#185: Avoiding Triggers and Situations

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

🗓️ 15 August 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we discuss the practice of avoiding situations as part (or all) of a training plan. Often avoiding certain situations can be an important strategy, helping to prevent mistakes and reduce stress for both the dog and the handler. But it’s usually not a long-term solution by itself and misconceptions about avoidance can result in teams getting stuck and unable to make progress.

We also discuss:
- Definition and role of avoidance in dog training.
- Common client misunderstandings about avoidance.
- Benefits of avoidance: preventing mistakes, reducing stress, and allowing time for skill development.
- Challenges of avoidance: risk of over-reliance and restrictive lifestyle.
- Practical applications - sometimes.
- Long-term strategy: balancing avoidance with skill-building and controlled reintroduction.

For full show notes and transcript, visit: www.hannahbranigan.dog/podcast/185
This episode is supported by Zero to CD: www.zerotocd.com

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0:00.0	When I have a dog whose behavior makes enjoying hikes hard to simply hear, well, you should just
0:06.4	stop hiking with your dog, that sucks.
0:09.0	Like, that's not very fun.
0:10.3	And that's going to have a negative impact on my relationship with that dog.
0:14.4	So it's worth it to me to put in a lot of effort to get the behavior the way that it needs to be for us to both enjoy hiking
0:23.4	together.
0:43.6	Hey there, fellow training nerds, you're listening to Drinking from the Toilet.
0:49.9	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.
0:55.4	And I'm your host, Hannah Branigan, teacher, trainer, podcaster, and author of the book Awesome Obedience, and its companion Awesome Obedience of the field guide, which are both available from
1:00.8	clickertraining.com. I'm also the founder of Zero to CD, which is the only totally integrated program
1:06.5	to get you competition ready using positive reinforcement methods. On this episode, I want to talk a
1:12.4	little bit about avoidance and specifically the practice of avoiding a situation as part or even
1:20.8	all of a training plan. This is definitely something that I've recommended pretty frequently
1:26.4	when I'm talking through
1:27.9	training plan options and I think other folks probably have run into this as well and
1:32.3	probably used it I think it's pretty mainstream I don't think I'm talking about anything
1:36.2	particularly edgy here but I did want to explore it a little bit all right so we're
1:41.4	talking about avoidance what exactly do we mean well what I'm talking right. So when we're talking about avoidance, what exactly do we mean? Well,
1:45.0	what I'm talking about here is when we don't encounter an adversity experience because we've
1:52.2	used our behavior to take measures such that we don't encounter an opportunity to have that
1:57.9	aversive experience, right? So we avoided the aversive. It's a negative reinforcement
2:04.5	process, right? That is what is behind avoidance. If you use your behavior and a bad thing
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