Hi Ann,
Happy to catch-up about this topic and provide some of my own examples for you to look at, if that helps? I am a current On-call Behaviorist(But I prefer Behavior and Enrichment Specialist as I'm not a Veterinary Behaviorist), Current Professional Certified Dog Trainer, former zookeeper, former animal management lecturer and building my portfolio for Behavior Consultant quals. with IAABC whilst working for Orange County Animal Services (Municipal Shelter). They only recently hired myself and another behaviorist (Full-time) at our shelter and we're building out this area as we go along. We are a larger shelter, intake is about 15,000 animals a year on average. With roughly 200 dogs currently.
When I get to my home computer, I'll upload what I've got--it's a work in progress and it's an amalgamation of what I do in private and shelter for dog training. But I use a mixture of google docs, forms, Microsoft forms, excel, etc. to record information.
Hope to hear from you soon, and great question! Will follow to see what others add!
Angel
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Angelina Lawson
Professional On-Call Behaviorist and Enrichment
Orange County Animal Shelter
FL
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-22-2023 09:41 AM
From: ann traynor-plowman
Subject: Sharing Training Documentation
Good afternoon, Everyone.
We received a small grant to hire a p/t dog trainer to help work with some of our more challenged dogs and to hold group training classes to help keep training consistent.
We are working with a trainer who may be able to help us outside of her business and we are working on the details.
She's invited us to bring some of our dogs to her group training classes, in the meantime.
As we need to document training for the dogs, how is everyone doing this? Old school on paper? Spreadsheets? ect...
Trainings would take place at the shelter and potentially at the offsite training group.
Ideally, the trainer(s) and volunteers will document their sessions and each training session would be sharable so we can track behavior and progress.
Additionally, we will be using the documentation/data for our grant reporting.
Does this make sense?
Thank you for your help!
Ann
#Behavior,TrainingandEnrichment
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ann traynor-plowman
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