#171: Maintenance Mode

Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training

Drinking from the Toilet: Real Dogs, Real Training

Dogobedience, Dogtraining, Hobbies, Kids & Family, Leisure, Showdogtraining, Puppytraining, Dogbehavior, Dogagility, Pets & Animals

4.7 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In this episode, we discuss, when you might outsource maintenance to the environment?, functional difference between intrinsic and extrinsic reinforcers in maintaining behaviors, how easy it is for behaviors to start slipping before we notice, one way to avoid or minimize that slippage is to design a rotation, start by grabbing some behaviors or exercises that matter to you, then give yourself a time frame to rotate through those behaviors (I usually use a 2 week block), and starting with your item at the top of the rotation for today (do a test run for the purposes of seeing where you’re at, identify either something that is weak now that you are looking at it OR a way you could do something differently, make yourself a little session to work on that thing).

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0:00.0	The next trial, director of chief, looks great, but now sin discrimination has fallen apart.
0:05.4	Okay, so you train for a week, you fix that when you go back out, and now your dog can't do the
0:09.5	down signal. He's never seen you before in his life. Has he ever laid down? He doesn't know.
0:13.8	And it's like every weekend, something else weird is falling apart. And one of the big challenges of competing over time is figuring out a system
0:26.6	that minimizes that effect so that you're listening to drinking from the toilet.
0:52.0	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.
0:58.4	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, which are both available from clickertraining.com.
1:09.5	So don't forget, the next round of zero to CD,
1:12.6	my online mentorship program, will open on Monday, April 24th, with orientation for the new cohort
1:20.1	on the following Monday, which is May 1st. This program always feels quickly, so if you're interested,
1:28.5	make sure to get on the email list to be notified. You can do that by going to 0.cd.com. And you can also find out more about
1:35.0	the program there. That's Z, E, R-O-T-O-T-O-Letter-C-D.com. Zero-2-C-D.com. Okay. So this week, we are talking about when behaviors are in
1:47.9	maintenance mode or should be in maintenance mode. So I got to be honest with you. I hate this topic.
1:54.7	It really hurts my feelings. I don't like thinking about it because I don't like thinking
1:59.0	about things that I'm not very good at.
2:02.6	It's much easier for me to start a new training project than maintain stuff that I've already
2:08.0	trained. Like, I'm exactly the sort of person who would way rather repaint the kitchen than
2:13.3	empty the dishwasher. In fact, as I'm recording this right now, my dishwasher is full of clean
2:18.9	dishes, still full of clean dishes. And we haven't even talked about the basket of clean laundry
2:25.4	that continues to actively resist being put away. It's working against me. It just sits in my
2:32.6	bedroom and mocks me. And it turns out that
2:36.8	no amount of just wishing that I could be a different person solves that. So let's talk about
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