#135: Helping Hypervigilant Dogs with Leslie McDevitt
In this episode, we discuss the difference between normal awareness and hypervigilance, how anxious dogs perceive their environment, how to play the Look at That game (LAT), the way environmental cues...
23 Mar 202157min
#134: Do You Have an Exit Strategy?
In this episode, we discuss how to signal the end of a training session, why it matters, how you end a training session matters as much as how you begin one, preventing practicing good behavior withou...
16 Mar 202132min
#133: Data - Why Bother? with Eduardo Fernandez, Emelie Johnson Vegh, and Eva Bertilsson
In this episode, we discuss what we mean when we say "data," the whole point of recording any data at all, quantitative vs. qualitative, why any data is better than no data, dfferent kinds of informat...
2 Mar 20211h 45min
#132: Sensory Bias in Training with Carrie Davis
In this episode, we discuss how humans tend to be visually oriented, animals might respond more significantly to other senses, what variables might influence how an animal reacts to a prop or target, ...
23 Feb 202150min
#131: Living as a LIMA Being - Panel Discussion
In this episode, we discuss what is a LIMA being?, how did this project evolve?, why is it so hard to apply positive reinforcement principles to ourselves and other people?, and strategies for changin...
16 Feb 20211h 32min
#130: Enrichment with Allie Bender & Emily Strong
In this episode, we discuss what "enrichment" is and why we should care, whether enrichment is part of training or whether training is part of enrichment, what we mean when we say "meeting the animal'...
2 Feb 202159min
#129: Treat Everyone Like a Dog with Karen London
In this episode, we discuss how we can apply dog training principles to interacting with humans, why people might think using R+ on people might be manipulative, breaking down skills for human learner...
26 Jan 20211h 18min
#128: Getting Behavior From No Behavior with Peter Amelia
In this episode, we discuss what your options are when starting from scratch trying to shape behavior, how you can get stuck when trying to shape behavior and your animal isn't offering much, consider...
15 Des 20201h 8min
