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. Welcome to the Sex and Skrowns podcast, the podcast that gives you

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

and I've been told we're learning

our ABCs. And I have to say, I see this as maybe a step back, or maybe a step where I'm going to

really reflect on my use of language, or maybe it's my spelling, or maybe it's, I kind of want to

sing that song, the whole like ABC song and maybe go from

there. But tell me, Dave, what on earth are the ABCs of dog training? Well, we're definitely

not going back to, uh, to nursery. So don't, uh, don't worry too much about that. And I definitely

won't get you singing because I know what that's like as well. So, stick to dog training um so yeah the the ABCs is um and for you know

people who've seen me speak and trained with me before will we'll know I place a great emphasis

on the ABCs of dog training and it's something that I've picked up in, you know, a 20-year career working with working dogs.

And I was grateful for the people who shared kind of information with me.

And I've been able to adapt that to basically simplify a little bit the ABCs to make it more kind of understandable for dog

handers, dog owners. And it was something that underpinned a lot of our train the trainer

courses and future instructor courses. So it's essentially the anteceded behavior consequence

model, but we like to break it down and keep it simple, because that's the ethos of my training is, let's just keep it simple.

And I love, I think I say it so frequently, go on, your training, training is, it's always, I like to hear in Dave's voice,

training is simple, but not easy. Like, it really is, like, such a great way to put it, isn't it?

Because actually, it really is, training is very simple, isn't it? But it is, it is at times

difficult. Yeah, 100%. And I think this, you know, that's a great saying.

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