About Us
The Animal Behavior Center, LLC is an international education center helping people conveniently learn online via our live streaming services on animal behavior, training, and enrichment. We help the individual animal lover, shelters, zoos, wildlife educators, professional trainers and veterinary staff easily understand the science of behavior through positive reinforcement and Applied Behavior Analysis, no matter what the species of animal.
Coffee With The Critters
Join us every Sunday morning at 9 AM EST on The Animal Behavior Center’s Facebook page for a free, educational live-stream covering animal behavior, training, and enrichment. Our live-streams are fun, interactive and include demonstrations on animal training, Q&A’s, interviews with other animal professionals, and more. Be sure to turn on your notifications to know when we are live-streaming. All replays are available on our YouTube channel.
Lara’s strong focus on training as enrichment has definitely changed my approach in my day-to-day work with my own animals.
Services
The Animal Behavior Center offers personal, group, and online learning.
Custom Workshops
Design a workshop around your individual group of novices or expand your professional training skills through working with an array of species and behaviors.
Speaking
Interested in having Lara present at your venue? She can travel to your location or present via teleconferencing.
A Day With The Trainer
Come and spend a day, two, or three working next to Lara Joseph and the staff. See first hand how they work with animal behaviors, training and enrichment. A unique encounter.
Consultations
Lara offers online consultations, packages, and annual guidance for the individual or organization.
The Animal Behavior Center Memberships
Providing the convenience in distance learning, guidance, and advice at your fingertips.
Foundations of Animal Training & Behavior
$149/yr
Includes and is focused on companion animals:
- Monthly live-stream on animal behavior, training, or enrichment
- Monthly live-streamed Q&A’s
- Monthly, information-packed podcasts
- Free behavior related, live-streamed webinars
- Group activities
- Video library on behavior, training, and enrichment
- 1/2 off all Projects
- Immediate access to webinar library
- Available for virtual consultations, at an additional charge
Advanced Applied Animal Training & Behavior
$399/yr
Includes and is focused on people wanting more content, thinking about working with animals, Professional trainers, zoo trainers, shelter workers, bcbas and more.
- All benefits from Foundations of Animal Training & Behavior, plus list below
- Weekly live-stream on animal behavior, training, or enrichment
- Monthly live-streamed, group discussions
- Virtual networking activities
- Zoo training
- Behind the scene live-streams during travel and conferences
- Free virtual seating in all live-streamed webinars
- Group activities/paper reviews/problem solving
- Live-stream interviews with experts in the animal world
- Live-stream reviews of Members’ animal training videos
- Access to printable articles
- Online consultations at no charge
Species Specific Learning
Our Projects provide access to species specific learning. Bundle a Membership with a Project and save!
Members receive $100 off the non-member price (only $99 per project!)
If you are not a member but are interested in a membership, you can learn more at the Membership Page.
Webinars
Webinars are presentations you can attend from the convenience of your computer or mobile device. You can see and hear the presenter and watch the many examples given. Guidelines are very easy to follow and you can save the download for future references and replay. You can join from your computer, iPad, iPhone, Android or Windows Phone.
Featured Animal Training Products
Use the some of the same training tools we use when we work with animals here at The Animal Behavior Center.
If you have a deaf dog, angry parrot, or frustrated animal, I recommend contacting Lara at The Animal Behavior Center. Lara is a non-judgmental, start-where-you-are professional. The best way to help an animal you love with issues they have is to work on how you communicate with them; we weren’t all born knowing how to speak sign language or parrot or pig. So please, PLEASE ask a translator for help, if you can’t understand the animals around you. Lara is a translator; it’s her life’s work and clearly what she was put on this earth to do."
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