So there's a little bit of a vicious cycle, I think, with a lot of this.

And I'm wondering if a lot of us are kind of trapped in one of these cycles.

I know that it's like so many things.

When I am training my dogs, I remember that I love training dogs.

And then I want to train my dogs more.

And when I haven't really been training them, it's harder to get started.

Okay. been training them, it's harder to get started. Hey there, fellow training nerds. You are listening to drinkinginking from the Toilet, and I'm your host,

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Now, we all know that time is a construct, but just in case you're still using the traditional

mainstream calendar, I wanted to let you know that on Monday, September 20th, my friends, Eva,

Emily Shurag and I will be doing another behind the scenes roundup to work on some dog training

in real time and have discussions about it. Our topic for this session is going to be all about

shaping and raising criteria. We're going to be focusing a lot on

how we use, what training tools we use, what techniques and strategies we use to avoid

getting stuck on a plateau and how we handle it when we do find ourselves being stuck in a shaping

plateau and basically how to know, how to raise

criteria without letting the rate of reinforcement drop, without losing the behavior, without

screwing the whole thing up. So heavy focus on shaping and how to raise criteria and doing good

training. And that's going to be Monday, September 20th on, you know, that mainstream calendar

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