Friday March 4                                                                                                       Moderator: Alice

Meeting Begins/Introductions 9:00 am

Zawistowski                 9:30                           Dog Bite and Breed Legislation

Borchelt                      10:00                           Dog Bites and Scratches

Break          10:30 – 11:00           

Hunthausen                11:00                           Taking the Behavioral History

Marder/Engel             11:30                           Rates of Problem Behaviors in Dogs    

Lunch         12:00 – 1:00    (12:30 Engel : Internet resources for pet owners)

Panel                             1:00                             Dog Temperament/Adoption Matching Panel

                                                                          Barry, Masters, McLeroy, Mollaghan, Williams, Voith

Break           3:00 – 3:30

Wright                         3:30                             Rating Dogs Temperament and Adoptability

Coppola                        4:00                             Human Contact Reducing Stress for Shelter Dogs

Hayes                           4:30                              Effects of Obedience on Shelter Dogs

                                      5:00                              Meeting ends

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Saturday March 5                                                                                                    Moderator: Wayne

Panel                            9:00                               Growing the Field

                                                            Shyan-Norwalt, Borchelt, Williams, Hetts, Estep, Nitschke, Voith

Break         10:30 – 11:00

Pezzanite                    11:00                              Case study: Arousal Conditioned to People Leaving

Reid                             11:30                              Case studies: Modification of Aggression in Shelter Dogs

                 Lunch       12:00 – 1:00   (12:30    Pryor       I-Click and Clicker plus) cancelled

McConnell                   1:00                              Canine Cognition

Martyn                          2:00                              Human/Canine Communication

 Break        3:00 – 3:30

Panel                             3:30                               Canid Play Styles

                                                             Moon, Koler-Matznick, London, Nitschke 

                                       5:00                               Meeting ends

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Sunday March 6th                                                                                                   Moderator: Suzanne

Williams                      9:00                            Restraint Equipment for Pulling Dogs

Yin                               9:30                              Training with Remote Positive Reinforcement Device

Wennmacher              10:00                           Reinforcement Schedules

   Break       10:30 – 11:00

Forthman                    11:00                            Factors Associated with Severity of Canine Aggression

Sobie                            11:30                           Relative Victim/Aggressor Size Inter-dog Aggression

                   Lunch       12:00 – 1:00

_____                           1:00                            To be announced

R.K Anderson             1:30                             Puppy vaccinations and socialization

Panel                             2:00                             Summary Plan from Growing the Field Panel

   Break         3:00 – 3:30

                                        3:30 – 5:00                  Business meeting and discussion of 06 agenda

                                        5:00                             Meeting ends