I think my animal is gambling all the time.

Yeah, that's what I think he's doing.

He's betting on what he thinks is most likely to pay out

to get the outcome that he wants at that point in time.

It is my job to make sure his betting is as well informed as possible

and set up in his favor as possible.

Hey there, fellow training nerds. I'm Hannah Branigan, teacher, trainer, podcaster, inadequate parent and small business owner, and the author of the book, Awesome Obedience, which you can pick up right now from clickertraining.com. In fact, Awesome Obedience. The field guide is now available for pre-order. This is a portable, durable, spiral-bound version,

manual that's featuring all the key exercises from the original book, but in a format that is

a little easier to throw in your training bag, so you can implement the exercises on the go.

So if you have already purchased a copy of the full book, Awesome Obedience,

you have an opportunity to pre-order at a discount. So you can go to clickertraining.com to find out

more about that. I'm going to link to that in the show notes. So don't worry. This week,

I had a chance to sit down with Vidya Karthikan and geek out about cues and stimulus control and

queue hierarchies, which is all very cool. And it really makes you think in detail about all the

stuff that goes into communicating with our dogs in training and in other times too.

But before we get to that, I have to send a shout out to these awesome folks for supporting

the podcast on Patreon.

So big thanks go out to Kirstie D, Heather R, Shelly C, Emma H, Jerry F, Sandra D, Heather W.

Kat B, Emily M, and Jen D. I love you guys. Thank you so much. If you'd like to support the podcast, go to

Patreon.com slash DFTT. Okay. So now let me tell you a little bit about Vidya and why she's so cool.

So first, she's from the UK and she has an awesome accent, which I'm very jealous of. But there's a lot

more to her than that.

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