Hey guys, Hannah Branigan here, back with another episode of Drinking from the Toilet, a podcast about training dogs and people with positive reinforcement.

This week we're hanging out with

our Swedish friends, Ava and Emily of Carpe Momentum, and we're talking about the idea of

working with offered behavior. So behaviors that the dog performs voluntarily without the trainer

having to actively do anything to make that behavior happen. But we go a little bit more into our

definitions of what we mean by offered behavior, what that might look like, and how we might use

it in real training applications through the course of our conversation. We also talk about why we

care. Like, what are the benefits? This seems kind of complicated, but it turns out

there are some pretty cool things that working with this kind of structure lets us take advantage of.

We also, of course, go off on a few tangents. And this conversation does run a little bit long.

I think it's worth it. I found it really enjoyable, at least for my side. I think they were okay

with it, too. So I'm going to

keep the intro pretty short and I will let you look at more information about Eva and Emily in the show notes,

where I will have a link to their website as well as their YouTube channels, so you can check that out there.

And then, without further ado, here we go. Can you guys introduce yourself so we can tell which voice belongs to which person? Hi, I'm Emily. I'm one part of the brain.

And this is Eva, the other part.

Awesome. Okay. And I'm Hannah, of course, which you can probably tell.

Or maybe not. But if you can't, I'm Hannah.

So we've been talking about training with offered behavior, voluntary behavior,

which I think is kind of a core critical

concept in clicker training. And I think it's also maybe one that isn't really well understood.

So I think we should start with maybe defining what it is. So could you guys explain what do we

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