Hello, hello. This is Drinking from the Toilet, and I'm Hannah Branigan.

Today, my guest and I will be digging deep into the reality of living a lifestyle based

on positive reinforcement philosophy.

But first, I want to send a shout out to Diane the Great for leaving me a fabulous, heartfelt,

five-star review on iTunes, as well as a lovely compliment on my speaking voice.

If you'd like to leave me review and reinforce me for podcasting, then head over to iTunes and go ahead and leave me that

five-star rating that I know you're dying to do, and write a sentence or two. Let me know

what you think about the podcast. I guarantee you I read every single one. Today we're chatting

with Laurie Luck, a positive reinforcement trainer who's really

into running and craft beers, Labradors, and Great Danes, but not necessarily in that

order.

Now, I flatter myself to think that I'm getting a little bit better at managing all the technical

details of recording a podcast interview with somebody who's hanging out in another state.

So this recording is still significantly better than my last attempt, but it's still not

perfect. So keep in mind, we're shaping behavior and we want to reinforce successive approximations.

So I hope you'll remember that as you're listening to our conversation. So during that

conversation, we talk about what's hard about living that positive reinforcement lifestyle, how being

prepared for what might happen is usually the hardest part of that, and how sometimes societal

pressure can interfere with even the best laid training plans. So I hope you enjoy it.

I'm here today with Laurie Luck, one of my favorite drinking and dog training buddies.

And in fact, Laurie was my instructor when I went through the KPA professional dog trainers

course.

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