Hey guys. You are listening to drinking from the toilet. I'm Hannah Branigan, and I'm here to talk about the reality of training with

positive reinforcement. This is episode number 50. Oh yeah, the big 5-0. And in addition to

being a nice round number, which is worth celebrating in and of itself, it also happens to

mark this podcast's first birthday. Yes, we have been doing this for one whole entire year,

which is about 11 months longer than I thought I'd be able to keep this up.

And it is in large part to you guys for being so amazingly skilled at reinforcing me.

The podcasting behavior continues and it continues to be

reinforced. Thank you. If you are listening to this when it goes live, which I think is the first

week in March, I will be gearing up to head to St. Louis to speak and attend at the more

easterly edition of Clicker Expo. And if you, listener, are also attending the St. Louis Clicker Expo, I would love to meet you in person

and maybe hook you up with a drinking from the toilet t-shirt.

So if you're there, come find me.

If I'm not standing by the bar, I'm probably hanging out by the snack table.

And you can check my Facebook and my Twitter and I'll probably let you know where I'm probably hanging out by the snack table, and you can check my Facebook

and my Twitter and I'll probably let you know where I'm going to be outside of the regularly

published schedule. So on to this week's episode. This week's topic is frustration. And

specifically I want to talk about frustration tolerance. So frustration tolerance is a concept that I see

cropping up periodically in both the

dog and human world. And usually in the form of articles or Facebook posts, usually blaming parents

or dog owners for failing to teach their charges to tolerate frustration and thus leading to the

downfall of society as we know it. Well, we don't want that, right? I mean,

the last thing I want is people on the internet to think I'm a bad parent or a bad dog owner.

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