Hello? The Elemental Questions
Exploring Social Interactions: Part One of the Elemental Questions Webinar Series
Dogs are social species.
Humans are social Species.
Let's have some social interactions!
Wait. . . Does being a social species mean you’re automatically up for any and all social interactions? Should we expect that our dogs should be friendly with everyone? (Are you?) When we say friendly, what do we actually mean?
The Elemental Question – “HELLO?” – takes a look at what being a social species means and doesn’t mean, and how social interactions can vary. How can we ask this question in ways that are fair and respectful? How might the dog answer when we say, “Are you interested in interacting with me?”
The Elemental Questions distill Suzanne’s decades of experience into simple yet profound inquiries that provide the answers we need to do our best by the animals in our care. While easily listed, each question can be asked in more nuanced ways with the answers understood at ever deeper levels as your experience grows.
You can join us for HELLO? or you can purchase the whole series.
YOU WILL LEARN
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Greeting vs. Investigation: Exploring the wide spectrum between polite interactions and intrusive behaviors from both humans and canines.
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Natural or Learned Behavior? Suzanne’s temperament assessment tool, CARAT, takes a unique approach to social behavior, breaking it down into Sociability, Social Use of Space, and Social Tolerance.
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Agency & Choice: When we allow dogs to choose whether or not they wish to engage, we can avoid forced interactions that can undermine trust or deepen a shy or fearful dog’s concerns.
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I Have To: Negotiating interactions that the dog may not choose, or lacks the skills to provide consent or agreement.
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In A World Full of People: Tips for helping dogs navigate social interactions with people, and helping people understand what dogs need from us in order to feel safe.
Social interactions are nuanced, challenging, and sometimes difficult. Like us, our dogs have many ways to respond to the seemingly simple question “Hello?”
This series will be spaced out through 2025. Each individual webinar will be available for purchase at $24.95 prior to the live airing date, and $29.95 after that. For those with subscriptions to the RCT Reference Collection, this series will be added one at a time, two months after the live airing date.
This webinar will be recorded, you can join live or access the recording within 48 hours after the airing date. You will have access to the recording for a year.
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Frequently Asked Questions
We apply for CEUs for IAABC, KPA and PPAB for each webinar, all CEUs are currently pending.
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