#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
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🗓️ 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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