Contratulations to Alice, Alison, Arnita, Corinne, Donna, Jennifer, Jenny, Lisa, Mikkel, an Sarah. You join the ranks of the over 450 CTC graduates from the SF/SPCA Academy for Dog Trainers in the past 10 years.
Successful completion of projects and exams show you are ready to carry out the SPCA mission as you extend our leadership role worldwide.
Your class joins over 450 graduates who have received the honor of a Certificate in Training and Counseling (CTC) since the Academy began 10 years ago.
Impact of our graduates is world wide.
Our graduates have major impact on dogs and communities while contributing to the core mission of the San Francisco SPCA.
“ … to save and protect animals, to provide care and treatment, to advocate for their welfare and to enhance the human-animal bond.”
This is quite a high standard, and I'm certain our graduates are supporting this mission far beyond the walls of out shelter and hospital.
Based on a recent survey of our graduates:
Every year, our graduates help thousands of dogs and people!
Our graduates:
- Teach 50 to 75 thousand people in obedience classes attended by about 50 thousand dogs
- Work 6,000 cases of aggression and separation anxiety
This represents thousands of dogs saved and thousands of families enjoying a stronger human-animal bond because of your fellow graduates.
Our graduates
- Are active in efforts to support dog-friendly legislation and defeat breed specific legislation
- Are rising in management of animal shelters
- Are in demand at shelters or rescue organizations
- Have written several books on training, veterinary behavior
- Have regular columns in newspapers
- Have regular blogs side by side with Ian Dunbar
- Have helped overturn Breed Specific Legislation
- Have presented to conferences, medical schools, zooz, and hospitals
- Helped 10,000 children in ER rooms
- Worked with animal handlers in zoos to provide stimulation and help with animal husbandry. (over 50% of giraffes die during routine dental work because anesthesia is deadly. )
- Many are earning advanced degrees in behavior analysis.
- Come from Brazil, Russia, Italy, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Canada, Australia, Ireland, UK, and the Unites States.
- Many work with little or no support from local shelters in areas where animals are routinely trained with pain, making inroads using the style of training taught at the economy.
The future is in good hands.
Some of you will face challenges when you return home, but you’ve proven you have the training and thinking skills to stand up to those who whisper.
- Get out and start working with people and dogs;
- Share your gifts, apply the tools.
- Continue learning
- Question. Everything! Even what we’ve taught!
Sincerely
John Buginas
Instructor, SFSPCA Academy for Dog Trainers.
p.s. I want to personally thank your for helping me work out details in my attempt to modernize academy instructional techniques.
- Improving the way we use Chickens to teach basic mechanics.
- Video taping and analyzing the training of each of your project dogs.
- Working with interns helping team training. This is an improvement to the internship program AND the academy experience.
- Teaching your dog a trick to prove you can design and implment a training plan from start to finish, rather than the cookie cutter plans we start you out with.
- Online quizzes to improve instruction and provide faster feedback.
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