Hey guys. Hannah Branigan here, bringing you another amazing episode of drinking from the toilet,

where we are keeping it real about teaching and training

with positive reinforcement. This week's topic is generalization. Before we jump into that, I want to

give you a heads up that I am about to open up some spots in my online mentorship program,

Zero to CD. This is a program that I put together to help experience trainers who want to get

started in competitive obedience, but don't necessarily have a lot of experience in competition or in obedience.

I was inspired to put this program together by a lot of folks who'd come up to me after

a seminar or presentation and tell me they love the podcast and they've taken classes, they've

attended seminars, they've, they follow me on YouTube and they watch taken classes, they've attended seminars, they've

follow me on YouTube and they watch videos, but they feel like they need some guidance in applying

what they know and putting it all together into a cohesive plan so that they feel like they're

making forward progress towards an actual goal. There are a lot of moving parts to keep track of

when you're preparing to compete and it's easy to feel overwhelmed of when you're preparing to compete, and it's

easy to feel overwhelmed or worried you're going to miss some critical element.

And if you're new to the sport, just not really knowing what to expect and what kind of

challenges you'll face and how best to handle them and what's the best way to use your training

time.

Time is something we never really have enough of, so setting priorities is really critical if we're

going to actually get anything done. And I also did this because I love obedience. I love training my

dogs. I love pushing myself to improve my own skills. And I love the challenge of balancing precision

and motivation. And I know that I tend to do a lot better

at those things when I have some tangible goal to work towards and some standard against which

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