nose orientation
Eyes & eye positions
- - Live demo with dog approaches, person approaches, touching.
Hind Brain vs. Front Brain Paradigm
Laws of Learning: Behaviourism & Beyond
- - Learn how to use sensitization, desensitization and the process of habituation.
Thresholds: how to discover and use them, using the dog's feedback (body language) to determine thresholds.

Cancellations and refund policy: All cancellations must be made in writing and postmarked or emailed no later than August 15th, 2009 for a refund (less a $50.00 processing fee). Cancellations postmarked or emailed after August 15th, 2009 and no-shows are not eligible for a refund. Refunds requested after the no-refund date related to life crises including, but not limited to, the death of an immediate family member may be granted (minus a reasonable processing fee) at the sole discretion of Super-K9 Training/Michele Crouse.

Brenda Aloff has been involved with animals her entire life. She got her first pony when she was four and had a succession of horses, which she showed both in the Open and Class A Circuit. Her family always had pet dogs and working hunting dogs (upland game dogs and hounds). Her mother's father was a farmer. Love of and forming relationships with animals is as natural for Brenda as breathing, and as necessary. She does not believe this is enough though; the development of mechanical skills and the mental game is everything in animal training.

Brenda showed horses on the 4-H circuit and open circuit starting at age 9. As she got a bit older, 16 or so, she showed on the Class A Circuit, Arabs, Morgans and Saddlebreds, did private riding instruction and trained many different horses (including initial backing), for herself and others, and worked with various professional trainers, was a 4-H Group Leader, and involved in Riding Programs for the Handicapped. At age twenty-five Brenda had her daughter, showed horses for another couple of years and then retired her old show horse and raised her baby.

Beginning in 1993, Brenda opened and operated a commercial boarding kennel and did in home behavioral counseling. In 2000, she devoted herself entirely to behavior consultations and training and built a training center building. Brenda has written several manuscripts on dog training and behavior, given training seminars, given private and group lessons (for several years she taught 2 group classes every night Monday through Friday and did 2 to 5 behavior consults a day), produced a canine television program, and served as a consultant in canine behavior for local media sources.

As a hobby Brenda has competed with Smooth Fox Terriers, a GSD and a Border Collie in AKC and UKC Obedience, as her demanding schedule has allowed. She has also competed in Agility and Freestyle with Smooth Fox Terriers. She has shown a Smooth Fox Terrier to a breed championship with three major wins. Brenda's students have numerous titles in both competition Obedience, Tracking, Earthdog Tests, Freestyle, Schutzhund and Agility.

Brenda has evaluated and temperament-tested many, many litters of puppies and older rescue dogs.

Brenda did about 13 years of rescue work, mostly Smooths, but she often went to the local shelter and rehabilitated many mixed breeds as well. She did the evaluation, rehabilitation, and screened and placed the dogs in homes.

Brenda has also worked with Search and Rescue teams and works on a regular basis with a local SAR team with problem solving various training issues that come up. She has done clinics for several SAR teams both in Michigan and on the East Coast.

She has done numerous clinics for humane societies and rescue groups and shelters (in the US and in Canada).

Brenda has done specialized work with Scent Detection (melanoma cancer cells), and has also worked with cadaver dogs as well as live find dogs.

Brenda has done consulting work for Leader Dogs For The Blind in Rochester Hills, Michigan, as well as working one on one with their trainers and doing clinics for them. She has taken some of their dogs home and done service work with them, to evaluate dogs and to return them into the program after a "problem" has developed. She has done clinics for Paws With A Cause service dogs.

Brenda has done field work once the service dogs have been placed in their homes, on a private basis; helping the dogs and handlers with problems that were encountered. An example is a dog whose blind handler was hit by a car and then the dog and handler had, understandably, some confidence issues. Another fellow had a dog and didn't want to give the dog up; he was in a wheelchair (quadriplegic), so she trained this dog to do service work for him.

Brenda's area of specialization is problem behaviour in canines. A large percentage of her practice consists of dogs that are referred to her when traditional training techniques have been exhausted or failed. A high percentage of her clientele consists of dogs with aggression problems.

Currently Brenda is re-training a Morgan gelding for dressage. His former career was Saddle Seat. The first year she showed him he was Midwest Dressage Association Intro To Dressage Champion, and last year he was Midwest Dressage Training Level Novice Horse Champion. On a National level, Knolltop's First Edition garnered high percentage in the American Morgan Horse Open Competition (Schooling Shows).

Brenda keeps sheep and has done lambing, shearing, hand spinning, etc. She uses her Border Collie for farm work and herding with the sheep.

Brenda has written and produced programs for the local TV station on what you need to know before you get a dog. It was very popular and aired several times.

Brenda has done radio interviews with a variety of people, including Steve Dale of WGN radio in Chicago.

Currently she has a monthly appointment to interview and take live questions onWTOK Speak! Radio (Oklahoma City) with Pat Becker Wallas (producer of dog programs for PBS television) and Kaylan Head (a professional dog trainer).

Seminar will be held at:

Local Hotels

As of May these are the hotels that do or do not allow dogs, please call the hotel and verify the information for yourself as their policies might have changed.

La Quinta Inn   DOGS ALLOWED
3003 W Memorial Rd, Oklahoma City, OK
Website  |  phone: (405) 755-7000  |  8.03 miles away

Best Western Edmond Inn & Suites   DOGS ALLOWED - $15.00 non-refundable pet deposit
2700 E 2nd Street
Edmond, OK, 73034
Website  |  phone: (405) 216-0300  |  11.90 miles away

Stafford Inn   NO DOGS
1809 E 2nd St.
Edmond, OK
Website  |  phone:405-340-8197  |  7.82 miles away

Intown Suites Edmond   NO DOGS
2221 S Broadway
Edmond, OK
405-216-8247 (7.91 miles away)

Hilton Garden Inn-Oklahoma   NO DOGS
3201 NW 137th St.
Oklahoma City, OK
405-752-5200 (7.97 miles away)

SpringHill Suites Oklahoma City Quail Springs   NO DOGS
3201 W Memorial Rd.
Oklahoma City, OK
Website  |  phone: (405) 749-1595  |  8.04 miles away

Comfort Inn & Suites Quail Springs   NO DOGS
13501 Highland Park Blvd.
Oklahoma City, OK
Website  |  phone: (405) 286-2700  |  8.21 miles away

Edmond Convention & Visitors
For more hotel info
Website  |  phone: (405) 341-4344

Brenda Aloff

$125.00 for 1 day $225.00 for both days

Seminar will be held at:

Local Hotels

$125.00 for 1 day
$225.00 for both days