Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training Podcast
1) Podcast #187: Training Faster Behaviors Without Frustration, Part 2
In this episode, we explore strategies to achieve faster and more precise behaviors in dog training. I discuss how clarity, timing, and reinforcement techniques can improve your dog's response times, ...Show More
2) #186: Training Faster Behaviors Without Frustration, Part 1
In this episode we discuss: Speed vs. Latency: Speed is how fast a behavior is completed from the time it starts. Latency is the response time, or the time elapsed between when the cue is perceived ...Show More
3) #185: Avoiding Triggers and Situations
In this episode, we discuss the practice of avoiding situations as part (or all) of a training plan. Often avoiding certain situations can be an important strategy, helping to prevent mistakes and red...Show More
4) #184: What's Wrong with "Drilling"?
In this episode we dig into the concept of drilling, and how it applies in dog training. It’s pretty common for most of us to have an emotional response just to the term itself - for good reason! But ...Show More
5) #183: Demand Barking, Part 3, with Kiki Yablon
In this episode, we discuss the history behind Kiki’s master’s thesis project, Signaled Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior to Address Excessive Vocalization in Dogs, what gave her the idea -...Show More
6) #182: Demand Barking, Part 2
In this episode, we discuss using concepts around stimulus control to stop demand barking before it stops, how cues create expectations of what reinforcement is available, using naturally occurring ev...Show More
7) #181: Demand Barking, Part 1
In this episode, we are talking about Demand Barking. This is a three-part series, at least for now. For the first two episodes, I’ll be sharing my thoughts and what I’ve learned about working with do...Show More
8) #180: Building Food Drive and Nuanced Reinforcement with Ashlee Osborn
In this episode we discuss the importance of getting really, really good at working with reinforcement, how the topic of reinforcement and using it in training is FAR more nuanced than most trainers r...Show More
9) #179: More Strategies to Reduce Errors
In the last episode, we talked about what errorless learning really means. And I shared a few strategies that might make it easier to apply in your training. Of course, the major benefit to using erro...Show More
10) #178: How to Apply Errorless Learning Principles in Practical Training Sessions
In his 1968 book, The Technology of Teaching, B.F. Skinner wrote: Errors are not a function of learning or vice-versa nor are they blamed on the learner. Errors are a function of poor analysis of beha...Show More
#178: How to Apply Errorless Learning Principles in Practical Training Sessions
41:36 | Jul 21st, 2023