Medical behavior training is essential for all species, and training our mini-donkeys, goats, and alpacas will advance your skills like nothing else! As a student in our The Ranch Experience course, you can choose medical behavior training as your skill-development focus or choose from four other options. Hands-on training sessions with our resident animals may include desensitization techniques, increasing tactile acceptance, getting used to new equipment, or specific medical behaviors, dependi

At #RanchKPCT, our alpacas are progressing quickly with halter training! In this video you'll see that we affix the halters to the fence, so the alpacas learn to move towards them. We also feed them through their halters to get them over their initial discomfort around the halters. We use a soft, verbal "good," as the alpacas startle with a clicker. Check out training videos with our other resident Ranch animals and consider joining us for a course in 2019! http://bit.ly/2FoGpa5 | Karen Pryor Cl