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**Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training**

A behind-the-scenes look into the reality of dog training, behavior, teaching, and learning. We love our dogs, we love our jobs, but sometimes it’s not all unicorns and rainbows. Sometimes at the end of the day, you just need a drink and friend who gets it. We’ll keep it fun, and keep it real.

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#114: Accidental Behavior Chains Jul 08, 2020

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In this episode, we discuss how behaviors accidentally get chained together.

For full show notes, visit: www.hannahbranigan.dog/podcast/114 Support the show on Patreon! www.patreon.com/DFTT

#113: Cue Hierarchies with Vidhya Karthikeyan, Part 2 Jul 02, 2020

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In this episode, we discuss how context cues affect training, how cue hierarchies function, how to set up a training session to teach cue discrimination, how errorless learning plays a role, what default behaviors are and how to choose them.

For full show notes, visit: www.hannahbranigan.dog/podcast/113 Support the show on Patreon! www.patreon.com/DFTT

#112: Cue Hierarchies with Vidhya Karthikeyan, Part 1 Jun 29, 2020

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For full show notes, visit: www.hannahbranigan.dog/podcast/112 Support the show on Patreon! www.patreon.com/DFTT

#111: Dealing with Self-Reinforcing Behaviors Jun 23, 2020

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In this episode, we discuss what trainers mean when they say "self-reinforcing," whether a behavior can really reinforce itself, the kinds of behaviors that fall into the self-reinforcing category, what might be actually reinforcing those behaviors, and your training options to deal with the self-reinforcing problem behaviors.

For full show notes, visit: www.hannahbranigan.dog/podcast/111 Support the show on Patreon! www.patreon.com/DFTT

#110: Transferring a Cue Jun 05, 2020

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In this episode, we discuss how cue transfers work, the importance of the order of events (it must always be NEW cue, then OLD cue!), examples of transferring a hand signal to a verbal cue, transferring cues in real life, how cues can transfer when you don't mean for them to, how to un-transfer a cue you didn't want.

For full show notes, visit: www.hannahbranigan.dog/podcast/110

Support the show on Patreon! www.patreon.com/DFTT

#109: A Different Way to Think About Shaping with Mary Hunter Apr 28, 2020

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In this episode, we discuss the common "staircase" metaphor as applied to shaping plans, a new non-linear approach to thinking about shaping, breaking down a goal behavior into components, how the wrong starting point or intermediate step can make getting to your goal behavior harder (even if it looks closer), thinking in terms of actions rather than outcomes, and lots of examples with dogs, horses, and people!

For full show notes, visit: www.hannahbranigan.dog/podcast/109

This podcast is supported by Zero to CD: hannahbranigan.dog/z2cd/

#108: Raising a Puppy in a Pandemic with Debbie Martin Apr 14, 2020

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In this episode, we discuss the challenge of socializing a puppy while also social distancing, creative ideas to build your puppy's resilience, options to make the most of what you CAN do, how to strategize your puppy's training to prevent problems in the future, that not everything is ruined, and that there is still hope your puppy will be behaviorally normal, even after all this.

For full show notes, visit: www.hannahbranigan.dog/podcast/108 Support the show on Patreon! www.patreon.com/DFTT

#107: Stress and Confidence Building with Chirag Patel, Eva Bertilsson, and Theresa McKeon Apr 08, 2020

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In this episode, we discuss how stressed out I've been lately, how we might attempt to operationalize stress, what stress means in our dogs and what that might look like, steps we can take in training to reduce the effect of stress, and training for relaxed and confident behavior.

For full show notes, visit: www.hannahbranigan.dog/podcast/107 Support the show on Patreon! www.patreon.com/DFTT

#106: Emotions and Other Things with Dr. Eduardo Fernandez Mar 27, 2020

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In this episode, we discuss emotions in animals (and people), emotions vs emotional responses, counter conditioning, Conditioned Emotional Response (CER), and the emotional lives of penguins.

For full show notes, visit: www.hannahbranigan.dog/podcast/106 Support the show on Patreon! www.patreon.com/DFTT

Podcast #105: They Aren't Puppies Anymore with Emelie Johnson Vegh Mar 13, 2020

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In this episode we discuss the challenges of canine adolescence, setting reasonable expectations for teenage dogs, taking the long view with our training, and where we are (or should be) focusing our efforts.

For full show notes, visit: www.hannahbranigan.dog/podcast/105 Support the show on Patreon! www.patreon.com/DFTT

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