Hello, fellow dog trainers. This is Hannah Branigan, and you are listening to Drinking

from the Toilet, a podcast that goes behind the scenes into the

real world of dog training. If you are like me, you love your dogs, you love your job, but some

days it's just not all rainbows and unicorns. Sometimes at the end of the day, or the end of the training

session, you just need to put the dog in the crate

and go pour yourself a glass of wine. On those days, knowing that you're not alone and your

struggles really helps, especially when you're comparing the crappy session you just experienced

with your friend's highly edited Facebook video. But don't worry, I don't intend this podcast to be

entirely made up of complaining in soapboxes, although to be

honest, there will probably be a little bit of both, because sometimes I just can't help myself.

My goal is to bring you empathy, entertainment, and practical information, so that hopefully there will

be fewer of those crappy training sessions in the future. There will also probably be a fair

amount of completely impractical

information. But if there is ever a dog training version of Jeopardy, you, dear listener, will be

set. But first, let me tell you a little bit about who I am, why I'm here, and maybe why you

might bother listening to my rambling. I've been training dogs and teaching people

professionally for about 12 years, which is pretty impressive since I still consider myself to be 26.

I am passionate about training and teaching with positive reinforcement methods. Sometimes maybe too

passionate. Like many other trainers, my dog training career slash journey began when I adopted a challenging

dog that I was desperate to help.

Initially, I worked with trainers using not-so-dog-friendly methods, or particularly human-friendly

methods for that matter.

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