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Gary Wilkes Seminars
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Gary Wilkes has spent many years working with dogs. His first eight years included working in shelters in the Pacific Northwest. This experience firmed his resolution that shelters aren't the way to fix animal problems. In 1986, Wilkes began offering behavior services to worried pet owners, for problem pets. A chance meeting with then-retired porpoise trainer, Karen Pryor, filled in a critical piece of information about how to connect behaviors to consequences. Wilkes applied the new knowledge to the specific tasks of behavior modification and training of dogs. By the time of the first-ever clicker training seminar, Wilkes had already clicker trained more than 1000 dogs. His commitment to providing methods based on long-term experience rather than speculation makes him the most dependable authority on clicker training – if he tells you it works, he's done it enough to know that it will work for you. . 
To date, Wilkes has privately clicker trained more than 5,000 dogs and their owners. He has successfully applied clicker training to virtually every dog sport and activity, including search and rescue, therapy work, herding, hunting, assistance dogs, obedience, conformation and agility. His protocol for correcting serious behavior problems was developed in his veterinary referral-based behavior practice in Phoenix, Arizona. A long-time consultant to a veterinary neurological practice, Gary's blend of theoretical and practical knowledge of behavior led MIT's whiz kids in the Media Lab to use Wilkes' perspective on dog behavior to create a ground-breaking artificial intelligence project. This work was featured on the PBS series, Scientific American Frontiers, hosted by Alan Alda.
Gary's ready (and sometimes sardonic) wit makes for an entertaining and dynamic presentation. His preference for hands-on seminars insures that the methods work with dogs and handlers regardless of their prior experience. The knowledge gained at a Click & Treat seminar will last for years to come –
For information about hosting a Gary Wilkes seminar, email to wilkesgm@aol.com
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