ABRI

I'd like to welcome my colleagues, friends and visitors to this non-profit educational website. This website is made possible by the generous volunteer contributions of outstanding experts in the field of companion animal behavior. Their skills, time and knowledge have helped us offer a valuable set of resources. We hope you will enjoy watching these videos and learning how some top professionals manage the behavior of many different dogs -- with different behavior problems -- in the training center, veterinary hospital, animal shelter, or in the home. In particular, we hope that by making these videos available as a free download, you'll find them to be an effective resource to help educate and train your staff, clients, and associates.

As we launch this site, we will be updating the site regularly with over 100 videos featuring more than 40 professionals, as well as regular podcasts. Over the next six months we look forward developing even more material with additional volunteer professionals and broadening our resources to include books, articles from journals and links to other web sites including on-line telecourses, clicker training, and sites providing relevant educational material on companion animal behavior. Please let us know what is most useful to you and your clients, or give us your comments by contacting us.

Dr. Anderson is Professor Emeritus and Director, Center to Study Human Animal Relationships and Environments (CENSHARE) College of Veterinary Medicine and School of Public Health, University of Minnesota. He is co-inventor of the "Gentle Leader" headcollar and "Gentle Leader Easy Walk" harness for dogs.

Minnesota Veterinary Medical Association as Veterinarian of the Year 1977
American Veterinary Medical Association as Companion Animal Veterinarian of the Year 1987
American Humane Association Waco Childers Award 2000
American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Life Time Achievement Award 2005

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