#122: When You Have to Be Your Own Training Assistant

Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training

Drinking from the Toilet: Real Dogs, Real Training

Dogobedience, Dogtraining, Hobbies, Kids & Family, Leisure, Showdogtraining, Puppytraining, Dogbehavior, Dogagility, Pets & Animals

4.7 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we discuss the challenges of training behaviors that require another person, using remote reinforcement strategies to give you a way to practice, a little zen bowl, the advantages of role-playing a judge, groomer, or vet with your own dog as an initial shaping step, and preventing a plateau by incorporating the Different Every Day game into these sessions.

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0:00.0	There's no way to replicate a dog show at home, even if you were to bring people in, which is what we're not doing right now.
0:07.7	We just don't have access to that.
0:09.7	But we can focus on changing the things that we can change in training regularly.
0:15.0	And that way, your animal is so used to different stuff happening that when you get to the real thing, it's just another version of different.
0:37.3	Hey there, fellow training nerds.
0:39.3	You're listening to Drinking from the Toilet.
0:41.7	And I'm your host, Hannah Branigan, teacher, trainer, podcaster, and author of the book,
0:46.1	Awesome Obedience, and its companion, Awesome Obedience, the field guide, both of which you can pick up right now from clickertraining.com.
0:55.6	This week, we're going to continue the conversation about training by ourselves, training alone, how we can train and keep our
1:01.6	training moving forward when we're training by ourselves, as in with like without other people,
1:07.9	which we've probably always done to some extent, but I've been doing a lot more
1:12.8	of recently. And I don't know if you're like me and maybe sometimes it feels like you're
1:18.5	running out of things you can train by yourself. So maybe you're running up against some stuff.
1:22.6	So last time we talked mainly about how to handle the in-your-head stuff, the motivational aspects of
1:30.0	training without the accountability and support of in-person classes and instruction.
1:35.4	And this week, I'm going to go over a couple of logistical ideas, tips, stuff that might be
1:42.0	helpful in progressing your training when you don't have a buddy around
1:46.2	to help you out. Practical stuff. But first, I need to send a shout out to some awesome
1:51.5	Patreon members. So thank you to Chris M.R. Paul B. Vicki A. Catherine V. Jess L. Naomi R. Susan S.
2:03.6	Clymmy J. Gen M. And one person who chose not to leave a name and to remain anonymous, but I appreciate you anyway. So thank you.
2:13.6	If you'd like to check out the party that's happening on the Patreon page, get your
2:18.1	questions answered, and access our super secret extra podcast feed for more episodes. You can head
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