Catherine & Nicolas:
a pair of experts
in behavior
of the dog
La formation de ce binôme que sont Catherine Collignon et Nicolas Ducasse en 2010 se construit et évolue autour d’une seule et même passion commune : le chien et son comportement. Cette rencontre professionnelle leur a permis de développer leur approche de l’éducation, et représente aujourd’hui une équipe de renommée et reconnue en France dans le milieu du chien.
Sharing experiences, skills, or even wise advice on subjects that are both sensitive and practical for our pet friends.
PHILOSOPHY,
ETHICS
A pioneer in her field in France, Catherine Collignon has been involved in friendly and positive educational methods for over 20 years.
Pionnière en son domaine en France, Catherine Collignon, accompagnée de Nicolas Ducasse œuvrent pour la transmission d'une éducation respectueuse et bienveillante du chien.
Catherine est l’autrice de plusieurs livres sur l’éducation et le comportement des chiens dont Apprendre à mon chien à marcher en laisse sans tirer (Ed. Génie Canin), et L’éducation positive de mon chien (Ed. Marabout).
LIVRES
Catherine Collignon est l'auteure de plusieurs livres sur l'éducation et le comportement du chien, dont L'Éducation positive de mon chien et Apprendre à mon chien à marcher en laisse sans tirer.
Drawing on her field expertise, Catherine has defined notions, concepts and positive education techniques that are now decisive in the approach to canine communication.
TRAINING
TECHNIQUES,
NOTIONS
A field professional, Catherine has developed and explored positive education methods, which can be discovered during her internships and training courses.
Professionnel.les de terrain, Catherine et Nicolas ont développé et approfondi des méthodes d'éducation positives, à découvrir dans le cadre de stages et formation professionnelle.
For over 20 years, Catherine has been committed to sharing her thoughts on positive education around several themes, subjects, concepts and reflections stemming from her field expertise.
CONFERENCES,
CONGRESS,
VIDEOS
Catherine, accompanied by Nicolas, leads conferences and congresses and has also produced explanatory videos to approach the concepts of education and behavior.
Catherine has worked for many years in partnership with renowned organizations such as the SPA, Handi'chiens, guide dogs for the blind, and many others.
PARTNERSHIPS
The Animal Center team has been working for many years with renowned organizations such as Guide Dogs, the SPA, and more recently the FBB.
PHILOSOPHY
ETHICS
Le métier d'éducateur de chien
The pet dog trainer strives to support owners on a daily basis to help them:
approach their dog's behavior in the best possible way ;
informing owners about how dogs learn;
help them with simple programs to ensure that the balance between the owner's daily life and the dog's needs are respected with a view to harmonious and forward-looking cohabitation;
to lead a dog to adopt behaviors appropriate to the home of which it is a part while preserving the relationship between the owner and the dog;
master both dog ethology and the scientific foundations of learning in order to be able to predict the evolution of behavior;
know the nature of behavioral problems and thus be competent to spot them;
recognize the limits of their skills and, in a professional approach, know how to refer and work with other professionals in the dog industry.
The pet dog trainer always focuses, in the content of his training for the owner, on:
to always respect the emotional, mental and physical nature of the dog;
to familiarize dogs with their environment;
to socialize dogs;
to teach owners how to communicate with their dogs;
to teach dogs to ask politely;
to respect his client in welcoming and supporting him .
The pet dog trainer can also specialize in behavioral rehabilitation and behavior:
His work consists, based on his specializations in behavior and learning, in finding what motivates a dog to change behavior with a view to its behavioral reeducation and to reestablish the relationship between the dog and its master; thus his professional approach is not in the diagnosis that he reserves for the veterinary profession.
Une philosophie basée sur le regard que pose les chiens sur leurs environnements
FORMATIONS
TECHNIQUES
NOTIONS
Clicker training
The clicker training method consists of reinforcing the desired behaviors of dogs through reward, associated with the "click" sound of this training tool. Appearing in 1992 in the United States, Catherine Collignon discovered this method at a conference in San Diego in 1999. Since then, Catherine has continued to deepen this technique and is considered the pioneer of friendly and positive education in France. Her extensive field experience and her deep understanding, both sensitive and technical, of the cognitive abilities of dogs, through the clicker training method, has allowed many professionals and dog owners to reconsider the notions of obedience, disobedience and hierarchy, in a relationship between dog and human.
Catherine regularly gives courses and training sessions at the Animal Center on the clicker-training method and is the author of the DVD Clicker-training in all its forms.
An essential educational method
Walking on a leash
The leash walking technique developed by Catherine Collignon is based on her field observations and on the way dogs learn on a daily basis. Through this daily learning, Catherine promotes training in leash walking without pulling, applicable to everyone and understandable to all dogs, based in particular on the dog's point of view, which is at the other end of the leash. In combination with her field work, Catherine also designed the Animalin® anti-pull harness to overcome the problems of managing leash walking. Catherine regularly gives courses and training sessions at the Animalin Center on the leash walking technique and is the author of the book Apprendre à mon chien à marcher en laisse sans tirer (Teaching my dog to walk on a leash without pulling ), published by Génie Canin.
An activity to share with your dog
La détection en recherche olfactive
The olfactory search proposed during our courses - whose specialist is Nicolas Ducasse - is a search without a reference odor at the start and is based on what some dogs use spontaneously when they hunt, switching alternately from the track to the quest or vice versa. Due to its natural abilities and depending on the environment, the dog uses the questage or tracking technique to reach its objective as quickly as possible. The detection of people allows the dog to leave the track to go on a quest to reach its objective as quickly as possible and then designate the presence of one or more human presences, on a defined perimeter, whether static or moving. Without a reference odor, there are no bad designations on the part of the dog. Depending on the scenario and the number of human presences on the defined perimeter, it will be up to the master to relaunch his dog to reach the final objective. This is where the term "pair" takes on its full meaning. Depending on the environment and the scenario, the dogs can carry out, in turn, their detection on a lead or free.
