#60: Resilience in Dogs with Patricia McConnell

Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training

Drinking from the Toilet: Real Dogs, Real Training

How To, Education, Pets & Animals, Kids & Family

4.7 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Dr. McConnell is an internationally known zoologist and a Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist. In her career, she has worked with dogs with all kinds of serious behavior problems. She was also the host of the nationally syndicated Radio show "Calling All Pets", and she is a retired assistant professor of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an amazing speaker… in fact, she was one of the first real dog seminars that I ever went to…possibly THE first if my memory is correct. So she is partly responsible for getting me hooked on dog training in the first place. She is the author of many beautifully written and well-researched books, most of which I have in my house, and are among some of my favorite books that I read over and over…particularly "The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs", which again was sort of a gateway dog book for me. And her book "For the Love of a Dog: Understand Emotion in You and Your Best Friend", I have in both hardcover and audiobook format. Her new book, "The Education of Will", which I have read and will read again, is also beautifully written and insightful. It's a little different in that it's written as a memoir. She shares stories from her own life and her experience with trauma, fear, and anxiety…something I know a lot of us can relate to. But they are interwoven with stories about the dogs she's worked with, particularly her own dog, Will, and their journeys with trauma and anxiety. And among those of course, she includes glimpses into what we know about the science of fear and what we can do about it. Fair warning, I did cry a little. So just a heads up. In the book, the theme of resilience comes up. And it's a topic that really fascinates me. Why do some individuals bounce back after a bad experience and others don't? What can we do to help our dogs recover quickly after something stressful happens? How can we set ourselves and our dogs up for success? And that is exactly what we talked about during our conversation. For full show notes, visit: www.wonderpupstraining.com/podcast/60

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome to another episode of drinking from the toilet, where we talk about the reality of training dogs with positive reinforcement.
0:23.6	I'm your host and fellow dog nerd Hannah Branigan. I could be wrong, but I think this is episode number 60, which is awesome because 60 is a round number, it's divisible by 10, it's also divisible by 2.
0:34.6	And I have two awesome things to share with you this week. First is that we have our first official sponsor. I am super excited to have the support for this podcast from the great folks at the Karen Pryor Academy for animal training and behavior. KPA offers awesome online dog training classes and a gold standard professional dog trainer certification program that I have some personal experience with.
0:55.7	More on that later, but be sure to check out Karen Pryoracademy.com and stay tuned for an exclusive offer just for my podcast listeners.
1:03.0	So the other awesome thing is this week's guest, Dr. Patricia McConnell.
1:08.3	You guys, you will not believe how sweaty my hands were when I sent the email
1:12.4	asking if she'd be willing to talk to me for the podcast. They got even sweatier when she
1:16.9	actually wrote back and said yes. And then I had to actually do it. Oh my gosh, freak out. But I did
1:22.4	pull it together and I got the conversation recorded. She was amazing to work with. So I think you're going to enjoy it. It
1:28.7	was definitely worth it. I also want to send a special shout out to my friend, Laura Monica
1:33.5	Tirelli, for hooking me up with an intro because I would never have had the nerve to send
1:37.6	that email cold otherwise. So thank you, Laura, for that. Now, you probably already know
1:44.0	who Dr. Patricia McConnell is,
1:46.3	but just in case, Dr. McConnell is an internationally known zoologist and a certified applied
1:52.6	animal behaviorist. In her career, she has worked with dogs with all kinds of serious behavior
1:57.6	problems. She is also the host of the nationally syndicated radio show calling All Pets.
2:02.9	And she's a retired assistant professor of zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2:08.6	She's also an amazing speaker.
2:10.5	In fact, she was one of the first real dog seminars that I ever went to, possibly the first,
2:16.1	if my memory is correct.
2:17.1	I've since seen
2:18.0	her speak several different times at APDT, I think also at Clicker Expo, and every time it's been
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