#160: Spring Clean up for Dog Trainers, Pt 3: The Things We Overlook

Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training

Drinking from the Toilet: Real Dogs, Real Training

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🗓️ 28 May 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This week we are finishing up our Spring Cleaning series... you’ve already organized all your resources you’ve collected over the weekend, you’ve worked out a new better system for your planning and record keeping and this time you’ve got the magic one that will actually work.

Now let’s get to the training itself! Wouldn’t it be cool if you kept your training clean all the time? Then there would be nothing to do here!

What are the things you put off? The built up dirt and grime that’s been hidden or not so hidden?

What are the things where if you tackled that project finally would make everything else easier?

In this episode, we discuss cleaning up your reinforcement mechanics, sharpening reinforcement procedures like toy play skills, have you found yourself rushing your “out” lately?, managing criteria in sequences and chains, and tightening up session structure behaviors and filling in gaps.

Are there any other places where your training baseboards are getting grimy? Maybe a sloppy cue you’ve been meaning to address? Some other behavior that’s been collecting dust for a while? I’d love to know what makes your list!

For full show notes, visit: www.hannahbranigan.dog/podcast/160
This podcast is supported by Patreon: www.patreon.com/DFTT

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0:00.0	The procedure has a lot of mechanics involved because the how of getting the treat, delivering it to the dog, the wear, what all of that looks like totally affects the behavior.
0:09.1	You know that. I know that you know that and I know that. And yet also when we're not really paying attention, which is a lot of the time, because we've other things we're trying to train. It's so easy for bad habits to leak in
0:20.9	and start eroding those really critical reinforcement behaviors.
0:42.6	He there. Hey there, fellow training nerds.
0:44.5	You're listening to Drinking from the Toilet.
0:50.8	If you like to geek out about combining the science of behavior with positive reinforcement philosophy in real life, well, you've come to the right place.
0:54.5	And I'm your host, Hannah Branigan, teacher, trainer, podcaster,
0:58.5	and author of the book, Awesome Obedience, and its companion Awesome Obedience to Field Guide,
1:03.7	which are both available anytime you like the impulse purchase them from clickertraining.com.
1:10.2	This episode is supported by Vuala Pets and listeners like you. And also over 200 of our awesomest friends who support this podcast on Patreon,
1:13.0	including some of our newest supporters like Tiffany S, Nadia L., Lindsay J., Waranica E, and Becky S.
1:21.9	You are amazing. I love you. And I simply cannot tell you how much I appreciate your support,
1:27.2	but I can tell you that I got a really warm feeling in my tummy when I got the notification from Patreon that you had signed up and pledged your support. So thank you. If you'd like to make me feel warm and appreciated, support the podcast, get your questions answered and access our super secret extra podcast episodes like the one I just
1:45.4	recorded about getting started with shaping when your dog isn't offering you much behavior to work with.
1:50.0	You can go to patreon.com slash dFT. Okay, I want to let you know about an upcoming workshop that I'm
1:57.9	doing with Shade Whitesol, which we are calling Barking Shit Show.
2:02.1	Yes, that is the official title. We are going with it and we're not looking back. So if that's
2:07.4	something that you're into, this might be a workshop you're interested in. If it's not,
2:11.0	then it's probably not a workshop that you're interested in. So both Shade and I have a fair
2:15.7	bit of personal experience with excessive barking and vocalization
2:18.9	and training. She has German shepherds. Like that's a complete sentence. I have Belgians. I have a
2:24.0	terrier and an extremely malady border collie. So we are intimately familiar with how frustrating
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