Une méthode de recherche basée sur l'instinct du chien
BOOKS
Teaching my dog to walk on a leash without pulling
SUMMARY
1. Analysis of training techniques for teaching a dog to walk on a leash without pulling
2. The most commonly recommended accessories for learning to walk on a leash
3. Understand how I teach my dog to pull on a leash on a daily basis
4. Teaching my dog to walk on a leash without pulling
5. Clicker training
6. Puppy training
7. Rehabilitation of the adult dog that pulls hard
8. Fearful, anxious, fearful or insecure dogs
Catherine Collignon
In this book, Catherine Collignon explains why dogs pull on the leash every day, or rather how we teach them to do so in spite of ourselves. Thanks to common sense learning, based on her field observations and on how dogs learn on a daily basis, Catherine accompanies you for an education in walking on a leash without pulling that is applicable and understandable by everyone, dogs and humans.
Whether you have a dog to retrain or a puppy, this book will show you the right steps to take. A 35-minute DVD accompanies the book to make it easy to put into practice.
Canine Genius Editions
Positive education of my pet dog
SUMMARY
I. What is positive education?
II. The natural behavioral and physical abilities of dogs
III. The foundation of good relational education
IV. Relational education integrated into your daily life
Marabout Editions
Collection: science & nature
Pour une relation apaisée avec votre fidèle compagnon, Catherine Collignon, par le biais d’exemples concrets, nous livre et décrypte les lois de l’apprentissage positif en vous aidant à vous adapter à chaque individualité canine. Elle vous amène à considérer le point de vue des chiens et à instaurer une relation bienveillante, apaisée et enrichissante avec votre chien, tout en vous aidant à prévenir les problèmes éducatifs et comportementaux et en vous apportant un angle de vue qui la caractérise en tant que professionnelle de l’éducation canine depuis plus de 20 ans.
Catherine Collignon
Un chien pour
les nuls
SUMMARY
I. Prepare step by step
III. Living with your dog
IV. Leisure and various activities to share with your dog
V. The part of ten!
First Editions
Plus de 300 pages qui traitent, outre de l’acquisition et de l’éducation d’un chiot ou d’un chien, de toutes les activités à pratiquer avec son compagnon canin : tricks (tours amusants), K9 Games (Jeux canins), clicker-training, jeux, sports canins, balades en groupe, et beaucoup d’autres choses encore.
Un livre positif, complet, riche en conseils pour une relation maître/chien réussie.
Catherine Collignon
Behavior and
dog training
SUMMARY
The Biology of Dog Behavior
Dog Breeds in the Perspective of Genetics History and Behavioral Trends
Well-being and behavior in canine communities
The influence of breeding conditions on the balance of puppy behavior
Veterinary Medicine of Dog Behavior
Dog communication methods
Aggressive behavior
The old dog
Behavioral development disorders
Molecules used in cases of disorders
Dog training and rehabilitation
Puppy school
Communication techniques with the owner
Educagri Editions
Catherine Collignon is one of the main authors of this book on the subject of dog behavior and education. Catherine gives us 110 pages in which she develops learning from the dog's point of view, the laws of learning, home education or behavioral reeducation. A reference book dedicated especially to trainees in pet training, breeders and dog trainers, pet technicians or students in veterinary schools.
12 authors including
Catherine Collignon
The Clicker in all its states
The Canine Genius Editions
1h40 of film in the company of dogs who will teach you that education is above all a story of communication. You will discover that clicker-training is accessible to all masters and all dogs regardless of their age, their breed… All the learning methods are shown to you with precision from the beginning to the end of the learning. You will also find techniques for learning to walk, weave, non-reward, sit, lie down and lots of field tips that will lead your dog to be an actor in his learning.
Catherine Collignon
CONFERENCES
CONGRESS
VIDEOS
Sallanches Congress
Dog training
2021
Understand the dog's point of view through key concepts, motivation, the laws of learning and even the clicker-training technique.
Sallanches Congress
Dog training
2021
Understand the dog's point of view through key concepts, motivation, the laws of learning and even the clicker-training technique.
Animal Congress
Olfaction in dogs
2016
A series of programs and workshops around education, prevention, rehabilitation and olfactory research organized by Catherine C. and Nicolas D.
HARNESS
ANIMALIN®
Animalin® Harness
RANGE/MODEL - SIZES - COLORS
CLASSIC - XXS, S, M, L, XL, XXL - BLACK, RED, BLUE, ORANGE, KHAKI, FUSHIA
AUTUMN - XS, S, M, L, XL, XXL - HAZELNUT, OCHRE, BORDEAUX
REFLEX - S, M, L, XL, XXL - BLACK, RED, BLUE, ORANGE, KHAKI, FUSHIA, GREY
REFLEX PLUS - S, M, L, XL, XXL - FLUO ORANGE, FLUO YELLOW
Catherine Collignon, an expert and professional in the field who respects the integrity of the dog, felt, after years of practice and observation, the need to offer owners a harness for training in walking on a leash that is easy to put on, comfortable, effective and painless. This is how the idea matured and in 2010 the first "classic" model of the Animalin® Harness was born.
All models are field tested by different types of dogs, whether in size, character and level of education. The range is developed according to the problems related to education and tries to respond as best and as quickly as possible to the requests relating to these education problems.