Over his career, Dr Bob Bailey has trained over 140 different species of animals. The effect of this training has reached millions of animals and people, including you! If you are here reading this post, then you have been influenced by Bob Bailey. He is an icon in animal training with a direct line back to back to Skinner, Pavlov & the Brelands.
Recently, I had the privilege of sitting down to chat with Bob about his early career and to video the chats for you. The two videos are below, and we were able to add in some historic film including Buck Bunny, Spy Cats and Heroic Seagulls.
Part One: The early days, including training cats for espionage!
Part Two: Bob shares the story of a very heroic seagull that teaches how to train anything, and for us dog trainers, how to take that training from the backyard to anywhere.
It was an honour to be on stage at Bob’s “Think! Plan! Do!” conference. Along with Bob, the internationally known presenters covered a broad spectrum of training fields… dogs, cats, birds, dolphins, whales, manatees, and many more.
Today I am grateful for the influence Bob has had in my dog training and life, and for the big role he has played in the evolution of positive animal training.
I am so very interested in communication between species and within species. My hobby is dog training and I also provide voluntary ESOL (English for speakers of other languages) here in my very diverse community in London. The main focus for me right now is communicating with my partner who is living with Alzheimer’s so he can love a happy life without the frustration that comes with poor communication. Currently I have 2 dogs, a Golden Retriever called Teddy and a year old miniature Golden Doodle who brings such joy in our lives. I am beyond grateful to Susan Garret for the insights and hope she gives me my difficult situation. This video interview with Dr Bob Bailey is so very helpful and insightful and clear. Thank you both so much.
Thank you Susan and Dr Bailey for sharing these two stories. I start to understand the value of so many repetitions, starting in a small environment, increasing to biger environments. Then adding challenges in the small distance. I will adapter my training plan. You are great inspiration.
I remember Bob telling me about the cats he trained. He’s mind-blowing.
Awestruck! Wish I could start my life over, but will start from here. Thank you…
Pure gold I would listen for hours Thank you
Worth every minute. Thank you to both of you!
Wonderful interview and information! Inspiring and educating. Thank you Susan and Dr. Bob! Just hours away from my training time. I will be thinking about you both.
Great content on your blog Suzan. I watched the videos, unbelievable how amazing things cat and dogs can learn and do. Even the CIA can use them for espionage. Dr Bob Bailey is just brilliant.
I so wish I can attend but maybe next time, and hope Suzan you going to share some brief insights on what was spoken about on the webinar on your next post.
Brilliant to see and hear the awesome Dr Bob. So wish that I could buy into the webinar, but unfortunately too expensive for me.
You’re so lucky, Susan, to have him as your mentor, but we’re lucky too to have you. Bless you both.Patricia, England
Fabulous! Really enjoyed these videos!