#156: Rescuing RiffRaff, Pt 1: Fostering a Dog With Aggression with Gaby Boijsen

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Drinking from the Toilet: Real Dogs, Real Training

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4.7 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This episode is the first in a 2-part special series following the journey of RiffRaff, a rescue dog with a tendency toward violence. This sounds like a common story, but I assure you... RiffRaff’s story does not end the way you think. No spoilers though! In this episode, we discuss what we know about RiffRaff’s history and how he ended up with Gaby, identifying the triggers of RiffRaff’s aggressive behavior, exploring possible causes of his behavior, how did Gaby decide to work with him, early steps of his training, teaching him to wear a muzzle, and getting creative with protected contact to work with RiffRaff safely.

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0:00.0	So one thing I'm really happy with doing is that I started taking data right away from the first day.
0:08.0	Basically, I was, right? I love data. And so I was like, I want to figure this out. Okay, I'm going to track all biting incidents.
0:16.0	And so what I wanted to capture, I wasn't sure how to do it. I was also reading up like everything I could on aggression, watching every webinar I could
0:22.8	find, you know, but I started thinking, okay, so I want to capture the number of incidents,
0:28.5	but I also want to capture the severity of incidents.
0:31.8	And I want to put it in a context of how much we're interacting with him.
0:53.3	Hey there, fellow training nerds.
0:55.0	You're listening to drinking from the toilet.
0:57.0	If you like to geek out about combining the science of behavior with positive reinforcement philosophy in real life, you've come to the right place.
1:03.0	And I'm your host, Hannah Branigan, teacher, trainer, podcaster, and author of the book, Awesome Obedience,
1:09.0	and his companion Awesome Obedience, the Field Guide,
1:11.7	which are both available from clickertraining.com. This is episode number 156, and it's supported in part
1:18.3	by Vala Pets, but I'll tell you more about that later. So last week, you were very brave,
1:24.4	and you confronted your horde of training resources. And I know that since then,
1:29.1	you've been very busy organizing and processing and making totally actionable plans to
1:34.5	implement all those good training ideas you've absorbed. And I want to reinforce you for all
1:39.4	your hard work. So this week, I'm bringing you a nice and also nerdy episode with a really cool story about a little rescue dog and some really neat training.
1:52.0	And if you came here looking for more that spring cleaning your dog training content, don't worry.
1:56.5	After we listen to this story, we'll get right back to that.
1:59.7	But before we do either of those things,
2:01.8	I'm going to send a shout out to these awesome folks for supporting the podcast on Patreon.
2:06.0	So thank you to Sage G, Glenn G., Jenna J, Zoe T, and Samantha T. I love you. You're amazing.
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