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Fenzi Food For Thought — 190 episodes

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1

The Best Training Isn't On Social Media

2

Let's Talk About Spay & Neuter

3

When Choice or Structure Isn't Obvious

4

Train the Dog in Front of You: Breed Tendencies vs. Individual Quirks

5

Your Dog Doesn't Need Intentional Aversives to Learn

6

Accepting Misunderstanding

7

The Benefits of Management

8

The Dog Conversations We Avoid

9

Trainers Behaving Badly

10

The Least Aversive Option

11

The Art of Choice in Dog Training

12

Are Dogs Really More Anxious Today? …And Other Things We Can't Actually Know

13

Punishment in Training: Does Safety Justify It?

14

The "Click" and Training the Dog in Front of You

15

Reading Stress in Dogs

16

The Depth of Behavior Challenges

17

About That Stress Inoculation...

18

From Sheep Crosses to Kindness in Communities

19

Why You Have A Dog Will Impact Your Training Choices

20

Fences, Escapes, and Ruling Out Medical Concerns

21

Rethinking Change in Dog Sports

22

Pain & Behavioral Issues

23

Fallout in Dog Training

24

Crating: Different Dogs, Different Issues.

25

How R+ Has Evolved Beyond the Training

26

What is Good Training

27

Stress & Resilience

28

When There Are Upsides to Training We Don't Like

29

Take An Extra Minute

30

What is Superstitious Learning? And What is Single Incident Learning?

31

Lessons from Electric Fencing

32

Beyond Reinforcement and Punishment

33

Conversations About Reactive Dogs

34

What is "Not Fine" For a Dog?

35

Dog Training Jargon

36

Training Outcomes in the Dog World

37

Can Dogs Be Willful?

38

Balancing Priorities in the Dog World

39

Understand What Motivates Your Dog

40

Trial Analysis

41

Puppy Integration

42

I Have a Puppy!

43

Getting Through Your First Competition

44

Raising a Puppy

45

Structure

46

Reactive or bored?

47

Habit

48

Cooperative Care vs. Low Stress Handling

49

Safe Walks

50

Who are dog sports really for?

51

Puppy Genetics

52

A Quick Look in the Mirror

53

Force Free Beyond Training

54

Critical Thinking

55

How and why science matters and where does it fit in the big picture?

56

Facing Bias in the Dog World

57

Learn About People

58

Do aversives cause aggression?

59

Different Opinions for Different Animals

60

Can We Stop Talking About "Them"?

61

Relationship-Based Training

62

Live with OC Canine Coaching

63

I Answer Your Questions About Moving Our Community Forward

64

The Rooster Problem

65

Train Your Dog!

66

Why Do I Play In Bite Sports

67

The Meaning of "Train the Dog in Front of You"

68

The Minutiae of Dog Training

69

Aversives for Clarity?

70

Life Is Complex

71

Words Are Power!

72

Counterconditioning, Desensitization, and Habituation

73

What Drives Behavior?

74

Get to the Root of the Problem!

75

Training or Management?

76

Pain, Discomfort, or Something Else?

77

Showing Up On Social Media

78

So Very Random

79

What's The Fastest Training Method?

80

Training a Concept Over Precision

81

Listening to Misunderstand

82

Response to Zak George

83

A Dog-Centric Existence?

84

Do Biting Sports Make Dogs Aggressive?

85

Dominance? Pack? Words...Are Hard.

86

Be kind!

87

Leashes!

88

Know How Training Works

89

Emotional and Overly Emotional

90

Dog World Problems

91

Bite Sports and Aggression

92

Handling off-leash dogs

93

About those dog sports...

94

More On Eye Contact

95

Reactivity Training in the Wild

96

Communication or Control?

97

The Quick and Dirty of Reliable Recalls

98

Reinforcement strategies for high arousal dogs

99

Instinct, emotions and behavior

100

From the vaults! Q&A on drives and arousal following a training session

101

From the Facebook vaults - Classical and operant conditioning to teach behaviors

102

From the Facebook Vaults - Crating

103

Dogs aren't children?!

104

Can you reinforce emotions?

105

Toddlers, elderly folks and dogs

106

Dog training versus reality

107

What can a board & train do (and not do!)

108

How are we using our words?

109

How do dogs get trained?

110

Eye Contact

111

Treating a dog like a dog

112

Stress: a necessary evil?

113

Training for the competition picture?

114

Does punishment work?

115

Live with Crystal Wing on High Drive Dogs

116

Choosing a Foundation Strategy

117

Building Toy Play in Low Drive Dog

118

But Does It Work For...?

119

Conversation vs. Education

120

Behavior Medication for Dogs

121

The Great Training Debate

122

Is Withholding Rewards Aversive?

123

Breeding Dogs and Getting a Dog

124

Mother Dog Behaviour

125

Relationship or Training?

126

Props in training

127

Emotions & Behaviors, again

128

Choosing reinforcers

129

Logic in Dog Training

130

Structure + Q&A

131

Adolescence

132

Reactive dog handler

133

Classical Conditioning Live with Q&A

134

Interview with The Canine Diva, Laurie Williams

135

Evaluating Dogs

136

The Blame Game

137

Structure or Choice?

138

Train Behaviour, Condition Emotions

139

Risk-Benefit Analysis

140

Societal Norms & Dogs

141

Guest: Dr. Amy Cook

142

Aggression with Guest Michael Shikashio CDBC

143

Reward "Ugly" Behavior?

144

Want to be a Dog Training Professional? With Guests Michael and Jamie Badial

145

Errors and the R+ World

146

Separation Anxiety with Guest Malena DeMartini

147

Engagement Training

148

Pros and cons of pushing a dog in training

149

Guest: Dante Camacho and Denise chat

150

Relationship

151

Behavior Meds for Dogs

152

Play in regards to behavior

153

Example of controlling behavior but not an emotion

154

Condition emotions & train behaviors!

155

Errors: The Big Three

156

Sensitive Dogs with Guest Sharon Carroll

157

The Spaces Inbetween

158

Stubborn, lazy, biddable?

159

Splitting for Reactivity

160

Emotional well-being vs observable behavior

161

Reducing behavior (in degrees)

162

The Great Book Rules

163

Perfection Paralysis

164

The Consolation Prize

165

All about criteria

166

Barking

167

Punishment in "degrees"

168

The Process of Behaviour Change

169

Flooding & Habituation

170

Matters of Arousal

171

Forging in Heeling

172

Reducing Reinforcement

173

Pros and cons of pushing a dog in training.

174

Singular vs. Mass Distraction

175

Planning your training session

176

So you had a bad day

177

Classical & Operant Conditioning

178

Exercise and reactive behavior

179

Correlation is not Causation

180

Trust. What is it?

181

Positive Bitesports

182

Adventure & Versatility

183

Get On Your Client's Radar

184

Harmony

185

So you had a bad day...

186

Balancing Drives & Control

187

Meet the hosts! Squeeze cheese fame, teenage dogs, and Fly Ball!

188

Bridging the Dog Training Divide

189

Handling Errors

190

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