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Julien Baptiste

Arousal systems, reinforcement history, and behavior-change protocol design

Julien Baptiste

Applied Animal Behaviorist

Julien Baptiste models dog-guardian challenges as interacting systems: arousal thresholds, reinforcement histories, environmental load, caregiver capacity, and recovery cycles. He translates those first principles into humane protocols for reactivity, play, and decompression, with special attention to guardians whose anxiety rises alongside their dogs’. His technical writing stays grounded in ethics: reduce threat, increase predictability, reinforce choice, and protect the bond before asking for harder behavior.

MSc Clinical Animal Behaviour, University of Lincoln; CBCC-KA; IAABC Certified Dog Behavior Consultant

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