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Hey, everyone.

Welcome to the Houndations podcast.

I'm your host Tony Peterson, and today's episode is all about the ways in which we train our dogs to do certain things when we don't even realize it.

Oftentimes something will happen in my life, and I'll just kind of like start to think about why.

And then I'll realize that somewhere in that event is the makings of an article or a podcast.

Well, this happened to me recently as I listened to my wife lightly scold my five-year-old lab for not being downstairs and in bed with one of my daughters. It occurred to me

that our dogs learn a hell of a lot of behaviors that we don't teach them. And those behaviors

shape the course of our lives with them. This is important stuff. So listen up, because it's what

I'm going to talk about right now.

The usage of tools in nature is one of those things that humans are fascinated by, and rightly so.

It's a big differentiator between an animal that has figured out to some extent how to manipulate something that isn't part of its body in its environment to use it to its advantage. This is sort of considered

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