#134: Do You Have an Exit Strategy?
Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training
Drinking from the Toilet: Real Dogs, Real Training
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🗓️ 16 March 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss how to signal the end of a training session, why it matters, how you end a training session matters as much as how you begin one, preventing practicing good behavior without reinforcement, reducing frustration by having clear cues for when reinforcement is available and when it isn't, what to do in the last moments leading up to the end of a session, and strategies for keeping the end of a session positive without undermining your training.
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| 0:00.0 | training sessions are really fun. That's the point, right? For both of us. And so the end of the session |
| 0:05.7 | can be really frustrating. The end of a training session signaling the end of reinforcement, |
| 0:10.9 | that's really hard. It's like, you know, time to leave the playground when you're having a really |
| 0:14.1 | good time. It is not uncommon to see a meltdown there, right? Certainly not with kids. I don't |
| 0:19.3 | know why that's fresh in my mind right this minute, but with our dogs as well. |
| 0:40.2 | Hey there, fellow training nerds. |
| 0:53.5 | You're listening to Drinking from the Toilet, and I'm your host, Hannah Brandigan, teacher, trainer, podcaster, and author of the book, Awesome Obedience, and his companion, awesome obedience, the field guide, both of which you can pick up anytime you like from clickertraining.com. |
| 0:55.2 | I also want to let you know that Zero to CD my online mentorship program opens again for enrollment at the end of April, which is |
| 1:00.8 | alarmingly close at this point. I'm still getting comfortable with the idea of it being March, |
| 1:04.6 | and we're halfway through, which is just very odd. So on the surface, Zero to CD is a comprehensive |
| 1:10.3 | program designed to give you everything |
| 1:11.9 | you need to earn your first obedience title. But what is really about is accomplishing your training |
| 1:16.5 | goals through practicing good positive reinforcement training techniques and strategies |
| 1:21.4 | and applying concepts like training with loops and strategic reinforcement and building |
| 1:25.2 | fluency, confidence building, and structuring your |
| 1:28.1 | training in both short and long term so that you really feel like you're making progress. |
| 1:33.6 | So thinking about structuring your training, have you put much thought into how you end your |
| 1:39.7 | training sessions? Maybe you have like a specific routine you do to signal the end of a session or do you |
| 1:45.1 | just stop training when you're done and walk away? Or does your dog decide when the session ends? |
| 1:50.0 | Is there a trick question hidden in there? Not really, but I think it's something that's worth |
| 1:53.8 | thinking about. Before we dig into that, I got us in a shout out to these folks for joining |
| 1:59.5 | the party on Patreon and supporting this podcast. |
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