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Laura Monaco Torelli is the founder of Animal Behavior Training Concepts in Chicago, Illinois. She began her career in 1991 at Chicago\u2019s Shedd Aquarium, where she trained beluga whales, dolphins, sea otters, seals, river otters, and penguins. After nearly a decade at the Shedd, she moved on to the San Diego Zoo and then Brookfield Zoo as a lead supervisory trainer. During her time in the zoo community, Laura worked with a wide variety of terrestrial animals, including primates, large cats, birds of prey, horses, parrots, tree kangaroos, giraffes, red pandas, and dogs.<\/p>\n

Laura serves as a faculty member of Karen Pryor Academy, and as a Teaching Assistant for Dr. Susan Friedman\u2019s Living & Learning with Animals online course. She and her team at Animal Behavior Training Concepts offer private in-home training as well as group classes at Medical District Veterinary Clinic, an extension of the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine. Laura has presented at many professional conferences, including those held by the American Pre-Veterinary Medical Association, the Animal Behavior Management Alliance, the International Marine Animal Trainers\u2019 Association, ClickerExpo, the Society for Veterinary Behavior Technicians, the Association of Professional Dog Trainers, Midwest Veterinary Conference, Penn Vet Working Dog Conference, TAGteach International, and the Interdisciplinary Forum for Applied Animal Behavior. She has appeared on various print and broadcast media, including Clean Run magazine, Chronicle of the Dog, Steve Dale\u2019s Pet World, WGN and NBC 5 news and WCIU\u2019s You & Me This Morning.<\/p>\n

Laura and her husband are owned by their Rhodesian ridgeback, Santino, and sibling cats named Lucia and Topolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Exotic animals
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