Grisha Stewart Academy of Dog Behavior

This online course, hosted by Grisha Stewart and presented by Michael Shikashio, walks step by step through two cases of aggression between dogs in the same home. This course was fantastic and highly recommended for trainers, like myself, who wanted to be extra prepared for these kinds of cases, and owners who would like to learn more about how to deal with this struggle. Absolutely fantastic and invaluable information.

I can’t say enough good things about the format and content of this course, and Michael’s dog-human aggression course. Watching someone as calm, competent and engaged as Michael is going to raise the bar for many trainers, myself included. Thanks, Grisha, for an excellent educational concept.

This course has been fascinating to get a peek into the world of another dog professional and how they work. Both clients were 100% compliant and it made for a very exciting visual process to watch.

I very much enjoy everything Grisha brings to the world. I am so happy I crossed paths with her and now I am so happy to be a Diamond member of her website. Michael Shikashio is so calm and clear in his instructions and how he communicates to the audience and the clients. I love all the videos the clients posted and how you could see the progression and improvement of their dogs. I love the smoothness of all the technology, everything worked perfectly every week and the clients having the double camera set up was really great. Thank you for such a great experience. Virginia G.

Really excellent course. It was so exciting to get to be a part of the consultation process and be able to ask questions. Michael is a fantastic teacher and the format worked brilliantly

This was an amazing experience and opportunity to follow these cases with the most amazing trainers . I hope there will be more opportunities, Highly recommended

I honestly want Michael's course to continue forever! He is so calm and supportive. I know we have only seen a small part of what he can do and it’s been incredible. If Michael ever wants a working holiday to the U.K. he is welcome to visit my 4 slightly dysfunctional Labradors and me!

Michael is a great instructor, his methods show us in a very detail way how work with aggression cases. Great detail videos (step by step) of the improvement of the dogs. Thanks to Gina and Jess for their great work with their dogs.

Really nice. Of course it doesn't hurt to have clients that have prior knowledge AND equipment for management. Was great to see the dogs in action. Can't wait to hear about follow up!

I learned a lot: aggression can be treated using the same science-based methods as other behaviors; I got better at reading body language, Michael points out subtle signs of stress in the dogs; was reminded of the importance of breaking complex behaviors/situations into small sessions, building long-term success through tiny steps; got some ideas when to use operant conditioning and when to use classical conditioning; and finally, got to view all of Michael's set ups. Kudos to the clients. They did a great job of filming the sessions. The fact that they were already good trainers made the class more valuable for students. I watched all of the sessions with Michael and the clients, and many of the client training sessions. There's lots of video so it does take some time and patience. I found it most beneficial to watch at 1.25X much of the time and slow down during critical sections, watching key portions as many times as I needed to really see and understand what was happening.

Michael's teaching with Gina and Jess were fabulous examples of how to split behaviors down for each dog in a calm and clear way. It really reminds me and makes me appreciate the importance of working the dog in front of you, starting with the simplest and smallest success to celebrate! I will be revisiting this class!! Brilliant :-3