We're in an agility class. The behaviors that you're trying to train are mutually exclusive from sniffing. I feel pretty confident about this. When we're talking about sniffing, we always need to acknowledge that sniffing is a normal natural dog behavior. It's part of what it is to dog. It's just integral to dogness. The problem is context. There's a time and a place for sniffing and gillity isn't that.

It's not that time, not that place. I feel as some way about obedience. Hey there, fellow training nerds.

You're listening to Drinking from the Toilet.

And I'm your host, Hannah Branigan, teacher, trainer, podcaster, and author of the book,

Awesome Obedience, and its companion, Awesome Obedience, The Field Guide.

You can get either or both of them anytime from clickertraining.com.

Before we jump into the episode this week, I want to make sure that I share the announcement

that zero to ZD, my online mentorship program for competition obedience, is opening soon.

The doors are going to open on October 25th, I think

that's a Monday, for a new cohort that will begin on November 1st. If you are interested in jumping in

with this program, I only open it twice a year, so your next opportunity won't be until this spring.

You can go to zero to CD. That's like all letters, z, e-R-O-T-O-C-D.com for all the

information. Okay, so I want to give you a little context for today's episode. One of the things that

I do with the folks in the Patreon community for this podcast is they get to ask me questions

in a couple of different ways, actually, in many different

ways. And so sometimes they'll ask a question in, we have live Q&A's once a month, in these Q&A

sessions where I'm on video, and so I can both answer the question with words, but I can also

wave my arms and draw my whiteboard and even scoop up one of my dogs to demonstrate something

if they have a question about it. And, you know, questions might be general about concepts, but they can also

be really specific about, you know, advice for their dogs or a client's dog. We have a good time.

It's a good time. Another thing that I'll do sometimes is record an audio answer that gets posted

to the secret podcast feed for patrons. And so what I'm sharing today is one of those audio responses.

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