All Episodes

Is Positive Reinforcement Actually Slower? (A Hot Take, Revisited) | Hannah Branigan

Can you use a leash and still be force free? | Hannah Branigan

Training Faster Behaviors Without Frustration, Part 2 | Hannah Branigan

Training Faster Behaviors Without Frustration, Part 1 | Hannah Branigan

Avoiding Triggers and Situations | Hannah Branigan

What's Wrong with "Drilling"? | Hannah Branigan

#183: Demand Barking, Part 3, with Kiki Yablon

#182: Demand Barking, Part 2

#181: Demand Barking, Part 1

#180: Building Food Drive and Nuanced Reinforcement with Ashlee Osborn

#179: More Strategies to Reduce Errors

#178: How to Apply Errorless Learning Principles in Practical Training Sessions

#177: Dr. Clive Wynne Says Some Controversial Things About Dominance

#176: Taking Short Cuts with Stimulus-Stimulus Pairing with Kiki Yablon

#175: Over the Top - High Arousal in Dogs

#174: Families with Dogs and Kids with Jennifer Shryock

#173: Dealing with Problem Behaviors - Using Alternate Behaviors

#172: How to Tell That Your Classical Conditioning Plan is Working

#171: Maintenance Mode

#170: How To Avoid Too Much Drilling

#169: Advocating For Your Dog with Erin Moore

#168: Things That Are Saving My Life Right Now

#167: What is Ethics About and Why Should We Care?

#166: Why is Shaping So Hard?, Pt. 2

#165: Why is Shaping So Hard?, Pt. 1

#164: Play & Aggression with Karen London

#163: Is It Really R+ or Could It Actually Be R- (With a Cherry on Top)?

#162: Working with Compulsive Behaviors Pt 2, with Dr. Michaela Hempen

#161: Working with Compulsive Behaviors Pt 1, with Dr. Michaela Hempen

#160: Spring Clean up for Dog Trainers, Pt 3: The Things We Overlook

#159: Mentorship with John Anthony Shahor

#158: Spring Clean up for Dog Trainers, Pt 2: Planning and Record Keeping

#157: Rescuing RiffRaff, Pt 2: Placing a Dog With a Bite History with Gaby Boijsen

#156: Rescuing RiffRaff, Pt 1: Fostering a Dog With Aggression with Gaby Boijsen

#155: Spring Clean up for Dog Trainers, Pt 1: Organizing and Applying Your Hoard of Resources

#154: Training Bloopers with Karen London

#153: Tips for Raising Criteria Without Breaking Everything

#152: Reactive Behavior with Grisha Stewart

#151: How to Improve Your Timing

#150: How Not to Socialize Your Puppy

#149: Memory as Behavior... What? with Stephanie Keesey-Phelan

#148: Episodic Memory with Marsha Penner

147: Nerdy Nail Trims & Enthusiastic Eye Drops with Laura Monaco Torelli

BONUS: I CU Are Stuck

146: Sniffing and Marking

#145: Getting Out of a Training Funk

#144: Pet Trainer Roundtable

#143: Can You Reinforce Fear?

#142: Training Herding Skills with Claire Apple

#141: Learning and Memory in Dog Training with Marsha Penner

#140: Reinforcement for Gun Dogs

#139: Constructional Aggression Treatment

#138: Should Dog Training Be Regulated? with Bradley Phifer

#137: Do You Like to Watch? with Chirag Patel, Eva Bertilsson, and Emelie Johnson Vegh

#136: How to Recover from a Bad Training Session

#135: Helping Hypervigilant Dogs with Leslie McDevitt

#134: Do You Have an Exit Strategy?

#133: Data - Why Bother? with Eduardo Fernandez, Emelie Johnson Vegh, and Eva Bertilsson

#132: Sensory Bias in Training with Carrie Davis

#131: Living as a LIMA Being - Panel Discussion

#130: Enrichment with Allie Bender & Emily Strong

#129: Treat Everyone Like a Dog with Karen London

#128: Getting Behavior From No Behavior with Peter Amelia

#127: Should I Change My Cue?

