#143: Can You Reinforce Fear?

Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training

Drinking from the Toilet: Real Dogs, Real Training

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🗓️ 27 July 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we discuss can you reinforce fear?, have you heard that you shouldn't console your frightened dog, that might "reinforce" the fear? (That's kind of unempathetic, isn't it?), and the more progressive message to dog owners is that you can't reinforce fear, because fear is an emotion.

But, for the true behavior nerds though, it might be fun to go a little deeper?, what is fear?, what is reinforcement?, the importance of looking at the function of behavior, what fear tells us about contingencies, what can we do about it?, and how I handle my personal dog's fear during thunderstorms.

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0:00.0	I really want to avoid words like enabling or manipulative. They're super loaded words. I have seen
0:07.0	these in both the dog world and in the parenting world referring to like, oh, you know, you shouldn't
0:11.6	enable his fear or he's being manipulative. Like, okay, so my dog that's afraid of fireworks is
0:16.8	manipulating me to what end, right? But it's putting a lot of judgment on that behavior, on the dog, on me, on my behavior.
0:42.8	Hey there, fellow training nerds.
0:44.4	Welcome to drinking from the toilet.
0:48.4	I'm your host Hannah Brandigan, teacher, trainer, podcaster, and author of the book,
0:52.2	Awesome Obedience, and his companion, Awesome Obedience, the field guide, which you can pick up anytime you like from clickertraining.com.
0:54.6	Coming up soon, in fact, by the time you're listening to this, registration will be open
0:58.6	already. I've put together a new workshop with my friend and friend of the pod, Shade Whitesel,
1:03.8	and this workshop is going to be all about marker cues. It's called On Your Mark, and I'm pretty
1:08.8	excited about it. So if you're not really sure, what is a marker queue?
1:12.6	Well, a click is a marker queue, right?
1:14.6	It's an event marker.
1:15.6	It just happens to be one that we make with a clicker with our hand.
1:19.6	Or I guess you could step on the clicker.
1:20.6	There's a lot of ways you can make a click with a clicker. can also be words like verbal cues like good or yes, but could there be more? Could there be more to it?
1:29.6	How many marker cues can you have? How many marker cues are too many? When do you want to use
1:34.2	multiple marker cues? And when maybe don't you need that? This is a really hot topic in the dog
1:39.1	training world right now. And I'm pretty excited to talk about it. There's a lot of different
1:43.3	recipes and systems out there. And of course, I do love a system, but I'm also a big believer in going deeper than recipes. And let's look at what's actually happening with the behavior. So with this workshop, it's going to follow the same format that previous workshops have in that first you'll get some homework to look at, which is going to go
2:01.9	into some of the principles. And it's going to include some exercises that you can train with your
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