Debbie Sykes

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340 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 6 Aug

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Animal Training Academy: Making Ripples · Shifting Perspectives in Wildlife Rehabilitation with Debbie Sykes [Episode 73] · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

And I mean, it was really the majority of the work was thankfully the volunteers there.

Probably like wildlife volunteers to me are just some of the best ones because they come in week after week.

They donate most of their time in their life.

Most of them are there three days a week, all day, kicking butt.

So I appreciate them.

Yes, I would say the most exciting recent one that I think you saw was teaching Tris, who's a bearded dragon under my care, cooperative care to brush her teeth.

So I had been working on this behavior for a couple of months now.

and plateaued significantly.

So I reached out to Kiki Yablon, which I know she's been mentioned so many times on this podcast.

She's just a fabulous behaviorist and trainer.

She gave me some really good...

just tips and pointers.

And because of that, we made so much progress and I'm able to do the full behavior of what I wanted it to look like.

So at the end of the behavior, I never had the goal of being able to like brush her entire mouth in one go.

It was always kind of like, let's go to the left.

Let's go to the right.

Let's go to the front, taking little

breaks in between.

And before I reached out to her, I was constantly putting trips over her threshold just to go near her mouth.

So I feel like, you know, just having another set of eyes is so helpful to see if maybe there's another way to shape and arrange the antecedents to get to the end goal.

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