figuring out what is actually inherently reinforcing for Sonnet, because food I had screwed

all up, but chasing me, that was really reinforcing for him. So he'd look up at the squirrel,

I'd say, yes, he'd orient, I'd take off running.

Nice. And he would bring you down like a gazelle.

Right.

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, which you can get either or both anytime you like from clickertraining.com.

So this week, I am bringing you a very special episode with two very popular guests,

Leslie McDevitt and Lindsay Wood Brown, and a conversation about arousal, which is a very popular topic. So we got together to jam on this topic specifically.

Well, it's when we talk about together all the time anyways. Please reference episode number

69 on arousal with Lindsay. But specifically because we wanted to tell you all about a workshop

that we're giving together at the end of this month,

which is the month of May, 2023.

This is really kind of a cool project.

I'm excited about this.

We've been talking about it for a while and we finally figured out how to make it happen.

So this is a workshop that's going to be held simultaneously live and in person as well as virtually. And the whole thing is focusing

on helping your dogs modulate their arousal level, finding that perfect balance of excited and

relaxed so you can be focused and in control, but also like awake and fast with low latency,

enthusiasm, all the things that we want and need to be

successful in sport and in life. You know, how do you, how do you adjust that thermostat?

And this is a very much a group effort. We have a, there's a bunch of us that are all descending

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