#130: Enrichment with Allie Bender & Emily Strong

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 February 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we discuss what "enrichment" is and why we should care, whether enrichment is part of training or whether training is part of enrichment, what we mean when we say "meeting the animal's needs," whether we can just get a checklist of things to do, why behavioral diversity matters, the importance of measuring outcome, categories of enrichment, and the importance of choice and agency.

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0:00.0	enrichment isn't just something that you do in addition to the training plan.
0:05.6	It is the training plan because so often a maladaptive behaviors exist because these needs aren't being met and they don't have behavioral diversity and they don't have any other skills other than the one that they're doing over and over and over again.
0:36.9	Hey there, fellow training nerds.
0:38.8	You're listening to drinking from the toilet.
0:40.9	And I'm your host, Hannah Branigan, teacher, trainer, podcaster, and author of the book, Awesome
0:45.5	Obedience, and his companion, Awesome Obedience, the Fuel Guide, both of which you can pick up
0:50.7	anytime you want, but now would be good at clickertraining.com. So this week, we are talking
0:56.5	about enrichment with Ali Bender and Emily Strong, and it turns out there is so much more to it
1:03.7	than just having a lot of different complicated Kong stuffing recipes. I mean, Kong can be part of it,
1:09.7	but we go so much deeper than that. And
1:12.4	I don't know, I had a great time with this conversation, not like I've ever had one of these
1:16.1	conversations that I don't like. I think you're going to like it too. But first, before we get to
1:20.1	that, I got to send a shout out to these awesome folks for supporting the podcast on Patreon.
1:25.5	So thank you to Kristen Y, Allie M, Sean H, Jesse H, and Tracy
1:32.2	H. I didn't realize we had that many H's until I started saying them out loud. H is a great letter.
1:36.6	I mean, I've got two of them, so obviously I approve. If you'd like to support the podcast,
1:41.6	get your questions answered and get access to our super secret extra podcast
1:45.0	episodes, you can go to patreon.com slash dFT.T. In fact, that's probably one of the best places
1:51.6	to reach me or get a hold of me if you have questions that are burning you up and you want to hear
1:57.0	my thoughts about them. So about our guests this week.
2:01.6	Allie Bender and Emily Strong are both certified behavior consultants and authors of the book
2:06.6	Canine Enrichment in the real world, making it a part of your dog's daily life.
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