Contact Hours
Saturday, April 2
7 Clock Hours

Sunday, April 3
7 Clock Hours

Date and Time
Saturday, April 2, 2005
8:30 am – 4:45 pm

Sunday, April 3, 2005
8:30 am – 5:00 pm

Location
Frick Auditorium, Mosier Hall, College of Veterinary Medicine, 1800 Denison, Manhattan, KS
Frick Auditorium is located on the second floor of Mosier Hall. Enter at the Emergency Entrance. Signs will be posted to direct you to registration.

Conference Registration Fee – none
The speakers’ expenses for the conference are paid from an endowment by Dr. Frank W. Jordan, Abilene, Kansas. Dr. Jordan established this fund in 1983 to enhance continuing education for veterinary medical practitioners, faculty, and students.

Conference Proceedings includes:
How to Behave So Your Dog Behaves by Sophia Yin
Conference Handouts by Drs. Ketz-Riley, Lay, Wallentine, and Yin
Order your proceedings on the enclosed registration form:
$25.00 (pick-up at conference)
$35.00 (mailed to you following the conference)

Questions

If you have any questions please contact Linda Johnson by phone at 785-532-5696 or e-mail at VMCE@vet.k-state.edu, Veterinary Medical Continuing Education at the K-State College of Veterinary Medicine. If you have questions regarding registration information, call Rebecca at 785-532-5569.

Workshop Objectives
Behavior modification is simple when you understand the basic concepts.

On Saturday, Dr. Yin will cover the basic principles that guide learning and behavior in all animals ranging from cats and dogs to horses and giraffes. Through a series of videos, case studies, demonstrations, and exercises, attendees will learn how to apply their knowledge to every-day situations and to problem solve new pet behavior problems that they come across. These talks will lay a foundation for the small animal talks on Sunday. Dr. Ketz-Riley will bring perspective to the operant conditioning of exotic and zoo animals.

Sunday will feature behavior topics applicable to all species.

Dr. Yin’s lectures will focus on applying the basic learning concepts and problem solving techniques to specific common behavior problems in animals ranging from cats, to cattle, to giraffes and lemurs. Simple changes will be discussed that can encourage puppies and kittens to love their veterinary visits and participants will be introduced to the Treat and Train professional dog training system.

Dr. Wallentine will provide an in-depth look at canine fears and phobias and what perpetuates them.

Dr. Lay will provide insight into livestock behavior and how it relates to their productivity. Discussion will include the difficulties of assessing fear in a variety of livestock; the profound effect that fear may have on production livestock; how management procedures can be implemented to reduce the negative effects of fear, thereby increasing productivity and animal well-being; and how activation of the stress response affects a multitude of physiologic systems that impair growth, immune function, and reproduction.
 

	Dr. Frank W. Jordan from Abilene, Kansas established an endowment in 1983 to enhance continuing education for veterinary medical practitioners, faculty, and students. Dr. Jordan’s endowment is used to finance the speaker’s expenses for this conference. Thank You, Dr. Jordan!!!
l to r:  Frank Jordan, Gwen Jordan, Ralph Richardson

Guest Speakers
Connie Ketz-Riley, DVM, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, K-State CVM
Head Veterinarian, Topeka Zoo
Dr. Cornelia Ketz-Riley received her DVM from the University of Zurich, Switzerland in 1992. She completed her PhD at the Zoo Zurich, Switzerland and the Tierpark Berlin, Germany and then worked as a clinical instructor in Exotic and Wildlife Medicine at the University of Bern, Switzerland from 1994 to 1998. Dr. Ketz-Riley completed an internship in Zoological Medicine at K-State in 1998 and a residency in Zoological Medicine at the Oklahoma City Zoo and Oklahoma State University in 2001. She joined the K-State faculty in 2001.

Donald Lay, MS, PhD
Research Leader, USDA-ARS-Livestock Behavior Research Unit
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Dr. Donald C. Lay Jr. pursued studies in ethology at Texas A&M, earning his MS and PhD degrees in 1990 and 1995, respectively. Upon graduation, Dr. Lay accepted a position at Iowa State University as an assistant professor specializing in behavioral physiology. He is co-author of the textbook Animal Well-Being: Stress Physiology, Applied Ethology, and Environmental Design. Currently he is the Research Leader of the USDA-ARS Livestock Behavior Research Unit in West Lafayette, IN.

Kari Wallentine, DVM
Assistant Instructor, Animal Sciences and Industry, K-State
Dr. Kari Wallentine received her DVM degree in 2003 from Kansas State University. She is currently a graduate student and assistant instructor in the K-State Department of Animal Sciences and Industry. Dr. Wallentine’s area of clinical interest is behavioral medicine.

Sophia Yin, DVM, MS
Lecturer, Department of Animal Science, UC Davis
Dr. Sophia Yin, a 1993 graduate of the UC Davis School of Veterinary
Medicine, is the award-winning pet columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of The Small Animal Veterinary Nerdbook®, and How to Behave So Your Dog Behaves. She earned her Master's in Animal Science in 2001 from UC Davis where she studied vocal communication in dogs and worked with behavior modification in horses, giraffes, ostriches, and chickens. She currently teaches three upper division undergraduate courses in domestic animal behavior in the UC Davis Animal Science Department and supervises students in various animal training and behavior research projects. She and the Sharper Image are co-developers of the first remote-controlled, automated food reward device ever and professional dog training system marketed on a large scale.

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