#126: Guide to Treats

#125: Behavioral Euthanasia with Dr. Chris Pachel

#125: Behavioral Euthanasia with Dr. Chris Pachel

#124: Training Eye Contact

#123: Herding Instinct with Ayoka Bubar

#122: When You Have to Be Your Own Training Assistant

#122: When You Have to Be Your Own Training Assistant

#121: Training Alone

#120: Three Essential Skills for Living with a Reactive Dog with Leslie McDevitt

#119: Using stations in training sessions

#118: Reinforcing Diversity with Ken Ramirez

#117: Geeking Out with Dr. Jesús Rosales-Ruiz

#116: Fading a prompt or lure

#115: Different Perspectives - Panel Discussion

#114: Accidental Behavior Chains

#113: Cue Hierarchies with Vidhya Karthikeyan, Part 2

#112: Cue Hierarchies with Vidhya Karthikeyan, Part 1

#111: Dealing with Self-Reinforcing Behaviors

#110: Transferring a Cue

#109: A Different Way to Think About Shaping with Mary Hunter

#108: Raising a Puppy in a Pandemic with Debbie Martin

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

#106: Emotions and Other Things with Dr. Eduardo Fernandez

Podcast #105: They Aren't Puppies Anymore with Emelie Johnson Vegh

#104: Anxiety vs Fear with Dr. Chris Pachel

#103: Dog Emotions In Practical Training with Kiki Yablon

#102: Nosework Alerts with Lucy Newton

#101: All About Flyball with Julie Norman Jenkins

#100: The Dunning-Kruger Effect

#99: Training for Confidence

#98: Working with Aging Dogs

#97: Errorless Learning Primer

#96: Motivation and Mechanics

#95: Behavior Chains for Practical Purposes with Morten Egtvedt

#94: Your Questions, My Answers

#93: Genetics and Behavior with Dr. Jessica Hekman

#92: Foundations for Agility

#91: Loose Leash Walking - Part 2

#90: Loose Leash Walking - Part 1

#89: Are labels always bad? with Steve White

#88: The ABCs of Zoomies

#87: Recall with Peter Amelia

#86: Foundations of Fitness with Bobbie Lyons

#85: Foundations of Reinforcement with Emelie Johnson Vegh

#84: Gun Dog Foundation Skills

#84: Gun Dog Foundation Skills

#83: The Problem with Chaining Theory

#82: Training for Distance

#81: Confidence and Conditioning with Lori Stevens

#80: I Wrote A Book

#79: Contrafreeloading with Chirag Patel

#77: Your Questions, My Answers

#76: Setting Our Puppies (and ourselves) Up For Success with Emelie Johnson Vegh

#75: Five Counterintuitive Training Hacks

#74: Dog Photography with Åsa Jakobsson

#73: Behavior Analytic Research with Jackie and Diana

#72: Using Video to Make Faster Training Progress

#71: Teaching a Foodie Dog to Tug

#70: Fear Not! Marketing Is A Lot Like Dog Training

#69: Arousal (science, not sex)

#68: My New Puppy is Awesome (But a lot of work, too)

#67: Settle Down

#66: Wait For It

#65: It's All Behavior

#64: Concept Training with Ken Ramirez

#63: Training for Duration

#62: Human Behavior Change With RYANO

#61: Tips For Dogs That Are Worried Around People

#60: Resilience in Dogs with Patricia McConnell

#59: Balance with Alex Kurland

#58: Maximizing Food Drive

#57: Specific Reinforcement Cues

#56: The Value of Reinforcement Procedures with Emelie and Eva

#55: Generalization In Dog Training

#54: Behavioral Momentum

#53: Puppy Thoughts

#52: Operationalize This

#51: Husbandry with Laura Monaco Torelli

#50: Frustration Tolerance

#49: The Value of Offered Behavior with Emelie Johnson Vegh & Eva Bertilsson

#48: Setting Priorities

#47: Task Analysis with Dr. Mallory Quinn and Theresa McKeon

#46: Using Feedback with Andrea Harrison

#45: Training a Deaf Dog with Terrie Hayward

#44: The Fine Line Between Prompt and Cue

#43: One New Habit for the New Year

#42: Five Key Concepts for 2018

#41: Motivate Your Training Sessions

#40: Motivating Operations

#39: Motivation with Dr. Susan Friedman

#38: Lego Blocks Not Cinder Blocks

#37: What makes a good reinforcer?

#36: The CER with Lindsay Wood Brown

#35: Retrieving for All Occasions with Elsa Blomster and Lena Gunnarson

#34: Structure and Choice with Leslie McDevitt

#33: Better, Faster, Stronger... Fluency!

#32: Training Word of the Day: Latency

#31: Start Button Behaviors with Emelie Johnson Vegh and Eva Bertilsson

#30: Stimulus Control Freak

#29: Whiteboard Love

#27: No Reward Markers with Fanny Gott

#26: The movement cycle and loopy training

#25: Breaking up is hard to do (splitting for committed Lumpers)

#24: Raising Fearless Puppies with Laura VanArendonk Baugh

#23: Dealing with Errors with Emelie Johnson Vegh and Eva Bertilsson

#22: Pondering on Stimulus Control with Kathy Sdao

#21: Why Bother With Training Plans

#20: Teaching People to Teach Dogs - Myths and Mistakes

#19: Making Time to Train Your Own Dogs

#18: Conversation with Ken Ramirez

#17 - Debugging your counter conditioning

#16 - Can't decide? Displace!

#15 - "Force Lite" with Shade Whitesel

#14 - Conversation with Andrea Harrison

#13 - The Nature of Reinforcement

#12 - Conversation with Theresa McKeon

#11 - What to do when you get stuck

#10 - Ignore this (just kidding!)

#09 - Conversation with Amy Cook

#08 - Using a distraction as a cue

#07 - Conversation with Shade Whitesel

#06 - Conversation with Laurie Luck

#05 - It's more than a click (or clicker)

#04 - The Relationship Between Frustration and Extinction

#03 - ...Guest starring Leslie McDevitt

#02 - Shaping vs Luring... mortal enemies?

#01 - Who am I? What am I doing? Why am I in this handbasket?