Welcome to the Absolute Dog Sex and a Squirrel podcast. I'm Lauren Langman. I'm one of the world's leading dog trainers and it's my mission to help owners become their dog's top priority. In each episode, you'll discover how to gain trust and

communicate with your dog like never before, creating unbreakable bonds that make you the most

exciting part of their world. Hello and welcome to the Sexin's Girl podcast, a podcast that gives

you real life dog training and sometimes human results too. Today I'm joined by the wonderful Dave,

and Dave and I are talking sills.

Not window sills or other sills,

but what type of sills, Dave?

We are talking about the small incremental learning system today.

Now that sounds maybe not as small as you're describing. Do you want to dive a little deeper

for us? Because these guys are here thinking that they're going to be sexy in the squirrel. How does

this apply? Yeah. So the small incremental learning system. So this forms a really, really key part of our training philosophy.

So in conjunction with the ABCs, the small incremental learning system or our sales process gives us the platform to make sure that when we're training, that the dogs are actually making progress.

And this is what's really, really important because we always say it's about progress,

not perfection. And this small incremental learning system just gives us that platform to make sure

that we're constantly challenging the dog in very, very small chunks and very, very small steps to actually get better at what we want them to do.

And so what we always kind of say is, if we take the first S, which is small, so what we want to do with our training is to break everything down into the smallest chunks possible. Now the reason we do that is because

we want to be able to build every single individual behavior and then link them together. And so

if we then hit a problem, we're not jumping big steps to try and fix a problem. We're dealing

very much with the very, very small detail.

So that's why we focus on the first S as being small.

Incremental is really, really important because if you think about a ladder,

a ladder goes obviously vertically.

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