The function of the sniffing is really actually to change the subject, right?

It's like checking Facebook when you don't really know how to answer the email that's currently

at the top of your inbox.

It's something else that we do to look busy because we feel a lot of conflict over the other

thing.

If your dog is feeling conflict over the training that you're doing, it's really nice to have

something in your back pocket to address it.

Clicking when the dog starts to sniff

tends to bring the dog's head back up.

Hey there, fellow training nerds. I'm Hannah Branigan, and you're listening to Drinking

from the Toilet. If you liked to geek out about dog training but sometimes get stuck

translating that geekery into reality, then you are in the right place. This week, I want to share

a couple of counterintuitive solutions to training problems you may have encountered.

This was an idea that kind of popped into my head because I've caught myself saying a lot,

fairly frequently, this may seem counterintuitive, but, or I know it seemed counterintuitive,

but have you tried and then one of these solutions? And it really does seem to

come up a lot when I'm teaching. So I thought it would be kind of an interesting podcast to just

explore a couple of these and really get you thinking. So none of these bullet points are really

intended to be a full and complete thought or solution in and of itself. In fact, each one of these

can and probably should be its own episode at some point in the future. But for now, I really

just kind of want to get you thinking about your training, right? And thinking about maybe some of the

assumptions that you've been making or the lens that you're viewing a particular training

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